Hello Twitter-folks, I am currently auctioning some of my original darkroom prints over on instagram, to donate the revenue to Afghanistan emergency funds, like the Afghan Women's Association. You can simply place your bid in the comments on there: https://t.co/Cm5MajW7jM
A short article I wrote for @kwerfeldein, comprising some thoughts about my work, the darkroom and how impermanence plays such an important role in all of it.
(German only, sorry!)
@KarolinaZL Not very helpful in regards to decision making, however: it's so amazing to see all these pieces side by side, like taking a journey through your design evolution. So beautiful!
Here is the full article by Michio Arimitsu, seeking "to radically revise the meaning of the ‘darkness/ blackness’ in Hijikata’s early aesthetic“, which I highly recommend reading, to anyone interested in Butoh: https://t.co/j13KM9u2MQ
Katherine Dunham: dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, activist - AND one of the main sources of Hijikata Tatsumi’s Butoh! Which is hardly ever stated or respected.
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This whole thread makes me furious. As if the (ongoing) tragedy that living artists are starving while fighting to get their work out there, only to get recognition when they are dead isn't awful enough.
@KarolinaZL Bras as a supposed luxury item when, at the same time, women who aren't wearing one in public still get shamed only too often, is just another level of bullshit.
It has been the main way for me to reach new audience for my work and to share what I do. And I find that rather questionable, scary & sad to be quite honest. I miss connecting to people online though...
Lots of people have recently shared their thoughts on instagram being less and less sustainable (not saying it ever really was but, you know, it was fun at some point), so I feel a bit late to the party by writing this but: I'm officially over it!
@noeliatowers Glad you are here, glad you're doing what you do (so amazingly well - and sharing it with the world), and also very glad you are so honest in expressing this. I feel very much the same.