We Exist is off Arcade Fire’s album Reflektor.
The video follows the story of a young person’s struggle with gender identity. The video features actor Andrew Garfield (aka Spider-Man) and was filmed at this year’s Coachella.
Following his spoken word video for “World Peace Is None of Your Business”, Morrissey has shared one for “The Bullfighter Dies” off his upcoming record. Directed by Natalie Johns, accompanied by only a pianist and a trombone player, the clip finds Morrissey reciting the song’s lyrics in a solemn voice, “Hooray, hooray/ The bullfighter dies,” he says. “And nobody cries/ Because we all want the bull to survive.”
TweetHoward Ursuliak’s pictures from 2002 – 2009, provide an experiential basis for questioning Western traditions of pictorial space and the construction of the viewer whose eye is positioned to observe the world through the viewpoint of the camera and the corresponding photographic image. The principles of perspectivalism; optics and geometric space – and the development of a scientific worldview have given place to this viewer as a subject in relation to an object. And documentary traditions have historically been able to make a claim for objectivity as a witness to truth based, in part, on this kind of technological determinism.
The subjectivity corresponding to this form of objectivity has assumed the character of a universal, interior self, separate from and holding at a distance, the reality of an objectified world. Until recently, this underlying model has also organized forms of knowledge of the natural world and of the ‘other’ that to a great extent have ignored the context of cultural specificity and the localization of lived, embodied experience. Obviously, there is not one, universal form of existence – of existing in space, just as there is not one shared way of understanding what the natural world is. The possibility or extent to which a photographic image can share an existence or form of being, its outside being inside becoming outside, would be a contentious aesthetic consideration that would likely have to be based on an experience of presence, figuration and embodiment. But, perhaps these are just simply a few more left over Western terms, too invested in an earlier form of self to be useful in a contemporary discourse.
Opposite – Post and Field, 2008
Exhibition runs through to June 14th, 2014
Galería Fúcares Madrid
Conde de Xiquena, 12 1º Izq
28004 Madrid
Spain
In 2005, Martine Fougeron began working on a series of portraits of her two teenage sons, Nicolas and Adrien. Fougeron had observed that there was little photographic work that portrayed adolescent boys, and the work that did exist typically portrayed dysfunction and despair. Through her sons, she saw that male adolescence was challenging but also extraordinary, with many moments of celebration, discovery and exuberance. Fougeron set out to present a nuanced portrait of teenage life–one that included the inquisitive energy and fabulous dreams that she witnessed on a daily basis. As the project proceeded, and friends of her sons were drawn into the images, Teen Tribe evolved into something even more complex and insightful. While Fougeron deftly portrays the characteristics of teenage life that she initially set out to capture, she also gets at the compelling dichotomy of adolescence–the struggle to establish a distinct sense of self while closely bonding with a new tribe of friends, classmates and romantic interests. Through this series of portraits, Fougeron poignantly conveys a conflicted and remarkable period of transformation.
The series, which spans early teen years through beginning college, has received numerous awards, and the work has been included in many exhibitions and publications. A number of critics have noted and marveled at Fougeron’s ability to walk the extremely delicate line between parent and social observer. The images have the intimacy and loving eye that a mother might render, but they are also astute and sufficiently objective to give the work a sense of honesty.
Opposite – Adrien’s Big Splash, 2009
Exhibition runs through to June 14th, 2014
Gallery 339
339 South 21st Street
Philadelphia
PA 19103
Jen Davis explained to an interviewer in 2013: “In this body of work, I deal with my insecurities about my body image and the direct correlation between self-perception and the way one is perceived by others.“
Overweight from an early age, Davis knew no different, but by 2002, she began to reflect on her life, telling her story through photographic self portraits, revealing her thoughts and opinions about the society in which we live—a society that dictates beauty based on one’s physical appearance. Originally employing a 4 x 5 view camera, she bravely turned the lens on herself, exploring not only her own insecurities, but also addressing broader societal standards of beauty, and how those rigid strictures impact individual lives. Challenging traditional expectations of female representation, the series continued for eleven years as Davis completed a BFA program at Columbia College Chicago and an MFA program at Yale University in New Haven before moving to New York City.
Commenting upon the formal richness of her self portraits, Davis says: “In retrospect, [I was subconsciously constructing] images that were compelling to look at that would be seductive. The beauty of the picture was in the light and in the use of color—it was beauty that I could control, a world of beauty that I myself created and inhabited. In a way what I was doing was seducing myself. I couldn’t necessarily identify with the idea of someone seeing me as ‘beautiful,’ but I could accept that the pictures that I created and inhabited were. It was a very contradictory experience.”
Opposite – Untitled No. 11, 2005
Exhibition runs through to July 3rd, 2014
ClampArt
521- 531 West 25th Street
New York
NY
10001
Arriving for the first time on stunning High Definition Blu-ray with English 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, this comprehensive collection contains every episode from the complete television series; both the U.S. and international versions of the series’ Pilot; the North American Blu-ray debut of Lynch’s follow-up feature Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me; and nearly 90 minutes of deleted and alternate scenes from the film.
Along with a newly transferred version of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, created from a 4K scan of the original negative, Twin Peak – The Entire Mystery Blu-ray box set boasts the long-awaited missing pieces from the original version of the film – nearly an hour-and-a-half of deleted/alternate scenes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me – often referred to as the “holy grail” of Twin Peaks fandom. This feature-length experience has been directed and edited by Lynch exclusively for this release. Capping off more than 30 deleted/alternate scenes is an epilogue providing a fascinating glimpse beyond the cliffhanger finale of the TV series.
Released on July 29th, order here
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