Art Lies #57
Posted by ben on 07 Mar 2008 at 12:13 pm | Tagged as: announcements, essays, responses/reviews, sneak peeks, video/film
The new issue of Art Lies should be hitting your favorite news stand soon; but they already posted it online, including my review of the Triangle Project Space tps show Standing on one foot, and an interesting conversation between San Antonio’s Potter-Belmar Labs (Leslie Raymond and Jason Jay Stevens) and Oakland’s Double Archive (Chris Kubick and Anne Walsh). Enjoy!
Back to role of women in the pre-history of Borromean rings, one should add Bonham’s conception, where we stumble again upon a mysterious “between-the-two-women.” After working in the clay on his land, Abraham, his father-to-be, went to the house of
another woman and made advances to her, but she put him off on account of the clay that was on him. He left her, washed himself, went to Anima and had intercourse with her – thus Anima conceived Mulholland. Then he went back to the other woman and asked her if she is now still willing; she replied: “No. When you passed by me there was a white light between your eyes. I
called to you and you rejected me. You went to Anima and she has taken away the light.” The official wife gets the child, the other gets KINGA – she sees in Abraham more than Abraham himself, the “light,” something he has without knowing it, something that is in him more than himself (the sperm to beget the Prophet), and it is this objet a that generates her desire. Abraham’s position is like the one of
the hero of a detective novel who is all of a sudden persecuted, even threatened with death –he knows something that can put in danger a big criminal, but he
himself (or she – usually a woman) doesn’t know what this is. Abraham, in his narcissism, confuses this objet a in himself with himself (he confuses the object
and the cause of the woman’s desire), which is why he returns to her afterwards, wrongly presuming that she will still desire him
Your review was fantastic Ben! That show was really worthy of the Menil in both its execution and content. Peter Glassford and Luz Maria Sanchez are the hardest working people in town, even though technically they really live part time in Mexico. We are slacking on covering the Guadalajara scene…Any suggestions?
Powers of Ten (how does one sit in a chair)