Joseph Del Pesco

Lunch painting (Minus objects) – Pistoletto

Joseph — Tue, 14 May 2013 02:36:45 +0000

Ballad of a Thin Man

Joseph — Mon, 06 May 2013 16:59:57 +0000

Automóvel

Joseph — Sat, 04 May 2013 00:41:43 +0000

Pic by Mr McElrath

Joseph — Sat, 04 May 2013 00:39:34 +0000

Tig Notaro

Joseph — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:10:52 +0000

Too Soon?

A1 Travel Grants

Joseph — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:04:41 +0000

Evidence 1977

Joseph — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:30:13 +0000

Evidence is the result of a two-year investigation of over two million archive photographs. The result is a photographic narrative comprised only of images selected from corporate and institutional archives (primarily on the west coast) including government departments, the military, scientific research establishments, law enforcement agencies (Bechtel, TRW, Jet Propulsion Laboratories, Aeronutronic Ford, United Technologies, and the Los Angeles Police Department are but a few examples). A project by Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel.

Patricia Esquivas

Joseph — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:42:03 +0000

Totem Time in Dreamland, BC

Joseph — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:45:12 +0000

XEROX BOOK

Joseph — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 02:07:09 +0000

The World Game of Life

Joseph — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:44:26 +0000

Alexander Nagel and Christopher Wood

Joseph — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:13:03 +0000

“No device more effectively generates the effect of a doubling or bending of time than the work of art, a strange kind of event whose relation to time is plural. The artwork is made or designed by an individual or a group of individuals at some moment, but it also points away from that moment, backward to a remote ancestral origin, perhaps, or to a prior artifact, or to an origin outside of time, in divinity. At the same time it points forward to all its future recipients who will activate and reactivate it as a meaningful event. The work of art is a message whose sender and destination are constantly shifting…”

Temple Contemporary

Joseph — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:55:37 +0000

Anti-University

Joseph — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 02:19:17 +0000

All Quiet on the Eastern Front, 1990

Joseph — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:24:03 +0000

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B. Holmes

Joseph — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:58:40 +0000

“The backdrop against which art now stands out is a particular state of society. What an installation, a performance, a concept or a mediated image can do is to mark a possible or real shift with respect to the laws, the customs, the measures, the mores, the technical and organizational devices that define how we must behave and how we may relate to each other at a given time and in a given place. What we look for in art is a different way to live, a fresh chance at coexistence.”

Brian Holmes

G. Saunders

Joseph — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 05:03:37 +0000

“I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in another… The writer… can put whatever he wants in there. What’s important is that something undeniable and nontrivial happens to the reader between entry and exit… The black box is meant to change us. If the change will be greater via the use of invented, absurd material, so be it.”

NYT

Chaplin

Joseph — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:12:26 +0000

Seven American Deaths and Disasters

Joseph — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:25:57 +0000

World Game

Joseph — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 06:43:16 +0000

Bök via Goldsmith (d13)

Joseph — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:44:01 +0000

“We are probably the first generation of poets who can reasonably expect to write literature for a machinic audience of artificially intellectual peers. Is it not already evident by our presence at conferences on digital poetics that the poets of tomorrow are likely to resemble programmers, exalted, not because they can write great poems, but because they can build a small drone out of words to write great poems for us? If poetry already lacks any meaningful readership among our own anthropoid population, what have we to lose by writing poetry for a robotic culture that must inevitably succeed our own? If we want to commit an act of poetic innovation in an era of formal exhaustion, we may have to consider this heretofore unimagined, but nevertheless prohibited, option: writing poetry for inhuman readers, who do not yet exist, because such aliens, clones, or robots have not yet evolved to read it.”

Robopoetics

Superstudio

Joseph — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 02:14:40 +0000

Decay at the edges of an idea

Joseph — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:31:27 +0000

Kadist on Paper

Joseph — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:43:18 +0000

Photos by Jason Fulford

John Smith

Joseph — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 01:24:53 +0000

l’Échiqueté

Joseph — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:11:50 +0000

2 opposing

Joseph — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:37:38 +0000

“An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Antonio Gramsci called for “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will”

Bruce Bickford

Joseph — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:27:53 +0000

Badiou via Elie During

Joseph — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 05:12:20 +0000

“If philosophy does not produce truths of its own, it certainly has something to say about truth: it reaches it through eternity, by formalizing the production of universal patterns of thought. Art, on the contrary, produces truths of its own, but it does so through oblique means, by dealing with sensible images, objects, bodies, or the material dimension of language, the finiteness of which seems to stand in contradiction with the infinite nature of truth.”

Wittgenstein’s Culture and Value

Joseph — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:13:01 +0000

“Within all great art is a wild animal: tamed… All great art has man’s primitive drives as its ground-base”

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Ben Kinmont Bookseller

Joseph — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 18:22:43 +0000

Jens Hoffmann

Joseph — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:24:16 +0000

“To romanticize the artist as a creative genius who requires a horde of facilitators to help execute his or her artistic vision seems shortsighted; so does the idea that curatorial endeavors must respond after the fact, so to speak—to what artists are producing. This mindset carries with it the implication that artists are creatively and intellectually superior not only to curators but to pretty much everyone else, which is of course not the case. There are as many untalented artists as there are untalented curators, untalented writers, or untalented cooks.”

From the Exhibitionist #2

Rancière & Groys

Joseph — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:17:28 +0000

Rancière’s “aesthetic regime of art… is premised on the paradox that ‘art is art to the extent that it is something else than art’: that is a sphere both at one remove from politics and yet always already political because it contains the promise of a better world.”

“Groys argues that all artistic projects are visions of an alternative future, and thus the more successful the more they maintain the gap between the present and future.”

Both from Claire Bishop’s Artifical Hells

September 5th

Joseph — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 23:25:03 +0000

Photo by KB

La Nouvelle Kahnawake

Joseph — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 23:13:15 +0000

In the film La Nouvelle Kahnawake the French duo Patrick Bernier and Olive Martin zoom-in on a Mohawk tribe of Canadian First Nations people, located on the south shore of the St Lawrence river across from Montréal (Québec, Canada). Yet the film is as much about the artists research and presence in Kahnawake as it is about the Mohawks who live there. The artists appear throughout the film, embedding and acknowledging their own position as outsiders noting, “If this is a documentary then the subject is us.” But it’s not just a documentary, nor a critical analysis of the legal loopholes, business practices and cultural histories of the Mohawks. It’s a poetic and performative investigation of relationships in the global sphere, impacted by a cluster of forces so multiple and complex as to become abstract, almost metaphysical.

Potential Estate

Pussy Riot

Joseph — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 01:12:17 +0000

Co-authorship

Joseph — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:15:31 +0000

“In a certain sense, all my books are co-authored. I am the sole author of none of them, I might not even be their author at all. They give me pleasure only in the measure that I do not feel myself their author—or at least their sole author. Virtually all of my books are born of the desire—no, the need—to continue the work of authors I love.”

Giorgio Agamben (From Cabinet #45)

The Senses by Lydia Davis

Joseph — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 16:43:37 +0000

Reading of The Senses, by Lydia Davis
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Hermitage

Joseph — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:18:11 +0000

During the siege of Leningrad (1941-44), all the artworks in the Hermitage were removed and stored safely out of harm’s way, but tours continued with guides describing the works that used to fill the now empty galleries.

“Hermitage guides gave soldiers from the front tours of empty picture frames, describing in elaborate detail the paintings they had once held. Most audacious of all was a literary conference held at the height of the blockade, to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the birth of the great Uzbek poet Alisher Navoi. Hundreds of starving people gathered, in the depths of winter, to listen to a poetry recital as shells shook the building to its foundations. The museum had been fortunate in having a store of lumber with which to make its evacuation crates. Afterwards, the surplus made coffins for its dead.”

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Schlingensief

Joseph — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:46:26 +0000

via Gabriel

Joseph — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 06:26:05 +0000

The Sub Rosa

Joseph — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:21:18 +0000

Pit three or four plump cherries and toss them into a cocktail shaker. Add 1/2 oz of the homemade rosemary cardamom bitter liquor and using a wooden spoon or a muddler mash the cherries and the liquor. Fill shaker with ice and add 1 1/2 oz the Willet’s Rye. Shake vigorously and strain into a cocktail glass. Squeeze a few drops of fresh lemon juice into the drink and add a sprig of fresh Rosemary as garnish.

Powers of Ten

Joseph — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 00:29:15 +0000

Bringing Home America’s Army

Joseph — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 16:59:13 +0000

This game concept is the result of an ongoing series of conversations between two friends, curator Joseph del Pesco and game designer Al McElrath. McElrath was involved in the production of the single-player console (Xbox) version/translation of the popular PC game America’s Army (AA), the most successful tool ever deployed by the US Army’s recruiting department. “The game had more impact on recruits than all other forms of Army advertising combined.” But AA is more than an advertisement. Like a flight simulator used for the education of pilots, AA purports to “provide players with the most authentic military experience available”. In other words, it occupies a slippery ground between a simulator designed for soldiers-in-training and a commercial game intended for the entertainment market. In fact, its proximity to “authenticity” may be the very thing that makes it such popular entertainment.

Manifesta Journal #15

Teaching Video Art

Joseph — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:01:58 +0000

“At this point, it is not so important to make “art.” Art cannot be taught. Anybody who wants to can make art. But how to make your money back after making video art?… I want my students to be well prepared to make video art. I will just teach about art politics.”
-Nam June Paik

Quotation then is the ultimate weapon for…

Joseph — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 06:06:11 +0000

“Quotation, then, is the ultimate weapon for making one believe. Because it plays upon what the other is assumed to believe, it is a means by which ‘reality’ is instituted.” Michel De Certeau

Anthropology of Youtube

Joseph — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 17:51:02 +0000

FBI Agents showed up at the Whitney…

Joseph — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 05:54:34 +0000

“FBI Agents showed up at the Whitney Museum of Art after the World Trade Center towers went down and asked to see one of Mark Lombardi’s drawings. The agency was interested in Osama bin Laden and his associates, and one of Lombardi’s precise hand-drawn flow charts was useful for this.”
- Good magazine (Fall 2011)

Fulford at Kadist

Joseph — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:04:27 +0000

Suspension, Anthony Discenza

Joseph — Sun, 20 May 2012 15:08:42 +0000