Wounded Galaxies

An ongoing series of experimental media events in Bloomington, Indiana

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First Papers of Surrealism (1942) - Marcel Duchamp

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Jazz, Freed: On Cecil Taylor's Expansive Brilliance

Over a career that sprawled across six full decades, Taylor maintained an unwavering standard of expedition. And what he discovered — in an endless, boundless process — was a world unto himself.

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Wilson McLean, 1970

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laboratories in old horror movies

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Pauline Boty (British, 1938-1966), It’s a Man’s World I, 1964. Ol on canvas with collage.

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The Iconising of Angela Davis, From FBI Flyers to Radical Chic Art - Flashbak

On August 18, 1970, Angela Yvonne Davis’s name was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List for kidnapping, murder, and interstate flight. Davis was already a darling of the left for her membership in the Communist Party and outspoken support for the Black Panthers, which caused then-California governor Ronald Reagan to personally orchestrate the … Continue reading "The Iconising of Angela Davis, From FBI Flyers to Radical Chic Art"

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Elaine Mitchener’s ‘Sweet Tooth’

The architect Nicholas Hawksmoor completed St George’s, Bloomsbury, one of his half-dozen London churches, in 1730, at a time when the transport of slaves from Africa to the New World was boo…

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Ivana Karbanová & Jitka Cerhová in “Daisies”

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“The light at Port Matarre is always like this, very heavy and penumbral — do you know Böcklin’s painting, ‘Island of the Dead,’ where the cypresses stand guard above a cliff pierced by a hypogeum, while a storm hovers over the sea?”

J. G. Ballard, The Crystal World

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by Hiroji Kubota

Black Panthers in Chicago, Illinois, 1969.

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Asger Jorn (Return to) the Detested Town 1951

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[Interlude] PSA: The New Situationists exhibition at ProArts in Oakland, CA (through April 28, 2017)

If you are in the Bay Area, I highly encourage you check out this one-of-a-kind exhibition – the first on the “Post-situationist” movement in the United States. Features some item…

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[Interlude] PSA: 1968: Beneath the Paving Stones, the Beach Festival + Symposium (Feb 2018)

WOUNDED GALAXIES 1968: Beneath the Paving Stones, the Beach Festival + Symposium Feb 8-10, 2018 Indiana University Call for Papers The Sixties were a turbulent period, characterized by major revo…

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Be realistic, demand the impossible. - Paris, May 1968

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Mai 1968 by Gökşin Sipahioğlu

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May, 1968 by Marc Riboud