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Society of the Micro-Spectacle
Via rhizome.org
May 7
Instead of overcoming the spectacle Debord wrote of, the Internet makes it “microscopic and distribute[s] it,” says McKenzie Wark on The Spectacle of Disintegration. “We have micro-spectacular relations rather than one big macro one.”
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No Jaunty Handclaps
Via thestoolpigeon.co.uk
May 7
Enamored by achingly beautiful deconstructionist pop? How about whiskey-soaked vocals? Jaunty handclaps? The Stool Pigeon takes “a magical journey through clichés as we look at the drivel that’s dearest to music writers’ hearts.”
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Art News from Elsewhere
True Punk
Via guardian.co.uk
May 7
Themed “Punk: Chaos to Couture,” the Met Ball saw the real deal in attendee Vivienne Westwood. Instead of donning era-appropriate zippers and pins, the fashion designer showed up with a laminated photo of Army whistleblower Bradley Manning with the word “truth.”
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Seeing Through Geoff McFetridge’s Eyes
Walker Channel
May 7
When considering how to creatively fill the 1,300-foot-long construction fencing encircling the Walker, LA-based designer Geoff McFetridge thought of a filmstrip. “When you see an image, you understand the two things on either side of it work with it, and you start animating it in your head,” he says in a new video. “You’re finishing the graphic in your mind.”
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Blogs
LISTENING MIX // Grouper
The Green Room
May 7
LISTENING MIX provides a musical preview for artists visiting the Walker. Combining their work with sounds from a variety of contextual sources, LISTENING MIX can be experienced before or after a performance. Get acquainted with the pensive sounds of Grouper (Liz Harris) before she performs in the Walker galleries Thursday, May 9. Free and open to the […]
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Culture of Courtesy
Via brooklynrail.org
May 6
The Walker’s Painter Painter exhibition reflects “the current vogue for the open-ended, dialogic,” writes Christina Schmid. “Yet what Nicolas Bourriaud has dubbed the ‘culture of courtesy’ ensures that moments of genuine friction remain rare.”
