14 November 2014
miami bourbaki: This town is nothing more than an immense script, a perpetual motion picture made up of childhood signals and faked phantasms. Looking deeply into Baudrillard.
http://youtu.be/FDLy_3lDI_0
11 November 2014
Jacques Rancière – Professor of Philosophy – European School
Jacques Rancière (b. 1940 in Algiers) is Professor Emeritus at the Université de Paris (St. Denis). He first came to prominence under the tutelage of Louis Althusser when he co-authored with his mentor Reading Capital (1968). After the calamitous events of May 1968 however, he broke with Louis Althusser over his teacher’s reluctance to allow for spontaneous resistance within the revolution. Jacques Rancière is known for his sometimes remote position in contemporary French thought; operating from the humble motto that the cobbler and the university dean are equally intelligent, Jacques Rancière has freely compared the works of such known luminaries as Plato, Aristotle, Gilles Deleuze and others with relatively unknown thinkers like Joseph Jacototy and Gabriel Gauny..
http://youtu.be/FDLy_3lDI_0
Schiller’s “free-play” turns the Kantian idea of aesthetic purposelessness sideways with the -purposeful- help of pedagogy (the poet’s education becomes pedagogical aesthetics). This “free-play” of imagination through art produces new forms, objects, and arrangements. Making something new, something for which there is no prior concept, is the liberating activity that raises man above his dual and dangerous nature. Paraphrasing Rancière: “Free play ” frames a specific sensorium by breaking through the partition of the sensible that shaped the traditional forms of domination.
5 November 2014
Deleuze Cinema Project 1 | Art + Politics.
What I remember about Deleuze and cinema is his fabulous concept of “any-space-whatevers” – used to describe cinematographical shots that create a fragmented space in the narrative, without predetermined orientation and open to an infinite number of possible connections, a “suspended time” of pure freedom. So nice. No stills but movement in themselves. (see: good old wikipedia)
Referring to photojournalism, Jaar’s installation employs a similar strategy to construct narrative. Viewers are guided through “Shadows” by light and sequential images that simultaneously illuminate and obscure readings of moments of loss, reverence and collective transcendence. Jaar pairs newspaper clippings with a single face, extracted from the crowd and enlarged, to “rescue it”-he claims-from anonymity and oblivion.3 This concept of rescue-a kind of reframing of the content within a new context-also applies to what the artist intends as a trilogy of works, each dedicated to a single image.
duende drawing
13 July 2014
22 May 2014
Lucas Ihlein is an artist who often works collaboratively with groups such as Big Fag Press, SquatSpace, and Teaching and Learning Cinema.
His work can take the form of performances, expanded cinema events, re-enactments, lithographic prints, writing, public lectures and blogs.
In recent years, Ihlein has been working on a series of ‘blogging as art’ projects which formed the basis for his PhD, completed in 2010 at Deakin University, which was entitled “Framing Everyday Experience: Blogging as Art“.
Ihlein is a lecturer in Media Arts, Visual Arts and Design at University of Wollongong.
Blog (writing and commentary since 2003): Bilateral.
Website (detailed portfolio of selected projects): lucasihlein.net.
You can contact him by email at: lucas[at]lucazoid[dot]com
Meyerhold and Piscator, Brecht, Artaud
via Ruth Skilbeck in Conversation with Christopher Barnett | Arts Features International.