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View Larger from Ariane Dreyfu’s poem “Paradise” dedicated to dancer-choreographer Dominique Hervieu:
Dominique Hervieu starts dancing again to explain years of work. We are suddenly silent. No church, no church will ever do it
That dizziness filled with hope
Then she sits back down
Time for redness under the eye.
(translated from the French by Elias Simpson and Corinne Noirot)
Read the entire poem here.
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View Larger Michael Jang, “The Jangs”It’s funny that Michael Jang came to the Bay Area 40 years ago, under the influence of Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand, but created a great body of work around a Chinese-American family in a suburban house; along the lines of what Larry Sultan developed around his retired parents a few decades later.
Jang’s Aunt Lucy is a classic subject in photography, a character in a good novel who makes spending time with the book worthwhile. Any photograph she appears in complicates the composition with familial interactions: what’s she doing, what’s her expression, how does that affect her husband and children around her. In part this is due to Jang’s careful editing; Aunt Lucy doesn’t appear in that many of these photos, but she seems to preside over all of them.
That translates to: Remember (think or) me. Teach me. Give me what is mine. (via NO REST FOR THE AWAKE - MINAGAHET CHAMORRO: Hurao Summer Camp)
View Larger Artworks at Ronald Ventura’s “Watching the Watchmen”, 2012, Vargas Museum, Philippines. Image by Art Radar. (via Filipino artist Ronald Ventura’s “Watchmen”: Local deity transformed – exhibition profile | Art Radar Asia)
View Larger Ronald Ventura, 2012, fiberglass, resin, metal, polyurethane paint and charcoal, 92 x 84 x 275 cm. Image by Art Radar. (via Filipino artist Ronald Ventura’s “Watchmen”: Local deity transformed – exhibition profile | Art Radar Asia)
View Larger Exhibition view, “Watching the Watchmen” by Ronald Ventura, Vargas Museum, 13 November to 14 December 2012. Image by Art Radar. (via Filipino artist Ronald Ventura’s “Watchmen”: Local deity transformed – exhibition profile | Art Radar Asia)
—our annual reports are presumably tied to some kind of merit pay system that has not been operational since I was hired, but is a fiction under which we traffic; colleagues who have been so beaten down by the system and have so bought into it that they do not know how to engage as scholars and are fiercely defensive.
