SculptureCenter
Bendati/Blindfolded
an open, collective performance
Sunday, November 18, 10am
This is to identify with the state of mind of Luigi, who, for over a year now, has had trouble with his eyesight. He must remain in complete darkness, or keep his eyes closed for long periods of time.
Those contributing are free to stay still or move, do something or not, work or rest. Participants are also invited to identify with Luigi's condition and simply experience the loss of sight for an hour.
After the performance impressions can be posted on http://forgottensculptors.blogspot.com a space where analogies, coincidences, and individual thoughts may appear; where images and voices seen or heard during the action can find an echo.
Emilio Fantin, Luigi Negro, Giancarlo Norese, Cesare Pietroiusti
Forgotten Sculptors
Bendati/Blindfolded is the last action in a series of events that make up Forgotten Sculptors. Forgotten Sculptors is a project by Fantin, Negro, Norese, and Pietroiusti, produced by SculptureCenter for PERFORMA07. The project began with a series of short email stories; and the second part consisted of a live performance by the four artists with the participation of Joan Jonas and Steve Piccolo, which took place at SculptureCenter on November 3, 2007. For more information about Forgotten Sculptors, please email forgottensculptors@sculpture-center.org
With the support of the Italian Cultural Institute, New York.
For additional information please contact SculptureCenter: (1) 718.361.1750 or
info@sculpture-center.org
Media contact: Katie Farrell, kfarrell@sculpture-center.org
About SculptureCenter
Founded by artists in 1928, SculptureCenter is a not-for-profit arts institution dedicated to experimental and innovative developments in contemporary sculpture. SculptureCenter commissions new work and presents exhibits by emerging and established, national and international artists.
SculptureCenter is five minutes from Midtown by subway. Please visit the website
for details.
PERFORMA07 (November 1-20, 2007) is the second biennial of new visual art performance presented by PERFORMA, a non-profit multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century. http://www.performa-arts.org
(((http://07.performa-arts.org/artists.php)))
Friday, November 9, 2007
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
How to organize your brain in terms of computer files....
It is an incredible perception to equate a human brain to that of a computer hard drive. Just as the brain stores information, so does the the hard drive. Though the two differ in a plethora of ways, I can not help but continuously draw parallels. A click or an audio/visual clue will conjure up files/memories.
What if you created a folder called brain, and within that folder created more folders, and then within those folders created more folders etc. so that the further from the parent folder the more specific the folder...
what if you could reach a memory by typing in a command... something similar to:
~danigali/cisc103/lab04/index.txt
Though, what does it mean:
to reduce something sensorial/experiential to text?
for memories to be accessible to anyone?
accessible via inter web?
to be blocked into one pathway?
to be contained an exist in one location?
not to exist as other memories on the same loci?
to try to recall memories and share them as text?
More to follow...
What if you created a folder called brain, and within that folder created more folders, and then within those folders created more folders etc. so that the further from the parent folder the more specific the folder...
what if you could reach a memory by typing in a command... something similar to:
~danigali/cisc103/lab04/index.txt
Though, what does it mean:
to reduce something sensorial/experiential to text?
for memories to be accessible to anyone?
accessible via inter web?
to be blocked into one pathway?
to be contained an exist in one location?
not to exist as other memories on the same loci?
to try to recall memories and share them as text?
More to follow...
Monday, August 13, 2007
The Art Parade!
http://www.deitch.com/files/projects/artparade07_pr.pdf
September 08, 2007
Along West Broadway
Deitch Projects, Creative Time and Paper Magazine are pleased to announce the third annual Art Parade. The parade will take place on Saturday September 8, at 4PM. The route will begin on Houston and follow West Broadway, ending on Grand Street. Following the success of the past two Art Parades, artists, performers and designers are again being invited to create floats, placards, portable sculptures, kites, performances and street spectacles.
THE ART PARADE is co-produced by Creative Time, New York's premiere presenter of art in the public realm and Paper Magazine, the definitive guide to downtown style and culture.
I plan on going to this ... if you are interested in accompanying ... contact me!
September 08, 2007
Along West Broadway
Deitch Projects, Creative Time and Paper Magazine are pleased to announce the third annual Art Parade. The parade will take place on Saturday September 8, at 4PM. The route will begin on Houston and follow West Broadway, ending on Grand Street. Following the success of the past two Art Parades, artists, performers and designers are again being invited to create floats, placards, portable sculptures, kites, performances and street spectacles.
THE ART PARADE is co-produced by Creative Time, New York's premiere presenter of art in the public realm and Paper Magazine, the definitive guide to downtown style and culture.
I plan on going to this ... if you are interested in accompanying ... contact me!
Monday, July 30, 2007
WaxFactory
In searching for additional information regarding Georges Bataille's 'The Impossible'
I stumbled upon the WaxFactory in NYC, which appears to be a home to multidisciplinary practices and artistic performances...
A couple years back a team of artist/performers staged a live performance of 'A story of rats'
information is obscure... additional prying is required
http://www.waxfactory.org/
I stumbled upon the WaxFactory in NYC, which appears to be a home to multidisciplinary practices and artistic performances...
A couple years back a team of artist/performers staged a live performance of 'A story of rats'
information is obscure... additional prying is required
http://www.waxfactory.org/
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Innocence vs. Absurdity
Absurdity and absurdist actions, according to Camus, are identifiable by their lack of explication and solutions. Rather they are replete with description and experience. It is the 'what' not the 'why' which perpetuates and serves as a catalyst for absurd existence.
It hard for me to recollect actions i have engaged in that have had been inexplicable or with out a directive motive. It has been as though anything denoting absurdity has inherently become the alienated response.
Perhaps it is because of the experience pertaining to that of the absurd in which i have previously angaged in, or ,maybe because it is in that incomprehension of the absurd, that i have been deterred from a purely experiential situation, and have since sought out an existence based on the concreteness of a mathematical equation.
Within existing and engaging in a diminishing amount of absurdist actions it is in the popular notion of 'growing up' or 'maturing' that has placed such negative connotations upon the idea of absurdist living. Anything without an answer is taboo. Yet when we question an answer that has become the epitome of taboo. It is as if the pursuit of living has become synonomous with solidified solutions and rationale.
It hard for me to recollect actions i have engaged in that have had been inexplicable or with out a directive motive. It has been as though anything denoting absurdity has inherently become the alienated response.
Perhaps it is because of the experience pertaining to that of the absurd in which i have previously angaged in, or ,maybe because it is in that incomprehension of the absurd, that i have been deterred from a purely experiential situation, and have since sought out an existence based on the concreteness of a mathematical equation.
Within existing and engaging in a diminishing amount of absurdist actions it is in the popular notion of 'growing up' or 'maturing' that has placed such negative connotations upon the idea of absurdist living. Anything without an answer is taboo. Yet when we question an answer that has become the epitome of taboo. It is as if the pursuit of living has become synonomous with solidified solutions and rationale.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Check it out!
Look out for:
SEPTEMBER 2007
Artifact-Metafact
Artists exploring the transformations of visual symbols,
curated by Tamas Veszi and Carla Aspenberg
http://www.repetti.org/gallery_current.htm
* james Kalm - pseudonym for the art critic/ writer of the controversial Brooklyn rail
Posted by dani gali at 8:09 AM
*Eric Doeinger - www.ericdoeringer.com
* Jenn Dalton - http://www.artsurvey.net/survey.php
SEPTEMBER 2007
Artifact-Metafact
Artists exploring the transformations of visual symbols,
curated by Tamas Veszi and Carla Aspenberg
http://www.repetti.org/gallery_current.htm
* james Kalm - pseudonym for the art critic/ writer of the controversial Brooklyn rail
Posted by dani gali at 8:09 AM
*Eric Doeinger - www.ericdoeringer.com
* Jenn Dalton - http://www.artsurvey.net/survey.php
Sunday, May 6, 2007
The next documenta should be curated by an artist
The Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist
After the opening of Documenta 11 several questions were posed to a group of international artists: What happens if artists take over and occupy territory usually reserved for curators? What happens if artists are asked to propose a concept for a large-scale group exhibition and take control over a prestigious exhibition such as Documenta? The responses to these questions, some in the form of full proposals or shorter comments, resulted in a publication, a web-based project and a conference titled The Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist in 2003 and 2004.
Just before the opening of Docmenta 12 in Kassel this June, these questions and the responses are still at the center of the conversation about the role of large-scale international group exhibitions and the relationship between artists and curators.
Out of print for the last three years the The Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist book is back and available again! Over 30 proposals will be back in print as a bootleg version of the original publication which will be launched on May 16th at the Swiss Institute in New York City.
Curated by Jens Hoffmann
Participants:
Marina Abramovic
Pawel Althamer
John Baldessari
Ricardo Basbaum
Laura Belem
Dara Birnbaum
Daniel Buren
AA Bronson
Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset
Morgan Fisher
Liam Gillick
Joseph Grigely
Natascha Sadr Haghighian
Carl Michael von Hausswolff
Isabel Heimerdinger
Federico Herrero
Alfredo Jaar
Tim Lee
Ken Lum
Dorit Margreiter
John Miller
Jonathan Monk
Boris Ondreicka
Serkan Ozkaya
Florian Pumhosl
Martha Rosler
Julia Scher
Markus Schinwald
Tino Sehgal
Lawrence Weiner
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