February | 2015 | slow shimo go

yoshitomo nara

February 28, 2015 by slow shimo

Yoshitomo Nara (b. Aomori, Japan, 1959) As one of the leading artists of Japan’s influential Neo Pop art since the 1990s, Nara is well known for his depictions of children and animals. Nara’s cute, though often menacing, children and animals are so readily associated with popular culture, particularly manga comics and animation, that viewers may neglect to contemplate his evocative imagery in depth. His popular appeal masks the serious social and personal dimensions of his work-feelings of helplessness and rage, […]

Categories: art i like, artstatic • Tags: contemporary art, yoshitomo nara

wuyong

February 26, 2015 by slow shimo

Wuyong (by ma ke) promoting the renaissance of traditional craftsmanship in China, helping the craftsmen who live in the poor areas to beat poverty and lead a happy life by their own hands and crafts, and driving more people to pay attention to and practice the simple and sustainable lifestyle of harmonious coexistence with nature ” On 22nd April 2006, designer Ma Ke established Wuyong Hand Arts Centre in Zhuhai, the coastal city of Southern China. The reason to […]

Categories: cloth threads, fashion designers • Tags: ma ke, wuyong

witness

February 26, 2015 by slow shimo

Witness (2000, susan hiller) audio-sculpture; 350 loudspeakers, 10 cd players, amplifiers, wiring, lights, etc. Witness is an audio work about seeing; In Witness relationships between the visionary and the visualised are mediated by sound. First presented May-June 2000 at The Chapel, 92, Golborne Rd, London (Artangel projects). “I am a security guard on the Central Pier in Blackpool. I want to keep my job, so I will not give out my name…” “My name is Jan Pienaar, I am 45 and I farm […]

Categories: art i like, artstatic • Tags: artangel, contemporary art, susan hiller, witness

susan hiller

February 26, 2015 by slow shimo

Susan Hiller (b. Cleveland, Ohio, 1940) Susan Hiller was born in 1940 and grew up in and around Cleveland, Ohio until 1952 when her family moved to South Florida where she attended local schools and Coral Gables High School. She was awarded a scholarship to Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and graduated in 1961. After a year in New York studying film and photography at The Cooper Union and archaeology and linguistics at Hunter College, Hiller went on to do postgraduate work at Tulane University […]

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the barbarians in love

February 25, 2015 by slow shimo

The Barbarians in Love (hofesh shechter) Sadlers Wells, 2015 Inspired by the complex beauty of baroque music, Hofesh Shechter’s The Barbarians in Love tells of a sparse world in which six dancers move with mathematical precision and passion. Led by a female voiceover and against a soundtrack of baroque string music and electronic hums, six dancers emerge on stage from the haze. The voiceover gives them numbered lessons, urging control and repression. The dancers shift from weighted contemporary moves to clean ballet positions; a […]

Categories: contact improvisation, free flow • Tags: barbarians in love, contemporary dance, hofesh shechter

redon

February 25, 2015 by slow shimo

Odilon Redon (1840 – 1916) Artist’s Secrets 1894 I have made an art according to myself. I have done it with eyes open to the marvels of the visible world and whatever anyone says, always careful to obey the laws of nature and life. I have done it also with the love for several masters who led me to the worship of beauty. Art is the Supreme Range, high, salutary and sacred; it blossoms; in the dilettante, it produces only delight, but […]

Categories: art i like, artstatic • Tags: art, odilon redon, symbolism

if black english isn’t a language, then tell me, what is?

February 24, 2015 by slow shimo

If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? (james baldwin) St. Paul de Vence, France–The argument concerning the use, or the status, or the reality, of black English is rooted in American history and has absolutely nothing to do with the question the argument supposes itself to be posing. The argument has nothing to do with language itself but with the role of language. Language, incontestably, reveals the speaker. Language, also, far more dubiously, is meant to define the […]

Categories: literat, philo & crit • Tags: james baldwin

mushrooms

February 24, 2015 by slow shimo

Mushrooms (sylvia plath) The Colossus and Other Poems Overnight, very Whitely, discreetly, Very quietly Our toes, our noses Take hold on the loam, Acquire the air. Nobody sees us, Stops us, betrays us; The small grains make room. Soft fists insist on Heaving the needles, The leafy bedding, Even the paving. Our hammers, our rams, Earless and eyeless, Perfectly voiceless, Widen the crannies, Shoulder through holes. We Diet on water, On crumbs of shadow, Bland-mannered, asking Little or nothing. So many […]

Categories: i like short stories & sometimes poetry, literat • Tags: sylvia plath

bluebird

February 24, 2015 by slow shimo

Bluebird (charles bukowksi) c. 1992, The Last Night of the Earth Poems there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not going to let anybody see you. there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he’s in there. […]

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Monthly Archives: February 2015

yoshitomo nara

wuyong

witness

susan hiller

the barbarians in love

redon

if black english isn’t a language, then tell me, what is?

mushrooms

bluebird