Do we have a contemporary art thread?

[famnexdo]

[wlad]

holy shit @ google workers vid

[galactagogue]

posted this China Tracy stuff last year when I saw her stuff at MOMA. She was in last years China Biennale. I enjoyed her stuff a ton.

[famnexdo]

holy shit @ google workers vid

yeah the "that's not really philosophy" line fucking kills me every time

ANW rules

[vivian darko]

holy shit @ google workers vid

[walt whitman]

can we post about video art in here or am i not allowed

not strictly "video art" but hito steyerl is a leading light in moving image art nowadays, for better or worse:

Hito Steyerl - How Not to be Seen A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File 2013


Hito Steyerl - The Factory of the Sun - representing Venice Art Biennale 2015 German Pavilion -


installation views of Factory of the Sun:



if you like old fashioned experimental film, i recently saw and liked Rosebud, 2013, by James Richards. here is a really bad phone documentation [0:52], and interview w/ slightly better clips [start at 0:21], below :

[walt whitman]

walt: jealous! I didn't know it was at Venice... I live under a rock. I really would like to see the work as a huge book, existing somewhere in the realm of grey literature. Not to suggest that I think its current format is inappropriate or anything, I just have some weird kind of art book fetish.

you can see/buy virtually all of simon's works as books, actually -- the innocents, the birds of the west indies, etc. except for her piece about the new york public library and her moving image pieces, i think. her work is really wonderful, and she had a great show at jeu deu paume earlier this year: http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/201 ... e-paume-2/





i'll post some more biennale shots/artists when im done prepping for class!

[walt whitman]

incidentally is anyone planning to attend documenta 14 in kassel/athens next year?

[Phil]

Trailer for my favorite video from last year, which is a very post-Hito piece of work:

[Phil]

Also I chuckle while thinking about this Jamian painting from Flatlands at least three times a day.

[dcm]

that painting is awesome.

[sunrise]

Trailer for my favorite video from last year, which is a very post-Hito piece of work:

this piece was so good. was really not expecting it to hit me the way it did.

[Phil]

Have any of the New Yorkers been to the Trecartin/Fitch show yet?

Didn't have enough time to sit with the videos, which seem to be doing some interesting new things with location and regionalism (though the only thing I've seen since Any Ever is Center Jenny, so this might not be so new), to have much of an opinion beyond loving how much of the Mark Trade character there is, but the presentation is so so good. The best way I could imagine watching their stuff.

[galactagogue]

have not been, is that the ond at Gugg?

[scurrydog]

Have any of the New Yorkers been to the Trecartin/Fitch show yet?

Didn't have enough time to sit with the videos, which seem to be doing some interesting new things with location and regionalism (though the only thing I've seen since Any Ever is Center Jenny, so this might not be so new), to have much of an opinion beyond loving how much of the Mark Trade character there is, but the presentation is so so good. The best way I could imagine watching their stuff.

Fitch's installations are still amazing. However, I keep having a harder and harder time getting past the racism and classism that is in the video work.

[gravey]

New Yuri Masnyj at Richard Heller... gonna try and see it asap

Spoilin cause these are huge



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[Phil]

Fitch's installations are still amazing. However, I keep having a harder and harder time getting past the racism and classism that is in the video work.

From what I saw, which was admittedly maybe a quarter of the material at most, the videos in this show seemed to have considerably less in the way of (post-)racial drag? And I saw the rural environments as less about class and more about the idea of nature as this space of authenticity and purity that's still a big part of the American cultural imagination (obviously class factors considerably in that, but I can't say I took away any of this as being hateful in that direction); I suppose I can see at least some connection here with all of those early aughts MTV cultural tourism series—True Life, Cribs, etc.—but I'd be interested to hear more about what you meant there, scurry.

[all day breakfast]

any cool london stuff worth going to see at the minute?

[doublethink0]

Posting to bookmark

[doublethink0]

Kum-jun Park

more here:
http://butdoesitfloat.com/Each-life-is-an-encyclopedia-a-library-an-inventory-of-objects-a

[doublethink0]

that but does it float site is pretty rad all around, i gonna post some my favs in here though

[gravey]

yeah I've been following bdif for years now... usually some good stuff

[doublethink0]

Robert Kesseler (photography)

more here:
http://butdoesitfloat.com/There-was-so-much-that-was-real-that-was-not-real-at-all

[doublethink0]

Nick van Woert

[doublethink0]

http://butdoesitfloat.com/The-Maze-of-No-Emergence

[doublethink0]

Chun Kwang Young

http://butdoesitfloat.com/So-then-Solidity-s-a-crust

[Fine Wine]

Damn I love that

[wlad]

Kum-jun Park

more here:
http://butdoesitfloat.com/Each-life-is-an-encyclopedia-a-library-an-inventory-of-objects-a

love this so much, reminds me of Osamu Sato's stuff

[all day breakfast]

these have a strange quality, vaguely revolting in a commercial high street gallery kind of way, yet i can't help finding them beautiful

david t kessler

[walt whitman]

man, as far as revolting-but-beautiful contemp art goes, Katharina Grosse's work hits the spot for me