Untitled (We don't need another hero), 1987
Barbara Kruger
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4/25/2008
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.
3/29/2008
3/22/2008
3/16/2008
3/08/2008
WORDS
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."
3/06/2008
3/03/2008
HISTORY
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
3/01/2008
2/22/2008
MODERN STIMULATIONS
!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.
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.
2/21/2008
2/20/2008
2/19/2008
2/09/2008
OTTO (FIRST FULL TRAILER)
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.
2/03/2008
(NAKED) HUMANITY
Mr Bush, Mr Cheney & Mr Powell
Lenin
Khomeini in exile
from the History Stripped Bare, 1999-2005
oil on canvas
Gabriele Di Matteo
1/29/2008
1/25/2008
1/16/2008
RECYCLING ROCOCO (HISTORY OF SCULPTURE)
Bust of Saint Francis of Adelaide, 2006
cast marble dust & resin
Kehinde Wiley
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