state & mind

2012-01-31T23:52:00.002+01:00

(Arakawa, 1968)

The museum of Conceptual Art opened on Wednesday, March 18 in San Francisco's Market Street district with a participation piece in which buckets of paint were given to the guests to paint the walls white.

2011-12-19T15:40:00.001+01:00

(stills from The Strange Story of Joe Meek)

2011-12-16T19:10:00.005+01:00

Barbara Bloom's Letraset Signatures 1989

2011-12-14T17:43:00.004+01:00

(Stills from Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers, 1980)

"Eleanor Roosevelt, to keep her memory sharp, ate 3 cloves of garlic a day dipped in chocolate"

2011-11-29T17:48:00.001+01:00

This is one of the last places in Amsterdam that still sell letraset, amazing serviceby the owner, a dapper Dutch Ted Danson, today he was wearing a baby blue turtle neck skivvy with a dashing light brown blazer.

2011-11-03T11:28:00.000+01:00

The absence of my chair, Marinus Zoezem, 1968

2011-10-19T16:26:00.001+02:00

BATTEAUX - HIGH TIDE

2011-10-18T00:56:00.002+02:00

(Still from Sitcom, François Ozon, 1998)

Floatational Perspectives ie. "another day in paradise"...

(Still from Interiors Trailer)

Pearl: I prefer a warmer climate. I even lived in Australia for a year with my sister Faye, when Adam died, but I went nuts! Its dead there.

Mike: I was in Sydney Australia once.

Pearl: Was I lying? Did you like it?

Mike: Well it was just a vacation you know. I was only there a coupla days.

Pearl: Lucky. It's like a morgue. Nothing to do at night; no pizzazz. I couldn't take that.

(Still from The Seventh Continent, Haneke, 1989)

2011-09-16T15:53:00.000+02:00

While stumbling home one evening we came across a box of freebies and in it was this miscellaneous art publication called Blind from 1989 designed by Mevis and Van Deursen. From it this was the most interesting, a series of photos called 'Art Dealers Opt. Test' by David Robbins. Other contributions included short stories about dial up internet relationships.

2011-09-15T14:00:00.001+02:00

Henri Chopin 7"

2011-08-28T00:21:00.000+02:00

2011-08-20T19:42:00.002+02:00

Grupa TOK performance, Serbia '73

2011-08-20T19:22:00.001+02:00

2011-07-31T00:25:00.003+02:00

the menu at Gordan Matta-Clark's FOOD restaurant, 1971

2011-07-30T00:53:00.003+02:00

contents page of Claude Cahun's semi-journal Disavowals.

2011-07-27T22:50:00.003+02:00

Ira Cohen's 'GNAOUA' published in Tangier,

printed in Belgium (?), 1964

his house

2011-07-27T21:29:00.001+02:00

2011-07-20T22:51:00.001+02:00

Reodelius worked as a chef in a nudist holiday camp in Corsica.

2011-07-19T12:12:00.003+02:00

(part of the transcript from My Dinner with Andre)

* Spiritual Pollution

2011-07-18T20:50:00.002+02:00

Robert Wilhite

2011-07-11T02:03:00.002+02:00

A poem that Nietzsche wrote on his Malling-Hansen Writing Ball

The poem in English translation:

“THE WRITING BALL IS A THING LIKE ME: MADE OF IRON

YET EASILY TWISTED ON JOURNEYS.

PATIENCE AND TACT ARE REQUIRED IN ABUNDANCE

AS WELL AS FINE FINGERS TO USE US."

(Friedrich Nietzsche, on February 16th 1882)

2011-04-29T20:25:00.001+02:00

"Flexibility is one of the signs of mental health"

- Lynne Tillman

2011-04-21T12:42:00.003+02:00

Today is an important occasion

The Knee Plays

David Byrne - Music for the Knee Plays

2011-04-18T12:11:00.004+02:00

(Still from Mlad i zdrav kao ruza "Young and Healthy as a Rose",

Jovan Jovanovic, 1971)

serbia: realistically bruised.

20/20 FUTURE mix

Hermès

Cloud One - Atmosphere Strut

2011-04-04T20:51:00.003+02:00

(stills from Psych-Out, 1968)

"See this beam of light?

That’s all there is...

the rest is in your head."

2011-04-01T14:14:00.000+02:00

2011-04-01T14:06:00.000+02:00

Artist Placement Group.

2011-03-26T16:39:00.002+01:00

"Today i saw a red-and-yellow sunset and thought, How insignificant i am! of course, i thought that yesterday too, and it rained. I was overcome with self-loathing and contemplated suicide again - this time by inhaling next to an insurance salesman."

Woody Allen - Without Feathers

(selections from Allen Notebooks)

2011-02-15T15:34:00.003+01:00

The other day during my weekly dutch lesson at the oBa, i left some crumbs on the table from a croissant that i ate and swept the crumbs off the table and onto the floor. Jeroen looked at me in disgust and said "Annie, this isn't China".

2011-02-07T14:01:00.002+01:00

(Still from 'Taking Off', 1970)

Gravity

2011-02-07T13:42:00.003+01:00

In first year art school I used to make 2D wall sculptures of Richard Artschwager's furniture.

2011-02-04T15:48:00.004+01:00

Art Yard

I have been thinking about an art yard i would like to build. It would be sort of a big hole in the ground. Actually it wouldn't be a hole to begin with. That would have to be dug. the digging of the hole would be part of the art. Luxurious stands would be made for the art lovers and spectators to sit in.

W. de Maria

2011-01-25T20:57:00.005+01:00

Devotional Cinema PDF

2011-01-25T14:42:00.000+01:00

Rotation Pegboard Machine

2011-01-07T16:04:00.002+01:00

(still from Stereo, Cronenberg, 1969)

2010-12-14T19:00:00.002+01:00

Daner Galeriet

"i’ve started writing a new book. it’ll be about my time as a secret agent for the swedish security police, and why i got fired."

2010-11-26T11:38:00.002+01:00

(Still from Wittgenstein, Jarman, 1993)

"sit down, let Gravity tell you a story"

2010-11-22T23:50:00.001+01:00

humour as the flipside of bureaucratic coldness

2010-11-19T14:54:00.001+01:00

2010-11-15T17:44:00.000+01:00

2010-11-07T23:38:00.003+01:00

work update

anti-music cassette from here

just uploaded (thanks Matt)

♡

2010-11-04T15:24:00.002+01:00

!! ASPHIXIATION !!

WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED 'DISCO', 1980

2010-11-04T11:13:00.001+01:00

Although the agency had gained early fame for its "Labour isn't working" advertising for the Conservative Party in 1979, in 2007 it was appointed the advertising agency for the Labour Party.[14]

2010-10-25T16:53:00.003+02:00

2010-10-17T17:52:00.002+02:00

Japanese Jaws for misguided tenants

2010-10-03T18:46:00.001+02:00

The Elephant Table Album

A Compilation of Difficult Music

2010-10-03T16:30:00.002+02:00

ping pong politics, 1971

"...neither Soviet athletes nor journalists appeared in China following the appearance of the American players and journalists"

2010-09-11T23:09:00.004+02:00

Anti-Music Cassette

Audio Arts

2010-09-08T12:56:00.003+02:00

Spiral interview compilation cassette

series from Amsterdam

# 1-9

2010-09-06T12:19:00.000+02:00

Július Koller (39-07)

2010-09-05T12:06:00.003+02:00

(stills from Gravity and Grace - Chris Kraus)

Forcing Lefties to 'think right'

2010-08-31T23:10:00.002+02:00

bargaining in chinese

2010-08-29T22:06:00.002+02:00

slap me, make i get money

2010-08-10T20:22:00.004+02:00

The basis of art is:

1. It's origin in intense and urgent feeling - a desire to communicate

2. It's embodiment in permanent form

3. It's power to raise a corresponding depth of feeling.

From notes for lectures on art appreciation by Nancy Parker

(the last note i made on my ipod prior to its mysterious disappearance)

2010-08-07T17:34:00.001+02:00

2010-08-04T04:55:00.006+02:00

(john cage, indeterminacy No.5)

2010-07-19T23:31:00.001+02:00

words from unseen lips

therapy for confused muscles

2010-07-19T23:02:00.002+02:00

Argo - Discophonia, 1980

2010-07-16T18:57:00.000+02:00

John Cage, Indeterminacy No.6

2010-07-16T18:27:00.001+02:00

2010-07-16T18:20:00.000+02:00

(Stills from Mermaids)

"Honey it's an eclipse, put these on..."

2010-07-16T12:05:00.003+02:00

(stills from Grass labyrinth - Terayama)

Ocean scene - reprise.

2010-07-15T11:21:00.003+02:00

The ‘mise-en-scène' of direct address.

2010-07-13T23:59:00.001+02:00

Visualised numerals

2010-07-13T23:44:00.003+02:00

While believing himself to be on the top of Mont Blanc, solemnly offering his blood for his country. In reality he is being bled and thus cured of his sick dreams.

(images from Grotowski's Towards a Poor Theater)

2010-07-13T22:25:00.002+02:00

group material text

2010-07-09T16:35:00.002+02:00

PRiMITIVE FUTURE MIXXXX

(for best results, use headphones, lying down near warm breeze 30 degrees plus)

2010-07-09T01:35:00.003+02:00

(stills from Celine and Julie go Boating, Rivette, 1974)

The human spirit is prey to the most astounding impulses. She does not know that his unacknowledgeable passions and her own are really ONE.

- Bataille

2010-07-06T23:40:00.001+02:00

Robert Ashley - Private Parts, 1977

2010-07-06T03:42:00.003+02:00

If you say something, see something.

work update

2010-07-05T01:49:00.002+02:00

The circulation of steam in the steampipes of a factory is an unquestioned precondition of the factory's operation. However, the workers in a factory hardly give a moment's thought to the circulation of the steam. Their attention is completely concentrated on their work. The energy engendered by the steam is "not everything" in the factory. There are other important interests, e.g., the manufacture of machines and similar things. Let us imagine that all of a sudden one or more steam valves became clogged. The flow of energy engendered by the steam would cease immediately. The pistons would stop; the wheels would no longer turn; work would be out of the question. All the workers would have to direct their attention with dispatch to the obstructed flow of steam in the pipes. All thinking would be centered on one question: how a regulated circulation of steam could be reestablished in the quickest way. Let us further imagine that some workers began to argue about this situation as follows: "This confounded theory of heat exaggerates the role of steam. Sure, it's true that steam is necessary, but it's far from being everything in this factory. Don't you see that there are other things to worry about? What about the economy?" In a breakdown like the one described, these "brainstorms" would merely be laughed at, and one would quickly attempt to eliminate the basic disturbance in the circulation of the steam before turning one's thoughts to "other things." It would serve no purpose to consider the interests of economy when the steam valves are clogged.

Reich's biosocial mechanism of society

2010-07-04T16:34:00.002+02:00

service information

2010-06-30T13:40:00.001+02:00

it is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes

2010-06-30T04:33:00.000+02:00

2010-06-29T12:01:00.002+02:00

Ulises Carrión

2010-06-27T00:32:00.001+02:00

perverted reverence

Cane Toads, an Unnatural History

2010-06-24T01:31:00.000+02:00

2010-06-23T00:04:00.003+02:00

posters from the public laundry in Delfshaven

2010-06-22T15:13:00.004+02:00

YES, VHS

2010-06-20T15:56:00.001+02:00

Yugoslavian Black Wave Cinema

2010-06-11T17:24:00.000+02:00

OBLIQUE FUTURE MIXXXXXXX

2010-06-10T15:33:00.001+02:00

In no way did this death signify the failure of communism. Communism had already often failed and it will fail again. But it is also continuously victorious. It is the only available Idea in the history of human beings.

(Of an Obscure Disaster, Badiou)

2010-06-10T00:09:00.001+02:00

Paul Virilio's ideogram of the function of the oblique

from Architecture Principe magazine, 3 April 1966

2010-06-07T21:50:00.002+02:00

WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW

2010-06-07T16:06:00.003+02:00

(still from Pierrot le Fou - Godard)

"The argument runs like this: a child, pausing before his book, falls into a reverie. This daydream, composed in part of excessive thinking about power and mastery and a concurrent, if hidden and counterpointed theme of loss, an anticipated, almost yearning for loss, becomes equated with a particular visit to the ocean on an over cast day. The visual complements the emotional tense but cannot surpass it."

- Nick Piombino

2010-05-30T22:14:00.005+02:00

Large numbers of refugees would flood across North Korea's border with China. Kim Jong-il's ramshackle regime would probably fall quickly. Korea would be reunited, as a capitalist, strongly pro-American ally abutting on to China.

It would be like riding on a bus with a bus driver that likes to get drunk whilst listening to this really loud, possibly thinking of more reasons to get intoxicated. Would you trust this man?

2010-05-30T18:55:00.003+02:00

2010-05-29T12:10:00.004+02:00

just found this list buried deep in my archives:

Happiness (Solondz)

Daisies (Věra Chytilová)

Xiu Xiu - the Sent Down Girl (Joan Chen)

The Color of Pomegranates (Paradjanov)

Sweet Movie (Makavjev)

Deep End (Skolimowski)

Fando Y Lis (Jodorowsky)

Woman under the influence (Cassavetes)

In the Realm of Senses (Oshima)

Woman in the Dunes (Teshigahara)

Eyes Without a Face (georges Franju)

The Beaver Trilogy (Trent Harris)

Fucking Åmål (moodysson)

Lolita (lyne)

tortured souls..? or universal heartbreak

2010-05-29T11:37:00.002+02:00

A documentary on Robert Ashley

by Peter Greenaway

2010-05-29T10:13:00.003+02:00

Italian dramatic pop

feat. Toto Cutugno

1976

2010-05-28T14:47:00.003+02:00

"it’s live, it’s beautiful..

makes you full and very empty, no?"

Pina Bausch

2010-05-27T17:44:00.004+02:00

(Stills from Bad Timing - Nicholas Roeg, 1980)

Emmett Williams 1965

2010-05-23T01:48:00.001+02:00

Grooves explained

2010-05-23T01:05:00.004+02:00

I always had suspicions about my landlord, but now i have proof. Situated in the cupboard this evening, i came across 2 books, one on 80s international interior design and the other on symbolism by Carl Jung. This really explains so much.

(Jung's Compass of the psyche)

but All Active! of course...who needs a compass when you have a rooftop

(From Esprit de Corp, Melbourne, designed by Sottsass)

(From Esprit de Corp, West Berlin - former, designed by Sottsass)

2010-05-14T11:25:00.002+02:00

courtesy of lady B. N,

my voice of rational intuition affirmation

2010-05-13T19:35:00.000+02:00

(still from: Mysteries of the Organism - Makavejev)

2010-05-13T18:34:00.004+02:00

*Jean-Luc Nancy

2010-05-05T18:17:00.004+02:00

(From Blast)

(image: Lili Reynaud Dewar)

Keeping my hands dirty and my feet clean -

the unsuccessful attempt at mental hygiene

2010-04-30T20:06:00.003+02:00

Oyvind Fahlström, "Fahlström's Corner,"

Stockholm, 1964

Pi Lind, "Living Sculpture,"

Stockholm, 1969

2010-04-27T20:48:00.002+02:00

- Profound Dutchism -

I was at the regular Tuesday flea market today and as i was flipping through a stack of records, i pulled up a Todd Rundgren record 'Hermit of Mink Hollow' and during this moment of pause, i mostly contemplated 3 things, 1. the quality of analog televisions photographed, compared to digital screen shots 2. 'Can we still be friends' has hit a record high of 26 plays according to my iTunes , followed closely by 'Emotions' by Roger Troutman 3. the price of the record. Then a guy holding 3 round paintbrushes standing next to me says "Todd Rundgren always holds its value, that record would be worth something like 17-20 euros easy... i don't work here, i'm a musician.", we analysed the lyrics in the inner sleeve for quite some time and as he was departing, his final point of enticement took the form of, "well we are not husband and wife, but if i were you i would get it". Anyway.