Talk at apexart

Here’s some info on a talk I’m doing at apexart next week. I honestly don’t know what it will be about, and it promises to be either hilarious or incredibly awkward, or both.
ser·en·dip·i·ty (srn-dp-t)
n. pl. ser·en·dip·i·ties
1. The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident.
2. The fact or occurrence of such discoveries.
3. An instance of making [...]

The Constant World on Lulu

The Beall Center has just published a new catalog about the work of Jennifer and Kevin McCoy on Lulu. The catalog includes an essay I wrote about their piece The Constant World. My essay looks at the work’s relationship to artist Constant Nieuwenhuys, Godard’s film Alphaville (watch the full video online here), and the Atomium [...]

Andrew Jeffrey Wright Video Release

If you’re in Philly this Saturday and you love Beanie Babies, go check out the premiere of Andrew Jeffrey Wright’s new standup comedy video ‘Live at Space 1026: Art Jokes.’ The screening is at Space 1026 at 8PM and it’s free. The video is on sale after the screening (signed edition of 100).
I even have [...]

Art Under Surveillance

I’ll be speaking at a symposium at the Columbus Museum of Art on May 1 and 2. Tying in with the CMA’s George Tooker exhibition, the symposium “addresses the ways in which the visual arts confront or collude with surveillance, and the particular effects of surveillance that the visual arts might be best at revealing [...]

ArtAsiaPacific Review – Yeondoo Jung

My review of Yeondoo Jung’s Handmade Memories at Kukje Gallery in Seoul is online and in print in this month’s issue of ArtAsiaPacific. The exhibition is now on view at Tina Kim Gallery in New York through 28 March. [Link]

Death in Fenwick

Adelaide Film Festival Talk

I’m going to be traveling to Australia at the end of this month to speak at the Adelaide Film Festival’s Art & Moving Image Symposium. My session is monochromatically entitled ‘White Cube Black Room’. It’s really about moving image installations in the gallery. I’m going to talk about some past project, but I’m also going [...]

Interview with Harwood

An interview I did last year with Harwood (above, in ‘ADDICT’ baseball cap) was published today on Rhizome. Here is my favorite part:
Can you give me an example of one of the stories you might find on Telephone Trottoire?
Well, there might be something about childhood witches, or about how –
Childhood witches?
Yeah, childhood witches. You know, [...]

Interview by Laure Prouvost

My friend Nick just e-mailed me:

I think he is talking about a video interview I did with London artist Laure Prouvost for the Fresh Moves DVD – Laure just uploaded it to her site.

Labor Party

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