The afterthought experience

Do you know Tino Sehgal? You know, the artist that doesn't allow any pictures taken of his works? And doesn't write any introduction, or artist statement? Or make written agreements with museums? That wants no material artifacts in his works?Does it matter what the works...

The End Is Never Nigh (A few sentences that never made it elsewhere)

Bloodshedding pieces of black-and-white happiness.The unfair balance of the picture.The wider picture. The bloody wider picture always giving it the color that wasn't there in the first place.Notice: the wider picture is never the first place. It comes as we back up, until...

More Gentle Uncertainty

Video directed by Takafumi Tsuchiya (TAKCOM).

Another childish question inspired by a beautiful project

What is it that we like about simplicity? Is it not that it's close to us? It is attainable, like something that is nearly us. Or, to put it differently - an it that almost makes it into me. Thus, an imaginary community. Yes, if I dared, I would say simplicity gives us an imaginary community. A universe...

Visit

Two pictures from the Visit series (2007/8) by Filip Berendt.The idea is so simple and to the point that it is irritating. Berendt put an ad in a newspaper saying he wants to make installations in people's homes out of the things he finds there and take pictures of them....

The Landscape Is You

Two gorgeous 2009 Szpilman Award candidates:The runner-up, Alexander Thieme with his Embedded... and this year's winner, Hank Schmidt in der Beek, with In den Zillertaler AlpenCan you spot me?What am I, within this overwhelming sight?Am I a humble creature? Do I not see...

Dreaming the book

Le Monde des Montagnes (The World of Mountains), an ECAL graduate project by Camille ScherrerNothing to stop us from getting lost. From deciding we no longer belong here, and using all our knowledge and craft to make this place just confusing enough to dream.Be it an augmented reality, be it a book,...

The unwearable jewel

I love the CRA$H jewellery collection by Super Fertile because it's impossible to wear. Poor people can't afford it. Rich people would never dare.
So who is it for?
For us, of course.

Audience

Who is it for?Oh, what a dreadful question.How embarrassing, how belittling, how pitiful.1: what is the music?2: can't we think of circumstances where it doesn't matter?3 (with some leftovers): but aren't we losing something essential here? Some mistery we break to put...