Tilda. Dreams. Cinema.

The Right to Opacity: On the Otolith Group's Nervus Rerum by T.J. Demos in October, Vol. Summer 2009 (129)

"[Nervus Rerum] is ruled by opacity, by the reverse of transparency, by an obscurity that frustrates knowledge and that assigns to the represented a source of unknowability that is also a sign of potentiality ... "the conundrum of representing Palestine""

beer pyramid as a metaphor for the berlin art scene

orgasim

this definitely hit my Humor-spot!

* taken from Outer Layer facebook photos

C magazine - Contemporary Feminisms issue

This new C issue is amazing. I am floored after only reading the first article on how Lady Gaga appropriates camp to critique the celebrity culture which Gaga herself is part of (the article is by Jen Hutton). Accepting some MTV award this year, Gaga thanked 'god and the gays'.

Deborah Root's poignant piece of writing on Hale Tenger's Strange Fruit also resonates within me:

The piece is extremely beautiful, yet it evokes a certain sad yearning: for innocence, for an undamaged universe. This vision of loss, and the gravity of human experience expressed in this work, has absorbed Tenger's interest for many years. Yet there is no cynicism. Strange Fruit asks for a kind of compassion, and a recognition of the preciousness of the world we inhabit. What creates problems are political and national entities, which turn the Earth on its head. (p. 10)

Cmagazine104, Winter 2009