Saved by Mike Hobson
A Body That’s All Surface
Inspired by Spell of the Sensuous
Our bodies as landscapes. Maybe, even though we have also shifted our attention away from them and try to domesticate them they are the only landscape we cannot escape from, cannot isolate ourselves from and so they are our constant reminder, even if as a backdrop, but with a voice that can assert itself, that we
... See moreTo work in performance was to stick two fingers up to the art establishment: it can’t be preserved on a canvas – only on film, but that’s not the same thing.
Lauren Elkin • Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
When I’m in the wheel, I open my sketchbook the way other people open their refrigerators. There’s no ceremony to it, no moment of becoming ready. It’s reptile-brain instinct: a hand reaching for paper the way an animal returns to water.
But THEN there are other times...when I’ve somehow wheeled myself into a ditch without noticing the shoulder... See more
But THEN there are other times...when I’ve somehow wheeled myself into a ditch without noticing the shoulder... See more
Art Exercises for the Long, Slow Hours of Cactus-Staring
- "Pater said beauty is impossible without some element of strangeness; the potential for beauty was built into his own “strange webs” of significance, spun in such writerly fashion around the object with which he was in dialogue. Criticism is one way to be the spider, paying out silk, both navigating and creating the web as one goes. What defines... See more
Elizabeth Schambelan • Elizabeth Schambelan on criticism - Artforum International
For a while, during that disillusioned spring, I declared myself done with writing. Photography became — and still is, more and more so — a way for me to create with spontaneity and play. I haven’t been a photographer all my life, nor have I been especially interested in photography. I only began shooting film during the pandemic, when documenting... See more