Category Archives: Essay
Reading as community: Dora García and The Joycean Society
“In any other time of the past, Joyce’s work would never have reached the printer, but in our blessed 20th Century it is a message, though not yet understood”, said the mystic psychiatrist Carl Jung in the mid 1930s, after
Reading as community: Dora García and The Joycean Society
“In any other time of the past, Joyce’s work would never have reached the printer, but in our blessed 20th Century it is a message, though not yet understood”, said the mystic psychiatrist Carl Jung in the mid 1930s, after
Jodorowsky’s Santa Sangre: Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way
For the writer of these lines there is hardly anything more nightmare-inducing than a circus. With horrific clowns, knife-throwers, dwarves dressed in humiliating costumes and sad-eyed caged animals, the circus somehow manages to encapsulate and represent everything that is wrong
Jodorowsky’s Santa Sangre: Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way
For the writer of these lines there is hardly anything more nightmare-inducing than a circus. With horrific clowns, knife-throwers, dwarves dressed in humiliating costumes and sad-eyed caged animals, the circus somehow manages to encapsulate and represent everything that is wrong
Frieze Art Fair: fascination, opposition and the spectre of institutional critique
Like every year in London around mid October, Frieze Art Fair kicks in and all hell breaks loose. The number of reviews and commentaries across the international art press keeps growing with every edition, along with the urgency to cover
Frieze Art Fair: fascination, opposition and the spectre of institutional critique
Like every year in London around mid October, Frieze Art Fair kicks in and all hell breaks loose. The number of reviews and commentaries across the international art press keeps growing with every edition, along with the urgency to cover
On Thomson & Craighead’s October
‘We are treating the Occupy movement as a landscape, and October as a representation of it, particularly of its global nature’, Thomson & Craighead tell me about their commission for the 2012 Brighton Photo Biennial. Since they are working in
On Thomson & Craighead’s October
‘We are treating the Occupy movement as a landscape, and October as a representation of it, particularly of its global nature’, Thomson & Craighead tell me about their commission for the 2012 Brighton Photo Biennial. Since they are working in
Karlos Gil: The object editor & the semionaut
Quotation might very well have become one of the prevalent strategies for many contemporary artists since the dawn of Postmodern times. This is not the place to elaborate yet another list of usual suspects and I certainly wouldn´t want to
Karlos Gil: The object editor & the semionaut
Quotation might very well have become one of the prevalent strategies for many contemporary artists since the dawn of Postmodern times. This is not the place to elaborate yet another list of usual suspects and I certainly wouldn´t want to
Lines of flight: urban resistance, dreamscapes and social play
Some theoretical notes concerning the exhibition Desire Lines Wayfarer, your footprints are the way, and nothing else; wayfarer, there is no path, you make the path by walking.1 Antonio Machado, Campos de Castilla, 1912 Exactly one hundred years ago,
Lines of flight: urban resistance, dreamscapes and social play
Some theoretical notes concerning the exhibition Desire Lines Wayfarer, your footprints are the way, and nothing else; wayfarer, there is no path, you make the path by walking.1 Antonio Machado, Campos de Castilla, 1912 Exactly one hundred years ago,
‘The Freedom of Speech Itself’, or the betrayal of the voice
(This text was originally published at The White Review in June 2012) The instability of an accent, its borrowed and hybridised phonetic form, is testimony not to someone’s origins but only to an unstable and migratory lifestyle, which is of
‘The Freedom of Speech Itself’, or the betrayal of the voice
(This text was originally published at The White Review in June 2012) The instability of an accent, its borrowed and hybridised phonetic form, is testimony not to someone’s origins but only to an unstable and migratory lifestyle, which is of
Notes on the work of David Ferrando Giraut
‘Tell me: how long could you spend looking at this sticker? And at this other one? Do you remember? And this little detail over here? Years…centuries! A whole morning…! It’s impossible to know… You were in full flight, ecstasy. Suspended in a pause.
Notes on the work of David Ferrando Giraut
‘Tell me: how long could you spend looking at this sticker? And at this other one? Do you remember? And this little detail over here? Years…centuries! A whole morning…! It’s impossible to know… You were in full flight, ecstasy. Suspended in a pause.
History, solitude and hermeneutics in contemporary art criticism
This essay was originally published on the online art magazine A*DESK in January 2012 Art criticism is in crisis. The proposition is already a clamour in the world of art, above all at an editorial and academic level, which are, as
History, solitude and hermeneutics in contemporary art criticism
This essay was originally published on the online art magazine A*DESK in January 2012 Art criticism is in crisis. The proposition is already a clamour in the world of art, above all at an editorial and academic level, which are, as
Time Capsules: The Poetic and Politics of Memory in Art
This is the essay I wrote for my first curated exhibition ‘Time Capsules’ (November 2010, London). All the images are part of the exhibition catalogue, designed by David G. Uzquiza, a.k.a Maison Texas “One of the schools of Tlön goes
Time Capsules: The Poetic and Politics of Memory in Art
This is the essay I wrote for my first curated exhibition ‘Time Capsules’ (November 2010, London). All the images are part of the exhibition catalogue, designed by David G. Uzquiza, a.k.a Maison Texas “One of the schools of Tlön goes
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