Alexander Keefe

equidistant from eternity

rats, lice and history

I, an American college student, hereby denounce the siege of cawnpore.

@ambercrollo NTA.

i’m just doing my best

@JimmyFalunGong "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself."

indolence, indology

If I were in LA I would go see this today. Last day of Tarrah Krajnak's photographic performance/Installation.

stop by!

lata mangeshkar voice: "dairy khwabon mein jo aaye"

the milk of magnesia

獲得今年阿爾勒攝影節評審團大獎的秘魯裔藝術家拉．卡納克（Tarrah Krajnak），以「大師儀式」系列回應「經典作品」裡的男性視角。其中，她以美國著名攝影家愛德華．韋斯頓（Edward Weston）1920年代的作品為擬仿依據，讓自己入鏡，重新演繹韋斯頓精心營造的人體形貌。vopmagazine.com/darles2021/

Very much looking forward to this conversation with Keliy Anderson-Staley (⁦@KAndersonStaley⁩) & Tarrah Krajnak (⁦@sismos79⁩) in person this Thursday at ⁦@UHouston⁩ Dudley Recital Hall. CONGRATULATIONS on your Guggenheim (⁦@GuggFellows⁩) Keliy!

stephen shore < pauly shore

a bath to the music of drain

(apparently)

richness in stasis > wealth in limbo

TIL (in a Geeta Kapur fn) that Vivan Sundaram and Kumar Shahani collaborated throughout the 1980s on a film treatment of Amrita Sher-Gil's life that was never realized... can't stop thinking how ravishingly beautiful & weird that film would have been

MAR 29-MAY 8: We’re excited to announce the return of STUDIO, our annual program of multidisciplinary work-in-progress! Featuring the work of Tarrah Krajnak, Sara Lyons, Christina Catherine Martinez, Pastiche Queen, The Revolution School, DeLanna Studi. redcat.org/exhibition/stu…

tbf there was a lot of woo woo stuff in SPAN especially in the 70s.. it was the era of "In Search Of" but it was also the era of "Neo-Tantric Painting" and its avid promotion by the Indian state's culture apparatus. Oh! It was also the era of the Emergency. A coincidence, surely.

the bio for the article's author, Claude Alvares, notes that he has also written articles for Quest which... thewire.in/history/cia-sp…

really makes you wonder why SPAN, the USIS propaganda magazine published in India, was *heavily* pushing Castaneda's ideas as late as September of 1976, i.e. right in the middle of the Emergency.. issuu.com/spanmagazine/d… (in fact I can't think of another SPAN article this long)