From the slaves comes the freest of all music, jazz, which flies without asking permission. Eduardo Galeano, Century of the Wind The sussuration of beat “As beats ensnare you in the parallel complexity of the amplified jungle, your skin starts […]
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James Oscar
A conversation with sound artist, choreographer and performer Jassem Hindi.
Love by Gaspar Noé “Can you show me how tender you can be?” Electra in Love Reading philosopher George Bataille’s Eroticism can practically be an erotic experience as he outlines the discontinuity humans have come to experience and our search […]
“I view art as a system of action, intended to change the world rather than encode symbolic propositions about it.” Alfred Gell, Art and Agency In a 2014 lecture titled “Contemporary art: considered philosophically and poetologically” the eminent French philosopher […]
“REMAPPING HISTORIES & EXPANDING TERRITORIES” March 7 2015- THE ARMORY ART SHOW CONFERENCE ON THE MIDDLE EAST, NORTH AFRICA, AND THE MEDITERRANEAN (MENAM)- NY March7-8, 2015, NY Is there only one story of modern art? Is it not […]
JO: We have invited Professor Cornett here today to discuss issues surrounding a film called L’Heureux Naufrage/Fortunate Shipwreck: The Ambient Emptiness of Postmodern Society made by Guillaume Tremblay. Professor Cornett held a dialogic session on Sep. 22, 2014 in Montreal […]
There have been several exemplary articles over the last couple of months challenging and exposing a euro and ethno-centric point of view of looking at Cultural Transitions. There was the explosive “Can Non-European’s Think” (Al Jazeera, Jan 15) by Hamid […]