serendipityoucity

It really rained!  But i got myself outa bed, went for breaky with JuJu, then went to hear Steven Pinker talk about his book the Stuff of Thought as part of the Writers Festival.  Wonderful, he is really funny and even referred to Calvin and Hobbes in his talk!  Then with my head full of ideas, walking in the rain, wearing orange socks, purple pants and a red turtle neck, thinking about data and its role in culture, as culture, as heritage, and as artifact as I walked up to Enriched Bread Artists 2008 open Studios.  I met my pal Ken in his studio, doing his thang, eating sausage, olives and good cheeze! Then I went on the studio tour.  I just love that place.  I have much to say, particularly about Cindy Stelmackowich’s work,which

explores the inter-relationship between art and medical science. Incorporating new and old medical diagrams, laboratory equipment and medical reference books, medicine’s bodies of knowledge have become the direct material and conceptual sources for her own incisive explorations. Often taking the form of experimental sculptural assemblages or wall installations, this work often combines the language of sculpture with the language of science in order to beckon us to reconsider the discourses of medical science and its orders of objective knowledge. (1)

but i am just too tired right now and really need to think about her ideas before I do!  We had a great conversation and she has really inspired me to look at Foucault.

I posted a bunch of EBA studio photos here.