Wuthering Jans
May. 18th, 2006 08:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Jan Family are a group of ex-Royal College of Art students whose design work shares the same conceptual and social accents as Åbäke. Since Åbäke are currently teaching at the RCA, it's quite possible that they're even ex-pupils of the group.The idea of Jan family is that design is a series of proposals for new social possibilities, that each new design allows a new form of social interaction, a suggested etiquette. "How To Reach Out", a show in London last September by Ingrid Jan Hora (every transient member of the Jan family takes "Jan" as a middle name while they're working with the group; the founder members are Nina Jan Beier and Marie Jan Lund) lured visitors in with an inflatable clear plastic sausage that extended the gallery space all the way to the door of the adjacent video shop, rather like Vito Acconci's famous conference table. The work inside showed groups of people all sharing the same jackets and ties, or clusters of chairs linked together. Nice metaphors for "family", for putting the collective above the individual.
Today I'd also like to point you in the direction of the archives of the Institut National de L'audiovisuel: 100,000 TV and radio broadcasts from France, including lots of Gainsbourg and Brassens, if you're into that kind of thing. Personally, I'm more intrigued by this spooky video (complete with VHS artefacts) of Kate Bush singing "Wuthering Heights" at Efteling Gardens in 1978. It's a lovely example of how something spooky (Kate's talent, youth, choreography are spooky, along with the fact that she's playing a ghost who climbs out of a tomb and is accompanied by black-faced KKK members) is made more so by the electronic spookiness of glitches. Bush really is Sadako from Ringu here (but dancing better).![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2006-05-18 01:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-18 02:06 pm (UTC)janfamily
Date: 2006-05-18 02:20 pm (UTC)PS:
if anyone reading this happens to be around exeter these days you may want to pop into spacex and have a look at their work:
Contemporary art
SPACEX 45 Preston Street, Exeter EX1 1DF, phone: 01392 431786
Open Tues - Sat, 10am - 5pm, admission free www.spacex.co.uk
Nina Jan Beier and Marie Jan Lund
YOU US OR YOU ME
20 May – 15 July 2006
Ingrid Jan Hora
Date: 2006-05-18 03:06 pm (UTC)//
http://homepage.mac.com/produkt/
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Date: 2006-05-18 03:49 pm (UTC)She has a lovely / face of a genius.
Date: 2006-05-18 03:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-18 05:30 pm (UTC)another coincidence-
Date: 2006-05-18 05:31 pm (UTC)I was just thinking about that early this morning- not about if you knew Mark Burgess from the Chameleons but rather about the feelings that Kate Bush evokes within people..
I recall the first time I heard some music from "The Dreaming" when it was first released I was on the telephone with a friend from school and the time and said "You HAVE to listen to this!!!"
BTW-
Boo! ;)
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Date: 2006-05-18 05:33 pm (UTC)Sorry for the unnecessary story, just had to share my frustration.
Also, I always look for you on the trains when I know you're in New York. For some reason I always expect to see you but I never do.
JANFAM
Date: 2006-05-18 05:50 pm (UTC)and so refreshing!
rvw
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Date: 2006-05-18 06:07 pm (UTC)adbusters - designing revolution?
Date: 2006-05-18 08:42 pm (UTC)visually, the results are wonderful. apparently, they have terribly good artists. but again i wonder - can their products - direct actions, ads, artworks, magazines, website, posters, postcards etc. - really bring about true change or does the ad-effect/design-effect stop at the surface? when reading or looking at stuff from adbusters i sometimes feel i am content with the product itself and don't feel the urge to do further action.
Re: She has a lovely / face of a genius.
Date: 2006-05-18 08:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-18 08:57 pm (UTC)Efteling Gardens
Date: 2006-05-19 12:56 am (UTC)Never did quite get Kate's music, but with these video's I'm in, her acting, dancing... where did this come from? These songs with a hook that sneaks in...
Writing this from a hotel across from docklands. A former co-worker grew up with Kate.
Is part of the spookiness a London Sud-Ostalgie? Never could get those suburbs out of my mind...
Re: adbusters - designing revolution?
Date: 2006-05-19 02:29 am (UTC)Advertisers are also quite savvy, and have adopted the 'cynical approach to advertising' stance in their own material. Many ads and commercials nowadays carry a message of rejecting advertising in favor of [x product]'s self-evident quality. Advertising's continuing ascendence into acceptance as a legitimate fine art also clouds things.
(Sorry, not who you asked for, but hello and nice to meet you!)
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Date: 2006-05-19 06:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-19 08:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-19 08:40 am (UTC)cool hunting...
Date: 2006-05-19 09:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-19 12:54 pm (UTC)To see the opposite -- a trend for individual designs -- check A Hideout of his Own (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/18/garden/18men.html?_r=1&oref=slogin), an article in yesterday's New York Times about the popularity of sheds men can use to retreat from community in a shared house.
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Date: 2006-05-19 02:25 pm (UTC)The displays at the Met don't seem to have as much opportunity to develop the stylistic idiosyncrasies one sees at AMNH (if you don't count the artifacts, that is).
Re: cool hunting...
Date: 2006-05-20 05:46 am (UTC)Institut National de L'Audiovisuel
Date: 2006-05-20 03:26 pm (UTC)I love it!
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