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When I encountered Walid Raad’s The Atlas Group Archive work at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, I was ecstatic. Here was a Borgesian world of seeming triviality, cataloged, and displayed as something beautiful; as something which depended upon violence and war but which instead moved the emphasis away from such violence. Too abstract? Here’s an ( Read more... )

Many people, including myself, harbor a secret love for adhesives. As my relationships with various tapes, glues and velcroes have developed, I’ve found that I actually love adhesives for their own sake, independent from their function of holding-stuff-together. Which is why I was excited to discover that Tara Donovan’s one-room installation at the ( Read more... )

The premise of I’m Not There is interesting enough: six different individuals of sundry race and gender (okay, actually, four of them are white men) collectively portray Bob Dylan in an edgy, postmodern non-linear narrative which chronicles Dylan’s ascent from unknown minstrel to world-famous iconoclast. As a fan of director Todd Haynes’ previous ( Read more... )

The following link will take you to a .pdf entitled The CD: A Better Value Than Ever, a document that looks like a high school econ project prepared by the Communications and Strategic Analysis Department of the Recording Industry Association of America. It is a public document and can be found at www.riaa.com>key statistics> The CD: A Better Value ( Read more... )

Actually, I’ll just give you one: they reduce a whole year into mashed carrots. Easily digested, spoon fed, no questions asked, just a cute little baby smiling back at you from the glossy packaging as if to say ’see it doesn’t matter what you went through losing your house and all, at least you still have that new Clive Cussler book, that was ( Read more... )

Andy Kaufman embodies all that is great. Here he is giving James Brown a run for his money:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSYV-nEE300

The interesting thing about Andy Kaufman is that he’s an original. He’s the first Borat, one of the first ever non-funny joke men (though I’m sure some Dadaist beat him to it), and always had that amazing glimmer ( Read more... )

So I decided last thursday to take a quick peek in Hamburger Bahnhof to see this not so new exhibition ‘Schmerz’ or ‘Pain.’ I was rather excited to see it, mainly since it’s received some great reviews from trusted sources, etc. etc.
When I first walked into the museum, I was confronted with some Bruce Nauman clown pieces from the 80s, and I ( Read more... )

Though included in the program to ‘Dogs…’ which premiered at the English Theater Berlin on April 29, 2007, I also thought this would be the appropriate forum to share and talk about these ideas. Though specific to this piece -i.e. Dogs-, I believe nonetheless that these ‘guidelines’ are sound and could be interesting for other productions.

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