Todd Schorr lives and works in Los Angeles:
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
to reverse existing oppositions
The 2009 World Beard and Moustache Championships in Anchorage, Alaska:
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"It’s a fascinating book but it’s not me. It’s a magisterial piece of art-historical writing that circulates around elements of my interests and activities at a certain time."
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Joanne Greenbaum lives and works in New York:
Thursday, June 25, 2009
honeymoon forthcoming
For the next two weeks I'm going automated...mostly images...starting now...
Japanese artist Daishin Sumimoto:
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Born in the remote mountains of central Asia, Larisa Pilinsky grew up in Ukraine and studied art in Russia:
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
the laestrygonians
AJ Fosik's Beer Sweaters:
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"When there is no more opposition, control becomes a meaningless proposition."
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"Now I don't care and they don't care, and it's about something else. It's freer. I hope the form will be freer. The monster is that it relates much more to the past than the present. They don't care much about the present, that's just it. They don't think a second about the future, they are completely numb, and violent, and much more violent than before."
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"To read Ulysses is to realize that the whole of twentieth-century literature is little more than a James Joyce Appreciation Society."
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"AshiDashi is the brainchild of a Japanese American, who owns, operates, currates and designs for the collection. The company has a Japanese name (AshiDashi means "stick out your feet!") and uses American resources—a sort of reflection of our fearless leader. [price: $11.99]"
Pencil
Composition
Intestines
Monday, June 22, 2009
of experimental filmmaking
Manufraktur (1985)
a short film by Peter Tscherkassky
a short film by Peter Tscherkassky
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Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975)
a short film by Martha Rosler
a short film by Martha Rosler
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All my life (1966)
a short film by Bruce Baillie
a short film by Bruce Baillie
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An extract from Jeff Keen's breakneck Artwar series, Irresistible Attack (1995), last performed as a three screen multi-projection event at Brighton's Phoenix gallery in 2006:
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In the Shadow of the Sun (1980) - Derek Jarman and Throbbing Gristle
"Derek Jarman used some of his 70s home movie footage to produce this wonderful piece of exploitational avantgarde cinema. Actually the original material has been slowed down to a speed of 3-6 frames, then Jarman added colour effects and the pulsating, menacing score by Industrial supergroup Throbbing Gristle" [via]
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Science Friction (1959)
a film collage by Stan Vanderbeek
a film collage by Stan Vanderbeek
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The Cut-Ups (1966)
directed by Anthony Balch
written by William S. Burroughs
[more info]
parts one & two
directed by Anthony Balch
written by William S. Burroughs
[more info]
parts one & two
Sunday, June 21, 2009
go get ready, mower drones, lifeless
Three forthcoming albums that your ears will probably want to hear right now:
Revolver - Music for a While (2009)"Sounds like: Baroque indie-pop, mellow vocals esp. harmonies, catchy melodies, a French Beatles"
[so says]
Deer Tick - Born On Flag Day (2009)"These East Coasters conjure up the back porches and mason jars of moonshine of the Mississippi delta as effortlessly as they harken to the Texarkana saloons complete with tumbleweeds and spur-clad cowboy boots."
[so says]
Yacht - See Mystery Lights (2009)"YACHT is a true renaissance man, feel his magic zap you with its lightning bolt made of awesome."
[so says]
Saturday, June 20, 2009
the head of devilry
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"To call the man a nihilist is something of an understatement. He outdoes even Herodotus – who instructs us in the Histories to call no man happy until he is dead – in his proclamations of the punitive (or criminal) nature of our existences. Later in his career, he would identify birth itself as the primary human tragedy: “We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose, dying. Everything.”
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The enigma called Alex Alien:
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"Sing goddess, the fuming, of the fuming Christ-anger of the ancient angry, fuming demi-god Peleus, and of his son, Achilleus, and of their devastation, and of their crying, sing O goddess of their great big crocodile demi-god split-heel boohoo tears and, crying lacrimosa, sing to us in thirds & thirds & thirds, give us guns to shoot each other..."
"A cardiovasc" by Bobby Alter
Grand Prize Winner of the
Lamination Colony - This Is Not A Contest
contest
Grand Prize Winner of the
Lamination Colony - This Is Not A Contest
contest
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Antonio Trecel Diaz is a New York based artist
Friday, June 19, 2009
Made in U.S.A. (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966)
Tonight I'll finally get to see the only Godard film from my favorite period of his oeuvre (1961-67) that I have not seen. I am so excited I could puke:
"Not the celluloid holy grail, but it's close enough." — J. Hoberman
"Arguably the least-seen feature from Godard's late 1960s' golden age, Made in U.S.A. is only now getting an American theatrical run, forty years past due. It's the director's free-form "remake" of The Big Sleep, with Anna Karina, his soon-to-be-ex-wife, substituting for Humphrey Bogart as a private detective embroiled in inexplicable international political intrigue. Awash in pop art color schemes and pop culture (sixties icon Marianne Faithfull wanders into one scene to sing "As Tears Go By"), it's also one of Godard's most heart-felt expressions of his conflicted relationship to everything America represented to him—its politics, its consumerism, and especially its movies. With Jean-Pierre Leaud and Laszlo Szabo. (85 mins., 35mm)"
Thursday, June 18, 2009
inquisitive digits
Here are three music videos from the Australian artist Pogo:
"Alice"
an electronic piece of which 90% is composed using sounds recorded from the Disney film Alice In Wonderland
"Alohomora"
made using sounds recorded from the film Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone
"Expialidocious"
The track is composed of a sine wave bass, custom drum sequences, and sounds recorded from the Disney film Mary Poppins
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"But the choice is not between repetition and innovation, but between two forms of repetition and two forms of invention. So I think there are inventive forms of respecting the tradition, and there are reactive or non-inventive forms. But I would not say that in order to invent something new, or to make something new happen, you have to betray the tradition or to forget the tradition."
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Dina Goldstein's "Fallen Princesses" project:
"These works place Fairy Tale characters in modern day scenarios. In all of the images the Princess is placed in an environment that articulates her conflict. The '...happily ever after' is replaced with a realistic outcome and addresses current issues."
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
the old rope of the new
Marion Peck lives in Eagle Rock, CA:
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"Where’s the beginning and the ending of the theater, the building which houses this evening’s drama? This is one of the first questions I ask when I’m reading Antonin Artaud. Artaud no longer seems to think of the theater as inhabiting a particular space, just as there is no longer a space in the world uncontaminated by his theater. His is a theater as big as the world. No part of our lives is untouched by the need for its spectacle."
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God Help the Girl - "Come Monday Night"
directed by Blair Young and Stuart Murdoch
directed by Blair Young and Stuart Murdoch
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"What is the everyday? This question might seem unnecessary and superfluous. Are we not surrounded by it, steeped in it? Is it not something we can know and understand naturally, something we can safely take for granted? As Ben Highmore writes in the introduction to his Everyday Life Reader, “It is to the everyday that we consign that which no longer holds our attention. Things become ‘everyday’ by becoming invisible, unnoticed, part of the furniture. And if familiarity does not always breed contempt, it does encourage neglect” (2002, p. 21)."
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British artist Chris Pell:
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Fiona Apple - "Across the Universe"
directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
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Check out Viva Radio
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What is The Year of the Liquidator?
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"Poetry is not functionless. It has many functions, as address, as connector, as trace, as “energy construct.” (I always liked that collocation.)"
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
bitter verbs
Hedwige Jacobs lives and works in Houston, TX:
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"David Foster Wallace, who hanged himself in his home last September, wrote about authenticity, self-consciousness and the pursuit of happiness in America. It became a commonplace and then a cliché and then almost a taunt to call him the greatest writer of his generation, yet his project remained only vaguely understood when it was understood at all."
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"I get the impression that the banality of each landscape is suppose to draw some parallel to the murders, but the film reads better when we consider the landscape, as it is shown to us, as tainted by the banality of the murders."
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"When Shane Jones wrote Light Boxes he also made a series of paintings. Reduction of compositional elements led to erasure. Blank space as spectacle. The yawning maw. The void as voice."
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Anders Oinonen lives and works in Toronto:
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"Gert Jonke was a brilliant and slightly berserk Austrian novelist. If you want a less pretentious appraisal, you might also note that he was funny, accessible, and deeply caustic (at least two of his books feature lengthy diatribes about inept city planners). His style totters erratically between the abstraction of a high modernist and the gibberish of someone who retains the curiosity — and incoherency — of a toddler."
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"The rise of literary theory and its colonization of what we used to quaintly call the “primary text” parallels the rise of those technologies which have changed “photography” into “digital capture”."
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Jackie Gendel lives and works in Brooklyn, NY:
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Ken Krug paints his favorite books:
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