Bourriaud

lecture: http://vimeo.com/28525645

and discussion: http://vimeo.com/28529252

reading: altermodern

Marcel Duchamp

I finished reading TJ Demos's The exile of Marcel Duchamp last week, it was such as interesting read..

I read something about richard hamilton working together with duchamp on a project..need to research this more..

also trying to find this book: the duchamp effect

Anish Kapoor Leviathan

crazy size but i wonder how it would feel like to be inside..

http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/the-ticket/2011/05/anish-kapoors-leviathan-at-par.html

Queer intersections archive vancouver

i just found this really valuable source..such a shame i missed it as it just happened 2 months ago! in feb in vancouver:

http://performance.gruntarchives.org/index.html

also just discovered the wonders of e-flux magazine..theres an online source too..

Opium Dens

just read a scholarly text..suggesting opium dens as potential or is as queer diasporic space..potential project in a social space kinda way..

google images below

Artists

Isa Genzken- elephant

Jessica Stockholder

Patrick Hill

Tannatt

also here: http://michael-crowe.blogspot.ca/2009/03/mateo-tannatt-ryan-johnson-rachel.html

I like all the works on this page: http://www.yorku.ca/yamlau/3024A.html

Currently reading more trinh minh ha: http://ruelleelectrique.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/when-we-talk-about-language-we-also-talk-about-silence-trinh-t-minh-ha-at-moes-in-berkeley-delayed-write-up/

and:http://vimeo.com/28093375

and: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZv9WHaB1QI&feature=related

Found out grunt galleries queer intersections archive: http://performance.gruntarchives.org/essay-queer-intersections.html

Politics of cultural memory symposium booklet: http://www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/visualculture/locationmemory/conference2004/Handbook.pdf

I was also looking alot at felix gonzales torres' work and this impact upon danh vo's work..theres a pdf online of him talking about it.

Felix Gonzales Torres

Above: Portrait of Ross

photography

nan goldin
diane arbus
larry clark

nikki s lee