cranky is more than a mood — its an attitude
Oh my.
I haven’t posted in months. This tends to happen when I start a blog and I know why. I begin when its difficult to write the dissertation, then I feel guilty about spending all that time on writing that’s not on topic…once a catholic always a catholic – isnt that what they say? THEN [...]
One more reason to finish the dissertation:
Tenure-Track Position in Performance Studies
The Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies (HArCS) in the New College at Arizona State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Performance Studies to begin in August 2010. HArCS is interdisciplinary and committed to a critical examination [...]
I’ll be writing about this piece for my paper at CAA in February. This is the first time I’ve seen the video of the fox Alys tracked through the National Portrait Gallery. AWESOME.
Allan Kaprow (center, with beard) and participants in his “Yard” (1967), at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York.
This month and next, two of my favorite artists (both featured in the dissertation) will be re-inventing Allan Kaprow’s Yard in NYC: William PopeL and Sharon Hayes. The NYT says a bit about their efforts.
This great book has been recalled by the library, I have to give it back.
“Rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean Cities”
Reprinted in Writings on Cities (1996) p. 228-29
Henri Lefebvre and Catherine Regulier
It is impossible to understand urban rhythms without referring to the general theory, which we will call ‘rhythmanalsysis’ related particularly to these rhythms but not only these. [...]
“A written sign is proffered in the absence of the addressee. How is this absence to be qualified? One might say that at the moment when I write, the addressee may be absent from my field of present perception. But is not this absence only a presence that is distant, delayed, or in one form [...]
James Griffoen’s images of feral houses made it to Boing Boing a few weeks back. Pretty interesting stuff. But I’m more intrigued by his polaroids of feral dogs since I live in a neighborhood that has a few. They tend to travel in packs, yet James Griffoen’s dogs are mostly singular in the frame. Interesting.
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“It is as though the unconscious stretches out feelers, through the medium of the system Pcpt.-Cs., towards the external world and hastily withdraws them as soon as they have sampled the excitations coming from it. … I further had a suspicion that this discontinuoous method of fucntion of the system Pcpt.-Cs. lies at the bottom [...]
In an interview with Bennett Simpson in ArtForum (April 2001), Nicolas Bourriaud said
One of the most important ideas for me is what i called the “criterion of coexistence.” Take the example of ancient Chinese and Japanese painting, which always leaves space open for the viewer to complete the experience. This painting is an ellipses. I [...]