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the upgrade! boston
I gave a talk at the the upgrade! Boston last night, which took place at the experimental art interactive gallery space. (Thanks to Jo green and Turbulence for setting it up!) Check out the link to see the pretty cool GlowLab exhibition (which I guess, in theory, I’m a part of now – cool projects that jumped out at once include soundbike and opsound) and learn more about "the only game in town" (what Jo Green from turbulence calls this hot spot art space).
There was a nice li’l crowd of trickle ins and trickle outs, mostly artists. It felt great to hear some feedback on documentation and the work (Compressionism went down the best, and there were all kinds of thoughts around bringing it to new levels, and having The First Exhibition of the Compressionists), as well as have a full-on discussion about where the two (documentation and work, that is) collide in the displacements between body and text, work and body, work and documentation, and where social anthropology (and cultural studies) play into all of the above. The crowd was mostly artists, and I will be googling them all as soon as I get their surnames from Jo.. Want a few places to start? Check out Michael Mittelman’s Aspect DVD magazine, or kanarinka (aka Catherine D’Ignazio, AI’s co-director) and friends’ the institute for infinitely small things.
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fun, tired, sickly
Hans Haacke, news, 1969 / 2005, at the state of the union show, Paula Cooper Gallery
You may have noticed a little bit of playing by Thando Mama on the blog over the past few days, as he gets to know the WordPress software — he responded to the artthrob article about how I’ve been looking for peops to participate in this space, and is learning how to upload and spell check now (!). Forgive the inconsistencies. If you are interested in blogging (I NEED writers now!!!!), contact me.
I, on the other hand, have been a little sickly, and running around like a headless chicken. Simon, Bronwyn and I have been catching as many of the Marina Abromovic performances as we can (between us, we’ve missed only two), checking out some amazing work at the MOMA and PS 1, running to the Berni Searle and DJ Spooky show on the LES, gallery hopping in Chelsea, etc and so forth.
Highlights include (no time to look up URLs, but by all means, google it!):
- Lips of Thomas re-enactment/document by Marina
- Hans Haacke at Paula Cooper
- James Turrell at both MOMA and PS 1
- Gary Hill (his stuff at MOMA, but not at PS 1)
- I had forgotten about the Kentridge permanent stairwell at PS 1!
- Jon Kessler at PS 1 was not my taste, but it was a very successful installation
- Chatting to another Staten Islander at Berni Searle’s thing (who knew they liked art?)
- The New Museum book store
In South Africa? You should be sad if you missed the Colleen Alborough exhibition at KZNSA – shame on you. The eKapa conference in Cape Town is coming up, and looks hot — wish I could make it. Chat to Simon about his trip while there, if you can! Also, tell Franci Cronje hi.
But sooner, and in Joburg, don’t miss Etch A Sketch: “an experience into the unfamiliar edge where art and sound converge. Watch live collaborations between visual artists and musicians for the first time ever in the entire universe.” Wow. That’s awesome.
Drill Hall, Thursday 24 November, 7:30pm, R30, cash bar. Features include Joao Orecchia, mtkidu, Mitch Said and Templar Wales.
