PALIMPSEST

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain's solo show at the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, 

installation view of 'Palimpsest' video series, each continously looped, 2008.

'Once we acknowledge the constitutive gap between reality and its representation in language or image, we must in principle be open to many different possibilities of representing the real and its memories. This is not to say that anything goes. The question of quality remains one to be decided case by case. But the semiotic gap cannot be closed by any orthodoxy of correct representation.'
-Andreas Huyssen in Present pasts: urban palimpsests and the politics of memory

HOW TO MOURN

How to Mourn
- A review of Barthes' beautiful meditation on the loss of his mother entitled 'Mourning Diary'

See also:

Barthes and Utopia:  space, travel, writing and A lover's Discourse: Fragments http://notearama.blogspot.com/2010/10/notes-on-lovers-discourse.html

SERRE'S ANGELS

via virtualhabits.com

Having spent some time with Serre's Angels, this image of global facebook friendships appears incredibly serresian. This particular (and rather large) social network is made up of exchanges and communications which happen at the speed of light across vast distances - work which indeed, is the work of angels. To read more interesting discussion on Serres' work, visit www.michelserres.blogspot.com

DRAWN OUT

drawing out architectures