implicit art

Cool to see William Kentridge on Rhizome - I can’t wait to see this piece in action!

Link to William Kentridge on Rhizome.org’s Net Art News: A Mechanical Masterpiece:

William Kentridge, one of South Africa’s most acclaimed contemporary visual artists, gained international stardom at Documenta X (1997), where he exhibited part of his animated film series about living through the apartheid and post-apartheid eras in Johannesburg. The hand-drawn films were produced using charcoal and pastel drawings in stop-motion, which left beautiful traces of erasure and redrawing. While working on a design for ‘The Magic Flute,’ his recent operatic adventure, Kentridge built a small-scale stage model to test his projections. This petite provocation became the basis for his current Deutsche Guggenheim commission. Visitors to the Berlin site can take-in Kentridge’s new short ‘play,’ staged within a miniature mechanical theatre and starring animatronic coffee pots who gesture in Italian, menacing kitchen appliances, and other lively characters, all rendered in his very recognizable, witty style. ‘Black Box/Chambre Noire’ will run through January 15. Chances are, you’ve never heard a coffee pot sing quite like this before. - nathaniel stern

http://www.deutsche-bank-kunst.com/guggenheim/e/ausstellungen-kentridge01.php

It’s weird to be stuck in a beautiful hotel room in Budapest. Luckily, I was here a few months ago on holiday, so I did see a lot of the city then. This time, it’s pure business. I flew in last minute, had brilliant meals and drinks and a room in a fab part of town taken care of, and am being paid handsomely for a cheezy interactive toy I set up at a party last night (I will not name the company, nor will I likely use this piece ever again, unless the same company wants it for another party).

But I am exhausted, have heaps of writing to do for a publication I’m working on (had anticipated doing this over the last few days, but that was before this corporate job came up), and I’ve noticed that altho most of the business peops made it to the party, they’ve not seen much of Budapest, save for each other - in the pre-organized meeting places, at the pre-organized meeting times, doing pre-organizeds things, which have little to do with Hungary.

I think I liked my last trip better.