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Comment on Nosing Towards Aesthetic Equality by Thoughts on the Found Sound Festival & How I read Christopher Menke’s Essay | The Lantern Daily

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:26:24 +0000

[...] On another writing front, I continue to post shot essays on the art&reciprocity blog. Most recently I wrote about Christoph Menke’s essay about the relationship between aesthetics and equality. You can check that out by going here. [...]

Comment on Beyond reciprocity by Louwrien Wijers

Louwrien Wijers — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:14:02 +0000

Dear Erik,
How wonderful of you to publish the two white on black sentences by Beuys and Menshikov. Joseph Beuys actually told me in the face, one day in 1978 in his studio: “Louwrien, the essence of economy is: if I take care of you others will take care of me.”
One morning last December when Nico (Dockx) was going to come to Herengracht 1, in Amsterdam where I live, I woke up with the two ‘if I take’ sentences of Beuys and Menshikov. I quickly wrote them down. Later that day I showed the paper to Nico. Immediately he asked for a copy. I was so surprised when Nico brought the hastely written words big in black and white on the poster. Nico is great in printed matter, have you noticed.
Both men I find speak universal truths that can easily survive 20.000 years. Beuys almost tells you to take care of your karma in a way that surpasses this lifetime. Menshikov is like a monk who absolutely does not want more than he needs because others are more important.
I love all your comments to the sentences, because all you are saying is true too.
Great work. Thank you.
Louwrien

Comment on If I Take Care of You Others Will Take Care of Me by summer turn of arts admin | The Lantern Daily

summer turn of arts admin | The Lantern Daily — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:38:16 +0000

[...] is no longer a held-to center of my work. Anyway, I wrote some more about the AS220 project here. Posted in Art, Caroline Picard, LanternProjects | Leave a [...]

Comment on Beyond reciprocity by If I Take Care of You Others Will Take Care of Me | art & reciprocity

If I Take Care of You Others Will Take Care of Me | art & reciprocity — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:23:42 +0000

[...] the surface of this place–I think it’s interesting to think about in response to “If I take care of you others will take care of me // If I take less others have more.” The organization seems based around the first principle: if we build a community in which people [...]

Comment on When Performance is a Mirror by carolinepicard

carolinepicard — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:38:28 +0000

I was thinking about this piece today–it’s a story I wrote a while ago and, oddly enough, was inspired because of a longer piece of creative writing I’d been working on about Joseph Beuys. Yoko Ono became an intuitive parallel for me, a female pillar complement who, like Beuys, survived the war. He is the Westerner and faced a particular aspect of post-war trauma as a German. Ono faced an entirely different post-war trauma as a young woman in Japan. Both went on to participate directly in the culture of contemporary art and Ono’s “Cut Piece” in particular stays with me as something to chew on. I find it beautiful and terrible all at once, because there will always be a desire to cut and in cutting one fulfills the parameters of the performance. As an artist/writer looking for cultural predecessors, her legacy also seems particularly interesting. Beuys also seemed so invested in ideas about teaching, while being at odds with organized institutions–there is an interesting tension there.

Comment on Handshake Games by A little something about handshakes and how they are reciprocal | The Lantern Daily

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 02:50:39 +0000

[...] thinking about A.E. Simns project where he indexes the handshake. I posted something about it here as it seemed to play nicely into the mix of how interactions are games which then create a means by [...]