Photography from DC’S (Dennis Cooper’s impressive blog)

Jimmie Durham, 2007

Artist poster made for the exhibition Commitment

at Cultuurcentrum Strombeek & Cultuurcentrum Mechelen.

“L’Occident, c’est cette civilisation qui a survécu à toutes les prophéties sur son effondrement par un singulier stratagème. Comme la bourgeoisie a dû se nier en tant que classe pour permettre l’embourgeoisement de la société, de l’ouvrier au baron. Comme le capital a dû se sacrifier en tant que rapport salarial pour s’imposer comme rapport social, devenant ainsi capital culturel et capital santé autant que capital financier. Comme le christianisme a dû se sacrifier en tant que religion pour se survivre comme structure affective, comme injonction diffuse à l’humilité, à la compassion et à l’impuissance, l’Occident s’est sacrifié en tant que civilisation particulière pour s’imposer comme culture universelle. L’opération se résume ainsi : une entité à l’agonie se sacrifie comme contenu pour se survivre en tant que forme.”

Excerpt from L’insurrection qui vient by Comité invisible, La Fabrique édition, 2007.

An English version will be published next Fall on Semiotexte under the title The Coming Insurrection.

Dave Hickey (born circa 1939) is one of the best known American art and cultural critics practising today. He has written for many major American publications including Rolling Stone, Art News, Art in America, Artforum, Harper’s Magazine, and Vanity Fair. He is currently Professor of English at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

Known for his arguments against academicism and in favor of the effects of rough-and-tumble free markets on art, his critical essays have been published in two volumes: The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty and Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy (1997). Through his writing and lecturing, Dave Hickey has gained a substantial international reputation. He has been the subject of profiles in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, U.S. News and World Report, Texas Monthly, and elsewhere. He was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the so-called “genius grant.” (source Wiki)

Mountain Fold Music Journal cover.

MOUNTAIN FOLD is a new, free, and independent music journal from Australia that underlines the influence music can have on the course of your life. The magazine mainly focuses on the Australian indie rock scene today and the first issue features interviews and artworks with and by musiscians/artists like Beaches, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Fabulous Diamonds, Naked on the Vague, and Songs. But MOUNTAIN FOLD knows as well how to rewind history and open territories, as proves the great interview of German electronic musiscian Michael Rother who with Klaus Dinger started together the suggestible krautrock duo NEU! back in the 70’s. –dp

Photography by Max Doyle for the double page spread curated by Songs.

Also if you are in Sidney don’t miss the Mountain Fold Music Journal Launch Party

Sunday April 19th, 4-7pm at Black and Blue Gallery