emma curd

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Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:48:49 -0400

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Dust Bag 11.6 x 12 x 32cm Resin and dust

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:42:00 -0400

Dust Bag

11.6 x 12 x 32cm

Resin and dust

The storytellers have not realised that the Sleeping Beauty would have awoken in a thick layer of...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:37:00 -0500

The storytellers have not realised that the Sleeping Beauty would have awoken in a thick layer of dust; nor have they envisaged the sinister spider’s webs that would have been torn apart at the first movement of her red tresses. Meanwhile dismal sheets of dust constantly invade earthly habitations and uniformly defile them: as if it were a matter of making ready attics and old rooms for the immanent occupation of the obsessions, phantoms, spectres that the decayed odour of old dust nourishes and intoxicates.

When plump young girls, maids of all work, arm themselves each morning with a large feather-duster or even a vacuum cleaner, they are perhaps not completely aware that they are contributing every bit as much as the most positivist of scientists to dispelling the injurious phantoms that cleanliness and logic abhor. One day or another, it is true, dust, supposing it persists, will probably begin to gain the upper hand over domestics, invading the immense ruins of abandoned buildings, deserted dockyards; and, at that distant epoch, nothing will remain to ward off night- terrors, for lack of which we have become such great bookkeepers…[1]

[1] Bataille, Georges, Enclycopaedia Acephalica, (London: Atlas Press, 1995) pp. 42-43

“A dictionary begins when it no longer gives meaning to words, but their tasks. Thus ‘formless’ is...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:05:00 -0500

“A dictionary begins when it no longer gives meaning to words, but their tasks. Thus ‘formless’ is not only an adjective having a given meaning, but a term that serves to bring things down in the world, generally requiring that each thing have its form. What it designates has no rights in any other sense and gets itself squashed everywhere, like a spider or any earthworm.”

Georges Bataille

oxfordbrookesdegree2012: 42˚Fine Art Degree Show Studios (work...

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:24:16 -0500

oxfordbrookesdegree2012:

42˚Fine Art Degree Show Studios

(work in progress)

© Emma Curd

roves and roams magazine IV

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:26:00 -0500

http://issuu.com/lucyannhobbs/docs/randr4

I hope you read and enjoy!

“In fact, for academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has...

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:58:34 -0500

“In fact, for academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only ‘formless’ amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spittle.”[1]

[1] Bois, Yve-Alain and Krauss, E. Rosalind, Formless; A User’s Guide, (New York: Zone Books, 1997) pp. 5

The dead spider that I found in my studio will remain treasured...

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:56:40 -0500

The dead spider that I found in my studio will remain treasured and pinned to my wall next to the chewing gum that I found hidden under a table.

"The dark and unsanitary is transmogrified into the sublime and beautiful."

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:28:00 -0400

“The dark and unsanitary is transmogrified into the sublime and beautiful.”

- Shohat, Ella and Stam, Robert, Narrativizing Visual Culture; Towards a Polycentratic Aesthetics, Ed. Mirozoeff, Nicholas, The Visual Cultural Reader, (London: Routledge, 1998)

Formlessness; the casted inside of a used and a clean hoover bag...

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:26:18 -0400

Formlessness; the casted inside of a used and a clean hoover bag using plaster.

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