Sandbox V
waiting
“Waiting,” for example, Barthes describes as “the tumult of anxiety provoked by waiting for the loved being, subject to trivial delays (rendezvous, letters, telephone calls, returns).” He talks about waiting by the phone for his loved one to call. He dare not attempt to find him or call him lest he miss him. Barthes reports how his feelings ricochet between dread and anger and sadness, all while seated by the telephone. (Imagine if he had iMessage.) “Am I in love?” he writes. “Yes, since I am waiting. The other never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn’t wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game: whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover’s fatal identity is precisely: I am the one who waits.”
gravity and crabs
“These individual acts can create a new kind of perception of what’s possible and what’s righteous.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality
links
- mars artists - Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick
- post-apocalypse - https://www.patreon.com/yurishwedoff
education
this portfolio site reveals the briefs that were given to her
A speech I made about the need to prune the banyan tree in order that civic participation could flourish resonated with many Singaporeans. Pruning the banyan tree means cutting down hierarchy. Letting more sunlight through enables the social network to be better energized.
If the Substation were to be a text, then perhaps it may seem completely unintelligible to some, unless read in the context of the development of the arts in Singapore. Am I spending too much time picking out seemingly insignificant details into a big box file? I seem to be collecting more and more words to put into the exhibition - the fact is that there aren't as many pictures as we would like, there are just stories, just rumours, just words...
For his latest exhibition, filmmaker and artist Kent Chan watched all the films shown under The Substation’s Moving Images programme in the last 15 years. Classifying the films not in typical genres like “action,” “comedy” and “documentary,” but in personalised labels that are often fun, endearingly colloquial and local, he introduces new ways of looking at film and Singaporean film, while maintaining that he is “not out to romanticise anything.” His efforts in classifying and dating the films are etched in detailed Excel spread sheets that also mark the launch of the Moving Images Archive. SINdie speaks to Kent about his solo exhibition and the ideas and experiences which shaped his journey. The interview then takes a decidedly broad turn, which, interestingly, acts as a sort of preview for his next exhibition.
K: About 4-5 months ago, I discovered that there was an available slot at the gallery in January 2013, so I approached Aishah (programme manager of Moving Images) to use it for a solo exhibition. We started talking about what we wanted to do and I was trying to look for certain thematic in the films screened under the Moving Images programme when Aishah pointed me to where the films were—sitting in about 16 cardboard boxes at the office door. They were kind of like, just collecting dust. So at that point, there wasn’t really an archive, it was more like a storage of films, stocked up over the last 15 years or so.
http://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/preliminary_materials_for_a_theory_of_the_young_girl
Alien Ovipositor: https://www.distractify.com/meganmccormick-alien-eggs-of-course-1300155208.html
http://www.mnd.gov.sg/mso/your-story-removal-of-a-dead-tree.htm Mr Pandiyan does not need to know which agency to send the feedback to. The OneService app will automatically route the feedback to the correct agency. There is a geo-tagging feature which pinpoints the exact location of the problem on the map, while the photo-taking feature clearly illustrates the nature of the problem. This was why NParks was able to resolve the problem within a short time.
http://www.hoogslag.nl/page/18?p=a
Image recognition
http://places.csail.mit.edu/demo.html
http://sicv.activearchives.org/w/The_Scandinavian_Institute_for_Computational_Vandalism http://editorialconcreta.org/Vandalist-Iconophilia
