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Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:30:01 PDT

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Chris Sollars - COFFEE AND DONUTS

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 20:26:10 PDT

COFFEE AND DONUTS: Utilizing this former Mission Police Station as a set, Chris Sollars will activate the former station through actions and video. Southern Machine Exposure Project is a project developed by Southern Exposure (San Francisco) and Machine Project (Los Angeles), involving 20 combinations of artists and performers from LA and SF, presented off-site in 20 homes in the Bay Area over 20 consecutive days from June 11 - 30.
source: Southern Exposure (SoEx)

COFFEE AND DONUTS promo (02:28)
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Ciprian Muresan

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 20:27:19 PDT

Ciprian Muresan’s ‘Communism never happened’ describes the facets of a complex anachronism, a rapport between time and history where they accelerate and decelerate past each other, where the former hemorrhages and the latter is overabundant. It is the definitive answer to Winston Churchill’s observation that Eastern Europe has produced more history than it could consume, and it simultaneously states that Eastern Europe will never cease to aspire to a place in what it projects to be the grander, subtler map of things geopolitical. Its relationship to facts, statistics and painful recollections, replicates the relationship between communism, liberalism and the idea of historical catastrophe in the Eastern political imaginary. Bound up with the certainty that communism certainly happened, it mirrors the way in which post-communism and globalization endlessly complicate each other.
source: monumenttotransformation

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Sucklord - TOY LORDS of CHINATOWN

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:24:40 PDT

Given that The Sucklord is a man of the people, what is his message to the masses?

Buy this shit, motherfuckers! You need this stuff! You need to have this because it is going to compel you whatever it is you’re going to do in the world. The Sucklord’s just a loser from New York with a few talents and a little support, and if you’ve got a good idea and discipline and are willing to suffer for it, you can do your thing. But until you get your thing together, buy his thing.
source: Cyriaque Lamar - Evil toy mastermind The Sucklord and his “ghetto Star Wars” empire (2011)
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TOY LORDS of CHINATOWN: Episode 1 (07:53)
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Episode 2 (11:56)

Episode 3 (19:43)

Nao Bustamante

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:28:04 PDT

Nao Bustamante is an internationally known performance and video artist originating from the San Joaquin Valley of California. Her (often precarious) work encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation and video. Bustamante has presented in Galleries, Museums, Universities and underground sites all around the world.
source: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

Hemispheric Institute of Performance: Given Over to Want (hemi)

artinfo: Jaclyn Loraso - The “Work of Art” Exit Interview

Nao’s short Bio-Pic (09:47)
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Josef Dabernig, G.R.A.M.: automatic (2002)

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:29:53 PDT

Drei Männer, drei Autos, drei Obsessionen: mysteriöse Andeutungen reifen zu konkreten Handlungen, im geschützten Raum aus Glas, Chrom und Blech wird gezeichnet, meditiert und fotografiert. Eine in der ländlichen Garage angesiedelte Studie über die Getriebenheit, ein staubiges Road-Movie in Schwarz-Weiss, ohne Asphalt und ohne heulende Motoren. Skurril-witziger Bodensatz zwischen Reifenstapel, Ledersitzen und Alu-Felgen: abseits von narrativer Schlüssigkeit, werden in „automatic“ Genres wie Film Noire oder Nouvelle Vague zitiert.
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Josef Dabernig, G.R.A.M.: automatic (06:54)
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Paule Hammer

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:26:30 PDT

No doubt, Paule Hammer is a painter. Yet often, the two dimensions of a sheet of paper or canvas are insufficient to express his idiosyncratically enigmatic designs of the world.
If that is the case, he makes use of space: a wooden shack is packed with portraits of Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Johnny Cash, Hannelore Kohl, the protagonists from Planet of The Apes. It is covered with the jackets and trousers awarded to honour glam-rockers and with mutant hub cap shields. Conceived as a gigantic 3-dimensional painting, Hammer called this installation Walhalla (2002). Although lacking gold leaf, it radiated with the power of religious icon painting.
source: Laden für Nichts

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Jason Underhill - JESSIE LIVES

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:29:16 PDT

Jason Underhill, b. 1982 in Los Angeles. Jason’s work has been screened and exhibited internationally in the U.S. and around Europe, at venues including The Hayward Gallery, London, ICA, London, Dan Graham Gallery, Los Angeles, Landmark at Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, The Royal Academy of Art, London, and Sala Rekalde, Bilbao. In 2008, Jason’s film JESSIE LIVES was selected for Bloomberg’s New Contemporaries, an annual traveling exhibition of emerging artists in the UK.

JESSIE LIVES - B.M.O.C. (Big Man on Campus) (03:07)
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JESSIE LIVES: Lookin’ For Friends in all the Wrong Places (16:29)
JESSIE LIVES: FOUL (2007) (04:48)
JESSIE LIVES: The Painting (2006) (06:46)
JESSIE LIVES: Fake It Till you Make It (2007) (17:45)

Broken City Lab - Drift

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:29:19 PDT

“Drift will offer you a random series of creative cues to guide you on your own “psychogeographic walk” through the city. Maybe it’ll ask you to head two blocks to the west, then look for a crack in the sidewalk, then head in the opposite direction until you stumble across something terrible.
The app invites you to photograph your findings – something “undervalued,” something “warm,” something “out of the ordinary” – to upload into a group photostream that Broken City Lab plans to curate on its website. The directions are all meant to be broadly interpreted (“Find an exchange”? This may mean to one person an exchange of glances on the sidewalk, or to another an exchange of cash at a hot-dog stand.)

All of these idiosyncratic directions won’t literally make you “lost.” Drift is trying to use that word playfully….”
source: transmediacamp101

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Drift: a tool for getting lost in familiar places (02:00)
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youtube: Broken City Lab releases its Drift app (02:16)

Jana Sterbak

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:29:46 PDT

An acute awareness of the contradictory relationship between human need an desire is at the heart of Jana Sterbak’s art. A contradiction which weaves itself into a dialectic between autonomy and dependency throughout her work. Sterbak was born in Prague in 1955, and old enough, in 1966, to remember the election by the peoples’ party of the radical political leader Alexander Dubcek. But with the imposition of Russian state capitalism in 1968, Sterbak moved with her family to Toronto, Canada, to a very different political agenda. What Canada and Czechoslovakia both offered Sterbak was an experience of colonised identity, political in the case of Czechoslovakia, which for centuries had been under the domination of various foreign powers, and cultural and economic in the case of Canada. Not surprisingly, the theme of constraint, imposed both from within and without, would become a major preoccupation in the development of her work.

The desire to transcend our biological condition, with its innate organic needs, has been systematically scrutinised. In the field of psychoanalytic discourse Jacques Lacan has pointed out: The object of human desire is neither the object which saturates a need nor a fixed and pre-established object of instinct; it is properly speaking their negation. It is the ‘Unnatural’ object of the desiring subject who metaphysically transcends, transgresses and exceeds every corporeal or vital ‘given’.
source: Clement Page

Making of Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic (05:01)
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David Lynch - Industrial Symphony No.1

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 20:28:35 PDT

MOVIE INFO

A performance art collaboration between the director/composer team of BLUE VELVET and TV’s TWIN PEAKS, staged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. As always the collaboration between Lynch and Badalamenti yields a disturbing, fascinating, and comic combination of image and music. The story begins with Cage telling Dern, WILD AT HEART style, “I gotta go, baby”. Heartbroken, Dern reacts like Lula might, then dreams that she’s floating above a landscape (as Julee Cruise) littered with dwarfs, men on stilts, abandon cars crawling with naked women, and grotesque monsters, while singing songs about love.
source: rottentomatoes

David Lynch - Industrial Symphony No.1 (49:25)
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Michael Berryhill

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:26:36 PDT

Michael Berryhill‘s paintings exude vibes of the surreal yet stoic variety. The unnerving echo of a pulse seems to beat under each still life. Mostly, we are presented with inexplicable assemblages of inanimate objects: some real, some abstract. The human consciousness at their core is hidden from view, but easily perceived. A book pretends it is just a book, a form does its best to appear form-ish– but we know better.

The objects Berryhill represents aren’t just visually pleasing, they’re relatable. You find yourself identifying with a draped piece of fabric, a blue polyhedron floating in pink mist. Though static, they manage to convey some element of the artist’s personality that’s just immediately likable. These paintings prove that anthropomorphism isn’t a quality reserved for talking animals and furniture with faces, it can be achieved subtly, graciously.
source: futureshipwreck

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Urso Morto - e assim vou morrendo violentamente

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:28:15 PDT

“and yet, i keep on diying a violent death”

Trilha sonora:
Linda Batista - Se eu morresse amanhã de manhã.

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e assim vou morrendo violentamente (and yet, i keep on diying a violent death) (04:40)
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Luis Gispert

Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:30:00 PDT

Artist and UCL alumna Luis Gispert sees his work situated at an intersection of certain arcane aesthetic ideals, notions of the constructed photographic image, and an interest in concepts of the picturesque and sublime in landscape photography. Unlike a number of his fellow artists, however, he has no interest in a seamless weave; on the contrary, it’s the rough seams that give the work its vigour.
Gispert puts the viewer in the back seat of richly upholstered cars or trucks and takes us off on a ride through the Californian desert and the Grand Tetons. Or so it would appear. It’s hard not to think of these interiors as a video game, but fact is stranger than fiction, and facts they are – of a kind.
source: saatchi-gallery

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maryboonegallery

Block Watching 2003 (01:57)
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Katie Paterson - When art meets astronomy

Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:25:17 PDT

Artist and UCL alumna Katie Paterson, the first artist-in-residence at the UCL Astrophysics Group, is exhibiting work inspired by the programme in several international galleries.

During the residency supported by the Leverhulme Trust, Katie has been exploring ideas of star death and birth, dark matter and gamma-ray bursts. Katie said: “It’s an honour to work closely with such leading scientists. The residency provides great opportunities for interdisciplinary thinking and innovative collaboration, allowing me to pursue my deep interest in the cosmos.”

Professor Ofer Lahav, Head of the Astrophysics Group, added: “We’re all astronomers, so we look at things in a particular way and methodology. Having Katie in the corridor has brought a whole new life to the place. Seeing her interacting with students and staff, getting ideas and giving us some ideas has been very fruitful.”
source: University College London

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jamescohan

When art meets astronomy (UCL) (04:09)
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Sounds from Beneath a project by Mikhail Karikis | a video by Mikhail Karikis & Uriel Orlow

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 20:27:44 PDT

Sounds from Beneath continues Mikhail Karikis’s exploration of notions of the stranger and his engagement with the voice as a sculptural material, investigating diverse vocal acts and the marginalisation of voices. In addition to the work being a meditation on singing as an act of resistance and community, it ruminates upon the relationship between the human voice and the machine, reflects on the under-representation of old voices, while celebrating communal music-making.

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Uriel Orlow

Sounds from Beneath (06:45)
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Shimon Minamikawa

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 20:27:24 PDT

Shimon Minamikawa’s confrontation with the persistent flicker of the television finds him equated as being just a viewer, effectively a bystander. These days it is known as desensitization, the withering of our emotional thresholds: what we once considered unacceptable is now digested in thirty-second soundbites during mealtimes. In his consideration of the events taking place in the interconnected world around him,
Minamikawa finds himself in the middle of the cacophony of media stimuli and its nulling effect, which is reflected in his use of color, brushstroke and technique. Faced with unfinished blotches, blot-like spots and meandering zigzag brush strokes in unused white space, it is clear that Minamikawa feels a sense of disconnect, desensitization and confusion in trying to make sense of the world that surrounds him.
source: tokyoartbeat

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Reza Abdoh (1963-1995) - Daddy's Girl (1991)

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 20:29:07 PDT

Reza Abdoh, an Iranian-born creator of innovative large-scale stage spectacles known for their visual flamboyance and ferocious energy, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan. He was 32.

Abdoh’s environmental theater pieces were phantasmagoric nightmares that used multimedia techniques and raw images of urban decay to bombard the senses.

His work in the United States was presented first in Los Angeles and later in New York, most often in unusual and unmarked spaces: storefronts, warehouses, side streets, industrial lofts, gymnasiums and disused hotels. In Europe, by contrast, his troupe was presented at major arts festivals and urban theater centers.
source: nytimes

Daddy’s Girl (1991)(08:47)
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TANNING by Will Hoffman and Daniel Mercadante

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 20:27:06 PDT

TANNING, by Will Hoffman and Daniel Mercadante, is an experimental short documentary that explores peoples’ obsession with sun bathing. It is a part of a new episodic motion-based media project, EVERYONE FOREVER NOW, which is an examination of the collective wisdom and expression of human actions.

TANNING by Will Hoffman and Daniel Mercadante (04:19)
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Lucy Fradkin

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:26:47 PDT

Lucy Fradkin‘s charming portraits have a folk sensibility. Depicted in colorful, detailed interiors and with particular attention paid to their clothing and accessories, her subjects are both distinct and serene. The artist creates her environments by collaging elements from vintage books, old catalogues and field guides.
Fradkin describes her work thus: “Inspired by Indian and Persian miniatures, the vanishing art of hand-painted signage and a variety of sacred and folk arts, I create portraits of diverse individuals. Following in the tradition of genre painters, I place figures, often women, in domestic settings. The figures are quiet and inactive, which contributes to the solemn and mysterious atmosphere of the scene.”
source: artsobserver

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