Sioux ‘performers’ working for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show were touring New Jersey and performed for Edison’s operators. The Wild West shows introduced many western performers and personalities, at the same time diffusing a romanticized image of the American Wild West to a very wide audience. The same show would tour Europe extensively and put up its tents in Antwerp in 1891 and 1906.
Cabinet Jurino presents a Potential Estate version of Edison’s Ghost Dance.
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" My brain is frozen. I have to break free from this culture of mechanical reproduction and the thick incrustration who die on the surface "
in « House of 10.000 corpses », Rob Zombie, 2003.
— Tricksters or fakes, assistants or ‘toons, they are exemplars of the coming community
Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community, University of Minnesota Press
Steps and ladders are an ancient and universal device for representing the growth, the upward and downward motion of nature. They are the symbol of achievement in the rise and descent through space, just as the circle, the coiled serpent, is the symbol for the rhythm of time...
David Freedberg / Pathos at Oraibi : What Warburg did not see
« Our ancestors sold Manhattan for trinkets. Today with the acquisition of the Hard Rock cafes we’re going to buy Manhattan back one hamburger at a time. »
Press conference Seminole Tribe
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