W E E K L Y M U S I N G SMalmö/Sweden, Week 8, 2012
[Bridges] Part V
This week I keep on thinking of the photograph ‘Untitled, 1972’ by Larry Clark, on it he is injecting heroine in his girlfriends arm. And at the same time I have a 80’s song from Human League in my head, and during transcendental meditation I keep pondering about this songs lyrics ‘I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, that much is true ….’
‘Untitled, 1972’ touches me so deeply. Why? There is an incredible intimacy in the picture to me. But it is not, you know someone else took that picture, so they where not alone. Similar to the ‘people’ photographs which Nan Goldin shoots. They have this intense vulnerability in them, I find it immensely moving. And they way they have been shot, it feels as if you as a viewer are there. Which can not be, but it is. The picture is there, as if the photographer was not there. Isn’t it Larry Clark himself in ‘Untitled, 1972’? I think it is him ‘in’ the picture. Back to the song, the different voices, the different viewpoints coming into one are interesting. In my [Bridges] photographs I want to think about the person who shoots me standing on or in front of a bridge. He/she is not visible, but he/she shoots the picture. He/she is immense important, he/she is not in the picture. He/she is the only witness, because there is the picture, the evidence of the action, or performance, or happening. I think I remember that that is the first and only time he went into jail because he injected the heroin into someone else body and this was the evidence of it.
It is still tangled, I take my decision firstly intuitive, and now I need more time to think about this presence vs absence or all together, and integration, assimilation. But also evidence of the tourist vs. passerby’s. Author, producer, participant, viewer.
- Read:
- Andrea Fraser, How to Provide an Artistic Service: An Introduction, 1994, read online»
- Andrea Fraser, L’1%, c’est moi, 2011, read online»
- John Miller, The Pedagogical Model: To Make Shame More Shameful Still by Making it Public, read online»
- João Fernandes: Born to be famous: the situation of the young artists, between Pop success and lost hopes…
- Diedrich Diederichsen: The Boundaries of Art Criticism: Academism, Visualism, and Fun, 2002
- Walter Benjamin, The Storyteller, reflections on the works of Nikolaj Leskov, 1936
- Meetings:
- Jürgen Bock, On Art, Around Art and Beyond Art
- Gertrud Sandqvist & Maj Hasager
- Expo-visits:
- Cuypershuis, Roermond/Netherlands, see pics»
- Film/Video:
- Martha Nussbaum, Legally Speaking, 2011, watch online»
- Santiago Sierra, TateShots Issue 13 - Santiago Sierra, watch online»
- Ben Lewis, Santiago Sierra - Ein Portrait 1/2, arte 2006, watch online»
- Ben Lewis, Santiago Sierra - Ein Portrait 2/2, arte 2006, watch online»
- Jan Schmidt-Garre, Andreas Gursky: Long shot close up, 2011
- Yôjirô Takita, Okuribito (Departures), 2008
- Harun Farocki, Das Silber und das Kreuz, 2010
- Harun Farocki, Interface, 2005, watch part online»
- Harun Farocki, Stilleben, 1997
- Harun Farocki, Between two Wars, 1978
- Renzo Martens, Episode III - Enjoy Poverty, 2008
- Renée Green, Something More Powerful than Skepticism: Avery F. Gordon, 2005
- Renée Green, Post studio studio: Christopher William, 2005
- Jörg Kobel, Kippenberger - Der Film, 2005
- Jimmie Durham, Lecture: Cowboys and the São Paulo Biennial, 2005
- Swedish: Language course-A2: Teacher Anders Jonsson, week 3, lesson 5 and 6
- [Self-portrait] Individuals talk, gathered feedback:
- Jürgen Bock: ‘You asked an interesting question, I have never thought of that before.’ And: ‘Your work is poetic, don’t let it become too conceptual.’
Kim Engelen, [Bridges] De Hogesluis (Bridge No. 246) No. 9, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2012
