A kind of a "dangerous supplement", marked, scarred on a body, post-orgasmically, always, already in anticipation of (a) crisis OR for a desert avec 'agape'. Mindb(l)ogg(l)ing Noise. "Avalanche, would you share my last pursuit?" (Baudelaire)

Thursday, January 08, 2015

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Monday, December 08, 2014

Savoy Gardens

Let us begin

And back when I was 8 I'd sit outside on an old milk crate 
And look out at the world from the stoop across the street 
The boomboxes and the hot concrete...

Saturday, December 06, 2014

Thursday, December 04, 2014

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Tuesday, October 07, 2014

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

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Friday, August 30, 2013

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)

Write whatever you like!

Monday, November 12, 2012

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Monday, October 01, 2012

Monday, September 10, 2012

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Pale carnage beneath bright mist




Who to reedmemember they abceuses whild εδώ που μάθανε τα μάτια μας να κλαίνε / που συνηθίσαμε σε κάλπικους καιρούς dingin dayingout of moths dry to the nth and the again, thy again, they again, a gain, a loss and whose, a hose, a pipe, pipe up and wildstle syndesmoid, bleuow, inns and outings, touche, once a drain, the day conmemo ro-ro,write, to right oh lose not time, immermdicable bleack, εδώ κι οι πίκρες που μας θέλουν και τις θέλουμε. Shan't we, shan't we, shan't we? "I never thought it would become a record of what's been lost this quickly. Maybe I'll catch you in London sometime for a toast to a lost city." Dean Street. Slainte! Shhh! Πώς η ανάγκη γίνεται ιστορία πώς η ιστορία γίνεται σιωπή. Pound 'er pound the pavemints. Ah! Oh! Ouch! Out. Speat. Spate, eta, η, Ή, or yet comma till the teal cashes rovers for tea and tree εν τόπο αναψύξεως, Ι.6, Αtten.ς

Friday, December 16, 2011

Christopher Hitchens: 13 April 1949 - 15 December 2011

"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks."

Saturday, November 05, 2011

Allegories Of Rescue



* Four years later, on the 3rd March 1972, Pruitt-Igoe famously enacted the death of modernism. Its architect, Monoru Yamasaki, had already designed the World Trade Center complex, which opened on the 4th April 1973.

Friday, October 21, 2011

Auscultatory

I'll show you houses of architectural renown / Some are still standing, some have fallen down

Sunday, September 25, 2011


Untitled (Ο Θεός Μαζί Σας), 2011

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Friday, September 23, 2011

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Now will you listen?



"For better or worse, the buildings of the 1960s were designed from the inside out. Even the most reviled of blocks contain spacious apartments. Even the most alarming crumbling concrete hulks have residents who will say: 'But they're lovely inside.'
The new blocks are designed from the outside in, irregular windows and brightly-coloured cladding hide the tiny, mean proportions and a total lack of planning for human use."

Nasty, Short and Brutalist on the BBC. Tune in.

Barcelona In Pieces

"Gaudi used psychiatric hospital and its patients as his test bed."


Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Tuesday, July 12, 2011


Click, click...

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Tuesday, July 05, 2011

After Cy Twombly (1928-2011)


Cy Twombly, Pan (Part II), 1980, Acrylic on paper, 59 cm x 59 cm



Tacita Dean, Kodak, 2006, (Extract)

Friday, June 24, 2011

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Past Lives


Gil Scott-Heron 1949-2011

Thursday, May 26, 2011

The Shistonmou Song

Books For The Beach Hotel


Owen Hatherley*, Uncommon
The history of Pulp via pop, class war and the erotic city.


"This book is a small marvel. Even within the most ambiguous cultural flowering, something transcendent is cached. Owen Hatherley knows this. Possessed of an architect's clarity and a modernist's astringent vision, he draws forth the the paradoxical and brilliant core of Britpop, and restores Pulp's contradictory genius to its proper place in history. Behind the Blairite swagger of Cool Britannia and the spackle of commercial spectacle, Hatherley finds the truth of pop culture and social antagonism, entangled with the glory and oddity of Pulp's musical career and evanescent fame. Elegant about the songs, lucid about the band's warped trajectory, and incisive about the politics of daily life coiled within the sound and lyrics and moment, Hatherley chronicles the adventures of the Sheffield gang and their "class war casanova" who came forth as the truth of a deeply false moment, bad faith you could dance to, a dialectical verdict on a singular passage in time."
Joshua Clover


*Owen Hatherley is also the multi-blogger behind the architectonic polemics of Nasty, Brutalist and Short, and others.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Lefkara and Free Market Economics


Alana Kakoyiannis, A Frayed Tradition, 2011

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Saturday, May 07, 2011

Thursday, May 05, 2011

Constantinos Taliotis, MERCEDES, 5-20 May 2011, APOTHEKE



Κωνσταντίνος Ταλιώτης
MERCEDES
5-20 Μαϊου 2011

Ο Κωνσταντίνος Ταλιώτης επιστρέφει στην APOTHEKE μετά από δύο χρόνια, με την καινούργια δουλειά υπό τον τίτλο MERCEDES.

Έχοντας διερευνήσει μεσώ της πιο πρόσφατης δουλειάς του τις έννοιες της ιστορικότητας, της αφηγηματικότητας καθώς και την αισθητική και την ηθική που διαπνέει τα Β-movies, το MERCEDES του Κωνσταντίνου Ταλιώτη «αιωρείται» μεταξύ objet trouve και εγκατάστασης, μεταξύ του κινηματογραφικού και του αρχειακού, μεταξύ του prop και του «πραγματικού». Με εσκεμμένη περιφρόνηση προς τον ενικό του νοήματος, το MERCEDES εξετάζει πρώτα και κύρια την προβληματική προνομιακή θέση του μοναδικού, του αυθεντικού έργου τέχνης, χωρίς ωστόσο να οπισθοχωρεί ουτοπικά προς τη συνεργασία και το 'σχεσιακό'. Ναρκοθετώντας επιθυμίες ιδιοκτησίας, κατηγοριοποίησης και καταλογογράφησης, το έργο του Ταλιώτη αντί να διαστέλλει το χώρο της γκαλερί τον ακυρώνει μέσω της εκμετάλλευσης της πολιτικής και της ιστορίας του χώρου, στην περίπτωση αυτή, της APOTHEKE. Την ίδια στιγμή,το MERCEDES είναι αυτό καθ' εαυτό έργο του Κωνσταντίνου Ταλίωτη, μια χαρακτηριστικά προσεκτική σκηνοθετημένη επισκόπηση των αναδιπλώσεων του design στην Τέχνη και τις -συχνά δανεικές- συζητήσεις περί αυτής.
Ανοιχτά κριτικό, το MERCEDES είναι ένα έργο το οποίο επαναεπιβεβαιώνει την παρουσία του στη μειονότητα των πλέον σημαντικών σύγχρονων Κύπριων διεπιστημονικών παραγωγών πολιτισμού.

Ο Κωνσταντίνος Ταλιώτης (1983) ζει και εργάζεται στην Αθήνα και τη Λευκωσία. Τα τελευταία χρόνια η δουλειά του έχει παρουσιαστεί σε ατομικές και ομαδικές εκθέσεις στη Λευκωσία (War Fever, Κέντρο Τεχνών Λευκωσίας, Love at last sight, APOTHEKE), την Αθήνα (Kappatos Gallery, Art Athina), το Λονδίνο (Fold Gallery, The London Art Fair) και την Βενετία (Arte Laguna Art Prize).

Κωνσταντίνος Ταλιώτης
MERCEDES
5-20 Μαϊου 2011
Εγκαίνια: 5 Μαϊου 2011, 20:00
Διάρκεια Έκθεσης: 5-20 Μαϊου 2011, Δευτέρα- Σάββατο, 17:00-21:00
Πληροφορίες: 99764816 / www.apothekecontemporaryarts.com

*H ΑPOTHEKE θα λάβει μέρος και στην φετινή ART ATHINA, από της 12-15 Μαϊου 2011, με έργα της Μαρίας Τουμάζου και Μαρίας Αναστασίου.





Constantinos Taliotis
MERCEDES
5-20 May 2011
APOTHEKE


Constantinos Taliotis returns to APOTHEKE two years after his critically acclaimed show 'Love At Last Sight' with 'MERCEDES', opening on Thursday, 5th May 2011.

Having in his most recent practise explored notions of historicity, narrativity and the aesthetics and ethics of B-movies, Constantinos Taliotis' 'MERCEDES' hovers between installation and objet trouve, the cinematic and the archival, the prop and the 'real'. With an intentional disregard to the singular Taliotis' 'MERCEDES' questions first and foremost the privileged position of the individualist work of art, without however regressing to the utopia of the 'collaborative' or the 'relational'. Mining desires of ownership, categorisation and cataloguing, Taliotis' work implodes, rather than expands, the gallery space in its exploitation of the politics and history of, in this case, APOTHEKE. At the same time, 'MERCEDES' is a Constantinos Taliotis' work through and through, not least in its survey of how the design item is convolutedly multi-folded into art and its – often appropriated – debates, and its attentive staging. Unresolvedly critical 'MERCEDES' is a work which reaffirms Constantinos Taliotis as one of the most important transdisciplinary contemporary cultural producers from Cyprus.


Constantinos Taliotis (b. 1983) lives and works in Athens, Greece and Nicosia, Cyprus. In the past two years, Taliotis’ work has been exhibited in group and solo shows in Nicosia (War Fever, Nicosia Municipal Art Centre, Love at last sight, APOTHEKE), Athens (Kappatos Gallery, Art Athina), London (Fold Gallery, The London Art Fair) and Venice (Arte Laguna Art Prize).


Constantinos Taliotis
MERCEDES
5-20 May 2011
Opening: Thursday, 5th May 2011, 20:00
Duration: 5-20 May 2011, Monday- Saturday, 17:00-21:00
APOTHEKE
23 Kleanthis Christofides Street, Off Lefkonos Street, Nicosia
Info: 99764816 / www.apothekecontemporaryarts.com


*APOTHEKE will also be participating at ART ATHINA 2011, in Athens, from the 12th to the 15th May 2011, with new works by Maria Toumazou and Maria Anastassiou.

Thursday, April 28, 2011


fig 1, Black ink on left arm, Artist: Giulio at The Family Business, EC1R 4QE, London, 28th April 2011.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Κοντάκιον

"Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself." Andre Breton

Monday, April 18, 2011

Rethinking Cat Stevens

Or Electro-Disco Is A Cypriot's Invention



"It has been said that this could be the first ever electro track from way back in 1977. It even has the dog barks that became so synonymous with many electro tracks of the 80's. A classic and quite possibly seminal electro track. A&M records Catalogue 1971-S."


"Although this single did not come out until November 1977, the album which spawned this track (Izitso) was released April 1977 (some sources say May).
Although 50% of the Proto-Electro of the 70's is an offshoot of Kraut-Rock turned Space-Disco, the other 50% is an offshoot of Funk-Jazz. Being Chick Corea (of Miles Davis's Bitches Brew album) is largely featured on this track, one can tie this to the Proto-Electro lineage that includes other Jazz luminaries as Herbie Hancock and Lionel Hampton, leading to Tyrone Brunson and Paul Hardcastle. In contrast to this track, the remainder of the album was backed by the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section."

"As history goes, "Was Dog A Doughnut" is not recognized as one of the most important Electronic records ever made. People always give Kraftwerk's "Trans Europe Express" a name-check for that. But Cat Stevens did produce this track without hearing Kraftwerk. This could be the first Electronic record ever recorded and Cat Stevens was known as a Folk/Rock artist and not a forefather of Electronic Music. On this 1977 release we have the prototype electro track, one that pre-dates Giorgio Moroder, Kraftwerk and YMO. We have a timeless classic here, Moog eruptions and electronic drum programming which arrived 5 years prior to The Roland 808. We have the Dog Barks, which became the electro standard in 1982, we have Mantronix and Freddy Fresh, name-checking it, while Jellybean did his own cover version, yet people still do not know...."
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The End of Youth

Thursday, April 14, 2011

The Way To Love

For being in love is to be relieved of gravity.



Scene from the 1984 film Τρελλός απο Αγάπη.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

The APOTHEKE Revolutionary Anthem



Untitled (Getting off the bus at Nicosia International Airport), 2011

Monday, April 11, 2011

Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Past Tenses



Μαρία Αναστασίου
HERE , THIS TIME, A TERRIBLE BEAUTY
7-22 Απριλίου 2011

Με την ευρηματική εγκατάσταση της νεαρής δημιουργού Μαρίας Αναστασίου, Here, This Time. A Terrible Beauty, εγκαινιάζεται το πρόγραμμα εκθέσεων της APOTHEKE, για το 2011.

Προφητικά γοητευμένη από την διάδοση φυσικών καταστροφών δια μέσου των εικόνων, η νεάρη Κυπρια δημιουργός, βραβεύμενη με το Deutche Bank Award for Art, διερευνά στο έργο της την ιδιοσυγρασία και τις τάσεις κατανάλωσης του οπτικού.
Αντιλαμβανώμενη την στιγμή της εννοιολογικής κατανόησης, το 'περιεχόμενο', ως απλα αλλη μια επιφάνεια, μια διαστρεβλωμένη τέταρτη διάσταση, εξ ίσου μετατοπισμένη απο το γεγονός και τυφλωμένη από το φένεσθαι , η δουλειά της Μαρίας Αναστασίου με τίτλο Here, This Time. A Terrible Beauty, εξερευνά την φύση του θεάματος, και το θέαμα της φύσης, ως ένα άμεσο υπολειμμα, ένα αρχείο που θα μπορούσε να αποσαφηνίσει, προσωρινά και ατελώς, τη διαρκή εναλλασόμενη σχέση μας με την πράξη του βλέπειν.

Η Μαρία Αναστασίου αποφοίτησε από το Royal College of Art του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου, έχωντας ήδη βραβευτεί για τη δουλεία της με το Deutche Bank Award for Art, το 2010. Έργα της έχουν παρουσιαστεί στο British Film Institute, στο Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow και την γκαλερί Chisenhale στο Λονδινο. Ζεί και εργάζεται στο Λονδίνο.

Μαρία Αναστασίου, Here, This Time, A Terrible Beauty
Εγκαίνια: Πέμπτη, 7 Απριλίου 2011, 20:00
Διάρκεια Έκθεσης: 7-22 Απριλίου 2011, Δευτέρα -Σάββατο, 17:00-21:00
APOTHEKE
Κλεάνθη Χριστοφίδη 23, Πάροδος Λεύκωνος, Λευκωσία
Πληροφορίες: 99764816 / www.apothekecontemporaryarts.com

Στις 5 Μαϊου η APOTHEKE παρουσιαζει την καινούργια έκθεση του Κωνσταντίνου Ταλιώτης με τίτλο MERCEDES.
H ΑPOTHEKE θα λάβει μέρος και στην φετινή ART ATHINA, απο της 12-15 Μαϊου 2011, με έργα της Μαρίας Τουμάζου και Μαρίας Αναστασίου.



Maria Anastassiou
HERE, THIS TIME, A TERRIBLE BEAUTY
7-22 April 2011


APOTHEKE kicks off its 2011 programme with the innovative film work Here, This Time, A Terrible Beauty, by Maria Anastassiou.

Prophetically intrigued by the proliferating visual dissemination of natural disasters, the young Cypriot Deutche Bank awarded artist's work engages with the temperament and trends of the consumption of images. Understanding the moment of present meaning, of 'content', as a mere surface effect, a distorted fourth panel, removed from the event and fascinated by appearance, Maria Anastassiou's film work Here, This Time, A Terrible Beauty explores the nature of spectacle, and the spectacle of nature as an immediate relic, an archive that could imperfectly unlock our ever-changing relationship with the act of seeing.

Maria Anastassiou graduated from the Royal College of Art, having already been awarded the Deutche Bank Award for Art, in 2010. Her work has been exhibited amongst others at the British Film Institute, the Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow and the Chisenhale Gallery. She currently lives and works in London.


Maria Anastassiou, Here, This Time, A Terrible Beauty
Opening: Thursday, 7th April 2011, 20:00
Duration: 7-22 April 2011, Monday-Saturday, 17:00-21:00
APOTHEKE
23 Kleanthis Christofides Street, Off Lefkonos Street, Nicosia
Info: 99764816 / www.apothekecontemporaryarts.com

Next Show at APOTHEKE: Constantinos Taliotis, MERCEDES, 5-20 May 2011
APOTHEKE will also be participating at ART ATHINA 2011, in Athens, from the 12th to the 15th May 2011, with new works by Maria Toumazou and Maria Anastassiou.

Sunday, April 03, 2011

Την Μάνα Σου!

"Ναι ρε γιατί εσένα 'εν σε γέννησε μάνα; Εφύτρωσες;"

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Friday, March 25, 2011

...αυγή μυστικής ημέρας...


Andy Warhol, 3. Leonardo da Vinci (The Annunciation), Details of Renaissance Paintings, 1984, Unique screenprint on Arches Aquarelle paper

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Goodbye Liz. Goodbye.

Love Is Like An App Store



It's all in the small print.

R.I.P. Child

"US singer Loleatta Holloway, best known for her vocals which were sampled on Black Box's 1989 hit Ride On Time, has died at the age of 64. The performer died of heart failure."

Leather Soles on Concrete

Anachronistic Tropicalia

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Type Of Bag?

“My Barbour jacket is big enough for my stuff.”
Scott Schuman aka The Sartorialist

Shtup* Photoshop!



*Shtup (Yiddish): Push, shove; vulgarism for sexual intercourse

Architectural Obesity

Warning: To be viewed in the vicinity of Fernet Branca or other digestif. Includes soft-porn music.

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Monday, March 21, 2011

Jah!

“Bad faith” is also taken into consideration.

Η ποίηση μολύνει τη γλώσσα. Δεν γίνεται αλλιώς.

Η ύλη μολύνει την ποίηση αλλά και η ποίηση μολύνει τη γλώσσα. Δεν γίνεται αλλιώς. Η τέχνη ανοίγει χώρο μέσα στην πραγματικότητα, συγχρονίζει το παρελθόν με το παρόν. Είναι τόπος κινδύνου με την έννοια του μη οριστικού, του ολοένα μετακινούμενου. Την κίνηση του σώματος και του μυαλού ονομάζουμε συγκίνηση από την αισθητική (αισθησιακή) εμπειρία του ποίηματος. Κάθε ποιητής αλλά και αναγνώστης της ποίησης ξέρει ότι η αμφιβολία είναι το στοίχημα που βάζει το έργο, η άρση κάθε βεβαιότητας είναι η αφετηρία για τη σκέψη και ο όρος για τη δημιουργία, αλλά και για τη συμμετοχή σε αυτήν. Η καλύτερη υπεράσπιση για τα έργα είναι ή απροκατάληπτη ανάγνωση που βάζει τα ίδια αλλά και τους αναγνώστες σε δοκιμασία.

Π.Μ.Π. / W.P.D. #2

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