Self Destruction

2012-01-15T14:23:00.001-08:00

2012-01-15T14:21:00.000-08:00

2011-12-31T18:39:00.001-08:00

La Altra Figura – Giulio Paolini

2011-12-31T18:35:00.000-08:00

2011-12-31T18:26:00.001-08:00

"It's not that I've been dishonest. I just loathe reality."

2011-12-31T18:21:00.000-08:00

==== Manifesto - 2012 ====

HAVE NO FEAR FOR DESTRUCTION – IT IS ONLY THE HARBINGER OF CHANGE.

A process must be undertaken to create an outcome. You cannot sidestep the process of becoming, nor can you enforce your will onto the process. The best you can do is enjoy the ride; cause as much chaos as humanly possible and have faith that your outcome with be suffice.

BE TRUE TO THE PERSON YOU WANT TO BECOME.

2011-08-03T15:01:00.000-07:00

2011-08-03T14:59:00.000-07:00

Mark Wallinger - Threshold to the Kingdom

2011-08-03T14:51:00.000-07:00

Mike Nelson - Coral Reef

2011-08-03T07:25:00.001-07:00

Linder Sterling

2011-08-01T08:54:00.000-07:00

David Askevold

2011-08-01T03:46:00.000-07:00

Jonathan Schipper - TO DUST

Two sculptures are hung from a mechanism that gently grinds them into each other. The sculptures will slide against one another for many years creating new unimagined form. This image is a detail of the sculptures the mechanism is 9 feet above and not in this photo.

2011-07-30T11:47:00.001-07:00

2011-07-27T17:31:00.000-07:00

2011-07-24T08:26:00.000-07:00

Glenn Ligon

2011-07-13T08:15:00.000-07:00

Joshua Bronaugh

2011-07-13T08:06:00.000-07:00

2011-06-09T04:27:00.000-07:00

Tracey Emin - Knowing my Enemy

2011-06-08T16:12:00.000-07:00

Mike Nelson

2011-06-06T05:57:00.000-07:00

Claude Cahun

2011-06-06T04:12:00.000-07:00

Walter Beirendonck + Erwin Wurm

2011-05-31T10:13:00.000-07:00

Sterling Ruby

2011-05-25T16:35:00.000-07:00

2011-05-25T16:26:00.000-07:00

“You are not who you think you are. This is just a temporary package that you’ve put together on this planet and it’s not to be taken seriously. You’re supposed to have fun with it. [Laughs] Now, that knowledge threatens a lot of people who are so invested in their identity as a Christian or a Jew or as a black or as white or male, female, this, that—all those things that we label ourselves, that we define ourselves by. Drag is the antithesis of that. It says you are spirit, you are a spiritual being having a human experience. Don’t take the human experience too seriously. Some people are threatened by that, so it’s dangerous. It’s dangerous because if people accepted that message or really took it in, they would have to deconstruct who they are and a lot of people don’t have the processing tools to do that. A lot of people don’t have the guts to do that.”

RuPaul

2011-05-25T16:02:00.001-07:00

2011-05-20T05:55:00.000-07:00

Zimoun in collaboration with Architect Hannes Zweifel, 2011

2011-05-08T08:43:00.000-07:00

"the category of 'other' includes the inhabitants of the realms of supernatural beings and monsters, the territories of real or imaginary allies and enemies, and the lands of the dead – places far from the centre of the world, where one's own land is, and one's own reality. The 'other' is always distant as well as different, and against this difference the characteristics of self and society are formed and clarified"

Susan Hiller

2011-05-03T15:28:00.000-07:00

David Dimichele - Pseudodocumentation

2011-05-01T12:22:00.001-07:00

Cyprien Galliard - The Recovery of Discovery

2011-04-28T16:22:00.000-07:00

Chris Engman - Abandoned Crates

2011-04-17T12:42:00.000-07:00

Duane Hanson - The Tourists

2011-04-02T12:02:00.001-07:00

2011-04-02T06:59:00.000-07:00

Taner Ceylan - Nirvana, 2009

2011-04-02T06:03:00.000-07:00

2011-03-14T09:11:00.000-07:00

Japan, March 11th 2011

2011-03-14T09:07:00.001-07:00

Steven Klein

2011-03-14T09:03:00.000-07:00

Cady Noland

2011-02-21T07:52:00.000-08:00

"But certainly the most mysterious object of all was what David called “The Magic Box.” This wood crate was stored under David’s bed until he died. The box contains a collection of symbolically loaded objects—toy bugs, skulls, target pins, flowers, rocks, soil, currency, and religious trading cards. Many of these figures appear again and again through David’s artwork. So in many senses the Magic Box seems like a mini museum or an archive of David’s feelings, filled with the personal artifacts, which infused his political rage."

Matt Wolf

2011-02-21T05:48:00.001-08:00

2011-02-14T14:41:00.000-08:00

"the subject can only know itself through another, but in the process of recognising itself and constituting its own self-consciousness it must overcome or annihilate the Other, otherwise it places its own existence at risk"

Hegel

2011-02-10T17:26:00.001-08:00

2011-02-09T12:28:00.000-08:00

Waleed Beshty - Passages

2011-02-07T08:24:00.000-08:00

2011-02-07T06:16:00.000-08:00

"The final revelation is that lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of art."

The Decay of Lying, Oscar Wilde

2011-02-06T14:08:00.000-08:00

2011-02-05T15:02:00.000-08:00

Susan Hiller - Psi Girls

2011-02-05T15:00:00.000-08:00

Susan Hiller - Witness

2011-02-04T12:53:00.000-08:00

"To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognise it 'the way it was'. It means to seize hold of a memory as it flies by at a moment of danger."

Walter Benjamin

2011-01-30T12:35:00.000-08:00

Ark of the Arts

2011-01-29T09:25:00.000-08:00

Helen Storey / ShowStudio - Wonderland

2011-01-27T14:15:00.001-08:00

2011-01-24T09:42:00.000-08:00

2011-01-24T09:04:00.000-08:00

"Realizing that I have nothing left to lose in my actions I let my hands become weapons, my teeth become weapons, every bone & muscle & fiber & ounce of blood become weapons, & I feel prepared for the rest of my life.” — David Wojnarowicz

2011-01-24T03:34:00.000-08:00

Mats Gustafson

2011-01-23T07:51:00.000-08:00

Jenny Holzer

2011-01-20T16:29:00.000-08:00

2011-01-19T06:10:00.000-08:00

2011-01-18T12:14:00.001-08:00

Tanyth Berkeley

2011-01-18T12:13:00.000-08:00

2011-01-17T18:21:00.000-08:00

2011-01-17T16:37:00.000-08:00

Anjelica Huston

2011-01-17T12:30:00.000-08:00

"What is most compelling in the long history of the myth and its retellings is Medusa's intrinsic doubleness: at once monster and beauty, disease and cure, poison and remedy. The woman with snaky locks who could turn the unwary into stone has come to stand for all that is obdurate and irresistible." - M. Garber and N. Vickers

2011-01-14T17:27:00.001-08:00

2011-01-10T15:35:00.001-08:00

2011-01-09T14:41:00.000-08:00

2011-01-09T14:30:00.000-08:00

V&A Museum of Childhood

2011-01-08T13:03:00.000-08:00

Faye Dunaway by Terry O'Neill

2011-01-08T12:22:00.000-08:00

Cai Guo-Qiang - Fallen Blossoms

2011-01-06T06:24:00.001-08:00

Mona Hatoum - Current Disturbance

2011-01-06T06:06:00.000-08:00

2011-01-04T11:44:00.001-08:00

2011-01-04T09:24:00.001-08:00

2011-01-04T04:55:00.000-08:00

Robinsonner (v)- To travel mentally

Rimbaud

2010-12-23T09:18:00.001-08:00

2010-12-23T08:37:00.000-08:00

Ballard was the kind of writer who could look into the quiet, ordered streets around him and "see anything he likes". He was right. Ballard is a writer for whom anything is possible - a prose surrealist drawn to extremity and stylised representations of modernity, in which ordinary experience is never what it seems: it is always capable of being transformed into something remarkable.

Jason Cowley

2010-12-20T02:40:00.000-08:00

Who made it?

2010-12-19T11:16:00.000-08:00

2010-12-18T14:58:00.000-08:00

2010-12-18T14:45:00.001-08:00

2010-12-18T14:39:00.000-08:00

2010-12-18T14:30:00.000-08:00

Susie MacMurray

2010-12-13T15:12:00.000-08:00

It's not up to you. It never really was.

2010-12-13T14:41:00.001-08:00

2010-12-13T14:40:00.001-08:00

2010-12-12T16:01:00.001-08:00

Gustav Metzger

2010-12-12T16:00:00.001-08:00

2010-12-12T15:58:00.000-08:00

2010-11-09T09:55:00.000-08:00

2010-11-09T08:56:00.000-08:00

2010-11-09T05:01:00.000-08:00

2010-11-04T11:48:00.000-07:00

2010-10-30T16:13:00.000-07:00

You are constantly becoming; constantly performing.

2010-10-14T13:09:00.000-07:00

"Gender is a performance that produces the illusion of an inner sex. It produces on the skin, via gestures, movements etc."

Judith Butler

2010-10-08T13:43:00.000-07:00

2010-10-05T07:42:00.000-07:00

"Orlan chose Mona Lisa, Botticelli's Venus, Diana, Psyche and Europa as the icons from which to compose her new identity as a woman because she loved their images. She did not want to resemble them visually, but she admired and wanted to associate herself with the qualites of their character - androgyny, carnal beauty, temerity and aggressivity, fragility and vunerability and fascination by adventure and the future. To Orlan, her female icons were (homosexual) love objects she could not personally know, but who have certainly played a part in the ongoing construction of her identity as a woman."

Kate Ince, 2000

2010-09-29T08:00:00.000-07:00

After a summer of almost relentless bleak and morbid 'DESTRUCTION' research. This video comes as a welcome break from the dark stuff. A key example of abstract narrative, whilst also looking incredibly sexy.

2010-09-20T09:09:00.000-07:00

“In encountering Cindy Sherman’s film stills, rather than feeling closer to knowing who they ‘really’ are, we are made aware of the impossibility of grasping this essence – and thus of there being an essence to the subject at all (much less one that can be transparently rendered or represented).” (Jones, 2006, p.165)

2010-09-11T17:39:00.000-07:00

They can't scare you, if you scare them first.

Lady Gaga

2010-09-11T14:03:00.001-07:00

2010-09-02T05:57:00.000-07:00

"The reader may now ask how i define womanliness or where I draw the line between genuine womanliness and the 'masquerade'. My suggestion is not, however, that there is any such difference; whether radical or superficial, they are the same thing."