The Logic of Mass

by Chris Livesay

Mass (Colder Darker Matter)
Cornelia Parker
(1997)

The word “mass” elicits a host of images.  A mass of people just ran into the breezeway to escape the monsoon showers outside the building I type in.  Scores of people across the world are certain to be celebrating the Mass at this moment, in churches both tiny and massive in size.  Most fundamentally, there is mass in its scientific context, i.e. mass as the sum total of matter present in an object.   In all of these senses, Cornelia Parker’s Mass (Colder Darker Matter) acts as a perceptual and conceptual metaphor.

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Way Out

by Dirk Vaughan

“To show the fly the way out of the bottle was the life’s hope of Ludwig Wittgenstein, but the truth is that human beings don’t want a way out of the bottle Read the rest of this entry »

A Journey to China

Deutsche Fassung

by Felix Schulz

view of Wu Tai Shan

My journey to China began some time ago. To be honest, it seems to me as though my relationship to this country has an older history: it goes as far back as a life can go. Read the rest of this entry »