a day late and a dollar tall

To prepare them for the retrospective at MoMA, last Fall Marina Abramović invited the re-performers to a workshop at her home in upstate New York called "Cleaning the House." Participants slept outside and did not eat nor speak for four days. They engaged in a regimen of individual and group exercises, such as walking backwards in slow motion, counting grains of rice, and observing a single object for hours. The goal of these exercises was to enable them to become aware of their limits and to find their own charismatic space.



[thanks for introducing me to Abramović's work, Kate]



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Jennifer O'malley lives in Orlando, Florida:











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Perry Angelora resides in Brooklyn:








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"Experimental art is that which takes unfamiliarity as its dominant—even to the point of schism."

What Is Experimental Art?
by
A D Jameson



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from Christopher Davidson's new series "Disasters Are People Too":











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Hilary Emerson Lay lives and works on Boston’s North Shore:








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Photography by Carlos Nunez:





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Saverio Truglia makes his home in Chicago:








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"The birth of aesthetics as a regime of identification of art signifies the overthrow of a set of hierarchies that determined the status of artistic practices and the very nature of their sensory perception: a hierarchy of the arts and genres determined by the lowliness or nobility of their subjects, that is, ultimately by the rank held by the characters and activities they represented; the subordination of works and practices to social destinations defined within an hierarchically structured world; the definition of taste as a form of sensibility that was the preserve of an elite; the definition of the very practice of art according to the scheme of an active form commanding passive matter."

'The Politics of Aesthetics':
Jacques Rancière Interviewed by Nicolas Vieillescazes



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"Floating Logos" by Matt Siber:











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Italian artist Alberto Seveso:








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"For those of us who are committed to radical change in literature, there are good reasons why we might want to avoid using the term "avant-garde."

"The Avant-Garde and the Question of Literature"
by
R. M. Berry



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Photography from Wladmir Padilla:








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"Nabokov wrote that a speck he removed from his eye when a child in Saint Petersburg still exists somewhere. The Rule of the Nabokovian Eye Speck insures that every single molecule is recycled whether you’re cognizant of its regeneration or not."

"Nostalgia"
by
Susan Daitch



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Helen Verhoeven resides in The Netherlands:








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"Paris"
physical performance with Christian Bakalov
text, choreography and original music - Ivo Dimchev





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"The amorphous entities and reaching tentacles emerge and take form much like the navigation of a surfer within a wave." --Justine Ashbee











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"Horses carry all of us into heaven after we die. In heaven I am the mother of horses."

from Synesthesia: Of Moving Water, Eriosion, And Other Alterations
by
Jordaan Mason



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Clare Grill lives in New York:











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Two from video artist Nicolas Provost

"Papillon D'Amour"





"Pomme D'Amour"





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Rebecca Saylor Sack currently lives and works in Philadelphia:








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Frank Halmans resides in the Netherlands:

this is the jinnies with their legahorns feinting

Cindytalk - "Snowkiss"
images from Kim Ki-Duk's film Time





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Fiona Ackerman grew up in Montreal:











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Geof Huth's "egg"





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Olivia Lundberg teaches art at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs:











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Yuriko Katori was born in Ibaraki, Japan:








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Youngsun Liu lives in New York:








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Leanne Shapton is an illustrator, author, art director and publisher based in New York City:








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Spanish artist Andre da Loba:








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Caribou - "Odessa"
directed by Video Marsh





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Illustration by Dugald Stermer:








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Saul Chernick holds an MFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University:











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Summer Camp - "Ghost Train"





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"Mini Golf Club" project from the multidisciplinary collective La Bolleur:











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Dutch artist Bram Burger:










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"The Cowboy and the Frenchman"
A rare short film by David Lynch





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"Everything is an opinion."

Kanye West
on
Creativity



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Mexican artist Bayrol Jimenez:











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Installations by Troels Carlsen:








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Lars von Trier's AntiChrist is now available to stream on Netflix

[Thanks James]