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unexpected encounters #4: winter
The western portion of the railway (built 1881-1885) was designed to link British Columbia with the rest of the country and improve trade and commerce between Eastern and Western Canada. Andrew Onderdonk, head contractor of the CPR, promised that he would hire white workers for the project … almost immediately, however, many of the white…
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unexpected encounters #3—self-portraits with Cindy Sherman
Je est un autre. Arthur Rimbaud, letter to Georges Izambard, 13 May 1871 3.1 peeping tom. Berlin, March 15, 2016 The stills are dense with suspense and danger, and they all look as if they were directed by Hitchcock. The invariant subject is The Girl in Trouble, even if The Girl herself does not always know it. In Barbie-doll…
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unexpected encounters #2—imaginary, symbolic, real
The Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real are an unholy trinity whose members could as easily be called Fraud, Absence and Impossibility. Wikipedia, “The imaginary (psychoanalysis)” 2.1 cool yourself together. London, July 2001 For Lacan, the driving-force behind the creation of the ego as mirror-image was the prior experience of the phantasy of the fragmented…
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unexpected encounters #1—the gaze
self portrait with Santa Lucia, Siena, March 2001 What too often gets elided from current gaze talk is the possibility of looking as an act of ambivalence. As Frantz Fanon wrote in “Black Skin, White Masks,” his psychoanalytic study of colonialism, even the oppressor’s gaze can be a site of uncertainty; no one’s viewpoint—or projection—is entirely secure…
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unexpected encounters #0 [contents]
A complete transmutation followed by a pure act such as love will necessarily be produced every time that the given facts—the coupling of two realities which apparently cannot be coupled on a plane which apparently is not appropriate to them—render conditions favorable. Max Ernst, quoted in André Breton, “The Surrealist Situation of the Object” CONTENTS…
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Brick Lane, 2018 #2
Whenever we are in London (where I was born) we try to visit Brick Lane in Whitechapel, an area we have watched gentrifying over the years with mixed feelings. But so far, the ever-changing graffiti remains a reliable constant. These images were shot on April 27, 2018.
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Brick Lane, 2018 #1
Whenever we are in London (where I was born) we try to visit Brick Lane in Whitechapel, an area we have watched gentrifying over the years with mixed feelings. But so far, the ever-changing graffiti remains a reliable constant. These images were shot on April 27, 2018. Joe’s Kid Café had now become Pho Village,…
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