Thursday, June 21, 2012

The Blood Records, book 1

The Blood Records, written and annotated by Steel and Tomczak: Critical Symptoms, Oakville Galleries, 1998.
This is a set of two small books or exhibition catalogs,

"Eyeing the Sublime: Poetic Politics in the Worked of Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak" by Su DItta. 

Page 12 "... their decision to form a partnership reflects more than a romantic experiment in shaping artistic practice. Their collaboration is lived evidence of the ideological framework that underpins their understanding of the role of the artist in society."

Page 16: importance of aesthetics for social activism and subversion.

Page 17, the sensuous potential of the beautiful ... has an inherently subversive possibility, one which can engage audiences and challenge viewers to change, rather than assimilate, the world in which they live.

"Mourning Pictures" by Mike Hoolboom

Page 35, "The educational films which comprise this first act have been deftly assembled to rehabilitate the mythologies that underlie the unintended camp kitsch of their original material"

"The Blood Records: Idle Identity" by Johanne Lamoureux
 Page 37, "the historical remove" ?
Page 39, sites Susan Sontag on "illness as metaphor".
 

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