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The Man with a Thousand Eyes, a Thousand Ears, a Thousand Noses: The Life and Art of Michael Scott Addis

Saturday, March 23, 2013

The artist touching up his work. Photographs by Ricky Vazquez.   “O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a King of infinite space.” – Hamlet, II, 2   “… seems we all have a tendency to slip. Doesn’t it seem only the righteous can get a grip? I wonder who [...]

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“Luscious didn’t get me” – Nick Klein and the Search for Sincerity Amidst Unbearable Heartache

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Image courtesy of Nick Klein. We sat at a table outside a bar whose walls on the inside were layered with crappy, faux-punk ephemera. A tall, hatted man in grey mounted his motorcycle and kick started it, letting out a squall that turned all patrons’ swimming heads. He sat there solemnly, his eyes fixed on [...]

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DEFACTO

Monday, March 26, 2012

Courtesy Ella de Burca in collaboration with SPRINGBREAK. A response to the exhibition ‘defacto’ by Ella de Burca in collaboration with SPRINGBREAK. The exhibition took form as a daily 6 hour walk during gallery hours in February 2012. ARTLURKER asked the collaborative to respond to the exhibition. The following text, direct quotes taken from Guy Debord’s [...]

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L’ENCYCLOPEDIE DE LA PAROLE

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

l’Encyclopédie De La Performa 2011. Courtesy if the author and Art in America Magazine. On Nov 2, as part of the Performa 11 Biennal activities,’ L’Encyclopedie de la Parole’, a French performance group dedicated  to using speech as the central element in performance, produced a series of carefully chorused Speech Pieces based on familiar spoken [...]

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Can you feel it? John Burtle at the Little River Yacht Club

Saturday, May 14, 2011

“Sense, ideality, objectivity, truth, intuition, perception, expression–this common matrix is being as presence: the absolute proximity of self-identity, the being-in-front of the object available for repetition, the maintenance of the temporal present, whose ideal form is self presence of transcendental life, whose ideal identity allows idealiter of infinite repetition. The living present, a concept that [...]

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Collectors profile: The Mikesell family

Friday, March 11, 2011

Kathryn and Dan Mikesell at home in their collection. Lester Bangs, a rock critic and more, once said in an interview with Jim DeRogatis: “I double back all over myself” which means that he might at first go negative then later come to embrace that which at first he criticized.This article is not based on [...]

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