Pervs

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Paul Chan Sade for Sade’s sake, 2009
‘A 5 hour and 45 minute-long projection. Structured in the form of a ballad, Sade for Sade’s sake is comprised of forty-five second scenes that relate to one another like lines in a poem. The quivering, shadow-like imagery depicts naked human bodies in discursive, rhythmic, and orgiastic movements, with abstract shadows of geometric shapes floating among the bodies like artwork hung on walls, windows in a room, or even devotional objects. As the piece progresses, the bodies interact with growing intensity, until the entire projection erupts in trembling forms and part-objects, abstractly manifesting images of sex enmeshed with freedom, violence wrapped up with reason, art entangled in it all.’

 

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David Kennedy Cutler Second Skins, 2017-2020
inkjet on cotton and PETG, zipper, Velcro, deconstructed sneakers, wood, aluminium, hardware, casters

 

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Martin Gerber Various, 2010-2017

Blood of Eden, 2017

Das Mutterland (Et in Arcadia Ego), 2010

Attack of Plurals, 2017

Who Cares What the Future Brings, 2013

 

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Yu-Tzu Huang Perverted Norm, Normal Pervert, 2022
‘Perverted Norm, Normal Pervert is a project inspired by scientific research and explores the normality and abnormality of sexual activities among humans and snails.’

 

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Parviz Tanavoli Farhad and the Deer, 1960
‘Constructed from scrap metal, this assemblage depicted a man having sexual relations with a deer. The deer’s antlers were made of a bicycle’s form, the man and animal bodies of fenders and other parts of junkyard vehicles.’

 

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Nina Beier Manual Therapy, 2016
Robotic massage chair, precious and noble metals from electronic waste, dental industry and various currencies

 

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Marybeth Chew Black Narcissus, 2020
oil on canvas

 

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Richard Štipl Untitled, 2019
‘Stipl’s work is developed in traditional materials (wood, metal) and in the disciplines of figure and relief. The way they are handled, however, is not so traditional. Rather, it is inverted. Powerful sources of inspiration are evident in late Gothic wood-carving (especially in relief formats) and in the expressively tuned registers of baroque naturalism (e.g. Franz Xaver Messerschmidt).’

 

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Nicole Eisenman Various, 1998 -2016

It Is So, 2014

Long Distance, 2015

Dysfunctional Family, 2000

Morning Studio, 2016

Tunnel of Love, 1998

 

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Eva Isleifs and Rakel McMahon Pervert Hunt, 2021
‘In the rise of the greek #metoo movement and the first juridical condemns of performers of sexual harassment in public space, the artists engage with the issue collecting stories from international contribution, spotting repeatedly mentioned urban areas and re-envisioning the map of Athens. Having experienced several incidents themselves and processing the confessions of others, Eva Isleifs and Rakel McMahon chose to respond to the undetectable threat seeking for the “dangerous” areas, wandering across them, resting to draw and sketch the environment and fortunate or less fortunate encounters. The material, collected throughout their research, is still developing as their observation continues and as participants contribute to the archive with their personal stories.’

 

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Toshio Saeki Various, 2009-2015

 

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Kaari Upson Janice, Tracy, Sarah, Kristin, Joan, … (2012)
‘In 2003 Kaari Upson entered a deserted house close to Los Angeles where she lives. Apparently a pervert has lived here who is now serving his time in prison. Upson took some of the found objects, named the mysterious figure ‘Larry’ and created several works within this new reality. All women that played a role in the narrative of the Larry project come together here and are named in the endlessly long title. the crutches are made from silicon and in their slackness have lost all functionality of support.’

 

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Anna Uddenberg Sub-D (Inflation) x, 2022
polylactic acid, thermoset polymer resin, electropolished stainless steel, foam boat flooring, leather, chalk paint

 

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Brian Sergio A day with milky, 2014
A series of 8 x 10in c-print photographs

 

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Elaine Cameron-Weir hairshirt with lucky cilice SS 23 cartoon violence collection, 2023
mixed media

 

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KING COBRA White Bread, 2021
bamboo, resin clay, hair weave, acrylic, silicone, tattoo ink, mirror plinth

 

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Darja Bajagic Ex Axes – Headless Body in Topless Bar, 2023
Direct-to-substrate print on steel axe

 

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Cindy Sherman Untitled #257, 1992
cibachrome print

 

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Galkin Daniil BDSM-2222, 2013
‘«BDSM» is divided into two parts, «Crop» and «Cuts» are located opposite to each other, and the combined «Wall of identification photography», against which there will be identification photography. In the authentication photographing every visitor can take the role of «suspect», which would be «a victim of child sexual manipulation» committed sexual acts against minors. The first part of the «Cuts», set up in a near-collage art, carved with images of children, against the walls for shooting identifications offering do for a sexual assault. The second part of the «Crop» demonstrates monochrome canvases with images of «empty» silhouettes of children, so-called «malyavy» Created from the remnants of childish and presented as a waste material. Thus, the project «BDSM» calls for the formation of healthy people, not sex offenders.’

 

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Vesna Jovanovic Vanitas Still Life with Straitjacket, 2019
‘I spent the summer of 2017 working on this painting. The idea came to me that spring, after several months of private performances in which I restrained my erotic partner in order to draw him. I fastened all of the buckles and zippers and then started a timer, sketchbook in hand. I commanded him to sit still for an hour as he writhed helplessly.

‘Following each scene, I removed the sweaty restraints and set them aside, sometimes onto the nearby dining room table to protect them from dust. As they dried, the canvas straitjacket and matching leg restraint kept their human form, like a shell, a haunting reminder of the body that had struggled inside them. One day, after an exceptionally brutal scene, the lights were off and the evening sun entered the apartment at an angle just so. The rays illuminated the straitjacket like a 17th century still life.

‘After our next encounter, I arranged the gear and photographed it with the blinds open. The muzzle stood in for a human skull; the straps curled down like lemon peel cascading from the edge of the table… A month or two later he and I broke up, but I had the photographs to remind me of the scenes we did and how dangerous they were.’

 

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Emma Sulkowicz The Ship Is Sinking, 2017
‘Sulkowicz’s new work almost seems to be crafted specifically to troll her critics. For the new piece, titled The Ship Is Sinking, she wore a white bikini adorned with the Whitney logo. An S&M professional who goes by “Master Avery,” playing a character called “Mr. Whitney,” bound Sulkowicz tightly and hung her from the ceiling on a wooden beam, periodically whipping and insulting her.’

 

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Vincent Tiley Drummer, 2017
‘A high-shine silk organza work coated in semen-colored acrylic gel and bound in sleek lines of Shibari knotting, shares its name with the famed porn mag that explored gay leather subculture from the 1970s to the late nineties.’

 

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Shawné Michaelain Holloway Sub Not Slave, 2017
‘There are two videos: one in a toilet, representing my likeness, and a multichannel video of me sitting and watching the space, positioned toward the toilet. To view the video in the toilet, one must place their feet inside guidelines on the floor to properly understand what I’ve created. It’s not enough to look, your body must be implicated. This way, viewers are flirting with a proposition, “Piss on me,” and are ultimately walking away having gone through a kind of negotiation. I suspect no one will accept the proposition but it is a proposition no less; each question on screen has a “yes or no answer” and everyone is encouraged to vocalize their responses while looking at the piece.’

 

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Nayland Blake Lap Dog, 1987
leather shoes, brass plates, chain

 

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Xu Zhen Play 201301, 2013
‘It’s the attesting Gothic cathedral-inspired sculpture unlike any other art you might have seen. Its leather-bound spires are made of whips, chains, studs and spikes, sex toys and gags. Weighing close to a tonne, it hovers almost a metre above the floor, suspended by four ropes knotted according to the Japanese bondage technique Kinbaku, meaning the “beauty of tight binding”. The impressive sculpture, which is made entirely of bondage material, is the brainchild of provocative Chinese conceptual artist Xu Zhen​. Weighing a staggering 930 kilograms, and requiring a structural engineer and construction of a purpose-built frame to hang it from the gallery’s high ceiling, Zhen’s work Play 201301 took around 20 people almost three weeks to install.’

 

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Christopher Chiappa Lazy Boy Crucifix, 1999
fabric

 

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Allen Jones Hatstand, Table and Chair, 1970
‘Debuted to protests in the 1970s, Allen Jones’ forniphilic “fetish” mannequins rocketed the artist to international fame while simultaneously making him enemy number one of the women’s liberation movement. Although Jones defended his work as a statement about the female form in response to the overwhelming decline of figural representation in modern art, his exhibitions continued to inspire outrage as protestors let off stink bombs and a demonstrator poured paint stripper over ‘Chair’ at the Tate Modern on International Women’s Day in 1986.’

 

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Oscar Tuazon F.T.W., 2009
wood, metal, stain, lamps

 

 

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p.s. Hey. ** Minks, Hi, Minks. Score on the Hebrew translation. All the best to you! ** jay, Hey. No summer plans yet here either other than trying to survive whatever Paris becomes once the Olympics invades us. I am a Dasai fan, yes. He’s great. Oh, that’s interesting, but no. I had a friend named Osamu, and I stole his name for the character. I wish it was more meta though. ** Lucas, Hi, L. Happy you liked the post. Um, the meeting was really annoying and stressful, but I’m over it now, at least until the next meeting. That’s interesting about the fewer dedicated spaces theory. Huh. That makes sense, doesn’t it? I’m super wary of landing myself in places like TikTok or Twitter or so on. I still only have Facebook, which is kind of homey, relatively speaking, or my feed is. I do have to join Instagram soon as I’ve been ordered to do that to promote our new film. A friend and I were just talking the other day about how strange and even improbable it is that this blog manages not to be invaded by aggressive opinion givers re: politics and social issues, etc. It’s remarkable, and I’m so happy about that. Luck galore with the math final today if you see this before then. I stopped understanding math when they got to Algebra. Maybe there’s some way in which brain fog and math can cohabit successfully? Anyway, luck, like I said. Filmmaking workshop? Like instruction re: how to make films? Obviously, that interests me. I hope there’s something of use for you there. ‘Our Lady of the Flowers’, yes, wonderful. My fave Genet is ‘Funeral Rites’, which is sort of like ‘OLofF’ but darker, I guess. ** Charalampos, Hi. Follow your inspiration wherever it takes you. I like the idea of a novel that’s only two paragraphs long. I think they mentioned what else Del Rey lost, but I was only looking for novels, so I didn’t pay attention. ** _Black_Acrylic, Kafka, king of the unfinished maybe. Great, great about the class’s long awaited return! ** Jack Skelley, Jack of jackalope zoo. Oh, wow. Assuming Hitchcock naturally did ‘Lucifer Sam’ then please tell he did ‘If It’s In You’? Nice. See you, like, wait, no ‘like’, tomorrow. ** Tosh Berman, There’s always another happy day, my friend. ** Cletus Crow, I think I read she wanted to rewrite/recreate that novel, but it’s been a while, and she hasn’t. ** Tomás, I’m glad I managed to make a kind of sense. Yeah, with films, sure, I agree, like ‘Marienbad’ for instance, and Haneke too. But films have the leg-up of actually presenting a determined physical space visually whereas with fiction it’s just about creating a formula that occasions readers’ imaginative leaps. It’s like architecting the perfect drug or something. I definitely look forward to our eventual coffee. Lebbeus Woods: I don’t know his work. I just did a quick search. Yes, his work looks fascinating. I’ll look further and do my best re: a post about him/his. Or if you want to do one, of course let me know. Thank you for that find! Swimmingly excellent Thursday to you. ** Sypha, Oh, right. I know zip about George R.R. Martin’s stuff other hearing lots about people’s frustration with his writing tempo. I figured you probably had a bunch of unfinished novels in your backlog. I do like the idea of a Christmas novel, if that’s a push of any help. ** Don Waters, Hi, Don! Great to see you, pal! I can’t even imagine how people with day jobs write novels, although I know some do. I have a friend who works as a guard at the Louvre, which he says involves just sitting in a chair all day and occasionally saying ‘step back’ when some get too close to a painting and makes the motion sensor beep, and he’s writing a novel. Largely in his head, admittedly. All my books? Jeez, you’re a trooper and a saint, buddy. Thank you. You’re writing a novel, and I’m guessing it’s going okay since you mentioned it? That’s really great news! Uh, I don’t know who you haven’t heard of … Have you read ‘Autoportrait’ by Edouard Leve? ‘Man in the Holocene’ by Max Frisch? I could go on and on. There are so many really good French novels. Short is standard fare over here. I’m good enough, thanks. And you too, seemingly. Yeah, lovely to get to talk with you, man. ** Harper, Hi. I love Welch too, a whole bunch. I did a post years ago about the doll houses he made that I really need to restore. Yeah, his poetry isn’t so great, it’s too bad, but nobody’s flawless. I love Jane Bowles too. Another high five. Big luck re: the job interview. Better to be offered and decline or accept and bail eventually than not, worst comes to worst. I didn’t know that about Stephen Tennant. Did any of his attempts survive? ** James Bennett, Hi. I think I mostly just like to get the lay of the land of the place I’m visiting unless there’s some pre-known highlight that I’m in search of. It just seems crazy and counterproductive not to visit Dublin for every reason, so I’ll probably hit that up and see what happens. I like the lush and green. I guess who doesn’t? I’ve read ‘The Third Policeman’ and ‘The Dalkey Archive’. Both great. What’s your O’Brien favorite or tip? Thanks! ** A, Hey. So sorry about the family mess. I’ll go find your Hobart piece. Sounds intense. I’m fine, just trying to finish the film and write the next one. I have a little book coming out, so I’ll see what that does if anything. I haven’t seen The Whitney Review thing. They didn’t send it to me. I guess it must be sold in Paris somewhere. I did read ‘Twelve’, but I can’t remember if I liked it or not. I’ve never heard of ‘Parasocialite’, but I’ll go see what it is. Not sure about LA. Our fucking film producers don’t want us to do a cast/crew screening for absurd reasons, so we’re fighting to do that then get over there. ** Steve, Mm, I’m not sure. ‘The Pale King’ obviously. ‘A Voice Through a Cloud’ And I think maybe a few others. Hope your friend pops up. No, I haven’t started ‘Fuccboi’. I’m way behind on so much. You’ve nudged me, so that’ll help. ** David Breithaupt, H, David! Thanks so much for entering. And for the news about that Jackson which I personally did not know about and will certainly read now that I do. Thank you! ** Dot Toevsky, Thanks, and nice name to you. Not a Dale Peck fan then, haha. What about Anne Sexton? You down with her? Cheers back to you, sire. ** Jeff J, Yeah, the melancholy is nice. The ‘planned and never happened’ reeks of charisma. Sometimes. Okay, I’ll angle for ‘Boys Alive’ then. Thanks. The producer meeting was rather awful, and no progress was made. Backsliding, if anything. Long, uninteresting story. I’ve had ‘ …TV Glow’ cued up to watch for a while, but I haven’t. The reports are warding me off a bit. But I will, Okay, cool, about the email. ** Jamie F, Thanks, Jamie. Me neither about the Lana Del Rey novel. I’m a big fan of David Foster Wallace. The recent turn against him just seems boring to me. Nobody writing in English writes better sentences than he did. If you’re a sentence fetishist like me, they’re like LSD. Plus, he was a great guy. I knew him. He was kind and a total pip. Me too: I can skill my way through the crowd set up with seeming aplomb while, inside, I’m rattling like a wild animal in a cage. It’s great you had the soulmate even if it didn’t last forever. Finding someone you’re just magically in tune with is really remarkable. And, in Zac’s case, someone you can collaborate with artistically with any compromising whatsoever. It’s crazy. Enjoy the bright sun. You guys are heading into winter, aren’t you? Here it’s springy for sure, and I’m going to walk within that, maybe without even wearing a coat! ** Justin D, Hi, J. Hm, I wonder if any Koi owners bond with them. They seem like their fate is to be decorative, the poor things, unless they like being objects in motion. Da Vinci makes sense right there, I think, yeah. No, I can’t take what I am told X/Twitter is. Even peaceful Facebook gets a little too testy at times. And, you know, there’s niche porn all over the place, or in accessible pockets all over the place, so … But it’s good that you can max it out. I’m sure Zac and I would be happy to be on Bret’s podcast. I did it not so long ago, and he’s fun. I like him. I think our film is probably a little non-commercial for him. He likes edgy indie, but I think ours might a little too leaning towards the experimental side for his tastes. But why not find out. Thank you for looking out for me. Same from me to you if you need it. ** PL, Hi. Well, I like them at a distance, of course. I don’t, like, hang out with guys like that. Or not these days. I did whence I was young, to say the least. It was good for my work, less so for me. I like and admire Jonas Mekas very much. Quite a bit of a hero, that guy, if you kneel before experimental film, which I have been known to do. ** Huckleberry Shelf, Hey there. I’m going to try Pasolini’s ‘Boys Alive’ first just ‘cos Jeff up above pushed me there. I’ll let you know, or you let me know. I haven’t actually seen ‘Crimes of the Future’, strangely. It slipped by, I don’t know why. But I’m definitely on it with your high recommendation. You sound like I remember feeling when I started moving more firmly into writing prose. Watch out, you might be a novelist any day now. It’s not so bad, it’s just a lot more time consuming. I’m excited to read/feel your excitement about that. David just moved back to LA, which is good because I might actually get to see him. I haven’t seen him in person in literally decades. We both had brown hair the last time. I like Michael Mann’s films. Especially his films up through ‘Collateral’. A little less so after that. I weirdly haven’t seen ‘Manhunter’. Kind of a niche thing to say, but he’s kind of the great genius of framing shots. I watch his films, and the way he frames shots makes my jaw drop over and over. Anyway, I’ll add ‘Manhunter’ to my knowledge. Thanks, pal. May your day speed or drift luxuriously by, whichever you prefer. ** Uday, That would be an amazing compliment. ‘The Weir of Hermiston’ is news to me. Huh interesting. Noted. Well, I hope you have the best kind of busy days betwixt now and our next meet up. ** Oscar 🌀, I have a quiet voice too. I think a cone would be best, although I do like what happens to voices when megaphones eat them. But with the bucolic setting, yes, cones of some sort. No, no, I still am a Character.AI virgin, only because a bunch of taxing shit is going on in the atmosphere of my life at the moment, and I know my dip into that realm is going to be a lengthy, foraging one. I’ll get there. Soon I’ll have the weekend. I was going to include that Márquez novel until I saw it’s being published controversially. I don’t know, seems kind of an ugly move to me, but maybe it’s super great? Not sure I’ll be reading it any time soon. I’d say getting yelled at by a cyclist is perhaps close enough. Thank you for that day wish, Given my miserably bad French, that would be quite a surprisingly and lovely turn of events. I hope AC/DC do a free concert in your neighborhood and haul you up on stage to sing ‘Highway to Hell’. I think that song might sound really interesting sung by someone with a quiet voice. ** Okay. Today’s post is one of those posts that needs no further introduction from me. See you tomorrow.