Poof Crackula #1 Bitce $$$

[imomus]

1. PS1 Cafe, Queens.

2. PS1 courtyard, installing unidentified piece.

3. Momus' gallery get-up (bubblewrap later removed, too hot).

4. Favourite piece from Greater New York show, PS1: Seven Veils for Julia Pastrana—Ugliest Woman in the World, Born Mexico 1834, Died Moscow 1860 by Christopher Myers.

5. Mai Ueda and Kenneth Goldsmith battle with Star Wars lightsabers at his loft.

6. Mai looking glamourous at the gallery.

7. Momus tries on his new Beacon's Closet top at Harlem crash pad.

8. Poof Crackula #1 Bitce $$$.

9. Corner of Grand and Lafayette.

Comments

[wrighter.livejournal.com]

your braving of the burg's 'beacon' looks like its warranted you an article reminiscent of miyake's pleats please! line....
oh my!

[transient-poet.livejournal.com]

You're really making me miss New York. I won't be back until November. San Francisco is fine and all but. . .

[kojapan.livejournal.com]

It's funny, I know that's my world you're living in, and I've seen ads with goofy stuff scribbled all over them a thousand times- But what a great talent you have for making everything look so stange and unique.
That bubble wrap does look hot by the way.

[violette.livejournal.com]

Damnit, I never have anyone who wants to go to the P.S.1 with me. & Isn't Beacon's Closet the best ever? I can never go there without buying things. Which might not actually mean it is the best ever since I don't have the money to spend. But it's great that most things there are one-of-a-kind.

[cityramica.livejournal.com]

my first boyfriend works/worked at Beacon's Closet.
nice top.

i like to build icy expanses out of bubble wrap and scotch tape. shame the temperature doesn't translate when worn in NYC's maddening summer humidity.

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Fascinating life, Julia Pastrana: http://www.hollywoodstudios.org/~holley/julia.html

[(Anonymous)]

For all us non-artists out here could you possibly write about what is the greater purpose for your work, in terms of your overall life-view or even the generational development of the Currie family?

Thanks

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I think it's super-glamourous that the work isn't saleable, and also that it's not being recorded. We live in a culture that's obsessed with selling things (shops), and obsessed with recording and archiving things (museums and universities). When you're not doing any of those things, well, I won't get all rockist and say you're "for real", it's nothing to do with "keepin' it real", but it is something mysterious. Since "new games prefigure new societies", a non-saleable game suggests a society in which money no longer exists and play is everything.

One of the stories I told on Saturday touched on this: it concerned a world where "payment" was made with colour instead of money.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

If you scroll back to yesterday's entry (http://www.livejournal.com/users/imomus/117463.html) there's a ton of stuff about what I personally think this work is about: "putting a frame around the moment (or the place) at which nothing becomes something".

[winckelmann.livejournal.com]

right on.

[winckelmann.livejournal.com]

I'll keep a record for tax purposes.

[supercommon.livejournal.com]

Looks like fun. I was reading an article about you somewhere and they mentioned a book on photoblogging that was supposed to have come out in May. Maybe I missed it?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

It's called Fotolog, the publisher is Thames and Hudson, and it's been postponed until next year.

[sparkligbeatnic.livejournal.com]

We live in a culture that's obsessed with selling things

So obsessed that some will go so far as to try to get other species (http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4102350) involved. This experiment says more about the experimenters than their subjects.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

That's an interesting article, but its hyper-capitalist assumptions limit it. Most humans, like the monkeys in this experiment, quite sensibly prefer use value to exchange value. They are happy to settle for what they can use, rather than accumulate things they can't use in order to trade them or make a profit. Why bother becoming an entrepreneur when you're just happy to keep hunger at bay?

[sparkligbeatnic.livejournal.com]

The hyper-capitalists seem to take particular delight in this putative incident of exchange:

Something else happened during that chaotic scene, something that convinced Chen of the monkeys' true grasp of money. Perhaps the most distinguishing characteristic of money, after all, is its fungibility, the fact that it can be used to buy not just food but anything. During the chaos in the monkey cage, Chen saw something out of the corner of his eye that he would later try to play down but in his heart of hearts he knew to be true. What he witnessed was probably the first observed exchange of money for sex in the history of monkeykind. (Further proof that the monkeys truly understood money: the monkey who was paid for sex immediately traded the token in for a grape. (from the NYT article (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/05/magazine/05FREAK.html?pagewanted=all) reporting the work)

[sparkligbeatnic.livejournal.com]

Re: entrepreneurship, you've most likely heard this hyper-Darwinian spiel (http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4032638), which is, at least, more plausible than the monkey tale.

[(Anonymous)]

I was actually wondering more generally what the purpose of *all* your work is, relative to "life on earth", mankind, etc. Do you know what I mean?

(un)Identified Scupture

[(Anonymous)]

That sculture is Hernan Diaz Alonso's "sur". There was a writeup about it (http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1437) in a recent issue of Metropolis, Archinect is currently hosting some nice photos (http://www.archinect.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=9).

[zamba.livejournal.com]

good show today (june 29th). i had not a clue what to expect but i'm quite glad i went. i was the random bearded guy sitting next to the girl that stayed till the end and had to tell me it was over. aye!

[zamba.livejournal.com]

and, oh, pics if you want (http://giraffes.brancog.org/pixeled/thumbnails.php?album=35).