April 2010
13 posts
Deleuze and Guarttari were not saying anything different when they defined a...
– author unknown
However, despite the proliferation of discursive sites and...
– Miwon Kwon, One Place or Another: Notes on Site Specificity. (109)
def: enantiomorphic
of two crystalline (or other geometric forms) that are mirror images of each other.
…and anxiety is a particular state of discomfort that arises as a response...
– Lea Vergine, “The Body as Language”
Unless the artist works actively to discourage it, this focus on the primacy of...
– Grant Kester, “Aesthetic Evangelists” from Afterimage
Thinking about terms: a brief etymological...
Both terms, petroform and petroglyph, are formed by a linguistic conjunction, in which petro- meaning of rock, from the Greek terms ‘petros’ or ‘petra’ meaning stone[1], is combined with either one of two descendant terms: -form, something whose components refers to qualities reflected by an antecedent (in this case a grouping of rocks) or –glyph, meaning a character or symbol in early forms of...
Harrison’s assertion that we have to look at this world from the inside...
– Anik See, Saudade: The possibilities of place
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UT TRANSLATIO NATURA—NATURE AS METAPHOR
– Museum of Jurassic Technology, motto
quoted from Inhaling the Spore: Field trip to a museum of natural (un)history. Harper’s Magazine; September 1, 1994, pg 47-58
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memory as a displacing of past into present, offering a trace of a past that can...
– Andreas Huyssen. Doris Salcedo’s Memory Sculpture: Unland: The Orphan’s Tunic
March 2010
15 posts
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For him (John Dewey), aesthetic experience is rooted in the sensate human body...
– Joan Vastokas, Beyond the Artefact: Native Art as Performance (1992)
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Things contain their own histories. There is no contrast of the natural and the...
– Peter Sutton, Exhibition Brochure for ”Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia” (1988)
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Its eerie and exciting at the same time – the kind of thing you want to consider...
– Anik See, Saudade: The Possibilities of Place (2008)
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However, despite the proliferation of discursive sites and fictional selves, the...
– Miwon Kwon. One Place After Another: Notes on Site Specificity
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part one of layered video - stop animation TBAdded.When? When I meet someone who can teach me how to do that. (suzanne, 2009)
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How does one come to inhabit and envision one’s body as coextensive with one’s...
– Diana Taylor. Memory as Cultural Practice: Mestizaje, Hybridity, and Transculturation.
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http://www.suzannemorrissette.com →
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It is the nature of the soil to be highly complex and variable, to conform very...
– Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America (1977)