A. Prologue: Signs of Life Tinny static from a tape deck.Desk lamp on in total darkness on floor.Unfold the silken cloth.Under the lamp light examine a limb.Observe.Observe.Observe.Replace the limb with your face.Drop static. B. She’s So Good One: Face to
Lamentations
When I walk down the street, when I abandon the relative comfort of my city apartment, when I step outside, not knowing where it is that I am going, and when I at last decide to head to the corner
Labyrinth
Hyeon Jung Kim was born in Seoul, Korea. Hyeon received her BFA at School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008 and studied at University of London at Goldsmiths College. She is a recipient of SAIC Fellowship Award and
Martha and Megaliths
We eat that fish, and the fish is delicious. Then she discusses the fish with the chef, its preparation, its presentation. We are at a Michelin one star restaurant in Quimper, Brittany. It was the sea bass or dace, flesh
How Bilbao
As at London’s Tate modern where you descend a wide ramp to enter and then look up at the art galleries, you enter the Bilbao Guggenheim down a wide arced staircase with shallow risers and look up into the atrium.
Rabbit Wind
The compressor is too noisy so they shut it off before you read. These twelve foot high pink and white inflatable bunnies slowly flatten. When inflated they are some terrifying bunnies. Once deflated they are easy to stomp on. They
Clarence Schmidt
I thought of this as a pilgrimage, in the late sixties, early seventies, to visit Clarence Schmidt and the tumult of his demesne in Woodstock, New York. He was the chief “outsider” artist, famous all over the country, his life
Eating Dog/ Talking Turkey
I The billboards stun me as we enter Communist China. Years before when I crossed into East Berlin through Checkpoint Charlie, before the wall went down, the sudden lack of commercial advertising I found relaxing though the absence of color
Grace Lee Boggs’ Message to Occupy Wall Street – 10/9/11
Grace Lee is a Los Angeles based filmmaker of both documentary and fiction films. She is currently in production on the feature documentary AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: the evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, about 96-year-old Detroit philosopher and activist Grace Lee Boggs.
Reckonings
When navigating by dead reckoning, it’s important to start from a known point, time; time to give the queen a bath. A point. Start from a point, a needle: A compass bats its metal lash. Make the queen’s skirts. Make