Back in Dubai

Back in Dubai

Managed to avoid the excess heat of the Dubai summer this year by spending much of July and August contemplating the infinite shades of grey and green in a very wet Europe. Got back to Dubai to find that I no longer have a job!

Marek Cecu?a. The sense of matter.

Marek Cecu?a. The sense of matter.

I must admit I had no idea Polish design (well, design-related sculpture would be the more correct term I suppose) can be anything like this.

The big Fuss: Who Killed Barack Obama?

The big Fuss: Who Killed Barack Obama?

Once again, Peter Fuss (remember his " For the Laugh of God "?) manages to poke the finger in the right spot.


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Leave the Work Alone

08 January 2012

Let's set the background. Andre Lepecki : What dramaturgy as practice proposes is the discovery that it is the work itself that has its own sovereign, performative desires, wishes, and commands.

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After Fishing

07 December 2011

" Last will and Testament " by Mariusz Hermanowicz (with Zygmunt Hermanowicz) was an instant crush for me. After his father's death, Mariusz Hermanowicz discovers, among the things the father left, boxes filled with fishing lures of his father's own design

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Looking at the robots, I think

24 November 2011

David Lewandowski, going to the store Robot maker Azusa Amino recently won the Robot Japan 2 Dance competition with his 23-centimeter-high Toko Toko Maru robot.  - they are the un-ego, the dream of letting go of the source. They are a life whose source is the non-live, whose origin is not identical, so a different, non-human causality comes into place. The source, here, is the source- code

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The House

05 November 2011

This house which is almost gone.

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The Political Sight – Konrad Pusto?a’s ‘Views of Power’

31 October 2011

What do you see? This, here, is an image of power. Pure and simple, it is what someone with power sees

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How It Works

19 June 2011

You do things. You try it, this way, that way. You stray, you flop and then you flip again, and something, some things come out of it

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Sharing the Sensible (In a Rich Man’s World)

08 June 2011

The thing is: I'm very excited about performance moving forward. And I love how it invades all sorts of territories. I do it, watch it, write about it.

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Allan Kaprow on installation and performance

29 March 2011

Now, I think those two words, installation and performance, mark accurately the shift in attitude toward a rejection or sense of abandonment of an experimental, modernist, position which had prevailed up to about, lets be generous, up to about 1968-1969, and began gradually becoming less and less energized. So, I think what you’re getting there is the flavor of modernist exhaustion and incidently a return to earlier prototypes, or models, of what constitutes art. And it’s no accident that the majority of most performance nowadays, there’s not much installation anymore, by the way, the majority of those performances tend to be of an entertainment, show biz, song and dance, in which the focus is on the individual as skilled presenter of something that tends to have a kind of self-aggrandizing, or at least self-focusing, purpose

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