We’ve lost Alvin Lucier. (born May 14, 1931 – December 1, 2021)
I am sitting in a room…
Category: art
Too often, pleasure is programmed out of politics. Strong ideology finds the aesthetic and the pleasurable to be extraneous to the struggle. Optimization optimizes for optimal optics.
Rebecca Solnit on her book “Orwell’s Roses.”
“I also wanted to see if I could write a book that was about climate change and totalitarianism and fascism, and a guy dying of tuberculosis, and make it a deeply pleasurable aesthetic experience. You know, Georgia O’Keeffe said that she painted her flowers big so people would look at them. There’s a way that people think of politics as always eating your spinach, when often it’s eating cream puffs and champagne.”
Helen Rosner talks with Rebecca Solnit
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The song about humans and non-humans on the earth is of an undetermined length. Undetermined, but finite.
It doesn’t go on forever, but the last note isn’t a set number of beats away.
Right now we’re playing so far ahead of the beat that the song is starting to lose its shape.
Temporality
Tempo-
Rality
Tempo
Reality
Tempo changes everything
At the exhibition of paintings by Pierre Bonnard, called “Painting Arcadia,” there were about five rooms filled with work by the artist. Early in Bonnard’s career he belonged to a gang known as “Les Nabis.”
In the first room, there’s a painting called “Twilight, or The Game of Croquet.” This was one of my favorites. I only want to draw your attention to one thing. Look at the pattern on the clothing against the organic patterns of the garden. There’s no solid, dark line separating one pattern from the other. The patterns are distinct, but flow into each other. That’s a beautiful way to look at objects. And you may think this is a step too far, but it’s an ecological way of looking.
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