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.

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1. The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident.
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Current apexart resident Rebecca Key and curator/media historian Michael Connor meet for the first time in person. What can you learn about a person in the first meeting? What will they talk about? Anything…..everything……or nothing?

Objects, characters, events, TV, lectures, apexart, Liverpool, art, narratives, life, film, New York, fabricated situations, confusions, residency, authors, journeys, memories, artists, and randomness may be discussed.

Come and witness their first encounter at apexart.

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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 building created for the 1958 Universal Exhibition in Brussels.

Here’s a picture of the Atomium to whet your appetite:

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 a tiny writing credit!

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 or manifesting.” I am super excited; the lineup includes artist Julia Scher and a keynote by David Simon (creator of The Wire).

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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]

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, about why it might be wrong to think about your kid as a witch just because they’re misbehaving in a certain way.

Hm, what could that all mean? Read the full interview here: Interview with Graham Harwood.

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.