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Nice light this morning. Open 10 - 17h... #lcarolan (at Newcastle University) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnIzRlaFDSk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pwseosossam2

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An Artist's Beautiful Obsession with Cabinets of Curiosity

Steffen Dam doesn't quite live in the same world as everyone else. For decades, the Danish artist has been creating a veritable Wunderkrammer [sic], or "Cabinet of Curiosities" out of his studio (a former 1930s school house) dedicated to the creation of a whole new genus of sea creatures — all made of gla

See also: 

another ‘brief survey of several contemporary artists using a similar “cabinet of curiosities” approach to their work’ - http://flavorwire.com/586988/creating-the-wunderkammer-in-contemporary-art

and The Zymoglyphic Museum - http://www.zymoglyphic.org/galleries.html

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Emilia Kabakov on Ilya Kabakov's Labyrinth (My Mother's Album) – Tate Etc | Tate

Emilia Kabakov on Ilya Kabakov's Labyrinth (My Mother's Album) – Tate Etc

“[In] 1988, Ilya [Kabakov] created the first version of the installation Labyrinth (My Mother’s Album) – a claustrophobic, maze-like corridor with 76 framed works hung along its walls. These showed images taken by Uncle Juda alongside fragments cut from 1950s Soviet postcards and typed excerpts from his mother’s haunting memoirs. Reflecting Ilya's inability to protect his mother from poverty and homelessness, Labyrinth (My Mother’s Album) is a dialogue – a tribute by a son to his mother, but also to all women in Soviet society.”

Via Colin Pantall

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Lovely surprise! One of Lucy's photos, submitted to the sleep themed #alecsothassignment got an honourable mention! Many thanks @littlebrownmushroom @thisaintartschool and @deichtorhallenhamburg from #lcarolan

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‘The Restaurant of Order Mistakes’ Employs Waiters With Dementia

On Friday last week, a curious restaurant popped up in Tokyo’s Toyosu district. It was called “The Restaurant of Order Mistakes” (注文をまちがえる料理店), a twist on The Restaurant of Many Orders, Kenji Miyazawa’s 1924 tale. Sure, it’s clever, but why a name for a restaurant? Because this pop-up restaurant had an inclusively-driven mission, and had hired waiters with dementia and Alzheimer’s.

The premise of the pop-up restaurant, which was in a trial period from June 2 – June 4, 2017, was that the staff who have dementia may get your order wrong. But if you go in knowing that, it changes your perception about those who suffer from the brain disease and it makes you realize that with a little bit of understanding on our part dementia patients can be functioning members of society.

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Really happy to announce that I've been awarded a bursary by @anartistsinfo to begin developing my DILLIGAF project into a book. #lcarolan

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Installation view, Hanne Darboven, “Kulturegeschichte 1880–1983 (Cultural History 1880–1983)” (1980–83) at Dia:Chelsea (© 2016 Hanne Darboven Foundation, Hamburg/Artists Rights Society, ARS, New York; photo by Bill Jacobson Studio, New York, courtesy Dia Art Foundation, New York).

“Composed of 1,590 sheets, each measuring fifty by seventy centimeters, and nineteen sculptural objects, Cultural History 1880–1983 is one of the most epic works in Darboven’s oeuvre. Weaving together cultural, social, and historical references with autobiographical documents, it synthesizes personal history with collective memory. Deposited among the vast numbers of postcards, pinups of film and rock stars, references to the first and second world wars, geometric diagrams for textile weaving, images of New York doorways and portals, covers of newsmagazines, the contents of an exhibition catalogue of postwar European and American art, and a kitsch literary calendar are extracts from Darboven’s earlier works and mementos of her previous exhibitions.”

[via http://hyperallergic.com/363596/hanne-darboven-reflects-the-infinite-feeling-of-history/]

[see also http://hyperallergic.com/296424/hanne-darboven-repetition/]

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It’s necessary to traverse a fantasy rather than go around it, if you want to unfasten its hold on reality. By moving through it, you have the possibility of understanding what it’s made of. This isn’t my idea; it’s Žižek’s, or Lacan’s, or somebody’s. Anyway, if you can bear to go the whole distance, you’ll discover there’s a void at the center, a huge abyss of nothingness, and that the journey is compelled by nothing more than cheap, everyday props and disposable promises. It’s a little like driving a car, or soloing on guitar—once it’s over, it’s hard to know why you bothered.

Justine Kurland, via http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/61/kurland.php