Ghananian fantasy coffin-making is among the most localized regional funerary art practices today. These vernacular sarcophagi, which are fashioned into the forms of cars, pineapples, cigarettes, whiskey bottles, or anything else imaginable, are made only by the coastal Ga tribe. This melting trio of ice cream, snowman, and chocolate bar was commissioned by Olaf Breuning, whose Museo vol. 13 interview is coming soon.
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November 24, 2009
Mike Kelley's "Judson Church Horse Dance" was interesting enough as far as circumambulating anamorphs go, but something along the lines of an old-fashioned New-Britain-style Duk Duk and Tubuan dance would have been a welcomed addition to the Performa lineup.
November 22, 2009
Ben Weiner, whose screenshot of pixels was in Open Apple Shift 3, has expanded the project into a video whose progression is created by increasing the magnification of the image by increments of .01%.
November 20, 2009
Cory Arcangel will curate works from London's Lisson Gallery's archives to be shown alongside a group of his own new films and digital paintings for "Lisson Presents 7," opening Nov. 25. The selections will include Daniel Buren, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, and Jenny Holzer. In vol. 11, Arcangel commented: "If you’re a young conceptual artist and you’re referencing this thing
from this other conceptual artist in the 60s, it’s not so different
from me making a YouTube playlist ... [I]n the future, making something will be almost beside the point. It will be like, this is what I’m interested in, here’s the
bizarre mix." And here this approach to signification-as-playlist is illuminated through the thematic principle of refraction that joins the made and readymade bodies of work. (Photos: Cory Arcangel, Photoshop CS: 84 by 66 inches, 300 DPI, RGB, square pixels, default gradient "Spectrum", mousedown y=12550 x=9850, mouse up y=12550 x=19500, 2009 and Dan Graham, Model for Pavilion Influenced by Moon, 1988)
November 19, 2009
Pranav Mistry, an inventor at MIT, discusses a technology that integrates the physical and digital worlds with an unprecedented fluidity that could revolutionize imaging -- and everything else.
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November 17, 2009
Not to go negative, but this flurry of performance art does have a note of Woodstock 2, a whiff of karaoke, a tinge of nostalgia for an age whose irrecuperability is now beyond argument. What about when performance artists shot themselves with guns, rubbed themselves with meat, rubbed themselves under the floorboards, or at least walked on walls? (Image: Trisha Brown at the Whitney, 1971).
November 15, 2009
Barry X Ball's new sculptures are currently on view at Salon 94 Freemans. Veined and otherwise non-traditional marble choices, veiling, and other attenuations of the otherwise classical format feed the trope of decadence, signified in part at the second order via association with the excess of "advanced phases," the Baroque and late Rome. Here is one of Ball's 2007-08 heads followed by a late Roman black "lumacella" head, both defined by all-over vegetal facial adornment, a revolting feature that breaches the same taboo that created our cultural restriction on facial tattoo.
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