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Masha Tupitsyn
Masha Tupitsyn is a writer, critic, and multi-media artist. She is the author of the books Like Someone in Love: An Addendum to Love Dog, Love Dog, LACONIA: 1,200 Tweets on Film Beauty Talk & Monsters, the anthology Life As We Show It: Writing on Film. In 2015, she completed the film Love Sounds, a 24-hour audio-essay and history of love in English-speaking cinema. Her fiction and criticism have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals. She teaches film and gender studies at The New School. Her new film, Time Tells, is forthcoming in 2017.

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The Rights Of Nerves

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September 2016

Masha Tupitsyn

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September 2016

‘I transform “Work” in its analytic meaning (the Work of Mourning, the Dream-Work) into the real “Work” — of writing.’ — Roland Barthes, Mourning...

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December 2013

When We Were Here: The 1990s in Film

Masha Tupitsyn

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December 2013

‘I remember touch. Pictures came with touch.’ -Daft Punk, ‘Touch’   In the 1990s, three important pre post-reality films...

In the first room of Terre Thaemlitz’s 2017 exhibition ‘INTERSTICES’, at Auto Italia in London, columns of white text ran across one wall Thaemlitz used Terminal font dimly lit by blue light, evoking the white on blue screens of late 1990s coding software; the text moves from describing the curves of audio waves forms, to the melancholy Thaemlitz’s feels when he applies ‘the first drops of cold foundation to my face’ The sense that the binary codes of programming and gender were being scrambled was amplified in the second room, where, fragments of pornography and 1990s talk shows were accompanied by jarring instrumentals: versions of songs, including Nina Simone’s ‘Four Women’, with all the vocals missing These are the interstices of the show’s title: fleeting moments of loss, only present in their absence For Thaemlitz, interstices are more than formal processes – they are an analogue for her non-essentialist approach to gender and sexual identity Being queer, trans, non-binary, or intersex is neither the foundation for a new form of identity, nor a refusal of identity that amounts to a transgressive political liberation Like ‘the sound of stubble peaking through my concealer’, interstices are attempts at identity jamming, as Thaemlitz’s recent collection of writings, Nuisance: Writings on Identity Jamming and Digital Audio Production, is titled: impossible states, lived contradictions   Thaemlitz is a multi-media producer, DJ, writer, educator, and founder of the record label Comatose Recordings Over three decades and under numerous alias – DJ Sprinkles, GRRL, K-SHE – he has released nineteen albums and exhibited video, audio, and textual work in various contexts, most recently in a two-day residency at Café OTO in London Albums like Soil (1994) interlace ambient noise with brutal accounts of domestic violence; others, like Midtown 120 Blues (2008), contain deep house anthems played and praised in mainstream clubs like Fabric or Panorama Bar Thaemlitz is hostile to the way these clubs trade on a nostalgic vision of house music, the genre she most frequently works in, recasting it as a liberating paradise for queers and people of colour As he recounts on the opening track

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August 2014

Masha Tupitsyn

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August 2014

Masha Tupitsyn is a writer, critic, and multi-media artist. She is the author of the books Like Someone in Love:...

Love Dog

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July 2013

Masha Tupitsyn

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July 2013

11 22 2011 – LOVE DOG     For months Hamlet has been floating around. Its book covers popping up everywhere. Non sequitur references...
Famous Tombs: Love in the 90s

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February 2013

Masha Tupitsyn

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February 2013

‘However, somebody killed something: that’s clear, at any rate—’ Through The Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll   I. BEGINNING   I was a pre-teen when...

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October 2013

Steam

Jon Stone

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October 2013

Steam in the changing rooms, stripping off after the race, breathes like an engine. The air is filled up...

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June 2012

Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Listening to William Burroughs

Charlie Fox

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June 2012

About a month ago I was in Berlin. Every night I had a very strange dream. I was watching...

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July 2013

Occupy Gezi: From the Fringes to the Centre, and Back Again

Alexander Christie-Miller

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July 2013

Taksim Square appears at first a wide, featureless and unlovely place. It is a ganglion of roads and bus...

 

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