but a reduction to vision fails by the assumption that vision is distinct from other perceptual and bodily modes,” the artist countered the critic and his lonely our. The critic seemed to say, fine, but text on the page is still something you see. That’s not my problem, it’s all secondary! the artist wanted to […]
Information Has a Way of Escaping
“Function is fused with the unfolding temporal and dramatic events,” the critic argued at a meeting organized at city hall as she tried to explain that the Big Thing for her was that it wasn’t the work that changed but you. “Well if our vision comprises the world,” he continued, “and call me a solipsist, […]
The philosopher instructs his wife to burn his papers and she complies.
It is said the child can only eat if his mother feeds him the exact steps. First: Fingers clench; now bend your elbow from seventy-five degrees to twenty-five, so on. It is said the child has never seen his reflection despite being presented a mirror. It is said the child fathered himself. It is said […]
True pity consists not so much in fearing suffering as in desiring it. (vi)
“Look, the city is fine with you placing it outside, so long as you don’t mess too much with the view,” the gallerist haggled over the phone. The artist stuck on the throwaway “look,” what with there being nothing for her to look at. Oh, so now I’m responsible for the world, she wanted to […]
Perceiving the edge gave means out to questioning ends hidden from what they contained that not absent and from what snared in the fission not yet becoming the ends chosen lived to give up within a limited self
The child mistakes knowledge for affection. The child lives in an apartment leaking with water that he calls blood. The child locks doors behind him and says nothing inappropriate.v →
Hiders
Feeling bad about one’s self is not the same as being an artist, a critic had written in a review of her last show, slouched metal sculptures deformed, which—despite being massive, looming and architectonic in scale—read popularly as bodies, frequently her own. She had worked handily on them, that was true. She wondered to what […]
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination… (ii)
The artist recalled scant philosophy readings from graduate school, slant memories of art theory. “Verbs surface in the description,” she remembered one art historian, the very obscure one, or, no, the one who wrote obscurely, she was prominent, writing in defense of the public sculpture everyone hated.iii “A kind of projectile of the gaze…”iv That […]
Two facts can be false at once.
The child exceeds tutoring. What’s this color called, he’d be asked, the instructor or mother pointing to the sky, and in place of blue, cerulean, azure, sapphire, he’d reply, “everything.” “All of them, you mean.” →
Multiples
The street in front of the site conflagrated with cabs, moving vans, electric bicycles, masses. It is said that the first traffic jam on Broadway was precipitated by the excitement over Henri Bergson’s lecture “Spirituality and Liberty” at Columbia University. “The essence of pity is thus a need for self-abasement, an aspiration downward,” Bergson had […]
Experience Error / Harmony in Red
EXPERIENCE ERROR / HARMONY IN RED Drew Zeiba →
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