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Saturday, February 21, 2009
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Pavel Büchler at the Max Wigram Gallery
I will write some thoughts about this work once i have some time to digest it.
but i recommend it more info :::::::here::::::::::
so i am just reading about Pavel Büchler. his biog starts with :
Pavel Büchler is an artist, lecturer and writer. Summing up his own practice as "making nothing happen", he is committed to the catalytic nature of art - its potential to draw attention to the obvious and reveal it as strange.
thats brilliant, making nothing happen.
what does not come across in the pictures is the sound and smell of this piece. The smell of old projectors is great, what is it, heated dust ? also the sound of many projector fans. I really like
this work . As the press release says : a technically simple but conceptually complex and evocative installation.
im not sure i like the word evocative but everything else is good.
so thank you to Emma Hart for suggesting this exhibition
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Mark Leckey in a Long Tail World
LINK HERE
Last night i went with Emma Hart, Corinna Till and Dai Jenkins to this performance/lecture by turner prize winner Mark Leckey.
i had seen him deliver his "cinema in the round " talk at a Lux event that me and Emma had performed at. Cinema in the round was a was fascinating and expanded my mind, it was a much more straight forward piece than "Long Tail" at least in appearance, although the ideas where more complex.
Long tail took in the male world of the Internet and its ability to deliver everything to every one how ever niche their taste.
the language he employed was beyond my vocabulary which left me wondering if i had understood more of the words he used then maybe my experience would have been more profound .
the performance was littered with technical problems and the start time was delayed by 20 minutes. the computer slide show kept going back to the apple screen and the whole thing seemed to slightly unprepared.
the devices he used to illustrate his ideas where designed for laughs and big theatrical impact.
but some how came across as clunky.
at the end of the performance he went back stage but his radio mic was still on and we heard him say " that was terrible "
i didn't think it was terrible but i thought it was not the best thing he has done .
and i am not so interested in this idea about the Internet, or at least i understand it and find it not so intriguing
but not a bad way to spend a Saturday night.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Jayne Parker
Room Art Space
Jayne Parker's films are showing at a really great gallery space off hackney road
three films projected on video with musician Anton Lukoszevieze playing cello
Arc being my favourite.
we where given a a cup of tea by the nice lady running the space. i think every gallery should be this friendly.
Wavelength, 1966/67. Dir Michael Snow. 45 min. + Event: Wavelength: Discussion on the enduring legacies of Michael Snow’s masterpiece
Wavelength
Perhaps I should of seen this film in 1968 but for me it was a great disappointment.
Talked up as a classic piece of structural film, It seemed a mess littered with decorative motif's, bad acting and effects that seemed to detract from the conceptual potential of the piece.
for all i had heard about this piece it turns out its not a a continual zoom.
in the talk after William Reban said the film was not theatrical, However i disagree it is. the scene in which some one pretends to die could not be less theatrical. The Curator of exhibitions at BFI said it was painterly, surely this is just a way of saying its full of decoration. double exposures and the like. Then there is the sound : a mixture of location recording, a beatles song and a rising tone or tones. the tones come in about 10 minutes in. i cant understand this. its like an after thought. why. why woulld you over dub a beatles song. was this as radical as they claim.
In contrast to wavelength was the exhibition of recent work. the piece
Solar Breath (2002) pictured above was perfect. an unaltered video projection of a window with curtains being sucked in and out by the wind. simple. automatic. funny.
http://www.bfi.org.uk
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