Forces of Expression at the Frick
“I thought that I liked the Turners because they opened out onto the world rather than closing me in with the pantheon, but it was the wrong world. Turner’s glowing shores were proxies for what I longed to see: a different heat and haze, a native landscape, some record of the places that made this mansion possible. The Collection, perhaps by no fault of its own, makes apparent our ignorance of all the processes that precede it, coal into coke into steel into canvas. I would have preferred two large paintings that opened out onto that, the furnace of an older history that we have so few windows into, that barely even haunts us, that we allow the barons to replace with idylls and seascapes, a fictional European scrim over the fearsome topography of the country.”
Ben Tapeworm on the reopening of the Frick Collection.
Ben Tapeworm on the reopening of the Frick Collection.
Josef Albers
Einer geht
einer steht
wer hat mehr vecht
auf den Weg
One is walking
one is standing
who is more entitled
to the path
Josef Albers, Poems & Drawings
einer steht
wer hat mehr vecht
auf den Weg
One is walking
one is standing
who is more entitled
to the path
Josef Albers, Poems & Drawings
Agnes Denes
Wouldn't it be a shame if mankind were beginning to understand its own mind and the nature of consciousness just as it was losing its humanity? If it became so mechanized that discovering what it is that makes it human were to become just another equation, a cold fact that no longer had any value except its utility in making a better machine?
Agnes Denes, The Book of Dust
Agnes Denes, The Book of Dust
Pascal's Perfect Probability Pyramid & The People Paradox - The Predicament (PPPPPPP): Agnes Denes, 1980
A Manifesto of Questions
Who owns rural america?
Who does not own rural america?
Where is rural america? What is rural america?
Is rural america at the edge of some center of america? If so, where is the center?
Are there multiple centers? Are there multiple edges?
What happens at the center that does not happen at the edges?
What happens at the edges that does not happen at the center?
What is gained when someone moves something from the edges into the center? What is lost?
What is lost when someone moves something from the center to the edges? What is gained?
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Who does not own rural america?
Where is rural america? What is rural america?
Is rural america at the edge of some center of america? If so, where is the center?
Are there multiple centers? Are there multiple edges?
What happens at the center that does not happen at the edges?
What happens at the edges that does not happen at the center?
What is gained when someone moves something from the edges into the center? What is lost?
What is lost when someone moves something from the center to the edges? What is gained?
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Rick Myers: Two Things, Quite Intertwined
“....with the history of Morse, the transmission of incremental visual language and sound, and notions of data storage and retrieval all having strong relationships with research and thought focuses within my practice, these signature vestiges of the Morse photocopier were perfectly in-keeping with the work. It was an incidental chance encounter that wasn’t repeatable, and a way to know that I'm in the right place at the right time in my life, and using the work as a way to navigate that. Honestly, it sounds a bit romantic, I hope it does, the practice of moving through the day-to-day and accessing what is already right in front of you, that’s really, really special. I think of it as my day-to-day job, maintaining that space.”
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