Moves in Limbo

Monday, 16 May 2016

Marlon James at the Toronto Public Library

https://soundcloud.com/toronto-library/marlon-james-at-the-appel-salon

And since he mentions Under Mi Fat Ting, here it is

Sunday, 15 May 2016

Omer Fast on the Striptease of Revealing his Characters, Questioning Truth, and Failing Consistently

An Interview in Artsy Editorial by Emily Nathan

Emily Nathan interviews Omer Fast about his show at Jeu de Paume in 2015. She asks him about how his videos deconstruct and reconstruct stories “embody a postmodern skepticism about the existence of a singular narrative”. She asks him about his multicultural heritage, performance and truth.

OF: "I was highly aware of the degree to which things that we think of as immutable at that age - identity, language, connection to an particular milieu, and so on - are extremely negotiable and extremely related to performance”

OF: “What I am much more interested in is the mechanics of performance, and the codes that we employ to tell our stories"

Nathan, Emily. "Filmmaker Omer Fast on Playing Dr. Frankenstein to His Characters." Artsy. Artsy Editorial, 26 Oct. 2015. Web. 15 May 2016.

Monday, 1 February 2016

Mind Maps

Wednesday, 27 January 2016

The Task of the Translator

In the same way a translation, instead of imitating the sense of the original, must lovingly and in detail incorporate the original's way of meaning, thus making both the original and the translation recognizable as fragments of a greater language, just as fragments are part of a vessel.

Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings Volume 1, 1913-1926, page 260

Saturday, 23 January 2016

Bodies Without Organs

An assignment from my Critical Theory class in which we had to learn a passage from How Do you Make a Body without Organs by F. Guattari and G. Deleuze.