Amor Fati by Roy Voragen

Maria

2009-11-07T12:26:00.002+07:00

'Maria' is a portrait by German artist Loretta Lux, who studied painting before turning to photography (and photoshop).

Für Elise

2009-11-03T21:42:00.002+07:00

blossoming

2009-11-03T21:39:00.003+07:00

for the love of glass

2009-11-03T21:34:00.002+07:00

compulsive starsuckers

2009-11-03T20:00:00.001+07:00

pause/replay

2009-11-03T07:42:00.003+07:00

Agus Suwage made a series titled pause/replay for which he drew inspiration from various artists. It is not an interesting question whether this form of appropriation constitutes plagiarism in its legal or moral meaning. Throughout the history of art artists have appropriated each others work. A more interesting question is whether Agus Suwage achieved aesthetically something interesting. In general, I think Agus Suwage's work is great. But with this series I have my doubts, especially for those works of which I know the source. For example the work above. This is a work of Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra, and I have seen this work in Rotterdam about ten years ago - a very powerful work. (This series can be seen in Soemardja Art Gallery until 9 November, and in the gallery one can purchase the beautifully designed book that comes with this exhibition.)

seven year itch

2009-11-03T07:38:00.002+07:00

11 months and 2 days

2009-11-02T18:50:00.002+07:00

Eleven months and two days, and then? Your guess is as good as mine.

Antichrist 1

2009-10-30T21:51:00.000+07:00

The new movie by Lars von Trier.

Antichrist 2

2009-10-30T21:50:00.001+07:00

glass man

2009-10-16T19:49:00.004+07:00

Alive in Joburg

2009-10-16T19:12:00.002+07:00

Alive in Joburg is a short movie by Neill Blomkamp. District 9 is a 2009 feature length movie based on this short movie. While scifi genre movies, they deal with xenophobia and racism (or specie-ism).

this is not...

2009-10-14T07:32:00.002+07:00

feuertrunken

2009-10-10T21:05:00.001+07:00

joy

2009-10-10T14:24:00.002+07:00

nature morte

2009-10-04T21:37:00.001+07:00

is He Him?

2009-10-04T16:15:00.003+07:00

Mark Wallinger's statue Ecce Homo at Trafalgar Square, London. Adrian Searle wrote about this artwork in the Guardian.

celebration of the impractical

2009-10-04T10:54:00.001+07:00

"It’s easy to think that college classes are mainly about preparing you for a job. But remember: this may be the one time in your life when you have a chance to think about the whole of your life, not just your job. Courses in the humanities, in particular, often seem impractical, but they are vital, because they stretch your imagination and challenge your mind to become more responsive, more critical, bigger. You need resources to prevent your mind from becoming narrower and more routinized in later life. This is your chance to get them."
- Martha Nussbaum

blue in the face

2009-10-03T18:21:00.003+07:00

Skeletal memento mori

2009-10-03T16:03:00.001+07:00

It's murder out there

2009-10-03T16:02:00.000+07:00

Saying, as Albert Camus, does, that suicide is the only real philosophical question amounts to a paradox. After all, the answer to this question cannot be suicide. Or as Arthur Schopenhauer writes: “Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment – a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.”

inevitable

2009-09-26T09:55:00.001+07:00

a day's fragment

2009-09-24T20:39:00.003+07:00

WALL - 5

2009-09-24T20:27:00.002+07:00

tango lesson

2009-09-22T08:23:00.001+07:00