One day, I was at work, scrolling through the news on my phone, and came across an article.
"One day, I was at work, scrolling through the news on my phone, and came across an article," her impact statement reads.
I took note of what worked (scrolling through info screens in the instrument cluster) and what didn't (heated steering wheel; the button is on an infotainment screen).
You probably know Carolee Schneemann for her (in famous work, Interior Scroll, a 1975 performance piece that featured the artist reading aloud from a paper scroll as she unfurled it from her vagina.
Carolee Schneemann has done menstrual blottings but these could be read as an extension of the work Interior Scroll, a poem extracted from her vagina during a landmark 1975 performance.
She heads off to work at Scroll, a digital bookseller clearly modelled after Amazon (finely drawn as an increasingly quantified and surveillant tech workplace, a more realistic version of Dave Eggers's "The Circle").
I view the thing as half object of intrigue, half handcuff: while the data it collects (on everything from steps walked to sleep patterns) is interesting, it seems like such a lot of work to scroll through it all.
Known as In the Land of the Dead, Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow, the new body of work revives scroll paintings, totemic sculptures, religious iconography, and art produced in response to natural disasters in Murakami's signature sharp, colorful aesthetic.
He works for Scroll.in, a digital daily that will be launched shortly.
