CLICK HERE TO VISIT www.xaviercazarescortez.com Arts' Filthy Lessons, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mecahnical Reproduction," contemporary art practice, Art Education, Writing... "My objective is to research, teach, and create art forms that are going to get us further and deeper and what is ultimately going to make us broader, smarter, faster, and hopefully freer. This is a cosmological perspective/worldview of accident and synthesis; and is much closer to the essence of contemporary experience. My artistic production cycle involves actively taking systems and structures and destroying them, then recovering the pieces and making them into something new..."
Marcel Duchamp, MLK, Carl Jung, Jeff Koons, Sigmund Freud, F. Nietzsche Agent 008
Bowie, John Lennon,Lou Reed, Frank Black, Iggy Pop, John Cage, Lou Reed , The Pixies, Sonic Youth, Baby Shambles, Killers, The Clash, Aracade Fire, She Wants Revenge, Libertines, Bowie, John Lennon, The Cure (pre-"Disintegration", 80s New Wave, Grace Jones, T.REX, New York Dolls, Led Zeppelin, Beatles, Strokes (first album), Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Dinah Washington, Etta James, Nat King Cole, Miles Davis, Dizzy, John Coltrane, Muddy Waters, BB King, Staxx artists, TSOP artists
KUBRICK--"A Clockwork Orange; Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stopped Worrying And Love The Bomb; Eyes Wide Shut; Barry Lyndon; Lolita; 2001; A Space Odyssey+++Julian Schnabel puts out!--Basquiat (Bowie's performance is masterful)+++BERGMAN--"Fanny och Alexander; Seventh Seal," LUIS BUÑUEL--"El Angel Exterminador; Belle De Jour; Viridiana; Cet Obscur Object Du Desir; El Bruto; Le Charme Discret De La Bourgeoise; Los Olvidados; Un Chien Andalu; et al"+++DENNIS HOPPER fucking puts out!Easy Rider; Blue Velvet, Last Picture Show +++The Hunger, JOHN HUSTON...Night of the Iguana, Woody Allen pics, Spike Lee (says what needs to be said!): "Do the Right Thing" (always), Jungle Fever, The Matrix, Blade Runner,+++ Mathew Barney's Cremaster Cycle+++Hitchcock 'can do no wrong in my eyes!', Marty Scorsese, Coppola (Father and Daughter) Wim Wenders, Fellini,KURASOWA, Akira: Seven Samurai, Ran, Dreams Coen Bros.Big Lebowski, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, Fargo, Blood Simple, Raising Arizona...all worthy of praiseCocteau, Cocteau...Msr. CocteauDOUGLAS GORDON'S "Hand and Foot"
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AND AUTHORS: Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics, Hemingway: "Hills Like White Elephants; For Whom the Bell Tolls; A Clean, Well-lighted Place..." Wm. Burroughs, Derrida: "Of Grammatology," Baudrillad: "The Ecstasy of Communication; Le Systeme des Objets; Forget Foucault," Barthes, Deleuze: "Anti-Oedipus," Eco, Dosteovsky, Anton Chekov: "Man in a Case," Nabokov, David Mamet: "Glen Garry GlennRoss" (Shelly Levine the machine); Maya Angelou
Superior Filmmakers AND ARTISTS: David Bowie, Marcel Duchamp, Laurie Anderson, Joseph Beuys, Bertolt Brecht, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Dennis Hopper, Olivia Gude, Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Jenny Holzer,Sean Landers, Bruce Nauman, Damien Hirst, Roni Horn, Thomas Hirschhorn, Chris Burden, Gabriel Orozco, Harry Gamboa Jr., Kiki Smith, Daniel Franco, Maurizio Cattelan, Jeff Koons, Robert Gober, Julian Schnabel, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Bruce Nauman, Kazimir Malevich, Ad Reinhardt, Yoko Ono, Vito Acconci, Louise Bourgeois, DADAists fer sure, Damián Ortega, Francis Alys, Mona Hatoum, Shirin Neshat, Mike Kelly, Tom Friedman, Tim Hawkinson, On Kawara, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tobias Rehberger, Daniel J. MartÃnez, Jonathan Meese, Andreas Gursky, Mark Bradford, Christina Fernandez, Sharon Lockhart, John Baldessari, Thomas Demand, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Tania Bruguera, Elmgreen & Dragset, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Claes Oldenburg, Charles Ray, Lawrence Weiner, Douglas Gordon, Tracy Emin, Yutaka Sone, Allen Kaprow, Kori Newkirk, Sherrie Levine, Meg Cranston ...