**John McCracken**
DAVID ZWIRNER Los Angeles
February 28—March 30, 2024

Two weeks, at Balse.

It starts with a sound of bells, with its planetary vision, So Weit Wie Noch Nie - as far as never before. 2007, Ave B & 13th, Kompakt.

Close (2024 Remaster) Robert Lippok

Mahler?

After a long break, I am back into seeking fashion, but at a much elevated consciousness. Whatever that means.

Why do we stop drawing? why some people stop drawing? Some of us, most of us, start drawing before we start speaking. And so on. At some point drawing is no longer important. but, others find it harder to let go of drawing. If that is your wish.

haven’t seen it, and haven’t the time, but severance, looks really interesting.

Licht Robert Lippok

Sofia Portanet - Ballon

Hope Is The Last To Die

DJ Mixes

Berlin

Hudson Mohawke b2b Nikki Nair | Boiler Room Festival Berlin: SYSTEM

¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U DJ Set | Keep Hush Live: Tokyo

Yung Sherman | Boiler Room: Stockholm

Mechatok | Boiler Room: Stockholm

Alan Watts - what it would be like if we had the power to dream anything that we wished to dream. Absolutely anything at all…. if you were granted this power what would you do? ….pleasure itself demand contrast…certainty and familiarity. potentiality. ever ongoing. nuanced manner. possibility. difference, transcendental form, namely, differences and separation. imaginative narrative. releasing control, otherness of dream. luminosity. pure possibility. form.

Auguste Renoir - imagine, to lift your dress, so open, one of the most, the story of ourself. evokes. war breaks out. astonishment, on French soil. must enlist. only from afar, deposed, republic, amidst of the war. only comes to an end. winter, not until the war. killed in his very first battle. 1871. city full of weapons. refused to. Montmartre. ends in communes defeat. devastation. then impressionists. pont neuf. you do not think that the city went through such duress. workman carrying vegetables. The working class, soldiers, the middle class. The mixture of Paris. A Sunday off.

the new republique, meets everyone with the same empathy.

poetry, so long as I believed the right things.

till next time.

Charles A. Balse

Words of Wisdom

AKADEMIE X LESSONS IN ART + LIFE
LESSON 23
TUTOR: Carrie Moyer
Page 220
Sharpen your visual intelligence by looking at art in person - Close looking is a means of gathering information in order to analyse a work of art within the parameters set by its maker. Through careful examination the object reveals its materials, size, scale; the processes and methods of its facture; the identity of the maker; its relationship to the history of the medium and genre as well as to the world at large. using this form of connoisseurship to decide if art is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ would defeat the purpose. It’s more like being a scientist and learning how to analyse and identify what you’re looking at.
AKADEMIE X LESSONS IN ART + LIFE
LESSON 26
TUTOR: Raqs Media Collective
Page 248

The Third Lesson: Time for Wine

The third lesson is about time. Sometimes, to learn this lesson, we have to prepare a feast - a feast with no food, but with a lot of wine and many notes. One of the forms this has taken is a symposium on time, which was first produced in the Wide Open School at the Hayward Gallery, London, in the summer of 2012. The form is simple and remains durable.

Fifteen or so participants sit in a large table, each with a plate and a wine glass in front of them. A set of carefully chosen notes on time printed on index cards appear on the plates, in the form of ‘courses’. Each ‘guest’ reads the ‘portion’ on his/her plate and everyone drinks, and after a round of readings (a course) the ‘table’ has a conversation. The idea is to let thinking, conversation and the requisite amount of wine do its job to add up to a stimulating consideration of time. Time itself is physically present. The cumulative, incremental effect of wine, factored through time, tranforms the experience into being enveloped inside a dilating fold. ‘Students’ cease to be students, and process elaborate theories. The reticent blossom into the loquacious, and the shy become bold. Once, at the end of the feast, people burst into song, and tears. Invariably, there has been laughter. The length of time this takes is a minimum of three hours, about the duration of a well-paced meal. As the courses gather momentum, an intensification of ideas and images, of associations and possibilities, takes hold, and we begin to get a grip on the qualia of time itself. We understand the relationship between, the presence of art. and the intensification of experience: of a different sense of time.