Beautiful Katamari Royal Rainbow (2008, 17MB 5:08 min)
Mad as a box of badgers but also very smart & winning, Joan Healy is a one-off.
We’ve featured her before, here’re some new vids of her work.
Even more here…
I Can’t Deal With This Stupid Ringing Forever – Donna Kuhn
I Can’t Deal With This Stupid Ringing Forever (2009, 56MB 2:29 min)
Donna Kuhn has joined the little pantheon (Sondheim’s another, as is Sam Renseiw)
of people whose work I’m just going
to post regularly because they are great.
No apology, no argument.
If you can’t see it, the problem is yours.
Great. Great. Great.
Lin Delpierre – Austere Beauty
Autoportrait d’Oro (2009, 63MB, 11:04 min)
There’s so much to commend in this quiet & beautiful piece I’m
unsure, really, where to start.
Three things though, stand out.
One is the modesty, the restraint, of the conception
-there’s no horrible look-at-how clever/shocking/whatever I am
about it, just some serious *looking*.
The camera looks and we look with it, with its (and with the artist’s,
although he’s there in the frame too) help.
Second, this austerity of visual means allows the sound to play a really
significant role in the piece. Again the work doesn’t trumpet its own innovative
qualities but quietly (pun intended) it does something quite radical with sound and
with our attention to same.
Lastly, it’s just very, very well made – that sort of still amibience is just so difficult to capture
effectively because digital video can be very unforgiving in that context – interlacing
& pretty much any sort of compression can generate horribly visible artefects.
Here, even in this pretty compressed version, there are none -it just looks like a
transparent window to a small epiphany…
Hats off then, three times.
David Byrne Bike Cam Through Times Square, NYC.
David Byrne Bike Cam NYC (2007, 17MB, 4:55 min.)
David Byrne biked to Town Hall for his
Neighborhood Nuclear Superiority
Neighborhood Nuclear Superiority (50’s, 15MB, 1:35 min.)
Stumble upon this funny 50
Everyone I can think of who has died
Everyone I can think of who has died (2009, 49MB, 6:24 min.)
Edward Picot is writing the names of all the
people he can think of who have died onto leaves,
then floating them down a stream near his house.
The Path – a horror game by Tale of Tales
The Path (2009, 40MB, 2:34 min.)
“Probably the best independent game ever made” – Christopher Lim, “The Business Times”
“The Path is not a game, it is art” – Erwin Bergervoet, “Gamer.nl”
Trailer for “The Path“, by Tale of Tales.
Proust – The Interview – MTAA
Proust – The Interview (2009, 75MB, 5:52 min.)
The Interview (AKA Proust Questionnaire) MTAA.
more vids here.
Deadlock
Deadlock (1970, 7.7MB, 46 sec)
from Roland Klick’s Deadlock with music by Can.
Listen to the title track here.
What a remarkable film.
What a remarkable band.
Marianne Moore – The Fish
The Fish (date unknown, 754KB, 1:12 min)
The Fish
wade
through black jade.
Of the crow-blue mussel-shells, one keeps
adjusting the ash-heaps;
opening and shutting itself like
an
injured fan.
The barnacles which encrust the side
of the wave, cannot hide
there for the submerged shafts of the
sun,
split like spun
glass, move themselves with spotlight swiftness
into the crevices
Portrait as QTVR File
3 from Jimi Bogdanov
Film Number 130 (2009, 7MB, 1:45 min)
Film Number 108 (2009, 7.5MB, 1:33 min)
Film Number 109 (2009, 6MB, 1:16 min)
We posted on his work early on.
We – I – was a tad ungenerous then, I think.
There’s a really substantial, coherent and well
executed body of work now, of which here are three
good examples.
In particular I very much like #130 .
The formalism I was slighty sniffy about before
proves to be a central & very fruitful device and
unlocks considerable beauty.
Many more here.
2012 – Oliver Laric
Kurosawa trailers better than most entire films…
Scandal – trailer (1950, 7.7MB, 1:38 min)
The Idiot – trailer (1951, 6.3MB, 1:22 min)
Don’t know whether these are the original, or re-edited, trailers
but they’re wonderful, wonderful.
Watch and marvel.
I know neither of these films but I can’t wait to get my sweaty
palms on the DVDs from Eureka Cinema’s Masters of Cinema series.
2011 – Oliver Laric
A Taste Of His Own Medicine
talking asshole (2006, 1.5MB, 35 sec)
William Burroughs thou shouldst be living at custom essays uk this hour!
Not perhaps the most subtle of satires but
highly enjoyable nonetheless.
‘I commend your frontier justice’, or similar, said
a comment on Teddy Stern‘s blog.
Claudia Hart: 2005-2008 3-D Animated Installations
Claudia Hart Animated Installations (2005-2008, 39MB, 8:19 min.)
“Claudia Hart creates sublime landscape gardens that often contain
expressive and sensual female bodies that are meant to interject
emotional subjectivity into what is typically the overly-determined
Cartesian world of digital design. This video compilation includes
excepts from recent 3-D animated installations.”
from bitforms gallery NY.
Incident at Festival Pocket Films
Incident (2009, 44MB, 1:27 min)
DVblog’s Michael Szpakowski won the Jury Prize at the
Pocket Films Festival at the Forum des Images in Paris
last weekend for this short dream-documentary.
Luke Murphy – Stream
This one uses meta-keywords from porn sites, rendered
as curved space and written in Duchamp
Arni & Kinski – Editors: Smokers Outside The Hospital Door
Smokers Outside The Hospital Door (2007, 10MB, 5:30 min.)
The first single by the British indie rock band – Editors.
Video by Arni & Kinski. (more vids here)
Webchat with Andy – Oliver Laric
Webchat with Andy (2007, 31MB, 13:46 min.)
A conversation with Andy Warhol, contacted through a psychic with
mediumistic abilities via webchat. Sunday, September 2, 2007
Interview commissioned by Blend Magazine/Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
by Oliver Laric.
House of Dreams
House of Dreams (2009, 14MB, 2:57 min.)
A remix of Michael Szpakowski’s remix of Radiohead’s “House of Cards”.
Using images from Second Life and The Endless Forest, with some lyrics
which Edward Picot added in a whisper.
Breathing in B Flat
Breathing in B Flat (2007, 41MB, 5:31 min.)
Breathing in B Flat – a documentation of a live performance by Curt Cloninger.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: 1993-2007 Compilation
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Compilation (1993-2007, 172MB, 26 min.)
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is known for creating large-scale interactive
installations in public spaces. His
More Wikipedia Art remixing
Wikipedia Remix (2009, 34.7MB, 6:19 min)
Another Wikipedia Art remix, this time a splendidly accurate riff
on Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf from Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert
Two from RBG6
RBG6 – Yasuragi (2008, 5MB, 0:20)
RBG6 – Colour (Sony) (2008, 38.6MB, 2:34)
Two short ad pieces from Swedish studio RBG6
Doron Golan – recent work
figure rocks square (2009, 16MB, 2:52 min)
figure and birdcage (2009, 45MB, 8:14 min)
Studies for Figure (Isabel Rosenthal) (2009, 5MB, 1:00 min)
figure and birdcage (2009, 5MB, 52 secs)
Some recent work from Doron Golan, of this manor.
And it’s quite extraordinary.
In general Doron’s work has been marked by, not so much
a refusal to pander to passing fashion, but a complete
lack of interest in it or acknowledgement that it’s even there.
He goes his own way, he explores what interests, excites
and moves him.( And so, moves us)
When a seam is exhausted he moves on without looking back.
There is no attempt to create an artificial, marketable, surface unity
(which is not of course to say that a real, deeper, unity is not there)
I believe Doron is constitutionally incapable of acting otherwise and
he’s made a body of work of great beauty, and one entirely lacking in cynicism.
In the last months he’s been working on these, at first sight very odd,
study type pieces, with, as I understand it, a group of actors in Tel Aviv.
His methodology is a first sight unpromising -there is the obsessive restaging
of rather obscure -sometimes personal, sometimes, I think, Biblical- scenes and images.
These are then subjected to what appear to me to be out of the box transformation-of-the-plane
type distortion.
Unpromising because if, say, you were teaching a student you would probably
attempt to restrain this tendency, in the same way as one would with over-use
of Photoshop filters.
The thing is though – he pulls it off.
This is not an easy, passive view though -you have to approach the pieces prepared
to open yourself to them, to engage, to think, to do some work.
The work is not cosy; it will not flatter you.
but there is a beautiful & harsh poetry at it’s heart.
An obvious point of comparison is Bacon
but actually I think Soutine is nearer the mark.
(As a key, a way in, I’m not even beginning to suggest an influence. Although it would
be nonsense to suggest Doron is somehow without influences they are wide ranging and
very assimilated; Samuel Beckett is actually the one nearest to the surface.)
I urge you to explore not only all these pieces but all the work of the last ten years or so.
If you have a heart and mind and are prepared to use them you won’t be disappointed.
Wikipedia Art/Wikipedia Heart – David Kent Watson
Wikipedia Heart (2009, 36MB, 3:12 min)
Wikipedia Art (2009, 15.3MB, 1:32 min)
Being two songs by David Kent Watson inspired by the Scott Kildall/Nathaniel Stern
Wikipedia Art project, which has engendered some huffing & puffing amongst the humourless & imaginatively challenged.
The songs are neat – skillfully made, performed and recorded, & beneath the surface whimsy
there’s some depth ( in particular “Heart” seems to found a whole new hybrid discipline of
epistemological meditation through popular song).
This is in keeping with the whole WA project which unlike so many art projects which claim
to investigate something ( & usually my heart sinks when I see the word) actually does
and very effectively too.
Not only that (and I would expect this from anything involving Stern, whose work in whatever medium
or genre, is always touched with poetry) there’s a wonderfully twisted lyricism* to the WA project, which is very difficult to sum up in the usually one line required for much second rate conceptualism -the Duchamp epigone crew- which is possibly why it seems to have mostly drawn responses ranging from surly to mystified and back to grumpy in discussion in places like Art Fag City and Rhizome.
Now, generously & mischievously, Kildall & Stern have thrown the whole thing open for remixing, which is where these songs appear**.
The remixes in turn form an ongoing contribution to the padiglione internet of the current Venice Biennale -here’s the open call for contributions so what are you waiting for?!
And of course, coming back full circle to David Kent Watson, clearly one to watch. Bravo.
* & I use the term precisely & advisedly, not simply as a term of general approbation.
What I mean is this: it’s the very not-rightness, surface clumsiness
of the WA project that makes it resonate so much. This is what those who want their
art laid out like the ABC or like wonder pills, miss. It’s the failure, or refusal, of glibness,
the stimulus to real thought, that spawns the poetry of it.
Even the language the Wikipedia serf-bureaucrats use as they flounder blindly, hilariously and painfully
seems to have been dusted with a kind of magic satire brush.
** D.o.I – I have a couple of things in there also.
Pussy Weevil – Marina Zurkow and Julian Bleeker
Pussy Weevil (2003, 4.5MB, 1 min.)
Pussy Weevil is a screen-based 2D animated
character, that responds to the viewer
Stayin’ Alive
Bee Gees – Stayin’ Alive (1977, 11.4MB, 3:51)
I’m pretty sure I have a nonsexual crush on Barry Gibb.
Doesn’t he have amazing hair?
Meanwhile, is anyone else bothered that this video
was made on a soundstage? It looks so real. And it
was over thirty years ago. Did they really have to get
so advanced so early on? You’re too good to walk on
some legit, actual piers, guys? Tragic, but still fabulous.