spreading the word – I just want to direct your attention for a minute or two to a wonderful ongoing project by Ann Hamilton: on cloth Cloth is the body’s first architecture; it protects, conceals and reveals; it carries a body’s weight, swaddles at birth, covers in sleep and in death. A patterned cloth symbolizes…
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On reading and making
Ann Hamilton (from Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art, 2004, ed. Baas & Jacob): Increasingly a large part of my process of coming “to make” things extends out of the atmosphere of the books that I gather around me. Reading is a part of forming a landscape that allows work to happen, and a part of…
Falling open to the world
In the beautiful conversation between Ann Hamilton and Krista Tippett, which I wrote about earlier this spring, Hamilton is formulating very nicely some of the yet unfinished thoughts I have been struggling with the last couple of months. As I see it, she is figuring out some of the things I hoped that Alain deBotton…
The Art of Losing Yourself
Participation – What I hoped to find in Alain de Botton’s exhibition in Amsterdam was a new way of introducing art to a general public. A way of communication which didn’t totally ridicule the art in question trough overly simplification, but which would make it possible, also for non-experts, to discover the abundance of art….
wild & safe
It’s weekend, maybe you can find some time to listen to this fantastic conversation between Ann Hamilton and Krista Tippett? Hamilton is a well known visual artist, but there is definitively also a poet inside of her. Born in Lima, Ohio, in 1956, Ann Hamilton received a BFA in textile design from the University…
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