Soulevements #remember Marikana #south Africa 2014

vernacular algorithms

Anni Albers, Study for Camino Real, 1967

Paris, 18 octobre 2013, 13.00, les lycéens sont dans la rue pour protester contre la stratégie du gouvernement qui consiste à spectaculariser les reconduites à la frontière des immigrés continuant ainsi fragiliser les plus vulnérables.

Deana Lawson, Jouvert, Flatbush, Brooklyn, 2015

Glenn Ligon, Give us a Poem (Palindrome #2), 2007

“Glenn Ligon made this neon piece […] in 2007, and I saw it a little while back on the wall of the Studio Museum in Harlem, where it’s part of the permanent collection. The work is built around an incident that occurred at Harvard in 1975, when Muhammad Ali had just finished a speech and a student in the audience asked him to improvise a poem: ‘Me/We’ was the pithy verse Ali offered. Even then, at the height of the Black Power movement, it was an intriguingly opaque statement that could have been read as a gesture of solidarity between the black boxer and his white audience, or as an underlining of their difference. In Ligon’s work, the two words become a visual palindrome, of sorts – symmetrical top and bottom – and alternate being lit (white) and unlit (black), which just increases the tension inherent in them. In 2014, in a museum in Harlem, it strikes me that the tension is between the artist and the audience he addresses – with the issue of race still there, but now wrapped up in larger issues of aesthetic communities and the class, and color, they imply." Blake Gopnik, The Daily Pic

Chester E. Macduffee and his newly patented, 250 kilo diving suit, 1911.

[...] car je sais que la Cheffe attachait une plus grande valeur à l’honnêteté qu’à l’amour, il lui semblait qu’on pouvait se comporter très mal au nom de l’amour mais jamais au nom de l’honnêteté.

Marie NDiaye, La Cheffe. Roman d’une cuisinière. Gallimard, 275 p.

William Shakespeare,"La Nuit des rois".

The moon belongs to the people

Exposition du travail de l'artiste américain Glenn Ligon, Call and Response cet automne au Camden Arts Centre 10 October 2014 - 11 January 2015

Le Bronx été 1984, Dick Fontaine réalise un très beau documentaire pour la BBC sur la culture hip hop qui émerge aux marges de la cité.