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The "desired-into" and "gelatinity" explored during the kickoff of our open-work weekend sessions.
The "desired-into" and "gelatinity" explored during the kickoff of our open-work weekend sessions.
Enter the Soft Rebrand. The key here is that you’re just decorating. Structurally everything is the same, and that sucks, but it’s also not your responsibility to fix the world or spearhead the revolution.
That means learning to live with the glaring contradiction that is online life and learning how, why, and when to shut it off. But not as a means of escape; instead, to remind ourselves that discomfort, like sickness, is unavoidable.
When we feel stuck or unable to proceed with a creative project, it's likely because we've decided, albeit unconsciously, that we’re unwilling to change how we feel about its current form.
DISPASSION is a newsletter in which digital media researcher Evan Kleekamp practices emotional detachment. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paperwork, 2019. Evan Kleekamp. Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ Untitled print; pencil drawings and xerox studies derived from Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-Up; a limited edition R.H. Quaytman insert from October #168; and notes in response to Quaytman’
DISPASSION is a monthly newsletter in which digital media researcher Evan Kleekamp [https://twitter.com/Kleekamp] practices emotional detachment. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital photograph of sculptural experiments in my last studio circa April 2021. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Earlier this year, wanting to revisit the subjects that had held my attention until the Covid-19 pandemi