EXPERIMENTAL DESIRES, FLESH & PERFECT LOVERS

INDUSTRIAL EVIDENCE #1 - APRIL 19, 2009 (COACHELLA FESTIVAL, CA)

2009-04-30T10:57:00.000-07:00

Persuasion
Throbbing Gristle during their last US invasion tour

and a special thanks to ZManBarzel for this material

FOR INDUSTRIAL PEOPLE

2009-02-08T01:09:00.000-08:00

Throbbing Gristle plan first US tour dates since 1981.

According to the history of the band, these will be TG first live appearances ever.
4/16/09 Masonic Temple, NYC
4/19/09 Coachella Indio, CA
4/21/09 Ucla, LOS ANGELES (*)
4/23/09 Grand Regency Ballroom, SAN FRANCISCO
4/25/09 Epiphany Episcopal Church, CHICAGO

(*) "In the Shadow of the Sun", soundtrack performance only.

To mark these special occasions, TG will play 2 set events in New York and Chicago. The performances begin with a new live soundtrack to Derek Jarman’s alchemical film “In The Shadow Of The Sun” (1980) followed by a second set of material from across TG’s history.

More details, HERE.

...the gristle is throbbing (without need of viagra) !

FOREST MURMURS

2009-02-07T03:04:00.000-08:00

get up girl, a sun is running the world
(2007)

Ugo Rondinone

...et tous, ils changent le monde...

SOME KIND OF LOVE

2008-11-02T02:19:00.000-08:00

untitled (2000),
works on paper

Nayland Blake

THE FALL

2008-08-23T08:27:00.000-07:00

la chute (the fall), 2005-2006

Denis Darzacq

ABOUT PLEASURE

2008-06-18T09:55:00.000-07:00

Beyond the Pleasure Principle, 2000

Sarah Lucas

THEATRE OF NEGATION

2008-06-18T09:47:00.000-07:00

Labyrinth, 1974

Robert Morris

NEONS 16 (MONUMENT)

2008-06-18T09:42:00.000-07:00

Monument, 1967

Dan Flavin

picture by Declan McCullagh

NEXT (TG @ PARIS)

2008-05-27T10:35:00.000-07:00

Details, HERE.

NEW

2008-05-27T10:14:00.000-07:00

Slava Mogutin , the notorious russian subversive star returns with a second monograph (after Lost Boys). NYC GoGo, something defined like 'a tribute to the Golden Age ov New-York City nightlife.'
A book published by powerHouse Books with an essay of Bruce Benderson.

More about NYC GoGo, HERE.

...AND TEARS WILL BE MY JEWELS

2008-05-14T05:22:00.000-07:00

Lagrimas, 2002 (detail)
glass, water, steel

Jean-Michel Othoniel
courtesy galerie Emmanuel Perrotin

OUTSIDE

2008-05-14T05:16:00.000-07:00

Arnulf Rainer and his collection of Outsider Art
india ink on photograph

Arnulf Rainer

ANIMALS

2008-05-14T05:10:00.000-07:00

Rhino in fog

Geert Goiris

RECYCLING

2008-04-25T10:35:00.000-07:00

Mondrian Boots, 1995

Sylvie Fleury

WE DON'T NEED...

2008-04-25T10:31:00.000-07:00

Untitled (We don't need another hero), 1987

Barbara Kruger

HISTORY OF VIOLENCE

2008-04-25T10:27:00.000-07:00

The Klan Klansman

Andres Serrano

CHAOS THEORY

2008-04-25T10:23:00.000-07:00

POP & LIGHTS

2008-04-15T01:38:00.000-07:00

Finis Coronat Opus, 1995
oil on canvas

Charles Bell

POP & DEATH

2008-04-15T01:35:00.001-07:00

Study for this Sovereign Life, 1985
oil and sand

Jim Dine

ANGEL

2008-04-12T03:37:00.000-07:00

Kris Canavan by Manuel Vason

FORMS & ATTITUDES

2008-04-10T10:50:00.000-07:00

untitled, 1965

Donald Judd

OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE

2008-04-10T10:00:00.000-07:00

untitled, 1990-1998
oil on canvas

Monica Majoli

INTIMACY

2008-04-04T11:09:00.000-07:00

My Bed, 1996

Tracey Emin

ANIMALS

2008-04-04T10:56:00.000-07:00

I Like America and America Likes Me, 1974
performance

Joseph Beuys

Beuys’s most famous Action took place in May 1974, when he spent three days in a room with a coyote. After flying into New York, he was swathed in felt and loaded into an ambulance, then driven to the gallery where the Action took place, without having once touched American soil. As Beuys later explained: ‘I wanted to isolate myself, insulate myself, see nothing of America other than the coyote.’ The title of the work is filled with irony. Beuys opposed American military actions in Vietnam, and his work as an artist was a challenge to the hegemony of American art.

Beuys’s felt blankets, walking stick and gloves became sculptural props throughout the Action. In addition, fifty new copies of the Wall Street Journal were introduced each day, which the coyote acknowledged by urinating on them. Beuys regularly performed the same series of actions with his eyes continuously fixed on the coyote. At other times he would rest or gather the felt around him to suggest the figure of a shepherd with his crook. The coyote’s behaviour shifted throughout the three days, becoming cautious, detached, aggressive and sometimes companionable. At the end of the Action, Beuys was again wrapped in felt and returned to the airport.

ANIMALS

2008-04-04T10:49:00.000-07:00

The Pack, 2002
resin and urethan

Michael Joo

HISTORY OF VIOLENCE

2008-03-29T03:39:00.000-07:00

Practice Zero Tolerance, 2006

Adel Abdessemed

LOST LIGHTS

2008-03-25T12:13:00.000-07:00

mon repos, 2007

les arques (france)
2007 (lost), group show by atelier des arques
curated by chiara parisi

Claude Lévêque

(with thoughts for my neighbour, moreismore)

INVOCATION

2008-03-25T12:02:00.000-07:00

Mass, 2008

Desi Monster

POLITICS

2008-03-22T03:30:00.000-07:00

National Los Angeles, 2002

Saadane Afif

SPRINGTIME FLOWERS

2008-03-22T03:16:00.000-07:00

untitled, 2007
mixed media

from Blooming - A Scattering of Blossoms and Other Things, an exhibition at Collection Lambert, Avignon (France) during Summer 2007.

Cy Twombly

WILD BOYS

2008-03-16T07:40:00.000-07:00

Wolfgan Tillmans

WORDS WORDS WORDS

2008-03-16T07:37:00.000-07:00

City of Words, 1999

Vito Acconci

LEGEND

2008-03-16T07:27:00.000-07:00

Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs (detail), 1985

Jean Tinguely

HISTORY OF PORTRAIT

2008-03-16T07:24:00.001-07:00

Vito Acconci in the US Marine Platoon Leader Corps - Quantico, VA 1959
(for VA : Rehearsals for Architecture), 1959

Vito Acconci

GARDENING

2008-03-16T07:19:00.000-07:00

Brauner Garten, 2006

Gelitin

WORDS & COLORS

2008-03-11T12:24:00.000-07:00

Four Words Four Colors, 1965

Joseph Kosuth

MODERN SHAMANIC EXPERIENCE

2008-03-09T05:56:00.000-07:00

24th type of ambiguity #98

16th type of ambiguity #117

12th type of ambiguity #3

11th type of ambiguity #26

10th type of ambiguity #7

5th type of ambiguity #15

4th type of ambiguity #11

2d type of ambiguity #22

1st type of ambiguity #2

all photographies by Thierry Kupferschmid

Thierry Kupferschmid is born in 1970 at Lausanne (Switzerland) and he lives at Lausanne and New-York (USA).
His artwork (drawings, paintings, photographies, performances) explores the borders between human beings and natural elements (mineral, vegetal, animal), and btw it asks about what is exactly the human conditions. Like a modern shaman, he tries to change and to mute anger, frustrations and desires into creative energies.

WORDS

2008-03-08T05:28:00.000-08:00

A clip from the Bruce LaBruce movie Skin Flick (aka Skin Gang - 1999). Reinhold (Slava Mogutin) reads a poem about his master/slave fantasy. "I'd probably kill us both, starting with him."

AH MES JAMBES SI VOUS SAVIEZ...

2008-03-06T11:28:00.001-08:00

...quelle fumée !

Pierre Molinie r

GLORIOUS EXPLOSIONS

2008-03-06T11:11:00.000-08:00

got a salmon on prawn

Sarah Lucas

ENIGMA

2008-03-06T10:47:00.000-08:00

by nishi

ANIMALS

2008-03-04T11:09:00.000-08:00

untitled, 2007

Eric Poitevin

HISTORY

2008-03-03T11:04:00.000-08:00

the executioners and the justice

through the light and into the night

the murder crucifix

the hand has five fingers

dialog in Berlin zoo

and yet it moves

John Hartfield

HEROES

2008-03-02T04:32:00.000-08:00

Terry Richardson

THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE

2008-03-01T01:38:00.000-08:00

le caddy, 2000

Sylvie Fleury

SUMMER OF LOVE

2008-03-01T01:10:00.000-08:00

Himmelfahrt in Friedrichshain, 2005
oil on canvas

Norbert Bisky

EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPES

2008-02-26T11:05:00.000-08:00

Untitled (Mental Map - Evasion V), 1996

Untitled (Mental Map - Circus B), 2000

Untitled (Pacific no 42, a location your business will treasure), 1998

Franz Ackermann

LUDICROUS WISHES

2008-02-26T10:56:00.000-08:00

je ne veux tout, 1999
box and lights

Boris Achour

LOVE SONG

2008-02-25T10:49:00.000-08:00

Untitled (Go-go platform), 1991
woods, lights and paint

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

courtesy Andreas Rosen Gallery

the lights are still on, the platform is empty, the go-go dancer is missing and the lovers are not here.

ANIMALS

2008-02-25T10:40:00.000-08:00

Untitled, 2007

Eric Poitevin

FLESH

2008-02-25T10:23:00.000-08:00

Cumshot in blue, 2006
oil on painting

Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille

courtesy Galerie Pietro Sparta

SOLEILS BRILLANTS

2008-02-24T02:52:00.000-08:00

Walter Pfeiffer

Born in Switzerland, Walter Pfeiffer lives and works in Zurich. Since the 1970s, he’s photographing friends and strangers. With a new visual vocabulary, he’s changing our perception of realism in photography, mixing notions of intimacy, emotions, eroticism and gender.
Walter Pfeiffer, with Nan Goldin and Nobuyoshi Araki, have changed the perspectives of photography reinterpreting and re-loading the art of portrait. They gave birth to a new portraitists generation like Jack Pierson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Terry Richardson, Ryan McGinley, Slava Mogutin and Michael Meads.

FAMILY VALUES

2008-02-22T04:43:00.000-08:00

Peace & Love

Alain Séchas

MODERN STIMULATIONS

2008-02-22T03:17:00.001-08:00

!Giant!, 1996

Saddam, 1998

Big Brother is watching you, 2006

Interpol Sam, 2004

Proud Parents, 2007

Psycho Posse, 2006

Shepard Fairey

Starting in the summer of 1989, Fairey created a silk-screened sticker based on obey giant, best known for his role in Rob Reiner's film 'The Princess Bride.' The 2-inch-square black-and-white stickers are titled 'obey giant has a posse' and bear the exaggerated features of the larger-than-life media figure.

Obey Giant is also known as "André the Giant Has a Posse".

Caught between Andy Warhol's vision of the commercial graphic and its influence, and Keith Haring's "paint it anywhere" graffiti, the graphics produced by Fairey are social commentaries on the American way of life and the advertisements that reinforce that lifestyle.

The Obey campaign can be explained as an experiment in Phenomenology. The first aim of Phenomenology is to reawaken a sense of wonder about one's environment. The Obey campaign attempts to stimulate curiosity and bring people to question both the campaign and their relationship with their surroundings. Because people are not used to seeing advertisements or propaganda for which the motive is not obvious, frequent and novel encounters with Obey propaganda provoke thought and possible frustration, nevertheless revitalizing the viewer's perception and attention to detail.
The medium is the message.

More about The Obey Manifesto and Fairey, HERE and HERE.

BUNNY'STORIES

2008-02-21T03:21:00.000-08:00

Untitled, 2002

Nayland Blake

VANITY CASE

2008-02-21T02:11:00.000-08:00

Ninja Independance Day, 1999

Slava Mogutin

AMERICA AMERICA

2008-02-20T02:49:00.000-08:00

Untitled (questions), 1991

Barbara Kruger

NEONS (15) (LOVE SONG)

2008-02-20T02:42:00.000-08:00

I only want you to love me, 2004
neon

Lovett & Codagnone

2008-02-19T03:04:00.000-08:00

From a novel by Dennis Cooper
Created and directed by Gisèle Vienne

Dramaturgy : Dennis Cooper
Lights by Patrick Riou
Music : Corrupted
Stylisme : Stephen O’Malley
Scenography : Jean-Luc Verna et Gisèle Vienne
Puppets : Jean-Luc Verna, Gisèle Vienne, Dorothéa Vienne Pollak, the the help of Vidya Gastladon and Jonathan Capdevielle

Performed by and created in collaboration with: Jonathan Capdevielle

“Jerk” is an imaginary reconstruction – strange, poetic, funny and somber – of the crimes perpetrated by American serial killer Dean Corll who, with the help of teenagers David Brooks and Wayne Henley, killed more than twenty boys in the state of Texas during the mid-70s.
This show sees David Brooks serving his life sentence. In prison, he learns the art of puppets, which somehow enables him to face up to his responsibility as partner in the crimes. He has written a show that reconstructs the murders committed by Dean Corll, using puppets for all the roles. He performs his show in prison for a class of psychology students from a local university.

Due to the violence and humor of the text, there is an underlying fierceness to the performance. The glove puppet theater is in fact the traditional form used to enact violent illicit subjects. And “Jerk” unabashedly mingles sexuality and violence in the vein of gore aesthetics, thus harking back to the glove puppet repertory.

The text has been staged as a solo for puppeteer, who uses glove puppets and also acts the role of con artist.
The story, however realist it may be, seems to border on unrealism. The play’s apparent realism stems from its linear narration, as well as from its basic true story and from the trickster-puppeteer’s total identification with the fictive character of David Brooks.

“Jerk” merges three plays that were produced in collaboration with the American writer Dennis Cooper: “I Apologize” (2004), “Une belle enfant blonde” (2005) and “Kindertotenlieder” (2007). In these three plays, the links between fantasy and reality are being constantly probed, thereby altering our perception of reality. The more realist “Jerk” puts forth a consistent linear narrative, generating the credibility that undeniably stems from this form. And it is this undeniability that is reexamined by way of our different formal experiences.

Associate producer: DACM
With the collaboration of the Quartz - Scène nationale de Brest

Coproduction : Le Quartz - Scène nationale de Brest, Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté à Belfort

Premiere : March 5, 6, 7, 8, 2008, Festival Les Antipodes / Le Quartz - Brest

photo : Gisèle Vienne (c)

TARGETS

2008-02-19T01:31:00.000-08:00

Asstronaut

Amazing Beg (with Sebastiano Mauri)

Plushie Plot

superm targets by Brian Kenny.

AMERICAN DREAMS

2008-02-18T02:55:00.000-08:00

Dream Object (I was working on a piece that was like a human torso, possibly real, and I was placing objects in the head that was like a cupboards), 2001
fiber glass, wood, fabric, enamel paint, mechanic parts.

Jim Shaw

VANITY

2008-02-17T09:20:00.000-08:00

Disco Inferno, 2004

Christoph Steinmeyer

MUTATIONS

2008-02-15T00:07:00.000-08:00

Variant 1, 2002
Nike athletic footwear

Brian Jungen

WORRIED NOODLES

2008-02-14T23:51:00.000-08:00

David Shrigley

LOVE SONG

2008-02-14T01:37:00.000-08:00

Querelle, 1982

Andy Warhol

ABOUT LOVE

2008-02-14T01:29:00.000-08:00

Tainted Love, 1988

Coil

GOOD NEWS FROM THE STARS

2008-02-14T01:00:00.000-08:00

Bianca Casady from CocoRosie, my fav fairies, will open a new space in Paris, today, for Valentine's day, Mad Vicky's Tea Gallery.
This gallery will become a store for tea, hand made clothes, music and art. A very special selection of her personal stuff and friends.
Opening February 14th 2008 with the show of Leif Ritchey and Tooya (designers, NYC)

Area : 3 rue Nicolet, 75018 Paris, France.

More informations with Mad Vicky on MySpace.

MYTHOLOGIES

2008-02-11T02:22:00.000-08:00

Saint Sebastien, 1982

David Wojnarowicz

HORSES HORSES HORSES

2008-02-11T02:07:00.000-08:00

Horses Silk, 1993
lithograph

Robert Rauschenberg

NEONS (14)

2008-02-11T01:57:00.000-08:00

Fame, 2005
plastic, metal, wood & neon

Jack Pierson

OTTO (FIRST FULL TRAILER)

2008-02-09T02:20:00.000-08:00

Otto, or Up with Dead People
the first full trailer for the new melancholy zombie movie by Bruce LaBruce, coming in 2008.
The song is Bear Hides and Buffalo by the amazing CocoRosie.

FLOWER

2008-02-07T11:12:00.000-08:00

UIUEUUE, 2006

John M Armleder

OBSESSIONS #3

2008-02-07T10:57:00.000-08:00

vertical pattern
detail

Hervé Graumann

OBSESSION #2

2008-02-07T10:50:00.000-08:00

untitled, 1968

Yayoi Kusama

OBSESSION

2008-02-07T10:41:00.000-08:00

Jelly Fish Eyes
detail

Takashi Murakami

PAINT IT BLACK

2008-02-04T08:53:00.000-08:00

Hate Them, 2004
polystyrene, polyurethane, tinted epoxy, wood, steel, drum stands and hardware

Banks Violette
courtesy of Saatchi Gallery

Banks Violette’s Hate Them replicates a nightmarish teenage psyche. His minimalist suggestion of a rock band hovers above a sound stage with barbaric awe. Bank’s gnarlish fang-like forms encapsulate a testosterone-fuelled aggression with an iconic and primal flair. Drawing correlations between subculture and theatre, Violette addresses Black Metal as a performative act without clear limitation: a unique spectacle where artistic meaning is often literalised into real belief. Fuelled by its associations with violence, satanism, racism, and nationalism, Violette uses the Goth genre as both symptom and cause of individual immorality and social breakdown.

DARK SIDE

2008-02-03T05:40:00.000-08:00

untitled, 2005
five colours silkscreen on paper

Banks Violette

CHILDREN CORNER

2008-02-03T05:33:00.000-08:00

untitled, 2007
porcelain & wax

Loredana Sperini

YOUNG AT HEART

2008-02-03T05:23:00.000-08:00

Markus Muntean & Adi Rosenblum

WHITE NOISE

2008-02-03T05:21:00.000-08:00

untitled, 2007

Banks Violette

NEONS (13)

2008-02-03T04:55:00.000-08:00

less playboy is more cowboy, 2005
néon

Christian-Robert Tissot

(NAKED) HUMANITY

2008-02-03T04:33:00.000-08:00

Mr Bush, Mr Cheney & Mr Powell

Lenin

Khomeini in exile

from the History Stripped Bare, 1999-2005
oil on canvas

Gabriele Di Matteo

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR !!

2008-01-29T09:01:00.000-08:00

Grrrrrrrrr!, 1965

Roy Lichtenstein

PROGRAMME

2008-01-29T08:54:00.000-08:00

Guy Debord, 1953

SPECIAL EFFECTS

2008-01-29T08:42:00.000-08:00

Casanova, 2007

Irrlicht, 2002

Planet of the Lonely Stones, 2007

Lothar Hempel
courtesy of Atle Gerhardsen gallery

LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES

2008-01-27T02:30:00.000-08:00

Massimo Vitali

REMIX

2008-01-27T02:22:00.000-08:00

album covers collage
from Body Mix serie, 1991-1992

Christian Marclay

RED (IS THE COLOUR)

2008-01-25T04:48:00.000-08:00

le rouge, 1968

Gérard Fromanger

HIGH SOCIETY

2008-01-25T04:40:00.000-08:00

THC Superstars

Six

REMIX

2008-01-25T03:39:00.000-08:00

Durum1, 2008
photo collage (remix of von Gloeden, Mapplethorpe & Mogutin)

Shysh

PSYCHICK TARGET

2008-01-25T01:48:00.000-08:00

Mandala, Zone of Zero

Kim Sooja

PORTRAIT (HISTORY OF)

2008-01-25T01:43:00.000-08:00

Olivier Silva, The Foreign Legion, Camp Rafalli, Corsica, June 18 2001, 2003

Rineke Dijkstra

courtesy of Marion Goodmann Gallery

STRANGE FRUITS

2008-01-25T01:35:00.000-08:00

Mrs Miami, 2005

Gary Webb

MUTATIONS

2008-01-22T08:43:00.000-08:00

Misfit (deer/giraffe), 2006
taxidermy

Misfit (ostrich/rooster/donkey), 2006
taxidermy

Misfit (badger/lamb), 2007
taxidermy

Thomas Grünfeld

courtesy of Michael Janssen Gallery

NEW (B-LAB MOVIE)

2008-01-20T03:11:00.000-08:00

Otto ; or, Up with Dead People
a new movie by Bruce LaBruce.

More about this melancholy gay zombie movie (synopsis, cast, trailer, screenings,...), HERE.
Otto, the blog, HERE.
And more about the incendiary fairy Bruce, HERE.

COLOURS

2008-01-19T01:52:00.000-08:00

COW-BOYZ & ANGELZ

2008-01-19T01:49:00.001-08:00

untitled (cow-boy), 1989

Richard Prince

courtesy of Guggenheim Museum

WE WERE HERE (IN PROGRESS)

2008-01-18T08:36:00.000-08:00

(W)E (W)E(R)E (H)E(R)E
(work in progress)

'(W)e (w)e(r)e (h)e(r)e' is a work in progress by E(dpf ), a kind of self-portraits with the ideas of isolation and absence, effacement and fading, with the romantical aspects ov past, it could be considered like a work connected with psychogeography's projects (developed by Ralph Rumney and Guy Debord, by the past).
The paths we've taken defines us and have changed our mindsets, our energies rates.
But if you go down to the woods today, don't try to look for us, we're not there.

FILS DE (NOT A PIECE OF CAKE)

2008-01-18T08:12:00.000-08:00

Fils de..., 2005

salope, 2002

ne me cherchez pas je suis mort, 2005
les petits mots, 2005

Eric Pougeau

courtesy Galerie Alain Le Gaillard, Paris

RECYCLING ROCOCO (HISTORY OF SCULPTURE)

2008-01-16T11:02:00.000-08:00

Bust of Saint Francis of Adelaide, 2006
cast marble dust & resin

Kehinde Wiley