Thursday, 18 November 2010

From A to B

We are all so complicated, and then we die. We are a subject one day, with our vanities, our loves, our worries, and then one day, abruptly, we become nothing but an object, an absolutely disgusting pile of shit. We pass very quickly from one stage to the next. It's very bizarre. It will happen to all of us, and fairly soon too. We become an object you can handle like a stone, but a stone that was someone.
—Christian Boltanski

Tuesday, 16 November 2010

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

barbed hula-Sigalit Landau

i saw this film art, in centre de pompidou in paris last year.

mesmerised i wondered who was watching in awe and who in a sick curiosity.
that kind of curiosity which provokes people to slow down as they pass a wreckage, or stare at people in an a&e waiting room. human nature is to be attracted to that which we would never want to see.