December 28, 2011
2011 Folkestone Triennial
VARIOUS VENUES, FOLKESTONE, UK
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[NB Collaborations are a particular, demanding and beautiful form of work which I seem to have developed a taste for, at least in a visual art context and since 1997!
2011 was a year of varying forms of artful collaboration, each very special but none quite so intimate as this one for me; how it came about, whom it involves and the result of our efforts. To avoid the obvious-but-hideous potential problems of collaboration, a certain more or less unspoken [else endlessly detailed!] but deeply-shared approach to all-things essential is elemental. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: andrea schlieker, ashok sukumaran, CAMP, colin perry, folkestone, francis ponge, frieze, guy mannes-abbott, iyesha geeth abbas, lighthouse in the sea of time, national coastwatch institution, richard wentworth, seashores, shaina anand, sharjah biennial, the country of the blind and other stories, zineb sedira
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December 23, 2011
In Ramallah, Running due Feb. 28th 2012
Gertrude Stein didn’t think much of commas, you remember? I think a lot of Gertrude’s work and Gertrude herself, as Fruit Store regulars will know, but disagree with her about the comma.
Commas break-up, complicate, deepen, add dimension to statements and any prose that takes ‘sense’ for granted. They elucidate, make-difficult, render actual complexity. The comma in In Ramallah, Running does these and many other things for me…
Above is a graphic rendering of a tiny part of the cover-image of the book [actual cover image coming soon], in which the sticking-out comma sticks out!
Commas are inconvenient, never quite fit, force you to notice that which you might not, condense and disrupt [presumed, heh Adania?] sense, etc. They are abyss and peak, add crucial [a]rhythms and make for the elliptical.
Writing without these things is almost literally nothing…
Tags: adania shibli, artschool palestine, black dog, emily jacir, francis alys, gertrude stein, guy mannes-abbott, in ramallah running, jananne al-ani, jean fisher, khalil rabah, mark titchner, najwan darwish, olaf nicolai, paul noble, samar martha, sharif waked, sharjah art foundation
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December 12, 2011
Translated By – London 2011
Translated By, Shumon and Charles’ exhibition of audio recordings of writing about place by a range of writers including myself, with a short excerpt from In Ramallah, Running in the form of cut-together running texts, is currently on show at CCA KITAKYUSHU Ogura Gallery December 12, 2011 – January 20, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: architectural association school of architecture, cca kitakyushu, Charles Arsène-Henry, charles arsene-henri, geoffrey streatfeild, guy mannes-abbott, in ramallah running, mavi armara, newt gingrich, shumon basar, translated by
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December 8, 2011
I’ve always felt there were many uses for a ‘Gordon Matta-Clark’ and can only approach life, especially urban life, as or through art in the broadest sense, that sense being not a Marxian one but a making something-from-nothing one. I’m [to a fault] less interested in exploiting my own having-made something-from-nothing -except to the extent of being able to make it in the first place and make something else subsequently! Only an idiot wouldn’t be interested in or cognisant of the abysmal world of surplus value, however there is a certain idiocy in being transfixed by it too…
One use for a Gordon Matta-Clark is to help think through the question of whether art can be food or food art. The answer is obviously in the affirmative but I have something quite specific in mind. Food, itself. As such. The piece that was also a place which was also a community-borne restaurant called Food, that is. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: arthur ransome, beauborg, CAVAT, charlotte road, chearsley copse, colin ward, conical intersect, cuddington copse, david zwirner, dirty utopianism, dirty-utopian, folkhusset, forest food, freedom press, gordon matta-clark, guy mannes-abbott, kensal rise, lend lease, lime tree, norway maple tree, office baroque, phaidon, prince street, russian revolution, southwark council, splitting, talbot road, the elephant and castle urban forest, the peace garden, the six old men, the sweet chestnut slopes, thomas crow, thresholes, ubuweb, wooster street
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December 6, 2011
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Tags: bidoun, guy mannes-abbott, leighton house, parastou forouhar, red is my name green is my name, rose issa, the funeral, thousand and one day
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November 23, 2011
more…
Returning for a longer look at Paul Noble’s current exhibition, I realise that Nobson is more prominent in the show than I’d understood. Also, that my sense that deserts had bloomed is probably more revealing of my baseline bounce into every morning as a blind optimist than the actuality! That is; yes there are trees, plants and they emerge from the desert but that doesn’t quite conjugate the verb ‘to bloom’. Plus, my eyes lied to me in identifying clusters of rocks -which I know peculiarly well, given their relationship to images in In Ramallah, Running- as bushes, trees, verdancy! Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: britannia street, gagosian, guy mannes-abbott, in ramallah running, kachchh, kori creek, koteshwar, paul noble, port bou, walter benjamin, welcome to nobson
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November 17, 2011
Masterplan Response Pt 2 – next six steps… [Ph. G Mannes-Abbott]
NB: reposted from original ECUF site [now defunct] 17 November 2011 with permission of its author. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: CAVAT, forest bank, guy mannes-abbott, lend lease, the elephant and castle urban forest, urban forest
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November 4, 2011
Pauline Boty – butterflying?!
Reading Adam Curtis’ blog on Occupy London Stock Exchange and the broader protest, with its clips and pics of Pauline and gang dancing in the mid-Sixties, made the thought of coming across images of Charles Fourier and gang [or just Charles!] dancing at any time peculiarly enticing! Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: adam curtis, charles fourier, guy mannes-abbott, pauline boty
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