Friday, September 30, 2011

At Cy Twombly's MoMA Memorial Service

A reception following Tuesday's memorial service shared space with Twombly's 'Untitled' (1970), installed last week.
The Museum of Modern Art's Titus Theater was close to full Tuesday morning as a large crowd attended a memorial service for the painter Cy Twombly, who died this summer in Rome at the age of 83. Though Twombly had been struggling with cancer for several years, his passing in July came as unexpected news— even to friends and colleagues with whom he was quite close — and the loss still resonated at the gathering.


Read the full article on ArtInfo.com.

Monday, September 26, 2011

Adam Rose

Photo by Eric Futran. Via Chicago Reader.
A few weeks ago, I came across the above photo of Adam Rose in the Chicago Reader. For those of you who don't know, Adam is a very talented choreographer who runs the Chicago-based Antibody Corporationwhich co-produced the video with Glen Jennings that I wrote about in March, entitled "Social Dance Experiment."


Here's what Laura Molzahn at the Reader had to say about him:


"Fear is very magical in a way, because it's an altered state of consciousness," he says. "In a prolonged state of fear, we tend to imagine things that are not there. I'm interested in exploring the negative emotions in general, like anger, hatred, rage, pain, sadness. All the negative emotions have a mutating effect. The longer you stay in them, the less human you become."
Rose, 28, speaks haltingly but articulately; a self-described shy young man, he's transformed onstage. About half the time he performs as a woman. Pretty much all the time his movements are contorted, transfiguring his face into a mask of rage or grief and his limbs into agents of violence, sometimes directed at himself or, more rarely, someone else. "To me the point of performing is to throw myself outside of my self," he says, "or to find other selves besides my supposed self-identity."
There's a method to Rose's madness. It's not about shock value, or at least not completely. He's well versed in certain arcane matters; the U.S. military's 20-year experiment in parapsychology drove his IAR 93 Vultur last January. Trained in music, he creates his own sound designs. And he seems to take a principled approach to his work. On the website for his company—originally Antibody Dance, now Antibody Corporation—he writes that he wants to "examine the sicknesses produced by civilization and activate an immune response." He's absolutely invested in everything he does, and mesmerizing to watch.


Read the full article.

"Social Dance Experiment" is the third part of a cycle called "elena (or the misfortunes of the virtual)."

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Haven't We Been Through This?

Self-censored Lisa Lyon by Robert Mapplethorpe (1982) © Fotografiska
Silly at best, Facebook’s policy on offensive content is being enforced with little regard to consistency or common sense, and Fotografiska is right to draw attention to it. It doesn’t bother me a bit that their act of satire will bring all the more attention to an exhibition of work by a photographer whose work has been subject to arbitrary, out-dated notions of decency in the past. Read the full post on Art Fag City.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Zimmer & Brain Magazine September 2011

The best result of a google image search for "Cruisin'" that I could have possibly hoped for
I consider the mix Whenever There Is Doubt to have been a success in that several of the people who checked it out were not my twin brother. Those of you who are less familiar with the DJ powerhouse that is Reid Singer might have missed the track "Cruisin'" by Zimmer, who have collaborated with Brain Magazine to produce a mixtape with source material from CFCF, Tricksi, and Siriusmo & Jan Driver. Available on Soundcloud today.


Zimmer x Brain Magazine - Exclusive Mixtape | September by Zimmer

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Massive Links! Good News from the Seaport | Bad News from Buenos Aires | Not-Really-News from King Robbo and Banksy

What I hope I look like on the inside
The Seaport Museum sees brighter days ahead. Someone spray-painted a Buenos Aires Rodin, and the clean-up job might make things worse. Petitioners unite to get the Met’s Alexander McQueen exhibition on the road. I question the newsworthiness of Britain’s street art rivalries by reporting on them more. Read the full post at Art Fag City.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Age of Consent

Tracklisting and collage that sort of looks like that wolf from The Thing via www.ageofconsent.co.uk
Age of Consent Mixtape Sept 2011 by ageofconsent


Tracklisting:
The Beach (Valis Remix) - Age Of Consent
Forever Young (Discodeine Remix) - Joakim
Stars (Rodion & Marmarella Remix) - Visti
Oldschool, Baby (Piano Mix) - Westbam & Nena
Assault On Precinct 13, (Main Title) - John Carpenter
88:88 (Stage 3 'The Club' Danger Edit) - Danger
A New Error - Moderat
Business Woman - Minitel Rose
Goblin City (Holy Ghost! Extended Disco Dub) - Panthers
What Do I Do Now? - Metronomy

Sunday, September 4, 2011

Watching This Will Make You a Better Person


Aus dem Land, das sich selbst zerstört 
und uns den 'way of life' Diktiert da kommt Reagan und bringt Waffen und Tod 
und hört er Frieden, sieht er rot. 

Er sagt als Präsident von USA 
Atomkrieg ? - Ja bitte dort und da 
ob Polen, Mittler Osten, Nicaragua 
er will den Endsieg, das ist doch klar. 

Doch wir wollen: Sonne statt Reagan 
ohne Rüstung leben ! 
Ob West, ob Ost 
auf Raketen muß Rost ! 

Wir wollen: Sonne statt Reagan 
ohne Rüstung leben ! 
Ob West, ob Ost 
auf Raketen muß Rost ! 

Er will die Säcke im Osten reizen 
die auch nicht mit Atomen geizen 
doch dein Krieg um hirnverbrannte Ziele 
der läuft nicht Reagan - wir sind viele !

Hau ab mit deinen Nuklearstrategen 
deinen Russenhassern, deinem Strahlenregen 
Mensch Knitterface, der Film ist aus 
nimm' die Raketen mit nach Haus ! 

Denn wir wollen: Sonne statt Reagan 
ohne Rüstung leben ! 
Ob Ost, ob West 
Kalten Kriegern die Pest !

Wir wollen: Sonne statt Reagan 
ohne Rüstung leben !
Ob Ost, ob West 
Kalten Kriegern die Pest ! 

Dieser Reagan kommt als Mann der Rüstungsindustrie 
but the peoples of the States don't want it - nie ! 
und den wahren Frieden wird's erst geben 
wenn alle Menschen ohne Waffen leben.  

Wir wollen: Sonne statt Reagan 
ohne Rüstung leben ! 
Ob West, ob Ost 
auf Raketen muß Rost ! 

Sonne statt Reagan ohne Rüstung leben ! 
Ob Ost, ob West 
Kalten Kriegern die Pest ! 

Wir wollen: Sonne statt Reagan 
ohne Rüstung leben ! 
Ob West, ob Ost 
auf Raketen muß Rost ! 

 Wir wollen: Sonne statt Reagan


Translated from German:


From the country that self-destructs
and dictates to us the "way of life,"
here comes Reagan, bringing weapons and death
and peace, he hears, he sees red.

He says as president of the USA
Nuclear war? - "Yes please. Here and there."
Whether Poland, Middle East, Nicaragua
he wants the final victory, that's obvious.

But we want: sun instead of Reagan
Life without armor!
Whether West, whether East
on missile has rust!

We want: sun instead of Reagan
live without armor!
Whether West, whether East
on missile has rust!

He wants to irritate the bags in the East
not be stingy with the atoms
but your war for preposterous goals
Reagan is not running - we are many!

Get out with your nuclear strategists
Russians your haters, your rays rain
Man Crushed Face, the movie is out
take 'the rockets to go home!

Because we want: sun instead of Reagan
live without armor!
Whether East if West
Cold warriors the plague!

We want: sun instead of Reagan
live without armor!
Whether East if West
Cold warriors the plague!

This comes as a man of the Reagan defense industry
but the peoples of the States do not want it - never!
and true peace will only's
when all people live without weapons.

We want: sun instead of Reagan
live without armor!
Whether West, whether East
on missile has rust!

Sun not Reagan
live without armor!
Whether East if West
Cold warriors the plague!

We want: sun instead of Reagan
live without armor!
Whether West, whether East
on missile has rust!

We want: sun instead of Reagan