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He rented a dwelling that was once a storehouse for the palace candles from a eunuch who had once served the Empress Dowager Cixi.

Chinese Household Furniture

yet another vessel for Shklovsky to rehash his pet theories and ideas, among them, ostranenie, or to “make strange.” This was the term Shklovsky coined to describe the formal decisions an artist makes to shake people from the stupor of received meaning so that they might emerge trembling and radiant from the encounter, and find themselves capable of insurrection. This was the transfiguring purpose of art.

Dickens passage on Deleuze’s immanence

“… waste was seen as a sign of inefficiency. Ideally, all inputs should be turned into outputs, data and knowledge into published work, all without a shred of waste!
What the bean counters hadn’t understood, the anthropologist went on, is how inefficiency is the very essence of creative practice.”

i’d be curious to see through a lens of an environmentalist

deleuze’s deserted islands

donald lipski

She was swimming in material—text, images, video, interviews, notes, so many notes—but the form of the thing, how the project would come together, how it would take, eluded her. At one point she considered throwing everything against the wall, or rather, into some kind of mixed media installation. But who would give her the space to stage it?

gordon matta clark

“A Thomasson, Nobu explained, is a street artifact that has become useless and derelict because it no longer serves its original function. An outline of a window filled with concrete is a Thomasson.”