Women of the IRA, Alex Bowle, Northern Ireland, 1977.
(Source: stealcollective, via nomansslave)
Women of the IRA, Alex Bowle, Northern Ireland, 1977.
(Source: stealcollective, via nomansslave)
Photograph by Ulay, Hermaphrodite, from the series RennaiSense, 1973. Via.
Read also, Ulay in conversation with Alessandro Cassin, February 2011.
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I’m obsessed with inventing stories for people I come across. An overwhelming curiosity makes me ask what their lives might be like. I want to know what they do, where they’re from, their names, what they’re thinking about at that moment, what they regret, what they hope for, whom they’ve loved, what they dream of… and if they happen to be women then the urge becomes intense. How quickly you would want to see that one naked, admit it, and naked through to her heart. How you try to learn where she’s coming from, where she’s going, why she’s here and not elsewhere! While letting your eyes wander all over her. You think of what her bedroom could look like, and a thousand things besides… right down to the battered slippers into which she must slip her feet when she gets out of bed.
Gustave Flaubert. Via.
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Bas Jan Ader, I’m too sad to tell you, 1971, one-channel video.
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If I have been able, without scandalizing anybody, to enter cesspools, to handle putrid substances, to spend part of my time in refuse dumps, and to live, as it were, in places that the majority of men would close off as degraded and disgusting, why should I blush to open a cesspool of another kind (a cesspool filthier, I assure you, than all the rest), in the reasonable hope of doing some good by examining it in all its aspects?
Mike Kelley. 1954-2012.
Absolutely devastated, and selfishly mourning years of art unmade.
Prior to moving to Ann Arbor for load-in / rehearsals and previews - The E.OB company rehearsed in NYC
Photograph by Jay Directo, AFP/Getty Images
Built nearly three decades ago but never used, the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (pictured) in the Philippines is now being promoted by its parent company, the National Power Corporation, as a new ecotourism site. Visitors can tour the plant and stay the night at an adjacent beach, which is home to a turtle sanctuary.
“This will be the only tourist-friendly nuclear power plant in this part of the world,” National Power spokesman Dennis Gana told the AFP news service. Europe, in particular, is home to several others.
“You don’t see a nuclear power plant every day. Especially a nuclear reactor … so I think for most people it would be very thrilling.”
Swimming Pool, Belgium
Photo: Franky De Schampheleer
In contradiction to the political problems in Belgium between North and South (no government for more than 450 days), I am working on a photographic “world” about those two regions in our country.
Fette, from the series Silent March, Berlin, December 2011. More.James Joyce, To Nora, Dublin, December 6, 1909. Via. More letters.
(Source: fette)
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Advent brings out Vienna’s romantic side: Garlands of bulbs glisten over thoroughfares and shops are decorated with pine branches and silk ribbons (November 26-December 31). Giant chandeliers lead to St. Stephen’s Cathedral, and daily Advent concerts take place at Schönbrunn Palace.
