and this is the record of the time
The following photographs of photographs are important to me because they document the decades leading up to the recent 50th birthday of my friend Teresa Vito. Teresa's a role model and an inspiration to me as the first woman I met making a living as an artist. I met her when I was one quarter of a century alive. Our families both come from the mountains of Abruzzi. We shared a porch, and many stories, at a house on Madison and Colfax for many years.
Teresa Vito is one spectacular human.
The following images are from the
They appeal to me because they represent many pieces of work, created from many mediums, understood as a multitudinous, layered, visual archive that echoes a plethora of voice and time.
Sarah Lucas, Bunny Gets Snookered #3
"A comparative reading of the literary oeuvre of the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges forms the point of departure for this investigation. Borges’s oeuvre and its conceptual as well as narrative landscape is used as a methodology to build up a sequence of potential narratives (and fictions), continued (as if) en abîme in a collective archive of visual imaginary.
Aleph – the cosmic point that contains all times and places in the universe, a fabled observatory that figures the endlessness of all things – frames the sequences of potential structures and possible fictions: from the issues concerned with the principles of identity and meanders of authorship through paradoxes of language and space-time confluences down to conjunctions of universe and utopia, reality and fiction, mirror and encyclopaedia. The exhibition emphasizes the processual reading of the act of collecting as practice(s), in which combinations and permutations of arrangements create ever new meanings, contexts and relationships between artworks."
Aleph – the cosmic point that contains all times and places in the universe, a fabled observatory that figures the endlessness of all things – frames the sequences of potential structures and possible fictions: from the issues concerned with the principles of identity and meanders of authorship through paradoxes of language and space-time confluences down to conjunctions of universe and utopia, reality and fiction, mirror and encyclopaedia. The exhibition emphasizes the processual reading of the act of collecting as practice(s), in which combinations and permutations of arrangements create ever new meanings, contexts and relationships between artworks."
Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU: The Morning Line
Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville
"The Morning Line is challenging architectural convention: The team of collaborators has designed the first semiasographic building, an architectural language that directly expresses its content through its structure – a structure that is simultaneously generating itself and falling apart, enclosing an interactive environment inside which a possible future can be seen – and changed."
This work exemplifies, in unconventional and dynamic architectural expression, concepts that are gripping me at this time.
[This may lead us to curator and writer Raimundas Malasaukas (who I'm attempting to contact while I sleep), the brilliant Craig Douglass Dworkin,
and cockroaches that crawl out of your dreams and onto the sidewalk to be stepped on by a boy, in front of your eyes, the next day.]
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