Heterogeneous Spectacles(Jamie Lyons News) ❖ Jamie Lyons

November 18, 2012 · Wanderlust

Mission San Francisco de Solano

The Sonoma Mission squats there like the last gasp of something that already knew it was dying when they built it in 1823. The final outpost, the 21st link in a chain of spectacular ambition and casual brutality stretched up the California coast. You can feel it, this desperate, magnificent hubris frozen in adobe. Stand […]

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November 14, 2012 · Industries

Donovan & Calderón 18 ½ Minutes

What gets me is how performance becomes the only honest medium for dealing with governmental dishonesty. You’re creating something live, ephemeral, something that by its very nature can’t be perfectly preserved or controlled, the exact opposite of Nixon’s paranoid recording compulsion. There’s something genuinely radical about taking the most documented presidency in history up to […]

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November 11, 2012 · Collusion

Franconia Performance Salon #5

My photographs catch people mid-transformation, Yula Paluy suspended in whatever private negotiation she’s having with gravity and self. Tiffany Trenda projecting outward while the room pulls inward. What’s gorgeous and sad is knowing these salons are a kind of endangered ecosystem, people still willing to show up, sit down, shut up, and be there for […]

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October 22, 2012 · Wanderlust

Vénérons le chien

Let us venerate the dog. The dog (what a funny creature!), has sweat on its tongue and a smile in its tail. Victor Hugo , The Man Who Laughs Victor Hugo nailed it over a century ago: the dog has its sweat on its tongue and its smile in its tail. And here’s Sharka, this […]

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October 16, 2012 · Wanderlust

The Edge of Everything Else

Wanderlust on the road outside the town of Pescadero… Pescadero’s the kind of place that doesn’t exist anymore except that it does, a cosmic joke on the rest of California racing headlong into its own irrelevance. Two lane blacktop threading through artichoke fields and fog thick enough to drown in, past barns held together by […]

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October 13, 2012 · Collusion

Franconia Performance Salon #4

These aren’t just photographs of bodies doing things in rooms, they’re evidence of something that mattered, at least for one night, in a living room that was never the same afterward. Kelly Rafferty, Michael Hunter, Derek Phillips, Niki Ulehla, Angrette McCloskey and Raegan Truax… these aren’t just names that matter to seventeen people in the […]

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October 12, 2012 · Industries

Twenty-Eight and Twenty-Six and Gone

Let My People Go isn’t some polite meditation on mortality. This is Astrid Bas standing in a room and saying: here are two women who made extraordinary things and then they were gone. One chose to go. One had that choice ripped away from her in the most obscene way human beings have ever devised. Sarah […]

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