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A couple of things Stateside: Artloversnewyork have a good post on the Erik Parker opening at the Project Space of Marianne Boesky last week. The new work – small(ish) drawings on paper – looks interesting, almost as if there is a secret language encoded within all the indexes of cartoon hieroglyphics that expand on the central axiom. Also, the invite card is one of the best I have seen in a long time and brings out the inner Patrick Bateman.
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Also, Montage: Unmonumental Online, the web based and final portion of the New Museum’s Unmonumental show is now live. There is lots of good stuff there, but check out Oliver Laric’s 50 50 video first.
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Jacob Holdt – American Pictures
Plutonian forces, it is said, shape and obscure the mind of the “slum photographer” – and the social losers they identify with. If this is the case, then his astrological chart is an apt self portrait of Jacob Holdt, the Danish photographer who, at the beginning of the Seventies spent five years hitchhiking more than 100,000 miles across America documenting along the way intimate portraits of the contrasting social conditions of a cast of characters he met en route. For reference, and as best as I can make out from his astrological data, these are his plutonian forces:
- Pluto Leo 10º59’20 in house 9 direct
- Sun SQUARE Pluto 2º25
- Venus TRINE Pluto 5º27
- Mars TRINE Pluto 2º44
- Saturn CONJUNCTION Pluto 8º26
- Neptun SEXTILE Pluto 2º18
- Pluto CONJUNCTION Medium Coeli 3º27
Whether or not it is disingenuous to the suggest that the cause for the affection shown by Holdt to his subjects, be they the poorest of the American underclass or the richest of the moneyed is one of cosmic predetermination; it does remain an interesting conceit – with Pluto being the Roman god of both the underworld and of wealth. And it is one that Holdt himself has posited, comparing on his website his data with that of Jacob Riis.
With his American Pictures slideshow currently showing at the Photographers Gallery as part of the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize without his customary accompanying lecture, it seems like a good alternate narrative to view them by.
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Disorder of the week #4
Martha Mitchell effect:
Intellectual Property Donor
I’m not sure if this is legally binding or not or if it exists as anything more than concept, but ni9e have an intellectual property donor card available to download with the following spiel:
Nice idea. Tax deductible too.