Editors note: I’m pleased to announce that Hewitt Callister has agreed to become a regular contributor to Vantage Art Projects and will take on the challenge of writing about artists and their work. Here’s a statement about the position he comes from when approaching both the artworks and the person behind the works – Jennifer […]
Jennifer Tazewell Mawby and The Library of Babel: Speculative Archives in an Age of Digital Uncertainty. By Hewitt Callister. Jorge Luis Borges’ The Library of Babel (1941) is a nightmare of knowledge, an infinite archive where every possible book exists, yet meaning itself is lost in the sheer chaos of it all. The librarians, trapped […]
West Berlin in the ’80s was a city in limbo, cut off from the rest of the world, but alive in its own strange way. It was modern and decayed, a Western capital stranded in communist territory. The Wall loomed over everything, dividing the city into two nervous halves. Some neighbourhoods, especially near the Wall, […]