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Slow Theory: Poetics of Failure: A correspondence with Joaquin Segura
http://www.slowtheory.org/2013/03/poetics-of-failure-correspondence-with.html
Sumugan sivanesan sivanesan.net. Poetics of Failure: A correspondence with Joaquin Segura. Exercises on Selective Mutism. Handmade protest banners, wood, rope, steel wire and latex paint. SS: In a recent interview with Brett W Schultz. 2012 from the series. I think my work is, indeed, an attempt to deceive, understood as an effort to get rid of the sociopolitical framework that took us — or me at least — to this point in history. For the Grace of God. Could you describe what happened? SS: You are also on...
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Slow Theory: The House that Thatha Built
http://www.slowtheory.org/2012/06/house-that-thatha-built.html
Sumugan sivanesan sivanesan.net. The House that Thatha Built. I entered Sri Lanka for the first time over December with my mother who was last there in 1973. We hoped to visit the house my grandfather built in a village near Jaffna in the 1940s. It was one in a series of distinct houses built by ‘Malaysian Returns’ – Jaffna Tamils that had left to work in Malaysia but returned later to re-settle. Years later, during the ceasefire I developed my own interest in the island, but family friends advised again...
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Slow Theory: November 2013
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Sumugan sivanesan sivanesan.net. Film By Other Means: Monument Group at no.w.here, ‘Forcible Frames’. I wanted to reflect briefly on last Tuesday’s workshop with the Monument Group: Four Faces of Omarska. In their introduction, Jelena Petrović and Milica Tomić described the Monument Group/Grupa Spomenik. A metal deposit in a region of former the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina that emerged after the war as part of the (ethnically cleansed) Republika Srpska. We were given a hasty overview of ...
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Slow Theory: A collective inquiry into our present through various proposals
http://www.slowtheory.org/2012/09/a-collective-inquiry-into-our-present.html
Sumugan sivanesan sivanesan.net. A collective inquiry into our present through various proposals. DOCUMENTA (13), 9 June – 16 September 2012, Kassel, Germany. 8220;You are worse than capitalism! 8221; was an insult leveled at me during a recent visit to Kassel. Indeed, the overarching effects of global capitalism have occupied the minds of numerous critical thinkers over recent years, as reflected in the welcome statement of dOCUMENTA (13) curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev:. What does it look like, soun...
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Slow Theory: Aztec (No) Futurism
http://www.slowtheory.org/2012/06/aztec-no-futurism.html
Sumugan sivanesan sivanesan.net. Jorge Arreola and Jorge Juan Moyano, Emptying a FOLDING TIMELINE
. Espacio Cultural Edificio S, Sotano, La Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, 8 Marzo – 6 Abril, 2012. Billboards and hoardings stand large and empty over Ciduad Juarez – advertising nothing – a testament to NAFTA’s empty promise of prosperity. Times change. Bodies once caught within the gears of industry (and once sacrificed to cosmic machinery) are superseded by more flexible forms of info-tec...
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Slow Theory: Film By Other Means: Monument Group at no.w.here, ‘Forcible Frames’
http://www.slowtheory.org/2013/11/film-by-other-means-monument-group-at.html
Sumugan sivanesan sivanesan.net. Film By Other Means: Monument Group at no.w.here, ‘Forcible Frames’. I wanted to reflect briefly on last Tuesday’s workshop with the Monument Group: Four Faces of Omarska. In their introduction, Jelena Petrović and Milica Tomić described the Monument Group/Grupa Spomenik. A metal deposit in a region of former the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina that emerged after the war as part of the (ethnically cleansed) Republika Srpska. We were given a hasty overview of ...
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Slow Theory: March 2013
http://www.slowtheory.org/2013_03_01_archive.html
Sumugan sivanesan sivanesan.net. Poetics of Failure: A correspondence with Joaquin Segura. Exercises on Selective Mutism. Handmade protest banners, wood, rope, steel wire and latex paint. SS: In a recent interview with Brett W Schultz. 2012 from the series. I think my work is, indeed, an attempt to deceive, understood as an effort to get rid of the sociopolitical framework that took us — or me at least — to this point in history. For the Grace of God. Could you describe what happened? SS: You are also on...
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Slow Theory: September 2012
http://www.slowtheory.org/2012_09_01_archive.html
Sumugan sivanesan sivanesan.net. A collective inquiry into our present through various proposals. DOCUMENTA (13), 9 June – 16 September 2012, Kassel, Germany. 8220;You are worse than capitalism! 8221; was an insult leveled at me during a recent visit to Kassel. Indeed, the overarching effects of global capitalism have occupied the minds of numerous critical thinkers over recent years, as reflected in the welcome statement of dOCUMENTA (13) curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev:. What does it look like, soun...
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Slow Theory: The Work of Art in the Age of Neoliberal Acculturation: Reflections on a correspondence with Karmelo Bermejo.
http://www.slowtheory.org/2013/02/the-work-of-art-in-age-of-neoliberal.html
Sumugan sivanesan sivanesan.net. The Work of Art in the Age of Neoliberal Acculturation: Reflections on a correspondence with Karmelo Bermejo. Contribution of Fuel to the Costa Da Morte. Ten kilos of fuel-oil poured into the sea at the Costa Da Morte. 8216;Take it.’. 8212; With your series Contribution of Labour Free of Charge to…. 2005—2007 you subvert assumptions about work, value and exchange by voluntarily cleaning the windows, displays and tables of multinational corporations. How did thes...8212; W...
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Slow Theory: February 2013
http://www.slowtheory.org/2013_02_01_archive.html
Sumugan sivanesan sivanesan.net. The Work of Art in the Age of Neoliberal Acculturation: Reflections on a correspondence with Karmelo Bermejo. Contribution of Fuel to the Costa Da Morte. Ten kilos of fuel-oil poured into the sea at the Costa Da Morte. 8216;Take it.’. 8212; With your series Contribution of Labour Free of Charge to…. 2005—2007 you subvert assumptions about work, value and exchange by voluntarily cleaning the windows, displays and tables of multinational corporations. How did thes...8212; W...
