2025.11.28
"Duchamp explained to Herbert Crehan that, unlike Sigmund Freud, he was not interested in "demonstrating the homosexuality of the personality of Leonardo." rather, what surprised him was the ease with which the addition of masculine indices to this image inverted its gender: "The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at it the Mona Lisa becomes a man. It is not a woman disguised as a man; it is a real man, and that was my discovery, without realizing it at the time." Mona Lisa's depicted "feminine" look is reversed as if in a mirror by its inversion into a "masculine" analogue. Duchamp's "discovery" of this reversible, mirrorlike mechanism is not altogether surprising, given Leonardo's extensive reliance on mirror writing and his optical experiments. Duchamp's elaboration of this mirrorlike mechanism at work in L.H.O.O.Q. destabilizes not just Mona Lisa's femininity but sexuality itself by preempting the consolidation of sexual difference. This optical intervention serves to demystify the illusionism of the look by revealing that fact that its referential capacity can be redirected into a circuit, switching back and forth between femininity and masculinity." (Judovitz, 13)
Phantom Opera Buffs 1985.04.11
2024.11.28
 
451 Rhawn Gallery
2020.11.28
post community service 001
2017.11.28
Popica 009
2007.11.28
07112801.db Calder Museum Duchamp Inn model site plan
practical Delanda
Chemical Light This light fixture aims to provide levitating liquid light through chemical means. Inspired by the natural production of light made by bioluminescent creatures like fireflies and a fascination with the magic of such chemical processes, the Chemical Light proposes a long lasting, environmentally sustainable light source; eliminating the need for unsightly wiring, electricity and the polluting byproducts that accompany conventional electricity production. Despite present day technological limitations we have created a series of new and unusual light fixtures that give the illusion of chemical light but are made of common lighting equipment that conform to current industry standards and production methods. Chemical Light features a selection of three different designs including The Argon (Ar)Chandelier, the Radon (Rn): Sconce and the Krypton (Kr): Wall of Light. Other exciting options are soon to follow.
"Perhaps reenactments then are always a play with degrees of separation, sometimes seeing how close one can get to the 'original' and/or sometimes seeing how far one can stretch the 'truth', to name the extreme cases."
2006.11.28
Paris Skyscraper - Morphosis beat off Norman Foster and Jean Nouvel.
Absolut Marilyn meets Absolut Hollywood?
not playing "tricky precedent", just jpeg du jour
1992.11.28
92112801.db The Expeditious Expedition
1984.11.28
during Wheel of Fortune
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