—I grew up in Illinois and Wisconsin, on just the other side of the lake from Michigan, or The Glove State. Detroit hung out there like some kind of borderland. Even from a young age, people would say, “Oh, Detroit…” the same way they might start to speak of an extended family member who had […]
Every Friday, the Anobium web staff provides some ideas for what to do with that paycheck in this new segment, “Commerce in Shall.” The title comes from Catherine Wagner’s poem “Macular Hole,” which can be heard here and is available from Fence. So, it’s been a year. I still don’t have Mark Ryden’s Pinxit. Explain […]
“While I don’t wish to co-opt these girl’s work by leaving the work anonymous here, it is difficult to impossible on tumblr to trace the origins of particular images. Therefore, I can only direct you to the Women as Objects archive project itself if you are interested in seeking out the girls behind/with/in/these images. Even […]
Thoughts in response to Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks: —Oliver Sacks is a regular New Yorker contributor, and though I was peripherally familiar with some of his work, I hadn’t been directly exposed to it until I read his essay “Altered States” in the August 27, 2012 issue of the New Yorker. In it, Sacks discusses […]
[Continued from Part 1.] Q: A bit of a background question—when did you get into performance art? What appealed to you about it? I often feel like I did a lot of spoken word performances in prison back in ’90. Like that’s where I really got my start because it was socially acceptable to just […]
