Archive for September, 2009
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Marlene Dumas famously wrote, “lf a Prostitute is a person / who makes it a profession/ to gratify the lust of various persons / for economical reasons or gain, / where emotional involvement may / or may not be present— / Then it seems not so far removed / from my definition of an artist.” [ READ MORE ]
So the first piece that we re-performed was Vito Acconci’s Centers. We then decided to start looking for performance that could utilize our relationship. Performances that incorporated two bodies in their original intention, and ideally works that were concerned with the nature, energy and dynamics of relationship. [ READ MORE ]
So this is a new idea: re-performing objects. We started with Longo sort of arbitrarily – we love his work, but probably wouldn’t have chosen it as a beginning for our investigation of material culture through performing the objects of that culture. We’ve worked for a long time around the idea of object/surroundings informing identity. For [ READ MORE ]
…that Could Change the World Check out this WIRED article If you can think of some other great ideas that should be added to this list, send us a comment. Art would be good too. [ READ MORE ]
“31. If an artist uses the same form in a group of works, and changes the material, one would assume the artist’s concept involved the material.” What does it mean to re-perform a drawing? Even if the original drawing was life-sized? How does involving the body – as a viewer, as opposed to a producer – [ READ MORE ]
This is the best piece of advice that we gave today: The way to understand Art is to say it the way you imagine a seal would, in the middle of the night, at the top of your lungs, eight times fast: “ART! ART! ART! ART! ART! ART! ART! ART!” Videotape that, put it on your blog and [ READ MORE ]
Into the stratosphere. Let’s make a million dollars!! [ READ MORE ]
Come see us!! [ READ MORE ]
Greetings Thulani, This letter will contain an in-depth description of our living/working space and also provide you with a brief overview of our relationship. First though, we hope that this letter finds you well and we send our warmth, affection, and good will. We are excited to do “art” with you. The nature of this project: an [ READ MORE ]