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Fillip / Arriving at Nowhere: Reflecting on Chris Kraus’s Radical Localism (Lois Klassen)
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Fillip 20 — Fall 2015. Arriving at Nowhere: Reflecting on Chris Kraus’s Radical Localism. Today in the era leading to peak population, I picture. To be a scarred and uninhabitable postindustrial space, much like what Jennifer Baichwal’s documentary. Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World. 2010), is the great, and final, shift of human populations out of rural, agricultural life and into cities. We will end this century as a wholly urban species. 1. Saunders argues. How urban destination...
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Fillip / Great White North (Vanessa Nicholas)
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Fillip 18 — Spring 2013. In May 2012, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art ( MASS. Is the latest in a string of Canadian exhibitions presented abroad, including. 2011) at the Maison Rouge, Paris, and, more recently, the Group of Seven’s largest European exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. Within Canada, the National Gallery revived its Canadian Biennial in 2011. What do such nationalistic representations signify? In London (1851) and the. The Venice Biennale has continued to organi...
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Fillip / Some Uses of Disenchantment: Vladimir Putin’s Staged Photography (Martha Langford)
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Fillip 18 — Spring 2013. Some Uses of Disenchantment: Vladimir Putin’s Staged Photography. Revolutions, even velvet ones, rarely meet the expectations that they raise. Disenchantment and pessimism creep in. This is when we realize that the old regime, whose death knell we have so clearly sounded, is still very much alive. The euphoric sense that everything has changed is followed by the numbing suspicion that nothing has changed. Of course it was a set up. Super-pseudo-event. It was planned, as nearl...
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The Surplus Library
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The Surplus Library is a project by Antonia Hirsch. The creation of this site was generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council. Website by The Future. Desire implies want; it is the appetite of the mind, and as natural as hunger to the body. The greatest number (of things) have their value from supplying the wants of the mind. 1. Antonia Hirsch, June 2011. 1 Nicholas Barbon,. London, 1696), quoted in Karl Marx,. The Surplus Library’s collection consists of...
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Jeff Khonsary
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Window with Fake Newspapers. Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism. Sad, Depressed, People. Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism. One Song a Week. Stuff Left in My Alley. Was an independent curatorial project developed by me and Anna Harrison. The exhibition presented new works by Lynette Gillis, Robert Niven, Drew Shaffer, Rahel Wachs, and the collective Humanfive. It was held in the summer of 2005 at the Belkin Satellite. Humble Beginnings, installation view. Humble Beginnings, installation view.
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Fillip / From the Hip (Joseph del Pesco)
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Fillip 7 — Winter 2008. Following the California launch of. 6 in the summer of 2007, we had the opportunity to tour the Collective Foundation exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and meet with Joseph del Pesco to discuss some of his recent projects, including the exhibition and. The Collective Foundation originally began with a single project, the. Was the result of a series of conversations with artist Scott Oliver (who gave. From the very beginning,. Which publishes writin...
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The Surplus Library
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The Surplus Library is a project by Antonia Hirsch. The creation of this site was generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council. Website by The Future. There are a number of ways in which one can interact with the Library:. Please contact the Library. To suggest search-keywords. We will add these to the current base of keywords. Will display the most recently created selection to all visitors of the site. Catalogue Your Holdings or Register a Branch. The Su...
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Fillip / Decapitalism, Left Scarcity, and the State (Nina Power)
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Fillip 20 — Fall 2015. Decapitalism, Left Scarcity, and the State. I want to address four main oversights and weaknesses, as I see them, of the accelerationist project as it currently stands. 1. I will mostly be drawing on the texts gathered together in. Published last year, 2. As well as some of the responses to it, including Benjamin Noys’s. Malign Velocities: Acceleration and Capitalism. Critique of Dialectical Reason. 1960) and also by Ivan Illich’s rather more obscure. While Srnicek and Williams ack...