tis the season to enjoy this tune from 1982. ho ho.
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
MAN RAY, MAN RAY
this is a still from william wegman's one minute biography of the artist
man ray. it was originally made for a compilation of films about artists made by artists. it is funny and so, so smart, like all of wegman's films.
wegman's longtime collaborator is his weimaraner, man ray (1970? - 1981). man ray (dog) was born into his role as an artist and was involved in hundreds of wegman pieces transcending the borders of art and beyond.
this is such a fitting tribute to man ray (man) and i just know that he had to have loved it.
man ray, man ray was completed in 1978
click here to watch
thanks, always and forever to ubuweb
ON APPROPRIATE RESPONSES
still from found film flashes, 1973
attended an la filmforum screening of work by coleen fitzgibbon, an experimental filmmaker working since the 1970's. have you heard of her?
i hadn't before last night.
still from internal systems, 1975
they showed four of her early films. the headiest of the bunch: internal systems, which consists entirely of a blank screen shifting gradually from light to dark, dark to light. it runs 45 minutes. i found myself absorbed in other thoughts, unrelated to the image; next to me i heard a man's breathing grow regular; he had fallen asleep. appropriate responses both.
a perfect end to a great sunday. counterpoint to the subtlety of internal systems:
kimono my house, sparks, 1974, finally secured at amoeba yesterday. this album is 34 years old! sparks will be playing this and another album in their entirety at royce hall, february 14, 2009. will rhan and juliet spend their valentine's with sparks? there's a heavy lean towards yes.
ERASING ALL EMOTION
plazaville is a new video art work based on godard's alphaville.
it is set in 21st century new york city. scenes from the original alphaville are being re-enacted by artists, actors and videographers, members of the artist collaborative, artist meeting, in collaboration with g. h. hovagimyan and christina mcphee.
the group shoots these episodes on the fly, without permits or permission and
uses the internet as a means of distributing the deconstructed narrative in short episodes. it's like a serialized program but is not in any order. it will be presented as a video installation work when it is completed.
you can watch the current scenes of plazaville (via a computer) at:
g. h. hovagimyan's youtube channel
the artist meeting website
or by logging onto the itunes store and search for plazaville.
thanks again to post.thing.net
CONSTRAINTS AND CONTENT WISHES
pipilotti rist discusses her new installation at the museum of modern art-
-pour your body out (7354 cubic meters)
november 19, 2008–february 2, 2009
one human, one pig, some earthworms
and two snakes!
thanks to post.thing.net
AND IT'S WORKING
WATER IN MILK EXISTS (2008) by lawrence weiner (!) 22:52 min.
"in cooperation with the swiss institute, lawrence weiner teamed up with cinematographer kiki allgeier to realize WATER IN MILK EXISTS, a fresh skin flick that challenges both artistic and pornographic conventions. the film contains quotations from the artist's children books, austere dialogues on string theory, animations, as well as a lot of carnal action. a multitude of events accompany the launch of the film, mingling porn and art as two of today's most lucrative industries." (from ubuweb)
watch the whole thing here. fascinating. nsfw.
FALL EPHEMERIDES
26 october 1927. wednesday, paris
in the tournoi championnat du paris (15.10.1927)
duchamp plays one of his opponents at 90 rue de mathurins,
and roché comes to watch.
26 october 1947. sunday, new york city
after finishing his chess game with kiesler at one in the morning,
marcel returns to dine at 56 seventh avenue.
26 october 1950. thursday, paris
at four o’clock in the afternoon, roché calls at 14 rue halle.
with denise’s help, marcel has made a list (of mary reynold’s library?)
and he invites roche to choose some books not included in those
to be transported to chicago.
in the evening they meet jean suquet (25.12.1949) for dinner
at mouton-duvernet. while entertaining suquet,
duchamp treats himself to a dish of frog’s legs in spite of roché pulling faces.
from marcel duchamp, work and life: ephemerides on and about
marcel duchamp and rrose selavy, 1887-1968.
photo by denise bellon screen captured from remembrance of things to come
by chris marker and yannick bellon
BLACK WAVES
cindy wright
black waves, 2008
oil on canvas
82.5 x 126 inches
mark moore gallery, santa monica, ca
TRIPLE CANOPY
from rachel mason's campaign journal based on her exhibition "the candidate"
as seen in issue one of the online magazine, triple canopy.
thanks much to magic molly.
ART HISTORY
from the ghent altarpiece, 1432
these singing angels represent one piece of the massive, twenty-four paneled masterwork by brothers hubert and jan van eyck. they are singing in praise of christ the king, that old so and so. why the pained expressions, then? i find it very puzzling. speaking of puzzling:
the rubik's cube people have upped the ante. it is now a slicker, more maddening piece of miniature architecture. good luck and god speed.
(cube found via coudal partners)
AUTOMATON WRITING
one evening i was walking along hollywood boulevard, nothing much to do. i stopped and looked in the window of a stationery shop.
a mechanized pen was suspended in space in such a way that, as a mechanized roll of paper passed by it, the pen went through the motions of the same penmanship exercises i had learned as a child in the third grade.
centrally placed in the window was an advertisement explaining the mechanical reasons for the perfection of the operation of the suspended mechanical pen.
i was fascinated, for everything was going wrong. the pen was tearing the paper to shreds and splattering ink all over the window and on the advertisement, which, nevertheless, remained legible.
--john cage, from his "lecture on nothing" included in his book silence and recorded with david tudor for the album indeterminacy on smithsonian folkways.
an antiquated school desk chair fitted with a machine
that cranks out the signature of the artist.
signature chair by tim hawkinson
"the writer" -pierre jaquet-droz's automaton built between 1768 and 1774.
MORNING IN THE CITY
morning in a city, 1944
edward hopper (1882-1967)
image from the williams college museum of art
ON DROPPING THE BALL
like this, but more: tomorrow, 8.8.08, at 8:08pm, the boredoms bring 88BOADRUM to the la brea tarpits. tickets are all sold out.
how did we miss this??
the upside is that we live about five blocks away.
will we hear the distant drumming?
GEE, IT'S TEMPTING, I'LL THINK ABOUT IT
guy de cointet, 1983 (the year i was born)
the man was ambidextrous and could write backwards fluently, like da vinci. he was an LA artist by way of france. he was fascinated with language and code. 
untitled, 1983
in a giant article devoted to him in artforum last summer, artist matthew brannon described his initial reaction to de cointet's work: "the work was visually hard to define, yet somehow very familiar; it looked pretentious but also casual; it was intimidating but full of humor; and it never seemed a discrete end unto itself. in other words, everything looked like a prop. i loved it before i understood it."
i think i have the same feeling.
i had forgotten his name completely until i found it again on vvork.
thank god; it was driving me nuts.
ERIC CLARIDGE
"i am a self-taught artist who has been influenced
by the many tremendously talented people i've worked with
and by the endless strange circumstances that life provides."
eric claridge from the band sea & cake
STREET SMARTS
to some readers it will come as a surprise to learn that houdini exposed some handcuff secrets, considering that his career depended on them. it might also be assumed that he reserved such writings until he was through with the secrets concerned. quite to the contrary, these represent some of his earliest literary efforts, published while he was still actively engaged in baffling the public with the very artifices he discloses.
harry houdini: savvy enough to know that exposing his secrets would discredit his imitators; showman enough to draw crowds even after those secrets were revealed. there's a lesson in there somewhere. please, houdini, somebody: tell me how to live, what to do, how to succeed. i'm at a loss tonight.
(excerpt from houdini on magic, edited by walter gibson and morris young)
IF I TOLD HIM ONCE MORE
kira does gertrudes stein by my best friend and her friend, mark p. genius. love.
LIGHTNING
just discovered: lightning by paul and marlene kos, 1976. watch it here.
to me, an elegant metaphor for the creative process.
i'm filing this one away.
tremendous gratitude to joão ribas at expanded cinema for the original post,
and ubuweb, ultimately: keep on keepin' on.
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