miscellaneous

Every morning I wake up as a little fish. I shine my golden skin in a hurry and jump out of my bowl into a stream blending a river feeding a humongous power plant, after a long flow. Everything happens so quickly there, one cannot stop to think, question, or even just to look at. All fish start falling down from the falls, takes 7 to 8 hours to fall, reach the base, and then glide back to the surface. The moment of smashing the water gives a strong headache so the only thing one could ever dream of at the end of the day would be one little isolated puddle to lay in unmovingly till the next morning.

I have jetlag: My body cannot realign my new rhythm. And I’m totally confusing the control key and the command key in whichever platform. I’ll make an entry of my observations of -not so civil- life, at the weekend, if I survive.

Is friendship private property?

I’ve been reading “The Origin of the Family, Private Property and The State” by Engels, who discusses about the origins of monogamy and the rise of the family concept. This may sound weird but it occurred to me that the earlier societies of homo-sapiens reproduced among their small communities. Yes? Incest was not a concern at that time. Only after years later they realized incest causes severe deformation on the new-born. If they are our ancestors from whom generations reproduced, this deformation is in our genes. Perhaps differs in degree, but we’re all defective. Maybe that’s why human beings are brutal, greedy, etc…

1800FRAMES|Take3 includes fifty-five one-minute videos by the following thirty artists:

Michael Amter, Hackworth Ashley, Betsey Biggs, Brian Caiazza & G. H. Hovagimyan, Beth Chucker, Santiago Cohen, Maria Dumlao, Carla Edwards, Merav Ezer & Adi Shniderman, Celeste Fichter, Jesse Houlding, Jenny Hyde, Bradley Hyppa, Jose Insua, Kensuke Koike, Beth Krebs, Stephanie Lempert, Joe Nanashe, Matthew Nicholas, Robert O’Connor, Arzu Ozkal Telhan, Jennifer Proctor, Charlene Rule, Memo Salazar, Melissa Schubeck, Claudia Sohrens, Dana Sperry, and Michael Szpakowski.

City Without Walls, based in Newark, NJ since 1975, is New Jersey’s oldest not-for-profit alternative art space. cWOW’s Executive Director is Ben Goldman; Gallery/Education Director William A. Ortega originated the 1800FRAMES series in 2004.

Sunday, March 11, 7:00pm
Pioneer Theater: 155 E 3rd St (between A & B ), New York, NY View Map
Phone: 212-591-0434

Tickets can be purchased at the door or on Pioneer Theater website.

a video installation project still in progress

Exhibition: we are all photographers now! Musée de l’Elysée - Lausanne

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