It is an honour to have a short article on kissing in photography published in the same issue as a discussion on HBO’s TV show ‘In Treatment’ and the rise of internet sex. Read the article here (PDF 1.7MB).
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The British Psychoanalytic Council
Afterall, one work
This series of monographs really appeals to my obsessiveness with specific works of art. Just like having a private critical museum… They even have a lovely volume on Étant Donnés. How not to include it? It is one of the most recurring images I have ever encountered…
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Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay waterfall
Isn’t this the most wonderfully obscure symposium ever? I wish I could go – alas, I will be at another very obscure one, Jacques Lacan Today at UCL, in London. This is one of those event when one is guaranteed to share interests with the rest of the attendees. I should write to the Catalonian [...]
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Grace and Clark Fyfe gallery shots
Half Knowledge/Half…
An exhibition of work by researchers. Grace and Clark Fyfe Gallery, Scott Street, Glasgow 16-28 April 2010 You are cordially invited to the Private View of the show, which will take place on Friday 16th April, at 6pm.
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From perfect lovers to banality
Matthias Schaller
I am reading a lovely book on Casanova’s self portraiture. It was written by Stefan Zweig and published by Pushkin Press. I do like the object books that Pushkin Press produce. They are tactile, and have wabi-sabi. The more the book lives in my handbag and travels with me, the more good-looking it becomes. But [...]
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Perfect Lovers Glasgow
My favourite work of art, the one I would save in the event of a world catastrophe, is on show at Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art until 1 November. I did not know about this, I found it by chance, and mistake, while I was going to the public Library (which is just in its [...]
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Nikon or Canon
The first realisation I had during my PhD was the fact that what I was looking for, the objects of seduction I longed for, were already out there. I did not need to spend unfruitful hours trying to re-create, imitate what industrialization, and capitalism had already achieved. To compete, in terms of seduction, what I had to devise was a way to capture the relationship, to apprehend what was going on, to replicate it in order to study it in depth. Photography was my discovery.
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A Wind of Revolution Blows, the Storm is on the Horizon
I can’t wait to go to London at the end of November and see this exquisite show: We have see nothing yet but roses 2006 detail Sharon Kivland A Wind of Revolution Blows, the Storm is on the Horizon 07.11.08 – 13.12.08 Chelsea Space Chelsea College of Art and Design 16 John Islip Street London [...]
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