DEMOGRAPHIX (2009)

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55% make art

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1 out of 2 visitors comes several times a week if not every day
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confusion and a shift of pace

i can no longer

keep track of

my
references
appropriations
and
influences

because they always reveal themselves

covertly

in

indeterminate

ways

that

were

wholly

un
ex
pec
ted

from (my) intent
(sometimes)

NOTHING (2009)

NOTHING
(2009)

boredom and the advent of the modern dance mashup

suddenly i feel like this blog is pretty fucking lame again
maybe it will get cooler once i get my head into/out of my books again/never

anyway

here are some things that i made
instead of writing about performance and proto-modern dance
and lesbianism and the scientific gaze
like i was supposed to

where is my mind?!

ok, so i seriously almost quoted part of this song in verbatim today in conversation
(signs of a culturally-deprived, artistically-deficient, geographically-disabled childhood)

WHAT THE FUCK!



I know. It doesn't work. Jimmy Buffett sucks. If you really need to see it you can just click
here.



okay, but seriously:

WHAT THE FUCK?!

why is it that i am able to have jimmy buffett committed to memory, but not barthes?
what do i have to do to make that shift in literacy or cognition or whatever happen?
maybe i should just listen to more of this?

Dave Hickey Speaks the Truth

radical redistribution(s) of wealth created the illusion of “high art prices.” In fact, art prices have fallen as a percentage of the buyer’s disposable income, so art is statistically less important to the people who buy it. The question of how good the art is and how long it will last is of much less consequence.




on a side note, a smaller version of the piece I assisted on this spring, "hello methlab in the sun" is in Miami at "The Station." The show was curated by Shamim Momin and Nate Lowman. and getting good reviews! (here, here, and here, among others)

these are really just notes for myself, honestly

i have not been looking at art blogs enough lately

selections from the past two months of rhizome.org



Pash*, Moonwalk, 2008





Kumi Yamashita, Dialogue, 1999




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Michael Kontopoulos, Machines that Almost Fall Over



Daniel Eatock, One Mile Scroll, 2008



Kevin Bewersdorf



CRUMB : Curatorial Upstart for Media Bliss



Michael Naimark, Displacements



Catherine Ross, Trilling, 2008

SIDENOTE: saw this at PS1 2 years ago and it was FANTASTIC.


LUNK, How to Make a Perfect Malevich using only HTML Code, 2006

(PS. blogger won't allow the code here.)

a message

to the girl who shows up to the first day of my history of modern art lecture with a tote bag from matthew marks gallery:

...really?

smattering no. 1.8

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in other news.



i'm back.

don't want no meat

for some reason lately,
i have had the meatloaf song
where he goes
well i would do anything for love
but i won't do that
in my head.

well, actually not the whole song
i've really only had the part
where he goes
well i would do anything for love
but i won't do that
in my head.

so i have no idea what
"that" is.

but my logical conclusion is that its something like this.

AMERICAN CULTURE WINS AGAIN!1!!!

Britain: Poddington Peas

vs.

America: California Raisins





okay, so maybe its a snap judgment. but seriously, peas?!?