January 2012
5 posts
DID YOUTUBE KILL PERFORMANCE ART?
really fuxin with this man’s brain
hennessyyoungman:
I just took a gander at this piece from the NYTimes. Normally I reserve my art thoughts for ART THOUGHTZ, but hey, I ain’t really have naught to do, so I decided I’d briefly share a few thoughts on the matter of Live Performance Art™ vs. youtube/internet/”mediated” (what a nefarious word!) consumption of performance. Viewing performance...
dream hampton: Walk, Don't Run, To Red Tails →
dreamhampton1:
Today is the day the future of big budget Black filmmaking hangs in the balance. According to George Lucas at least. After spending about 555 million adjusted for inflation dollars to make his 6 installments of Star Wars, Lucas has now vowed to abandon half a billion budgets forever…
November 2011
6 posts
“It doesn’t behoove an emerging generation to placate the worldview of those who...”
– Hennesy Youngman, from “To Catch a Millennial”
swag. Like I love saying, we don’t have to think like that any more!
(via chukwuma)
August 2011
5 posts
policing the cycle of violence
I just got home a few moments ago. My house is quiet and the lights are low. What’s left of the sun is creeping past my curtains made for bed sheets and I think about opening a piece of Bubble Yum for the 7th time today. My eyes glaze past the gum wrapper and I see my laptop. I give it death stares. It has been the site of all this summer’s troubles, hours spent in front of it rather...
Charlie Webster v Democracy
*personal draft authored by hfb for the Fair Elections Legal Network
**viewpoints expressed do not necessarily reflect those of FELN
Just after the launch of a citizen’s veto campaign in Maine to repeal the elimination of Election Day registration, Maine’s Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster pushed for investigation into the voting records of several hundred students under the claim that...
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
1 post
April 2011
2 posts
Unicorn HøRN: more lorde on the erotic →
Claudia Tate: I am frequently jarred by my sometimes unconscious attempt to identify the sex of the person addressed in the poem. Since I associate the speaker’s voice with you, and since I’m not always conscious that you are a lesbian, the jarring occurs when I realize the object of affection…
March 2011
15 posts
“For the Cause that lacks assistance;
For the Wrongs that need resistance;
For...”
– taken from The Huber Harrison Reader; “What I Live For” by Mrs Georege Linnaeus Isabella Banks
TRUTH AND BEAUTY - THIS WEEK'S LINEUP: ONE-HOUR...
re-posted from parley.co
What do we live for, if not truth and beauty? This week, Parley takes part in two new endeavors to find out.
We hope you’ll join us at Studio Gallery on the evening of Wednesday, March ninth for One-Hour Magazine with Justin Smith. All in attendance will work to co-create an instant art-zine in one (and a half) hours.
Then, on Thursday the tenth of March, I...
Chukwuma Agubokwu: Many Worlds! →
chukwuma:
This December, I participated in a wonderful wonderful salon held by some old friends, acquaintances and new friends. It was one of the first places that what I consider to be a community centered around some new culture began developing tangibly. ACME did an acoustic set (the resulting Sunday…
Theory Weekly: Authority
Hey folks,
Perhaps I use the term “weekly” a bit loosly. We’ve been through this though, linear time is just our imagination of space anyway, why not conceive of it in any way we want? This is an expression of our individual liberty; we live in a democracy afterall right? Let’s organize against the concept of “monday,” I say!
All of that is tangential though to...
February 2011
24 posts
Theory Weekly: What Attracts You to Progressive...
Tonight I sent in my application for The Roosevelt Institute Summer Fellowship Academy.
Here’s what I wrote in response to the prompt in the title.
Essay #1
My persistent curiosity and investigative nature has become the subject of many family anecdotes; “She asked questions about everything!” was my mother’s favorite refrain as she rattled on to family friends...
THE WAY WE END IT: NEW ART PERFORMANCE BY COLON:Y...
REPRODUCED FROM http://www.parley.co/
Mark February 28 down on your calendars, DC, and do it now. The good people of COLON:Y Art Collective will be putting on their first public performance at University of Maryland’s Herman Maril Gallery, from 1:00-8:30PM. Parley collaborator Wilmer Wilson IV (VISION + afterimage, Foil Night) and Chukwuma Agubokwu- another longtime friend of ours- are...
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Theory Weekly: Basquiat Art Analysis
This was part of a final for an art class I took last summer. The prompt asked us to choose any work from Basquiat and analyze what is meant by ‘the gaze’ and ‘the context.’ Here is an exerpt from my analysis.
Untitled Skull by Jean-Michel Basquiat
The image of the skull that Basquiat renders is so rich, colorful, vibrant, energetic and layered that it is almost...