Thursday, April 15, 2010

holy.

done school. need a life.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

we're moving














life loves: 122 days

Summer 'to do' list:

Aesthetic Theory: Theodor Adorno
Wretched of the Earth: Frantz Fanon
The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths: Rosalind Krauss
Critique of Judgment: Immanuel Kant
The New Imperialism: David Harvey
The Question of Palestine: Edward Said


seeing, seeing, seeing, sewn.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Moperialism

I hate researching 'Modern' artists because every other word in every text is Marxism followed by progress. Get the fuck over it, progress is a negation of the everyday and our primordial selves.

Monday, March 8, 2010

circle circle circle circle circle circle circle

Thursday, February 25, 2010

AK

I had a dream and you were in it. licking your lips and frowning your brow.

the coffee sits on the table. caffeinated ripples of trepidation. i will watch you slow me down.

a fish is easier to confuse and influence, while the archer pins her down. a distorted glass blocks her vision, imposed from the outside in.

I lose myself in your illusion. I lose my ability to stop and swallow.




Anselm Kiefer: Die Frauen der Antike

Image from: artnet.com

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Die Frauen der Antike ('The Women of Antiquity') 1999-2000.
Oil, shellac, emulsion, sand, ash and pastel on paper mounted on linen canvas, 280.5 x 190.5 cm, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London.

Monday, February 8, 2010

Birthday wants* list

There is a book in my school library called A Stó:lō-Coast Salish Historical Atlas. Apparently there is ‘no room’ for this atlas among the plethora of 'world' and 'Canadian' Atlases listed throughout the aisles. So, it is regulated to a hidden bookcase at the end -completely invisible to any student looking for an alternative perspective of Canadian (geo) graphy and geopolitics. Historical experience is expressed through multiple viewpoints that are often conflicted -one side frequently being degenerated and censored by the dominant enforced society. Western institutions neglect these historical interpretations and Coast Salish artistic practice is repeatedly seen as 'second rate' to the art production of northern indigenous communities (Olympics anyone?). This book is integral to the representation of Coast Salish and Stó:lō perspectives on historical experience and knowledge. It shouldn't be assigned to a dusty corner, segregated from so called 'legitimate' articulations of place and territory; especially when it is just as -or more correctly more so- appropriate to interpretations of land use and cartography.