Secret Wars
Dear Readers, Proteoscope proudly returns to your pixel screens after a monthlong break, with a new topic to go with our new exhibition. I’m Tom Miller, an anthropologist who studies sound, shamanism, and the history of science. Together with Protean creative director Tammy Pittman, I co-curated Secret Wars, the current exhibition at Proteus Gowanus. I’ll be guest […]
Redaction (-ish)
A short post that got lost in the shuffle as Sandy hit our shores (and basement): If redaction is a conscious removal of words then we can add Ligorano/Reese’s melting ice sculptures to the list. The sculptures in question are hot-topic, push-your-buttons political words created in ice, installed in public locations and left there until […]
Out There (2)
More Redaction Jenny Holzer figured high on the list while thinking about War of Words. I confess that I often utter the words “Abuse of Power Comes as No Surprise” (most often while watching/ reading the news—but perfect for so many occasions). While we didn’t get Holzer’s work for the exhibition, we did obtain a […]
Redaction Part 2
In the War of Words, removing a word can be as potent as adding one. Consider Paula Gaetano Adi’s video documentation of her ongoing performance Pica (on view in War of Words). She calls the performance “an attempt to embody a non-native language.” In this case, the word embody is used quite literally. Each […]
Redaction
Redaction looms large in the War of Words. Words are ingested, negated, excised, crossed out, sliced and melted. It’s not as though we set out to do this, it just happened to work out that way. Interesting. Over the next few posts I’d like to explore this idea a bit by sharing with you some […]
