New Sculpt: an essay on the work of LaTurbo Avedon by Daniel Rourke

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An essAy by

DAnIel RouRke


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even as they highlighttheir representational

incompatibilities.


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timeline the artist is herself

incompatible with the white

cube gallery brimming over

with flesh.


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Notes

1. li giick, mb I Wud B B If W Wkd i gu f th? p 1 f 2: th

Discursive / Journal / E-ux, E-flux, 2009, http://www.e-ux.com/journal/view/35.

2. sc Buk, Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction (Duh:

Duk Uivi p, 1993), 164.

3. Hi lfbv, The Production of Space (md, m. [u..: Bckw, 2011), 9.

4. p Wib, qud i Dic Qu, th pdi pciv, Rhizome.org,

ccd Ju 9, 2013, h://hiz./dii/2011/j/12/h-di-civ/.

5. rch o m, Savage Theory: Cinema as Modern Magic (Duh: Duk Uivi p,

2000), 6869.

6. mk B. n H, Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing (a ab: Uivi f

michi p, 2000), 4.

7. D Hw, Simians, Cyborgs and Women : The Reinvention of Nature. (ld: F

acii Bk ld, 1991), 11.

Also referred to:

thif, ni. Bd mdii: th nw mi ri d thi Cquc. I

Materiality, did b Dvid mi, 231255. 2. ii. Duh [u..]: Duk Uiv. p, 2006.


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LaTurbo Avedon, New Sculpt

On view at Transfer Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

July 13 August 10, 2013

Essay by Daniel Rourke

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