Michael T. Martin
Conversations with the contemporary city
The artist traveled with a blue neon billboard that read ENJOY POVERTY and worked with Congolese photographers, teaching them how to sell images of suffering to Western media and aid agencies.
In exchange for struggling in the crowded city, the poorest artist can be enriched by the ideas circulating for free.
from “Art and Urban Density” by James Panero
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Psychasthenia: a physical and mental state wherein the body is incapable of distinguishing itself from the space it occupies. The borders of the body, where it meets space, are no longer defined and one perceives oneself as “swallowed up” by space and transparent to the point of invisibility.
Excerpt from: “Walking Los Angeles: From Documentation to Performance”
Direct action and creative-oriented urbanism
If you’re into cities and art, my friend makes beautiful prints of post-industrial cities and sells them on her Etsy store. Buy a print, support New Orleans art, and get down with some urban aesthetics.
“thrift store landscape with color swatches”
Sometimes I’m a country mouse
WE’RE DOO-ING IT
Art : Music : Fire
