not a dancing bear

Leaping with fingers crossed in hopes for long range wi-fi in the void.

emmy catedral
notadancingbear.com/ec
Jun 02
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During our Tea-pi session, I was asked about this publication. Here’s a bit more about the “phone book” I mention. Quite happy to be included in this joint.
“Younger than Jesus: The Artists Directory” is the product of some of the most wide-ranging research in the field of contemporary art in years: the first ‘Younger than Jesus’ triennial at the New Museum. Working with a team of 200 ‘insiders’ (curators, writers, teachers, critics, bloggers and artists) scattered across the globe, curators Massimiliano Gioni , Lauren Cornell and Laura Hoptman have selected the 500 best international artists under the age of 33, from which they will curate the exhibition component of the triennial in spring 2009. While most generational exhibitions are retrospective, this one will be predictive, anticipating the future and revealing upcoming trends. “Younger than Jesus: The Artists Directory” will therefore be an unparalleled resource for curators, collectors, dealers and critics. By serving as a handbook to currrent artistic innovation, it will also appeal to artists, designers and anyone curious about the latest developments in visual culture.”
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During our Tea-pi session, I was asked about this publication. Here’s a bit more about the “phone book” I mention. Quite happy to be included in this joint.

“Younger than Jesus: The Artists Directory” is the product of some of the most wide-ranging research in the field of contemporary art in years: the first ‘Younger than Jesus’ triennial at the New Museum. Working with a team of 200 ‘insiders’ (curators, writers, teachers, critics, bloggers and artists) scattered across the globe, curators Massimiliano Gioni , Lauren Cornell and Laura Hoptman have selected the 500 best international artists under the age of 33, from which they will curate the exhibition component of the triennial in spring 2009. While most generational exhibitions are retrospective, this one will be predictive, anticipating the future and revealing upcoming trends. “Younger than Jesus: The Artists Directory” will therefore be an unparalleled resource for curators, collectors, dealers and critics. By serving as a handbook to currrent artistic innovation, it will also appeal to artists, designers and anyone curious about the latest developments in visual culture.”

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Dennis McCabe: I’ve never been to Long Island.
Bill McCabe: Yes you have.
Dennis McCabe: I have?
Bill McCabe: Yeah. You’ve been to Queens. Queens is Long Island.
Dennis McCabe: Queens is a part of New York City. I don’t think it’s really considered part of Long Island.
Bill McCabe: It’s part of New York City, but it’s on Long Island.
Dennis McCabe: Queens is a borough.
Bill McCabe: A borough, on Long Island.
Dennis McCabe: A borough of New York City.
Bill McCabe: Right.
Dennis McCabe: Long Island’s a terminal moraine.
Bill McCabe: A what?
Dennis McCabe: A terminal moraine. It’s the earth that’s deposited by a receding glacier.
Simple Men, Hal Hartley
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The worn cotton sheets of our little beds had the blurred texture of silk crepe and when we lay between them in the evening we’d rub, rhythmically, one foot against the soothing folds of fabric, waiting for sleep. That way we wore through the thinning cloth. Our feet would get tangled in the fretted gap.

We walked through the soft arcade. We became an architect.

The knitted cap on the wrinkled skull of the mewling kid is the first boundary. At the other tip the bootie dribbles. There are curious histories of shrouds. That is not all. Memory’s architecture is neither palatial nor theatrical but soft.

Of course it’s all myth. Beginning with the rooms ranked in small stone Natufian couples co-mingled in kisses, the perspex galleries of pendant Babylonian dollies, the long halls of Egyptian cats that are sirens or dynasties, we amble towards the disappearance….

— Lisa Robertson, From Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture
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Hal Hartley, after Godard.

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nouvelle vague “dance with me” footage from from bande a part

Jan 13
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I couldn’t stop listening to this when Ocky Milk was just released - and just remembered to search for it just now, “giri giri”

Jan 04
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beware, even in thought, of assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of grief is not a proscenium, a wailing man is not a dancing bear…
— Aime Cesaire (1913 – 2008)
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