Colin Pantall recently posted this short video by Mishka Henner. It shows Henner’s father in the minutes after Man City nabbed the English Premier League a couple weeks back. It’s not really about football though.
Gregory Halpern's "A" in PDF form.
I’ve been looking at this for a couple of days since the book is now upwards of 150 dollars and I didn’t grab it when I had the chance.
Myself and my classmates on the photography MFA in Belfast are exhibiting some work in progress at The Red Barn gallery from Thurs 24th - Wed 30th May. Some really good stuff starting to come through, including the above image by Yvette Monahan. The show opens next Thursday night. Do join us if ya can.
Very funny six minute video about conceptual artist John Baldessari. Narrated by Tom Waits.
"The nature of metaphor depends on innumerable varying factors; but its raison d’être is always the same: it is what connects the event and the artist’s judgement of it: it is the means of rendering the subject and its meaning visually inseparable. The thing interpreted becomes the interpretation."
John Berger, in “Painting a Landscape”.
(Source: johnberger.org, via greatleapsideways)
Mark Peckmezian
Perry Ogden, Dee & Wesley
Shaun, 2011
Opé, 2011
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An official agency for promoting Irish culture is a living paradox. It has to deal with the contradiction between the two words that define it. “Promotion” is a nicer synonym for “propaganda”. It is innately biased towards the upbeat and the optimistic. But “culture” – particularly as it is expressed in vibrant contemporary art – is critical, challenging, subversive. It may even be embarrassing – much of Irish theatre, for example, shows the Irish as a feckless, drunken, violent, abusive bunch, redeemed only by their love of colourful language.
In this sense, individual works of art seldom promote the country in any literal way. The effect they may have is broad and indirect. Is a Marina Carr play with dark convolutions of incest, madness and violence likely to make the chief executive of an American corporation think, Hey, that Ireland looks a great place to invest in! Do films as bleak as Lenny Abrahamson’s Adam & Paul and Garage present the required image of a dynamic, high-tech, well-educated, globalised workforce? Of course not. What happens instead is that a cumulative exposure to a range of works and performances gets across the idea of Ireland as a place that’s interesting, distinctive and imaginative. That in turn may seep out into a larger and deeper awareness of the country as something more than an egregious economic screw-up.
"Fintan O’Toole, Saturday’s Irish Times
Rafal Milach, from ‘In The Car With R’.
Paul Graham, End of an Age #31, 1997
"Well, I’m not really that interested in a particular person. What I am trying to capture or produce is an archetypal image, an image that goes beyond the description of the physiognomic and psychical specificities of an individual. I seek to provide the work with a universal dimension, what I call the roundness of a work."
Interview with Viviane Sassen on Camera Littera
(Source: lostinpublications)
Just discovered what look to be the beginnings of a really intriguing project called Lost In Publications, which sets out to produce a comprehensive (encyclopaedic) page on the work of a particular photographer, complete with interviews, quotations, essays, photographs, videos, book layouts and links to other resources. Context, context, context. They’ve started with Rineke Dijkstra, Rob Hornstra, Rinko Kawauchi, Vanessa Winship and Rafal Milach. An extraordinary amount of effort must have gone into this - very well worth taking a look at…
