Imbéciles, je vous pardonne; mais ressouvenez-vous que sans les sens il n’y a point de mémoire, et que sans la mémoire il n’y a point d’esprit. Aventure de la Mémoire (1773), Voltaire The first step toward oblivion is the tiny erasure gestures. The second step is to do...
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Is there any chemical substance that will allow me to stop being human?I have everything. I am blessed as part of a petty-bourgeois middle class, I travel whenever I can, I buy when I consider appropriate. By default, I am unlimited. In the morning, a serotonin–norepinephrine reuptake...
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Regardless of how libertarian and liberator one may be, there is always a coefficient – even if residual – that attaches the body and its policies to the State. After all, as Coetzee mentions, no one is born out of a State, and the first gesture in...
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With plenty of technology and knowledge, mankind is currently living in the opulence of its own production. Modernity has uncritically increased overproduction, blind to the consequences and surrounded by an anthropocentrism that refuses to establish parity with the other species with which it shares the planet. It is cheaper...
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I fuck, therefore I am.It's not love. It's not sex. It's not even copulation. It's fucking. As simple - and as truthful - as that.The affirmation of one's existence through fucking is the confirmation of our biology – which western cultures have gradually erased from...
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When he lectured on the conference Conflito e Unidade na Arte, Mário Dionísio opened a caesura in the artistic expression of the 50s. If, until that point, it was believed that art, according to the communist and neorealist conception, would have to abstain from abstract and...
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Sit down and watch the time go by in the living room, in the bedroom, in the office, in the studio – an attentive stone by the side of a window.Wait for the twilight and the low, golden, orange light.Watch the sunrays drawn on the wall,...
Sit down and watch the time go...
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There are several ways of understanding and evaluating curatorship - a field that has been steadily growing. But it is safe to say that some of the most successful are those that research and suggest new readings on art, art history and political and social contexts of the eras in question. Allied...
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The comma has rules, but also subjective interpretations; it has a variable function; it carries a time in it, an erratic one. Before but, you have one; rarely before the and, except, of course, when there is a mobile group or one made of different...
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“My conscience is perfectly aligned with the horizon and is borne from oil.” Nikolai NekhMy conscience is oil – perhaps the most concise statement of Nikolai Nekh’s work – is the acknowledgement of a turning point of an ontological perspective on the man. Before this...
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