Writing

Collecting here some short form, longer form and mixed media writing mostly from social media

label : e-flux

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there are no closed, completed forms 
possibility of change is maintained at all times

tell me about Darkness, your recent project

the protagonists are trees and tree stumps
which move diagonally against a magnificent 
tilting or shedding their bark

the central installation 
passing one loop into another

is linked with the hands via several 
algorithmically describable intermediate steps 

to form an image

from my window / from your window
the oldest and most prestigious festival of its kind

2

diving headlong into the uncanny valley of lockdown nostalgia

a woman bursts into a state of frenzied dance on the street
within the next month four hundred more follow
paroxysms that erupted without warning 
a state of participation mystique

this immersive VR film follows a young girl 
who recounts her family’s uncanny past 

a small window into their current situation
composed entirely of gestures, grunts 
gibberish, moans, and screams

a great migration, a great rejection 
the abstract techno-financial violence 
the concrete violence of the returning

3

yes, their residuals are protesting to disappear

art is even allowed back into people’s lives
in Austria, for instance, galleries reopened 
at the same time as gardening stores

Show Me A Good Time 
is a unique 12 hour 
live-streamed performance

In the Ashes of History 
consists of works in several series 
performed in different techniques

the second of the two existing versions 
of Disarm (Mechanized) II 
will enter into dialog with 
Tinguely’s Mengele-Dance of Death

the unsettling and the second iteration 
of the “Women On Aeroplanes” project in Lagos

in the background
a class war is raging as well

the third section, To Live Like a Human 
only the music is “exhibited”

4

a project about an overabundance of information
this plays into the hands of people 
that want to challenge legitimacy

experiences of diaspora 
remain unfixed
the multilayered subtle variations 
in green that emerge 

Ten Minutes Older 
remains one of the most wondrous 
ruminations on the passage of time 

what I work on when nothing is working out

Cucú and Her Fishes casts their undisciplined 
research methods into cyberspace

shimmering surfaces
ghostly screen backs 
absorbent tunnels 

some of the strategies the artist use 
to capture the futural

to instill a sense of disorientation 
hallucination and uncanniness

in partnership with Libération 
The New York Times
Le Bonbon and Trois Couleurs

5

when we recall
we do so in images

the artist compiles data 
while strolling languorously 
in an orchid greenhouse 
or being ferried in a canoe

I collect art in the same way
that I walk down the street 
and see people

this is intention infinitely approaching 
without ever touching its object-cause

“You” are strangers, women
plants and animals
machines and the earth

Agile and finally Stay Woke 

transform the street 
into an obliged museum

6

Heinkuhn Oh that he took on the film set of A Petal 

7

at its core Pictures at an Exhibition 
is an homage and a remembrance

memorialization through funerary photography

an impulse to groove and an impulse to come home

the methods can overall be divided

the exhibition’s two main themes
closeness and empathy

to write as if you were dead
the phrase ‘inner emigration’

with the kind support of the 
Bureau des arts plastiques

8

A Cloud makes itself, receives its premiere at EMMA

still, Asha manages to conceive a vision 
strong enough to take her beyond

some of the works depict silence and intimacy

numbers have taken on a different meaning

a stop to the criminalization of sea rescue

a cinematic language that appeals to audiences 
too young for the exhibition Unprecedented Times 

a prelude to its postponed edition

a durational performance 
researching the laboring gestures 
of theme park animal performers

including invocations, symposia
labour and its sonic ecologies

within the body of this exhibition 
no walls or fixtures are added

a cat with clipped whiskers called Rayyes
involved in restoring social bonds

And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?

a champion of slowness 
and concentration

force times distance
degrowth society

10

Within the scope of the exhibition 
Tell me about yesterday tomorrow 
a multi-stranded program named “Assembly” 
will take place in two parts

it has a reserved rhythm

a result of our need for reciprocal conversation

why do you think it’s important to make a film 
about banal, non-heroic, non-tragic, everyday things 
depicted in a manner devoid of dramatic images?

your presence Más allá del fin 

 
perry shimon