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How It Works

by on June 19, 2011 in New Art, painting/photo, performing, sculpture, Uncategorized



You do things.You try it, this way, that way. You stray, you flop and then you flip again, and something, some things come out of it.You do them and please, please, you think, do not ask me what I’m doing, what my political take on this, for the moment…

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How It Works

by on June 19, 2011 in New Art, painting/photo, performing, sculpture, Uncategorized



You do things.You try it, this way, that way. You stray, you flop and then you flip again, and something, some things come out of it.You do them and please, please, you think, do not ask me what I’m doing, what my political take on this, for the moment…

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Sharing the Sensible (In a Rich Man’s World)

by on June 5, 2011 in New Art, performing, Poland, political, Uncategorized



The thing is: I’m very excited about performance moving forward. And I love how it invades all sorts of territories. I do it, watch it, write about it. It’s my cup of tea. That is precisely why I don’t want to leave it with an “interesting experiment” …

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Allan Kaprow on installation and performance

by on March 29, 2011 in New Art, performing

Now, I think those two words, installation and performance, mark accurately the shift in attitude toward a rejection or sense of abandonment of an experimental, modernist, position which had prevailed up to about, lets be generous, up to about 1968…

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Black Square: Malevich and The World That Wouldn’t Die

by on March 14, 2011 in New Art, painting/photo

Here it is: the end of the world.I am standing in front of it, and it looks like shit.It is Kasimir Malevich’s “Black Square”, it hangs at the New Tretyakov national gallery in Moscow, and it is dirty, tired, bleak, so unimpressive it is embarrassing t…

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Four Propositions Concerning Art Blogging

by on January 1, 2011 in New Art, theory

My first proposition is: Blogging is about being stupid.It is accepting that I do not know what I should know before starting to write. But wait! “Should know”? Let me rephrase that: blogging is accepting that there is no required knowledge to write. …

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Melting ears (on Cory Arcangel’s two works)

by on December 19, 2010 in funny, music, New Art

The one I liked was this:while the one that goes further is this:Both are fragments of works by Cory Arcangel.The difference between them is significant. The first one is a joke – it is a repetition, a trick played on the idea of reproduction or univer…

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What you like is to look

by on November 10, 2010 in New Art, performing

What you like is to look.You like to suck it up in your gaze, you like to smear your innocent mind with the flesh of sight.What you like is to become dependent. To let go of the constructions and make them make you.This is the universe of the aesthetic…

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Five sentences concerning ghosts

by on November 4, 2010 in New Art, painting/photo

Both pictures by Ujin Lee, from the Dust series.There is never enough time or effort or vision to make sure things are fixed.We must suppose they are (or were) somewhere here, in the vicinity of the place we are (or were) standing, in the present conti…

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Alevtina Kakhidze – Revolutionary Obedience

by on October 30, 2010 in New Art

“Art must concern itself with the real, but it throws any notion of the real into question. It always turns the real into a facade, a representation, and a construction. But it also raises questions about the motives of that construction.” – Mike Kelle…

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