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Taking a normal situation and retranslating it into overlapping and multiple readings of conditions, past and present […]. Create a situation which does not erupt so much as emerge from normal conditions which are radically altered [...]. The artist’s objects and environments draw on a repertoire of daily use and are produced to mimic the [...]

WITTGENSTEIN’S LADDER   “My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands them eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them––as steps––to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.)” ––Ludwig Wittgenstein,  Tractatus    1. The first time I [...]

COWBOY PLAYS – A Game of 52 Soaphorse Operas – COWBOY PLAY #1 SCENE: The Forest SQUIRREL #1: Nuts! SQUIRREL #2: Nuts! SQUIRRELS #1 & #2: Delicious! CURTAIN – COWBOY PLAY #2 SCENE: The Fireplace LOG #1: I’m burning! LOG #2: I’m burning! LOGS #1 & #2: Rather not! CURTAIN

(Project Row House, Houston, Installation view; Blum & Poe Gallery, Los Angeles.)

Welcome to my blog Calendrier 2000 Do you want love or lust? Community Best Beautiful Rating Everything — (Image: Claude Closky, Untitled (NASDAQ), 2004, wallpaper, silkscreen print.)

(Fiona Banner, Leaning nude, Graphite on paper, 2006, 1301PE, Los Angeles.)

  we sell chaos for international situation   why art?   find out what your future contains   don’t smile   I’m not for sale   we kill for money pay now   be yourself don’t cry   this is not art so don’t worry   don’t throw away anything today it’s art sell it [...]

Zachary Schomburg da: THE MAN SUIT. 2007 THE WHALE 1. When I was young, my mother was eaten by a whale. 2. I buried myself in the sand, in my whale pajamas and my whale-shaped slippers. I was uncovered a million times by people who would say things like you’re too old for those clothes [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

(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 [...]

(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 [...]