Marc Yeats

VISCER-ebr-AL

• In Memory of Feeling – À la recherche du temps perdu May 13, 2013
  Nostalgia isn't a way of representing history, but of experiencing it, which is where the pain comes in. The photographs spark off remembrances of the past, and the new associations that we make watching them. The past maintains an abiding strain on representation, even, and perhaps especially, in those cases where history and context appear […]
  Ian Talbot
• In Memory of Feeling :: Environmental Codes May 8, 2013
  An act of naming should quite rightly enable me to call anything a self-portrait, not only any drawing, 'portrait' or not, but everything that happens to me, that I can affect, or that affects me. Jacques Derrida Although I entirely agree with Derrida here, I suppose photographing one’s home environment as part of a self-portrait […]
  Ian Talbot
• Monolith :: The Long Shadow (the installation view) May 5, 2013
  I think that ways of looking are determined more by the circumstances in which a film is seen than the commercial or 'alternative' intent of the director. Douglas Gordon …expanded cinema includes work that reverses the position of spectator and filmmaker, explodes the frame… Deconstructs the cinematic apparatus, unfixes the image and initiates new […]
  Ian Talbot
• Identikits :: Between Seer and Seen May 4, 2013
  My quietness has a man in it, he is transparent   and he carries me quietly, like a gondola, through the streets.   He has several likenesses, like stars and years, like numerals. Frank O’Hara, In Memory of My Feelings Secreted in Frank O'Hara's thought is the possibility that we create only as dead men. […]
  Ian Talbot
• Plato’s Cave April 30, 2013
  One photographs things in order to get them out of one's mind. My stories are a kind of closing one's eyes. Kafka The "Plato's Cave" in the title above refers to "The Allegory of the Cave" – also known as the "Analogy of the Cave", or the "Parable of the Cave" – and is an […]
  Ian Talbot