June252009
Theodor Adorno: Commitment »
“…A work of art that is committed strips the magic from a work of art that is content to be a fetish, an idle past-time for those who would like to sleep through the deluge that threatens them…”
November292008
“Tap and Touch Cinema (1968) by Valerie Export is a spectacular feminist action in which she demonstrated against the film apparatus as a materialized, bourgeois ideology. With a simple box, buckled to her naked chest, she went out into the street in several cities and invited people to visit the cinema for five minutes. A woman’s body became the screen, the film, which could not be seen but was instead expanded to include another aspect of perception, the sense of touch.”
another work by valerie export which was very ‘out there’ is aktionshose : genitalpanik
Tags: /art /performance /feminism /cinema
June302008
The scene is Picasso’s apartment in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II. A photograph of Guernica is lying on a table. Gestapo officer to Picasso : “Did you do that?” Picasso : “No, you did.
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boom boom.
ah … to be not only a brilliant painter and a chick magnet, but quick witted as well. hard to believe really but there it is on Pablo Picasso quotations. (via dailymeh)
he was a crap poet though, according to gertrude stein :p
Tags: /art
via : Daily Meh.
May232008
if i could curate an exhibition of any two australian artists of my choice i would show : bill henson’s latest work together with lyndall jones’ video of a penis that transforms in real time from limp to erect. but would it be art?
lyndall jones’ exhibition is on at acca in melbourne until july 20. bill henson’s isn’t.
