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Open File: Jean-Luc Nancy - Elliptical Sense
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Sunday, 1 September 2013. Jean-Luc Nancy - Elliptical Sense. Jean-Luc Nancy - Elliptical Sense, Research in Phenomenology. As a chapter in his journal Research in Phenomenology. By Jean-Luc Nancy addresses the work of Jacques Derrida. Aware of their similarities and proximity in writing, Nancy uses this text to explore subtleties of difference between themselves, and consequently the particularity of sense making and definition. Read the full text here. Posted by Jack Brindley. Stuart Croft - Century City.
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Open File: Christian Marclay - The Clock
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Friday, 4 October 2013. Christian Marclay - The Clock. Christian Marclay The Clock. Experimental musician and appropriation filmmaker Christian Marclay's masterpiece The Clock. The clips cycle through rapidly, eliciting a cascade of recognitions and associations in the viewer. The film becomes a meditation on time, cinema and the images that form the collective conscious. Building on previous works such as Telephones. 1995) and Video Quartet. Christian Marclay The Clock. 2010 (excerpt filmed in gallery).
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Open File: Gilles Deleuze - Difference and Repetition
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Saturday, 1 March 2014. Gilles Deleuze - Difference and Repetition. Gilles Deleuze - Difference and Repetition. 1968, trans. 1994. After a string of books on other philosophers - Hume, Nietzsche, Bergson and Spinoza - Difference and repetition marked Gilles Deleuze's first attempt to 'do philosophy' for himself. Deleuze develops the concepts of '. Repetition for itself' in order to. There discusses the image of thought - the 'implicit, tacit or presupposed' image which 'determines our goals when we try t...
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Open File: Jacques Derrida - Differance
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Thursday, 31 October 2013. Jacques Derrida - Differance. 1968, published in Margins of Philosophy. The text linked below is a transcript of a lecture delivered to the Société of The Sorbonne in 1968 in which Derrida talks us through his thinking around this term. The essay draws on the double meaning of the french word diff. In English translated as either to differ. Of language, there are only differences". Derrida places 'differance' here - neither a concept nor a word, but the possibility of conce...
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Open File: I DID, DID I - Curated by Kes Richardson and Darren O'Brien
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Tuesday, 26 November 2013. I DID, DID I - Curated by Kes Richardson and Darren O'Brien. I DID, DID I. Installation view featuring work by Dominic Kennedy, Kes Richardson and Catherine Parsonage. ASC Gallery, London, 2013. I DID, DID. Was an exhibition curated by Kes Richardson and Darren O'Brien,. Staged at ASC Gallery, London, between September 21st and October 26th 2013. The exhibition featured pairs of paintings by Howard Dyke, Kate Groobey, Dominic Kennedy, Catherine Parsonage and Kes Richardson.
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Open File: Nikolaus Gansterer - 'Bureau of Found Appropriations'
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Monday, 6 May 2013. Nikolaus Gansterer - 'Bureau of Found Appropriations'. Bureau of Found Appropriations,. Living in China for three months in 2008. Gansterer explored the Dafen district in the Southern provinces. Here, approximately 10,000 painters live and work. Specializing in specific styles of painting from the old masters to contemporary aesthetics the artists work to produce more than five million copied paintings annually. Making of Mona Lisa, China, 2008. Posted by Jack Brindley.
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Open File: Ben Grosser - Interactive Robotic Painting Machine
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Friday, 12 July 2013. Ben Grosser - Interactive Robotic Painting Machine. Ben Grosser, Interactive Robotic Painting Machine. As a fully automated autonomous device, Grosser's Interactive Robotic Painting Machine. Many of the paintings made by the machine are made with the audio input of Grosser critiquing the robot as it paints. Commenting on how he understands and views the marks as they are being made. Interactive Robotic Painting Machine (2011). Posted by Jack Brindley. Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard.
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Open File: Juneau Projects - The Čapexagon Series
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Tuesday, 18 June 2013. Juneau Projects - The Čapexagon Series. Juneau Projects - Čapexagon 03 (Lickey Hills). Saw the artists trying to paint landscapes en plein air. Using robotic arms. The arms are controlled by a laptop, limiting the time they can spend painting to the battery life of their computers. The set up also allows them to negotiate the dynamics of working together to produce paintings as a duo:. Works, this process is physically manifested in the robotic arm. Posted by Tim Dixon. The Open Fi...
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Open File: Pierre Huyghe & Philippe Parreno - No Ghost Just a Shall
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Sunday, 18 August 2013. Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno - No Ghost Just a Shall. Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno - No Ghost Just a Shell. No Ghost Just a Shell. Marcia Tanner, 2003. Posted by Jack Brindley. The Open File blog is an ongoing curatorial conversation between artist Jack Brindley and curator Tim Dixon. Sean Edwards - Portrait (for a screenplay) of Beth. Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno - No Ghost Just a. Félix Guattari - Machinic Heterogenesis. Catherine Parsonage and Kes Richardson.
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Open File: Félix Gonzáles-Torres - Untitled (Perfect Lovers)
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Thursday, 17 October 2013. Félix Gonzáles-Torres - Untitled (Perfect Lovers). Félix Gonzáles-Torres - Untitled (Perfect Lovers). Made in 1991 by Félix Gonzáles-Torres, Untitled (Perfect Lovers). Uses two identical, shop bought clocks. Displayed adjacent to, and barely touching one another, the two battery-powered clocks were initially set to the same time, but as time passes they inevitably fall further and further out of sync with each one another. Posted by Jack Brindley. Jacques Derrida - Differance.
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