I guess what I’m driving at is that I’m interested in how books can work like buildings, where buildings are mute, dumb, raw assemblages of geometry and materiality under the auspices of cultural iconography, they don’t communicate, they don’t embody a causal understanding of truth, they aren’t–even when they attempt to be–representational, they simply “are.”
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1/20/2007, Xerox transfer and gouache on mylar, series of 4, 2017 Sirens wail. A cheer rises up from the scattered crowds. One by one, booms like gunshots ring out…
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A text after Agustín Fernández Mallo’s Nocilla Experience
by John Trefry May 9, 2017Nocilla Experience by Agustín Fernández Mallo Translated by Thomas Bunstead Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2016 200 pages – Fitzcarraldo / Amazon 1 SEAN CARROLL: When you actually do fall through the event…
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In spring 1995, I bought a vacant house at the corner of Fourth and Hedge Streets in Charlottesville, Virginia. The house had sat on the market for a year. It…
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Deframing News: David Weldzius, Stephen Cohen Gallery: “News from Nowhere”
by Alex Lee October 1, 2014“Case Study House No. 22, master bedroom.” Image courtesy of Cohen Gallery and David Weldzius. “Architecture is not simply a platform that accommodates the viewing subject. It is a…
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The Poetics of Spaces: Landing Sites, Heat, & Air Density
by Janice Lee May 20, 2014Estragon: We came here yesterday. Vladmir: Ah no, there you’re mistaken. Estragon: What did we do yesterday? Vladmir: What did we do yesterday? Estragon: Yes. — Waiting For Godot Last…