ART LIES: A Contemporary Art Quarterly

Issue No. 63 Fall 2009

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Issue 61

Douglas Weathersby, Negative Chair Shadows, 2003; C-print; 16 x 20 inches; edition of 5; courtesy the artist and judi rotenberg gallery, Boston

Asks & Acts

- Stuart Horodner -

I was in graduate school when the call came. My mother explained that my grandfather would be going to the doctor in the morning. He had to take a shower that night, and his foot was wrapped in plastic so he wouldn’t get it wet. “He wants you to help him,” she said.

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Try not to get overly attached to a hypothesis
just because it’s yours.

- Baloney Detection Kit -

Documentation of Adam Overton interpreting Exit Strategies by Liz Glynn, on November 4, 2008, Los Angeles, CA, as part of Exchange Rate: 2008, an international performance exchange organized by Elana Mann. Photo by Vivian Babuts.

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Checks and Balances

- Germaine Koh -

As an artist, almost everything I do contributes to the “brand” associated with my name, but when I’m playing roller derby I’m known only as PLAYER 1.

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Interrupting the Imaginary

Inside the Ship of My Imagination

- Zoe Crosher -

Driving through the Arizona night sky. Driving through Arizona, looking up at the night sky. There are certain places known for their darkness, a quantitative way of describing visibility of the heavens from the ground: a term I’ve forgotten (illuminance?)

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Dear Stuart

- Regine Basha -

Hunting Octopus in the Libyan Sea

- Jack Whitten -

Parson’s Branch in Bessemer, Alabama, did not have octopus, but I did learn to catch snapping turtles by hand. I grew up with a bamboo fishing pole in one hand and a .22 caliber rifle in the other.