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Gotta go here. Gotta sit by the “Luddism (?)” tombstone and contemplate.

I found this record in Philly this past year and I almost bought it. Deep regret for not having done so.

Είναι Πικρός ο Θάνατος (DEATH IS BITTER) is on Bandcamp. From the album description:

Excerpts of Jessi Highet’s notes from the Judicial Delegate Convention.

Nice to be back sniffing the seaside goldenrod (Solidago sempervirens) once again.

“Looking back, the only way this stuff worked was to have made them in these very real corporate settings that, to this day, I don’t feel like I ever belonged in. But it is this feeling of unbelonging that I wanted to explore in the work you’re about to see.”

“They sort of looked at the absurdity of working within a huge company that raked in billions of dollars a year and saw themselves working within it as a small art form that requires a series of small rebellions.”

“What I consider my most successful work does not line up with how the institution views success.”

“This piece was a meta-commentary on the media’s fixation on the royals, which, in my head, can be likened to self-harm. I wanted to create a scenario that was like, each click gives you a little reward, a little dopamine hit, like you’re a fucking hamster, and you just want a little bit more. And the squirrel is a hateful squirrel, and he’s watching you as you perform self-harm over and over.”


All from this incredibly quotable talk from Tracy Ma.

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