Band of Outsiders’ S/S 12 khaki double-breasted blazer featured in issue 3 of Vaga Magazine.
Gunilla Klingberg, Mantric Mutation (installation view) at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, 2011. Silk-screen printed self-adhesive posters, laser-cut texts in mirror Plexiglas, surveillance mirrors, strip mirrors, and strip lights, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Nordenhake. Photo: Museo Tamayo.
FOCUS SCANDINAVIA: This series of posts, selected by SculptureCenter curator Ruba Katrib, highlights artists she met during her recent research trip funded by the Office for Contemporary Art, Norway (OCA) and International Artists Studio Program, Stockholm (IASPIS).
Ripplewood. Big Sur, California.
We all believe that death is bad. But why is death bad? In thinking about this question, I am simply going to assume that the death of my body is the end of my existence as a person. (If you don’t believe me, read the first nine chapters of my book.) But if death is my end, how can it be bad for me to die? After all, once I’m dead, I don’t exist. If I don’t exist, how can being dead be bad for me? People sometimes respond that death isn’t bad for the person who is dead. Death is bad for the survivors. But I don’t think that can be central to what’s bad about death. Compare two stories. Story 1. Your friend is about to go on the spaceship that is leaving for 100 Earth years to explore a distant solar system. By the time the spaceship comes back, you will be long dead. Worse still, 20 minutes after the ship takes off, all radio contact between the Earth and the ship will be lost until its return. You’re losing all contact with your closest friend. Story 2. The spaceship takes off, and then 25 minutes into the flight, it explodes and everybody on board is killed instantly. Story 2 is worse. But why? It can’t be the separation, because we had that in Story 1. What’s worse is that your friend has died. Admittedly, that is worse for you, too, since you care about your friend. But that upsets you because it is bad for her to have died. But how can it be true that death is bad for the person who dies? (via Is Death Bad for You? - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Magnus Thierfelder, Spring, 2011. Pipes, bucket, water, circulating fountain pump. Courtesy of the artist and ELASTIC, Malmö.
Swedish artist Magnus Thierfelder attended Malmö Konsthögskola and has recently exhibited at Von Bartha Garage, Basel, LaB, Athens, and Skärets Konsthall. Magnus is represented by ELASTIC, Malmö.
FOCUS SCANDINAVIA: This series of posts, selected by SculptureCenter curator Ruba Katrib, highlights artists she met during her recent research trip funded by the Office for Contemporary Art, Norway (OCA) and International Artists Studio Program, Stockholm (IASPIS).
Spectrum 2, 2009
Canadian photographer Jessica Eaton, who recently won the photography prize at the 2012 Hyères Festival, uses her camera to create color invisible to the naked eye. Learn more about how she does it—and why—here.
