“See, if you don’t take money, they can’t tell you what to do. That’s the key to the whole thing”
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Tagged: archival practice, Bill Cunningham, fashion, method, methodos, New York, photography, style
“See, if you don’t take money, they can’t tell you what to do. That’s the key to the whole thing”
Tagged: archival practice, Bill Cunningham, fashion, method, methodos, New York, photography, style
In 1975, my friend’s mother, Avril, was working at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, when who walked in, but Ms. Elizabeth Taylor, and Richard Burton. Avril was transfigured by their presence. A real star.
Tagged: 1970s, Elizabeth Taylor, Jerusalem, RIP, Tehran
Friday, March 25, 2011 is the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, which claimed the lives of 146 garment workers trapped at their machines. Most of the people who died, either consumed by flames, or jumping out of the windows on the ninth floor, were young women, recent immigrants. This is the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of New York City. Terrible Karma is project Merle Patchett and I put together. The title - Terrible Karma – refers to both the title of a protest song sung by Cambodian female garment workers at a union rally in Phnom Penh (July 2010) and to the idea that events of the garment industry past continue to haunt the present, that they are always coming back. Merle…
Tagged: archival practice, Art, fashion, memory, method, mobile, New York, street art, streets, Terrible Karma, women, work
Like architecture, art is not only the movement of territorialization, the movement of joining the body to the chaos of the universe itself according to the body’s needs and interests; it is also the converse movement, that of deterritorialization, of cutting through territories, breaking up systems of enclosure and performance, traversing territory in order to retouch chaos, enabling something mad, asystematic, something of the chaotic outside to reassert and restore itself in and the through the body. If framing creates the very condition for the plane of composition and thus of any particular works of art, art itself is equally a project that disjars, distends and transforms frames, that focuses on the intervals and conjunctions between frames. In this sense the history of painting,…
by George Quasha
Tagged: Art, artists, George Quasha, method
Below is an excerpt of a conversation I had with my friends, Maja Trudel (M), and Johann Reble (J), when they were guests in my home last spring. Maja and Johann are young Swiss architects, and it was pleasure to talk with them about building, cities, space and perception. Here’s the part about grids: J: What I was thinking about for a long time is that there are very different scales of structures in the city. A building can be destroyed at any time when you don’t want it anymore. Maybe the structure didn’t fit anymore, maybe it’s the façade people don’t like anymore, and it’s just cheaper to tear down the whole building and build a new one. Look at New York. New…
Tagged: architecture, building, film, grid, helen levitt, johann reble, maja trudel, New York, perception
How can something small (like a story) “balance” something big (like a war)? I will tell you something about stories, They aren’t just for entertainment. Don’t be fooled They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death. You don’t have anything if you don’t have the stories. Their evil is mighty but it can’t stand up to our stories. So they try to destroy the stories let the stories be confused or forgotten They would like that They would be happy Because we would be defenseless then. Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977) (Thank you for sending this poem, Tracee.)
Tagged: 2000s, Daft Punk, method, music, the future
Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something stronger than myself, that demands that I must write as I write.
Tagged: fear, good writing, Jacques Derrida
