tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11056678213358757592024-03-12T17:32:52.975-07:00Humor in Contemporary Artyvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-43086596960700620402011-03-05T23:02:00.001-08:002011-03-05T23:07:11.653-08:00Wearing panda costumes to reintroduce panda cub into the wild<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2011/panda_wolong/panda_wolong_02.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 611px; height: 404px;" src="http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2011/panda_wolong/panda_wolong_02.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Image: Scientists measuring panda cub's temperature</span><br /><br />Researchers dress in panda costumes at China's Wolong National Nature Reserve so that the panda cub doesn't get used to humans, in order to help re-introduce it to the wild. Previous attempts at reintroducing pandas to the wild had largely been unsuccessful. This is a new experiment. Rest of images at <a href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2056528_2248821,00.html">www.time.com</a>.yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-63449093298967493252011-01-30T19:22:00.000-08:002011-01-30T20:54:11.120-08:00Did you know that you can't use the word Realtor?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeG4wK4IU5ezgWDdB4RpHfCUnXaFBxp7petiaJoit-tzliTB99WtC2TOx-_NThEeyhSTzXhsqiWJ4BOhH4xzIOEEvoOClOb6lke0_uPdu19b9r-mXj35WTTV78Q0pqaRYyH7HzGIeEL4KE/s1600/CensoredCoverArt.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeG4wK4IU5ezgWDdB4RpHfCUnXaFBxp7petiaJoit-tzliTB99WtC2TOx-_NThEeyhSTzXhsqiWJ4BOhH4xzIOEEvoOClOb6lke0_uPdu19b9r-mXj35WTTV78Q0pqaRYyH7HzGIeEL4KE/s320/CensoredCoverArt.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568188899283529858" /></a><br /><br />In case the incident of Park Life's balloon dog is not surreal enough, Larisa Naples, who created an audio drama called "The Realtor and the CEO" received a series of cease and desist letters from the National Association of Realtors last week, demanding that she 'excise[s] all uses of the word Realtor from [her] URL, web site, audio-drama title, audio-drama art work, and audio drama recordings. Otherwise, they will sue [her] for "trademark infringement."'<br /><br />She wrote (via email), 'I spent all of last week talking to trademark lawyers associated with the California Lawyers for the Arts, and legal advisers at ACLU and EFF. Apparently, we have a pretty clear first amendment right to use the word Realtor in a work of fiction, when actually referring to a Realtor (as we did), however, the estimated cost of hiring a lawyer to defend that right against a large, well-funded organization based in Illinois is prohibitive. We might win in the end, but could be financially ruined in the process.' <br /><br />'I have closed <a href="http://www.realtorandceo.com">www.realtorandceo.com</a>. New, "bleeped" versions of the audio drama stories are now available for free listening or download/purchase on my personal web site, <a href="http://www.larisanaples.com">www.larisanaples.com</a>. Along with a carefully worded description of the stories, crafted to avoid making any use of the now forbidden "R-word."'yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-30573031909938948592011-01-07T19:06:00.000-08:002011-01-30T19:19:49.385-08:00Certificate of Inauthenticity<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.parklifestore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/ballondog_orange-300x261.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 261px;" src="http://www.parklifestore.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/ballondog_orange-300x261.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />San Francisco gallery Park Life received a cease-and-desist letter from Jeff Koons to stop selling a balloon-dog bookend. This balloon-dog bookend is orange in color, matte, and the size of a real balloon dog (made of a standard 260Q balloon). “Wait, I’m confused, isn’t his ENTIRE FUCKING CAREER based on co-opting other peoples work/objects?”, reads a post on the gallery’s blog from December 21. (Via <a href="http://www.parklifestore.com/2011/01/07/this-is-getting-bigger/">Park Life Blog</a> which is in turn via <a href="http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/36697/inflated-ego-jeff-koons-claims-exclusive-right-to-sell-balloon-dogs/">Artinfo</a>).<br /><br />If I were the gallery owner, I would sell the balloon dog bookend (priced $30), together with a copy of Jeff Koons's ceast-and-desist letter, for $70-$100 more, since this is now an art piece, and donate that part of the proceeds to a local arts organization that supports artists' rights.<br /><br />Update 01.19.2010: This story is now on <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/20/arts/design/20suit.html?_r=1&ref=arts">NYTimes</a>.yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-51173210657824878852010-12-17T17:25:00.000-08:002010-12-19T23:21:50.135-08:00Erika Vogt's "I Arrive When I'm Foreign"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.artforum.com/uploads/upload.000/id26785/picksimg_splash.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 480px;" src="http://www.artforum.com/uploads/upload.000/id26785/picksimg_splash.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />'The piece is a large-scale print of a video still, in which Vogt faces away from the viewer, holding a camera behind her back with its lens pointed down, and snapping a picture. Beneath her, a life-size photograph of the artist responds with a vexing near-symmetry: In that image within an image, she lies on her back, holding a camera at her waist that is taking a flash photograph of her upright double. ' ["Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture" in <a href="http://www.artforum.com/picks/section=us#picks26950">www.artforum.com</a>]yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-69096944010637218982010-10-01T18:27:00.001-07:002010-10-01T18:44:06.281-07:00William Powhida's "Tips For Artists Who Want to Sell (New and Improved)"William Powhida's "<a href="http://powhida.tumblr.com/post/1017748062/tips-for-artists-who-want-to-sell-new-and">Tips For Artists Who Want to Sell (New and Improved)</a>", a remake of Baldessari's piece:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7skexIM6b1qc1w6bo1_500.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 657px;" src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7skexIM6b1qc1w6bo1_500.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a> <br /><br />And here's Bread and Puppet's 1984 sincere version, "<a href="http://breadandpuppet.org/cheap-art-philosophy">Cheap Art Manifesto</a>":<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4580379098_2bd387a62b_o.gif"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 507px; height: 777px;" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4580379098_2bd387a62b_o.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Via <a href="http://eyeteeth.blogspot.com/">Eyeteeth</a>yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-68653559120032161882010-09-07T21:37:00.001-07:002010-12-18T20:19:05.359-08:00Alain Delorme's Totems<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ORgy5r0ZcSU/TIVB5Uusn_I/AAAAAAAARZU/Mevs0FQwu5g/s800/Alain+Delorme+4+.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ORgy5r0ZcSU/TIVB5Uusn_I/AAAAAAAARZU/Mevs0FQwu5g/s800/Alain+Delorme+4+.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Yet another critique of China by someone who probably doesn't live there or speak the language. Hmmm.... I'm all for skewing everyone but perhaps not so much for this Eurocentric stereotyping kind typically deployed towards China. Arresting images though... more at <a href="http://www.alaindelorme.com/?p=works&ga=totem">www.alaindelorme.com</a>yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-71667545511837662972009-12-17T21:15:00.000-08:002009-12-20T10:26:24.583-08:00Banksy's cheetah<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQNIuLPrWXd2BSkzlUUoiBwdFhy6j4uqCHrxv29puwf0wGn78sHNnqVGkbe9I_79Zqei2UdZ4F-sH1lpAZGTRJTDyMLxP1XtqC6-axLA2b4trdXWUV_fJ1F7UDkAXA_BepfH61ujYcjZd9/s1600/banksy07.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 690px; height: 448px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQNIuLPrWXd2BSkzlUUoiBwdFhy6j4uqCHrxv29puwf0wGn78sHNnqVGkbe9I_79Zqei2UdZ4F-sH1lpAZGTRJTDyMLxP1XtqC6-axLA2b4trdXWUV_fJ1F7UDkAXA_BepfH61ujYcjZd9/s1600/banksy07.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Video documentation: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IpriP5Bl20">www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IpriP5Bl20</a><br /><br />This is a piece from <a href="http://humor-sfai.blogspot.com/2009/09/some-related-links.html">Scott's earlier post</a>. <br /><br />'A dimly lit room housed Banksy’s caged mechanical sculptures, some displayed last year in his storefront fake pet shop in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. A mother hen watched over her chicken-nugget little ones pecking away at a synthetic-looking sauce in a fast-food plastic container; encased raw sausages, salamis and hot dogs writhed and squirmed in a sickly sexual manner; what looked from the back like a cheetah curled in the branches of a tree was chillingly revealed to be a fur coat. ... Judging from the long queues spilling out of Bristol Museum every day and the great enthusiasm displayed by visitors, the artist’s decision to come indoors for a while was only good. The strength of Banksy’s work lies in the fact that, even in a museum environment, his messages are direct enough to reach anyone on the street.' [<a href=" http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/banksy/">www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/banksy</a>]yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-38199189861357967692009-12-17T15:51:00.003-08:002009-12-22T00:32:34.469-08:00Robert Waters's Control<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/files/2009/12/03/img-waters_15301395835.jpg_standalone.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 800px; height: 600px;" src="http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/files/2009/12/03/img-waters_15301395835.jpg_standalone.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />A possible follow-up to Maurizio Cattelan's <i>The Ninth Hour</i>... '<i>Control</i> (2008) features a small resin sculpture of the late pope, John Paul II, creeping along, holding up a crucifix as he confronts another mounted on the wall. From the end of the pontiff’s robe extends a serpent’s tail, sliced like a sausage to reveal a meaty interior. The effect of this meticulously painted, paper-and-balsa-wood protrusion is unusually visceral. Is Waters’s pope otherworldly, or somehow more earthly than ordinary humans? Or is he maybe even monstrous? ... Titled “Taparrabo,” meaning “loincloth” or, literally, “cover your tail,” Waters’s exhibition includes a dozen works, some in series. Finely crafted, and executed in a range of mediums and formats, they also reflect the postmodernist, appropriationist mode of art-making still prevailing in Mexico, in which humor mixes with social commentary, and self-conscious cleverness borders on gimmickry. Waters plays down the latter tendency, instead emphasizing an inventive use of materials and allowing for interpretive ambiguity.'<br />[Edward M. Gómez in <a href="http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/robert-waters/">www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/robert-waters/</a>]<br /><br />Postmodernist critique is over??? Here's the official notice. Postmodernism is over. In the past. Dead as objects. Did you think it would last forever? C'mon it's 30 years old -- you weren't even born yet... So what now? Hybrid-beyond-abject-virtually-positive (e.g. Ryan Trecartin) interventional (Yes Men) relational (Burning Man) new media art?yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-9203228104164947032009-12-13T18:44:00.000-08:002009-12-22T00:33:44.190-08:00Ryan Trecartin's I-BE AREA<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://hammer.ucla.edu/image/1020/590/0.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 590px; height: 270px;" src="http://hammer.ucla.edu/image/1020/590/0.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Videos at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/WianTreetin">www.youtube.com/user/WianTreetin</a><br /><br />Check out "Craig-Ricky I-Be the Original I-Be2" whose sound translates well over the net. These videos curiously made me think of Beckett's <i>Play</i> (Anthony Minghella). <i>I-BE AREA</i> was shown at the Hammer and at the "Younger Than Jesus" show at the New Museum. 'Ryan Trecartin’s videos uncannily reflect his generation, which was raised using the Internet, digital television, and interactive video games. He mixes cheap special effects with absurd narratives in which he and his cast of collaborator-friends act out a sort of Lord of the Flies for the 21st Century. He tells sad love stories and bizarre family dramas utilizing technology to heighten the action and reflect the information overload we all experience today. In his latest work I-BE AREA, 2007, Trecartin weaves together several unruly stories with fast-moving, fast-talking characters that deal with such themes as cloning, adoption, self-mediation, life-style options, virtual identities and larger questions of an existential nature.'<br />[<a href="http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/detail/exhibition_id/74">hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/detail/exhibition_id/74</a>]yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-86453648568382040312009-12-11T15:16:00.000-08:002010-12-17T17:49:26.571-08:00Luc Tuymans at SFMOMA 02.2010<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzy_FQsKlTPirGrBpM4MeoKpesyKbhr2PPjn2sU2vkOLhBWNOi5KLyN4GhRVHtEAnw4vxrCBbrYcCVgvQP7mtqpxiBPY6S0KUWV4JFrSbB0XT6DvQbu1wS9U7Cr2i2W67dVhpZZcARnic/s400/2008+TUYLU0331-200.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 302px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzy_FQsKlTPirGrBpM4MeoKpesyKbhr2PPjn2sU2vkOLhBWNOi5KLyN4GhRVHtEAnw4vxrCBbrYcCVgvQP7mtqpxiBPY6S0KUWV4JFrSbB0XT6DvQbu1wS9U7Cr2i2W67dVhpZZcARnic/s400/2008+TUYLU0331-200.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Image: <a href="http://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/9/">Iphone</a>, 2008<br /><br />'[Tuymans's] most famous piece is an empty, otherwise-anonymous room with the chilling title "Gas Chamber". ... [He uses] banal, decontextualized images as stand-ins for some of history's most troubled moments. ... Helen Molesworth, the co-curator of this exhibition said, "When you stand in front of his paintings, you can't believe how beautiful they are. They have an eerie quality of developing before your eyes, like a photograph in a darkroom tray, and an uncanny sense of light and fluidity. They make you think about how just about anything in our culture can be turned into a pretty picture, and how used to it we are."'<br />[Monica Khemsurov, "Seeing is Believing", <i>T Magazine</i> (Fall 2009): 56, <a href="http://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/9/press.htm">www.davidzwirner.com/artists/9/press.htm</a>.]yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-31095647481912743072009-12-10T15:16:00.000-08:002010-05-21T19:46:43.132-07:00Cao Fei's CosplayersRelated to yesterday's discussion of Myrina's photos are these video stills from Cao Fei's <span style="font-style:italic;">Cosplayers</span>. She's featured in <a href="http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/cao-fei/">Art 21: Season 5</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://media.walkerart.org/6556480.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 479px; height: 360px;" src="http://media.walkerart.org/6556480.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://blog.art21.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cfyanmiathomelg.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 525px; height: 394px;" src="http://blog.art21.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cfyanmiathomelg.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br><br /><br><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i1.exhibit-e.com/luhringaugustine/6aefe716.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 753px; height: 600px;" src="http://i1.exhibit-e.com/luhringaugustine/6aefe716.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Also related to Myrina's project proposal are Gregory Crewdson's staged photographs.yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-62223968620551958362009-12-10T15:13:00.000-08:002009-12-11T22:05:39.298-08:00Projections: Tony Oursler & Laurie AndersonHilde & Nick, yet another idea is to project both your video images onto sculptural stand-ins who're watching the TV's, recreating the scene as a sculptural installation. Examples are works by Tony Oursler and Laurie Anderson, who did a monologue via her video projection. The projection volume can be tweaked to include the having sex part, with the yet-to-be-projected portion of the volume also serving to hint that something else will happen later.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.artknowledgenews.com/files2009b/Tony_Oursler_Lock_2_4_6.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 975px; height: 688px;" src="http://www.artknowledgenews.com/files2009b/Tony_Oursler_Lock_2_4_6.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.billgorcica.com/CEI07/contempArt/cei20.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 958px; height: 550px;" src="http://www.billgorcica.com/CEI07/contempArt/cei20.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://twi-ny.com/themissingpeace3.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 432px; height: 320px;" src="http://twi-ny.com/themissingpeace3.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Image: Laurie Anderson, "From the Air", 2006yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-35957685146235152212009-12-10T14:57:00.000-08:002009-12-10T15:25:54.775-08:00Vending machine camouflage dressRelated to yesterday's critique is this vending machine camouflage dress. In Japan, there are vending machines on the street selling anything from a hot bowl of noodles to porn. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/10/20/world/20crime_slide01.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 400px;" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/10/20/world/20crime_slide01.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/10/20/world/19crime_slide02.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 450px;" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/10/20/world/19crime_slide02.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/10/20/world/20crime_slide03.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 600px; height: 450px;" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/10/20/world/20crime_slide03.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Source: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/20/world/asia/20japan.html">www.nytimes.com/2007/10/20/world/asia/20japan.html</a>yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-85055027750361384612009-12-03T16:20:00.000-08:002009-12-21T20:17:29.749-08:00Larry JohnsonRelating to Brett's work are some pics of Larry Johnson's prints that involve text/jokes. This excellent <a href="http://store.hammer.ucla.edu/Larry_Johnson_p/catalogs-11.htm">catalog</a> of his work has most of the pieces in his <a href="http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/detail/exhibition_id/161">Hammer retrospective</a> curated by Russell Ferguson.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhiQq9zz4wEtY1qomsbgRjq6UynSHx_ZBFgAv1f6zialiFhS9nvbfu6Jh9momp9C2ksR0sHxCFFS-LAEWgsWR2nMQOcZmQXl232FN4tJgRsG0RVOhnx-YeyovDtBETcqc5Mtxn3deAH-ip/s400/johnson.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhiQq9zz4wEtY1qomsbgRjq6UynSHx_ZBFgAv1f6zialiFhS9nvbfu6Jh9momp9C2ksR0sHxCFFS-LAEWgsWR2nMQOcZmQXl232FN4tJgRsG0RVOhnx-YeyovDtBETcqc5Mtxn3deAH-ip/s400/johnson.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.artnet.com/Images/magazine/features/drohojowska-philp/drohojowska-philp7-9-09-7.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 560px; height: 351px;" src="http://www.artnet.com/Images/magazine/features/drohojowska-philp/drohojowska-philp7-9-09-7.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/at/at090908escaping_the_dog_day/at090908aa.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 800px; height: 290px;" src="http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/at/at090908escaping_the_dog_day/at090908aa.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://hammer.ucla.edu/image/3454/633/439.jpeg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 633px; height: 439px;" src="http://hammer.ucla.edu/image/3454/633/439.jpeg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.boredla.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/450.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 548px; height: 450px;" src="http://www.boredla.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/450.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_139919_507473_larry-johnson.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 495px; height: 480px;" src="http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_139919_507473_larry-johnson.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.e-flux.com/show_images/1241029147image_web.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 350px;" src="http://www.e-flux.com/show_images/1241029147image_web.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a>yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-40701691076315322192009-12-03T15:57:00.000-08:002009-12-08T01:37:32.748-08:001984Relating to our class discussion yesterday, here's the Apple 1984 ad: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8">youtube video</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_(advertisement)">wikipedia entry</a>. Why PC = Big Brother? Probably because PC's dominate the computer market (hackers unleash viruses for PC's and don't even bother with Mac's). Bill Gates is considered the <a href="http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/111309.html">Thomas Kincade</a> of the computer world (using marketing and monopolistic advantage to force people to use crappy software).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.digicult.it/archivio/digimag_15eng/articoli/img/videoart_isabelladepanis03.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 280px; height: 210px;" src="http://www.digicult.it/archivio/digimag_15eng/articoli/img/videoart_isabelladepanis03.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a> Also related: Matthew Barney's <i>Drawing Restraint</i>, and performance of climbing on the ceiling of his gallery like a fly using suction cups on his hands and feet.yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-60200080525278752122009-11-05T00:34:00.000-08:002009-11-20T23:24:39.605-08:00(Untitled)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF3SEnUQ8EKGQa42Srd6UI1SOAZeyib51_8uNi5ROXyWYcDakx8N6eacQU1lyqc6ByhnkooC0T_enF8nWQIqcilHkBaAHHDunrVu89ryR1GsrceSKkiit_raZrWiVkfz_E2KqroD14Dell/s1600/untitledMovie.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 166px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF3SEnUQ8EKGQa42Srd6UI1SOAZeyib51_8uNi5ROXyWYcDakx8N6eacQU1lyqc6ByhnkooC0T_enF8nWQIqcilHkBaAHHDunrVu89ryR1GsrceSKkiit_raZrWiVkfz_E2KqroD14Dell/s320/untitledMovie.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406454162838417522" /></a><br /><br />3 great movies currently playing: <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://untitled-themovie.com">(Untitled)</a> </span> which is a satire of the contemporary art world, <span style="font-style:italic;">Yes Men Fix The World</span>, and <span style="font-style:italic;">Capitalism: A Love Story</span>.yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-67006515498701178682009-10-16T01:09:00.000-07:002010-02-15T16:44:20.078-08:00Donna Haraway @ CCA on 10.20.09<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/LisaFoo.gif"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 396px; height: 506px;" src="http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/LisaFoo.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Donna Haraway will be giving a lecture at CCA next week. She wrote "The Cyborg Manifesto", "Promise of Monsters","When Species Meet"... Here's a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C017E496EEE63132">speech on YouTube</a>, "Cyborgs, Dogs and Companion Species", about the birth of the kennel, cyborgs, dogs and companion species, humans, machines, computer, organisms, technoscience, genetics, nature, culture, consciousness, philosophy, emergent ontologies, social relationships, societies, Michel Foucault, figure, reference, cyborg manifesto, and socialist feminism, given to the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Switzerland, in 2000.yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-8791339068654055182009-10-10T21:57:00.000-07:002009-10-12T00:22:36.234-07:00Reading for Oct 14Here's the email from Scott just in case you're wondering if he has sent you an email yet. For the PDF of Raymond Carver's "Feathers" email Scott (or me).<br /><br />Scott:<br />For next week please read the attached short story by Raymond Carver. Please let me know if you have any trouble opening the PDF. Don't be scared by the amount of pages, it's fiction so it should be a quick read for you. Funny isn't a word often attributed to Carver, but his work can be considered a blending of humor and sadness. I'd like to spend some time next week discussing the fine line between funny and sad, so feel free to bring to class anything else you think may fit in this category. I'm also hoping to discuss the use and metaphor of the ecological as a tool for humor in contemporary art. Again, if you have any examples or something you'd like to discuss, please bring it with you. Thanks, and have a good weekend.yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-87727393352453791532009-10-02T16:38:00.002-07:002009-10-02T19:01:20.039-07:00Montblanc Gandhi Pen<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/02/AR2009100203191.html">www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/02/AR2009100203191.html</a><br /><br />Or it could be yet another ironic postmodern art piece that purports to critique commodity culture and that's being sold to wealthy collectors... Top that Jeff Koons. (Also <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/beltran/detail?entry_id=37581"><span style="font-style:italic;">Kate Spade Store</span></a>.)<br /><br />"Images of Mohandas K. Gandhi, father of modern India and icon of asceticism and nonviolence, have ended up in some unlikely places before, from ads selling Apple computers to counter-culture T-shirts. But it's fair to say that the latest incarnation may be the most ironic: Gandhi, in his signature loincloth, hawking a $23,000 fountain pen named in his honor.<br /><br />The Montblanc pen, unveiled for the celebration of what would have been Gandhi's 140th birthday on Friday, has prompted howls from Hindu groups and Gandhists who say the sticker price is the lifetime income of many of India's poor. The limited-edition fountain pen in 18-carat solid gold is engraved with Gandhi's image and tricked out with a saffron-colored mandarin garnet on the clip and a rhodium-plated nib. ... A billboard put up this week over Mumbai's teeming slums shows a gaunt Gandhi next to next to an image of the swanky pen, with golden threads woven around it to represent Gandhi's spinning wheel."<br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">From</span>: "Montblanc's Gandhi Pen Causes Howls in India" by Emily Wax, <span style="font-style:italic;">Washington Post Foreign Service</span>, 10.02.09.yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-74302347059150259962009-09-24T07:35:00.001-07:002009-12-21T20:18:47.173-08:00Nina Katchadourian's 'CARPARK'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/misc/images/Carpark-all-white.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 449px; height: 298px;" src="http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/misc/images/Carpark-all-white.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/misc/images/Carpark-red-lot.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 449px; height: 294px;" src="http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/misc/images/Carpark-red-lot.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />Francis Alys's <span style="font-style:italic;">When Faith Moves Mountains</span> made me think of <span style="font-style:italic;">CARPARK</span> (in terms of the amount of effort).<br /><br />From <a href="http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/misc/carpark.php">www.ninakatchadourian.com</a>: For one day all the incoming cars were sorted by color into the 14 different parking lots at the school, resulting in the fields of colored cars. The white lot was the largest (17% of cars in San Diego were white), with red as the runner-up (13%). No one could find their car at the end of the day.yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-6664024466493888812009-09-23T23:07:00.000-07:002009-09-24T08:41:22.186-07:00Parody of the Samurai show at Asian Art<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQbhk3Z4hmCD6nM6elTPGOxCLTSopcltfKogVugd7HG5KFevF6gK-aHirvluWCoihna40_E9ZrR8T0vmYKL_9GYLTMCC2x5Y4ZzBgII2S1YY7ekXmLn0n_v33-CQBxjl97ynFrJEEItCrq/s1600-h/dd-asianparody22_0500624173.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQbhk3Z4hmCD6nM6elTPGOxCLTSopcltfKogVugd7HG5KFevF6gK-aHirvluWCoihna40_E9ZrR8T0vmYKL_9GYLTMCC2x5Y4ZzBgII2S1YY7ekXmLn0n_v33-CQBxjl97ynFrJEEItCrq/s400/dd-asianparody22_0500624173.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384916139180451778" /></a><br /><br />"Lord It's the Samurai" is an online parody of the Asian Art Museum's "Lords of the Samurai" exhibition. 'The parody Web site - <a href="http://www.asiansart.org">www.asiansart.org</a> - closely mimics the design of the Web page that the Asian museum devoted to its exhibition - so closely that some contributors to the busy West Coast blog www.8Asians.com mistook it for the real thing...' (SFGate article <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/22/DDID19O60Q.DTL&type=art">"Samurai parody takes jab at Asian Art Museum"</a> by Kenneth Baker)yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-8551170212481701252009-09-23T17:50:00.000-07:002009-09-23T18:48:00.382-07:00Some related linksHey everyone. Here's some links relating to the humor of politics. I've left off the Yes Men so as not to take the wind out of Nikki's sails for her presentation next week.<br /><br />• Improv Everyhwere is a group headed by Charlie Todd in NYC. They call their pranks "missions" and they refer to themselves as "agents", which automatically gives their work the rhetoric of a government agency. While not all their missions seem political, I would argue that their intervention into public space often creates a political situation, whether they intended it or not. Here's some of my favorites: (Note in Frozen Grand Central an observer says "It's some kind of protest.")<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo"> Frozen Grand Central</a><br /><a href="http://improveverywhere.com/2006/04/23/best-buy/%20"> Best Buy</a><br /><a href="http://improveverywhere.com/2005/03/19/look-up-more/"> Look Up More</a><br /><a href="http://improveverywhere.com/2002/05/19/offshore-gambling/">Offshore Gambling</a><br /><a href="http://improveverywhere.com/2008/07/06/human-mirror/0">Human Mirror</a><br /><br />• <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T25Qt8Tui6c&feature=player_embedded%20"> Here's</a> a link to game of volleyball over the US/Mexico border that was produced for <a href="http://www.wholphindvd.com/"> Wholphin</a>.<br /><br />• Daniel Joseph Martinez<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.whitehotmagazine.com/articles/biennial-artist-daniel-joseph-martinez/UserFiles/image/seph_rodney/wb_martinez.jpg%20"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 1014px; height: 570px;" src="http://www.whitehotmagazine.com/articles/biennial-artist-daniel-joseph-martinez/UserFiles/image/seph_rodney/wb_martinez.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />From the Whitney site, "The work takes its name from Walter Benjamin’s coinage for a form of violence that functions as pure means, with knowable ends. The installation of 125 panels, painted in automotive goldflake and each bearing the name of an organization around the world attempting to affect politics through violent means, is part of a larger ongoing project whose open-ended mix of theory, politics, and research is representative of Martinez’s entire practice."<br /><br />• Banksy<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1laBLYjuqM&feature=fvw"> Pet Shop</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFM8Gnmwdug"> Bristol Museum</a><br /><br />• Sandow Birk • Try and go see his exhibit at Cathrine Clark before it closes on Halloween.<br /><a href="http://www.sandowbirk.com/paintings/the-depravities-of-war/%20">http://www.sandowbirk.com/paintings/the-depravities-of-war/ </a><br /><br />• <a href="http://www.georgeadamsgallery.com/artists/painting.php3?picture=2453&exhib=11"> Enriqu Chagoya </a><br /><br />• <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_Daumier%20"> Honore Daumier</a><br /><br />• John Heartfield<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://shuperlocodesign.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/adolf-el-superman-1932.jpg%20"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 600px; height: 818px;" src="http://shuperlocodesign.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/adolf-el-superman-1932.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.kiberpipa.org/gallery/album83/John_Heartfield_Duh_eneve_1932.sized.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 466px; height: 640px;" src="http://www.kiberpipa.org/gallery/album83/John_Heartfield_Duh_eneve_1932.sized.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />• Barbara Kruger<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y9JCP1wazVo/RiFB0vkZXUI/AAAAAAAAEeg/dhyyhh201HI/s1600/K2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 436px; height: 600px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y9JCP1wazVo/RiFB0vkZXUI/AAAAAAAAEeg/dhyyhh201HI/s1600/K2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://artetentreprise.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/barbara-kruger.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 495px; height: 489px;" src="http://artetentreprise.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/barbara-kruger.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />• <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rake%27s_Progress%20"> William Hogarth</a><br />• <a href="http://www.pochanostra.com/"> Guillermo Gomez-Pena </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-72943439980731530052009-09-20T22:12:00.001-07:002010-02-14T23:23:23.326-08:00Gays can quote the Bible too<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2009/09/18/1253289796-gaysstrikeback.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 375px;" src="http://www.thestranger.com/images/blogimages/2009/09/18/1253289796-gaysstrikeback.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Source: http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/09/18/gay-people-can-quote-the-bible-too#comment-2266320<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sandowbirk.com/paintings/recent-works/">Images</a> of Sandow Birk's <span style="font-style:italic;">American Qur'an</span>...yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-84993601832185264852009-09-17T15:15:00.000-07:002009-10-02T16:52:48.038-07:00How Asians desecrated the peace signYoutube humor! <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/how-asians-desecrated-the-peace-sign">http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/how-asians-desecrated-the-peace-sign</a> Reminds me of the stand-up routine involving charts and classifications. Wonder if it is funny only to Asians... and whether it is problematic in any way.yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105667821335875759.post-90308765512167787762009-09-17T01:18:00.000-07:002009-09-17T12:45:55.939-07:00Do Ho Suh & Tim HawkinsonTwo other works relate to today's discussion on artists who worked with scale/meticulous labor:<br /><br />1. Do Ho Suh's <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-do-ho-suh24-2009jun24,0,4784244.story"><span style="font-style:italic;">Fallen Star 1/5</span></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3564/3790068228_31602a9c16.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 325px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3564/3790068228_31602a9c16.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />A Korean style house crashing into an American mansion. Their interiors are crafted with meticulous attention to detail (<a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-do-ho-suh24-2009jun24,0,4784244.story">more info</a>).<br /><br />2. Tim Hawkinson's <span style="font-style:italic;">Bird</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.pbs.org/art21/slideshow/artists/h/hawkinson-sculpt-002.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 420px; height: 411px;" src="http://www.pbs.org/art21/slideshow/artists/h/hawkinson-sculpt-002.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />A small bird made from Hawkinson's fingernail clippings. Quite amazing in person. How does he keep his works from breaking apart when moved around...yvonnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01296733658273548082noreply@blogger.com1