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Excited to be a part of this publication and launch opens November 11th, 2010 - Milano, Italy
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Lucien Hervé, “Unité d’Habitation,” Le Corbusier, architect, 1952; cropped 6 x 6 negative, from History of Our World.
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“i love you for free”, re: maryanne casasanta
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Art Workers’ Coalition
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Frida wearing a man’s suit, far left, with members of her family, c. 1924
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→ Josef Albers
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Denise Levertov, British-born confessional poet, associated with the Black Mountain school: Oct. 24, 1023 - 1997…
A Tíme Past
The old wooden steps to the front door
where I was sitting that fall morning
when you came downstairs, just awake,
and my joy at sight of you (emerging
into golden day—
the dew almost frost)
pulled me to my feet to tell you
how much I loved you:
those wooden steps
are gone now, decayed
replaced with granite,
hard, gray, and handsome.
The old steps live
only in me:
my feet and thighs
remember them, and my hands
still feel their splinters.
Everything else about and around that house
brings memories of others—of marriage,
of my son. And the steps do too: I recall
sitting there with my friend and her little son who died,
or was it the second one who lives and thrives?
And sitting there ‘in my life,’ often, alone or with my husband.
Yet that one instant,
your cheerful, unafraid, youthful, ‘I love you too,’
the quiet broken by no bird, no cricket, gold leaves
spinning in silence down without
any breeze to blow them,
is what twines itself
in my head and body across those slabs of wood
that were warm, ancient, and now
wait somewhere to be burnt.— from The Freeing of the Dust (1975)
Photo of Denise Levertov - one of Elsa Dorfman’s wonderful Polaroids
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Five Questions | Maryanne Casasanta
(thanks, Jabari!)
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Ben Vautier
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Bernard Plossu, Taos Church, New Mexico, 1976
(by Photo Tractatus)
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Dan Flavin, Installation Shot- One Man Exhibition, 1968
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Enclosed in cardboard boxes, having voluntarily subjugated their fleshy appearance to the abstract reality of the sign, the militant students of May 68 restored to the letter, its magic and ancestral power.
— Letter and Image, Massin -
kkramer said that…
photo is by Stanley Forman and shows 19-year-old Diana Bryant and two-year-old Tiare Jones falling from a broken fire escape during an apartment house fire in Boston, Massachusetts in 1975. Diana died as a result of the fall.
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‘Max’s Kansas City was an art environment, replete with Art Consciousness and about Art Consciousness. To even walk in Max’s was to be absorbed into the collective Art Self-Conscious Consciousness, either as an object or as collaborator. I didn’t want to be absorbed as a collaborator, because that would mean having my own consciousness co-opted and modified by that of others. It would mean allowing my consciousness to be influenced by their perceptions of art, and exposing my perceptions of art to their consciousness, and I didn’t want that. I have always had a very strong individualistic streak. My solution was to privatize my own consciousness as much as possible, by depriving it of sensory input from that environment; to isolate it from all tactile, aural, and visual feedback. In doing so, I presented myself as a silent, secret, passive object, seemingly ready to be absorbed into their consciousness as an object. But I learned that complete absorption was impossible, because my voluntary objectlike passivity implied aggressive activity and choice, an independent presence confronting the Art-Conscious environment with its autonomy. My objecthood became my subjecthood.’
Adrian Piper, 1970
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Mary Miss: perimeters/pavilions/decoys 1977-78
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olle baertling
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Piles
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tried to go here not too long ago, turns out the King City bus doesn’t run on the weekends. Soon!
Richard Serra, Shift, 1970 - 72
To roll, to crease, to fold, to store, to bend, to shorten, to twist,
to dapple, to crumple, to shave, to tear, to chip, to split, to cut,
to sever, to drop, to remove, to simplify, to differ, to disarrange,
to open, to mix, to splash, to knot, to spell, to droop, to flow,
to curve, to lift, to inlay, to impress, to fire, to flood, to smear,
to rotate, to swirl, to support, to hook, to suspend, to spread,
to hang, to collect -…
The “Verb list” established a logic whereby the process that constituted a sculpture remains transparent. Anyone can reconstruct the process of the making by viewing the residue.
The sculptures resulting from the “Verb list” introduced two aspects of time: the condensed time of their making and the durational time of their viewing.- Richard Serra (excerpt from Questions, Contradictions, Solutions, 2004)
(via austereprint)
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Hannah Wilke, 1977
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As you were: Maryanne Casasanta
September 16th - October 16th, 2010
As You Were is an ongoing series of work by Toronto-based artist Maryanne Casasanta that contemplates the exchange between art and the commonplace. Casasanta approaches the act of documenting her personal living environment in a democratic fashion. She variously rearranges objects, alters their function, forges new connections between them, or simply takes their portraits. Through this process, Casasanta reacts to a desire to connect more deeply with her surroundings. As You Were is also concerned with the presentation of the body as an object or form, the poetic associations that cling to materials, and the merging of photography and conceptual art.
www.maryannecasasanta.com
Curated by Nicholas Brown and Catherine DeanOpening reception, Thursday September 16th 9pm
After Party to follow at The Shop with selected music by Mark K MarkMark and Benjamin Gabriel.Parts & Labour
1566 Queen St W Toronto, ON
Facebook: event page
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Yesterday I sold a box of over 700 found slides from the 70’s to a woman over craigslist.
She told me about an archival project of hers where she scans the slides and tags them by category:
Then she wiped out a beautiful polaroid camera and snapped a photo of me. Here we are in front of the Bloor/Gladstone Toronto Public Library.
Long live film!!
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richard long
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“I ASSURE YOU THERE WAS FIRE AROUND US IN THE AIR!”
(book for the cottage)
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EldridgeCleaver (Aug. 31, 1935 – 1998) was an author, most famously of Soul on Ice, and a prominent leader of the Black Panther Party…
“You don’t have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.” — E.C.
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Bernd and Hilla Becher, Framework House 1961
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THIS is so beautiful
“Ronald Clyne, who died in 2006, made over 500 sleeves for the Folkways label, which was founded by Polish-born Moses ‘Moe’ Asch in New York in 1948. Under Asch’s direction, the label evolved into a fascinating repository for field recordings, spoken word, poetry and indigenous compositions.” Creative Review - Art for anything that is sound)
via folkobject:
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Richard Hamilton: Marcel Duchamp
colour offset lithograph with collage, 1967(via yama-bato)
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yayoi
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Bernard Voita
