April 2011
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"i think youre more of an archivist than a...
themuseologist:
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chessieann:
“I think you’re more an archivist than a librarian,” he said.
He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True librarians are unsentimental. They’re pragmatic, concerned with the newest, cleanest, most popular books. Archivists, on the other hand, are only peripherally interested in what other people like, and much prefer the...
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Petite Mort - Call for Submissions!
joshadll:
Dear Friends,
Want to be part of remembering QUEER HISTORY!
THE REQUEST: Submit a drawing of a space in New York City where you had a public sexual encounter. Do this sketch from memory, however you remember the space.
THE DETAILS: Your sketch should be done on an 8.5 x 11 piece of white paper. You can draw, collage, design on the computer…however you feel like translating your...
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(iamnotawomanartist)
megan pickering, vicious assault by james c. mckinley jr, 2011
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“fifty years after the invention of the birth-control pill, we are all so busy...”
– so says ann friedman, one of my favorite people, in her article “why isnt birth control better?” at good. this is one of my favorite topics and the piece is totally worth reading. why isnt everyone angrier?
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it actually blows my mind how many people are...
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msjamiekeiles:
tulletulle:
so i guess it makes sense that like 50% end in divorce or whatever
god it seems so impossible and weird! i think i’ll just practice polygamy with all my friends
this blows my mind all the time. i talk to everyone about it and they think i’m a werido. like, how can seriously almost everyone how found someone they like enough to MARRY? SO CRAZY?
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time wasting experiments
ultramaricon:
Okay, look, Self: You’re not a hardworker, you’re not a workhorse, you don’t really ever think about “your work,” your “life’s work,” or how your work is going to “get you through”; your work is not a consolation and you don’t seek solace in work; the word “work” has never rung with virtue and the only hard work to which you’ve ever directed your admiration is blue collar,...
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(fuckyeahwomenartists)
alyson provax, time wasting experiment 0042 and 0033
“the ‘time wasting experiments’ are an ongoing series of letterpress prints i’ve been producing which document time wasted. these are in part inspired by tracking ‘billable hours’ but also come from the compulsion to always be doing things and producing objects. this series is a sort of audit of how i spend my time, but...
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archive fever
“to be en mal d’archive…is to burn with a passion. it is never to rest, interminably, from searching for the archive right where it slips away. it is to run after the archive, even if theres too much of it, right where something anarchives itself. it is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a...
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(fuckyeahwomenartists:a-for-art)
jessica harrison, rosamund, 2009
“cutting, carving, breaking, shaping, tracing, folding, skinning”
“the things I make are a complex description of simultaneous unmaking and making, deconstructing an object or a body before putting it back together again – this could be interpreted as a violent process, but is often a very delicate and fragile...
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unwitting archiving
(ameliaabreu)
“Like quilting, archiving employs the obsessive stitching together of many small pieces into a larger vision, a personal attempt at ordering a chaotic world. It’s not such a far leap from the quiltmaker to the stamp collector or book collector. Walter Benjamin, an obsessive collector himself, wrote about the close connection between collecting and making in his essay...
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“maybe mumblecore is right, that all life needs is a ‘whatever’ at the points where it seems impossible—a gesture of optimism that can’t bear a lot, but that can indicate an otherwise that could become the something stacked right above the nothing. life, friends, is gestural. we must not say so. a gesture is the performance of contact that makes a conjuncture of the abstract and...
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“He keeps me on task. All the best lovers do.”
– ultramariconeria
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“straight culture is like being at the dentist’s office. it’s...”
– this is the truest thing jeanne has ever said to me, except for a few minutes later, when she commented, “getting your cuticles trimmed makes you feel like you lost ten pounds.”
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“i feel a tumblr post coming on and am trying to repress it”
– email to mm, 6/25/2010
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ménage à deux
whateverjeanne:
“the friend is not another I, but an otherness immanent in self-ness, a becoming other of the self. at the point at which I perceive my existence as pleasant, my perception is traversed by a concurrent perception that dislocates it and deports it towards the friend, towards the other self. friendship is this de-subjectivization at the very heart of the most intimate perception of...
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tumblr updates
—i went through an entire love affair with this piece in about 24 hours the other night. literally, felt attracted and then fell tentatively in love, then recognized all of its issues but didn’t want to deal with them, then was like, oh my god, this is the patriarchy and i fucking hate it. highly doubtful that we’ll ever be friends. it might just haunt me, like chris...
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HS: But how can you tell what the audience is like if you
are not very directly interacting with them? How can
you tell what the range of intelligence is? I was
wondering all the time during the performance what kind
of audience you were pitching it at.
DA: You don't know what it is but you feel it out--at the
beginning of a piece I...
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#bodypositive
Juice Box: girl i can't wait to show you my new dress. bodycon+stripes aka everything they say a fat girl shouldn't wear.
Lean Cuisine: gurl. can't wait!
Juice Box: also i wore a crop top today. BELLY ERRYWHERE
Lean Cusine: my queso handles are coming out to play soon
INTERVIEW HAS BEEN CONDENSED AND EDITED.
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revolutionary hysteria
“i think that what’s important now is to mobilize hysteria as a quasi-revolutionary force. hélène cixous insists it is an inherently revolutionary power: it intervenes, breaks up continuities, produces gaps and creates horror—refusing conformity with what is. feminism could benefit from an affirmation of hysteria; hysteria as a response to what is unacceptable and intolerable in life… as a...
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(earlyfrost:ish07)
“antonin artaud wrote on one of his drawings, ‘never real and always true’, and that is how depression feels. you know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true.”—andrew solomon
you know what else feels this way? being on hormonal birth control. (not that antonin artaud or andrew solomon would know.)
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(tulletulle)
“i really enjoy forgetting. when i first come to a place, i notice all the little details. i notice the way the sky looks. the color of white paper. the way people walk. doorknobs. everything. then i get used to the place and i don’t notice those things anymore. so only by forgetting can i see the place again as it really is.”—david byrne
ive been working on my archiving and...
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confirmed participants
already rsvp’d to this, obviously. for you, too, jon. mm? sean?
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on listening
(fromfromfrom)
“to be listening is always to be on the edge of meaning, or in an edgy meaning of extremity, and as if the sound were precisely nothing else than this edge, this fringe, this margin—at least the sound that is musically listened to, that is gathered and scrutinized for itself, not, however, as an acoustic phenomenon (or not merely as one) but as a resonant meaning, a meaning whose...
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