Tag Archives: Luc Sante

swizzle swag

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) Tales from the invisible republic. The new old-weird America… about 20 years ago, i worked on my first swizzle stick project. my client/pal dave crider at estrus records decided he wanted swizzle stick to go … Continue reading

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fire fire! your moneys on fire

Should good art always make those in positions of power and privilege feel uncomfortable, squirmy, ill at ease and irritated by pangs of consciousness even if irregular. Or is an art that is ostensibly anti banking and money serve to … Continue reading

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soliloquy: photos of american monologues

Small vignettes that serve as a form of Americana that bend the universal into the national.Taking an extravagant oral style of the past and coaxing it into sensitive human revelation.  Whether one considers them Mark Twain or an even older … Continue reading

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the future is behind us: respeaking

“There is no such thing as coincidence. Only opportunity tempered by experience and fueled by ambition.” ( napier) A selective engagement with irrationality.A narrative of private woe and anguish inserted into the impersonal environment.They appear as neither statement nor question. … Continue reading

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in search of magic: a different route to ecstasy

A route to ecstasy that began by a descent into the demonic. A negative utopia without free will where freedom was attained through an absence of will. … His 1935 production of Cenci was poorly received. Seventeen performances in a … Continue reading

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magic and the fluctuating center

Like a religion it gave birth to several ideal sects. This was precisely because Antonin Artaud’s Theatre of Cruelty was a theoretical, ideal theatre that was never meant to be staged, and Artaud never bothered to explain how to obtain … Continue reading

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THE CELEBRITY OF COMMODITY: Instant Karma of Possession

” Similarly, when Nike introduced a new shoe line “Air Huarache” and wanted to distinguish its sign from those of other shoe lines, Nike adopted John Lennon’s song “Instant Karma” as a starting point for the shoe’s sign value. Nike … Continue reading

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DETONATING VOCABULARY: Invisible Fame Of An Anti-Language

The final paradox of the search for purity is that it is an attempt to force experience into logical categories of non-contradiction. But experience is not amenable and those who make the attempt find themselves led into contradiction. — Mary Douglas A publisher … Continue reading

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ASPIRING ONLY TO SILENCE

In “The Painter of Modern Life,” Baudelaire is the first to define Modernism and does so as a conjunction of the eternal and the ephemeral. To find that element of the eternal in the ephemeral which Baudelaire saw as embodying … Continue reading

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DIDDLERS: SECRETS HIDDEN IN THE SHUFFLE

It’s what  Griel Marcus  termed  “the old, weird America.”; a peculiar terrain, a strange yet familiar backdrop to a common cultural history of America : the “playground of God, Satan, tricksters, Puritans, confidence men, illuminati, braggarts, preachers, anonymous poets of … Continue reading

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