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Click on a theme in RHIZOMES to see how disparate parts of the ICI archive are joined together around a fleeting thought or by a slip of the eye or the shutter. Click on a subject in ICI CONNECTIONS to see how recurring ICI concerns coalesce around recurring themes or click on a place in the ICI ARCHIVES to see the raw material of our collections. TAGs below each post reveal hidden relationships between objects, thoughts, and interpretations. This is the place of laboratory research and play. -MORE-RHIZOMES
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Category Archives: Re-membering
LIBRARY SHELF: Frida Kahlo
Lowe, Sarah M. Frida Kahlo (1991) FIRST LINE: “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.” ICI SHELF: Artist Monographs ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (04-26-12)
LIBRARY SHELF: Pablo Picasso
Cabanne, Pierre Pablo Picasso: His Life and Times (1977) LAST LINE: “Dead, his oeuvre continues to live in the perpetual present of creation and goes right on disturbing it.” ICI SHELF: Artist Monographs ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (04-20-12)
LIBRARY SHELF: A Mapmaker’s Dream
Cowan, James A Mapmaker’s Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice (1996) FIRST LINE: “For some time I have wanted to relate a circumstance that has been happening to me in recent years.” ICI SHELF: … Continue reading
LIBRARY SHELF: On Ugliness
Eco, Umberto, ed. On Ugliness (2007) LAST LINE: “…the good that she drew from them…was a general good, of which nothing was wasted.” ICI SHELF: Visuality ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (03-23-12)
This Could Be a Place of Historical Significance
In 1980, Braco Dimitrijević built an engraved slab into the pavement outside the Cathedral in Cologne, Germany. This photo was taken in January of 1992. Dimitrijević’s critique of history relies not only on language, the usual fodder of sign systems, … Continue reading
Flowers at Chimayo
This permanent memorial at Chimayo, New Mexico evokes the language of the temporary roadside shrine. The permanence of the ceramic calla lilies is undermined by a thin sheet of cellophane wrapped around the bouquet. Its haphazard embrace borrows the language … Continue reading
Mourning Pins
Matchbox-sized case of black-tipped mourning pins made in Germany for the American and English markets sometime during the nineteenth or early twentieth century. These pins were used to attach veils during periods of mourning. They are silent survivors of the … Continue reading
LIBRARY SHELF: Spectral Evidence – The Photography of Trauma
Baer, Ulrich Spectral Evidence- The Photography of Trauma (2002) LAST LINE: “They open up a future that is not known and, because it is unknown, might yet be changed.” ICI SHELF: Barthes’ Tear ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed … Continue reading
LIBRARY SHELF: Selected Writings Gerard de Nerval
Nerval, Gerard de Selected Writings Gerard de Nerval (1999) FIRST LINE: “Let us tell you the story of a most singular madman who lived towards the middle of the sixteenth century.” ICI SHELF: Fiction ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter … Continue reading
LIBRARY SHELF: Remembrance of Things Past Volume I
Proust, Marcel Remembrance of Things Past Vol. 1 (1982) FIRST LINE: “For a long time I used to go to bed early.” ICI SHELF: Fiction ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (12-15-11)
