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Untitled (detail) Pencil and gouache on paper 30cm x 42cm © 2010 Tammy Lu “It seems that reference is not simply the act of pointing or a way of keeping, on the outside, some material guarantee for the truth of a statement; rather it is our way of keeping something constant through a series of [...]
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Untitled Pencil and gouache on paper 30cm x 30cm © 2010 Tammy Lu “Instead of the vertical abyss between words and world, above which the perilous footbridge of correspondence would hang, we now have a sturdy and thick layering of transverse paths through which masses of transformations circulate. (…) ‘It refers to something there’ indicates [...]
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Apparatus
Detail of a zine prepared for the Fools’ Experiments exhibition at the Bournemouth Natural Science Society (BNSS), 24 August 2009 – 5 September 2009. Untitled (detail) Pencil on paper 42cm x 30cm © 2009 Tammy Lu “In the naturalist’s collection things happen to plants that have never occurred since the dawn of the world. The [...]
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Tags: BNSS, Bruno Latour, Charles Darwin
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Untitled (detail) Pencil on paper 46cm x 42cm © 2008 Tammy Lu “A well-defined state of affairs is the work of many forces. They agree about nothing and associate only via long networks in which they talk endlessly without being able to sum one another up. They intermingle, but they cannot reach outside themselves to [...]
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Tags: Bruno Latour, Irreductions
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Untitled (detail) Pencil on paper 30cm x 30cm © 2009 Tammy Lu “We neither think nor reason. Rather, we work on fragile materials – texts, inscriptions, traces, or paints – with other people. These materials are associated or dissociated by courage and effort; they have no meaning, value, or coherence outside the narrow network that [...]
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Untitled (detail) Pencil on paper 30cm x 30cm © 2009 Tammy Lu “What can we compare with the weaknesses that make up a force? A macramé. Is there a knot that links men to men, neurons to neurons, or sheets of iron to sheets of iron? No. The rope of this Gordian knot has not [...]
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