Weberg – Mamo

Posted on April 15, 2009 by michael

Mamo (2009, 18.7MB, 2:27 min)

“Senses and memories of motherhood evoked by visiting Birkenau
(Auschwitz II) in Poland July 2008.”

I wonder whether memorialising the Holocaust isn’t too important a job to be
left to artists.
Anders Weberg’s piece is as well made as one would expect from him
and I have no doubt it is a sincere response.
Does it tell us anything new, though?
Does it contribute to any understanding which will make
repetition less likely?
As we get further away in time isn’t it the facts we have
to insist upon & isn’t there a danger that art -especially well made
art -aestheticises and dilutes?
Read the Primo Levi book. It sets the bar very high.

Ash Sechler – 2 movies

Posted on April 14, 2009 by michael

Transformation (2009, 15.5MB, 1:18 min)

Representation of Memory (2006, 75.4MB, 2:22 min)

Clearly there is something in the water in Athens, Georgia giving us,
as it has, John Michael Boling & Javier Morales, John Crowe,
Dan Osborne, Brantley Jones and now Ash Sechler.
Hmm – The School of Athens, Georgia.
There’s no common style but there is a certain sensibility which,
curiously, pervades the quiet meditative stuff as well as the more
out-there and bizarre – it’s a species of wryness combined with an
eye for the casually arresting, odd and beautiful.
It’s exemplified here in both these rather good pieces, though I particularly
like Representation of Memory.

Liars – Plaster Casts of Everything

Posted on April 13, 2009 by brittany

Liars – Plaster Casts of Everything (2007, 21.7MB, 4:00)

Another excellent video from The Liars
From The Directors Bureau

Winds Across the Inner Sea – John F. Simon

Posted on April 12, 2009 by doron

flip (2007, 3MB, 2:44 min.)

threshold (2007, 4.4MB, 2:56 min.)

This body of work by John F. Simon was shown in September 2007
in a solo show at the Gering & Lopez Gallery in New York City.
Playing between instinct and idea, this series of large-scale compositions
combine laser cut Formica and LCD screens with endlessly changing software.
Each composition merges the physicality of the material world with the fluid
inner world of code. The LCD screen functions simultaneously as a visual element
of the surface and a window into the system’s evolution.

Sam Renseiw – Blind Voodles

Posted on April 11, 2009 by michael

Blind Voodle #1 (2009, 57.4MB, 6:25 min)

Blind Voodle #2 (2009, 31.6MB, 3:35 min)

Oneiric gorgeousness from the magnificent Sam Renseiw.

Movies with Grandma Joy

Posted on April 10, 2009 by brittany

Movies with Grandma Joy (2008, 27.3MB, 5:39)

“Grandma is serious about going to the movies.
She hates to miss the previews and she watches all of the credits.”
From the absolutely charming vlog,
Movies with Grandma Joy

Talan Memmott – land/wave

Posted on April 9, 2009 by michael

land/wave:02.08 (2009, 39MB, 1:10 min)

land/wave:03.02 (2009, 42MB, 1:17 min)

These pieces stand in stark and interesting contrast to the
magic realist whimsy of Memmott’s collabs with Sandy Florian
which we showed here a few months back.
I’d be interested to know whether these new works are completely,
as it were, synthesised or whether, lurking at the back,
there’s some real world footage.
The first piece puts me in mind quite forcibly of a journey by train
(as if the abstract shapes and images had been piled upon some
manipulated footage thereof..)
Dunno.
Good though! –striking. Talan?

Voice by Cinzia Cremona

Posted on April 8, 2009 by doron

Voice (2003, 18MB, 4:38 min.)

A performance to camera taken to its extreme with the power of digital editing,
Voice ignites a conflict between an object of desire and its uncomfortable voice.
Refusing to be passive, this female collapses the psychoanalytic good breast and
bad breast into a paradoxical creature that defies expectations. It is a witness to the
complexities of subjectivity and relationships – and of being in the world.

by Cinzia Cremona.