Monday 2 May 2022

Astronomical archive : Entanglements of matter

Astronomical archive
Time based analogue photography

Entanglements of matter and meaning.







Karen Barad, Meeting The Universe Halfway, 2007.

Celestial Sphere/Scale/Intersection : Stars and Dust Particles. 

Astronomical archive

Hawking understood black holes because he could stare at them. Black holes mean oblivion. Mean death. And Hawking has been staring at death all his adult life. Hawking could see.
Martin Amis, Night Train, 1997.
 
For Baudrilland the actual photographs are beside the point. It is what precedes them that counts in his eyes- the mental event of taking a picture.
Sylvere Lotringer, The Piracy of Art, 2008.












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