– rediscovering blueness; in all its strange and wonderful variations. Paulette Phillips, The Floating House, 2002. Video still from the 16mm film. . Paulette Phillips made a beautiful video of a house adrift on the Atlantic Ocean, a house which slowly gets pulled under by the force of the sea. The film has a very interesting…
Tag: Canadian art
Fred Herzog
By a happy coincidence I discovered the works of the German born Canadian photographer Fred Herzog. Fred Herzog: Curtains, photography (1972) © Fred Herzog Herzog’s work focuses primarily on “ordinary” people, i.e. the working class, and their connections to the city around them. Bodily gestures, the detritus of consumer culture and the architecture of the streets,…
art on art
Maggie Nelson wrote Bluets under the influence of – amongst others – Joan Mitchell. Bluets is a good example on how art inspires more art, and on interconnectedness (which again verge at the literary term intertextuality) within a larger field of art, transgressing both genre and time. The work below is an explicit re-staging of…
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