James Turrell in Berlin – Original Light is Darkness
Yesterday I went to the Jewish Museum in Berlin with my best friend Kai to experience the James Turrell light installation, Aural. You walk into a large room, all white. The floor slopes [...]
Ohad Naharin: Grounded Power, Flowing Presence
I went to my first Gaga class this week. Wonderful. In early 2018 I learned about Ohad Naharin’s existence through Tomer Heymann’s 2015 documentary Mr. Gaga. For those who don’t [...]
Billie Eilish: Clean Tears, Muddy Waters
If I were writing for a publication that people read, a sufficiently sensationalist yet formulaic title for this personal reflection would be “The Drama of Billie Eilish.” I came [...]
Moments with Sara Shelton Mann, “Once in California…” August 2018
This weekend at Dock 11 in Berlin, Sara Shelton Mann and friends. The program entitled “Once in California…” Once in California, almost a decade ago, a friend of mine introduced [...]
Tino Sehgal’s Seminar at Spike Berlin July, 2018
I was at Spike Art’s headquarters last night in Berlin-Mitte to listen to Tino Sehgal. He was invited to give a lecture in the context of the Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art. The space [...]
Byung-Chul Han in the Garden
A year or two ago, Byung-Chul Han castigated me in a seminar at UDK in Berlin. At the zenith of a so-called breakdown that apparently precipitated his departure from the university, he was [...]
A Thought about the Catwalk
The catwalk is reflective inwardness that performs its negation: there’s nobody here, just look at my clothes. (I know they look good.)
Inauguration
As inauguration, here are some thoughts I had recently. We live in the order-lessness of a totalizing order, where nothing has its place because everything’s place is determined. There is [...]