Art decade

[imomus]

Today's entry is more useful for me than interesting for you -- it's basically a CV-like list of all the art shows I've made or participated in since 2000. There's already a page like this for my records, but I've never put one together for my art stuff, and I want something I can link to when curators ask what I've done. It isn't just catalogue notes, though; you can click through to the Flash media piece I made (with Florian Perret) for MoCA in 2002. Marred by muffled sound, it's not one of my better pieces, but it's online. The best piece of art I've ever done, I think, is my 2005 show at Zach Feuer gallery with Mai Ueda, which wasn't recorded in any form (we had three rules: no preparation, no archiving, nothing for sale). I think the exhibition with Aki Sasamoto this May, again at Zach's gallery in New York, will be pretty interesting too.

2000

Momus
Folktronia: myths and songs of the electronic age
October 13th to November 11th 2000
Performance-Installation at LFL Gallery, New York
Co-curated by Kelly Taxter and Zach Feuer
More info

2002

Momus
Suffusia: a beautiful life
June 2002
Digital media lecture for digital gallery (visuals: Florian Perret and Momus)
MOCA, Los Angeles
Flash media lecture



Momus
Healing
November - December 2002
Looped DVD re-edit of a film by Takashi Miike, Ichi The Killer
Part of group show Urbanlenz
Hanae Mori Building, Tokyo, Japan
Curated by David D'Heilly, 2dk

2005

Momus and Mai Ueda
I'll Speak, You Sing
June 25 - July 15 2005
Performance
Zach Feuer Gallery, 530 West 24th St New York
Curated by Zach Feuer
Review

2006

Momus
Unreliable Tour Guide
March - May 2006
Performance
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, 945 Madison Avenue, New York
Curated by Chrissie Iles and Philippe Vergne

Momus
Whispering
June 2006
Text pieces performed by gallery staff
Part of group show The Title as the Curator's Art Piece
Blow de la Barra, 35 Heddon Street London
Curated by Mathieu Copeland

2007

Momus
Jokes
November 1st - 7th, 2007
Text pieces performed by gallery staff
Part of group show A Spoken Word Exhibition (Performa Biennial)
Swiss Institute, 495 Broadway, New York
Curated by Mathieu Copeland

Momus
6 Sessions
November 28 2007 - February 3, 2008
Musical performance and video archive
Part of group show 6 Sessions
Secession, Friedrichstrasse 12, Vienna
Curated by Nicolas Jasmin, Flora Neuwirth, Rita Vitorelli

2008

Momus
Various Texts
18th March - 20th April 2008
Performance in gallery, texts spoken by staff
Part of A Spoken Word Exhibition
Tranzit/Display Gallery, Dittrichova 9/337, Prague, Czech Republic
Curated by Mathieu Copeland

Momus
Performance
25th - 28th April 2008
Musical performance
Part of group show Call + Response
MUDAM Luxembourg
Curated by Candice Breitz

Momus
London as Tokyo Tour
June 28th - 29th 2008
Performance
Part of Hide and Seek Festival
Southbank Centre, London
Curated by Alex Fleetwood

Momus
White Trash (The Rice Experiment)
October 20th - November 2nd 2008
Performance
Part of Bridge Art Fair Berlin 2008
Curated by Marie Walz

Momus
The Munchausen Docent
Performance
November 20th 2008
Tour of five commercial galleries
Part of Speak and Spell, Vienna Art Week 2008
Various locations, Vienna first district
Curated by Rita Vitorelli and Christian Kobald

Momus
Floating Film
Looped online re-edit of Ozu's 1959 film Floating Weeds
December 2008
Part of NobelPrize.no project, Oslo
Curated by Aeron Bergmann and Alejandra Salinas

2009

Momus
Calendar
16th January to 15th March 2009
Text pieces performed by gallery staff
Part of A Spoken Word Exhibition
Baltic Mill, Gateshead, England
Curated by Mathieu Copeland

Momus
Whispering Opera
February 28th to March 22nd 2009
Performance and text pieces performed by gallery staff
Part of The Real Thing
Mu Eindhoven, Holland
Curated by Oliver Laric

Momus
Darwin's Monsters
Tour of Charles Darwin exhibition at the Schirn Kunsthalle
Part of Playing the City event, Frankfurt Long Night of the Museums
April 25th 2009
Schirn Kunsthalle, Romerberg, Frankfurt
Curated by Matthias Ulrich

Momus and Aki Sasamoto
Love is the End of Art
May 5th to 16th 2009
Performance
Zach Feuer Gallery, 530 West 24th St New York
Curated by Zach Feuer

Comments

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Actually, if you follow that last link to a gig review two years ago, the journalist publishes his entire, uncut original review down at the end of the thread, and it makes a lot more sense. I guess it's just subeditors who over-emphasize the "mad Momus" angle. The main thing the music industry does if they think you're mad is just ignore you... until their "sanity" and boringness wipes them out and they're no longer there to stare through you.