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Helen Kaplinsky

@hkaplinsky.bsky.social
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Curator. PhD at Exhibition Research Lab, LJMU on feminism/monsters/dispossession. Helsinki/ London linktr.ee/hkaplinsky

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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Enjoying this #Aprilfools from @hyperallergic.com “If we’re serious about respecting the historical traumas of the Jewish people, we must eliminate every river, canal, and creek in this country,” said one parliament member hyperallergic.com/881440/berli...
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Berlin Museum Removes All Artwork Depicting Rivers or Seas
The German media praised the move, accusing several international bodies of water of antisemitism.
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I had the honor of doing a studio visit with Mark at his flat in east London many years ago now. He showed me an incredible archive of postal art built over decades, a a unique DIY punk aesthetic and often playful approach full of passion and commitment 💌 here’s to the king of stamps 💮
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
“Is Imhof, in fact, the most Gen X of artists – filtered by a millennial sensibility through Gen Z technologies?” Jeppe Ugelvig nails it spikeartmagazine.com/articles/rev...
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Anne Imhof’s “DOOM” Is No Match for The Fashion Machine | Spike Art Magazine
On the rigged economy of making cool images and letting her audience shoot the editorial at Park Avenue Armory.
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Loving this: “Trans* borrows from internet search protocols where an asterisk functions as a wildcard or a place holder for any and all unknown terms associated with the word inquestion” Halberstam, Trans* - Gender Transitivity and New Configurations of Body, History, Memory and Kinship, 2016
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 13/03/2025
🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️ 💾 📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save
Logo for the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, with Wayback in red and Machine in black.
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Creative Australia. What a total whopper.
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Restocked the 2018 Alembic publication with Freedom Press- order there now! Featuring: Uma Breakdown, Ele Carpenter, Shu Lea Cheang, Tamar Clarke-Brown, Kirsten Cooke, Annabelle Craven-Jones, Rosalie Doubal, Helen Hester, Sarah Jury, Helen Kaplinsky (con comments) freedompress.org.uk/product/alem...
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Alembic - Freedom Press
Alembic publication reflects and expands on the Alembic are Res. programme through 150 pages of new texts, drawings and images, designed by Europa, and edited by Res. (Sarah Jury, Helen Kaplinsky & Lu...
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Congratulations #JennaSutela and #StefanieHessler on being selected for the Finnish Pavillion at 61st Venice Biennale! I feel lucky to call Jenna a collaborator and am currently writing a chapter for my PhD on her work. Here's an extract continued in comments : 1/3
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Is anyone else finding it dreadfully difficult to stay off insta? It feels like business as usual again, what happened? It didnt get to a point where a critical mass of people who left, as I imagined it might be.
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
yes please 🖤 🆓
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
I have come to notice that the imagery around patient care, getting tested and charity fundraising is noticeably White. Cancer is coded White “It is this simple-and this complicated. Cancer does not discriminate, and neither should cancer care.” (Balanean et all 2024)
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 12/02/2025
A model demonstrating a pair of webbed swimming gloves, 1930s
Laurabeth De'ep-Won showing off her 'gloves'...They are webbed...
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
42,246 words (some ok ones but not in the 'right' order)
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The middle aged, White artist also apparently lives in the middle ages
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
TESCREAL "transhumanism, Extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism, and longtermism" will never remember what it stands for, but sounds a bit like Tesla, so who it describes will stick! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL @xriskology.bsky.social @timnitgebru.bsky.social
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TESCREAL - Wikipedia
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This conference platforms right wing lobbyists from Germany and United States, who weaponise the Holocaust to disguise Israeli oppression. IHRA doesn't help us Jews, it just silences Palestinians! finlandabroad.fi/web/osce/cur...
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Importance of dialogue discussed at OSCE’s annual conference on addressing anti-Semitism - Finland abroad: OSCE
The annual OSCE Conference on addressing anti-Semitism opened today, February 10, in Helsinki. The conference is...
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Andrew Wilson @andrewgwilson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The possibility that the British Council could sell-off up to half of its art collection is fairly disastrous from so many different angles That virtually nobody is reacting to this news speaks to ingrained distrust/hatred for the art & culture that belongs to everybody artlyst.com/news/british...
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British Council Facing Debt Crisis Considers Art Collection Sell-off
The British Council is considering selling off its £200 million art collection due to debts incurred during the COVID crisis....
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Had a very ‘restoritive’ yoga session, lying on the mat thinking about white savior complex and the curatorial
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
"I would position AI as a post-enlightenment project. Stripped of an enlightenment telos and shorn of its commitment to absolute knowledge, what remains is a logocentric husk which reveals a distinct mode of explanation that stubbornly resists universalisation." @cavvia.bsky.social just brilliant.
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Biocleave House by Arakawa and Gin. Postmodern deathtrap or a new/old take on silicone valley immortality crowd? www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzMD...
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Bioscleave House
YouTube video by arakawagins
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Sporky, 2016, Tori Wrånes, Kiasma
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
More #BLACKMEME thoughts. I have a fascination with Betty Boop going back to my teenage years (I wore grungy torn up baby-girl slips & betty boop vest) So, it's case of racial appropriation (boop's speech style was jazz age scatting!) Story went viral then was retracted www.pbs.org/publiceditor...
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A short item promoting PBS’ Black History Month programming suggested the Betty Boop cartoon charact
An illustrated timeline of the development of cartoon character Betty Boop
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Pertinent to BLACK MEME reading group #legacyrussell @sashahuber.bsky.social
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Does stress cause cancer? NO! So happy that @cancerresearchuk.org have a page about this. It was something I was confronted with by loved ones when I had my diagnosis and keeps coming up for me. www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer...
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Living for this account 💚💚
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Mark Essen @nessekram.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Ironic humour is produced through an innate exploitation of the structural inequality of situated knowledges. Just a thought. Anyone got any references for it?
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
ooh Gus Van Sant is making a film on Antinous. Intrigued.
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
A Night We Held Between by Noor Abed (film, 2024) at the launch of her book Stars at Midday (2025) a personal production diary of the film. Publix’s, Helsinki
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Helen Kaplinsky @hkaplinsky.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Black memes are an archiving of Black culture and Black gesture that are Black authored, held captive in an infinite loop - a note made at the inaugural #BlackMeme #LegacyRussell reading group session at #MuseumofImpossibleForms Helsinki
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