Sutapa Biswas

Sutapa Biswas was the last of the artists giving a talk about their work before the Easter break, though it was already a few weeks ago. 


First off she got my admiration for clear speaking, how few realise they can't be heard when they are facing the screen and not the auditorium. Rattled that the next lecturer was psycho about being delayed. we got qa whistle stop tour of her background - I won't forget the image of the Punjab agriculturally poisoned after partition. It became a bit unclear after that (I don't have my notes on me) though an audio piece in the Pitt Rivers museum stood out, and a video with her son and a horse.

I could have listened to her all day.


This was supposed to be an attempt at some writing, but I have to go and walk the dogs. Ho hum.

Betty Grable - Springtime in the Rockies 1942

history of ideas

semantics v semiotics

oops

• Semantics: Relation between signs and the things to which they refer; their denotata, or meaning
• Syntactics: Relations among signs in formal structures
• Pragmatics: Relation between signs and the effects they have on the people who use them

you are here

I am not here

conceit Central

Central conceit

 

 

Suspension of disbelief

 

 

Impression management

robert ryman

robert ryman

"Ryman is often classified as a minimalist, but he prefers to be known as a "realist" because he is not interested in creating illusions, but only in presenting the materials he has used in compositions at their face value"

john mccracken

john mc cracken

potentiality v actuality . . . . .

ac·tu·al·i·ty/ˌakCHo͞oˈalitē/

Noun:

Actual existence, typically as contrasted with what was intended, expected, or believed. Existing conditions or facts.

potentiality [pəˌtɛnʃɪˈælɪtɪ]

n pl -ties

1. latent or inherent capacity or ability for growth, fulfilment, etc.

2. a person or thing that possesses such a capacity

whose's that dress . . . .

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SOLIPSIST - Making Of from Andrew Huang on Vimeo.

How to Draw with Steven Appleby

"It is, I own, not uncommon to be wrong in theory and right in practice; and we are happy that it is so.

Men often act from their feelings, who afterwards reason but ill on them from principle; but it is impossible to avoid an attempt at such reasoning, and equally impossible to prevent its having some influence on our practice, surely it is worth taking some pains to have it just, and founded on the basis of sure experience.

Edmund Burke. A Philosophical Enquiry.

while I'm still warm . . . .

regretsy