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@whitecube @fieldnotes_london what is “the contemporary”? asking for a friend
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All I wanna do this winter is stay in and do Rorschachs on tissue paper, and that’s ok too… Chic mis, formal logic and incidence, #GabrielOrozco’s ‘Chronotopia’ curated by #BrionyFer closes this weekend @whitecube
05 Nov 2026
🔥 Link in bio 🔥 Before I give birth to a human being in 2 weeks I’m giving birth to my website today 💓 it’s been 12 months in the making. It brings together almost all my projects since 2011, all the worlds that have seen the light of the day and sketches that show the ones that haven’t, almost all my artworks, sound pieces, landscapes, sculptures, installations, elixirs, there are essays and videos, and you can navigate spaces and times and meet the protagonists that have defined some of the chapters, birds, marine mammals, cleopatra, the wind, invisible energies… thank you to the 3 geniuses @florinebonaventure for your concept and design, @tristan.jpeg for the website development and @maudiegibbons for the titanesque work of gathering, foraging, and bringing together this gigantic archive. Thank you @deep_frill for the beautiful texts and copyediting. Thank you to everyone involved 💓💓💓 I hope you will enjoy travelling through it as much as we’ve enjoyed creating this vessel. Love 💓
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Photo credit @juliaandreone
18 Sep 2026
One fine ass pretzel sandwich later and ur in bregenz watching this #cypriengalliard #spargelzeit
06 Sep 2026
#LutzBacher summer 4ever. ‘Burning the Days’, or a repository of loanwords for the severe, lovesick or otherwise beleaguered
‘Boyfriends’, 2006 ➰ ‘Blue Moon’, 1996 ➰ ‘Untitled’, 2017 ➰’Chess’, 2012 ➰’In Memory of My Feelings’, 1990 ➰ ‘Big Boy’, 1992
24 Jul 2026
What if a gift were not an object, but the experience of not knowing?
In “The Gift”, Elaine ML Tam considers two works by Man Ray: the tack-studded flat iron he named ‘The Gift’ and the shrouded, bound object ‘The Enigma of Isidore Ducasse’. Both works frustrate the desire to possess, reveal and understand.
Moving through Man Ray, Tadeusz Kantor, Melanie Klein, Roland Barthes and Isidore Ducasse, Tam asks what might be gained by refusing the demand for visibility. Against a culture in which images increasingly determine what can be believed, imagined and desired, ‘The Enigma’ becomes an object of resistance: unreachable, irreducible and insistently elsewhere.
“The gift is the ever-withdrawing enigma; an abstinence from representation; a figure foregrounded by the duration of withholding.”
Read “The Gift” by Elaine ML Tam now on the Effects website. Link in bio.
@deep_frill #effectsjournal #manray #thegift
15 Jul 2026
[ LAUNCH & TALK ]
📍On Friday, June 26 at 7PM, LE BAL Books will have the pleasure to receive Stefan Dotter; @stefandotter for the launch of his book "Record". The book and the project will be discussed with Stefan Dotter (artist) and Elaine ML Tam; @deep_frill (writer, editor and curator), followed by a Q&A session with the audience at the bookstore with some refreshments !
"Record" is Stefan Dotter’s first monograph documenting natural habitats and indigenous communities in the Amazon, Borneo and Madagascar. This book was produced in support of Health In Harmony, a non-profit organisation addressing deforestation by observing the voices and needs of indigenous communities around the world’s most endangered rainforests.
We will also have copies of the limited edition available, each accompanied by a print, with 10 different images to choose from !!! Come by and say hello !! The talk will be held in english and will begin on time at 7pm !
This event was made possible with the support of Futur Being.
📅 Friday, June 26 at 7 p.m.
📍 LE BAL, 6 impasse de la Défense, Paris
✍️ Free upon registration (link in bio)
17 Jun 2026
dis)(organ;isation anD de/sire;;
1: double time in paris 〰️ 2: @bullyache_ spoiled suits and latin footwork 〰️ 3: brothel gossip and degas in this 1971 #picasso 〰️ 4: against morality by rosanna mclaughlin 〰️ 5: social reproduction and #jennabliss baby onesie at ‘genuine fake premium economy’ @icalondon 〰️ 6: bedrot and body scribbles 〰️ 7: #davidhammons research hour 〰️ 8: auratic #marywigman 1926 ‘hexentanz’ exuding
21 May 2026
Coming up in June | Writing Rage with Elaine ML Tam @deep_frill , Fieldnotes @fieldnotes_london
Tuesday 23 June, 7–9 pm
How do we square the urgency of our political moment with the slow care typically required of traditional publishing? What modes of address are conducive to critiquing and proposing reform to the institutions we exist within?
‘Writing Rage’ uses the ongoing construction at Pushkin House as a backdrop for questions of textual dissent and institutional critique, drawing inspiration from guerilla publishing formats and strategies. Taking cues from Jenny Holzer’s ‘Inflammatory Essays’ (1979–82), John Giorno’s poetry posters and Paul Virilio’s Speed and Politics (1986), among other examples, we will use this setting to consider urgency and furore, and its mobilisation in writing and language.
Materials supplied; no prior experience required. Elaine’s fee for convening this workshop will be donated in its entirety to ‘Rescue Now’ @rescue.now , a charity providing rapid, essential aid to Ukrainians affected by war.
This workshop is part of ‘Under Construction’, a monthly series curated by artist and PhD researcher Alisa Oleva @alisaoleva .
#PushkinHouse #PushkinHouseWorkshop
13 May 2026
When/ a New York minute/ dirty martini/ cannibals and the extra-canonical: #RobertGober ‘X playpen’ 〰️ ‘patient notes’ by #ShogoShimizu 〰️ unassimilated MTA ‘outsider art’ 〰️ #RobertMapplethorpe entry hall kink
01 Apr 2026
LA we’ve been doing this for so long but this time I think I felt something
〰️1. Pippa Garner 〰️2. Jon Serl 3. 〰️Eve Babitz, I quote: ‘Attitude was the word they used for someone that knew what they liked.’ 〰️4. Sophie Calle’s ‘Cash Machine’ images (1993–2003) 〰️5. Fiona Connor casts and facsimiles 〰️6. John Giorno, ‘Welcoming the flowers’ (2004)
22 Mar 2026
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‘MORE IS MORE! Fetish Nirvana’ by Elaine ML Tam @deep_frill advances this year’s UNDERWORLD venture.
After our stint examining urban ruins, this article guides our attention towards a different type of architecture: the architecture of the dead – more specifically the Nirvana Memorial Garden columbarium in Singapore. Tam turns to the phenomenon of the Chinese afterlife, rife with joss paper stamped with luxury market monograms, to interrogate the aesthetics of ‘desire after death’. In the opulent excess of the Nirvana columbarium, Tam discovers an antithesis to the stripped-back ‘sophistication’ of Western ideals: a maximalism that invokes the divine.
The sub-theme PERMEABLE BODY explores bodies as porous entities. Focusing on how information crosses spaces and membranes to transfer from one body to another, from outside to inside or vice versa, the permeable body is ultimately relational.
The published articles remain open to all readers for one month from the date of publication and thereafter become part of the CO archive available to subscribers only.
🔗 Link in the bio!
Edited by @isabelwangpontoppidan & @dszmidt0320
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1.-2.Nirvana Memorial Garden, Singapore, 2022. Photographed by Elaine M.L. Tam; re-touching by Lidija Kononenko.
18 Mar 2026
the new (and unbelievably the 7th) issue of @fieldnotes_london is v v x v good, not least because it includes work by Jak Skot, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Tatum Howey, Richard Siken, Julius Eastman (excerpted), among others. I’m grateful to FN and our contributors to be reminded that to publish is to amplify voices, to edit is to care for idiosyncratic expressions and personal-political enunciations, a with-ness. It’s urgent work but slow production, one of many contradictions I struggle to square. No less, our open call closes in 5 days on 9 March: submit
04 Mar 2026
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