“I am not a member of the RAF” VS "I bought it before Elon went crazy"

So glad we went from screaming into the void to sliding into the abyss

Margret Wittmer plowed the land so Amy Carlson would thrive. The roots of the hippie were tendered by the colonist and once fertilized by fevered dreams of conquest, purpose and renewal, its only destination is always a death cult

This should remain stamped to any urges to turn any event into "a film," and any gesture into "an artwork."

It possibly can't be art opening season without at least one pole dancing performance

His trucker hat getting pompadour-hair heights to fit more and more embroidered insanity

Meanwhile, I've been cathartically roaming dumpsters and bending metal to make these, soon to be sold at BIEST in Berlin biestberlin.com/projects/bie...

Not surprised by Documenta flaunting their live-love-laugh-fascist-feminism with yes we chose the women over admitting to genocide

Matthew Barney talking about his new work: "[it is more about] American football and the pageantry of violence in American contact sports.”

Nothing like a pursuing peace fade-out on a blue backdrop

Contemporary performance has meant the progressive shift of interest from the act announced to the people who attend

George has sourced some rocks and now I need a carver to turn that obsidian rock into a series of scrying mirrors

Playing The Castle, Balabanov (1994) and The Castle, Haneke (1997) simultaneously, on two screens, to get up to date on reality before I head out

The feeling when you leave your apartment to run an errand and you walk past someone leaving their own place and when you are back on that same block once your thing has been taken care of and you cross path again with that same person and you both smile at each other

Cut to the part when Trump and Netanyahu become painters

Summer reading has no season

I'm here to tell you that the true origin of bear vs man lives in Albert Serra's Story of My Death (2013) at 1:45:04

The more residency applications I do the more I'm just compelled to say, give me access to a printer/photocopier and pay me to talk about desire and the residues of images and I'll thrive

I like to think of the rise of alt text / video description giving way to its own genre of long-form writing, something like post-ai introspective-internet autofiction

Thinking of that rendering in the lineage of the Berlin Schloss, or how the aesthetic of hostile architecture stretches from mall-baroque McMansion to Blackstone data center slash Amazon warehouses slash ICE detention centers, all essentially the same motives

"when we avoid Palestine because it’s ‘too controversial,’ we reward the very power structures that rank suffering and refuse to acknowledge Palestinian pain because it unsettles the post-war consensus and Germany’s position within it"

Just opened resartis.org after years of not looking at it and was it always just a rich-artist-airbnb? all places offer no support but mad fees for "the perfect retreat where you're asked to leave an artwork" lol who applies to this shit

Every time I read "condemned in the strongest possible terms" I feel pretty confident the issue is not a term thing

The Real Woman has always been a construct and AI needs to be destroyed

From the panama papers to collateral murder to the epstein files to the iraq war logs to the pentagon papers, the measure of a society is made by how much nothing makes a difference

If you're just fresh off figuring out that both the olympics and the world cup should banned I have news for you

In case you missed it, the ACLU has a petition for payment processors like Mastercard and Visa to stop discriminating against sex workers and content producers. Read it, sign it, please! action.aclu.org/peti...

Starvation amidst visual force-feeding can't be comprehended. Europe knows that summer will bring more cosplay-cheat-related-memes in the live-love-laugh economy so Macron, Steinmeier, Starmer etc can too read their limp fiction at the beach

Read and subscribe and call me by all the names that sound liquid fettesans.substack.com/p/chapter-ei...

If in Berlin tonight: I wrote a new text for this group exhibition The tides of Lethe which runs for one night | 7-10pm | Torstraße 95, D–10119 Berlin | at the invitation of Anastasia Fugger, Giulia Ottavia Frattini, Tim Plamper, and Yorgos Stamkopoulos

It's been said a thousand times, but it is we, more so than the extraordinary steadfast Palestinians, who are showing up dead on every street. We the onlookers are those whose lives are becoming meaningless, because our societies are so fundamentally uncommitted to life.

General strike US discord server of protests by states let's go: generalstrikeus.com/chapters

Every film needs a pastor (preferably a smoker) and a dancing scene

Germany reinforcing its borders between Poland, Czechia, Austria, .. meanwhile Acropolis closes due to scorching heat–most of its visitors are Germans

Which ones of your decades-old screenshots perfectly anticipated what is happening today challenge

I'm very much into the higher power of simulacra, and its disaster invation, and its terrifying power...this is what we should be really concerned about today. -sturtevant in 2008 www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m5X...

La Reprise (Dérive), 260. June 8, 2025. It is now 4h 20min long / it has been 260 weeks of 1 min films. On June 21st, it will be 5 years since I started it all: vimeo.com/1091819768

"The more uncooperative you are, the more you will be accused of aggression and violence. It is therefore imperative that the state not be the arbiter of what violence means among people seeking justice." Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba, Let This Radicalize You

Today marks the wrap on watching the entire Fassbinder filmography. It began on December 16, 2023 with Beware of the holy whore (1971) and ended with The coffee house (1970). I will miss this almost-every-Sunday Rainer-service

Reclaiming all the misused tools of our failed ecology to dismantle the police state

Which Venetian blinds period of Michael Mann are you engulfed in?

I'll give a lecture tonight at Jagoda here in Zagreb about the image, the self, surveillance and intimacy, a work in progress with an origin story in Denmark where I stumbled upon a gossip mirror

The delicate dance of telling the students I teach French to that no, I do not use chatgpt, a tool aiming at annihilating the qualities they were after when they asked me to teach them in the first place is another illustration of no it's fine let me drink my coffee inside this house on fire

Lutz Bacher knew how to wear it

Thinking of letting smoke come out of my window every month, red smoke would mean I'm not paying rent

"But the word "radicalize" feels wrong, seems to imply an element of extremism, as though rage at this kind of blatant hypocrisy is the abnormal thing, when what is plainly abnormal is to accept it." Omar El Akkad

90s nostalgia is a yellow page of paper works by 130 artists presented in a discontinued phone booth. Mine is at the letter S and can be seen until tomorrow in Berlin at the corner of Wildenbruch and Hetzer Str. raumwww.de/pages/die-ge...

In times of muddening (I made this up) inertia, a counter exercise, or le plaisir du texte