Accession #: ICI-21758 TITLE:Ken Starr’s Waste DISCUSSION: A postcard printed by Visual AIDS in the height of the Ken Starr investigation into President Clinton’s sexual antics. It highlights the choices our leaders make and underlines the irony of Starr’s efforts. His crusade against President Clinton … Continue readingHIV/AIDS Programs that could have been funded instead of Ken Starr
Bataille, George; Histoire de L’oeil (1979) ICI Shelf: Fiction FIRST LINE: “J’ai ete eleve seul et, aussi loin que je me le rappelle, j’etais anxieux des choses sexuelles.” LAST LINE: “Mais c’est la solitude et l’absence de sens qui la fondent.” ICI HISTORY: Last Line: Today at … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: Histoire de L’oeil
12 Weeks to Survival Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT), (ca.1970.) Notes: Part of the ICI’s extensive film strip collection; filmstrip lacks narrative text; context of title unknown. ICI LOCATION: Ephemera Kabinett ICI HISTORY: APOCALYPSE rhizome on the Laboratory Blog (07/15) Accession Number: ICI-21450 BACK TO APOCALYPSE GRID
Images from W. G. Sebald’s Rings of Saturn, refashioned into traveling postcards.
Since many of us are trained artists, we are well-versed in the language of collage and have used its principles (along with its postmodern addendums) for many of our projects. In actuality, our recombination techniques have aligned more often with the methods of the bricoleur … Continue readingICI Technic: Bricolage
Vollman, William T. The Ice-Shirt: Volume One of Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes (1990) ICI Shelf: Current Project Accession #: ICI-02568
ACCESSION #: 22123-d TITLE: Spread from the Portuguese newspaper Expresso reporting on the rescue of the 33 Chilean miners on October 13, 2010 LOCATION: Ephemera Kabinett (Internet document) DISCUSSION: Expresso did not simply represent but also enacted the rescue of the miners through a simple visual … Continue readingEPHEMERA KABINETT: Coverage of Chilean Miners’ Rescue in Expresso Newspaper (digital)
ACCESSION #: ICI-22303 TITLE: “Back Story” by Ryan Tracy and Michael Picón DESCRIPTION: A poster that uses a ‘hole’ graphic to represent the harrowing plight of the 33 Chilean miners (2010) as they wait for rescue. ICI History: Used for HOLES (revisited) Rhizome in the … Continue readingEPHEMERA KABINETT: The Miner’s Paloma
Ault, Julie; ed. Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1991) ICI Shelf: Artist Monographs First Line: “I want to begin this book by telling you that I knew Felix Gonzalez-Torres well.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed (12-02-12)
Larsen, Reif The selected Works of T. S. Spivet: a novel (2009) ICI Shelf: Books to Inspire Last Line: “I pushed open the door and walked into the light.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed (10-24-12)