arkiv for maj 2010
Rebranding
Hjælp Greenpeace med at rebrande BP. Se alle indsendte bidrag hidtil her.
Philip Hoare: Leviathan or, The Whale
“It is almost indecent to see the whales in such detail. I wonder, guiltily, if I ought to avert my eyes for fear of finding them too sensual – just as I admit that sometimes whales have the capacity to revolt me with their serpentine animalness, and now I question why I invent so much of myself in them. Even now, I cannot reconcile myself to their corporeality. Then there are days when they seem all the more pristine for their appearance out of water, as if newborn. One afternoon, an unnamed yearling presented pure white patches on its upper flukes, its chin and over its eye, so sharply contrasted, one eyelid black, the other white. For a few seconds – it cannot have been longer, although it seemed so – its eye met mine. Far from the dumb insolence of a horse or a dog’s pleading fidelity, it fixed me with a stare which I found, and still find, disconcerting.”
Philip Hoare: Leviathan or, The Whale
A dusty whale, a blind hamster, and a pickled library with a Norvegian rat (found dead outside the museum)
“I have dreams of orca whales and owls
but I wake up in fear…”
Lidt flere billeder fra Natural History Museum her.
Hell
Snapshots fra No Soul for Sale på Tate Modern: en festival for independant art spaces på Tate Modern i weekenden 14.-16. maj i anledning af Tate Modern’s tiårsdag. Festivalen er en slags Alt_Cph i magnumstørrelse med over 70 deltagere, hvis stande kun er adskilt af røde streger. Min automatreaktion var at forsøge at fokusere i kaos og støjkunst ved hjælp af kameraet. Jeg delte desuden spørgeskemaer, blyanter og viskelædere ud under PiST‘s morsomme og rammende “Performance Test – independent vs. dependent” og besvarede også selv skemaet. Mit resultat var “24/7 Independent”, hvilket ifølge den uddybende forklaring betød frihed, men også isolation og ensomhed. Håber de også laver en online version af testen, der også findes i den publikation man kan tage på deres stand. Her kan man også bestille gratis fotokopierede værker, bl.a. mine egne Virtual t-shirts. PiST er et interdisciplinært projektrum i Istanbul. Standen på Tate Modern er skabt af Osman Bozkurt, Stine Hebert og Didem Özbek.
Update: et åbent brev til Tate fra diskussionsgruppen Making A Living.
