A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

. Raised on a steady diet of television, recorded music and the internet, people today sometimes feel more comfortable mesmerized by recordi...

. Dear Laura Calderon de la Barca, I am posting this because I have now twice tried to email you and have yet to hear back. If you are out t...

. Through performances, installation, public process and theoretical and practical research, interdisciplinary group PME-ART confronts its c...

. This isn’t the work we had meant to do but it’s work nonetheless. Muscle. Struggle. you land in the place and just start digging va...

. As far as one’s thoughts about our present predicaments or about the future, I have no difficulty understanding from whence the pessim...

. The idea that we know art is in many ways fundamentally reactionary and conservative but we still want to believe that art is radical and ...

. Introduction: excerpt from an email dated June 22, 2006 I was drinking with Pieter de Buyser. It looks like I will also be doing a...

. I have now been doing this blog for one year and a day. In the beginning I posted quite contentiously every Monday. However, more recently...

. Appetite and fear are inextricably connected; and all creatures are endangered by the fundamental project of meeting their needs. But ...

. From such frustrations no clear thought will come. Step back, a few steps or a few miles, start slowly, gradually discover the slight,...

. [Lisbon, July 8 2006] "Those who have never experienced the pleasure of betrayal do not know what true pleasure is." - Jean Gene...

. We never tried to force it. We understood that time was the remedy for our dilemmas, time and thought, not ingenuity or revelation. ...

. My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I d...

. And what did it mean that we felt no true sense of direction, that we were aimless, paralyzed, confused and at the end of the day coul...

. As is generally known, the figure of the art critic emerges at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century, ...

. I am currently reading Secret Publicity by Netherlands art critic Sven Lutticken. There are many relevant quotes but here are one or two ...

. "I feel that man should not have thrown himself into this amazing adventure that is history. Everything that he does turns agains...

. "Every impulse of renovation, at the very moment when it approaches its goal, when it realizes itself through the State, creeps t...

. "I think I must always have had the feeling (as apart from conscious idea) that words were things that, if one was to do anything...

. A few hours ago I got back from the Goethe Institute where I watched the silent film Tabu by FW Murau with live piano accompaniment. I...