SUMMER 2020 - REDISCOVERING SMITHSON - SOLD OUT

CONCEPTS ARE SO MUCH SLUDGE COLLAPSING DOWN THE SIDE OF MY BRAIN

NEWS: LOUVREWORLD ON LOCKDOWN AFTER BALD TANNED TOURIST WEARING SCARLET WOOL SOCKS WITH YELLOW DIAMONDS, GREEN CORDUROY TROUSERS, BLACK AND WHITE CHEQUERED POLO SHIRT AND A BLUE BELT WITH A PEWTER BUCKLE WITH THE IMAGE OF THE SHADOW OF THE WAXWING SLAIN IS DISCOVERED LYING DEAD ON THE FLOOR OF THE REPLICA SISTINE CHAPEL, STABBED IN THE EYE WITH A PAINT BRUSH BY MICHELANGELO

REFIGURING THE FIGURE OF ART AS A FRAGMENT VIA THE FIGURE OF THE MINIATURE? (LOOKING AT A GRAIN OF SAND AS A GIGANTIC BOULDER: THE WORLD YOU SEE … IT’S JUST A DOT, AND EVERY ART IS REALLY A MINIATURE: WHEN THE EARTH ITSELF BECOMES A MINIATURE, YOU CAN REVERSE IT)

(OUT OF THIS EMERGED THE POSSIBILITY OF SPIRAL JETTY…?): NO IDEAS, NO CONCEPTS, NO SYSTEMS, NO STRUCTURES, NO ABSTRACTIONS COULD HOLD THEMSELVES TOGETHER IN THE ACTUALITY OF THAT GYRATING SPACE - A SITE THAT ENCLOSED ITSELF WITHIN AN IMMENSE ROUNDNESS, THAT REVERBERATED OUT TO THE HORIZONS ONLY TO SUGGEST AN IMMOBILE CYCLONE, WHILE FLICKERING LIGHT MADE THE ENTIRE LANDSCAPE APPEAR TO QUAKE

WANTED: ARTIST-CONSULTANT FOR 1 YEAR (1965-66) CONTRACT TO WORK ALONGSIDE TIPPETTS-ABBETT-MCCARTHY-STRATTON ARCHITECTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF DALLAS/FORT WORTH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

PATERSON, PASSAIC, QUARRIES, STRATAS, SMITHSON, WILLIAMS, FALLS, CRYSTALS, SPIRALS

I THOUGHT OF WRITING MORE AS MATERIAL TO SORT OF PUT TOGETHER PRINTED MATTER

BRINGING LAND ART TO A HOLT? NANCY HOLT’S ‘PHOTOWORKS’ - THE HAUNCH OF VENISON - 2012

'A FABRICATOR OF A MONSTROUS IDEALISM BASED ON GRIM NEO-PLATONIC ETERNITIES'? SMITHSON ON MICHELANGELO

FIELD REPORT - ARTIST HOSPITALISED AFTER BEING DISABUSED OF BAD ROMANTIC ARTIST INDIVIDUALISM AFTER PAYING ‘VISIT’ TO [REDACTED] AND WAKING UP DECADES LATER IN A STATE OF PURE PERCEPTION AT ‘EXPERIENCE’ OF ACTUALITY OF THAT GYRATING SPACE, IN A DARKENED CINEMA AUDITORIUM

NEWS: DEATH BY DISRUPTION OF THE INTERIOR? ARTIST DIES DURING FIELD WORK AFTER BECOMING TRAPPED BY CRUMBLING WALL AND FLOOR OF TUNNEL OF BRITANNIA COPPER MINE CAVE

REVIEW: THE MUSEUM OF THE VOID SHOW: FOUR WORKS OF PASSAGE (FROM PASSAGES IN SCULPTURE) - FORMALIST AESTHETICIST ART CENTRE

NEWS: GETTING EVEN: BROKEN RECORD OR BROKEN SPIRAL? LARGE SPIRAL MOUND SABOTAGED BY DISAVOWED SPIRIT OF BROKEN CIRCLE/SPIRAL HILL

BOOK REVIEW: IN SEARCH OF… MEDIUM? FURTHER VOID THOUGHTS ON MEDIUMS, AFTER A VOYAGE UPON THE NORTH SEA, FROM WHOSE BOURN NO ART CRITIC RETURNS, PUZZLES THE WILL, AND TRIGGERS THE REVELATION OF THE FIVE-STAGE ODYSSEY OF PAST REFLECTIONS ON MEDIUM (AS AN ODYSSEY OF THEORETICAL MANAGEMENT OF HISTORICAL CHANGE); FROM THE TRANSFORMATION OF SCULPTURE FROM A STATIC IDEALIZED MEDIUM TO A TEMPORAL AND MATERIAL ONE, TO SCULPTURE ‘IN’ THE EXPANDED FIELD, TO THE RECOVERY OF A DIFFERENTIATED HISTORY OF MODERNISMS, TO AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE ‘POST-MEDIA CONDITION’ OF ART, IN THE MIDST OF A RAGING STORM, BEFORE DECIDING TO EMBARK INSTEAD UPON THE PROJECT TO ‘REINVENT’ MEDIUM…