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Double Reading
“Double Reading” is inspired by French philosopher Sarah Kofman’s essay about the double nature of art and images. A writer’s writer in a crusade to turn art criticism into art, and aesthetics into an ethics of seeing. Travelogue of visual journeys through contemporary art from the Arab world. Reading Hannah Arendt in writing and traveling the Middle East with a pen.
The Point of No Return
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
[Swinging on the Stars]
"Beyond a certain point there's no return. This point has to be reached." -Kafka
Factories of History
Sunday, May 5, 2013
History is the object of a construction whose place is formed not in homogenous and empty time, but in that which is fulfilled by the here-and-now. –Walter Benjamin
Shredding Time
Thursday, May 2, 2013
“The determination of progress by catalogues and television sets. Only machinery. And blood transfusers” –Cannibal Manifesto, Oswald de Andrade
Researchers, Utopians, Dreamers
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
[Group portrait taken before the launch of Cedar III]
“Permit it at last be, after having so well and truly been.” –Samir Kassir
Pure Grammars
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”-Pablo Picasso
