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May 15, 2013 · FalseArt

Forever Means Until It Doesn’t

Forever Means Until It Doesn’t

You hear something like this and you remember that all our clever bullshit about mortality is just that, bullshit. Because here’s the obscene truth: they DID have their whole lives ahead of them. They had seven months, which turned out to be the whole lives they were going to get together. That’s the con. The […]

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The dreams of youth grow dim

The dreams of youth grow dim

I’m standing on Ava’s boat with this fisheye screwed onto my camera and I know, I fucking know, this is the only lens that tells the truth about what it feels like to be alive on the water at sunrise instead of entombed in some office pretending my life means something. The fisheye doesn’t lie […]

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Against Entropy

Against Entropy

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea… Antoine de Saint Exupery There’s something almost obscene about seeing a boat out of water, like catching your grandmother naked or finding out […]

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Postcards from the Margins: A Hunters Point Billboard

Here’s this billboard in Hunters Point advertising postcards. “Pick up US Postcards. available 24/7. 101 Hall by PT. Office.” Not even proper grammar, just this broken commercial poetry. Postcards… that weird artifact of tourism and displacement, that thing you send to prove you were somewhere else, somewhere better, somewhere worth documenting. “Wish you were here”, […]

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Postcards from the Margins: A Hunters Point Billboard
Franconia Performance Salon #6

Franconia Performance Salon #6

Most of this is complete bullshit. Not because the artists are frauds, though some are, but because they’re trying. They’re performing performing. They’ve got this idea in their heads about what transgressive looks like, what experimental sounds like, what matters, and they’re executing that idea with all the spontaneity of a tax return. And then […]

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April 3, 2013 · Speculation

Life or Theatre Rehearsal

Life or Theatre Rehearsal

Looking at this rehearsal documentation, what strikes me is how Astrid understands that authenticity isn’t some precious thing you excavate from your soul like a goddamn archaeological dig. It’s messier than that. It’s the collision between what you’re trying to say and the violence of actually saying it. Her piece traffics in that space between […]

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Mission San Juan Bautista

Mission San Juan Bautista

There’s this moment when you roll up to San Juan Bautista, mission nΓΊmero fifteen in the chain, if anyone’s counting, which they shouldn’t be, and the whole place just hits differently. Not in some postcarded up, sanitized heritage way, but like walking into a room where ghosts still pay rent. The thing squats on a […]

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