Andy Warhol's Blow Job (1964) is a masterpiece of the complexities of voyeurism and duration. The 36-minute film shows a young man apparently receiving oral sex, though the viewer only ever sees his head and shoulders - leaving the person performing the act in our imagination.
In this suggestive reading of John Stezaker's Lost Images series, Mark Prince pits them against Warhol's screenprints to see them as a commentary on the complex relationship between fame, stardom and anonymity now.
Hélio Oiticica developed the concept of ‘tropicamp' in the text ‘MARIO MONTEZ, TROPICAMP' (1971) to critique the commercialisation of the New York avant-garde. These notes contextualise the essay, translated in this issue into English for the first time.
Hélio Oiticica’s ‘MARIO MONTEZ, TROPICAMP’ was first published in Portuguese in late 1971 in Presença, a magazine co-edited by Torquato Neto in Rio de Janeiro. It has since nearly been forgotten. The translation published here aims at making ‘MARIO MONTEZ, TROPICAMP’ accessible to a larger public and bringing Oiticica’s observations back into circulation.
