“The press release stated that the source for the words was ‘a text that the artists came across one day,’ one ‘obviously written by a gallerist.'”
Category: Archives
Art in America: “Caleb Considine”
“Figure, ground and texture frequently trade places in a general atmosphere of sober unearthliness.”
Real Fine Arts: “NADA, nothing”
“Everything is ugly, like the inside of 7-11s, and the look of the streets is familiar from video games.”
Robin Cameron: “Feel the Fear and do it Anyway: Artists, Anxiety, and Writing “
“The book does things on its own now. It hangs out, notices things, gets its feelings hurt, complains.”
“160km” at Kidd Yellin
“The way me and my friends lived was kind of liminal too.”
Hanna Liden: “Ghost Town”
“Yeah, I’ve seen you around. But when you’ve been here as long as I have, it’s not just you, it’s years of yous, or very-much-like-yous. This city breeds yous: hey yous, me and yous, sick of yous, fuck yous. As I’m sure you can understand, I gave up on names a long time ago.”
Interview: “The Undertaker: SWANS’ Michael Gira”
“A user had commented: ‘You’re not watching music, you’re watching an exorcism. We’re all lucky Michael Gira had musical talent or else he’d probably be doing serial killings.'”
Artnet: “A.L. Steiner and A.K. Burns: Action Movie”
“A dark-haired witch in metallic body paint and crotchless panties climbs into a dungeon to the sounds of eerie minimal music.”
Art in America: “Kim Gordon: Guitars, Guns, Goo”
“I think women are natural anarchists because you’re always operating in a male framework.”
Art in America: “Bjarne Melgaard: Painter as Pig, Painting as Prostitute”
“I think it is interesting how you corrupt your own work, in the sense of how you also corrupt yourself.”