** “I love everything that flows, said the great blind Milton of our times. I was thinking of him this morning when I awoke with a great bloody shout of joy: I was thinking of his rivers and trees and all that world of night which he is exploring. Yes, I said to myself, I [...]
Imágenes de Fershow Escarcega, fotógrafo mexicano. De su serie “La Otra Familia”, varios ‘auto-retratos’ de Fershow con sus juguetes de infancia. * Fershow tomó el taller de Tóxico_Lab “A tremor in the Structure”con Laurel Ptak; Tóxico Lab es una nueva serie de talleres creados para (y por) artistas emergentes.
* “Only at times, the curtain of the pupils lifts, quietly–. An image enters in, rushes down through the tensed, arrested muscles, plunges into the heart and is gone.” -Rainer Maria Rilke- *
TED has already started posting some of the great talks we saw a week ago at Oxford. Above are two interesting videos that gave me good food for thought regarding how fiction intertwines with politics on this side of reality, in different ways. Click click click to see, and visit TED to see more. *** (Elif [...]
Saw Joshua Ray a couple of weeks ago in NYC. Besides talking our heads off as always (and getting the grand tour of Red Hook), I was also excited to see his new work: which looks amazing in the flesh. Above only a very tiny taste. (And gracias gracias da Josh for the multiple presents–will [...]
Grandes noticias: Martha–la ópera prima del maravilloso Marcelino Islas Hernández–se va al Festival de Venecia, competencia oficial, dentro de la semana internacional de la crítica. Felicidades a todo el equipo! Estamos celebrando por acá. Y pronto tequilas en vivo. — (Marcelino además es el productor del primer proyecto de Tóxico Cinema: un largometraje documental que [...]
Oxford, England. Ah, sí. TED once again: my second conference as part of my TED Senior Fellowship. And our very own Tom Rielly (alias “Fearless Leader”) in the picture above, on stage, after the fantastic presentations of the new TED Fellows–a great bunch of people from a myriad of disciplines and countries. Mmm. I find [...]
* “They [ordinary affects] work not through “meanings” per se, but rather in the way that they pick up density and texture as they move through bodies, dreams, dramas, and social worldings of all kinds. Their significance lies in the intensities they build and in what thoughts and feelings they make possible. The question they [...]
Images by Eunice Adorno, from the series “Fraum Blaum”. Fraum Blaum (Flower Women) is an ongoing project by Eunice, a young Mexican photographer that was part of our last Tóxico workshop “A Tremor In the Structure“–the first of the Tóxico_Lab serie: dialogue platforms specially destined for (and given by) talented emerging artists. Eunice’s on-going project [...]
