Sympathetic Materialism: An Evening with Allan Sekula
Sunday – 02.12.12 – Sympathetic Materialism – An Evening with Allan Sekula Contents: 1. Introduction to Sunday 2. A note on sympathetic materialism 3. Untitled preface to Waiting for Tear Gas 4. Lottery of the Sea: Prologue and Ending 5. The Forgotten Space – screening at MoMA, Monday, 02.13.11 6. Related readings/viewings 7. Filmography 8.... [ Read More → ]
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Parasite [discussion at Artists Space]
October 12, 2011 7PM With Andrea Fraser, Silvia Kolbowski, Jason Simon and Sébastien Pluot, amongst others. As specified in the above document distributed in 1998, Parasite was “an artist-run organization formed to support, document, and present project-based art work. As a secondary (or para) site for projects undertaken at other locations, Parasite aim[ed]... [ Read More → ]
Museum Exhibition of Artist Museums
Marko Lulic, “Museum of Revolution,” 2010. Installation view 20er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna, Steel, paint, 1100 x 400 x 300cm.* Museum Show Arnolfini 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol, BS1 4QA, U.K www.arnolfini.org.uk Museum Show: Part 1 24 September–19 November 2011 One of the most curious tendencies in modern and contemporary art has been that of museums created... [ Read More → ]
Boo-Hooray and Johan Kugelberg’s Forthcoming Exhibition on Dial House/Crass Fanzines/Gee Vaucher
“IN ALL OUR DECADENCE PEOPLE DIE” AN EXHIBITION OF FANZINES PRESENTED TO CRASS BETWEEN 1976 AND 1984 PLUS ORIGINAL CRASS-ERA ARTWORKS BY GEE VAUCHER AND A NEW AUDIO INSTALLATION BY PENNY RIMBAUD CURATED BY JOHAN KUGELBERG 265 Canal Street 6th floor, NY 10013 Sept 30th – Oct 20th, 2011 Opening: Friday, September 30th, 6-9pm The... [ Read More → ]
Now I have a Ph. D in Tarkus
Tarkus, The half Armadillo/ half Tank creature, Was born from an egg erupted from a Volcano. Lego Tarkus Tarkus Chopper This is a very rare photo – the Tarkus stage prop being repaired, April 1973. “I say, I say ,I say,whats orl this then ? Its a bleeding smoking Tarkus at the Oval... [ Read More → ]
Art in America Profiles Thomas Beard
Thomas Beard Co-Founder, Light Industry New York 7/26/11 Co-Founder and Director of Light Industry, a venue for film and electronic arts in Brooklyn, Thomas Beard recently curated “The Unfinished Film,” on view at Barbara Gladstone Gallery [through July 29]. The exhibition showcases films that appear as fragments in their final form either deliberately or... [ Read More → ]
Hole’s ‘Pretty on the Inside’ Reissued
The 1991 album was released solely on CD and tape cassette in the United States, but received a release on vinyl LP throughout Europe by City Slang, based in Berlin, Germany. The first 3,000 pressings of the LP were done on blue vinyl, with the remainder in standard black. Plain Records, an Oakland-based indie label... [ Read More → ]
Portal: Perspectives on Video Performance
An Xiao, The Artist is Kinda Present, 2010. Portal is a cross-platform project inviting artists, writers and audiences interested in time-based art – video, new media, sound and performance – to engage in a series of exhibitions, performances and symposia, surveying the changing nature of art in the digital world. In recent years, we have... [ Read More → ]
Light Industry presents a McLuhan screening at the New Museum
Light Industry at the New Museum: This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is the Massage Thursday, August 11, 2011 at 7pmThis Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is the Massage Ernest Pintoff, 16mm, 1967, 54 mins Introduced by Alex KitnickThis Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is the Massage premiered in 1967 as one of the... [ Read More → ]
McLuhan’s Centennial
Today marks the centennial of one of the most charismatic, controversial and original thinkers of our time. Marshall McLuhan is universally regarded as the father of communications and media studies and prophet of the information age. His remarkable perception propelled him onto the international stage, during the 1960s, and there hasn’t been a more influential... [ Read More → ]
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Ron Slate on Where Art Belongs, essays by Chris Kraus (semiotext[e] intervention series)
A few months ago, I read the new Chris Krauss book, (oddly) titled, “Where Art Belongs.” Not having the time to critique the book myself, I thought I would post Ron Slate’s recent review: July 18th, 2011 In September, 2009, an art collective called Bernadette Corporation exhibited “The Complete Poem” at Greene Naftali, a commercial... [ Read More → ]
Are You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art
Julieta Aranda, Anton Vidokle, Brian Kuan Wood (Eds.) Design by Jeff Ramsey, cover design by Liam Gillick Sternberg Press, 2011 With essays by Franco Berardi Bifo, Keti Chukhrov, Diedrich Diederichsen, Antke Engel, Liam Gillick, Tom Holert, Lars Bang Larsen, Marion von Osten, Precarious Workers Brigade, Irit Rogoff, and Hito Steyerl When the flexibility, certainty, and... [ Read More → ]
Woodstock Digital Media Festival
This festival is a good concept, but it’s not hip enough. Sorta comes off like a conference meets a yoga retreat for new-agey 55 year olds. I mean, it’s in Vermont, but clearly is being targeted as a destination for people in Europe and New York. And WOODSTOCK?!?!?! REALLY??? It’s starting to remind me of... [ Read More → ]
Wian Treetin
In anticipation of the opening of his exhibition Any Ever at PS1, this Saturday June 18th at PS1; Ryan Trecartin has leaked 4 of the 7 part non-sequential epic film to four different websites. Loyally, the artist debuted the first segment Ready (Re’Search Wait’s) on Rhizome.org, then The Re’Search at Dis Magazine, Temp Stop... [ Read More → ]
Ur-0 Remix and Pop Recontextualization according to Arcangel
Ever since reading Cory Arcangel’s op-ed piece for the summer issue of Artforum, I have been thinking about his analysis of quoting and appropriation in pop music. Hasn’t this always been the case in both music and art? It is interesting and curious that various strains of trance musics have entered the vernacular of American... [ Read More → ]
Getty acquires Harold Szeemann archives
Marcia Reed and Glenn Phillips for the Getty Blog reporting: Preserving the Legacy of Harold Szeemann Harald Szeemann. Photo: Ingeborg Lüscher The Harald Szeemann Archive and Library, one of the most important private research collections for modern and contemporary art in the world, is coming to the Getty Research Institute—and we couldn’t be... [ Read More → ]
DIS Presents Herbalife™ Wednesday June 15, 7pm
DIS Magazine presents + Tweens + Herbalife + Choreagraphy at Gresham’s Ghost 7:00pm, Wednesday June 15th Gresham’s Ghost 401 Broadway, room 201 DIS invites you to Herbalife™ for a re-contextualization of the official Herbalife dance performed by tweens and choreographed by Richard Kennedy. This event, presented in collaboration with Independent Curators International (ICI), is part... [ Read More → ]
Ken Jacobs Interview in TimeOut Chicago
The avant-garde icon will present a live work at the Film Studies Center. By Patrick Friel Caption: LIGHT MOTIF Jacobs, inset, performs at the Paris Cinematheque. “The Green Wave,” background, is a DV experiment in stereoscopic imagery “without spectacles.” Credits: Ken Jacobs For more than 50 years, Ken Jacobs... [ Read More → ]
Mark Fisher to lecture at Cooper Union
THE COLLOQUIUM FOR UNPOPULAR CULTURE AND NYU’S ASIAN/ PACIFIC/ AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM present 2 talks by Mark Fisher: On Hauntology/ Capitalist Realism From Fisher’s website: What are grey vampires and how do they retard the insurrectionary potential of digital discourse? How does Derrida’s notion of hauntology contribute to an understanding of dubstep artist Burial? Is... [ Read More → ]
MIAP Program Offers New Summer Course on Copyright and Intellectual Property
Yeah, so I really wish I could take this course. MIAP friends sneak me a syllabus for some self-directed study! Copyright Law for Cultural Institutions 3 credits, July 25 August 5 2011, M-F 9am-12pm (plus an additional hour of online activities each day) Instructor: Rina Pantalony This graduate-level course addresses the intellectual property issues... [ Read More → ]
Dreamweapon: The Art and Life of Angus MacLise (1938 – 1979) at Boo-Hooray
Boo-Horray gallery on West 23rd St will present Dreamweapon: The Art and Life of Angus MacLise from May 10 – May 29 curated by Johan Kugelberg (JOHANN KUGELBERG!!!) and Will Cameron. The larger project will also encompass a Sound Installation (at 265 Canal St) and a Film series at Anthology (on May 12th) featuring the... [ Read More → ]
La Brune et Moi
Filmed in 1979, screened once in 1980 to a small crowd on the Left Bank, and lost until 2005, I’m sad to say that my 2011 tastes were underwhelmed with this one. French director Philippe Puicouyoul lifted the story line (Business man falls for a young girl and vows to fulfill her dream of... [ Read More → ]
Lucy Lippard lecture at SVA
SVA’s Art Criticism and Writing MFA Director, David Levi-Strauss Introducing the Lecture The Art Criticism and Writing MFA program at SVA sponsored the brilliant curator, “critic”, writer, and activist Lucy Lippard last evening. The talk, titled “Ghosts, the Daily News, and Prophecy: Critical Landscape Photography” examined the role and effectiveness of photography in generating responsibility... [ Read More → ]
Janet. and her uncanny obsession with her breasts
For a long while, I have been trying to find a beat up “Janet.” tour shirt. My ebay search for such a 90s relic is what generated this post. Although it probably started earlier in her career, Janet Jackson’s 1993 album “Janet.”, released under the Virgin label really propelled her into a full-fledged sex-symbol, and... [ Read More → ]
Rirkrit Tiravanija – "Fear Eats the Soul" at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise
March 5 – April 16, 2011 From the Press Release: Rirkrit Tiravanija will open a new exhibition at Gavin Brown’s enterprise. Taking its title from the Fassbinder film Ali – Fear Eats the Soul a story of love bridging the existential divide, the show will feature, amongst other elements a T-Shirt Factory and a soup... [ Read More → ]
Institute of the 21st Century announces two new iterations of Hans Ulbrich Obrist’s ‘Interview Project"
“We cannot understand the forces which are effective in the visual production of today if we do not have a look at other fields of modern life.” Alexander Dorner, via HUO’s Interview Project at Eyebeam, 1998.The Institute of the 21st Century announces two new iterations of Hans Ulrich Obrist’s ongoing Interview Project, an ongoing series... [ Read More → ]
MoMA finally starts blog
Last night I attended an event at MoMA, where someone brought up the fact that most people were unaware that MoMA has a blog. I have seen their behind the scenes with curators sites, as well as web forums related to specific exhibition sites, but I guess that I was also unaware that there was... [ Read More → ]
Xavier Le Roy lecture
Xavier Le Roy in ‘Self-Unfinished’ Why do there have to be so many awesome things going on tonight? I can’t go to this, but it will definitely be interesting: Lecture by Xavier Le Roy7.30pm, Friday 7 May 2010Martin Segal Theatre Center, CUNY Graduate Center365 Fifth Avenue, NY NY 10016Admission FREE – first come first served... [ Read More → ]
Gary Hill, George Quasha, and Charles Stein at EAI
A screening and conversation was held last night at Electronic Arts Intermix in celebration of the new book An Art of Limina: Gary Hill’s Works and Writings. A panel consisting of Gary Hill, George Quasha and Charles Stein (authors of the publication) illuminated and discussed a selection of Hill’s early single-channel videos, such as Around... [ Read More → ]
Art Fair Weekend 2010
My fear of being blinded from too many patent leather Christian Louboutins as well as lack of trusting myself not to pick a fight with some trophy wife/art snob/dickish gallery owner told me not to seek out the festivals this year. However, I still went to the Armory, and the Independent. There were some highlights... [ Read More → ]