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on a frieze review of ‘the country of the blind…’ with CAMP at folkestone triennial 2011

December 28, 2011

Issue 143 November-December 2011

2011 Folkestone Triennial

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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. (more…)

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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on odes to mud, utopian dust and insurrectionary trees

September 6, 2011

Francis Ponge [still from French documentary]

Primarily, this is a brief advertisement for CB Editions‘s irresistible bi-lingual edition of the great Francis Ponge; Unfinished Ode to Mud, translated by Beverley Bie Brahic in 2008. It’s a selection from what she has translated as The Defence of Things and Pieces, some of the latter being their first appearances in English…

So, firstly, please get hold of a copy of the book from the publishing miracle that is CB Editions whom, it’s worth knowing, work on very short print runs. I have no links etc., but urge you to take up their current offer here, while getting hold of this beautiful selection and give copies to people that you wish loved you…

‘Unfinished Ode to Mud’ itself, is also an ode to the Resistance (more…)

Tags:a utopia of fine dust, aa files 42, beth archer, beverley bie brahic, cb editions, charles fourier, dirty utopianism, e.things, english civil war, forting, francis ponge, guy mannes-abbott, italo calvino, pieces, seashores, the country of the blind and other stories, the defence of things, the elephant and castle urban forest, the literature machine, the voice of things, unfinished ode to mud
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on the country of the blind in full detail & downloadability

July 13, 2011

The Country of the Blind and Other Stories Installation shots CAMP with GM-A Folkestone Triennial [ongoing]

CAMPuter.org now has a good page on the film here with cat. text, shot-lists, stills, credits… There’s also a link here to pad.ma where the film is archived…

But I strongly recommend heading down to Folkestone, not only to see the film in situ where it’s installed beautifully and offers optimised-viewing, but also to see all the other art on show throughout a fascinating town. The harbour tastes irresistible and in the pubs on the water front a version of the film is always looping…

Folkestone Triennial’s page is here and they have weekend tours conducted by some high calibre guides not least this weekend with Achim Borchardt Hume here. It takes 53 minutes to get there…

Thanks everyone for the positive feedback.

Tags:achim borchardt hume, ashok sukumanar, CAMP, camputer.org, folkestone triennial, francis ponge, guy mannes-abbott, iyesha geeth abbas, nci folkestone, pad.ma, shaina anand, the country of the blind
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sharjah biennial 10, petition update

April 21, 2011

I’m ‘hosting’ this update because I want to support all those who made Sharjah Biennial 10 such a particularly special, even unique event across a wide range of activities and forms.

I’m framing it because these are not my own words, however close I might feel to their plea. I understand and sympathise with the dismay and indignation as well as the urgent hopes expressed that some transparency about what happened, an articulation or plausible narrative will emerge soon. Often The How is as important as The What -something which an unrelated campaign I’m involved in at home in London reiterates strongly.

Credibility is everything; very hard to achieve, impossible to fake, priceless to possess, lost very quickly -and then really hard to recover if at all…

PR, on the other hand…

[continued below...]

[ENGLISH] Dear friends and colleagues,

Following the abrupt dismissal of Sharjah Art Foundation’s Director, Mr. Jack Persekian (more…)

Tags:'ear to the other', ahdaf soueif, francis ponge, guy mannes-abbott, jack persekian, jacques derrida, mezzaterra, sharjah art foundation, sharjah biennial 10, لائحة الاعتراض
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Posts Tagged ‘francis ponge’

on a frieze review of ‘the country of the blind…’ with CAMP at folkestone triennial 2011

Issue 143 November-December 2011

2011 Folkestone Triennial

on odes to mud, utopian dust and insurrectionary trees

on the country of the blind in full detail & downloadability

sharjah biennial 10, petition update

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