“Annie Abrahams (from the Living Room in Montpellier, France) In order to isolate them from their surroundings and make them There was no set duration. Interesting and affecting convergence of the performative work We feature here only a tiny extract from the 4 hour plus performance By jimpunk, master of the remix & the ma$h-ups. From – triptych.tv. Two contrasting short movies from Leeds, UK, artist Kate Dickinson. Jenny Holzer discusses the programming of her LED sculptures From Art:21 More from the splendid Vito Acconci, this time from
Posted in arts, documentary arts, exhibition, experimental, installation, light, video
Joy Comes in the Morning
Joy Comes in the Morning (2005, 24MB, 4:14 min.)
“In 2005 I concepted, pitched and produced a music video for the band Xploding Plastix.
I directed and animated the video using L.A. artist Joe Ledbetter’s hand-painted elements
to create a puppet-show aesthetic.”
from Scott Friedman.Annie Abrahams & Curt Cloninger -<em> Double Blind</em>
Double Blind (clip) ( 2010, 70MB, 5:38 min)
and Curt Cloninger (from Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center
in Asheville, North Carolina, US) repeatedly sang “love, love, love”
(a short excerpt from a pop song) as a kind of duet, in real
time/space and online.
more attentive to the other, they were both blindfolded.
While singing they evolved and mutated the original song excerpt,
collaborating and communicating in a space/time of alterity.
The artists have never met each other in the flesh.
They sang until the last one of them decided to stop.
In both places a space was reserved for the live performance
and another for the video and audio projection.
A camera was fixed on each of their faces singing to each other.
This live video of both faces was projected both in the
Living Room space and in the Black Mountain College
Museum and Arts Center space.
The performance was also visible on the web at http://selfworld.net.”
Curt Cloninger has been doing of late with the
strange, wonderful & categorisation denying oeuvre of Annie Abrahams.
of Double Blind – the complete documentation will be on show
as part of Annie Abraham’s first UK solo show at HTTP gallery
in North London, in addition to new works and performances.
The opening is on Friday night & all are welcome – if you’re in
or near London it’ll be well worth getting along to.Philippe Monfouga – Fen
Posted in animation, arts, landscape, observational, place, silent, video
Jim Punk – T®1p±Ⓨ(|┐╱▒◤△▽///╱ ╱
T®1p±Ⓨ(|┐╱▒◤△▽///╱ ╱ (2010, 12MB, 2:37 min.)Residential Erection – Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung
Two from Kate Dickinson
19th ( 2010, 1MB, 1:00 min, silent)
Are You Ready? ( 2008, 20MB, 52 secs)
The second should provoke a smile (did for me) but it’s
the first, in which not a great deal happens & in a deliberately
confined area of the screen to boot, that I particularly liked.
There’s a melancholy about its view of an overcast
Leeds landscape which is amplified by cropping a good deal of it out.
The resulting minimalism marshalls the viewer’s attention in a quite hypnotic way.Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT
Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT (2009, 23MB, 2:40 min.)
during the installation of the exhibition PROTECT PROTECT at
the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Vito Acconci #2
Advice (clip, 2006, 2MB, 58 secs)
Acconci Studio Presentation (2006, 36MB, 29:02 min)
his later architecture and design period.
One vid is a little lollipop -advice to the young-
extracted from a longer interview and profile on
designboom.com.
The second is a much more substantial
and utterly fascinating presentation given at the launch of
LAB magazine in 2006.
What an astonishing human being!Derek Larson – Isness as Bourges
