Friday, August 11, 2006
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Jason McCoy, here, has a lurid, desperate, self loathing quality, and the song is obsessed about a woman who "aint missing missing him". The track has a tabloid restraint, where silences replacing details, and loud noise work in the place of sexual explicitness.
Listen to how he sings two lines at the one minute mark--where McCoy talks about a lover doing things he dont, and wont. He gives a long space of rangy, wiry guitar, before adding the word anymore. In those seconds, our minds grow any large with all sorts of decay. Anymore suggests they did that kind of decadence together.
McCoy does this kind of song well because he still believes in sin (there is a song on this album called I Feel a Sin Coming On) but also pleasure. The two break apart into something wilder then much standard country, and even his most tender ballads have an isolating despair.
From his greatest hits.
YSI here
Listen to how he sings two lines at the one minute mark--where McCoy talks about a lover doing things he dont, and wont. He gives a long space of rangy, wiry guitar, before adding the word anymore. In those seconds, our minds grow any large with all sorts of decay. Anymore suggests they did that kind of decadence together.
McCoy does this kind of song well because he still believes in sin (there is a song on this album called I Feel a Sin Coming On) but also pleasure. The two break apart into something wilder then much standard country, and even his most tender ballads have an isolating despair.
From his greatest hits.
YSI here
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
some things i did recently with ashley
we watched talledega nights, i laughed at the film, it had excellent satirical elements, but it might be homophobic.
we drank several gin and tonix at a club, and hung around the dj both, with handsome boys and punk rock music...it was nice.
we ate mexican food, good mexican food, and margaritas, in one of those home cook hovels, on 107th ave
we made art featuring apoclyptic imagery from an old JW book, using lots of material--ashley redeemed my medicore attempts at image making
i put together a list, of geographical locations for 30 photographs, placing them in public places, as a performance peice
i purchased compact discs (best of liberace, kelly osbourne, linsay lohan, jason mccoy, some protest folk)
there are other things
we watched talledega nights, i laughed at the film, it had excellent satirical elements, but it might be homophobic.
we drank several gin and tonix at a club, and hung around the dj both, with handsome boys and punk rock music...it was nice.
we ate mexican food, good mexican food, and margaritas, in one of those home cook hovels, on 107th ave
we made art featuring apoclyptic imagery from an old JW book, using lots of material--ashley redeemed my medicore attempts at image making
i put together a list, of geographical locations for 30 photographs, placing them in public places, as a performance peice
i purchased compact discs (best of liberace, kelly osbourne, linsay lohan, jason mccoy, some protest folk)
there are other things
This Pitch was picked up for Pop Matters:
Oh My God, You Fucked Kenny: Kenny Chesney, Unruly Bodies, and Celebrity.
Pitch: Kenny Chesney, one of a few male country superstars, provides an ambiguous and coded sexual message. His work has an obsessive, preening, masculinity apparently above any current sexuality. The texts where he talks about having sex, all occur in a Middle American place not connected to actual bodies but some Arcadian construction of space and time.
The gay rumors, the short lived marriage to a major Hollywood figure, the lack of sexuality in his work, the exotic Caribbean constantly found in his work, and his frat boy homo-socialism all tie into something destabilizing about his sexual personae.
Every major male country performer has more of an audience/performer sexual frisson then Chesney, but he keeps trying to create this artificially. He functions as a slippery sexual signifier. The binaries we use to talk about people (audience/performer, gay/straight, butch/femme, top/bottom) all fall down around Kenny.
Talking about this instability is a way to approach a postmodern sexuality, deconstructed, free floating, away from certain geographies, and explicit identity politics.
I will finish a draft in the next couple of days, its only 1200 wds, but im trying not to back burner meritt.
Oh My God, You Fucked Kenny: Kenny Chesney, Unruly Bodies, and Celebrity.
Pitch: Kenny Chesney, one of a few male country superstars, provides an ambiguous and coded sexual message. His work has an obsessive, preening, masculinity apparently above any current sexuality. The texts where he talks about having sex, all occur in a Middle American place not connected to actual bodies but some Arcadian construction of space and time.
The gay rumors, the short lived marriage to a major Hollywood figure, the lack of sexuality in his work, the exotic Caribbean constantly found in his work, and his frat boy homo-socialism all tie into something destabilizing about his sexual personae.
Every major male country performer has more of an audience/performer sexual frisson then Chesney, but he keeps trying to create this artificially. He functions as a slippery sexual signifier. The binaries we use to talk about people (audience/performer, gay/straight, butch/femme, top/bottom) all fall down around Kenny.
Talking about this instability is a way to approach a postmodern sexuality, deconstructed, free floating, away from certain geographies, and explicit identity politics.
I will finish a draft in the next couple of days, its only 1200 wds, but im trying not to back burner meritt.
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Monday, August 07, 2006
david, a fellow at the wedding, sent gerard a whole slew of photos, and he sent them to the rest of us--and it made me think of my photographic practice
daves purpose was to take pictures of the wedding, not really caring about cliche, spotenatity, aesthetics, or anything but the message i am at a wedding...so teh fotos are badly taken badly lit, unedited, adn you know of people an shit.
there is ap hoto of me and john in the midst of the 150 or so, and i dont like it, i look a little drunk and a little haggard, but i think i dont like it b/c for the past half decade or so, i have been v. careful about the photos taken of me, either:
a) they were taken for conceptual reasons, as jokes, as camp, as roleplaying
b) they were taken udner circumstacnes i could control
c) they were taken at my bequest, or by people i trust not as friends, but as aesthications, who i was sure could maintain an image projected (ie ray or ashley)
so looking at this photo, having a heart break convo with a basic stranger, being snapped, and then not having any input, must be similar to the photos i take of other people, the random off moments, and its strange how uncomfortable it made me.
i think it made me uncomfortable, because i have started to postion my work as "art", with shows in galleries, conversations with artist books, placement in publications that center on art and design etc (jacko, from elk, wont be publishing the pick up truck book after all, but he thot about the work, and he treated it as impt, adn it seemed like he wanted more work), and even some conceptual energy, in that context, and when talking about the photos with other artists, i split b/w doc shot and other--the doc shot being, i saw this and i want you to see this (like the joke at the wedding: obligatory shot of the bride, obligatory shot of teh groom, obligatory shot of geographical locatiopn )--the categories arent stable, doc shots become art shots, and art shots are downgraded, and sometimes it relates to function, but i always think of comoposition, and lighting, adn colour, and crop/edit/refuse to show/erase photos that arent very good...
i took 400 photos at teh wedding, 50 polaroids including. I saved 150 on my computer, and published 38, and if i had another site, i would break that down to maybe 10...of those 38, 9 are doc shots, and 3 are of me...all of them gaurded.
i guess, what im saying is that it seems liek all of Dave's photos are doc shots, and most of them are shit, but they actually feature people, and the people seem to be having some kind of fun, and having a bit of a neurotic flutter, cause an unflattering picture i didnt control ended up on a website...
anyone who wants a link of the photo, can email
daves purpose was to take pictures of the wedding, not really caring about cliche, spotenatity, aesthetics, or anything but the message i am at a wedding...so teh fotos are badly taken badly lit, unedited, adn you know of people an shit.
there is ap hoto of me and john in the midst of the 150 or so, and i dont like it, i look a little drunk and a little haggard, but i think i dont like it b/c for the past half decade or so, i have been v. careful about the photos taken of me, either:
a) they were taken for conceptual reasons, as jokes, as camp, as roleplaying
b) they were taken udner circumstacnes i could control
c) they were taken at my bequest, or by people i trust not as friends, but as aesthications, who i was sure could maintain an image projected (ie ray or ashley)
so looking at this photo, having a heart break convo with a basic stranger, being snapped, and then not having any input, must be similar to the photos i take of other people, the random off moments, and its strange how uncomfortable it made me.
i think it made me uncomfortable, because i have started to postion my work as "art", with shows in galleries, conversations with artist books, placement in publications that center on art and design etc (jacko, from elk, wont be publishing the pick up truck book after all, but he thot about the work, and he treated it as impt, adn it seemed like he wanted more work), and even some conceptual energy, in that context, and when talking about the photos with other artists, i split b/w doc shot and other--the doc shot being, i saw this and i want you to see this (like the joke at the wedding: obligatory shot of the bride, obligatory shot of teh groom, obligatory shot of geographical locatiopn )--the categories arent stable, doc shots become art shots, and art shots are downgraded, and sometimes it relates to function, but i always think of comoposition, and lighting, adn colour, and crop/edit/refuse to show/erase photos that arent very good...
i took 400 photos at teh wedding, 50 polaroids including. I saved 150 on my computer, and published 38, and if i had another site, i would break that down to maybe 10...of those 38, 9 are doc shots, and 3 are of me...all of them gaurded.
i guess, what im saying is that it seems liek all of Dave's photos are doc shots, and most of them are shit, but they actually feature people, and the people seem to be having some kind of fun, and having a bit of a neurotic flutter, cause an unflattering picture i didnt control ended up on a website...
anyone who wants a link of the photo, can email
kureleks main biographer morely, claims that she couldnt get access to the records in the late 70s, but her work sounds like she did get access (it says this: All records less than 30 years old are closed to public inspection; staff records are closed for 75 years; records relating to named patients are closed to public inspection for one hundred years...so im fucked here---if i get permission from the estate, or if its academic, or are there other loopholes?
part of the access i want to get to is the maudsley hospital in london (now part of kings college london), part of what i want to get is in surrey, so part of teh national archives...does this mean that all of his records are in surrey, or in london or somewhere else, as the natherne hosptial grounds are now condos
how do i get access, from canada, if i can get into there at all
part of what i want to get into, is the edward admonson collection, who owns several of he paintings i want to talk about, but that website is down: http://www.slamart.org.uk/p2_artsprojects/adamson_collection.htm
he seems really kind of famous, some abstracts, adn other things--so could i get his general notes somehow? (his collection, moving from 10k to 50k peices, is in the South London Maudsley London Trust--if it was 50k and now 10, where did the 40 go?)
(three hornets nests the national archives, the nhs and kings college london)
part of the access i want to get to is the maudsley hospital in london (now part of kings college london), part of what i want to get is in surrey, so part of teh national archives...does this mean that all of his records are in surrey, or in london or somewhere else, as the natherne hosptial grounds are now condos
how do i get access, from canada, if i can get into there at all
part of what i want to get into, is the edward admonson collection, who owns several of he paintings i want to talk about, but that website is down: http://www.slamart.org.uk/p2_artsprojects/adamson_collection.htm
he seems really kind of famous, some abstracts, adn other things--so could i get his general notes somehow? (his collection, moving from 10k to 50k peices, is in the South London Maudsley London Trust--if it was 50k and now 10, where did the 40 go?)
(three hornets nests the national archives, the nhs and kings college london)
Notes on Kurelek from the AGA archives
Canada House Cultural Center
Preface to Catalog for the Show WK:The English Years
Show 5 July-21 Sept 1990
Kurelek came to England in 1952 to find a cure for his chronic depression and during the eight years, he remained in this country he produced a remakrable body of work whilst undergoing therapy at the Mausley Hospital and later at the Betherene Holspital, where an artist has been appointed to work, with the patients. Kurelek proved to be no ordinary patient , his genius as an artist contributed substatinally to the growing realsation that art had an impt role to play in the field of therapy ...
he imaged that he was being forced intoa coffin
....
Professor Carstairs
Edward Adamson, Netheren Hospital
Maudsley. Admonson Collection'
Globe and Mail, Thursday, Oct 2, 86
William French
WK regarded these paintings, which he could churn out at teh rate of three a day, as pot boilers, his real mission as an artsit was to prsteyize on behalf of teh Catholic Church and to warn of impending nuclrar holoucast. He may be the only resident of the beaches to get a premit from City Hall to build a bomb shelter.
Letter from former director Terry Fenton to Mrs AE Sheilds
(the work) is not represtive of Miss Grants taste, and that ti depicts a scene that it is not suioted to a memorial picute. ths feeling was brought to my attention on one other occasion, and while I apreciate your concern, Im not certain that anything can be done...obtain a represtational picture by an Alberta artist...
Note on the Back of a Painting in the AGA collection, as typed/written by WK: 27
AND THEY WERE TAKEN UNAWARES; WHEN THE FLOOD CAME AND DROWNED THEM ALL;SO IT WILL EB AT THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN (TITLE)
The previosu picture. I discovered to my deight, led neatly into this one. Although the barn in the previous work is neighbour Peleshaty's and this one is our own, they could be interchangeable.
emph and puncutation WK's, Matt. 24:3, i think, but not a direct match
Back of Lest We Repent we perfer not to think abotu death adn the afterlife:
This is a scene I recall from early boyhood, when I first began school. I knew this boy before he died of TB, for my brother adn I sometiems played with him. I have shifted teh season slightly drom late fall to early winter, to better convet the ipression of theo nce warm body ging into the cold earth. The mother backe away from the mouth of the grave with a moan, as if crying, "No,no, no. It cat be true." During our years of farmign in that Manitoba distrcit, there were several deaths in that family and yert the family, which was rather moraly lose, turned over no new leaf. this is the coniditon of our society geerally to-day, which leeaves it to the funeral palour to disguise death as quickly and as quietly as possible, so as not to distrub anyones state of mind or body"
Back of Christian (Charity/Chasitiy) (as reported from a letter from Sir GEroge Williams, now concordia)
This is often confused today with prutinaism or Victorian prudery. What I am trying to say here is that sex is a wonderful physical expression between man and wife. Even veiwed from a human angle, viriginity too easily given up results in loss of resepct. The courtnig Christians represtend by the yong man and woman picknicking in the grass olvoe each other adn express this with modest caresses adn kisses. But all the while, realizing their weakness before sexual pssion, each keeps his other hand in Chris;ts hand for strenght. The wall represtens the division between single and married lifwe, and the b;uebirds, the happiness of a newly weded couple at lest in each other embrace. Teh house with the children palying in front rperesents the fuirts of Christian marriage.
This is the painting referred to in Dr McLeods letter to a Twetny Year Old girl...(no idea what this sentence means)
the provence report marks ti as chasitity, the letter here calls it charity...
spelling errors all mine
Winnipeg Free Press
Helen Norrie
1/21/84
Among Important Canadian artists of recent times, WK, was the only one to believe his ability to make art was literally a gift from God and Msut be tied to Gods Service
Saturday Night
Sept 1986
Mark Albey
In Kureleks case the tyranny stopepd shortof outright brutality, Dmytro KLurelek rarely his lack of mechincal prowess and ciricised his failure to help around the farm. Dmytro and his wife, Mary, worked logn hours toprosper and they were unable to spend much tiem alone, with William. A familar immigrant story--except that William Kurelek could never see hsi parents disapptiontley adn may bever have been able to forgive them for hsi solitary, insecure childhood.
Contarary to his myth of hapiness, in the wake of conversion , one of these attemtps took place in 1964, soon afte3r the birth of his first shcild...)
Prarie Boy winter, painted in a week.
The unnerving thing about the children in his paintings is that few of them look young. their fqaces ae either aged or ageless. In thsui they resemble a brilliant despeate painting...The Maze
when he tried to build two bomb sheleters, worked in an airless basement bunker, and paitned hundreds of doomsday scenes, are jsut as disquiting, as his earleir portraits of dispair...
Alberta Report, May 2, No byline
4 years
autobiography which he wrote in 1973 for Dr James Mass to use for his pyschology students. WK finsihed this version shortly before his death in 1977,
(long qoute im not transcribing)
Globe and Mail, Letter to the Editor, 1984, From his biographer Morley
The collectiosn curator, British art theraist Edward Adamson has stated that Mr Kurelek was in Neterene for 4.5 years, adn that he was proably the msot twisted charachter he had ever seen...The hosptial records, mmade availble to me as MR Kurelek's biographer, indiacte that he was at Netherene for only 15 months )nov 1953, to Jan 1955). He ahd been in and out of a London hospital for 17 months previously adn been rtransferred to Netherene. It is difficult to quarrel with a personal memory but in fairness I must insist that Mr Kurelek was never irrational or pyschotic. He was during the mid fifities, severely depressed adn introvered, until shock therapy adn more importantly new foudn religous faith reesatblished hsi ability to fucntion soically...)
Globe adn Mail
Jan 6 1987
Kolankiwsky
The paintings have a narrow appeal, and dont nessc. reflect the body of the Kurelek work...It would be worth an awful lot of money, theoritically, but tis very dificult to sell a colelction like that. A religous instituition would have to buy it...
Av Isaacs (which makes me nervous about getting resources in york.)
Canada House Cultural Center
Preface to Catalog for the Show WK:The English Years
Show 5 July-21 Sept 1990
Kurelek came to England in 1952 to find a cure for his chronic depression and during the eight years, he remained in this country he produced a remakrable body of work whilst undergoing therapy at the Mausley Hospital and later at the Betherene Holspital, where an artist has been appointed to work, with the patients. Kurelek proved to be no ordinary patient , his genius as an artist contributed substatinally to the growing realsation that art had an impt role to play in the field of therapy ...
he imaged that he was being forced intoa coffin
....
Professor Carstairs
Edward Adamson, Netheren Hospital
Maudsley. Admonson Collection'
Globe and Mail, Thursday, Oct 2, 86
William French
WK regarded these paintings, which he could churn out at teh rate of three a day, as pot boilers, his real mission as an artsit was to prsteyize on behalf of teh Catholic Church and to warn of impending nuclrar holoucast. He may be the only resident of the beaches to get a premit from City Hall to build a bomb shelter.
Letter from former director Terry Fenton to Mrs AE Sheilds
(the work) is not represtive of Miss Grants taste, and that ti depicts a scene that it is not suioted to a memorial picute. ths feeling was brought to my attention on one other occasion, and while I apreciate your concern, Im not certain that anything can be done...obtain a represtational picture by an Alberta artist...
Note on the Back of a Painting in the AGA collection, as typed/written by WK: 27
AND THEY WERE TAKEN UNAWARES; WHEN THE FLOOD CAME AND DROWNED THEM ALL;SO IT WILL EB AT THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN (TITLE)
The previosu picture. I discovered to my deight, led neatly into this one. Although the barn in the previous work is neighbour Peleshaty's and this one is our own, they could be interchangeable.
emph and puncutation WK's, Matt. 24:3, i think, but not a direct match
Back of Lest We Repent we perfer not to think abotu death adn the afterlife:
This is a scene I recall from early boyhood, when I first began school. I knew this boy before he died of TB, for my brother adn I sometiems played with him. I have shifted teh season slightly drom late fall to early winter, to better convet the ipression of theo nce warm body ging into the cold earth. The mother backe away from the mouth of the grave with a moan, as if crying, "No,no, no. It cat be true." During our years of farmign in that Manitoba distrcit, there were several deaths in that family and yert the family, which was rather moraly lose, turned over no new leaf. this is the coniditon of our society geerally to-day, which leeaves it to the funeral palour to disguise death as quickly and as quietly as possible, so as not to distrub anyones state of mind or body"
Back of Christian (Charity/Chasitiy) (as reported from a letter from Sir GEroge Williams, now concordia)
This is often confused today with prutinaism or Victorian prudery. What I am trying to say here is that sex is a wonderful physical expression between man and wife. Even veiwed from a human angle, viriginity too easily given up results in loss of resepct. The courtnig Christians represtend by the yong man and woman picknicking in the grass olvoe each other adn express this with modest caresses adn kisses. But all the while, realizing their weakness before sexual pssion, each keeps his other hand in Chris;ts hand for strenght. The wall represtens the division between single and married lifwe, and the b;uebirds, the happiness of a newly weded couple at lest in each other embrace. Teh house with the children palying in front rperesents the fuirts of Christian marriage.
This is the painting referred to in Dr McLeods letter to a Twetny Year Old girl...(no idea what this sentence means)
the provence report marks ti as chasitity, the letter here calls it charity...
spelling errors all mine
Winnipeg Free Press
Helen Norrie
1/21/84
Among Important Canadian artists of recent times, WK, was the only one to believe his ability to make art was literally a gift from God and Msut be tied to Gods Service
Saturday Night
Sept 1986
Mark Albey
In Kureleks case the tyranny stopepd shortof outright brutality, Dmytro KLurelek rarely his lack of mechincal prowess and ciricised his failure to help around the farm. Dmytro and his wife, Mary, worked logn hours toprosper and they were unable to spend much tiem alone, with William. A familar immigrant story--except that William Kurelek could never see hsi parents disapptiontley adn may bever have been able to forgive them for hsi solitary, insecure childhood.
Contarary to his myth of hapiness, in the wake of conversion , one of these attemtps took place in 1964, soon afte3r the birth of his first shcild...)
Prarie Boy winter, painted in a week.
The unnerving thing about the children in his paintings is that few of them look young. their fqaces ae either aged or ageless. In thsui they resemble a brilliant despeate painting...The Maze
when he tried to build two bomb sheleters, worked in an airless basement bunker, and paitned hundreds of doomsday scenes, are jsut as disquiting, as his earleir portraits of dispair...
Alberta Report, May 2, No byline
4 years
autobiography which he wrote in 1973 for Dr James Mass to use for his pyschology students. WK finsihed this version shortly before his death in 1977,
(long qoute im not transcribing)
Globe and Mail, Letter to the Editor, 1984, From his biographer Morley
The collectiosn curator, British art theraist Edward Adamson has stated that Mr Kurelek was in Neterene for 4.5 years, adn that he was proably the msot twisted charachter he had ever seen...The hosptial records, mmade availble to me as MR Kurelek's biographer, indiacte that he was at Netherene for only 15 months )nov 1953, to Jan 1955). He ahd been in and out of a London hospital for 17 months previously adn been rtransferred to Netherene. It is difficult to quarrel with a personal memory but in fairness I must insist that Mr Kurelek was never irrational or pyschotic. He was during the mid fifities, severely depressed adn introvered, until shock therapy adn more importantly new foudn religous faith reesatblished hsi ability to fucntion soically...)
Globe adn Mail
Jan 6 1987
Kolankiwsky
The paintings have a narrow appeal, and dont nessc. reflect the body of the Kurelek work...It would be worth an awful lot of money, theoritically, but tis very dificult to sell a colelction like that. A religous instituition would have to buy it...
Av Isaacs (which makes me nervous about getting resources in york.)
link dump (less doomy)
marine myspace. poltically impt--look at the opening video, its corpeality, its bodies, and the editing towards fury w/o release is v leni. (and statist power intervening in previously free flowing forms of info)
nevada porn star runs for govenor
me
this is most likely bullshit but hokey pokey apparently mocks roman mass.
long, erudite interview with Alan Moore, about Lost Girls
bechdel
goes back to the fun home, for the ny times (fasicating article)
more 19th century american polymorphus sex cults.
at the Pompideous show about La Art, post war, two major works fell to the ground and shattered. there is much pissing b/w galleries at hos responsible, but this causes great sadness, on a couple of levels, first, one of my favourite works by one of themore under rated american colourfield sculptors is kaput, and it means that it is less likely for this show to travel.
The Two Works Destroyed:
Craig Kaufmann, Untilted, 1967
(it takes some dark magic to keep those extant, being that they are all resin and vaacuum formed plexiglass at the beginging of those techs, and the materials are fragile anyways) (they are also really huge this one is 4x6) (this is the one i loved)
the other is a peter alexander, in black acrlyic, from 68, 8x7 feet.
Jason Roades, provacteour, freduian, adn naughty installation artist, who was going to portland this week, to install a large peice whos central core was homeless teenage boys wrestling in swimming pools fulled of lube, died in LA before he got a chance to move.
Here is one of his insallations, at Dave Zwimner, in Chelsea:
20 anti syph posters from the 40s
Charles Kamm
is an amazing, every day photographer, from California, beuitiful colours, odd angles, excellent example of lcoal geoographies, dozens of examples...
Three Astronomy Quilts:
by Ann Harwell rest here
if joe francis isnt a rapist, he sure is an asshole (girls gone wild dude)
small children depict incredibly crude scenes from resivor dogs.
an amazing painter, in prison for murder, starts working with m&ms, his own hair, and spare paper, sends things out, some of them sell, instead of rewarding his rehabillitve work, they punish him.
good media gaurdian story about trophy videos
36 photos of kudzu covered homes in South Carolina
here
tehy all look the same, but in sequence, rather amazing
world w/o end and apaprently beginning (apparently this is supposed to shake my theism, but it kind of strgehtens them)
victorian taxidermy remade
some videos about how coture sounds
marine myspace. poltically impt--look at the opening video, its corpeality, its bodies, and the editing towards fury w/o release is v leni. (and statist power intervening in previously free flowing forms of info)
nevada porn star runs for govenor
me
this is most likely bullshit but hokey pokey apparently mocks roman mass.
long, erudite interview with Alan Moore, about Lost Girls
bechdel
goes back to the fun home, for the ny times (fasicating article)
more 19th century american polymorphus sex cults.
at the Pompideous show about La Art, post war, two major works fell to the ground and shattered. there is much pissing b/w galleries at hos responsible, but this causes great sadness, on a couple of levels, first, one of my favourite works by one of themore under rated american colourfield sculptors is kaput, and it means that it is less likely for this show to travel.
The Two Works Destroyed:
Craig Kaufmann, Untilted, 1967
(it takes some dark magic to keep those extant, being that they are all resin and vaacuum formed plexiglass at the beginging of those techs, and the materials are fragile anyways) (they are also really huge this one is 4x6) (this is the one i loved)
the other is a peter alexander, in black acrlyic, from 68, 8x7 feet.
Jason Roades, provacteour, freduian, adn naughty installation artist, who was going to portland this week, to install a large peice whos central core was homeless teenage boys wrestling in swimming pools fulled of lube, died in LA before he got a chance to move.
Here is one of his insallations, at Dave Zwimner, in Chelsea:
20 anti syph posters from the 40s
Charles Kamm
is an amazing, every day photographer, from California, beuitiful colours, odd angles, excellent example of lcoal geoographies, dozens of examples...
Three Astronomy Quilts:
by Ann Harwell rest here
if joe francis isnt a rapist, he sure is an asshole (girls gone wild dude)
small children depict incredibly crude scenes from resivor dogs.
an amazing painter, in prison for murder, starts working with m&ms, his own hair, and spare paper, sends things out, some of them sell, instead of rewarding his rehabillitve work, they punish him.
good media gaurdian story about trophy videos
36 photos of kudzu covered homes in South Carolina
here
tehy all look the same, but in sequence, rather amazing
world w/o end and apaprently beginning (apparently this is supposed to shake my theism, but it kind of strgehtens them)
victorian taxidermy remade
some videos about how coture sounds
Saturday, August 05, 2006
Present Concerns
1) Gallery for the Religious work
2) Make my peice on Kurelek, Jesus, etc different then some of the books, etc written about the paintings (ie kurelek heaven and hell, for example)
3) 100 artists for the ruscha, how the fuck is this going to happen
4) digitial photos dont do as well as polaroids, why?
5) the hunters condundrum. wrt the deer show, and a place to put it.
6) the meritt essay.
1) Gallery for the Religious work
2) Make my peice on Kurelek, Jesus, etc different then some of the books, etc written about the paintings (ie kurelek heaven and hell, for example)
3) 100 artists for the ruscha, how the fuck is this going to happen
4) digitial photos dont do as well as polaroids, why?
5) the hunters condundrum. wrt the deer show, and a place to put it.
6) the meritt essay.
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Authority is a servant of God. Of itself it cannot keep any public order. It is like
a net in water: The good Lord drives the fish to it. God guides the evildoers to the authority, so that they do not escape … God is a just judge on earth. For this reason, no one escapes who does not do penance, the just punishment by way of the authority. Even if you escape from me, you do not escape the hangman
Luther
a net in water: The good Lord drives the fish to it. God guides the evildoers to the authority, so that they do not escape … God is a just judge on earth. For this reason, no one escapes who does not do penance, the just punishment by way of the authority. Even if you escape from me, you do not escape the hangman
Luther
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
link dump (O'DOOM)
Big Moose
Bobs Yr Uncle, 4 Melamine Plates, by Green Grass Design, 36 american.
Lance Bass is Gay. He tells us this, but does not want to be an activist type.
the interview is not online, but in the issue, and is so blank, and banal, that it reads like godot rewritten by warhol. (or in the words of my mother: its persnoality matched lance bass)
a male australian journalist attempts to seduce fred phelps jr video here hilarty ensues
e-pooja, straight from madurai menakshi, for all my hindu friends here
pray the rosary here
on the rosary note, here is scott walker, live in concert, singing.
J Bennet Fitts takes fotos of bled out light, decript palm trees, and empty swimming pools, if hockeney is LA as paradise and McCarthy is LA in Hell, this is LA in purgatory. haunting, difficult, and lovely work.
Tori Spelling and her husband, in Vancouver, posing for paparazzi, as very poor, because her mean mommy only gave her 800k, just like her brother. i will have to say that tori has stage managed this death thing brilliantly.
random sexy cowboy
from the ns gay rodeo assoc
lj community for dead machinery--most of it is awful, first year art students making delicate statements on life and decay, but some good work as well here
albert morse makes great portraits, esp of flea market buys and sellers, his tatoo fotos has a suppersaturated colour, that makes me curious abuot his techinque. i think rachel told me about this dude.
a sioux jaquline keeler, first nation advocate, writes about the drubbing Cecillia Fire Thunder is getting from both siox and american patriachs, well worth reading
if the vatican keeps acting like a state lets treat it like one.
sebastion buescher makes jewlery from dead, and barely dead creepy crawlers, including earth worm rings, spider brooches, bee stingers, adn this:
great essay on an early medieval antomiocal model of a pregent woman. i dont know if anyone who reads this is a medevialist, but there is a call on papers about anonomy adn that era here
jesse hamlin has fun writing about the alabama truck driver who dlevered a tanker truck full of vaseline, to matthew barney, for his SFMoMA show.
One of three, homophobic ads, from NZ. Teh others are worse. One could email, call, or write to the company:
83 Roper Road
Colyton NSW 2760
Ph: 02 9623 3333
Fax: 02 9623 0301
Email: sales@sargents.com.au
worst web design ever
men of mortuarties, pose as beefcake, rasie money for breast cancer, while lowering a coffin into the ground. it would be less creepy if it was hotter
katjabase
thinks its proper for three kids to go to jail for a year for some minor property damage. i think this attitude resulted in the minor property damage in the first place.
Some activists in San Diego are playing volleyball over the fence b/w mexico and teh states--a brilliant protest idea, here
is a story from LA Weekly. (its theater, its camp, it makes fun, and deconstructs the ideas of boundries, it is non violent...
great essay on the uncanny and unruly sculpture of ron muek.
Three Images from Pam Andersons St Tropez wedding
Big Moose
Bobs Yr Uncle, 4 Melamine Plates, by Green Grass Design, 36 american.
Lance Bass is Gay. He tells us this, but does not want to be an activist type.
the interview is not online, but in the issue, and is so blank, and banal, that it reads like godot rewritten by warhol. (or in the words of my mother: its persnoality matched lance bass)
a male australian journalist attempts to seduce fred phelps jr video here hilarty ensues
e-pooja, straight from madurai menakshi, for all my hindu friends here
pray the rosary here
on the rosary note, here is scott walker, live in concert, singing.
J Bennet Fitts takes fotos of bled out light, decript palm trees, and empty swimming pools, if hockeney is LA as paradise and McCarthy is LA in Hell, this is LA in purgatory. haunting, difficult, and lovely work.
Tori Spelling and her husband, in Vancouver, posing for paparazzi, as very poor, because her mean mommy only gave her 800k, just like her brother. i will have to say that tori has stage managed this death thing brilliantly.
random sexy cowboy
from the ns gay rodeo assoc
lj community for dead machinery--most of it is awful, first year art students making delicate statements on life and decay, but some good work as well here
albert morse makes great portraits, esp of flea market buys and sellers, his tatoo fotos has a suppersaturated colour, that makes me curious abuot his techinque. i think rachel told me about this dude.
a sioux jaquline keeler, first nation advocate, writes about the drubbing Cecillia Fire Thunder is getting from both siox and american patriachs, well worth reading
if the vatican keeps acting like a state lets treat it like one.
sebastion buescher makes jewlery from dead, and barely dead creepy crawlers, including earth worm rings, spider brooches, bee stingers, adn this:
great essay on an early medieval antomiocal model of a pregent woman. i dont know if anyone who reads this is a medevialist, but there is a call on papers about anonomy adn that era here
jesse hamlin has fun writing about the alabama truck driver who dlevered a tanker truck full of vaseline, to matthew barney, for his SFMoMA show.
One of three, homophobic ads, from NZ. Teh others are worse. One could email, call, or write to the company:
83 Roper Road
Colyton NSW 2760
Ph: 02 9623 3333
Fax: 02 9623 0301
Email: sales@sargents.com.au
worst web design ever
men of mortuarties, pose as beefcake, rasie money for breast cancer, while lowering a coffin into the ground. it would be less creepy if it was hotter
katjabase
thinks its proper for three kids to go to jail for a year for some minor property damage. i think this attitude resulted in the minor property damage in the first place.
Some activists in San Diego are playing volleyball over the fence b/w mexico and teh states--a brilliant protest idea, here
is a story from LA Weekly. (its theater, its camp, it makes fun, and deconstructs the ideas of boundries, it is non violent...
great essay on the uncanny and unruly sculpture of ron muek.
Three Images from Pam Andersons St Tropez wedding
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
i want to get back to, for a second, that fleeting thot i had about tradition and queer issues.
queer folks have a tendecy to probe dissident/heretical/othered traditions, and place them at the forefront, for fairly obvious reasons, while forgetting the obv homophobia of the mainstreams.
esp in catholicism, with its fecund history of oddness, its an easy trap to fall into--but an impt part of being catholic is to balance the tradition with the scripture--and that tradition includes much more work against same gendered realtions as it does for...and that tradition isnt the work of 1890s, either. Michel was wrong about that.
some protesant acceptence of same gendered desire, must be a bit easier, because of the belief in continued, personal revealtion and the pbelief in interperting the scripture by oneself, as a seperate object...
questions,
is this correct?
how does one (de/re/un/construct tradition) and stiull live with it openly?
queer folks have a tendecy to probe dissident/heretical/othered traditions, and place them at the forefront, for fairly obvious reasons, while forgetting the obv homophobia of the mainstreams.
esp in catholicism, with its fecund history of oddness, its an easy trap to fall into--but an impt part of being catholic is to balance the tradition with the scripture--and that tradition includes much more work against same gendered realtions as it does for...and that tradition isnt the work of 1890s, either. Michel was wrong about that.
some protesant acceptence of same gendered desire, must be a bit easier, because of the belief in continued, personal revealtion and the pbelief in interperting the scripture by oneself, as a seperate object...
questions,
is this correct?
how does one (de/re/un/construct tradition) and stiull live with it openly?
at concordia college, watching construction, and there is a crane holding an i beam, encased in wood, and slowly rotating it 40 feet in the air, as people scurry below it, i dont have my camera today, but it is one of the prettiest things ive seen...like this photo that blair took in cambridge ontario, of messed up yellow parking medians, arranged to work as a skateboard jump, but looks like some cross faded tuttle/andre thing...this looks like a hyperindustrial ballet, i have no idea how things so fucking large manage towards any sense of deliacy?
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