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1. for the launching of Lacanian Ink 33: at the Jack Tilton Gallery, NYC, April 23, 2009. The event consisted of an introduction - my own - to the Symptom: the subject along the lines in this issue, the striking point is how Lacan gets to articulate it as the Sinthome. I brought up Lacan's stand wth regard to "little Hans"and how the young child gets to elaborate a little Name-of-the-Father.\"There's something of the perfect patient when it comes to "little Hans." Followed a brief announcement over Slavoj Zizek's paper "Architectural Parallax: Spandrels and other phenomena of Class struggle."
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2. at the launching of Lacanian Ink 23, Deitch Gallery, NYC, April 23, 2009. The event consisted of my introductory paper to Religion - the subject throughout the writing in this issue - and a brief announcement with regard to Slavoj Zizek's title… this time he made it a question: "Do We Still Live in a Real World?" Slavoj talked passionately, this time so properly dressed, his hair so neat… why am I thinking of that? Probably because in front of me, right across the room I could visualize his very young Argentinian new wife…
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3. Same evening - of April 23, 2009, at Deitch Gallery, NYC, for the launching of Lacanian ink 23 - Slavoj is talking while I am trying to discern a question in whatever it is he is actually saying. The person sitting beside me is Jorge Jauregui - editor of Lacanian Ink. Some rows behind I catched sight of Cathy Lebowitz, and David Ebony - both editors at Art in America. To the right there was Francesco Pellitzi editor Time to return to my notes… How Real is the world we live in?
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4. With Alain Badiou, at the Jack Tilton Gallery, New York City, November 18/2007. In my paper I talked about the object not being seizable, however captured in the fantasm, of how it is denuded in perversion where surplus-jouir unveils in a naked form. Alain Badiou's "Some Remarks Concerning Marcel Duchamp" were curious enough, in that he didn't like Duchamp that much - who would dare ??? You may have to be Alain Badiou to utter it aloud.
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5. The ocassion was to sponsor the launching of Lacanian Ink 24/25, on Eroticism - at Deitch Projects, NYC, April 1, 2005. Again, Alain Badiou owuld be discussing "The Subject of Art" that deals with his theory of the emergence of truths from the singular relationship between a subject and an event… I glimpsed Stuart Schneiderman sitting in the first rows, and I glimpsed Adrian Dannatt close to him… What was made evident was that Adrian was enjoying it all.
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6. the year 1994 was on the run, we were meeting at Wolfgang Staehle's studio, in Tribeca - White St., NYC… At that time the emphasis was on the messageboards together with the development of the THING: Wolfgang putting up the structures for us to write, Gisella calling us to join up in parties, art shows… It was fun. They built an art community.
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7. November 30, 2000 - NYC. for the launching of Lacanian Ink 17, on Esthetics - at Deitch Projects, on West Broadway - ex-Frederick Pretzel gallery. And yes, it was the beginning of the century, of the millenium… My introduction centered the drama at the core of the feminine, precisely in the looking glass: Woman changes herself in the mirrors, in behalf of the esthetical...To start with Badiou read from his own article, "Art and Philosophy" translated into English and published in lacanian ink, till he got tired of doing so, closed the book and recited Mallarmé.
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8. The Pratt Institute, Nov.16, 2006. I was invited by Alain Badiou to read an opening paper before he got into "Truth Art as a Place for Politics without Place." My introduction made a parallel of the Symptom with with M (The Murderer), in the Fritz Lang film… Here a supplement function of the symptom gets simply imposed: the character cannot have sexual relations with women thereof he strangles little girls… Nothing to laugh about, even though I openly laugh in this photograph.
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9. The Tilton Gallery in Soho, NYC, November 14, 2001, for the launching of Lacanian Ink 19. My introduction tells of the stone without a world, of the lizard with something of a world, of man: man has a world because he has the logos. Followed Slavoj Žižek in reference to "Passions of the Real: Violence in the XXth Century."
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10. Same evening, With Alain Badiou, at the Jack Tilton Gallery, New York City, November 18, 2007. In my paper I talked about the object not being seizable, however captured in the fantasm, of how it is denuded in perversion where surplus-jouir unveils in a naked form. Alain Badiou's "Some Remarks Concerning Marcel Duchamp" were curious enough, in that he didn't like Duchamp that much - who would dare ??? You may have to be Alain Badiou to utter it aloud.
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11. With Victoria Bullrich drinking a lychee martini at a Korean Restaurant in Soho.
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12. January 2010 - Pierre-Gilles Gueguin shot my photo against the New Museum, new building door. He said, while doing it "for to show the new wind that is blowing."
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13. With Slavoj Zizek at the New Museum - in the old days, in the old building - October 14 - 1999, for the launching of lacanian ink 15. The journal's first event ever, the very hilarious is that, the event scheduled for 7:pm. Slavoj started talking at 6:45pm. Oh.. he surprised me!
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14. Gerard Wajcman took this photograph as we arrived at David Zwirner Gallery to meet him. Behind us the Frank Gehry's IAC Glass Building, through the reflection the clouds and sky as well as the Hudson river.