Art
Artistic Education: Hannes Bok
Space Canon
Hannes Bok’s last published work, a wraparound illustration of Roger Zelazny’s “A Rose for Ecclesiastes,” printed in the November 1963 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Hannes Bok was a seminal figure in early science fiction culture and one of its great artists. An astrology nut and closeted homosexual in the already […]
AH, THE SANGUINE SCENT OF COMPULSIVE SELF-DOCUMENTATION AKA: “if it’s supposed to be camp I think I understand but then again that would eliminate it’s legitimacy as real camp? Nevermind I still don’t get it.”
REFERENCE
“…A sensibility (as distinct from an idea) is one of the hardest things to talk about; but there are special reasons why Camp, in particular, has never been discussed. It is not a natural mode of sensibility, if there be any such. Indeed the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice […]
GOLDEN AGE
PICA
Earlier in the month, I took a short trip to Chicago. I was in town to speak on a panel at ARTCHICAGO, put together by iCI and Jens Hoffmann around some of the ideas brought about by organizing and presenting People’s Biennial. While I was there, I met up with Portland artist and curator Rob […]
TBA GROWTH SPURT
PICA
Over the last month since our early lineup announcement, the TBA schedule has grown by leaps and bounds. One day, you’re working on a small program, and the next thing you know, you have a full-fledged art festival on your hands. They grow up so fast! With general pass sales starting today, we thought it […]
JACKIE GOSS – THE 100TH UNDONE
Projective Verse
http://www.vimeo.com/22294553 Jackie Goss is an artist and educator whose research-driven, animated documentaries and essay films have been screened internationally. Her works are thoughtful, informative and provocative, each bearing a unique personality, rich with asides and deliberate in pacing. This interview with Penny Lane at INCITE tells a lot. Her newest project, The Observers, is beginning […]