Artocratic (Samples and Clues)

This is Artocratic Magazine's fast and fun presence on Tumblr. Here you will find previews of new material and highlights from the archives of www.artocratic.com, as well as other cool stuff we have found on the web, and some of our more spontaneous expressions.

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Interview of Krolikowski Art

In our latest interview, married Ukrainian art team, Alexander and Alexandra Krolikowski discuss metamodernism, life-as-art, post-Soviet Ukraine, eloping, their love for Wes Anderson’s films, the revival of ritual, and the importance of analog film.

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Artocratic editor Linda Ceriello published a piece on Huffington Post on The Walking Dead-- part 1 of a series called “What Popular TV Shows Reveal About Contemporary Views of Religion in Society”  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-ceriello/what-popular-tv-shows-rev_b_10229348.html

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“The Problem and the Solution” by Case Kelly, as seen at Revolution Café in Seattle

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Shapes Attacking Other Shapes!

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In the sense of an artistic event in the modernist avant-garde, a performance foregrounds or "makes strange" the border between life and art; in the happenings and performance art of postmodernism it integrates the human body or subject into an artistic context. The concept of performance I am suggesting ... is, however, a different one. The new notion of performativity serves neither to foreground nor contextualize the subject, but rather to preserve it: the subject is presented (or presents itself) as a holistic, irreducible unit that makes a binding impression on a reader or observer. This holistic incarnation of the subject can, however, only succeed when the subject does not offer a semantically differentiated surface that can be absorbed and dispersed in the surrounding context. For this reason the new subject always appears to the observer as reduced and "solid," as single- or simple-minded and in a certain sense identical with the things it stands for. This closed, simple whole acquires a potency that can almost only be defined in theological terms. For with it is created a refuge in which all those things are brought together that postmodernism and poststructuralism thought definitively dissolved: the telos, the author, belief, love, dogma and much, much more.

Raoul Eshelman, Performatism, or the End of Postmodernism     http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0602/perform.htm 

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From: http://www.artocratic.com/fiction_poetry/1508_billkeys.html

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Songs recorded on a Zoom H4N at Dodgson Wood, Coniston, and London, The British Isles. As part of the Natives residency project.

These songs were written and recorded in 4 days, mostly outside in the woods, near a stream (which you can hear!). Overdubs were done back at home in London.

I’m working on a book documenting the residency which will be out in March, so this is a little preview…

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Cult Cops and Moral Panic in TV’s True Detective

The most popular and compelling horror stories often point to specific fears that lurk deep in the fabric of a culture. The horror genre allows us to imagine what it would look like to have an evil cult hidden in our midst and thereby renders this idea more plausible. True Detective’s first season storyline is a stark example of this process of making fears seem believable....

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One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, 'As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect… .' When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories.

Gabriel García Márquez

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Sylt, Kampen, Dunkle Wolken, Watt (Kampen, Sylt: Dark Clouds, Mudflat) - Wenzel Hablik

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ANDRO WEKUA UNTITLED, 2013/14 OIL, OIL PASTEL, OIL CRAYON, PAINT STICK ON LINEN 58 X 52 CM (FRAMED)

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✓ Mayla Goerisch, The Victory of Love, 2013. acrilic over paper, 34x55cm 

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✓ Lex Lindstrom, An Expression Of Insecurity, 2014. 8" x 11", Sharpie on watercolor paper

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ca. 1870-90s, [advertising cabinet card of a woman wearing a dress affixed with various wares, including nails, spoons, chain links, and a funnel. Inked on verso ‘Irma Z. Smith/Cadillac, Mich.’] Neal & Welsh

via Cowan’s Auctions

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Animated video for "How We Met."  Song by Greg Dember, Illustrations by Holly DeWolf, Motion by Ben Rowe Violet.