Sina Queyras's Blog, page 7

Eruption - I Can't Stand The Rain (1978)

For your pleasure, and because I long to give a reading in any one of these outfits, which proves you can take a girl out of the 70s but...

Candice Brietz

A student sent me a link to this piece by Candice Brietz, an artist I first discovered back in 2005. She's doing something similar to Christian Marclay, but with a feminist bent. At least in this video where we get to see the range, or the limitations, of roles available to Meryl Streep. With all this discussion about women and reviewing, the following is an important little interlude:


Is this

When the Hound met Ms. Place

A little bell rang in the center of her mind.
It is the only time such a bell has rung.



Another one of Darboven's maxims: "I write with numbers, I count with words." What do numbers write? Dates, yes, but dates as equations, as representations broken down into other signs, other representations. What do words count? "Today" is written often, and often crossed out, like a date on a calendar,

Marina Abramović: An Artist's Life Manifesto | MOCA Gala 2011

Abrovomic 101. Happy Mother's Day to all the artists who chose their Art. Complicated little decision.

I do not possess that limitless brain that she has...

My new favourite thing is women appreciating other women. I would like to see women discuss other women with half of the enthusiasm my male peers exhibit discussing their male peers...even if they aren't, as above, incredibly articulate.

On a poetics of exclusion

Lemon Hound ‏ @lemonhound

I have erased all women except those I desire. I didn't think about it. Art is easy. The world unrolls, blue sky, endless, perfect clouds.



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Not to critique the work of the artist Cory Arcangel, but as a residual commentary around the response of a young woman to an interview with the American poet Ben Lerner, and a Twitter

A few more questions regarding women, reviewing and power structures

Here are the original four questions:





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Does the lack of women broadly accepted as intellectual/critical forces influence women's creative relationships? #women&power#womenmentor













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Does the idea of success evoke a gendered constellation?#womenmentor #

John Cage about silence

Ruelles plateau east

Getting out into the lanes and alleys in my neighbourhood. They are the plateau's great secret. Many are completely car free. Some not wide enough for a car. Some are cracked, filled with holes. We don't have the racoon problem Toronto has. Not yet. That seems to be happening on the mountain though, and so no doubt the racoons will migrate down...but for now the alleys are left to children and

Christian Bok's lego art poem book online

ten maps of sardonic wit



atoms in space now drift

on a swift and epic storm



soft wind can stir a poem



 snow fits an optic dream

into a scant prism of dew



 words spin a faint comet



some words in fact paint

two stars of an epic mind



manic words spit on fate



The poem, and the book. You have to follow the link to see it.