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16th June 2013

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Bodies lie in the bright grass… from Survival Series by Jenny Holzer, 1983-85 
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Bodies lie in the bright grass… from Survival Series by Jenny Holzer, 1983-85 

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3rd June 2013

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Words too can be wrung from us like a cry from that space which doesn’t seem to be the body nor a metaphor curving into perspective. Rather the thickness silence gains when pressed. The ghosts of grammar veer toward shape while my hopes still lie embedded in a quiet myopia from which they don’t want to arise. The mistake is to look for explanations where we should just watch the slow fuse burning. Nerve of confession. What we let go we let go.
— Rosmarie Waldrop, Lawn of Excluded Middle

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12th May 2013

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There is horror in being: this horror is repugnant animality; this does not repel me, on the contrary, I thirst for it; far from escaping, I may resolutely quench my thirst with this horror … for this I have filthy words at my disposal, words that sharpen the feeling I have of touching on the intolerable secret of being … at this moment I no longer doubt that I am embracing the totality without which I was only outside: I reach orgasm.

Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share, translation by Rowan G. Tepper

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22nd April 2013

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How the words are. Suspended around you. And. Bones in the body.

Rosmarie Waldrop, Blindsight

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17th April 2013

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In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive and You Were Full of Joy from Survival Series by Jenny Holzer, 1983-85 (published 1991) 
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In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive and You Were Full of Joy from Survival Series by Jenny Holzer, 1983-85 (published 1991) 

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9th April 2013

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Then People Forget You by Robert Heinecken, 1965
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Then People Forget You by Robert Heinecken, 1965

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5th April 2013

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Someone wants to cut a hole in you… from Living Series by Jenny Holzer, 1981
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Someone wants to cut a hole in you… from Living Series by Jenny Holzer, 1981

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2nd April 2013

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Sans titre by Marcel Mariën, 1955
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Sans titre by Marcel Mariën, 1955

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25th March 2013

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When you’ve been someplace… from Living Series by Jenny Holzer, 1981
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When you’ve been someplace… from Living Series by Jenny Holzer, 1981

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21st March 2013

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Laugh hard at the… from Living Series by Jenny Holzer, 1983-1985
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Laugh hard at the… from Living Series by Jenny Holzer, 1983-1985

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