In response to thinking about how anti-human propositions are re-produced intimately, covertly acting from a hybrid sub-non-conscious place on other systems of political representation; powerfully shaping our desire for togetherness and futurity. Crowd shots, classical beauty, Venus, sublimity, divinity as a means of processing the natural world—mythology vs. philosophy—where violence and nationalism, violence and slavery, are naturalized in the platonic revolution.

Cindy
Naomi
Linda
Christy
Tatiana
Althea,
Tell me, what you know of
Truth and Beauty
Performance and Hierarchy
The Book of Justice
The Book of Virtues

A unified vision
A perfect oblivion

Reduplicate

Murderers of the Real
Collapse
Dilutes
Into metaphysical despair
At least
As shadows
Forever radiant
With your own fascination

Reduplicate

Show me perfection
Hold up Empire
Tell me About progression
Descent and confusion
Between beauty and horror
A reversal of our natural
order
(In my notes
the last line says:

Neoliberalism is Greco

In your notes
Thomas Paine once wrote:

What Athens was in
miniature, America will
be in magnitude)

Reduplicate
What’s Real
Hidden and concealed

What is the essence of
a judgment?

Unhidden Being
Holder of truth
Death is your affect
Doomed to forget
Unscrupulous deceit
Five hundred years of
Violence on repeat

Tell me, how you hold
catharsis in your mouth
dissonance on your tongue

Tell me, and
Let language and
commerce guide you
Down

Lethe
Acheron
Cocytus
Phlegethon
Styx

All paths lead us here
The river of woe
Conceal me
Know me and you will
know truth

The first lie
Naturalized

After glory
Comes decay

This is the essence of
a judgment

To win the race, a
prettier face
Rebuild the Republic
Meticulously

History, needs work
Re-worked
Anything but, worked out
Knowledge conceals
Our loss
Our past
Our sense of purpose
The history of the image
remains unanswered
But in response
You said Bauhaus not
Bacchus
The difference is more
than u c

—Amy Fung

Kandis Williams is an artist based in Los Angeles and Berlin. Her recent exhibitions include solo shows at Cooper Cole; installations at Art Toronto; EXPO VIDEO, curated by Anna Gritz for Chicago Expo; 215 Madison Street, New York; Works on Paper, Vienna; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; SADE, Los Angeles; a performance and workshop at Human Resources, Los Angeles; 2018 Montreal music festival; and actual size, Los Angeles. Williams has an active curatorial and writing practice, and she runs Cassandra Press with artist Taylor Doran.

Amy Fung is a writer, researcher, and curator currently based in Toronto. Her first book, Before I Was a Critic, I Was a Human Being, is forthcoming spring 2019 from Artspeak and Book*hug Press.