Today is a perfect day for making a visit to the [blank] garden …
Tag: susan sontag
The Vagina Monologues
It is the International Women’s Day and I have just read Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues – I dare you to do the same! Or even better; listen to Eve Ensler’s beautiful audiobook performance of the monologues. Ensler’s women, the tellers of her monologues, are talking about joy and pleasure, but also about pain, abuse &…
In situ
It is impossible to give a precise recollection of Richard Mosse’s work The Enclave, it is a 6 channel video installation with a brilliant sound track by Ben Frost. Here are just some quick snapshots to give you an impression: Such a strange universe; due to his choice of film & filter the chlorophyll green gets…
W. G. Sebald
For a long time I’ve been wanting to read W. G. Sebald, thoroughly, like I’m currently reading the work of Virginia Woolf. Actually I planned Sebald to be my next project – in a year or so – . BUT … it seems I’m no longer the captain of this ship – Sebald won’t wait!…
“It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”
As Frank Hobbs correctly states in his comment to this post, the text above is Susan Sontag quoting Oscar Wilde, in her ground breaking essay Against interpretation
Against Interpretation
Today I will be reading Susan Sontag’s essay Against Interpretation, from her collection Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966). I’m going back to Sontag because I need a bit of backing for some thoughts that have been rambling around in my head lately… Looking at – and engaging with – conceptual art, it is obvious that this…
sub rosa 