art and fashion sitting in a tree...

pics: contemporary art daily

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Maison Martin Margiela By Joseph Kosuth Studio

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thinking about thinking

andrew w.k.: a 4 hr. spontaneous lecture at NYU

"Thus, because our senses sometimes deceive us, I decided to suppose that nothing was really as they led us to believe it was. And, because some of us make mistakes in reasoning, omitting logical errors in even the simplest matters of geometry, I rejected as erroneous all reasoning that I had previously taken as proofs. And finally, when I considered that the very same things we perceive when we are awake may also occur to us while we are asleep and not perceiving anything at all, I resolved to pretend that anything that had ever entered my mind was no more than a dream. But immediately I noticed that while I was thinking in this way, and regarding everything as false, it was nonetheless absolutely necessary that I, who as doing this thinking, was still something. And observing that this truth, 'I think, therefore I am,' was so sure and certain that no ground for doubt be it ever so extravagantly skeptical, was capable of shaking it, I therefore decided that I could accept it without scruple as the first principle of the philosophy I was seeking to create." — Discourse of Method, Part IV, Descartes

who are our contemporary philosophers?

TRYHARDER book club and Mark Geffriaud

1. The Artist's Joke
2. Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser
3. Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
4. Modern French Philosophy
5. Descartes in 90 Minutes
6. (online)

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Mark Geffriaud @ gb agency (current show above)
"Mark Geffriaud chose the title of the Kafka short story If one were only an Indian to name his first solo exhibition at gb agency as much to highlight the workings of a hypothesis whose main issue is to undo its premises as to initiate a certain number of questions associated with the perception and portrayal of space, the multiplicity of points of view, and movement..."


previous show:
"Les Renseignements généraux (named after the French secret service, literally meaning 'global information') is a book never intended to be either finished or published and which can take many forms. Its existence is only revealed through a series of photos which give a glimpse of its content : combinations of illustrations meant to back up an absent text..."

lectures are fun: ALOUD series

Lawrence Weschler (right) - Between Fountainheads - In conversation with John Walsh (left), Getty Museum Director Emeritus
"New Yorker veteran Weschler discusses what it has been like, the past several decades, to be serving as Boswell to two seemingly opposite giants of the contemporary art scene, Robert Irwin and David Hockney."

summary:
Irwin and Hockney both believe that they are "taking cubism to heart" and are in "intellectual conflict" with one another.
The reduction of art becomes life and human perception.

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