Took down a post about Nick DeMarco's work in the jstchillin.org show in New York that I tried to write based on second hand description. Bad idea, even for a "concept post." On belatedly looking at DeMarco's documentation of the work on his website my interpretation was mostly wrong. Didn't realize he was digitally inserting a painting into some footage from a TV show. That's an idea painter David Reed explored a while back, which I mentioned briefly here. (Reed put one of his paintings in the background of the Michael Mann-produced '80s cop show Crime Story.) Of course the idea could be done multiple ways. Enough said.
April 2011
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Art about art is mostly bad but sometimes it's OK when it's art about art about art. The above image (Duncan Alexander's draft logo for the Too Much Concept blog) qualifies, as does this 19 minute dump.fm performance of Klein leaps that Jesse Patrick Martin put together.
i absolve you
Someone on dump.fm expressed the wish to be curated into something. I typed "you are curated when reblogged." Seconds later Seacrestcheadle had this up:
It has been a popular thing to place next to, or layer on top of, other things.
Bailey meltdown at Eyebeam
Yes, if you're going to do an audience participation piece (in this case making images on a screen move as people in the crowd walk this way and that carrying glowsticks) it's probably not a good idea to yell at your audience to shut up when you first get up on stage. New York audiences are swine but you have to get them to like you--throw them a handful of corn or something. Getting testy won't work.
Update: Bailey claims this was a staged meltdown, a la Zach Galifianakis (Andy Kaufman?), and that audience reaction or non-reaction related to the war and hostility themes of the piece. O-kay.
