Survival Kit
The largest annual contemporary art festival in the Baltics, Survival Kit, which is organised by Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, will take place in Riga from 23 May till 30 June at the former building of the faculty of physics, mathematics and optometry of the University of Latvia.
https://lcca.lv/en/survival-kit-10/
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Response: Zizek, The Trouble with Neighbours
Orange Blankets
February 2020
An orange blanket, one of many, hangs on the wall, stark against the crisp, sterile white paint. The softness of the fleece material is apparent immediately, but the colour, garishly bright, seems to somehow diminish the comfort offered by this simple piece.. →
Response: Ranciere, Disensus
Of Babies and Bathwater
February 2020
It’s beautifully sunny as Beth Anne and I stand in silent contemplation on the balcony of the Watchmen’s cabin at Sɢ̠ang Gwaay looking across the water to Kunghit, the last landmass of any significant size in the 400 island archipelago that.. →
Response: Chantal Mouffe, Agonistics
For Ginger
November 2019
This text began in a room in the sky. If I walked out the window I would drop 8 floors. There are no nets.
What does a neighbourhood look like when all its power relations are flattened? Is this even possible? Is the best we can do to strip them bare?.. →
Response: Brian Holmes, Driving the Golden Spike
7 Sediments (On the Anthropocene)
October 2019
1. I wrote this while flying on an airplane. I had a window seat, 8A. I have always loved watching the landscape slip by from the air – the pale and faded greens and browns punctuated by towns and settlements, clouds and the blue-grey.. →
Response: Privacy and Publicity in the Age of Social Media, Beatriz Colomina
20.08.19
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The first paragraph of Beatriz Colomina’s Privacy and Publicity in the Age of Social Media ends with a declarative statement.
We can no longer think of distinct spaces for work, play, private life, and rest
As with all statements of this kind,.. →