“Aesthetically Correct”
- The rest of what’s been told
Then the ambulance zoomed by and the six of us were still waiting for the bus which was six minutes late. The number of us later rose to ten, or twelve. Nobody knew what exactly was happening and at least 6 of us didn’t really care as long as the bus will take us away. The rest of us remembered what we saw but would rather it happened the other way around, that it was’t us as witnesses but the other half. And maybe if the bus wasn’t six minutes late then by now we would have already been where we should be, which was only six minutes away. Then the bus came with lights all off and it was scary. But we got on it no matter. About a third of us felt doomed. Two of us were six yrs old and too excitable. The rest of us could only think of something else, like what kind of place this really is.
- Oh boy.
Meghan O’Rourke from slate:
“gymnastics can truly bring out the facisitic perfectionists of people.”
- Just when you think buffalo can’t get any weirder
My words are not enough to entertain…….and my love for you is insane!!!
- Dead Hang
We don’t how long ago our story had been hung dead on a fence of a parking lot in a forgotten neighborhood, but that was what happened. Once it happened there didn’t seem to be any other option than, say, waiting for a blow of wind to come, which may or may never come. Meanwhile it is stuck. Even though everybody has noticed nobody has done anything. Maybe it will just die there. Some think. The story thinks so too. Yet something has to happen. The writer will come up with something to happen, yet the story is tired of waiting.Truth is. The story might as well die, only that the writer is still alive. So there will be no way for the story to know how long it has to hang in its dead spot. The story now always thinks about its past, that first some 30 pages where it was floating in the air, wings both stretched. It was flying to somewhere. It doesn’t know if it can ever fly again now.
- Highway
who knows. And about how little things matter. Way too much.
- Aesthetic Realism
(somewhere SoHo)
It’s been the game between Aesthetic Realism and Augmented Reality. It’s been the overlay of Symbolic Expressionism and Cynical Realism, both alternating reality to an even more realer reality. What do we know about what’s realism anymore. Everything is quieting down again.
(Liu Bolin, Hiding in the City)
- Artforum, the Chinese version.
The Chinese web version of Artforum is so strange that I often wonder whether anybody knows why it exists. We all know that Artforum does not have any international paper version, not a Chinese one either. But what does it even mean to have an official Chinese Web version? Why not French, German, Italian, or even British version for all I care?
Especially when,
a, Artforum is now filled with Chinese gallery ads. Can’t help thinking it’s a strange scheme of some sort, you know what i mean.
b, What’s even stranger is that artforum.com.cn is synched up (even with photos!) with big name (or any name who has a blog) Chinese artists’ personal blogs, come even with a Google Calendar of exhibition openings. Nothing against going all Web 2.0, but do I really want to know about Mr. Yan Jun
avoiding the Olympicslosing his cellphone in Beijing or Ms. Huang Bingyi missing her lover in Paris, from a link at artforum.com.cn?c, Considering the blogs are the only fresh content in the Chinese version, I can’t help wondering if Artforum pays the artists for their blogs?
d, Or, do they even know about it?
e, It even has an “English corner”.
Letter to chinese artists: better paint some more Mr. Mao and sell them for a million a piece now. The advantage coming from speculations will eventually equal out, or so I predict anyway. Next speculation/Artforum web version? I vote for Turkey.
- Stereotype Resistant
The best thing about that New Yorker article, was not the fact that there were some quotes as amazing as “because we are in such a system, we are always asking ourselves whether we are brainwashed. We are always eager to get other information from different channels. But when you are in a so-called free system you never think about if you are brainwashed“, or the fact that Evan Osnos, the Chicago Tribune “beijing bureau chief” even knew the relationship between “angry youth” and “shit youth”.
The best thing, the thing that cracked me up so much that I couldn’t stop laughing out loud was that Infiniti car commercial inserted between pages, with a huge slogan that says “Stereotype Resistant”.
Seriously, can a magazine be more intellectual and meticulous than that?
- Gao Xingjian
“Without Isms is neither nihilism nor eclecticism; nor is it egotism or solipsism. It opposes totalitarian dictatorship but also opposes the inflation of the self to God or Superman. It hates seeing other people trampled on like dog shit. Without Isms detests politics and does not take part in politics, but is not opposed to other people who do. If people want to get involved in politics, let them go right ahead. What Without Isms opposes is the foisting of a particular brand of politics on to the individual by means of abstract collective names such as ‘the people’, ‘the race’ or ‘the nation’.”
I can not put it better myself, although, people all call me a nihilist no matter what, and i let them go right ahead.
Gao Xingjian Interview from the Guardian.
- Out of bound.
Yes I am. Deduction .1 of my life.
If only I could stop being jealous of people having a smaller feet?
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