TUESDAY, JANUARY 15TH, 1980
LEWIS ALLEN CAME BY TO TALK ABOUT THE MUSICAL—HE WANTS TO HAVE PUPPETS ON STAGE WITH A RECORDING OF MY VOICE SAYING THINGS FROM ONE OF THE BOOKS—THE PHILOSOPHY BOOK OR POPISM.
INTERVIEWED RON DUGUAY FOR THREE HOURS AND THEN WE BROUGHT HIM TO HALSTON’S FOR DINNER FOR MARTHA GRAHAM. VICTOR IS BACK LIVING AT THE HOUSE NOW, I THINK HE SOLD HIS LOFT. STEVE RUBELL WAS THERE, AND THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO SENTENCE HIM, BUT THEY POSTPONED IT, HE SAID, BECAUSE THEY WANT HIM TO TESTIFY IN COURT THAT HAMILTON JORDAN WAS AT STUDIO 54 TAKING COKE AND HE SAID HE WOULDN’T, AND HALSTON SAID, “BUT YOU ALREADY SAID IT ON TV,” AND STEVE SAID, “YEAH, BUT THAT’S NOT THE SAME AS SAYING IT ON A BIBLE,” AND I MEAN, I AGREE—IT’S NOT.
ANDY WARHOL
METTE STERRE
HOW TO CATCH AN OCTOPUS IN A BROKEN HEART
Parading Paradolia
Ceramics, cam disks, motor, pulleys, mirror platforms, kinetic installation shown at W139, Amserdam “Temper Tantrum Bonehouse (chilling incisions calling things that have no name)” made possible by Mondriaan Fund
Photo by Pieter Kers
2025
Exhibition
Mette Sterre
How to catch an octopus in a broken heart
August 18th-October 15th
Mette Sterre has exhibited work at Manifesta 14 Prishtina, Amsterdam; Museum Of Modern and Contemporary Art Changdong, Seoul; and The Watermill Center, New York, among others.
Mette Sterre is currently a resident at the International Studio & Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, New York until February 2027, (made possible by the Mondriaan Fund) and is also included in the forthcoming 18th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France from September 19 to December 13 2026.
Featured works (in order appearance)
Black Hole Empire: after the Event Horizon
2018
performance at Black Hole Theater, Worm, Rotterdam
duration 1 hour
filmed by MINT production
music by Matthijs van Wageningen
made possible by the generous support of CBK Rotterdam & Digital Anthropology Lab London, London College of Fashion, London
Mater Matter Materials
2023
performance at Brief Encounters, Lust Warande Tilburg
performance 25 minutes
photography G. J. van Rooijen
How to catch an octopus in a broken heart
2021
at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam
performed by Peter Cripss Clark/Rex Collins/Lasse Koemans
Parading Paradolia
2025
ceramics, cam disks, motor, pulleys, mirror platforms
kinetic installation
shown at W139, Amsterdam "Temper Tantrum Bonehouse (chilling incisions calling things that have no name) "
made possible by Mondriaan Fund
photo by Pieter Kers