Show Neon Fashion
From the most recent edition of the journal Left Curve (No 29) Show Neon Fashions Accompanying Exhibition/Catalogue Essay for: JOOYOUNG LEE (with CART The airport) Dec 2003 to Jan 2004. Art Space Hue,...
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Why should Blair go now? on the 3rd anniversary of the start of the Iraq war? Nah, head in the sand as ever. The Guardian front page today “should” have been this picture from Chicago, rather they...
View ArticleKufiya-spotting
This great post and meme by Ted Swedenburg deserves your attention. I used to play this game but never thought to collect – this is trinketization as well after all. One of my favourites was the news...
View ArticleJesus Trinketizaton
This disturbingly interesting post is from youth worker Mark Oestreicher. The convolutions of owning and believing are curious indeed. I normally would not bother with god-botherin’ types, but this is...
View ArticleFree Stuff
CLICK http://www.fun-da-mental.co.uk Three free tracks from Fun Da Mental – as always uncompromising, provocative and sincere. 1.Happy to Be Clappy- exposing the deceit of the collaborators in current...
View ArticleXmas Teaches Kids to Love Capitalism
The ideal Present has arrived. I rarely forward “Art” projects to lists, but since its the silly season and all things are excused in the interest of the ‘festival of teaching kids to love capitalism’,...
View ArticleSolidarity
The Observer of course slants the story the wrong way, always appearing to be news when it manages always to voice the ‘news’ of the ‘authorities’ (cops good; and its women and children over against...
View ArticleWe will
I’m corresponding with a certain Jen O about her prospective PhD here: Her day job in marketing reminded me of an anecdote I’ve been meaning to post: There once was was a workshop once that was run by...
View Article11 theses on art and politics (#5,6,7)
[Thesis five, six and seven (of eleven)]: 5. Trinketization would be a diagnosis of limited responses to global reconfigurations of commodity fetishism, where affect and shopping disguise an unbroken...
View ArticleMutes
Increasingly David Speaks, but he still does not say anything. That both Beckham and kate Moss remain mute icons of British glamour, automatons – impossibly beautiful, sublime skills etc., – is the...
View ArticleMarket Project on Banks(y)
Alistair Gentry: To me it relates pretty closely to the banks being “too big to fail”, I think in this country- John Hutnyk: Banksy is too big to fail. Alistair Gentry: Yes, Banksy IS too big to fail....
View ArticleZurker the Zucker(berg) punch…
Still a lot to be worked out but OK, why not gamble on FB not even being here in 8 years (as reported in the SMH today) and join this other (maybe nicer) pyramid scheme social networking site. I’m...
View ArticleTraining Adorno
Is it mean to advise someone wanting to write on sneakers to go and read Adorno? On trainers/sneakers, surely Adorno would be asking what is so secretive about the people who wear these training shoes...
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180 years of fashion. RIP Mary Anne Walkley.
as reported in the Sterling Observer (2 July 1863).
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