The Seventy First

Ooh I love a bit of a false archive. I also love song titles like ‘Sweet Divorcee’ and ‘Chapel of Dreams’.

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More about Jamie Shovlin.

Funny. Thanks Vanessa (via Patti). You can see the whole thing here.

Benjamin Alexander Huseby‘s work is why I worked at REP Ltd.

Check out his collaboration with Lars Laumann, ‘You Can’t Pretend To Be Somebody Else – You Already Are’. This is what Ian White (Adjunct Film Curator of the Whitechapel Gallery) said of the work: “It is shot in Ibiza with a cast of three men in drag portraying Nico through her ages and towards her death from a heart attack while cycling on the island. There is no whiff of crass about it. It is an utterly affecting work economically shot and compiled with delicacy, more brilliant because of the strange integrity of its obvious reconstructions and pseudo-symbolic choreography, casually but definitely danced. So rich in light and colour it is as carefully drenched in crystalline melancholy, hope and desire as it is firm in its grip on a very fine line between ludicrous joy, juvenile longing and intelligent, accomplished expression.”

I generally cringe when people use the word ‘crystalline’, other than that I’m in agreement.

A free publication from Hans Ulrich Obrist and others. I picked up the Ryan McGinley issue from the Arnolfini.

HUO interviewed by Christian Boltanski about the Point d’Ironie project here.

Couldn’t find any outtakes of ‘Wild Boy’, but if you get a chance to see it anywhere do (it was in ‘Laughing In A Foreign Language‘ at the Hayward which I thought was pretty brill).