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Vanessa Beecroft opened VB55 at the Neue Nationalgalerie here in Berlin last night. To avoid the crowds, I went up before the opening time and got a sneak preview of the installation: dozens of naked women of all shapes, sizes and ages huddled casually on the floor or wandered about the glass Mies box. It looked a bit like a sento without the water.
Neenstar Mai Ueda was one of the models in Beecroft's 2001 installation VB46 at Gagosian Gallery in LA. I'm proud to announce that Mai and I will hold a joint art show in New York this summer. I'll Speak, You Sing will run at Zach Feuer Gallery on West 24th Street from June 25th to July 15th. It'll be an installation / performance piece in which I'll speak landscapes and Mai will sing songs.
I discovered two more paper metaphor Flash-based painting games (less inventive, though, than the Bjoern Karnebogen games I talked about last week). Artpad's Painter records each splashy gesture you make with its paints and pencils and can play them back at various speeds. (Here's a rather bad painting I did yesterday, for instance.) Less impressive than its features are Art.com's legal conditions; they own everything you make on their site. Boxdoodle has a more quirky and satisfying interface; here you're doodling with felt pens on old bits of cardboard. Very tactile!
Tokyo curator Roger McDonald reports on his Tactical blog on the slightly humourously-named "Nishi-Ogikubo Biennale". Nishi-Ogi is where I stay when I'm in Tokyo, but I didn't know it was also the home of Makoto Aida, one of my favourite artists, a suave and sensitive painter with a perverse erotic imagination. Makoto opened up his home to guests recently and called it a "biennale". McDonald compares the results favourably to Kaikai Kiki's Geisai 6.
Finally, don't miss the Vice Mentally Ill issue, a brave, provocative and humane issue written with, by and about the mentally ill. I think it's editor Jesse Pearson's finest hour so far. Also, those who like to listen to podcasts might like to know that there's now an RSS feed for the Momus Radio travelogues I do regularly as part of Click Opera. The address is http://www.imomus.com/momusradio.rss.
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Date: 2005-04-09 08:42 am (UTC)Those of a Japan-bent in London might like to know that Tomoko Takahashi's exhibition at the Serpentine is coming to an end and is disassembled this Sunday when you can take bits home you fancy (http://You get to go inside Aida's house?! I'd be terrified/excited about what I might find at the back of the cupboards...), although not Tomoko to my knowledge. I still mourn never getting my hands on a very rare and large demonstration ZX Spectrum she included once in a show that was to scale and worked.
"Call that art? My kid could do better than that, etc, etc." Am I imagining a suggestive El Topo rabbit in that picture?
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Date: 2005-04-09 08:56 am (UTC)I liked the Tomoko Takashi shows I saw in London. But then I'm a big thrifter and I love junk markets.
I did some Topo portraits, of course, but my dealer might not want me to give them away for free, now I'm a bona fide artist with New York gallery shows etc! (I mean, one show is a freak, two is a career, right? Oh wait, two freak shows, still a freak.)
Living Fossils
Date: 2005-04-09 01:37 pm (UTC)devilball
Date: 2005-04-09 01:42 pm (UTC)And here's his website (http://www.devilball.co.uk/html/galleries.html).
I meant 'recommend' in my last post, of course.
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Date: 2005-04-09 01:48 pm (UTC)Roger McDonald's tactical blog is quite good... I especially loved the link he had recently for a Kraut rock wax display in Tokyo! Obsessively delicious. I set his weblog's RSS feed up so it can be imported into LJ's friends list too --
My girlfriend has run off with my copy of Circus Maximus after playing it obsessively for several days... worse still, she never previously heard the original version of "Ne Me Quitte Pas", so whatever version I play her other than yours just won't sound right. I suspect I'll have play her the excellent Nina Simone version, or else she'll negatively compare Jacques Brel to you.
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Date: 2005-04-09 03:54 pm (UTC)As for your girlfriend, just tell her I was sitting in this studio under one of the runways at Heathrow, playing Moogs over the original Brel version of Ne Me Quitte Pas. It would be absurd to say my version, in such circumstances, could be better.
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Date: 2005-04-09 06:29 pm (UTC)That said, I was the first person to suggest and advocate for LJ to be able to import / export RSS feeds, so I'll take the credit for that instead.
There was a time when the use of RSS was so infrequent that the creator of LJ thought it would be silly to support it. Nowadays, however, RSS is practically a DIY broadcasting network.
It's a remarkably subversive -- and remarkably effective -- technical kludge, really. The best kind.
In other art news notes...
Date: 2005-04-09 05:43 pm (UTC)At the same time they had another exhibit that may have been of interest to you. It is by an artist named Daniel Rozin who uses video and computer technology to created moving portraits of people. The name of the show was mirror images. When you first entered the room, there was a large square made of wooden tiles. All of the tiles were stained and lacquered to a blong color. But as you moved closer to the square, the colors started changing and there was a dull whirring noise. An image began to form in the square and as you focused on it, you realized it was in fact your reflection. There was a tiny camera hidden at the center of the square that videotaped your movement and somehow fed it to a computer than then caused the tiles to move. The movement of the tiles created shadows on the other tiles which resulted in the image. As you moved, the tiles tilted and followed your lead, continuing to reflect your movement. It was really rather fascinating, especially for someone like myself who has a hard time wrapping her brain around technology. You can see and read more about his work here: http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~danny/art.html
2. There is a book of art by mentally ill children called "Childhood Revealed: Art Expressing Pain, Discovery and Hope". I used to look through this a lot back when I worked in a book store. It's fascinating to see the reoccuring images and themes in the artwork. It is also interesting because it provides the age, gender and afflicaion of each of the artists. You can read more about it here: http://www.aboutourkids.org/aboutour/articles/cr_overview.html
3. On a final note, I was reading a fascinating article this morning about folk art in Pakistan. The focus of the feature was trucks, and by that I mean trucks used to transport goods. The drivers go to extensive lengths to adorn and decorate their vehicles and the process is interesting on so many levels: artistic, cultural, historical, sociological and even economically. If this strikes you as something of interest, feel free to read my lj entry about it. I go into greater detail and provide a link to a gallery of the trucks.
Oh, and thanks for the Kurdistan link. I am about to go check it out.
Re: In other art news notes...
Date: 2005-04-10 01:24 am (UTC)Re: In other art news notes...
Date: 2005-04-10 01:58 am (UTC)http://www.mam.org/exhibitions/exhibition_details.aspx?ID=21
I wasn't aware of the Hans Prinzenhorn Collection. It sounds far more interesting than the book I mentioned. I'll have to check it out.
Mai ueda site music
Date: 2005-04-09 06:33 pm (UTC)Re: Mai ueda site music
Date: 2005-04-09 06:34 pm (UTC)Re: Mai ueda site music
Date: 2005-04-09 06:48 pm (UTC)Re: Mai ueda site music
Date: 2005-04-09 07:01 pm (UTC)Re: Mai ueda site music
Date: 2005-04-09 07:42 pm (UTC)Song: ひばりの花売娘
Album: "オリジナルベスト50～悲しき口笛,川の流れのように" (Disc 1)
Release date: 1996
Re: Mai ueda site music
Date: 2005-04-09 09:14 pm (UTC)DIGIKI
Re: Mai ueda site music
Date: 2005-04-09 11:39 pm (UTC)Thanks
Neil
Re: Mai ueda site music
Date: 2005-04-10 12:19 am (UTC)"オリジナルベスト50～悲しき口笛,川の流れのように"
http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/music/B00005EMDL/cod-info/249-2795396-2489158
Re: Mai ueda site music
Date: 2005-04-10 12:21 am (UTC)Re: Mai ueda site music
Date: 2005-04-10 12:50 am (UTC)Cheers, I'll placing my order on yesasia.
Re: Mai ueda site music
Date: 2005-04-10 07:40 am (UTC)ArtRage
Date: 2005-04-10 12:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-10 10:13 am (UTC)Sorry again. It's at http://www.livejournal.com/users/rwillmsen/ btw, probably only very very interesting if you live in China.
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Date: 2005-04-10 01:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-04-10 04:16 pm (UTC)