September 2011
27 posts
The Hobart Urban Illumination Project →
TPI - Miwon Kwon: Public Art and Urban Identities →
Kwon: … But what I am looking for are the kind of projects that don’t make you feel comfortable about your sense of who you are and what your relationship is to other cultures. Rather they should raise questions about how such determinations are made and why, and who is served by certain determinations. Question: I think your willingness and ability to unpack this idea of community...
TPI - Miwon Kwon: Public Art and Urban Identities →
‘To begin our rethinking about these alternative ways of formulating the community requires a major reorganization of the concept of community in which it can account for itself not as a sociological or essential term but as an existential one. French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy has posted some signposts for such an endeavor. He says, “There is no communion. There is no common being....
Julia Gillard's Conversation with the Nation →
“Truth is, the harmless word ”conversation”, which sounds so splendidly democratic and amicable, has been reduced in the mouths of the powerful to the weasliest of weasel words: a space-filler meaning nothing when all other evasions have failed.”
“The general mechanisation of social functions gradually reduces the relational...”
– Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics
Living as Form - Archive of Socially Engaged... →
It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq →
The Artist Is Present (Game) by Pippin Barr →
Mobile Democratic Communication Device - Michaela... →
Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle →
“Games provide a framework for bringing together the strengths of computers and humans. The results in this week’s paper show that gaming, science and computation can be combined to make advances that were not possible before.”
Chain letter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
typical chain letter consists of a message that attempts to induce the recipient to make a number of copies of the letter and then pass them on to as many recipients as possible. Common methods used in chain letters include emotionally manipulative stories, get-rich-quick pyramid schemes, and the exploitation of superstition to threaten the recipient with bad luck or even physical violence or...
Frieze Magazine | Archive | Theoretically Speaking →
Throughout the 1990s, the rise of neo-conceptual art coincided with an increasing engagement with theory as a generator of ideas. Did that interest wane, or did it take on new forms in the years that followed? A look back at the last two decades in philosophy
Hell Is Other People? →
The best online culture archives - Telegraph →
“The ideal of community privileges unity over difference, immediacy over...”
– Iris Marion Young - “The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference”
Do you have to be there to experience a... →
Are You An Artist In Need Of Fast Cash? / e-flux →
- Utopia Station - →
“I’d taken a break from writing and started interviewing people selling things...”
– Newsmaker: Miranda July - ARTINFO.com
August 2011
39 posts
Self Made →
Who are we – and who do we think we are? How do we make the selves we present to the world – and who are we really, underneath the social masks we wear every day? These are some of the questions posed by Self Made, an extraordinary debut feature by acclaimed British artist Gillian Wearing. A hybrid undertaking, Self Made is at once documentary, artwork, social experiment and performance project –...
