oui, oui, madame bing...danschankMay 9 2009, 17:53:59 UTC
by the way, my friend stuart was in the run you just did the other week here. i wanted to go, but had made plans to see that zoe strauss photo thing under i-95 (do you know about this?) and then it rained and i did neither!
i agree that philly is more unpredictable, especially since i'm doing this with paintings in mind. there's an unfortunate sense in NYC - especially manhattan - that everything's been sufficiently editorialized, either by lou reed or allen ginsberg or patti smith or someone writing for vice magazine. the fact that no one gives a shit about that in philly is kinda liberating.
interesting point about the femme fatale being the product of a modernist city. i think i conceived of "penetration" in the feminine because of my own libidinous unconscious, frankly, being attracted to girls and all. in a way the thought began as something kinda crass and maybe chauvinistic, but i still thought it was worth sharing. and i agree that these spaces aren't particularly innovative - they're just designed to stand apart from their settings, i think. like the old cliche of the architect that just pops his/her "vision" into an unrelated environment. bad architecture, really. and i think the kind of corporate allure that follows - the temptation of entering the "big leagues" financially/career-wise, kinda mirrors the desire that these women often represent (at their worst, mostly) in old film noirs. seductive power plus an impulse towards conquest, i guess. the fact that i just sexualized the word "conquest" kinda makes me want to barf. it's hard to write about sexist ideology without sounding sexist.
i think future "walking around posts" may end up getting into less familiar neighborhoods. i was a bit limited this time by it being 1am. i guess i could have written about that - how safety (or the illusion of it) actually dictates my movement.
i agree that philly is more unpredictable, especially since i'm doing this with paintings in mind. there's an unfortunate sense in NYC - especially manhattan - that everything's been sufficiently editorialized, either by lou reed or allen ginsberg or patti smith or someone writing for vice magazine. the fact that no one gives a shit about that in philly is kinda liberating.
interesting point about the femme fatale being the product of a modernist city. i think i conceived of "penetration" in the feminine because of my own libidinous unconscious, frankly, being attracted to girls and all. in a way the thought began as something kinda crass and maybe chauvinistic, but i still thought it was worth sharing. and i agree that these spaces aren't particularly innovative - they're just designed to stand apart from their settings, i think. like the old cliche of the architect that just pops his/her "vision" into an unrelated environment. bad architecture, really. and i think the kind of corporate allure that follows - the temptation of entering the "big leagues" financially/career-wise, kinda mirrors the desire that these women often represent (at their worst, mostly) in old film noirs. seductive power plus an impulse towards conquest, i guess. the fact that i just sexualized the word "conquest" kinda makes me want to barf. it's hard to write about sexist ideology without sounding sexist.
i think future "walking around posts" may end up getting into less familiar neighborhoods. i was a bit limited this time by it being 1am. i guess i could have written about that - how safety (or the illusion of it) actually dictates my movement.
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