#threads. / jonah & violet

[thirtecnth]

@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."

[selfsabotaqe]

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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[selfsabotaqe]

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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[curreres]

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."

"Eager to leave this shitshow? Yeah, I'm eager." Jonah smiled but rolled his eyes, stuffing one hand into his pocket while the other encouraged her toward the exit by the small of her back. "Haven't gotten cute in a long time. Nature is healing. Hell has frozen over." It was funny; he had only been talking to Violet for a day, and it felt like he knew her much longer. Her teasing just didn't bother him at all. "You do know I live in the commune, right? Might be a good idea to take us back to your place."

[thirtecnth]

"Eager to leave this shitshow? Yeah, I'm eager." Jonah smiled but rolled his eyes, stuffing one hand into his pocket while the other encouraged her toward the exit by the small of her back. "Haven't gotten cute in a long time. Nature is healing. Hell has frozen over." It was funny; he had only been talking to Violet for a day, and it felt like he knew her much longer. Her teasing just didn't bother him at all. "You do know I live in the commune, right? Might be a good idea to take us back to your place."

she likes that he jokes with her. things being too serious always make her feel itchy, like things were closing in on her, like she had to run to keep herself safe. jonah has an odd way of balancing the teasing with something softer. that itself is dangerous, and the way she gets butterflies like she's a teenager is also dangerous. and weird. definitely weird. violet ignores the danger signs in her mind, though — she would simply hold back from getting too attached. that was easy. "someone's eager," she teases, though she's smirking as she slides off of the table to stand beside it and look down at jonah, tilting her head some, a clear sign that she's ready to go, too. "i like that. it's a cute look on you."

[curreres]

she likes that he jokes with her. things being too serious always make her feel itchy, like things were closing in on her, like she had to run to keep herself safe. jonah has an odd way of balancing the teasing with something softer. that itself is dangerous, and the way she gets butterflies like she's a teenager is also dangerous. and weird. definitely weird. violet ignores the danger signs in her mind, though — she would simply hold back from getting too attached. that was easy. "someone's eager," she teases, though she's smirking as she slides off of the table to stand beside it and look down at jonah, tilting her head some, a clear sign that she's ready to go, too. "i like that. it's a cute look on you."

A soft, knowing smile fell over Jonah's features as he shrugged. "Actually, it's a threat, but sure, promise works too." He could tell she was stressed, maybe even hoping to joke with him instead of being serious, but he was glad she didn't. Made him feel like she trusted him in some way. "In that case, maybe we should leave him to it, huh?" He asked, gently rubbing his thumb on her thigh. "You wanna get outta here?"

[thirtecnth]

A soft, knowing smile fell over Jonah's features as he shrugged. "Actually, it's a threat, but sure, promise works too." He could tell she was stressed, maybe even hoping to joke with him instead of being serious, but he was glad she didn't. Made him feel like she trusted him in some way. "In that case, maybe we should leave him to it, huh?" He asked, gently rubbing his thumb on her thigh. "You wanna get outta here?"

"oh?" violet raises a brow at the offer, grinning a little. "is that a promise?" his comment makes her pause, though, and her first instinct is to brush it off and joke about it — but then jonah's hand rests on her thigh and she pauses. he'd see right through her anyway, she reasons. "he's having a time, but he'll be alright. i know he wouldn't appreciate me crowding him. i'll bother him another time."

[curreres]

"oh?" violet raises a brow at the offer, grinning a little. "is that a promise?" his comment makes her pause, though, and her first instinct is to brush it off and joke about it — but then jonah's hand rests on her thigh and she pauses. he'd see right through her anyway, she reasons. "he's having a time, but he'll be alright. i know he wouldn't appreciate me crowding him. i'll bother him another time."

Jonah glanced where she nodded, then quickly turned his attention back to her. The few people around didn't bother him, but the fact that she respected his name meant something. "You're right... You can say it louder later. My way of saying thank you." He set his arm on the table beside her, propping his head up on his hand while she spoke. His expression softened. "Was he alright? Did you need to help him still?" He asked, moving his hand from his head to her thigh.

[thirtecnth]

Jonah glanced where she nodded, then quickly turned his attention back to her. The few people around didn't bother him, but the fact that she respected his name meant something. "You're right... You can say it louder later. My way of saying thank you." He set his arm on the table beside her, propping his head up on his hand while she spoke. His expression softened. "Was he alright? Did you need to help him still?" He asked, moving his hand from his head to her thigh.

"you did give me your name. i was under the impression that it's between us, though. can't say it too loud," violet teases — only really half teasing, though, since she really did want to respect his wishes — nodding her head towards the very few stragglers remaining. though to be fair, they aren't very close by. she shrugs. "i was worried about my brother. i wanted to make sure that he was okay." there was more to it than that, of course, but she'd already said more than she typically would. it felt weird.

[curreres]

"you did give me your name. i was under the impression that it's between us, though. can't say it too loud," violet teases — only really half teasing, though, since she really did want to respect his wishes — nodding her head towards the very few stragglers remaining. though to be fair, they aren't very close by. she shrugs. "i was worried about my brother. i wanted to make sure that he was okay." there was more to it than that, of course, but she'd already said more than she typically would. it felt weird.

Jonah shook his head, starting to smile again as he glanced up at her. "Sure, yeah. I've known you for one whole day, but it seemed weird to see you upset." He moved his chair in closer, mirroring her head tilt with one of his own. "I gave you my name for a reason," he stated simply, ignoring her question.

[thirtecnth]

Jonah shook his head, starting to smile again as he glanced up at her. "Sure, yeah. I've known you for one whole day, but it seemed weird to see you upset." He moved his chair in closer, mirroring her head tilt with one of his own. "I gave you my name for a reason," he stated simply, ignoring her question.

violet hadn't been thinking of anything but her brother, if she were being honest — and when she remembers jonah, she assumes that he probably had already headed home. it's not until violet spots him at the table that her step falters, oddly touched that he'd waited for her. that feeling passes quickly (or rather, she shoves it down quickly) as she grins and hops up to sit on the table. "you were worried about me." she states, tilting her head some. "were you spying on me, mr. ghost?"

[curreres]

violet hadn't been thinking of anything but her brother, if she were being honest — and when she remembers jonah, she assumes that he probably had already headed home. it's not until violet spots him at the table that her step falters, oddly touched that he'd waited for her. that feeling passes quickly (or rather, she shoves it down quickly) as she grins and hops up to sit on the table. "you were worried about me." she states, tilting her head some. "were you spying on me, mr. ghost?"

@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."