Asli Kuris

We at once seek connection with the mystery and freedom of the natural world, yet we continually strive to tame the wild around us and compulsively control the wild within our own nature. - Asli Kuris from Bookmarklet

"Before he died in 2000, he lamented his unwitting contribution to what he called "monolithic insanity."" - Asli Kuris from Bookmarklet

"In 1970 Cildo Miereles found an alternative route to address the non-art public. First the artist rubber-stamped bank notes with politically charged opinions and sayings such as “Yankee Go Home.” He put the money back into circulation by paying his rent or buying groceries. Next he silk-screened similar messages on empty Coca-Cola bottles before returning them to the bottling plant for recirculation. The artist used vitreous white ink to match the Coke logo so that few noticed the altered bottle until they began to drink. These bottles and bank notes from Mierles’s Insertion into Ideological Circuits are coveted by present-day museums and collectors. They remain, however, artifacts, relics, or mementos from a political action, not intended as “works of art.” - Asli Kuris

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Most of us are wired to react negatively to anything that rids the world of yet another Rand logo. Like many, I am an admirer of this logo and I’m sad to see it go. But it’s crystal clear that the world in which Rand created identities is not the same world they exist in now and most are reaching their expiry date… IBM being the exception. So, yes, it’s lamentable to see Rand’s work slowly dissolve in this über branded era where form doesn’t follow function but the bottom line. - Asli Kuris from Bookmarklet

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"The opening section consists of Pekar's biographies of the canonical Beats, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, and then onto the less-celebrated members of the scene, including Rexroth, Ferlinghetti, LeRoi Jones, and so forth. These pieces are loving but harsh, sparing their subjects little sympathy for their misdeeds (which are many, ranging from murder and betrayal to vicious misogyny and naive, fleeting affairs with reactionary politics and mysticism). Pekar shows us that a mature person can admire the worthy deeds and art of historical heroes without glossing over their bad acts -- or throwing away their art with their sins." - Asli Kuris from Bookmarklet

"The ideas behind the steampunk sci-fi subgenre have been around since Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, but it was given its moniker in the late '80s as a speculative-fiction genre, alongside cyberpunk, ribofunk and splatterpunk. While the others peer 15 minutes into the future, steampunk envisions a future that has collapsed onto a re-imagined Victorian past. Steam and clockworks replace silicon logic, brass and copper stand in for titanium and plastic, and airships replace spaceships." - Asli Kuris from Bookmarklet