Comments on: A Practice Without Center: the Work of Sophie Calle http://the-space-in-between.com/2008/05/05/sophie-calle-a-practice-without-center/ "...that accident which pricks me (but also bruises me, is poignant to me)." Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:54:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Ed Richards http://the-space-in-between.com/2008/05/05/sophie-calle-a-practice-without-center/#comment-127 Ed Richards Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:13:11 +0000 http://the-space-in-between.com/?p=28#comment-127 I assumed as I was reading this entry that it was an homage to Hunter Thompson and his way of inventing wonderful characters to embody what he was was writing about.:-) I assumed as I was reading this entry that it was an homage to Hunter Thompson and his way of inventing wonderful characters to embody what he was was writing about.:-)

]]> By: Ars.lan » Who the fuck is Sophie Calle? http://the-space-in-between.com/2008/05/05/sophie-calle-a-practice-without-center/#comment-126 Ars.lan » Who the fuck is Sophie Calle? Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:36:49 +0000 http://the-space-in-between.com/?p=28#comment-126 [...] Sans aucunement contester la qualité du travail présenté, la récente visite de la très belle exposition de Sophie Calle à la B.N.F m’avait rempli de questions auxquelles je n’ai pas toujours trouvé de réponses satisfaisantes. Et si certes je ne puis qualifier Sophie Calle de photographe mais bien d’artiste complète, de merveilleuse conteuse, détonnante, surprenante et que sais-je encore, mes réflexions ne m’ont jamais entraîné aussi loin que cette curieuse et radicale position lue ici. [...] [...] Sans aucunement contester la qualité du travail présenté, la récente visite de la très belle exposition de Sophie Calle à la B.N.F m’avait rempli de questions auxquelles je n’ai pas toujours trouvé de réponses satisfaisantes. Et si certes je ne puis qualifier Sophie Calle de photographe mais bien d’artiste complète, de merveilleuse conteuse, détonnante, surprenante et que sais-je encore, mes réflexions ne m’ont jamais entraîné aussi loin que cette curieuse et radicale position lue ici. [...]

]]> By: Herr K. http://the-space-in-between.com/2008/05/05/sophie-calle-a-practice-without-center/#comment-125 Herr K. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:15:50 +0000 http://the-space-in-between.com/?p=28#comment-125 Your essay is concise and persuasive-- to keep this comment short, I'd like to simply assent to its many compelling points. Yes! Sophie is a bad bourgeois little witch. Vampy and vapid, she's mastered manipulation and the trope of betrayal without really having to expose herself in the construction of a narrative, which yes, does ultimately produce a closed and cynical view of the world. And yes! MFA programs are cheap bags of shit dedicated to producing glossy products for an audience that is trapped on the other side of archival space. But what then, makes Calle's work compelling to that very audience? Is it merely her provocation of the female object as death drive that sucks us into her quasi-conceptual shit? Or might her extraordinary cleverness actually have attuned to a sphere of which she's not aware, or perhaps even capable of fully realizing? For me, the most tantalizing loose thread of your essay occurs after Robert Storr's clever quotation in your assessment of her lack of content and love affair with generality. Perhaps generality, blur, or even solipsism, a la Wittgenstein, might gesture to an overlooked, less bourgeois aesthetics order. My orange cat just failed to jump on the bed! One day, she will be dead, and I will only have her photograph to haunt me. Make a piece about that, Sophie! Your essay is concise and persuasive– to keep this comment short, I’d like to simply assent to its many compelling points. Yes! Sophie is a bad bourgeois little witch. Vampy and vapid, she’s mastered manipulation and the trope of betrayal without really having to expose herself in the construction of a narrative, which yes, does ultimately produce a closed and cynical view of the world. And yes! MFA programs are cheap bags of shit dedicated to producing glossy products for an audience that is trapped on the other side of archival space.

But what then, makes Calle’s work compelling to that very audience? Is it merely her provocation of the female object as death drive that sucks us into her quasi-conceptual shit? Or might her extraordinary cleverness actually have attuned to a sphere of which she’s not aware, or perhaps even capable of fully realizing? For me, the most tantalizing loose thread of your essay occurs after Robert Storr’s clever quotation in your assessment of her lack of content and love affair with generality. Perhaps generality, blur, or even solipsism, a la Wittgenstein, might gesture to an overlooked, less bourgeois aesthetics order.

My orange cat just failed to jump on the bed! One day, she will be dead, and I will only have her photograph to haunt me. Make a piece about that, Sophie!

]]> By: Sean http://the-space-in-between.com/2008/05/05/sophie-calle-a-practice-without-center/#comment-124 Sean Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:08:44 +0000 http://the-space-in-between.com/?p=28#comment-124 A very interesting essay. And good to see something that does not praise. Cheers. A very interesting essay. And good to see something that does not praise. Cheers.

]]> By: roxana http://the-space-in-between.com/2008/05/05/sophie-calle-a-practice-without-center/#comment-123 roxana Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:44:42 +0000 http://the-space-in-between.com/?p=28#comment-123 I've just discovered your site doing a search on Masahisa Fukase and I am absolutely thrilled. it will take me years to discover and read and look at everything you have here. for now I just want to thank you for the wonderful world in-between you've created here. I’ve just discovered your site doing a search on Masahisa Fukase and I am absolutely thrilled. it will take me years to discover and read and look at everything you have here. for now I just want to thank you for the wonderful world in-between you’ve created here.

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