Atta Kim

-From the Museum Project

Click HERE for more images from Atta Kim. His On Air series is also quite interesting as we think about temporality. 

RFK in KY

An Art + History reading group I'm involved over in Public Humanities is bringing in the artist John Malpede in a few weeks to speak to the class. One of his latest works is "RFK in KY", a reenactment of Bobby Kennedy's anti-poverty trip through Kentucky in 1968.
I think that this visit could be of real interest to the class, so please take a look at the project website, and I should have more info about when he'll be here soon (probably a Friday at 12:15, possibly March 6, 13, or 20).

"Brunettes" "&" "Colonization"

In the last moments of class I blurted out a reference to a misremembered performance.

Hang that in your permanent collection, Ms. Calle.

Here is a link to an archived electronic imprint of Janet Cardiff's Her Long Black Hair.

Unmarked

This article is a must-read on cinema and archive and decay:

Ruin, Archive and the Time of the Cinema.

Watch Sophie Calle.

Look at some Woodman photos.

DERRIDA:

Derrida on Freud's ghost and Kafka's ghost from the film Ghostdance.

Derrida archive

The Derrida archive lawsuit, Irvine

This appears to be the entire 2003 documentary Derrida

Strangers (1999-2001) by Shizuka Yokomizo

"Dear Stranger, I am an artist working on a photographic project which involves people I do not know…I would like to take a photograph of you standing in your front room from the street in the evening. A camera will be set outside the window on the street. If you do not mind being photographed, please stand in the room and look into the camera through the window for 10 minutes on __-__-__ (date and time)…I will take your picture and then leave…we will remain strangers to each other…If you do not want to get involved, please simply draw your curtains to show your refusal…I really hope to see you from the window. "

Boris Mikhailov

In more than four hundred photographs taken between 1997 and 1999 Boris Mikhailov paid homeless people in the Ukraine to reveal their bodies to his lens. He says of the series, titled Case History, "We as spectators are the ones who are humiliated and degraded by the confrontation, exposed to a truth we cannot walk away from and cannot bear to share...I wanted to copy or perform the same relations which exist in society between a model and myself."