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An hour-long vintage documentary on Duchamp, chess and art. To be admired as a sculpture.

EXHIBITION SITE

The New Museum has a wonderful online exhibition titled Free. The exhibition focuses on the fundamental changes that have occurred because of the Internet. The exhibition’s intention of exploring our changing notions of public space, via the apparatus of a “landscape of information,” is appropriately distributed and contained within the expansive medium that it’s reporting on and through. Regarding traditional modes of conceptual and discursive situating, the site/exhibition/catalog is well crafted/coded and the project runs October 20, 2010 ~ January 23, 2011. There are a number of prescient essays on the often heroic gestural qualities of those working on/with the Internet. Below, are a few images of a photo essay I’m particularly fond of by DIS, listed in the “blog” section. DIS documents the work and the art-going experience while borrowing conventions from stock photography.

Site designed by John Michael Boling and developed with Jonathan Vingiano.

Additionally, the following video was included discussing the shift of the curatorial from the museum world to the rhetoric of the media.

ARTIST SITE

There’s about as much sex appeal wrapped up in the design and implementation of this site as there is in Nick Cave’s bodily work. As well, SoundSuitShop has a particularly charming greeting paragraph that, in short, states: “This site and its product line were created to share the art of Nick Cave with a wider audience than his exhibitions can possibly reach.” Um, yeah.

Site designed by Faust and developed by Cartel Blanche.

For those of you still living in Berlin, please go and see this natural-pseudo-scientific-spectacle for me. It’s called “Soma,” and it’s produced by the artist Carsten Holler. For 1000 euro you can also become assimilated into the work through the cultural tourist framework of a (bizarre) art/boutique hotel. The Hamburger Bahnhof made a site for the exhibition cum theme park which consists of no less than 12 reindeer, 24 canaries, 8 mice and 2 flies.

Straight from the HB PR Team:
“Before the eyes of the observers unfolds an expansive “living picture”, a symmetrical experimental field, which is divided in two parts along its center line and which compares the ordinary world with the realm of Soma in a double-image experiment. This is an experiment, that find its completion in the imagination of the observer and whose evaluation is subject to your power of observation. On a mushroom like platform in midst of the arrangement resides a bed, where guests will have the opportunity to spend a night at the museum and to dive into the world of Soma.”

Below is a video outline of the exhibition. Please pardon the advertisement.

On a more domestic note, the Hammer museum is producing an interactive event platform titled, “Houseplant Vacation.” Participants are invited to give their houseplants a vacation, during the Hammer’s August cultural retreat for plants. Throughout the entire month, participant’s plants will be installed in the light flooded Lindbrook terrace, and presented with a series of readings, performances and musical events, for plants every Saturday from 1-4pm. The project offers a plant release waiver, in case sick plants infect others, and appears to be organized in part by machine projects. Learn more about the project here.

Cinthia Marcelle just won $!00,000 from the Future Generation Art Prize. Due to the portability of her medium, you can see a compilation of her works below, embedded from her vimeo page. In a monoculture of hyper distribution, portability is everything. I suspect it’s only a matter of time before Ms. Marcelle’s methods are assimilated by some viral advertising campaign. In the mean time, enjoy them in their beautifully pure infancy stage of your relationship with her work (mentioned as though she hasn’t been included in major exhibitions such as, Biennal de la Habana, Cuba, in 2006).

CRUZADA from cinthia marcelle on Vimeo.

475 VOLVER from cinthia marcelle on Vimeo.

FONTE 193 from cinthia marcelle on Vimeo.

CONFRONTO from cinthia marcelle on Vimeo.

VOLTA AO MUNDO from cinthia marcelle on Vimeo.

A hilarious bit of discursive theatrics. My favorite part is undeniably the correlation between modernism and the father. Jesus… I think we’re distant cousins.

A little search helps turn up additional Jayson Musson, or Hennessy Youngman, productions. For instance, he has an album available here, and additional humorous paintings and drawings on his site.

Dear Jayson, I hope you make it.

YouTube video originally seen on ArtFagCity.

An undeniable force in pattern development, Mr. Rogers helped pioneer performative pop-models for sincerity and laid the foundation for the consciousness industry. One can’t help but admire, and thus mine, his obsolete position in media production.

This video’s non-human theatrics of depicting the relationship between an artist and a consumer [at an art fair] are perfect for confronting the complicated nature of the relationship. It’s my personal opinion that the heart of this complicated relationship belongs to a caricatured public-relation of modern art and its critical apparatus, perpetuated by both teams on the playing field, and embodied here, by these adorable little computer abstractions.

I happened upon this video on nowness, and realized that I’d never heard Jeffrey Deitch carry-on conversationally. One has to admire his gentle accessibility and progressive rhetoric. I can’t wait to see the “new model for the museum in the 21st Century” (although it sounds like it might have something to do with celebrity).

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Furthermore, regarding the programmatic browser side of this of post, one can’t help but admire nowness’ visualization of their most favored content, below.

These color field paintings, by Michael Demers, are perhaps one of my favorite works of art I’ve seen and shared in the last five years. There’s definitely something to say for portability. Additional works touching on time and programmatic behavior can be found on his site.