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 to look at some historical examples like the ‘Fernseh Galerie’, which saw the medium of television as a way of escaping from the gallery space.
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.
The Sun reports that police in the UK are using Facebook to find young people with knives and guns. Superintentent Bob Hamilton from Strathclyde Police says,
He said: “We show the parents their pictures, recover the weapons and make sure they know that behaviour is unacceptable.
“We have large kitchen knives, axes, samurai swords, baseball bats, a huge number and different type of weapons – in simple terms weapons that can kill.”
Samurai swords?
Strangely when a friend of mine got stabbed at a New Years Eve party in Austin, TX several years ago, the police found his assailant because he was posing with knives on MySpace.
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.
Murtaza Vali wrote a nice review of The New Normal in the Fall 2008 issue of Bidoun Magazine:
Right click to download the full review:
Vali, Murtaza. “The New Normal: Artists Space, New York.” Bidoun Magazine. Fall 2008: 190-191.
Social sculpture for frustrated holiday travelers:
On a flight from Washington D.C. to Los Angeles in 1968, American artist Ed Kienholz (1927-1994) reluctantly checked-in an ornate, well packed Tiffany lamp and lampshade he and his wife, Lyn, had received as a gift. He had planned on carrying the items on board, but the airline insisted that it be checked-in. Kienholz was so concerned about the handling of the items that he had the airline insure the package before takeoff. Upon arrival to LAX, Kienholz discovered the lampshade shattered and irreparably damaged… After having the lampshade appraised, Kienholz submitted a formal reimbursement claim with TWA, only to have the airline refuse payment and accuse him of fraudulently packing a broken item in the hopes of recovering a cash settlement.
Kienholz … returned to LAX with a typewritten letter, a photographer, and an ax. 5 Kienholz’s letter bluntly stated: “Good morning, my name is Ed Kienholz…you broke my lampshade and I’m really unhappy…so I’m going to cause TWA an equal amount of damage. I’m going to destroy a desk for TWA.” 6 This is exactly what Kienholz proceeded to do; he destroyed the desk and, somehow, made it back to his car before being apprehended by the Los Angeles Police Department.
Full article by Damon Willick from X-Tra online.
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Donations to the Yes on Prop 8 campaign are a matter of public record. Since the passing of the bill, it has been widely noted that the CEO of Cinemark made a large donation to the campaign. Ironically, Cinemark is soon to be releasing a biopic of Harvey Milk, which now faces a boycott from the No camp – a large percentage of its audience, one might think. (more…)
CNN took a page from the Cabinet magazine playbook today. In this video, they have graphologist Sheila Kurtz analyze doodles by Obama and Palin that have found their way into the public record. (Download Palin’s drawing here, Obama’s drawing is after the jump). (more…)
