Kyle Thomas Hemingway: The ephemera edit
An ongoing digital archive of 1,376 items (and counting) proving that I read, I saw, and I actually paid attention.
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Installation view, Dress Up -
Kyungah Ham 함경아, What you see is the unseen / Chandeliers for Five Cities SR 01-03, 2016-2017 -
“As the garment industry left the United States, it undid the work of industrial feminists like Clara Lemlich and Rose Schneiderman, who had the audacity to demand that intellectual satisfaction was the birthright of every sewing machine operator. This new brand of feminism didn’t care to protect sewing work as good work; rather it scoured the earth to find the cheapest new sources of exploitable, female labor.”
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Curtain call at Fiddler on the Roof -
Birds dressed like twice-divorced socialites -
Dining room at the Driehaus Museum -
Curtain call at Death Becomes Her -
“Potential is what people see when they think what’s in front of them isn’t good enough.”
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“I must go punch that baby.”
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Curtain call at A Strange Loop -
Firelei Báez, Adjusting the Moon (The right to non-imperative clarities): Waxing, 2019–2020 -
Yvette Mayorga, Surveillance Locket 2, 2021 (background) -
“But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year later than last year. Every now is labeled with its date, rendering all past nows obsolete, until—later of sooner—perhaps—no, not perhaps—quite certainly: it will come.”
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The Hot Sardines perform -
“The emotional bond between owner and pet is often, perhaps to some degree always, bound up in anthropomorphic projections.”
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“There is a kind of energy born out of shame, formed by and in it, that can act as a force for transformation. This energy finds its expression in a theatricalized identity, in performance, in a love of display or extravagance, in parody. Self-display and theatricality are and have been among the most important means of defying heteronormative hegemony—and this is why they have always been the objects of such virulent attacks.”
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Curtain call at The Drowsy Chaperone -
View of the courtyard with nasturtiums in foreground -
“Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living.”
