Category: Art
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structure & narrative
Turns out that sometimes the old, non-metaphorical form of cut’n’paste is the only way to zoom out from the details of a complex story and see how you might fit it all together and make it work. I like to think I’m leaving this for myself as a sort of warning regarding excessive creative ambition,…
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the exit that is creation, the power of falsity that is truth
Apparently it was Gilles Deleuze’s birthday yesterday, so big thanks for BIG OTHER coughing up a selection of quotes by the man himself, among which this one was the one that I really needed to read today: Creation takes place in bottlenecks…A creator who isn’t grabbed around the throat by a set of impossibilities is…
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collage dropout
I done an art. Actually, I done two arts. L____ and I, at the invitation of good friend Eileen Laurie, went to the open workshop thing at Malmö Konsthall yesterday; no agenda, just hang out and make things. I’ve been planning to get busy with a collaging practice for ages—and by “planning” I obviously mean…
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don’t tell me what to do, show me
Adam Roberts responds here to a tweet by Tade Thompson which (to be very reductive) argues for a full reversal of the old “show, don’t tell” edict, beating up on which seems to have become something of a shibboleth of the online writing community in recent times. In his sometimes Bartleby-ish way, Roberts rejects this…