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performative digital prints
I went and updated the Compressionism documentation video a bit, and put it up on YouTube. These are performative prints made by strapping on a scanner, computer and battery pack, then traversing the landscape – sometimes printing digitally, other times transforming the images with hand-made / traditional techniques. The video shows some work, and how it was made, from my Call and Response solo show earlier this year; new digital work is now showing at Haydn Shaughnessy, and here are some new prints (both digital and traditional) I just finished producing for Art on Paper Gallery (Johannesburg).
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organic motion
Am over in Aspen, Colorado at the Anderson Ranch doing a 2-week workshop / residency by the above title (basically kinetic sculpture), with Mark Koven and Anat Pollack (and special guest Jim Campbell next week). Didn’t really know what to expect, but the place is gorgeous and the other workshoppers are amazing (will give links to sites as I have time to find them). Anderson is def a place to consider…. Pics up when we actually make anything! -n
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more Compressionist tales
in, and around
lambda print on metallic paper, 380 x 1080 mm (with small white border)
Just finishing up at the Frans Masereel, having completed 5 new digital and 6 new hand-made Compressionist prints (the latter inspired by the former, made by performances with scanners) for Art on Paper Gallery in Johannesburg (their site is finally up, content forthcoming). Check out the prints and some process pics here.
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the ‘market’
Not to again mention Winkleman’s appearance on the US telly about the big Warhol sale a few weeks ago, but there are quite a few good reads about the art market on the web as of late. Not gonna list all the ones I’ve seen (one reason being that it’s not really a focus of mine), but I enjoyed quite a few, if for no other reason than their critical eyes on how “the market” effects production, what it means for art now and in the near future. A few:
The Reality of the Collector-Driven Art World (blog post, Ed Winkleman);
Bursting art’s bubble (The Times, South Africa);
The problem with a collector driven market (The Art Newspaper, NYC-based writer);
and shorter, and more outside (and contrary to a few of the points above), Is That a Hirst?, by newcomer Irish gallerist, Haydn Shaughnessy. I thought this last piece also went well with Haydn’s Irish Times article on Digital Art a few weeks ago: Beyond Art and Design.
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come to Documenta, anyone?
So, we’ve got two extra beds/couches in a lovely house in Kassel from 20 – 25 July (had cancellations). Self catering, and we’ll cook together… €195 per person for all 5 nights, including taxes and exchange, and we will have a car to get to/from the festival (if we squeeze for the 5 minute ride, otherwise there is also public transport). See the room here. Any takers? Email me.