[…] and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. […] — T.S. Eliot, ‘East Coker’, Four Quartets
Earlier this month I headed to Berlin to check out S.LOW Projekt, an interdisciplinary art project spanning the summer months organised by my masters supervisor Ricardo Climent. While I was there I got to see the latest incarnation of Sam Salem and Patrick Sanan’s Pond Life series, exhibited at Projektraum Schwarz in the gallery-studded area […]
By Chris
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Tagged Berlin, FischGrätenMelkStand, Helmut Lachenmann, Martin-Gropius-Bau, N.K., Olafur Eliasson, Patrick Sanan, photography, Projektraum Schwarz, Ricardo Climent, S.LOW Projekt, Sam Salem, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin
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I’m going to Berlin for a few days, including a visit to S.LOW Projekt’s fourth week, which features the latest in Sam Salem and Patrick Sanan’s Pond Life series of audiovisual installations as well as talks by a bunch of musicians, artists and technicians. Should be fun…
To grasp the world of today we are using a language made for the world of yesterday. And the life of the past seems a better reflection of our nature, for the simple reason that it is a better reflection of our language. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (trans. William Rees), Wind, Sand and Stars
I made this recording of birds in my garden at dawn on 22 April 2010. It was part of a whole heap of field recordings that I am only just sifting through. I’m afraid I can’t tell you what type of bird it is; I only ever spot blackbirds, magpies and, more recently, the occasional […]