Helen Kaplinsky
@hkaplinsky.bsky.social
Curator. PhD at Exhibition Research Lab, LJMU on feminism/monsters/dispossession. Helsinki/ London
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Enjoying this #Aprilfools from @hyperallergic.com “If we’re serious about respecting the historical traumas of the Jewish people, we must eliminate every river, canal, and creek in this country,” said one parliament member hyperallergic.com/881440/berli...
Berlin Museum Removes All Artwork Depicting Rivers or Seas
The German media praised the move, accusing several international bodies of water of antisemitism.
hyperallergic.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Enjoying this #Aprilfools from @hyperallergic.com “If we’re serious about respecting the historical traumas of the Jewish people, we must eliminate every river, canal, and creek in this country,” said one parliament member hyperallergic.com/881440/berli...
I had the honor of doing a studio visit with Mark at his flat in east London many years ago now. He showed me an incredible archive of postal art built over decades, a a unique DIY punk aesthetic and often playful approach full of passion and commitment 💌 here’s to the king of stamps 💮
Obituary for our departed comrade Mark Pawson in The Guardian, a publication who likely would not have deigned to pay attention to his activities while he was still living.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Mark Pawson obituary
Other lives: Artist and maker of collectible badges, posters and stickers whose work found homes in the Tate and V&A library collections
www.theguardian.com
April 1, 2025 at 6:10 AM
I had the honor of doing a studio visit with Mark at his flat in east London many years ago now. He showed me an incredible archive of postal art built over decades, a a unique DIY punk aesthetic and often playful approach full of passion and commitment 💌 here’s to the king of stamps 💮
“Is Imhof, in fact, the most Gen X of artists – filtered by a millennial sensibility through Gen Z technologies?” Jeppe Ugelvig nails it spikeartmagazine.com/articles/rev...
Anne Imhof’s “DOOM” Is No Match for The Fashion Machine | Spike Art Magazine
On the rigged economy of making cool images and letting her audience shoot the editorial at Park Avenue Armory.
spikeartmagazine.com
March 15, 2025 at 8:12 AM
“Is Imhof, in fact, the most Gen X of artists – filtered by a millennial sensibility through Gen Z technologies?” Jeppe Ugelvig nails it spikeartmagazine.com/articles/rev...
Loving this: “Trans* borrows from internet search protocols where an asterisk functions as a wildcard or a place holder for any and all unknown terms associated with the word inquestion” Halberstam, Trans* - Gender Transitivity and New Configurations of Body, History, Memory and Kinship, 2016
March 14, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Loving this: “Trans* borrows from internet search protocols where an asterisk functions as a wildcard or a place holder for any and all unknown terms associated with the word inquestion” Halberstam, Trans* - Gender Transitivity and New Configurations of Body, History, Memory and Kinship, 2016
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March 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️ 💾
📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save
📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save
Creative Australia. What a total whopper.
March 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Creative Australia. What a total whopper.
Restocked the 2018 Alembic publication with Freedom Press- order there now! Featuring: Uma Breakdown, Ele Carpenter, Shu Lea Cheang, Tamar Clarke-Brown, Kirsten Cooke, Annabelle Craven-Jones, Rosalie Doubal, Helen Hester, Sarah Jury, Helen Kaplinsky (con comments) freedompress.org.uk/product/alem...
Alembic - Freedom Press
Alembic publication reflects and expands on the Alembic are Res. programme through 150 pages of new texts, drawings and images, designed by Europa, and edited by Res. (Sarah Jury, Helen Kaplinsky & Lu...
freedompress.org.uk
March 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Restocked the 2018 Alembic publication with Freedom Press- order there now! Featuring: Uma Breakdown, Ele Carpenter, Shu Lea Cheang, Tamar Clarke-Brown, Kirsten Cooke, Annabelle Craven-Jones, Rosalie Doubal, Helen Hester, Sarah Jury, Helen Kaplinsky (con comments) freedompress.org.uk/product/alem...
Congratulations #JennaSutela and #StefanieHessler on being selected for the Finnish Pavillion at 61st Venice Biennale! I feel lucky to call Jenna a collaborator and am currently writing a chapter for my PhD on her work. Here's an extract continued in comments : 1/3
February 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Congratulations #JennaSutela and #StefanieHessler on being selected for the Finnish Pavillion at 61st Venice Biennale! I feel lucky to call Jenna a collaborator and am currently writing a chapter for my PhD on her work. Here's an extract continued in comments : 1/3
Is anyone else finding it dreadfully difficult to stay off insta? It feels like business as usual again, what happened? It didnt get to a point where a critical mass of people who left, as I imagined it might be.
February 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Is anyone else finding it dreadfully difficult to stay off insta? It feels like business as usual again, what happened? It didnt get to a point where a critical mass of people who left, as I imagined it might be.
yes please 🖤 🆓
The new experimental collection "Informatics of Domination," edited by Zach Blas, @melodyjue.bsky.social , & Jennifer Rhee, addresses formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the 21st century. Read the intro for free now!
https://buff.ly/4jU7Nwk
https://buff.ly/4jU7Nwk
February 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
yes please 🖤 🆓
I have come to notice that the imagery around patient care, getting tested and charity fundraising is noticeably White. Cancer is coded White “It is this simple-and this complicated. Cancer does not discriminate, and neither should cancer care.” (Balanean et all 2024)
February 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I have come to notice that the imagery around patient care, getting tested and charity fundraising is noticeably White. Cancer is coded White “It is this simple-and this complicated. Cancer does not discriminate, and neither should cancer care.” (Balanean et all 2024)
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A model demonstrating a pair of webbed swimming gloves, 1930s
February 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
A model demonstrating a pair of webbed swimming gloves, 1930s
42,246 words (some ok ones but not in the 'right' order)
February 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
42,246 words (some ok ones but not in the 'right' order)
The middle aged, White artist also apparently lives in the middle ages
February 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The middle aged, White artist also apparently lives in the middle ages
TESCREAL "transhumanism, Extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and longtermism" will never remember what it stands for, but sounds a bit like Tesla, so who it describes will stick! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL @xriskology.bsky.social @timnitgebru.bsky.social
TESCREAL - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 12, 2025 at 8:08 AM
TESCREAL "transhumanism, Extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and longtermism" will never remember what it stands for, but sounds a bit like Tesla, so who it describes will stick! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL @xriskology.bsky.social @timnitgebru.bsky.social
This conference platforms right wing lobbyists from Germany and United States, who weaponise the Holocaust to disguise Israeli oppression. IHRA doesn't help us Jews, it just silences Palestinians! finlandabroad.fi/web/osce/cur...
Importance of dialogue discussed at OSCE’s annual conference on addressing anti-Semitism - Finland abroad: OSCE
The annual OSCE Conference on addressing anti-Semitism opened today,
February 10, in Helsinki. The conference is...
finlandabroad.fi
February 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This conference platforms right wing lobbyists from Germany and United States, who weaponise the Holocaust to disguise Israeli oppression. IHRA doesn't help us Jews, it just silences Palestinians! finlandabroad.fi/web/osce/cur...
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The possibility that the British Council could sell-off up to half of its art collection is fairly disastrous from so many different angles
That virtually nobody is reacting to this news speaks to ingrained distrust/hatred for the art & culture that belongs to everybody
artlyst.com/news/british...
That virtually nobody is reacting to this news speaks to ingrained distrust/hatred for the art & culture that belongs to everybody
artlyst.com/news/british...
British Council Facing Debt Crisis Considers Art Collection Sell-off
The British Council is considering selling off its £200 million art collection due to debts incurred during the COVID crisis....
artlyst.com
January 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The possibility that the British Council could sell-off up to half of its art collection is fairly disastrous from so many different angles
That virtually nobody is reacting to this news speaks to ingrained distrust/hatred for the art & culture that belongs to everybody
artlyst.com/news/british...
That virtually nobody is reacting to this news speaks to ingrained distrust/hatred for the art & culture that belongs to everybody
artlyst.com/news/british...
Had a very ‘restoritive’ yoga session, lying on the mat thinking about white savior complex and the curatorial
February 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Had a very ‘restoritive’ yoga session, lying on the mat thinking about white savior complex and the curatorial
"I would position AI as a post-enlightenment project. Stripped of an enlightenment telos and shorn of its commitment to absolute knowledge, what remains is a logocentric husk which reveals a distinct mode of explanation that stubbornly resists universalisation." @cavvia.bsky.social just brilliant.
February 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"I would position AI as a post-enlightenment project. Stripped of an enlightenment telos and shorn of its commitment to absolute knowledge, what remains is a logocentric husk which reveals a distinct mode of explanation that stubbornly resists universalisation." @cavvia.bsky.social just brilliant.
Biocleave House by Arakawa and Gin. Postmodern deathtrap or a new/old take on silicone valley immortality crowd? www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzMD...
Bioscleave House
YouTube video by arakawagins
www.youtube.com
February 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Biocleave House by Arakawa and Gin. Postmodern deathtrap or a new/old take on silicone valley immortality crowd? www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzMD...
Sporky, 2016, Tori Wrånes, Kiasma
January 31, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Sporky, 2016, Tori Wrånes, Kiasma
More #BLACKMEME thoughts. I have a fascination with Betty Boop going back to my teenage years (I wore grungy torn up baby-girl slips & betty boop vest) So, it's case of racial appropriation (boop's speech style was jazz age scatting!) Story went viral then was retracted www.pbs.org/publiceditor...
A short item promoting PBS’ Black History Month programming suggested the Betty Boop cartoon charact
An illustrated timeline of the development of cartoon character Betty Boop
www.pbs.org
January 29, 2025 at 7:52 AM
More #BLACKMEME thoughts. I have a fascination with Betty Boop going back to my teenage years (I wore grungy torn up baby-girl slips & betty boop vest) So, it's case of racial appropriation (boop's speech style was jazz age scatting!) Story went viral then was retracted www.pbs.org/publiceditor...
Pertinent to BLACK MEME reading group #legacyrussell @sashahuber.bsky.social
Join activist Tamara Lanier and Hrag Vartanian on Feb 12 for a conversation on her new book about her quest to retrieve the daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors from Harvard University.
Book Talk: Tamara Lanier’s Fight With Harvard to #FreeRenty
Activist Tamara Lanier will join Hrag Vartanian to discuss her new book about her battle with Harvard University for ownership of her enslaved ancestors’ images.
hyperallergic.com
January 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Pertinent to BLACK MEME reading group #legacyrussell @sashahuber.bsky.social
Does stress cause cancer? NO! So happy that @cancerresearchuk.org have a page about this. It was something I was confronted with by loved ones when I had my diagnosis and keeps coming up for me. www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer...
www.cancerresearchuk.org
January 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Does stress cause cancer? NO! So happy that @cancerresearchuk.org have a page about this. It was something I was confronted with by loved ones when I had my diagnosis and keeps coming up for me. www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer...
Living for this account 💚💚
January 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Living for this account 💚💚