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cargo.site
August 08 ’23


Many moons ago we used to work at the DIA museum — when it was only in Chelsea. Often, after work, we’d walk south a block to the Paula Cooper gallery, or if nice enough, crosstown to the Printed Matter bookstore (when it was on Lafayette). In such youthful wanderings we’d entertain hopes that one day we’d somehow collaborate with such cultural undertakings — these sporty, poetic, elegant, sincere and intellectual projects. Well — we are now on something like our fifth year of collaboration with Printed Matter’s art book fairs. Cheers to a continually great organization and these increasingly relevant, print-based, social assemblages.

If you happen to be in Los Angeles this week please come out! (If you book tickets for Thursday, opening night, we are giving out free tote bags! There’ll be glow in the dark cocktails as well.)

Printed Matter’s 2023 LA Art Book Fair
August 10–13, 2023
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 N Central Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90012







 

Sites in Use



Ellipsis Lecture Series

We’ve said this at least twice before, but since the pleasure has not lessened... One of the most satisfying usages of a site, of Cargo, is what might be called a digital pamphlet. The feeling we get when we encounter a really good interlocking, dynamic example (like the above Ellipsis Lecture Series one) is the opposite of cognitive dissonance; like, we expected/hoped to see many such awesome, tight, chic, and sci-fi media communications, and here they are.




JJ Jie Jian



Marthe Nachtman



Marco Lagerweij







Graphic Design



Utkan Dora Öncül
@utkandora
Chuck Gonzales
@chuck.gon
Jonathan Katav
@jonathankatav
Ralph Damman
@therealralphdamman
Kuan-Ting Chen
@k.chen._
Claire Shin
@clrdlne




Style



Camille Soulat
@sltcamille
Luca Anzalone
@lucaanzalonestudio
Monique Finster
@monifinsterstyling
Oana Cilibiu
@oanacilibiu
Hannah Ryan
@hannahelizabethryan
André Iosolin
@iosolini




Architecture
& Design



Special Thanks Studios
@specialthanksstudios
Berit Levy
@by_belevy
Misc Objet
@miscobjet
Lewis Ronald
@lewiser
Sho Ota
@shoo_ohta
Giulia Lazzaro
@gjlazzaro




Art



Basement
@basementvhs
Jennifer Mehigan
@jennifermehigan
Delphine Lejeune
@demc__
Gijeong Goo
@goo_gijeong
Solander Collection
@solander.art
Disneyland Paris
@dislandparis




Photo



Rebeca Mendizabal
Jiaqi Shi
@ssssjqq
Mitchell O'Neil
@mitchell.oneil_
Chris Chung
Léopoldine Hacher
@leopoldinehdb
Misa Asanuma
@asanumamisa





Shops on Cargo



Prosthetic Tornado Boots
Archived
$2,000
Stonemilker
Nueoi
$16
The Arabian Horse Families of Egypt...
Steen Arabian Horse Books
€45
Emerald Grn Butterfly Goblet
Clay Projects
Email for Pricing
Vintage Cocktail Forks
Frog Life Mart
$42
FRUTAS
HUMOBOOKS
$22
         





Goings-On(line)


An offering of pieces and projects
                from around the web            






Oracle


Each week we consult both the Tarot and the I Ching.
To submit your own question,
send an email to oracle@cargo.site


The Devil (reversed)
45. Gathering Together [Massing]

These first few lines are the general aphoristic returns for the week. They are raw and uninterpreted; there to use how you’d like. (The specific readings follow.)

  • be open to a reversal of knowing (like un-knowing, not like the opposite of something)
  • do not blindly pursue understanding
  • seek union with groups guided or founded by strong, but deeply unselfish, leaders (or stand apart and wait for such a situation to occur)

* * *

From “C.A.R.G.O.”: In light of this week’s book fair — we’d like to ask the Oracle a related question. How important is the method of conveyance — method of conveyance meaning, a book, a site, a painting, a film, an oration, a tarot/I Ching reading, etc., etc.? It is our inclination (belief even) that the medium is the message; for us this implies that the cactus is of the desert, humans are of the earth, clothing is of the weather, ultimately, form is of the function...

A method of communication should strive to be somewhere between an intention and a question. If it goes too much toward the former, then dogma, control or mere one-sided teaching may be the result. If the latter dominates, then there simply aren’t enough boundaries/forces for something to legibly/sensibly appear.

As well, communications are not frequently selfless/open enough and either cloak authoritarian conceits, or unimaginatively utilize an a priori skill (so that it’s all medium and no message). So yes, it seems that the medium is the message — transcendentally so.

The method should be what is needed, not what is wanted or what is easy.


* * *

Complete Reading

This week we pulled the Devil. Whether upright or reversed, the card bears reference to the Adam and Eve myth. Though we are not remotely religious, we do admire many religious metaphors — a favorite being the one where Adam and Eve are expelled from the garden of Eden, for eating from the tree of knowledge. For us, the attraction being that it speaks to the double edge of coming into awareness — on the one side you have knowledge (which is like the fundamental ingredient of all manner of procreative power) on the other side, you have the reality that knowing cannot be undone (like, you can’t put the genie back in the bottle). The upright image of the card is a reference to this earthbound-ness — the difficulty of a human’s servitude to knowledge. When reversed, as it is here, it points to a very interesting place, something like the liberation from knowing. 

Our first and only hexagram this week is #45, Gathering Together (Massing). Here we have something like a pros and cons list of the gathering together of people (and some related qualifications). All great undertakings require accord and/or the individually contributive work of large groups. Whilst conversely, large groups of people, should they freak out (collectively desire short term release) cause massive damage (or reverse a lot of their hard-won work). For the sensitive, motivated, strong oversight of masses of people, a person of uncommon selflessness and self-collectedness, is required.