We don't experience things collectively or cathartically anymore. Viewing has become an intensely private, fetishistic, compulsive process that happens separately from others, and that reflects not only our relation to cinema as a space of possibility, belief, and imagination. But more generally, of what could be, of readiness, which is what the movies have historically been about - the ability to act on things and change.
Masha TupitsynIn the digital economy, everything is archived, catalogued, readily available, and yet nothing really endures.
Masha TupitsynThe digital artwork is characterized not by the technology which delivers it, but by the "passage" itself.
Masha TupitsynQuotes are a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking.
Masha TupitsynHaving a love ethic, as opposed to simply being in love, or having a lover, means love is the way you actively choose to engage with the world - whether you're in a relationship or not. It's not about disappearing into existing structures, norms, and privileges. It's precisely about breaking with the existing structures, values, and norms that prohibit real love in our culture.
Masha Tupitsyn