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Mlle. Le Renard: Site Specific and Seattle Specific Art
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Thursday, September 22, 2011. Site Specific and Seattle Specific Art. As I get started writing about art in Seattle. I've dragged J along to a number of events, some more successful than the others, and I'm meditating on what is succeeding or not in this particular area. The best art in Seattle seems to be "happening": that is, the work involves an event, interaction, or performance. This, of course, is not unique to the Puget Sound; Roberta Smith just wrote a preview. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Mlle. Le Renard: March 2009
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Monday, March 30, 2009. Space tools: scripts for architectural historians of the future. Last night, I joined J. Not just by a pencil but a bunch of algorithms, a pregiven. Geometry and a certain order in which designers can create form, volume, lighting and texture. (an order quite backwards to which they might work in the 'real' world: volume and texture come at the end for example). So I've been mulling all this over and thinking that Rhino which uses a different geometry and nerbs. I imagine art hist...
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Mlle. Le Renard: June 2011
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011. Is Frankenstein Sci Fi? In the horrible/uncharitable/anti-feminist introduction by Rieger to the edition I’m reading, he claims that we shouldn’t see Frankenstein. As precursor to science fiction because: “The science-fiction writers says, in effect, since x. Has been experimentally proven or theoretically postulated, y. Can be achieved by the following, carefully documented operation. Mary Shelley skips to the outcome and asks, if y. Or Asimov's I, Robot. Perhaps the science fi...
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Mlle. Le Renard: Funhouses and Madhouses
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Friday, August 19, 2011. J and I recently enjoyed these two shows in Seattle: Funhouse, a show at Western Bridge Gallery. Exhibit now closed) in a row of former Capitol Hill residences sponsored by MadArt and 4Culture. Together, these two exhibits point to the strengths and limits of “public” art and gallery-constrained art. Visitors’ reactions to Skyspace could be shouts of “The sky! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 8220;Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative”. Seattle, WA, United States.
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Mlle. Le Renard: July 2009
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Monday, July 13, 2009. On judgment - for John. My new adviser just gutted a poem of mine and gave me some wonderful advice. On a practical level - on the level of judgment - he was totally correct about what the poem needed. But on a theoretical level, I am puzzling about this advice as a general stance. He told me to review the poem and to merely look – as a formalist would – for the strongest language and excise the rest. In one sense, I totally agree: that was what this poem needed. Of course, John...
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Mlle. Le Renard: February 2011
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Sunday, February 20, 2011. There is a roaring in the bleak-grown pines. When Winter lifts his voice; there is a noise. Among immortals when a God gives sign,". Keats, Hyperion. A Fragment. Saturday, February 19, 2011. I’ve just discovered Kay Ryan. Well, really, I’ve heard about her for years, picked up her books and rejected them a dozen times, and now, finally, I’m captivated and compelled by her precision and minimalism. Now, I feel it and it hurts. 8211; like a strained lower back. The poem that real...
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Mlle. Le Renard: April 2011
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Friday, April 15, 2011. We saw Frankenstein by the British National Theater in a film version at SIFF. Last week. I’m afraid it’s leaking into my writing. That’s not inappropriate, but I don’t want to let it color the work too much. It’s exciting to teach that text now because it provokes us to discuss the relation between life and non-life which seems especially pressing in relation to current biological and technological innovation. (And that’s very trendy even to passive students.). Even Victor, the g...
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Mlle. Le Renard: November 2011
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011. This blog has moved permanently to. Http:/ www.kaschaandjohn.com/kascha/? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). 8220;Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative”. Seattle, WA, United States. 1 adj vulpine. 2. noun. writer. phd-ed, mfa-ed and in the midst of jail-breaking her mind and getting back into culture. View my complete profile. Into the Quotidian: Philosophers in Exile. Simple template. Template images by gaffera.
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Mlle. Le Renard: August 2011
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Thursday, August 25, 2011. I'm still trying to get a handle on Jeffery Yang's work. Vanishing-Line. New from Graywolf, took me by surprise after I finished Aquarium. The narrator's vision in Aquarium. Follows both a radically different form and works at a different scale. This is a geographic and wide-lens historical view. I think of slow pan in the opening of vistas of There Will Be Blood. Are well, numerous. (Yang mentions Oppen in this book's bibliographic note and in a poem in Aquarium,. I call these...
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Mlle. Le Renard: April 2009
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009. The inimitable George Oppen. I have been worrying over my lazy, unpolitical, unworldly existence as a poet. occasionally philosophy seems justifiable. But poetry? What do we do for anyone but ourselves? We had dinner with someone who works for the Gates foundation on microloans and savings in Africa who'd just returned from Ethiopia. She may not buy organic vegetables, but her very vocation improves the world. And I. write. So, here are some wise words from M. Oppen:. I've been t...