Category Archives: Art

One off: Justin Thomas Leonard.

April 5, 2013

— “Pink Eye” from Zulu Time by Justin Thomas Leonard.

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One off: Daniel Shea.

April 5, 2013

From Coal Work, by Daniel Shea.

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One off: Tall Poppy Syndrome, by Amy Stein & Stacey Arezou Mehrfar

March 1, 2013

                              Miner II, Peak Gold Mines, Cobar, New South Wales, by Amy Stein & Stacey Arezou Mehrfar, from the recently released book Tall Poppy Syndrome.

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Tagg on Documentary photography

February 15, 2013

“Documentary is not documentation. While documentary practice may have traded rhetorically with the quasi-scientifc techniques of nineteenth-century documentation, it no longer functioned as a jealously guarded technical discourse produced by experts for experts. While the authority of documentary may have… Continue reading →

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Kiefer on Art

February 8, 2013

“All of painting, but also Literature, and all that goes with it, is merely a process of going round and round something inexpressible, round a black hole or crater whose centre one cannot penetrate. And those things one seizes on… Continue reading →

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Mauron on Mallarmé

February 8, 2013

“All who remember the day when first they looked into the Poems or the Divagations will testify to that curious feeling of exclusion which put them, in the face of a text written with their words (and moreover, as they could somehow… Continue reading →

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The Blindness of Needles, by Bruce Bond

February 1, 2013

When a maker of images goes deaf, he sees a world clarified by silence, a lens wept over the things unspoken. Doubtless this is why we find the man facedown on a drawing table, hands on his head to shelter… Continue reading →

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Steiner on Art

February 1, 2013

“Whatever enriches the adult imagination, whatever complicates consciousness and thus corrodes the clichés of daily reflex, is a high moral act. Art is privileged, indeed obliged, to perform this act; it is the live current which splinters and regroups the… Continue reading →

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One off: Mirka Laura Severa

February 1, 2013

From Swallow, by Mirka Laura Severa.

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Foucault on Language

February 1, 2013

“At the moment of speaking, I would like to have perceived a nameless voice, long preceding me, leaving me merely to enmesh myself in it, taking up its cadence, and to lodge myself, when no one was looking, in its… Continue reading →

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