Invert/Extant

03/04/2022

Did a new Clear-Burn art/ritual for Melanie over the weekend to get ready for the start of April. More info in bio/linktree

25/03/2022

01/06/2021

Tiffany Barber ()
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Artist Feature
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I am a contemporary figurative artist based in Brighton. Born in Scotland I was raised as an athlete but always strived to be a painter. The disciplined nature of my upbringing is reflecting in the meticulously detailed artworks I create. Spending four years at Edinburgh College of Art and a period at the Hungarian University of Fine Art, my fascination for classical architecture and sculpture strengthened.
The fascination for the grandiosity of renaissance art contrasting with banal everyday life has been the propeller for the oil paintings in my recent ‘Quarantine’ series. Fusing classism with contemporary in order to provoke a dialogue concerning current social or political issues. My paintings encourage us to appreciate the experience these figurative masterpieces emanate whilst simultaneously building a bridge between the old and the new. I am taking concepts further by altering the sculptures natural setting and isolating them into the abyss, projecting an edge of ambiguity and forcing an array of perceptions.
The Sculptures are meticulously chosen subject to their concepts, mythology or tableaux to sympathize with contemporary issues. As these sculptures are inaccessible to the masses with today’s current situation, my artworks aim to bring these unviewable sculptures forward to be enjoyed in a different light, relevant to present day circumstances.
I am continuing to create oil paintings in relation to the ever-changing experiences the world is faced with. As long as the world never stops changing, environmentally, economically, socially & naturally, my paintings will never seize to halt.
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Contact email:
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26/05/2021

Harriet Slavin ()
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Artist Feature
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I am a sustainable fashion designer from west Yorkshire specialising in creative silhouette and detail. I have a first class degree, my work has been showcased at Graduate Fashion Week and London Fashion Week as well as lots of other collaborations and photoshoots. All my work is hand made by me and all fabric I use is dead-stock and vegan.
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This is my graduate collection Total Animal Liberation, it features large unusual silhouettes, digital and hand embroidery, graphic design edits by (instagram - photographer) and imaginative hair styles bye - instagram). All the garments were hand made by myself.
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Contact email:
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20/05/2021

WanRu Lin ()
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Artist Feature
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Wan-Ru, Lin born in Taiwan, lives and works in London, UK. Her colourful and dreamy light experiences in the night trains of Un-Titled From 2AM firstly brought her to public attention. Fascinated by the various possibilities of photography and videography, Wan-Ru, Lin has engaged analogue, dark-room techniques alongside digital images and documentary videos, the resulting work questions about what the different between “Real” and “Reality” and its philosophical meaning in her alienate oeuvre. With a focus on process and aesthetics, Wan-Ru has approached topics including dream, time, environment and manipulation of materials, light and photographic technologies, always with a questioning of the possibility of the image.
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The hot topic is the pandemic of Corona Virus and yet there is an epidemic of litter building up. We saw the images of mounds of rubbish laying everywhere with shocking headlines. Still the amount of the rubbish is only going up. For a long time, I tried to avoid litter in my viewpoint. This time, however, the litter is not only lying around with their rubbish friends but is also presented in luxurious places with otherwise beautiful sceneries.
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Contact email:
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18/05/2021

Alexandra Buxbaum ()
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Artist Feature
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Alexandra Buxbaum is a photographer whose work focuses on documenting the human experience of various people and cultures living in disparate urban environments around the world. Her objective is to capture aspects of everyday life of people as they live, work, and play.
Alexandra has worked professionally for major media outlets, and her photography has appeared in a myriad of publications both nationally and internationally. She has exhibited in over 45 shows at galleries, cultural centres, and museums, and is co-founder of the International Center for Documentary Arts. Her photographs are in numerous private collections.
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These images were taken in various neighbourhoods in Manhattan, New York City. A few of these capture moments in neighbourhoods that have since undergone significant change and gentrification; here are moments captured that just don’t seem to happen anymore.
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Contact email:
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11/05/2021

Jing Su ()
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Artist Feature
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Jing Su (b. 1990, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, China) lives and works in London. She has Master’s degree at Royal College of Art and Bachelor degree at Camberwell College of Arts. Jing was the recipient of the Global Talent visa endorsed by the Arts Council England in 2020.
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GIVE, is a meditation about mediation, what it means to be embodied as a meaning inside a gender, through a series of moving image installation which explores the artist’s body as both a landscape and also as a site of praxis. She appears to be giving birth to a duplicate version of herself, or perhaps a new version which had been struggling to come into existence. The clean and sparse installation elegantly examines our basic binary conditions as animals with a symmetrical perceptual system, one which invariably impacts our conceptual frameworks as well.
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Contact email:
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08/05/2021

Patrice Sullivan ()
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Artist Feature
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Patrice Sullivan lives and works in Phoenix, AZ. She received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and an MFA from University of Pennsylvania. She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally - including Gracie Mansion, Jim Kempner and Robert Miller Galleries in New York City, as well as the Gallery of Vaclav Spala in Prague, Czechoslovakia and Castiglion Fiorentino in Italy. Museum and University shows include Carpenter Center at Harvard University, Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA and Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO and Rhode Island College, Providence, RI. Sullivan has attended residencies at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s “World Views” Program, Alfred & Trafford Klots International Program, Léhon, France, Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony, Scuola Internazionale Di Grafica Venezia, Venice, Italy, and Chalk Hill Residency in Healdsburg, CA.
Sullivan’s artwork has been reviewed by The Huffington Post, Artscore Magazine, Southwest Magazine, Westword Magazine. Her work is in many private collections.
Patrice is an Emeritus Professor of Painting at Colorado State University where she taught for twenty- five years. In addition, she was a Lecturer at Harvard University from 1988-1991. Patrice pioneered and taught a study abroad program in Italy through Colorado State University in Tuscany.
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Contact email:
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03/05/2021

Milena Deparis ()
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Artist Feature
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Born in Paris and raised in Hong Kong, Macau and Thailand, I have been photographing since the age of 14.
With parents from Argentina and France, I have had the opportunity and privilege to explore and capture images in various cultures worldwide.
With an interest in all creative processes, I left my home to attain a Bachelor's Degree in Media Studies at the University of Brighton. During my time in Brighton, I compiled my first photography series titled Hidden Canvases. This series is the first in a collection that explores the aesthetic beauty of the unseen and hidden images of our world.
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What Lies in Between? is a collection of collages that explore the juxtapositions and spaces that define our modern Western world and future; each image combines two photographs in order to represent the ideas, questions and fears that await us.
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The title refers to the contrast between the background and foreground and the untold and unknown truths that lie in between. Due to the ongoing pandemic, such truths encompass ever-changing themes regarding the nature of work, value of humans, separation, (de)construction of our future, and past versus future.
Based on the premise of the current pandemic, one has to imagine the drastic changes that may be on the verge of realisation and normalisation, such as the use of artificial intelligence instead of human to human interaction, eradication of specific industries and jobs, public mass surveillance, global medical identification, and intense mass digitisation.
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In other words, what does the future really hold for us? Are we experiencing a complete radical transformation of our age? If so, will we truly overcome and eradicate the obstacles that we face? Will it be an open, equal and positive change? Or will it exacerbate the already existing inequalities that exist today?
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1. What Lies in Between VI
2. What Lies in Between V
3. What Lies in Between IX
4. What Lies in Between II
5. What Lies in Between XIV
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Contact email:
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29/04/2021

Virtual Exhibition Now Open!
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AUX URL NFT
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// AUXURLNFT // The Auxiliary URL_Space //
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The latest itteration of the Auxiliary URL Space virtual exhibiton programme is now live!
AUX URL NFT brings together 8 artists working in the digital medium, established or new to the NFT market space.
This exhibition is a collaborative effort with the team at WETDOVETAIL. Alongside the launch of this exhibition will be an NFT consisting of the virtual exhibition model, and all included works, available for purchase as a single edition NFT.
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Exhibition co-curated by and
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Link to virtual exhibition under our bio!
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24/04/2021

Minnie Crook ()
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Artist Feature
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“I am Minnie Crook (she/her) an emerging performance artist based in Glasgow. Originally from Leamington Spa, I explore ideas of memory and nostalgia to investigate my own autobiography and the distance between myself and my family members. I am concerned with reclaiming the ‘undiscovered past’, through an ongoing process of exploring my personal history, lineage and my genealogical line.
My live art uses visual projection, persona and acapella song to further understand the past as ‘irretrievable moments’ in time. Themes of time, age, loss and grief are an invaluable part of my arts practice alongside working regularly with Hiberno-English song, in attempt to respond to the landscapes that surrounds me.
I work with ideas surrounding what is present and absent, the act of forgetting and processes of remembering. Influenced by theorists such at Annette Kuhn and Tim Ingold; my practice questions the personal memory vs the collective recollection; and ultimately how we are shaped by the societal manoeuvrings of the world.”
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And When I Remember That I Have Forgotten (Live Performance) - First Performed March 2020 at Into The New, Glasgow
And When I Remember That I Have Forgotten is a celebratory exploration into memory and nostalgia. This work questions the past and challenges how we remember and re-live moments in time whilst ultimately finding new connections to the people most important to us.
Exploring personal histories and kinship through persona and collaborating with family members, this performance is set against a backdrop of a familial gathering. Seeking space for us all to reminisce, and have a good old sing-song.
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Contact email:
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19/04/2021

Alicia Torres ()
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Artist Feature
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Alicia Torres is an artist based in London. She is studying the MFA in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths. She studied a Master in Artistic Production in the Polytechnic University, Spain. During this period, the artist did an Exchange Student Program in the Central Academy of Fine Arts CAFA, in Beijing. During 2017, Alicia also participated in several group and solo exhibitions around China, including a Festival in Inner Mongolia, and a Symposium in Taiyuan.
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The work that here we show broken with the traditional concept of “painting” to adapt to the current contemporary context. In the past, this works has been made from the painting on canvas that has been expanded to the art space. I create “painting on installation”, making dialogue with the spectator and the context. We can ́t understand these pieces without the space where they are exhibited. The pieces look for expand themselves in the space to invite to the spectator to take part of the artwork, making the installation that it forms part of the environment.
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Contact email:
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09/04/2021

Sara Badger ()
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Artist Feature
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“I’m a second year BA Fine Arts student, who also recently celebrated their 50th birthday. I have always felt a very spiritual connection to nature and although I never considered myself an artist until my late forties, have found my practice very quickly has reflected this connection in my artwork.
Although I specialise mostly in photography, I also work in oils and also combine natural elements with canvases when I can.
My Instagram is however it is at this time the place where we are expected to focus our reflection for assessments at university, so often the text can be more about the process, successes and failures than just as a place to share my artwork.”
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“These images are part of a series reflecting on at the connection between nature, life and death.
They are images of dead flowers, overlapping nature in its element. Some images using special lens to give the magical feel or a portal linking us to this other world, others are also then linked to the elements, fire, earth, water and air (Beauty of the unhidden represents earth, overlapping imagery from caves).
I want to create non clichéd spiritual images that have an ethereal feel that almost can give people that feeling of connection to something else and give them a slice of peace in an otherwise chaotic world.“
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Contact email:
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07/04/2021

Over at Bomb: A Somber Hope - Jordan Rothacker Interviewed
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There's a brilliant new interview over at Bomb Magazine about Rothacker's newest book:
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I have never met Jordan Rothacker. He has never met me. And yet we have asked each other questions that I’m not sure that we would have the courage to pose face-to-face. How often are you inclined to probe a friend about the mystery of faith? It is not a casual endeavor because it is not a casual subject. Fortunately for me, Rothacker’s work invites such inquiries. I came to his work through 1888Center, where we both published our short fiction. I picked up The Pit, and No Other Stories, an early novel of his, followed by And Wind Will Wash Away, and then Gristle: Weird Tales, andMy Shadow Book. According to writer Matt Nell Hill, Rothacker’s latest novel, The Death of the Cyborg Oracle (Spaceboy Books), is “a holy lamb in wolf’s clothing…on the surface we have a futuristic detective yarn centered on a gruesomely violent murder, but at its heart it’s a treatise on the destructive power of unfettered capitalism and the redemptive magic of faith on both a personal and community level.”
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05/04/2021

The Invert/ Extant NFT Gallery and Collection is now Live!
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The collection is now live for viewing and purchasing,
The collection is also offering the purchase of our directors () Dr. Jared Pappas-Kelley’s new compilation of digital NFTs, which can also be viewed using the link under our bio!
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04/04/2021

Feature: Gla4 - Bleachers Entry
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by Gla4 ()
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Gla4 works and plays in many media including drawing, painting, words, fibers, installation, performance, digital and print media, and breath. They have made several art-text/poetry books, including Ochre, winner of the 2015 BOAAT Press Chapbook Competition. They are currently completing a full-length art-text-ural book and work/playing on colorful hung compositions. Some of their pieces can be viewed through gla5.net and through instagram .
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Gla4 has done production design for films such as Spider Moth Butterfly (2020, Dir. Alexis Moh). They are an art consultant and educator. Gla4 is based out of the land presently known as Connecticut.
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02/04/2021

Harry Grundy ()
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Artist Feature
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Harry Grundy (1993) is a London based artist making art for the Anthropocene epoch. Conceptual, performative and multidisciplinary, Harry is working in the natural world in an unnatural time. With a background in design, ideas are treated with a rigorous honesty and crafted with a graphic eye. Learnings from the Land Art movement are tested against post-internet conditions encouraging a tension that reflects the way our species have brutalised Earth to meet an industrialized ideal. Through layering paradox, Harry asks the viewer to look closely and critically at our relationship with this phenomenal world.
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Harry has completed a residency at Fabrica Research Centre in Treviso, Italy (2020) and the Emerging Creatives Residency at the H Club in London (2019). He has guest tutored at Kingston University and London College of Communication and exhibited at the KK Outlet, Candid Art Centre and Chapel Arts Centre in Wi******er. Harry has written for Elephant Magazine, AIGA, Lecture in Progress and BFR Mag. He graduated from Kingston University in 2016 with first class honours in graphic design and studied clowning at Albert and Friends Circus School in 2007.
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Contact email:
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31/03/2021

An Interview with The Chi's Mickey O’Sullivan
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by Charles J. March III
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The Chi is a Showtime drama series created by Primetime Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Lena Waithe, and produced by the Grammy Award-winning hip-hop artist, Common, among others. It premiered on January 7, 2018, and so far has run for three seasons. It is about life on the South Side of Chicago.
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Mickey and I were friends throughout middle school and high school, and this is the first time we’ve spoken since then (almost 15 years) . . .

(The following conversation was edited for length.)

Charles J. March III (CJ3): You had a really unique opportunity as one of a small number of white actors on a show about the black experience. How did your recurring role as Chef Dan on The Chi come to be?

Mickey O’Sullivan (MOS): Yeah, so, this is kind of a fun story, and is something I haven’t talked about too much. I was doing a creative consulting side-job up in Minnesota, as I was in-between acting gigs, and I got an email from my agent saying that the casting directors of The Chi wanted me to audition when I got back to Chicago for a role that they thought I’d be perfect for. I had recently read about Lena Waithe, and I had heard of the actor who plays Brandon on the show, Jason Mitchell, and a lot of other talented people that were going to be a part of the project, so I was really excited…
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Mickey O'Sullivan stars as "Chef Dan" on Showtime's hit show, The Chi. He has appeared in several network television shows, including Chicago PD, Empire, and APB. His work can also be seen in independent films and online, including titles like En Algun Lugar, Blood Brothers, Ritual, and We Could Happen. Mickey is featured in Rupert Wyatt's Captive State, opening in theaters early 2019. O'Sullivan studied acting at Illinois State University, Michael Howard Studios, UCB-NYC, Chicago Shakespeare, Second City, and The Annoyance
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28/03/2021

Feature: Lesley Hicks - Between Here and There
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by Lesley Hicks ()
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I take a large sheet of smooth cartridge paper and with a pencil and a ruler I draw a rectangle. Within this rectangle I mark out the topographical details of a landscape, an image of which I have downloaded from the internet. The features and details of this landscape I try to describe as closely as possible, using a pencil. The image I have retrieved is distanced and grainy, filtered through the lens of a we**am, and contains glitches, strident lines of bright orange and blue which cut across the illusion of space suggested by the rest of the detail.
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Having established the lie of the land on my sheet I begin then to draw lines across the surface of the paper, using a chosen coloured pencil – let’s say its lichen green but it could easily be brown earth or electric blue. There is a long way to go with my rendition and this layer is just the beginning. The lines I draw are closely positioned next to each other and slowly I fall into a rhythmically repetitive mode, drawing line after line, until the area within the rectangle is completely covered – all areas, that is, except the horizontal lines of the glitch. The previously defined landscape is easily discernible beneath this first layer. I then turn the paper ninety degrees and begin the process all over again, along the short edge of the rectangle, using another pencil, let’s say its scarlet this time...
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Lesley Hicks is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art MIMA School of Art and Design, Teesside University. Her current practice-based PhD research interests revolve around the subject of landscape, exploring how the nature of the experience of place, particularly landscape, might influence or inform the drawn mark.
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24/03/2021

Feature: David Blackmore - The Border
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by David Blackmore (._.blackmore)
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The place I am interested in is invisible. Though enormous lengths have been gone to insuring it is visible, palpable, and physically present.
This is a place of repetitive strain. A sodium and florescent lit space wedged between two opposing binaries of oft repeated and rehearsed mechanical movements.
It is a bureaucratically officious sphere of authority and protected interests.
This is a zone of transit and temporality where movement is overseen and scrutinised. It is an arena of logistical processes, the surrendering of will and control. Flow here is gamified; where LCDs, authoritative hand gestures and body language determine micro movements and progress. It marks a threshold to either the familiar or a gate way to the unknown.
Here we see the uniform and not the person. Figures with the mindset of suspicion and attention to detail in quasi police uniforms, clip on ties, white polyester shirts, black boots, combat trousers and high visibility vests. Where those in the system are met by the expressionless faces of ex-services personnel now civil servants, the guardians of The Border…
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David Blackmore is a European artist based in London since 2003 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts.
www.davidblackmore.co.uk
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22/03/2021

Feature: Brian Curtin - Manifesto for Q***r Curation
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By Brian Curtin ()
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Representation has been crucial to q***r activism and q***r studies, the means by which normative divisions, categories and hierarchies are exploded. From the SILENCE=DEATH agitation of early AIDS protests, which demanded that the general public be confronted with knowledge of ass-f**king and cock-sucking, to the widespread re-making of bodies that a recent generation of trans- activists have led. Scholars have excavated marginalized or lost q***r figures, subcultures and beliefs from history. They have revealed the hidden, regulatory currencies of desire and power for any range of technologies-law, capitalism, nationalism, and on. And explored the visceral qualities of culturally debased forms-including stupidity, depression, ruination, and waste-in order to reveal how we can re-think ourselves and our relationships in and to the world.
Curation could, or should, be crucial for q***r activism and q***r studies. Curation is representation, and representation is recognition and legibility. Q***r practices insist on the former while complicating the latter: to retrieve the overlooked or marginalized and generate new meanings, newer significances.
Attempts by major museums in recent years to accommodate q***r curation, however, have only focused on recognition. These projects fail to approach the complexities of legibility…
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Brian Curtin is an art critic and curator of contemporary art based in Bangkok. www.brianacurtin.com
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19/03/2021

Feature: Massimo Cataldo - A retreat manifesto
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By Massimo Cataldo ()
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I had chosen a narrow path that ran back and forth between the moors and the pine forest, which are separated by a large hallway of grass. A thick wall of ferns marked the entrance to the corridors that snaked through the forest. Natural chiaroscuro, pinecone-covered floors, and that eerie cosiness that one experiences when stepping foot in a carpeted hotel hallway. It seemed like the perfect departure place to me.
From an aerial point of view, a wooden path can be seen drawn in a continuous line across the length of the moors, allowing humans to walk through. Inside, a multitude of small trails resembling small, wild gardens. On several occasions, I wished that I was swallowed by nature there. I always felt attracted by the rain, as well as the thick branches that delineated narrow paths and ended their courses in dark waters. Perhaps I perceive them as doors. Doors to hide behind, to be protected and locked in by. Is it more about what they can hide, or how they can help me to disappear? Or at least to pretend to be gone, as I pretended when I was a kid. Coal mining buildings were childhood temples. I found consolation in the ruins. Mental landscapes evoke the urge to disappear. Backyard geography gives rhythm to shady goals. Do you still look at the trees the way you used to? These remote places, do they help you cope with your own essence?
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Massimo Cataldo is a photographer and musician based in Belgium. He is preparing his first photography book.
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16/03/2021

Kiyel ()
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Artist Feature
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Kiyel, aka quieraki is a Seoul based artist working on different materials with the interest on digital culture and distribution.
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The pictures of the last fifteen to twenty years insist on a radically new orientation,
in which the painted surface is no longer the analogue of a visual experience of nature but of operational processes.[i]
[i] Leo Steinberg, “Other Criteria,” Artforum (March 1972).
Reprinted in Steinberg, Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art (London: Oxford University Press, 1972), 84.
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“svod.stream (http://kiyel.care/svod/) is a sort of simplified music sampler generated by simple front-end development.
The result gets differentiated depending on how the viewer controls the order and the combination of the activation of sound and visual effects allocated to each of six buttons.

Water,
fog,
collision,
magnet,
solar,
flash.

I gave those six words as names of effects allocated to six buttons, and presented to Inwoo Jung (https://soundcloud.com/inwoojung) , a cologne based artist who works in between the disciplines of fine art and music. and then he sorted out sound samples from the instant feeling he got at first sight to those words, with the consideration of visual effects I made on html, css, js such as blackout, collision, pop-up, etc. We assumed making a preset for a drum machine which includes six sample pads so that the differentiated results of visual and sound can synthesize to each other.”
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“svod.stream is made of attributes of synesthetic experiences – rounded edges of boxes, smooth transitions, animation effects - that we share through our bodies with the general distribution of smart handheld devices and the generalized design of web-based operating systems. At the same time, buttons and the box which wraps the buttons up take a series of gestures such as swipe, teleport, morph its ratio, blink, slow down at certain points, etc.
I expect these gestures would become floating lights and sounds which are omnipresent in varied dimensions of different devices as a screen saver while they lose concrete information value.”
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Contact email:
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