Platform for (un)Solicited Research and Advice

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-Biennials try to tell me what is art, even if it isn’t that nice.

Ideal Media, Biennale Cuvee 10

I could mention several different things that have surprised me for this or that, for more or less logical reasons. Having to think of one I decided to choose this image. It is for me a beautiful image.

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After reading this question I was thinking about my road trip to Morocco that turned out to be a road trip through Andalusia, Spain. After my passport was stolen out of our old camper van. In my mind I passed by the cultural buildings I had seen there: la Alhambra in Granada, la Mezquita in Córdoba and el Archivo del Indio in Seville. Interesting things. Cultural things. Nice things. More »

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Beware of beautiful surroundings. You may be overcome by a sense of melancholy which lurks in the spectacle of such beauty. The melancholy of its impossibility. The beauty of the individual parts, the trees, the grass – her seductive softness, which actually isn’t soft at all but prickly, full of ants and thorns, only the idea of softness – these stir up a longing for a memory in which the grass really is soft, really is green. The sadness has something to do with the impossibility of that memory.

A week ago I was asked for a publication to react visually on the question: ‘What do you like to look at?’ More »

Respond one question at a time, without thinking of the question that follows. You do not need to respond to all of the questions. If you do not like the question that follows, or if it does not suit you, do not go any further.

- Is there anything nice you have seen? (In a general sense, thinking of your experience, of what you have done, seen, read, or lived)

- Are you interested in knowing if what you consider nice is art?

- In which way can you relate the big biennials with the two previous questions?