Luis Soares's Blog, page 724
February 13, 2012
Thom Gunn - Touch
You are already
asleep. I lower
myself in next to
you, my skin slightly
numb with the restraint
of habits, the patina of
self, the black frost
of outsideness, so that even
unclothed, it is
a resilient chilly
hardness, a superficially
malleable, dead
rubbery texture.
You are a mound
of bedclothes, where the cat
in sleep braces
its paws against your
calf through the blankets,
and kneads each paw in turn.
Meanwhile and slowly
I feel a is it
my own warmth surfacing or
the ferment of your whole
body that in darkness b...
February 12, 2012
Jenny Holzer - Truisms
a little knowledge can go a long way
a lot of professionals are crackpots
a man can't know what it is to be a mother
a name means a lot just by itself
a positive attitude means all the difference in the world
a relaxed man is not necessarily a better man
a sense of timing is the mark of genius
a sincere effort is all you can ask
a single event can have infinitely many interpretations
a solid home base builds a sense of self
a strong sense of duty imprisons you
absolute submission can be a form of...
Death Camp by Joe Lally
DEATH CAMP from Joseph Lally on Vimeo.
A controversial film which states that Earth is being transformed into a death camp. That culture, humanity, nature, art and democracy are near extinction. This work was inspired by the works of Jean Luc Godard, Bernard Henri Levy, Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag,
February 11, 2012
John Clang - 3 videos.
Hopenhagen: 6.8 Billion People Together Can Fight Climate Change from John Clang on Vimeo.
A stop-motion video shot in Nov 2009 to bring awareness to the United Nations' climate change conference in Copenhagen.
Being Together from John Clang on Vimeo.
This video installation was shown at Clang's recent solo exhibition - (Con)Front. It recorded a very intimate process of him and his family taking a family portrait together using webcam and projection. To view the work and artist's intention...
February 10, 2012
Esther Ettinger - The Sadness Cage
It's the sadness cage
not even ten by ten. A lioness
walks back and forth on a bare concrete floor
from end to end, from side to side, six measured paces and three
wild ones and two leaps of pain.
It's the sadness cage,
three walls plastered over greenish iron studs,
and rain and sun and wind and leaves, and people's hot faces,
and lights at night, through bars that rust every winter.
She sees all this, but she watches the whitewashed floor,
her rough and golden fresco.
And her legs take...
Pietà.
O fotógrafo espanhol Samuel Aranda ganhou o World Press Photo deste ano com uma pietà iemenita, com burca e luvas de latex e tudo. O sofrimento apresenta-se nu, como lhe é próprio. Logo abaixo, a mais famosa, a escultura de Michelangelo Buonarroti.
