Columbus Day

The title comes from a poetry book, written by the artist Jimmie Durham in the early 80s. (1983)

Columbus day refers to the Columbus's arrival to America.

I would love to have the first edition, to smell the old papers.

text + concept + emotions

marcel proust calls it 'involuntary memory'

you sent a photo

internet became unbearable

Juan Gaitan on Sara Rajaei

"I considered to reflect a characteristically “bourgeois” reference, but not in the sense of “alienation” – not the anonymous stare of the maid-servant in Manet’s painting – but in the sense of a space so profoundly dedicated to itself, so invested in itself, that barely anything could exist, at least affectively, outside of it. Laughter and tears, memories, broken objects … "

David Elliot tells that..

without the ethics, there's never be the aesthetics, - they don't exist independently from each other - contemporary art expresses anything it has to express, and attitude towards freedom of freedom for itself, but freedom or autonomies good enough - so-called the autonomy of art needs to express our freedoms and that's why we do.

re-dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

Let's re dial the history http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWyiY0JywC4&feature=related

Johan Grimonprez at Fruitmarket Gallery http://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/

22 May - 11 July 2010

Journal for Contemporary Art

One of the discoveries of lazy sunny sunday

http://www.ctrlp-artjournal.org/

Art in the Age of Biopolitics: From Artwork to Art Documentation

Must read article vol. II http://www.ranadasgupta.com/notes.asp?note_id=34

by Boris Groys (translation: Steven Lindberg)
art, documentary, Benjamin, biopolitics

from the Catalogue to Documenta 11