So, if Jim Lambie meticulously adheres vinyl tape to the floor in a geometric pattern that responds to the building’s architecture, then why is he looking for art student volunteers to work FULLTIME from February 14-23 to install his Zobop at the MOMA?! I really don’t mind if artists hire other people to do their [...]
hokusai & hiroshige
The Bohemian vs. The Bureaucrat: Hokusai and Hiroshige Legends about Hokusai tell how he would live in a place, never cleaning it, until it became so dirty he would have to move. One report describes how an official came to his house to offer him a commission for a painting, only to find no clean [...]
smooth jazz police
so, reminded of the police when i mentioned “there’s a hole in my heart” in my last post, I was then stuck with the question, “now, who was it that did that terrible album of smooth jazz covers of old police songs?” And then I remembered: it was Sting.
bad ideas for paradise
I was working on TheySaySmall, the novel*, and I was trying to write about what it’s like to be a boy who suddenly has to contend with all the testosterone released when an unexpected puberty turns you into a mean, small-minded, horny and selfish little person who is as afraid as he is unwilling to [...]
WhatILearnedJan08
What I Learned From Art I Found On The Internet January 2008 No flash, man? the old guard thought postmodernism was a pretty neat idea. the new guard take it for granted, and go from there. that’s where postmodernism actually starts happening. identity is totally fluid. context is everything, and perception defines context. so, [...]
dog catchers getting back
his ethnographic study examines the dog catcher in regard to work duties and role performances inherent in the occupation. Meanings associated with the occupation are considered in the light of the Sociology of Occupations. Dogcatchers were found to have devised mechanisms to subtly “get back at” an unappreciative public, behaviors which appear similar to those [...]
dog catchers
I saw the serbian dog catchers this morning. They FISHED the fucking dog. Like had meat or something on the end of a chain on the end of a stick, and when the dog bit it, they released something and the dog was stuck on the chain like a fish on a line. and he [...]
eda cufer
“in order for a performance to be successful, it has to mess with the real world”
tino sehgal
No pictures, please: Claire Bishop on the art of Tino Sehgal: SO YOU WALK INTO THE TOP FLOOR of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London to see This objective of that object, 2004, by Tino Sehgal, a British-born artist based in Berlin. There are five people standing around the galleries with their backs turned [...]