November 2011
1 post
October 2011
1 post
An apology for Poste Restante →
At the Henry through Oct 16.
June 2011
2 posts
"The Berlin Key, or How to Do Words with Things" →
Bruno Latour’s 1991 essay is one of the guideposts for “Poste Restante,” and served as the subject for a conversation between curator Eric Fredericksen and artist Gareth James at Artspeak, Vancouver, BC, on May 21, 2011.
Poste Restante at Artspeak →
The first version of Poste Restante ran April 9 to May 28, 2011, at Artspeak in Vancouver, BC. Parcels, boxes, and postcards arrived from Jason Dodge (Berlin), Hadley+Maxwell (Berlin), Allison Hrabluik (Vancouver), Aaron Flint Jamison (Portland, Ore.), Sam Lewitt (New York City), Heather and Ivan Morison (Brighton, UK), Avigail Moss (Maastricht), Pamela Rosenkranz (Zurich/Amsterdam), Matt Sheridan...
January 2011
1 post
USB Dead Drops →
‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. USB flash drives are embedded into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. Everyone is invited to drop or find files on a dead drop.
November 2010
3 posts
“What is irreplaceable in the work of art? What makes it far more a voice of the...”
– Merleau-Ponty, “Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence,” reproduced in F.R. David, “Keep it to Yourself,” Spring 2009, p. 184
“If we consider the [art] works in their untouched actuality and do not deceive...”
– Heidegger, “The Origin of the Work of Art.” Poetry, Language, Thought, Harper & Row, 1975.
September 2010
1 post
“‘There’s more evidence to come yet, please your Majesty,’ said...”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Brought to our attention by Dieter Roelstraete in F.R. David, Winter 2009. http://www.deappel.nl/publications/p/132/
February 2010
1 post
A cameo appearance by The Purloined Letter →
“… the twofold luxury of meditation and a whisky, in company with my friend, D. Sinister, in his little back library, or book-closet, in the basement, No. 38, Ludlow Street, in the Lower East Side.”
October 2009
1 post
Publication Studio →
The appeal of the wrapped parcel to stay wrapped.
July 2009
4 posts
A Dream (Jorge Luis Borges) →
In a deserted place in Iran there is a not very tall stone tower that has neither door nor window. In the only room (with a dirt floor and shaped like a circle) there is a wooden table and a bench. In that circular cell, a man who looks like me is writing in letters I cannot understand a long poem about a man who in another circular cell is writing a poem about a man who in another circular cell...
June 2009
1 post
Anthony Grafton on the Republic of Letters
matthewbattles:
“Citizens of the Republic (of Letters) carried no passports, but they could recognize one another by certain marks…. They looked for learning, for humanity, and for generosity, and they rewarded those who possessed these qualities. Any young man, and more than a few young women, could pay the price of admission. If they mastered Latin and, ideally, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic; became...
April 2009
1 post
“…the worldwide proliferation and scattering of biennials is often invoked as a...”
– Dieter Roelstraete, “Art Books Now: 7 Theses (From an Accomplice’s Point of View)”. Dot Dot Dot 12, Summer 2006. http://www.dot-dot-dot.us/index.html?id=16
March 2009
9 posts
“…in the transition from craftsman to artist from the Late Middle Ages...”
– João Ribas, quoted in the press release to Eric Anglès and Matt Sheridan Smith at Cohan and Leslie, curated by Arnd Seibert, November 15 - December 22, 2007.
http://www.cohanandleslie.com/index.php?mode=past&object_id=75&view=pressrelease
“Together with the artist Tris Vonna-Michell, curators Bart van der Heide and...”
– Frieze Magazine | Archive | Life Work
Lisa Robertson at Suddenly
Lisa Robertson: The imperative to clearly and transparently express a positive intentionality is itself a kind of money. […] I believe it’s often the margin of opacity within a representation, within a presented object, which carries unintentional agency, which is able to include an edge of perception, a dissolving of intention, a dissolving of meaning receivable as a transparent...
The First Poste
Poste Restante: a letter or package held at a central post office until picked up by its recipient, commonly used by travelers. Term used throughout Europe; in Germany, “Postlagernd,” in the U.S. “General Delivery.” The art object seen as an undelivered letter, held in reserve by the gallery for a recipient whose identity and location are incompletely known. The deferral...