Wherever We Lay Down Our Troubled Heads To Sleep

Fig. 1. William Kentridge - (drawing for the film) WEIGHING . . . and WANTING, 1997

'The place of art is for me a transport-station of trauma ... the transport-station does not promise that passage of the remnants of trauma will actually take place in it; it only supplies the space for this occasion The passage is expected but uncertain; the transport does not happen in each encounter and for every gazing subject.'

Bracha Ettinger

Violence Against Beauty Is, In A Way, Beautiful Too

Fig. 1. Joel Peter Witkin - Las Meninas, 1987


Melissa Holbrook Pierson: What is "taste"?
Peter Schjeldahl: Sediment of aesthetic experience, commonly somebody else's.

The Cat Will Be Away For A Spell ... Feel Free To Play

Wait Till I Tell Your Mother About This, Young Man!

Fig. 1. Martha Rosler - Invasion, 2008


'War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.'

Thomas Mann

A Larger Than Life Barometer Of Our Society's Virtue

Fig. 1. Jeon Joonho - The White House, 2005-2006


'So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?'

Ayn Rand

* 'Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.' (Ayn Rand)

There Are Many Ways To Hate The Things You Love

Fig. 1. Sam Riley (as Ian Curtis) in Control - d. Anton Corbijn, 2007


'People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.'

Elias Canetti

Addendum #1: Music Video (click)

Joy Division - Transmission

Addendum #2: The Sunday Six (Relatively Recent)

Fig. 1. Mohamed Bourouissa - La fenêtre, 2005

Fig. 2. Mona Hatoum - Nature morte aux grenades, 2006-07

Fig. 3. Jeff Koons - Girl with Dolphin and Monkey, 2006

Fig. 4. Doug Aitken - Migration (still), 2008

Fig. 5. Gottfried Helnwein - Red Mouse 2, 2008

Fig. 6. Wim Delvoye - Torre, 2009

To Bridges Burned Without Sorrow, Or Lamentations

Fig. 1. Jimi Hendrix

'To survive it is often necessary to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself.'

George Orwell