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THE UNEXPECTED UNION  —  Issue 67    June 26 2022   —  OF UNEXPECTED THINGS 

Christian Michael Filardo chats with us about fog machines, ephemerality, and gravitating toward beauty. 

x Varyer Team

Fantastical Documentary

You might remember Christian Michael Filardo—poet, performance artist, and photographer—from our collaboration with Small Talk. Filardo is back to talk to us about their own artistic practice and the themes that emanate through their work.

Lift the veil.

A flag shows a tombstone that says "DANCE."
DANCE Tombstone

Filardo's upcoming exhibition The Hall of Mirrors at Baba Yaga Gallery in Hudson, NY, features forty monumental flag displays of their work, including the DANCE Tombstone flag. This limited-edition, exclusive run of four-by-six-foot flags is available now in the Varyer shop. 

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Peering through plants, a flag shows a tombstone that says "DANCE."

⛓ Slackables ⛓

Revisiting ten social networks that didn’t make it  ≻  And why Winamp, Napster, LimeWire, et al are finding new life  ≻  Shintaro Sakamoto has released his first full album in six years  ≻  Listen to what the natural world sounds like, anywhere around the globe  ≻  Or listen to what Brooklyn pirate radio sounds like, anywhere around Brooklyn  ≻  Or listen to whatever you need to, now or later, by converting any doc or website to audio  ≻  James Turrell’s Skypsace installation opened in the side of a mountain in Colorado  ≻  Monster Children breaks down the five big rules of the skatepark  ≻  Dense PDF report from Reuters on the state of digital news in 2022.

“Photography is a performance with yourself. The negative is the documentation of that performance.”
— Christian Michael Filardo
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