The Absurdity of Celebration – A Lament on the Power of Cliche
The blank page stares at you like a painful relationship you’ve fucked up once too often, motionless, emotionless, somewhat mystifying, and as always without any actual results, confession, or reparation. In these trying, the most, trying of times, time and his endless chimes bring the worst of the worst ideas into one’s head. Cliche Part […]
“RANT BY MARIA” – OPEN YOUR AI’s – by Maria Van Der Velde
Oh hello! Welcome to the arts of today, the air’s thick with the fumes of spray paint, a farts’ worth of pretension, and now, the influence of digital nightmares. Artificial Intelligence has crashed this party, (or shall I say, ‘soundscape listening party’), stirring up all sorts of drama among the crowd who thought Rick Owens […]
“The Limits of Culture – We don’t really know where we are” – Carlos Dengler
Me and my overalls, my hushpuppies and the fringes around my ears. It is all I can bear not to laugh at myself, at the five-year-old version of me innocently looking off-camera. “A prisoner of his time,” I often think when I look at the photo of which I speak, snapped in 1979, a year […]
Noa Raviv: “Design is about providing solutions, and the move toward art allows me to create more problems.”
The argument for design providing solutions and art creating more problems is one I’ve never pondered nevermind dealt with in an interview situation. With Israeli designer-artist Noa Raviv, I was provided with such a chance to discuss, as pretentious as it may sound. Design by default seems to me to answer questions that at worst, […]