Rhino in fog
Geert Goiris
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5/14/2008
4/04/2008
ANIMALS
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.
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.
3/09/2008
MODERN SHAMANIC EXPERIENCE
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.
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.
3/04/2008
2/25/2008
2/22/2008
2/11/2008
1/29/2008
1/22/2008
MUTATIONS
Misfit (deer/giraffe), 2006
taxidermy
Misfit (ostrich/rooster/donkey), 2006
taxidermy
Misfit (badger/lamb), 2007
taxidermy
Thomas Grünfeld
courtesy of Michael Janssen Gallery
1/02/2008
12/29/2007
12/28/2007
DISCIPLINE & PUNISH
contrepique (avec le supplicié), 2002-2003
Annette Messager
courtesy galerie Marian Goodman, NY-Paris
12/21/2007
OUTSIDE
siren & centaurs, 2006
Fernand Châtelain
with a special thanx for animula vagula, a french page dedicated to outsider art and art brut.
11/20/2007
WANNA BE YOUR DOG
family of the future, 2000-2006
colour photography
Oleg Kulik
"The realization of oneself a s a the body is a fundamental difference of the man from animals".
Jaques Lacan
11/04/2007
WILD BOYZ, WOLVES AND SKULLS
Heartworms, 2004
gouache and paper on board
Black Shuck I, 2007
watercolor on paper
Scott Treleaven
“It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin… [it is] intended to produce very definite results.”
William S. Burroughs
Scott Treleaven is a Toronto-based artist, a filmmaker, a visual artist and a writer. And also the founder ov the famed, mysterious and magickal zine ‘This is The Salivation Army’, a ‘paganfaggotpunk’ zine featuring the adventures ov a mystical gang ov mutineeres.
His artwork is placed under heavy references : William Blake, Aleister Crowley and his cryptic invocations, William Burroughs and his wild boyz’ teams, Brion Gysin, Kenneth Anger, the radical-queer-punk filmmaker Derek Jarman and at last, the pandrogynous creature Genesis Breyer P. Orridge.
His collages and paintings are mixing shirtless wild guyz, flowers, skulls, alchemical symbols and wolves.
more Treleaven's artwork, HERE.
Freedom Ov Salivation, a text by Genesis P. Orridge, HERE.
10/21/2007
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