Curt Cloninger says: the deep level political code hack only changes the actual human world with the help of a subsequent, second-order surface level media spectacle. But better than the other way around, for sure… Maybe not for impact, but for NBFOS. via [IMG MGMT] What Relational Aesthetics Can Learn From 4Chan.
Interview of Mike Kelley by John Miller
Some quotes that really shed light on the thinking and development process of Mike Kelley, in this interview of Mike Kelley by John Miller. I found them in the book Between Artists: 12 Contemporary American Artists Interview 12 Contemporary American Artists. MK: I always said the performances were about belief systems. I thought of them [...]
“Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.”
“Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.” -Cormac McCarthy on The Road – WSJ.com
he’s coming up with this totally crap story that means nothing to him but trying to present it as this sort of like transformative, mythic, religious experience and hoping he can bluff people into believing it.
From Comedy Writer To ‘Famous Novelist’ : NPR “he’s coming up with this totally crap story that means nothing to him but trying to present it as this sort of like transformative, mythic, religious experience and hoping he can bluff people into believing it.”
jim collins
For Jim Collins, No Question Is Too Big – NYTimes.com: And in a corner of the white board at the end of his long conference room, Mr. Collins keeps this short list: Creative 53% Teaching 28% Other 19% That, he explains, is a running tally of how he’s spending his time, and whether he’s sticking [...]
current stucks
i get nervous that i will forget all my ideas. so i made a wiki of them. it broke. so i made a lulu book of them. i forgot some. and forgot to leave empty pages. so i am thinking shards are where i want to be next. like a shard of a few bright [...]
on letting go
Many artists who went to grad school mention, in some interview somewhere, their all important break from grad school work. So, I’ve been eagerly awaiting mine. The thing is, I like my grad school work. It is tight in ways my work is not now, aesthetic in ways it is not now, socially-mediated but still [...]
vranje at the new museum
Hey look who’s hanging there from the White Bridge of Vranje on the NewMuseum website! Guess I know what the Bring It On girls must feel like…
halving my face
I had a dream last night that I cut off half of my face as an art project. I took a knife, cut all the way around my head, and peeled the skin off of the top half of my face. The person helping me do this (my assistant?) suggested I keep the bloody tissues [...]
what is happy worth?
I attended a dinner at the NYU Torch Club organized by Natalie Jeremijenko and Colin Beavan that focused on the question “Does happiness have to cost the earth?” The invitation (which I was relayed by serendipitous proxy) read something like “in this time of environmental and economic crisis there is an opportunity for activists and [...]