Enolamai

"Books and butterflies - Some text and a cut - You and I. The spaces we inhabit and the time we employ. A psycho-geographic tour - My body in Our world."

- Intuition, the body, dialectic relationships and the process of assemblage construct the core of Benjamin Sebastian's creative process. His practice is at times playful as-well-as sinister and always concerned with the act(s) of living/existing. Repetition and duration are divining tools which the artist incorporates in an attempt to find reason in the irrational and the profound in the mundane. Greatly influenced by Queer Theory, this practice is process: Becoming, again and again. -

"These are a few things which inspire me and others I have created and wish to share."

Benjamin Sebastian

melancola:

David Nebreda

I was curious to what this meant so I googled it :

Born on August 1, 1952 in Madrid, David Nebreda is a Spanish photographer who’s anything but ordinary. At the young age of 19 (which was more than 40 years ago), the Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate David Nebreda was diagnosed with schizophrenia. After the diagnosis, the young man locked himself up in a two bedroom apartment in Madrid and has lived there, voluntarily isolated from fleshy virus since.

David Nebreda takes no medication, maintains no communication with the outside world, owns no radio or television and reads no newspapers or books. He’s been a vegetarian for over 20 years, practices sexual abstinence and subjects himself to severe fasts through which he maintains an incredibly skinny physique (some may call him anorexic).

Being a passionate photographer with a degree in fine arts, David Nebreda uses photography as a tool with which he explores his body and his mental illness. The photos he takes often include various forms of self-mutilation, including self-inflicted cuts, flagellation, scars and pictures of the tools he applies to his skinny body temple.

Even though perfectly content living isolated from the society, hence seeking no attention from fleshy viruses, his pictures somehow found their way to Renos Xippas – an owner of a gallery in Paris, who put up an exhibition and brought the images to the attention of French philosopher, critic and promoter from Canal + TV channel – Léo Scheer.

Léo Scheer collected David Nebreda’s photos and published two books with them. That, along with articles by French journalist Jean Baudrillard made the recluse famous in France and many other corners of the world, though he’s still almost completely unknown in his home country of Spain.

(Source: rwuartawtatt, via lormiguel)

ninaarsenault:

Screen shots from last night’s video shoot as Cleopatra.  

(Day 5 of a 10 day video shoot.)

April 2012

ninaarsenault:

Gif’ed by Alejandro Santiago for SERVE: The Work.

ninaarsenault:

Gif’ed by Alejandro Santiago for SERVE: The Work.

artQueer: Round Hole, Square Peg – Call for Entries

artqueer:

imageDEADLINE: FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2013 

ROUND HOLE, SQUARE PEG is a curated invitational that intends to examine the evolving LGBT identity as we move into the 21st Century.

ROUND HOLE, SQUARE PEG hopes to illustrate and help define a new queer aestetic at this juncture in time.

ROUND HOLE, SQUARE…

ninaarsenault:

Narcissism Will Heal the Sick **OR** For Every Time You Shattered Me I Made Myself Again
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(performance installation at The Art Gallery of Ontario’s Henry Moore Sculpture Gallery, Nov 18 2012)
commissioned to dialogue with the FRIDA and DIEGO exhibit
produced by the AGO and the Nina Machina
acupuncture needles by Dr. Nitin Guattari
performance photos by Nicholas Flood

ninaarsenault:

Narcissism Will Heal the Sick **OR** For Every Time You Shattered Me I Made Myself Again

———————————————————————————————————————-

(performance installation at The Art Gallery of Ontario’s Henry Moore Sculpture Gallery, Nov 18 2012)

commissioned to dialogue with the FRIDA and DIEGO exhibit

produced by the AGO and the Nina Machina

acupuncture needles by Dr. Nitin Guattari

performance photos by Nicholas Flood

ninaarsenault:

“Lust” — a painting I created last night and this morning

(all photos by John Lowther)

April 2012