“Today, some people think that the light of the atom bomb will change the concept of painting once and for all. The eyes that actually saw the light melted out of sheer ecstasy. For one instant, everybody was the same color. It made angels out of everybody.” Willem de Kooning on the radical visuality unleashed … Continue reading Atomic Shadows
“The daytime to me is about total disappearance, because there is an even light that floods everything out, but at nighttime one can light and spot light. So I see the nighttime as being where I can kind of come into my own, and the daytime is about my absence.” Jack Goldstein in ‘Wir Männer … Continue reading Day-Blind
more random notes for Courtisane Festival / Night Vision program. Paul Virilio, interview with Chris Dercon, in Impulse, 12 (4), 1986. “- There is also another reversal, that of day and of night. Is there a link to be made between the day-night relationship and the night bombings of the Second World War and the … Continue reading Blitzkrieg
(Notes for the ‘Night Vision’ program) Excerpt from the article ‘Our Vanishing Night‘ by Verlyn Klinkenborg: “Now most of humanity lives under intersecting domes of reflected, refracted light, of scattering rays from overlit cities and suburbs, from light-flooded highways and factories. Nearly all of nighttime Europe is a nebula of light, as is most of … Continue reading Our Vanishing Night
Documentation of the Impakt Festival will be posted here soon, but as a start here’s a report on the conference, written by Elena Tiis. Sitting in the plush, red chairs at Filmtheater ‘t Hoogt in Utrecht on the 15th of October, I listened in to the lectures of the “Accelerated Living” conference dealing with the … Continue reading Accelerated Living – Conference Report