Writings on Art from Central Europe and Beyond
- Gone Fishin’
Actually, I’m working on a novel.
See you in August.
- Roman Holiday: A Travel Journal
Roman Holiday: A Travel Journal
ARRIVAL
Thought I could keep everything intact - a towel? That won’t absorb my lust. I am holding onto you anyway. Fantasize a way of life like on TV. Wait, that’s not fantasy. Two ducks doing their mating dance outside my window, reminds me that I’m still in love with love. Not […]
- Dagger
Words: Heidi James
Visual: Matthew Coleman
- Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park
Sometimes, it rather surprises me how stupid Europeans can be in their generalizing interpretations of American art and culture. It doesn’t really surprise me to hear that Gus van Sant’s latest film, Paranoid Park, was a big hit in France. The French love cliché representations of Americans - from Baudrillard on down - which they […]
- You’ll Know What to Do: Vaginal Davis Guides Us into Summer
The maverick terrorist drag artist Vaginal Davis was recently enlisted by the Berlin art academy at Weissensee to submit a select group of students to a sort of week-long avant-garde boot camp, the result of which was a one-off performance, You’ll Know What to Do, which took place last Friday, May 23rd, at the Raumerweiterungshalle, […]
- Jarman, Julien, Wittgenstein, Martians
Of all the possible mediums he could have chosen, it is somehow curious that Derek Jarman decided to become a filmmaker. He didn’t just do film, of course, but it is for his films that he is best known. Perhaps you get the feeling, when watching some of these movies, that they should have been […]
- Alien Insurrection: A Note on Theory
I’ve been reading off and on this since shortly after I attended the Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art exhibition in London. I was intrigued by the title, so I picked it up. I have to say, I’m finding it quite dull. Theory seems to do little more than ruin one’s experience of a work […]
- Rauschenberg: 1925-2008
It’s hard not to fall into the trap of thinking about Robert Rauschenberg from a historical perspective. Like two of his lovers, Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly, he is frequently seen as a transitional figure, and perhaps more than the others, he was the artist whose work formed a bridge from the Abstract Expressionism of […]
- Institutional Ineptitude: An Open Letter to the Deutsche Guggenheim
Dear Sir or Madam,
Today, I attempted to attend your current exhibition, Freisteller, with the intention of reviewing it for the web site, disorientations.com. Upon presenting my international press card to your employee, Heike Schlenger, I was told that it is not valid at your institution. I was quite surprised as, having traveled throughout many countries, […]
Disorientations.com is Travis Jeppesen.