Two sites worth checking out
Posted by ben on 17 Oct 2007 at 01:26 pm | Tagged as: poetry, sound art
I’ve had the good fortune to stumble on a couple of great sites in the past couple of days. Sound artist Steve Roden’s blog (”basically a space to share ‘the collection’, much of which serves as inspiration for my work…”), which contains lots of interesting artistic tidbits, including this version of “Listen to the Mockingbird” by Fiddlin “Red” Herron.
And also The Page, a site cataloging links to new poetry, essays about poetry, and some other literary nuggets thrown in for variety. Enjoy.
(sidereal as if not)
Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.
we’re not talking about Michael Jackson …. In the “real” world — the world where art is strictly about money and paying the rent …
I can observe my own body cut open, without suffering!… I see myself all the way down to my entrails; a new mirror stage. “I can see to the heart of my lover; his splendid design has nothing to do with sickly sentimentalities”- Darling, I love your spleen; I love your liver; I adore your pancreas, and the line of your femur excites me.
what the hell is going on——
Hexagram 11 is named 泰 (tai4), “Pervading”. Other variations include “peace” and “greatness”. Its inner trigram is ☰ (乾 qian2) force = (地) heaven, and its outer trigram is ☷ (坤 kun1) field = (水) earth.
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Art Fag City at The L Magazine: Having A Psychotic Reaction
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Installation view of Pyschotic Reaction. Image via: KS Art
KS Art
Psychotic Reaction
73 Leonard Street
New York, NY, 10013
Through October 29th
This week I reviewed KS Art’s Psychotic Reaction for the L Magazine. As always, I’ve provided a clip below but you can click through to read the full piece.
Depression and unrequited love haven’t led me to think of acid-trip penises ejaculating tiny pink-faced men in the past, but I enjoyed making this connection at KS Art’s exhibition, Psychotic Reaction, if for no other reason than I find its strangeness appealing. Taking its cues from the similarly named 1966 garage rock hit by Count Five — an upbeat song recounting the devastating effects of one-way affection — the vivid drawing described above, Orgasmo e Bruttezza – Masturbation II by Ele D’Artagnan, is one of four busy figurative works on paper included in a group exhibition largely arranged by color.
Like much of the work in the show, Ele D’Artagnan’s art doesn’t communicate an overtly unhappy message; Psychotic Reaction provides a wider curatorial lens than the literal representation of the song’s lyrics. Also drawing upon the song’s psychedelic tone and do-it-yourself attitude, the exhibition as a whole, almost predictably takes on a simple, often crude aesthetic. Framed coloring book pages, a grid of brightly colored sun photographs, amateurish-looking drawings and sculptures; there’s more to almost all of these works than what you see, but it isn’t always readily apparent.
To read the full piece click here.
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Just another fucking Haberdasher
Joan Collins // 15 Oct 2008, 1:00 pm
an echo chamber of boredoms and neurotic repetitions
to foil Three Strikes: I guess imitation really is one of the sincerest for..