Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York

This course examines ways of looking and ways of seeing, both personally & professionally as artists and in a larger cultural context. Through field trips to contemporary art and other cultural sites, conversations with visiting critical thinkers and practicioners, readings, discussions, and visual & written responses, we will examine how we look, think, act, create and respond--critically questioning our own artistic practices and ways of looking at the world.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013


New and Unimproved

1. Simplicity

Be present, be kind

Body
Muscle
Bone
Memory

Body as house
Body as horse
Body as hound

Fallen eyelashes

Yellow

Take the stairs

Be the Ninth Symphony
Allegro
Presto
Adagio
Presto Chorus

Embrace great good fortune
Sweat

Embody joy
Accept pain as a way to know all that is not painful

Humility
Sweat
Listen
Hear
Sweat

Know how small you really are
Tremble
Exceed yourself
Hold your basque

Phenomenology:
Consonance/Dissonance

Use your shame

Mathematics:
The time between 2 forms = motion

Orgasm
Quiescence
Be an extremist

Matter does not matter
Gesture is all

Do

Make discipline serve your freedom
Tendu is an expression of infinity

dance

Be relentless and deliberate: a warrior

Giggle
The delight and solace of absurdity 
Butterflies lick us for salt!

The fearful parts of happiness

Look both ways
Invent new sight lines

Burst!

Roll down grassy hills in springtime

Be a machine as needed
Find the off switch

Ask a lot of stupid questions

Be an invitation
Make energy

Touch as a way of seeing

Blue

I don’t know
(Does knowing matter anyway?)

Dissolve into silliness at regular intervals
Nap blatantly
Order the steak AND eat the cake
Turn or into and

Endlessly repeat mundane tasks and learn their beauty

All ideas are stupid

Not being ready

Fade
Sink
Forget

Black

Just like Lala said to me, “It’s a gracious plenty”

Compassion

2. Nothing














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