Wednesday, September 09, 2009

gilt by association



Commercial photographer Steve Neaves:





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"For me, theory does not come before, to inspire, it does not precede, does not dictate, but rather it is a consequence of my text, which is at its origin philosophico-poetical, and it is a consequence in the form of compromise or urgent necessity."

GUARDIAN OF LANGUAGE: An Interview with Hélène Cixous
(March 1996)
by Kathleen O'Grady
Trinity College, University of Cambridge




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Brooke Inman earned an MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University:














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Alexis Anne lives and works in San Fransisco:











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Australian photographer Petrina Hicks:








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Swedish photographer Benjamin Goss:














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Taylor Baldwin
lives in Provincetown, MA:











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"...the moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist, and becomes a dull or an amusing craftsman, an honest or a dishonest tradesman. He has no further claim to be considered as an artist."

"The Soul of Man Under Socialism"
by
Oscar Wilde
(1891)




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Company of Thieves - "Oscar Wilde"
directed by Jason Hinkle





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British photographer Alva Bernadine:








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Remember the night of deliverance, when, your untied body
falling like a veil, you breathed a little from the incorruptible
air; and remember the clammy animals that took you back again.


"Memorables"
by
Rene Daumal
translated by Louise Landes Levi




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Nikki Graziano is a photographer and a mathematician:











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"What makes Laruelle so singular is that he may well be the first European philosopher in whose work substantive innovation has been wholeheartedly sacrificed in the name of total formal invention."

"Axiomatic heresy: The non-philosophy of Francois Laruelle"
by
Ray Brassier




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Marilyn Minter - "Green Pink Caviar"





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"I never start with an idea-I am not a person who has ideas about anything-and I almost never start with even a glimmer of a situation or a plot. (I think of plots as patches of ground that people get stuck on or stuck down into.)"





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Italian digital artist Federico Bebber:











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Mitch Epstein
lives in New York City:








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"O sallow-hued beam who forflakes by supine rod and who limps on the slack, I will not be slack for you, I will not suture to you, your blood shall not brine into mine, for mine embered and calls herself Sea-Slag."

"Spell for Ceasing the Pandering to the Daybroken Spiral"
by
Reb Livingston




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Veerle Frissen
resides in Gent, België:











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My Erasure/Remix/Review of
Vanessa Place & Robert Fitterman's Notes On Conceptualisms
in the new issue of
The Chapbook Review




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Sacha Federowsky, results from Urkrainian diaspora, is born in Strasbourg (France):








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"Cut-Ups"
created by Matti Niinimäki





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Work from Nigel Tomm's "Black Square Mirror Painting Series":














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British fashion photographer Rankin: