G A M M M

Zachary Schomburg
da: THE MAN SUIT. 2007

WHAT I FOUND IN THE FOREST

1.

I found a group of
inappropriately dressed
women inside
a hollowed-out tree.
They all had hidden agendas.
When I asked Marlene
her name, she told me Madeline.
When I asked why
they were in a hollowed-out tree,
all of them became
suspiciously uneasy –
particularly Marlene
who told me to stop
talking as she handed me
some beautiful flowers.

2.

I […]

We must analyze and understand our contemporary everyday world as if it were the everyday world of a historical society. For example, the everyday world of Pompeii at the time of 79 B.C., when Vesuvius buried the city once and for all.
(From the catalogue of Ordinary Design exhibition, Mathildenhoehe, Darmstadt, 1976. Image: Brandon Lattu, Miracle […]

(Acrylic on paper, 100 x 70 cm, Galleria Sonia Rosso, Torino.)

 
She landed pulsar wink odium folk peel
Sales starving pair talc grave humane
pug befall eaglet Septicemia brain gun
Oracle crescent melon lurid toxin coat
heap tubing socket Powerful loose whet
melon oxbow oracle Bird devout drifter
Most of the refrigerator bus stop whet
robust lax realign genie sex Speaker
settled Bush The genie lamp abalone
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(Image: still from Stories are propaganda, a video by Philippe Parreno and Rirkrit Tiravanija, shot in 35mm in China in 2005, transferred on DVD and of a duration of 8 minutes and 40 seconds, Galerie Air de Paris, Paris).

 
(Image: Ross Sinclair, Real Life Market Stall, installation view, 1999.)
 

WHO WE ARE
Mercurie J.Pin is a writer of others’ lives.
WHAT WE DO
We write personal stories. If you want a story in which you or someone you know appears as the main character, we will write it for you.
Choose the genre – a piece of prose, a theatre monologue, or a poem – , the […]

 
A partire dagli anni ’60 molti artisti più o meno “impegnati”, concettuali e non, hanno iniziato a produrre opere che andassero oltre i supporti tradizionali della pittura e della scultura, utilizzando il video, l’installazione, la fotografia e ogni sorta di medium estraneo agli abiti dell’arte precedente. Altri, tra i “materiali” stessi della loro ricerca hanno […]

(Birgir Andrésson, Portrait #17, 1999, silkscreen and oil on mdt, framed with plexiglass, 84 x 64 cm, Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenaghen.)

(Birgir Andrésson, Portrait #16, 1999, silkscreen and oil on mdt, framed with plexiglass, 84 x 64 cm, Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenaghen.)

(Birgir Andrèsson, Portrait #15, 1999, silkscreen and oil on mdt, framed with plexiglass, 84 x 64 cm, Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenaghen.)

(Birgir Andrésson, Portrait #14, 1999, silkscreen and oil on mdt, framed with plexiglass, 84 x 64 cm, Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenaghen.)

(Birgir Andrésson, Portrait #7, 1999, silkscreen and oil on mdt, framed with plexiglass, 84 x 64 cm, Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenaghen.)

(Birgir Andrésson, Portrait #6, 1999, silkscreen and oil on mdt, framed with plexiglass, 84 x 64 cm, Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenaghen.)