#threads. / jonah & violet

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@curreres / closed starter / violet mcvries setting: leaving speed dating

When Jonah was finished with his last date, he immediately looked where he assumed Violet would be watching or waiting. When he found she wasn't there at all, he assumed she might have actually gone home with somebody else. But that was when he heard the commotion in the hall and saw her there with someone on the ground... Might as well wait it out, right? See if everything is okay?

He sat at one of the tables and drank his water until eventually, he saw her coming back. He offered a kind of wave then leaned back in his chair. "Hey, you looked like you had your hands full over there..." He said, smiling softly. "Wanted to make sure you were good first instead of just dipping."

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hi everyone! it's been a while & finally i'm making my comeback. work has finally left me some room to breathe so i'll be reappearing on your dash and hopefully getting back into the swing of replies. down below there's a full list of everything currently in my drafts. please let me know whether you'd like to continue or drop these threads. whichever scenario is completely fine and understandable (it's been a hot sec after all), just let me know. if you'd prefer to start something new, we can also do that. feel free to message me or reply to this post anytime. there's no rush at all to make up your mind, but just to start off i'll start with replies for threads people do actively express interest in. so if anything from this list is something you're still excited about, let me know and i'll prioritize. we can always waitlist the other stuff while we feel it out. anyway, let me know, come chat, let me love u down and can't wait to continue writing together. love u all! 💗🥹

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[savetopnow]

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[nofomoartworld]

Hyperallergic: On Life and Work: Hannah Black and Petra Buchegger 

Hannah Black, “Beginning, End, None” (2017), three-screen video projection (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless noted otherwise)

VIENNA — Hannah Black, a British artist in residence in Berlin, set off a furor in March when she circulated a letter demanding that “Open Casket” (2016), Dana Schutz’s partially abstracted painting of the Civil Rights martyr Emmitt Till, be removed from the Whitney Museum’s 2017 Biennial and burned.

Few artists have introduced themselves to the wider art world in a more polarizing way, and when they do, it’s through their art, not their politics. The museum did not remove the painting, but the controversy did raise some important questions about identity, ownership, censorship, and freedom, despite its indefensible premise.

But what of Black’s own art? At the time of the letter, a solo show at Bodega on the Lower East Side had recently closed after receiving a favorable notice in the Village Voice, and she presented a performance piece commissioned by PS1 MoMA’s Sunday Sessions series in April.

My first encounter with Black’s work was on the second sub-level of Vienna’s Mumok (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien), where she is presenting Small Room, an elegant installation of projected videos and latex sculptures. The “small room” of the exhibition title is the biological cell, the basic unit of a living body, through which Black attempts to extrapolate a definition of life.

A wall text describes the three-screen video projection, titled Beginning, End, None (2017), as taking “the apparent neutrality of contemporary biology for a loose meditation on the incommensurability of experience and its descriptors, of life in the abstract and the everyday practice of living.”

This is already something of a mouthful, a hazy metaphysics of the essential and the experiential. But then the text goes on to explain:

Utilizing the common educational metaphor of the cell as a factory, Black compares the biological cell to the history of real prisons and factories — symbols of mass production that stand for the victory of capitalism, social control, and the construction of the individual.

Such sweeping pronouncements always lead to trouble, and “symbols of mass production that stand for the victory of capitalism, social control, and the construction of the individual,” if anything, lack subtlety in their imaginings of a hegemonic, lockstep corporate culture — a picture that a close reading of the news, for better or worse, belies every day.

Black presents her tropes handsomely and wittily, however, and the three-screen format, filled with images of stars and prisons, train rides and factories, is often a pleasure to look at, if a little too in keeping with the conventions of biennale art. At the rear of the room, almost hidden by the screens, a stanchion-like, stand-alone monitor featuring a computer graphic of a rotating wireframe box completes the video-based setup.

But if you turn around, the four latex sculptures are standing behind you with disarming simplicity. Three are hung like sheets on a clothesline in an inverse arrangement to the video screens, with the two flanking sculptures in front and the central one behind, while the screens are installed so that the center is forward and the sides hang back. A fourth latex sheet, off to the right, is draped from an armature like a robe on a towel rack.

Hannah Black, “Small Room,” installation view: “Membrane 2,” “Membrane 1,” “Membrane 3,” (all 2017), latex, wool; “Live” (2017), latex, temporary tattoos

These works carry forward the idea of the cell — the horizontal sheets are called “Membrane” (numbered one through three) and the fourth is called “Live” (all 2017) — which, according to the wall text, springs from “an observation from a biology textbook — ‘No life without a membrane of some kind is known.’” The text goes on to mention the artist’s self-awareness that “this show itself is just one example” of the “the commodification of life and the life sciences.”

The beauty of “Membrane” and “Live,” however, is that you can leave the buzzwords on the wall and gaze at their otherworldly translucency, their ghostly lines, and their enfolded light and shadow, reading whatever you like — or nothing at all — into them.

* * *

Tucked into a side street far from the neon bars and Late-Baroque temples of the Museum District, Galerie Eboran is presenting a small but moving exhibition of sculpture, photography, and video by Petra Buchegger, an Austrian artist born in Graz in 1970. Like Black’s installation, it appears to be bifurcated between media, with three-dimensional objects that would seem unrelated to their accompanying photos and video if not for a underlying vision of the body, the earth, women’s work, and fate that stitches everything together.

The photographs are collectively called “Aprons Knots” (2017), and each consists, as the title suggests, of a soiled strip of plaid fabric torn from an apron and tied into a knot. These quietly dignified objects, stiffened by exposure to the elements, are laid against a white backdrop, not unlike Richard Avedon’s fashion shots of crushed cigarette butts, that highlights every stray thread and every speck of dirt.

Petra Buchegger, “Aprons Knots” (2017), C-print on 3mm Dibond, 40 x 60 cm

As beautiful as these photographs can be on an abstract plane, there’s something about their directness and humility that dissuades you from believing they’re operating on a purely formal level. There has to be some kind of connection to the lived-in world, a context that is supplied in the adjacent room, where the video Falisa Invernadero (2016) depicts an abundance of tomato plants, and apron knots tying the vines together.

Buchegger lives part of the year in the Galician region of Spain, where the video was shot. The women of the region typically wear an amulet around their necks as a good luck charm, which they make out of baked dough in the shape of a hand, a boat, or a sardine. The artist has taken the amulets’ varied forms and enlarged them enormously in relation to the original, but the resulting sculptures, made from styrofoam covered in rock-hard papier mâché, are still very much on a human scale, with most of them the size of a three-year-old child.

Petra Buchegger, “La Mano” (2011), Styrofoam, papier mâché, acrylic (photo by Eva Hradil)

For the most part, the upper portion of the sculpture is painted white, and the lower section is crisply demarcated by a clean, dark color: maroon, black, or blue. The surfaces are scored, crimped, stubbled, and gouged with navel-like holes, as if the artist were trying to retain the idiosyncratic features of the original amulet’s hand-molded baked dough.

The enlargement of everyday objects has been a mainstay of Pop Art and neo-Pop, from Claes Oldenberg to Jeff Koons. And the practice has long been accompanied by a sense of at least gentle satire, as with Oldenberg, if not outright condescension, which many observers, myself included, have attributed to Koons, though he would deny it.

Buchegger’s objects, on the other hand, are genuinely playful, light, and buoyant — due in part to her assertively hand-hewn finish (as opposed to Koons’s superhuman sheen). There is nothing Pop about them, despite the demotic sources of their imagery, because there is nothing ironic about them. They simply hang on the wall, sit on the floor, lean against a column, or lie heaped in a corner, their expansive, spongy forms taking over the room, as if bulging with the good luck ascribed by superstition to the amulets.

Each sculpture seems to contain a dissimilar or opposite entity: the sardines bear a kinship with the hand; the boat might mutate into Jonah’s whale; a green, white, and violet ladder evokes both a garden trellis and a slice of DNA; and a multi-pronged floor piece might be interpreted as a bit of coral, a calcite crystal, or a life-bearing spore. The vitality of the sculptures stand in counterpoint to the forlorn strips of fabric in the photographs, their textures as antithetical as goose down and sandpaper.

Petra Buchegger, “La Barca” (2011), Styrofoam, papier mâché, acrylic (photo by Eva Hradil)

But the beauty of the show is its acceptance of the binary, in which contrasting mediums and conflicting styles are reconciled by the artist’s faith in her subject: life defined by the work needed to sustain it. For the Galicians, who live in the northwestern corner of Spain, sustenance  springs from the soil and the sea. For Buchegger, a respect for — and surrender to — these perpetual cycles has led her to marking their rhythms with amulets and apron strips, while laying claim to the sacredness of time.

Petra Buchegger: An Aesthetic of Existence continues at Galerie Eboran (Stumpergasse 7, Vienna) through May 27.

Hannah Black: Small Room continues at Mumok (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Museumsplatz 1, Vienna) through June 18.

Travel to Vienna and hotel accommodations were provided by Mumok in connection to the opening and symposium of WOMAN: FEMINIST AVANT-GARDE OF THE 1970s, which will be discussed next week.

The post On Life and Work: Hannah Black and Petra Buchegger  appeared first on Hyperallergic.

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just to get a little bit of structure back into my life, under the cut you’ll find a  list of my drafts  that i’ll be working through for the next while. any writing partners are welcome to check  &  let me know if i’ve missed any replies over the past days or weeks. if you think i might have missed anything, please don’t hesitate to lmk because i probably have. i’ll be continuing  all threads  that are stated in this post  &  intend to get through them in the next weeks or so. if you notice anything on here you’ve lost muse for, please don’t fret to tell me. we could drop the thread, or i’d always be down to start something new  &  would be happy to write that for you instead  😌 if we write together  &  your threads / username aren’t on this list, it means i am currently presuming i’ve already replied to our threads. but if you come across this post  &  do remember me owing you, let me know as well and i’ll add it here!

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@lilacwiine. felice  &  drew maya  &  amara malee  &  lale

@gcldcnhour. adora  &  tba  (closed starter reply) knox  &  zoe knox  &  zoe  (second thread) ophelia  &  lachlan gen  &  devrim miriam  &  marisol violet  &  ethan

@inkiidreams. yaritza  &  merve aurelia  &  robin olivia  &  lachlan nova  &  lais

@chronicsunshincs. levi  &  emre

@evcrlasting. ryan  &  aera vanessa  &  cem

@invcntions. ryder  &  kiran toby  &  nadiye jackson  &  dominic dawson  &  teresa lincoln  &  soren closed starter for royal plot we discussed noah  &  emre koa  &  beau

@gardenwalls. rhys  &  nazli mei li  &  fabien

@orbicularia. giselle  &  nikolai sienna  &  julia isaak  &  mariana dylan  &  daphne nora  &  elliott

@fearhidden. henry  &  genevieve ravi  &  leyla

@springbreezc. mick  &  nia mariama  &  leo

@bittersage. adrian  &  leo

@seolinah. hanna  &  wren

@womansound. georgie  &  fabien hayden  &  luna natalie  &  landon

@ofdamnation. elias  &  lainey

@tinkrbell. isabella  &  leo

@turkishdclights. liam  &  tba  (carmela fc) zara  &  aera

@neveraftcr. romy  &  addie starter with song kang fc

@vacationeyes. forest  &  jude frankie  &  emre gus  &  devrim grayson  &  luca tyson  &  xavier

@wutheringdevotion. ginny  &  rowan oliver  &  lachlan monique  &  meera jonah  &  tba  (closed starter reply)

@bextibellicosi. ana  &  tba  (closed starter reply)

@trcasures. iris  &  addie franz  &  aera

@sunstvne. vimala  &  kiran closed starter reply for tony constantin  &  santiago

@silvrmoon. melody  &  tba  (closed starter reply) milo  &  tba  (closed starter reply) kai  &  max  (closed starter reply)

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Jonah playfully scoffed. "Uh-huh. Good luck, I could be immune to every kind you got. It'll be like a fun little game." He had still been taking in his surroundings when she held the glass out for him to take. "I like that you don't shut the fuck up," he said, smiling thanks as he took the glass. "It's cute." As if that was a simple statement, he took a sip from his wine and casually started back to the living room. "You know, I think I was expecting more color around here... Congrats, you threw me off."

"Hey! No ruining the surprise," Violet chastises him playfully, casting a glance at him over her shoulder before redirecting her attention to pouring the two of them a bit of wine. She turns around, meeting him halfway into the kitchen, holding out the glass in offering as she looks him over. Her brows furrow just slightly, head tilting some. "I don't mind that you're quiet. I never shut the fuck up, so." She offers.

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"Hey! No ruining the surprise," Violet chastises him playfully, casting a glance at him over her shoulder before redirecting her attention to pouring the two of them a bit of wine. She turns around, meeting him halfway into the kitchen, holding out the glass in offering as she looks him over. Her brows furrow just slightly, head tilting some. "I don't mind that you're quiet. I never shut the fuck up, so." She offers.

Jonah thought that damn nervous fumbling had gone away years ago, and yet, here it was again. He could have been swallowed up by the Earth and he would have welcomed it. "I'm a quiet guy if you haven't noticed," he replied, following her inside and taking a peek around. Honestly, Jonah hadn't really expected this kind of decor. "Yeah, sure," he called back, still looking around as he walked toward the kitchen. "You're not gonna poison me, right?"

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Jonah thought that damn nervous fumbling had gone away years ago, and yet, here it was again. He could have been swallowed up by the Earth and he would have welcomed it. "I'm a quiet guy if you haven't noticed," he replied, following her inside and taking a peek around. Honestly, Jonah hadn't really expected this kind of decor. "Yeah, sure," he called back, still looking around as he walked toward the kitchen. "You're not gonna poison me, right?"

Violet's definitely a little (or a lot) smug as she leads him to her apartment. "Cat got your tongue?" She asks over her shoulder as she unlocks the door. There's definitely a joke to be made there but she graciously allows him a break as she pushes the door open. It's decorated pretty simply in mostly earth tones, and she doesn't bother to flick on the overhead lights, instead opting to turn on some lamps with softer lighting as she walks. "You want something to drink?" She asks as she strides to the kitchen.

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Violet's definitely a little (or a lot) smug as she leads him to her apartment. "Cat got your tongue?" She asks over her shoulder as she unlocks the door. There's definitely a joke to be made there but she graciously allows him a break as she pushes the door open. It's decorated pretty simply in mostly earth tones, and she doesn't bother to flick on the overhead lights, instead opting to turn on some lamps with softer lighting as she walks. "You want something to drink?" She asks as she strides to the kitchen.

Jonah laughed some, "Gel? What the fuck is the difference?" He was honestly curious now. He knew that wasn't the point and that they really were not going to do nails, but curiosity almost always got the better of him. While he was thinking this over, she stopped in her tracks, and he did too, blinking at her words. He opened his mouth to reply, but words just simply did not come out of him as she turned to walk forward again. "I--...Okay. Yeah. Over there. That's--" With that, he shoved his hands into his pockets and followed after her, heart beating against his ribs.

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Jonah laughed some, "Gel? What the fuck is the difference?" He was honestly curious now. He knew that wasn't the point and that they really were not going to do nails, but curiosity almost always got the better of him. While he was thinking this over, she stopped in her tracks, and he did too, blinking at her words. He opened his mouth to reply, but words just simply did not come out of him as she turned to walk forward again. "I--...Okay. Yeah. Over there. That's--" With that, he shoved his hands into his pockets and followed after her, heart beating against his ribs.

"I knew it. We thinking a gel manicure? It's always so great for nail growth," Of course she knows he can't actually want her to do his nails. Though, oddly enough, she wouldn't be opposed to it if only for the fact that she'd insist on choosing the design. She pauses, brows raising in surprise at both the comment and the placement of his hand — Violet doesn't do well with surprises, though, or being one-upped. "You know what? That's not a bad idea!" She stops in her tracks, turning on her heel to face him. "And I will literally suck the soul out of your back pocket." She turns to walk forward once more, pointing out the apartments in the distance. "It's just over here!"

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"I knew it. We thinking a gel manicure? It's always so great for nail growth," Of course she knows he can't actually want her to do his nails. Though, oddly enough, she wouldn't be opposed to it if only for the fact that she'd insist on choosing the design. She pauses, brows raising in surprise at both the comment and the placement of his hand — Violet doesn't do well with surprises, though, or being one-upped. "You know what? That's not a bad idea!" She stops in her tracks, turning on her heel to face him. "And I will literally suck the soul out of your back pocket." She turns to walk forward once more, pointing out the apartments in the distance. "It's just over here!"

Jonah let out a puff of a sigh from the corner of his mouth, playfully rolling his eyes as he regained composure. He couldn't let her win too much. "Uh-huh, I'm totally thinking about nails. Caught me," he replied, catching her glance. "I have always wanted a cute little nail art manicure..." His hand dipped lower on the small of her back. "I've been told that I give great massages. Humbly, that's all I have to offer in return."

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Jonah let out a puff of a sigh from the corner of his mouth, playfully rolling his eyes as he regained composure. He couldn't let her win too much. "Uh-huh, I'm totally thinking about nails. Caught me," he replied, catching her glance. "I have always wanted a cute little nail art manicure..." His hand dipped lower on the small of her back. "I've been told that I give great massages. Humbly, that's all I have to offer in return."

"Only one? You're a bad negotiator. I was gonna offer both," She grins, clearly pleased with the reaction she'd gotten out of him, looking very, very smug with herself. "But okay. I'm sure you're thinking about nails, if I'm reading you right." She casts another look at him, feigning seriousness. "In fact, you're in luck. I'm very good with my hands. Great attention to detail. Super good for nail art and the like."

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"Only one? You're a bad negotiator. I was gonna offer both," She grins, clearly pleased with the reaction she'd gotten out of him, looking very, very smug with herself. "But okay. I'm sure you're thinking about nails, if I'm reading you right." She casts another look at him, feigning seriousness. "In fact, you're in luck. I'm very good with my hands. Great attention to detail. Super good for nail art and the like."

"It very much is so," Jonah replied, raising a brow right back at her. There was a slight smirk on his face that said otherwise; however, that was all fair game as far as he was concerned. He began to roll his eyes, but that second line of questioning made his eyes go wide for just a split second instead. "Jesus Christ," he said with a chuckle, his composure completely broken. "One of those two. I won't say which one. I like to keep you guessing."

[thirtecnth]

"It very much is so," Jonah replied, raising a brow right back at her. There was a slight smirk on his face that said otherwise; however, that was all fair game as far as he was concerned. He began to roll his eyes, but that second line of questioning made his eyes go wide for just a split second instead. "Jesus Christ," he said with a chuckle, his composure completely broken. "One of those two. I won't say which one. I like to keep you guessing."

"Oh, is that so?" Violet challenges with a raise of her brows. She doesn't question or point out the hand on the small of her back, mostly because she doesn't want him to pull away. It does make her feel oddly smug, though, and she can't quite place why. She tosses a look at him. "Innocent hanging out between friends, huh? What were you looking forward to doing then? Nails? Facials?"

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"Oh, is that so?" Violet challenges with a raise of her brows. She doesn't question or point out the hand on the small of her back, mostly because she doesn't want him to pull away. It does make her feel oddly smug, though, and she can't quite place why. She tosses a look at him. "Innocent hanging out between friends, huh? What were you looking forward to doing then? Nails? Facials?"

Jonah couldn't help but smile as he shook his head at her reaction. He expected nothing less. Hearing his name for the first time was also just funny to him. However, when it continued, he only raised a brow at her and followed in the direction of her nod. "Weird how you think I'm the one being presumptuous when I just want to hang out at your place," he said with a shrug, but he still kept his hand on the small of her back. He honestly didn't even realize he was still doing it. "What's wrong with just hanging out, huh? I'm innocent."

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Jonah couldn't help but smile as he shook his head at her reaction. He expected nothing less. Hearing his name for the first time was also just funny to him. However, when it continued, he only raised a brow at her and followed in the direction of her nod. "Weird how you think I'm the one being presumptuous when I just want to hang out at your place," he said with a shrug, but he still kept his hand on the small of her back. He honestly didn't even realize he was still doing it. "What's wrong with just hanging out, huh? I'm innocent."

Most people get a little frustrated at her teasing, and it's easy for her to push buttons and get a reaction. It's almost second nature at this point. Not with Jonah, though. Maybe to begin with, but now there's something natural about the flow of their banter. She tries not to dwell on how comfortable it feels, how easy it is to fall back into it. She holds open the exit door as she passes through, waiting until he's stepped through as well to allow the door to shut behind her. Violet gasps at the comment. "Jonah! That's so presumptuous," She responds as if scandalized, holding a hand over her chest and clutching her imaginary pearls. "I'm a lady!" Then she pauses and nods in a direction with a little teasing grin. "It's this way."