July 10th, 2004

From Lil' Knowles

From Our Readers

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/arts/design/05cott.html?_r=1

"We still love K.D. & her music
But we still love beef
She hasn't taken away our freedom of choice!
Why should we take away hers?"
(demonstration sign as composed by Lang supporter in Consort, Alberta, 1990; image found in Tony Godfrey "Conceptual Art" Phaidon Press; 1998; p. 349)

"Here the focus turns to the curious problem of presence-absence, which haunts research on systems of significations. A system or sub-system, whether of objects or words, both is and is not self-sufficient. It is self sufficient; it is complete whole. Each element refers to all others. It looks as full as an egg. Look at it a bit longer and a bit more closely: see, it empties itself. A host of questions, posed technically by linguists and tragically by philosophers, now arises. We ask: Who? For whom? Why? How? The system is not self-sufficient. This 'whole' is partial and open. It refers to 'something else': purpose on the on hand, and the 'subject', on the other, and beyond these two terms lies the totality and the meaning. (,,,)"
_ Henri Lefebvre, "Preface to the study of the Habitat of the 'Pavillon'" in "Lefebvre: Key Writings" (Continuum; NY, London; 2003) p. 132.

Lil Babylon

Vito Acconci speaking to Hans Ulrich Obrist: "...I paid attention to phrases like, "A person who lives by the sword dies by the sword." In other words, if a project starts out as private, it ends private; if something is meant to be public, it better start at least as a semi-public project. Now, one is private, and two is a couple, a mirror image, but three is a crowd; three spoils the couple, so it must be the beginning of public..."

Four more days of Questioning

http://www.apexart.org/exhibitions/soo.htm

Deterritorialized Hot Melt

Who Knew?

''Given two things that resemble one another to any chosen degree, but one of them a work of art and the other an ordinary object, what accounts for this difference in status?''

-Arthur C. Clarke

Interview from above

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Goodwill Ambassador U.S. actress Angelina Jolie whispers to U.S. actor Brad Pitt during the "A New Mindset for the UN" session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland January 26, 2006.

Summary of reasons why an artist run centre stamp series is essential

I) Art is an important part of ___________________ identity.
II) Contemporary art is vital to ___________________'s international reputation.
III) Artist-Run Centres(or artist led centres) are integral to contemporary ___________________ art.
IIII) Contemporary art has been neglected in ___________________ postage.

Day 12

"A biennial is a glimpse of a transnational utopia."

Arthur C. Clarke

proposal for painting exhibition

"A collective biography, if written in the way one would describe an individual, always seems to describe a baby-being. Something born, with no prior experience. Collective efforts thus appear to the uninitiated as infantile, unformed, goofy creatures."
- V.I. Lenin

The $8,000 Tandem

"Collaboration: A late twentieth century euphemism for artists working creatively together.

Collaboration: An early twentieth century euphemism for so called enemies working creatively together."

Paul Sullivan, Exit Review, Static-ops, 2003.

Day 11

"... Down into the earth where dead men go I would go soon and maybe come out of it again in some healthy way, free and innocent of all human perplexity. I would perhaps be the chill of an April wind, an essential part of some indomitable river or be personally concerned in the ageless perfection of some rank mountain bearing down upon the mind by occupying forever a position in the blue easy distance. Or perhaps a smaller thing like movement in the grass on an unbearable breathless yellow day, some hidden creature going about its business - I might well be responsible for that or for some part of it. Or even those unaccountable distinctions that make an evening recognizable from its own morning, the smells and sounds and sights of the perfected and matured essences of the day, these might not be innocent of my meddling and my abiding presence. (...)
"Or perhaps I would be an influence that prevails in water, something sea-borne and far away, some certain arrangement of sun, light and water unknown and unbeheld, something far-from-usual. There are in the great world whirls of fluid and vaporous existences obtaining in their own unpassing time, unwatched and uninterpreted, valid only in their essential un-understanding mystery, justified only in their eyeless and mindless immeasurability, unassailable in their actual abstraction; of the inner quality of such a thing I might well in my own time be the true quintessential pith. I might belong to a lonely shore or be the agony of the sea when it bursts upon it in despair."
-Flann O'Brien, "The Third Policeman" (1967).

"If it's construed as art in your mind, then keep it on your property."

David Cassivi, Windsor City Council

PROTOTYPE

The Demise of Something Worth Pursuing

"Does this mean that you have produced somthing of note??? HOpe all is well,, Happy New Year and keep on growing in your art. Alexx"

Take my shoes off

"Dame Nature is a gentlewoman. No guide's fee will obtain you her favor, no abrupt demand; hardly will she bear questioning, or direct, curious gazing at her beauty."
-Frederick Law Olmstead, from 'Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England', 1852.

Day 10

Show Business

Interlude

I just wanted to tell you about a dream I had last night. Jon reported that he had heard back from one of the spaces for which we had devised a proposal, but he said: 'something astounding has happened- they offered me a solo show'.

Day 9

LIFE COULD BE BEAUTIFUL

Another Knowles Eddy Knowles

Day 8

1990 U.S. Census:

.............frequency (%).....cumulative (%) ...ranking

knowles __ 0.012_________43.328________995__

eddy_____ 0.007_________50.047_______1718__

Day 7: The Surrealist Kitchen

day 6

DAY 5

day 4

Of course working with others entails a dilution of sovereign
monarchic aesthetical design! The power to be a beacon of difference
is lamed a little when negotiation and communication become of
concern. But collaboration prefigures autonomy by a long shot; we can
resist that, we can work with it, or I am sure there are other
possibilities.

day 3

Five bad ideas today.

day 2

I don't know what the hell I am doing. I am between worlds, without the sharpness of mind to be aware of my surroundings. I don't survive, I dabble. If daily life can be like an architecture, with the 'life force' as the pole opposite the force of gravity, the pillar that is supposed to keep me standing, the realization of art, is rather composed of a diffuse filigree of all of the trivia and discursive habitude of a sketchbook.

The First Day

Hello,
this is the inaugural first opening day post of the official Knowles Eddy Knowles blog. A blog of international scope. Welcome!