art as power update #16
context
the small street where i live in paris is cleaned multiple times a week.
the sweeping of the street is an anonymous act by the workers who clean up the mess of others, barely noticeable, except for the cleanness of the street.
in 1972 the german artist joseph beuys swept the karl marx platz in berlin after a 1 may manifestation. this performance was filmed and i saw the video (ausvegen) recently at the centre pompidou in a exhibition devoted to beuys.
it is probably an act of sweeping that gets the most attention in the world
sámi pavilion artists pauliina feodoroff, máret ánne sara and anders sunna.
photo: marta buso / oca
‘when the 59th venice biennale opens this april, it will mark a historic first: the nordic pavilion, which jointly represents the scandinavian countries of finland, norway, and sweden, will be temporarily renamed the sámi pavilion. the move recognizes the Indigenous population of sápmi, a region which stretches across these three nations and into the kola peninsula in russia’
art review, hili perlson, april 4, 2022
a picture in a forgotten book
saved from oblivion
by the act of datia suter, a dutch-swiss artist
to scan it, reuse it
to revive it
orchestrated with other old images
in a book called ‘hexamiles (mont-hoisin)’
which is currently sold-out
a picture of a page of the book
made by hein duijnstee
to mark this work of art
there is always something,
an idea, a question, emotions
light. music, a chair
but it begins with somebody
who is present and who is
‘the intensity, the energy
for that i do not need narratives
that i can see from the image’
the beauty of breaking patterns
accidentally and consciously
expose
mark
distinguish
repeat
the discipline of the ritual
attention is a condition
a set of photographs of texts
capturing thoughts and insights
about ‘attention’
they were mounted on a wall as a collection
this update shows some initial ideas and results of the agony of attention project by stordes artlab, paris, spring 2022.