Art
tyranny of context – trading with tragedy
“How do you even begin to say something is flawed, or even bad, if it’s about slavery, the Holocaust or the opioid crisis? Or if the artist has endured personal tragedy? These conditions have engendered a self-perpetuating form of self-censorship …
weltlandschaft – wide angle – vast panorama
I have always been fascinated by wide-angle shots in films, like in Nuri Bilge Ceylan films. It has an art historical antecdent, for which the term is Weltlandschaft
capriccio – architectural fantasy
I have always been fascinated by the perspectiveally accurate architectural universe in post-Renaissance paintings. Good to know that there is a term for it. Capriccio.
native american artist demands indian lands
Nicholas Galanin The artist is demanding everything that have been taken away from them, including the lands. Nicholas Galanin was one of the artists who boycotted the Tear Gas Biennale. He feels that addressing the biological warfare is not sufficient, …
kat kitay’s critique of speculative futurists
“I don’t want to be a cyborg or haunting alien; I’m barely scraping by in this human form. I can’t follow artists into the imaginary while real war rages across every sector – military, ideological, economic, symbolic. Yet the speculative …