Great stuff. Might go to the show. The prose-poem note 5 could do with being updated. For a start, Princess Di needs to be changed to Donald Trump. Which says a lot about how much more fucked up the world is now than it was in Ballard's time.
Can you think of a link between JG Ballard and On Kawara? Asking for a friend.
His political and social references seem more up to date than his art ones. Like, decades apart! Amazing that Ballard was able to come across as timeless. Maybe that shows the importance of knowing your time and not being distracted by the ever-displacing new.
Fantastic footnotes!
Great stuff. Might go to the show. The prose-poem note 5 could do with being updated. For a start, Princess Di needs to be changed to Donald Trump. Which says a lot about how much more fucked up the world is now than it was in Ballard's time.
Can you think of a link between JG Ballard and On Kawara? Asking for a friend.
Thank you. It seems unlikely but you never know. Ballard’s tastes were more to the surrealists like Delvaux
His political and social references seem more up to date than his art ones. Like, decades apart! Amazing that Ballard was able to come across as timeless. Maybe that shows the importance of knowing your time and not being distracted by the ever-displacing new.