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Peter Watkins
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Artist and educator. Lecturer in art at FAMU and Prague City University.
Postcards for Palestine
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Reposted by Peter Watkins
February 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Archive fever
February 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Sound recording today in Lidice with @mvd0ae.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Reposted by Peter Watkins
“We have no flag, and we need one. If we desire to lead many men, we must raise a symbol above their heads.” Wrote Herzl.
It wasn’t long before it descended to be branded onto the flesh of Palestinian boys, carved into their land and burned onto their mountain tops.

I can smell these images.
January 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Construction, deconstruction, dereliction. Show planning in full technicolor chaos!
January 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Reposted by Peter Watkins
‘US politics, like most politics, was nothing if not a love-in with some harmless (ideological) rough stuff thrown in. But I don’t love you in the least, Trump said, and if I scratch your back it will hurt.’

T.J. Clark on Trump and the spectacle: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
T.J. Clark · A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle
Trump has annihilated the idea of charisma. The new leader is not above us. He’s on the screen in our hands. We...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM