Collected Stones is a series of 13 short videos in which stones are thrown at, dropped onto or placed on top of a series of technologies of more recent provenance, such as a telephone, a model boat or a refrigerator. Typically, the stones emerge from these encounters unscathed, while their more delicate counterparts are covered with dents, shattered, or otherwise rendered unsuitable for their normal function. These acts of juxtaposition call attention to the fact that the stones, too, are tools. They have long histories of social usage, but they also exist on a radically different time scale, far beyond that of the human.

From my article about Jimmie Durham’s ‘Collected Stones’ in Metropolis M #3.

My article about Ming Wong’s newly commissioned work for Performa 11 has been published in Moving Image Source.

“If you ask me, someone should buy the entire collection as a piece in and of itself; as a curatorial work, the whole is even greater than the sum of its parts.”

I went to Brooklyn Wednesday evening to think. And not just about anything, but to think political thoughts. Why Brooklyn, Manhattanites might wonder? Hasn’t the Upper West Side traditionally been on the cutting edge of political discourse?

Here’s the link.