A small explosive event happened yesterday, as French conceptual artist Sophie Calle rolled into California College of Arts to give a talk about using photography as a medium in her work. “In her conceptual projects, Calle immerses herself in examinations of voyeurism, intimacy, and identity. In the process of secretly investigating, reconstructing or documenting strangers’ lives, Calle manipulates situations and individuals and often adopts guises. Thus in the act of pursuing a stranger to Venice, or taking the position of a hotel chamber maid to surreptitiously observe the guests, Calle conditions and recasts her own identity for that period of time. The documents or so-called evidence that results from these conceptual projects are presented as photographs, photo-text installations, and bookworks.
Calle’s works often focus on the nature of desire and on the relationships between the artist/observer and the objects of her investigations, as in her sole video project Double-Blind. Produced in collaboration with Gregory Shepard, this conceptual road movie was released theatrically in Europe as a feature film, entitled No Sex Last Night.”
Unfortunately, I’m on the east coast and couldn’t attend, but there are plenty of shouts published on Tumblr.
As we approach the horizon of the 2011 Unsound Music Festival NY, I can feel the anticipation building up. If you are a fan of electronic music and sonic arts, like I am, you probably know that Europe (particularly Germany) is the place to be. Beginning April 1st, New York folks will be in for a treat. It was only until a few weeks ago that the 2011 program has been announced, but it was well worth the wait. Last year’s line-up was amazing, but this year’s will not disappoint. The Festival officially opens on April 6th, with a preliminary week of screenings and lectures opening on April 1st under Unsound Festival NY Labs.
NYC based artist Paul Chan developed his own version of Plato’s original texts, with an erotically-dry and roboticized humor, that probably only New Yorkers can appreciate. The artist created a set of computer fonts named “erotic idiolects” – an evaluation of the conventional alphabet churning in an endless prose. Before you download the contents onto your Kindle, best to hear it live from the author himself.
Reading:
Tuesday, March 29, 7PM
192 Books
192 Tenth Ave, at 21st street
New York City
Lena Dunham was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film”. She studied creative writing, likes to write and make movies, but her bigger passion seems to be twitter. Ms. Dunham’s feature film “Tiny Furniture” was awarded Best Screenplay Spirit Award this past February. I’ve just started to follow her tweets.
Barbican (London) Opens New Exhibit: “Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark: Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s“
The work Laurie Anderson created while living in downtown New York City in the 1970s is inextricably linked to the place and time in which it was made. These are the focus of a new exhibit opening today at the Barbican Art Gallery in London titled Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark: Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s.
The new exhibit, which runs through May 22, is the first major presentation to examine the experimental and often daring approaches—from dancing on rooftops to cutting fragments out of abandoned buildings—taken by these three leading figures in the rough-and-ready arts scene developing in downtown Manhattan during the 1970s. Anderson, choreographer Trisha Brown, and artist Gordon Matta-Clark were friends and active participants in the New York art community, working fluidly between visual art and performance. Continue Reading More »
Robert Knoke is in town. The German artist has a show opening tonight at NP Contemporary Art Center in the Lower East Side. We met previously at Scope New York, following with a brief interview. If you follow Robert’s trail, you’re in for exciting times. From the art scene to fashion and even art-house films. You can see his work in person or meet the artist tonight during the opening of Robert Knoke: This Is Not, showing from March 10-May 1st, 2011.
NP Contemporary Art Center
131 Chrystie Street
New York, NY 10002
"Steven-Circle-Green" 2010, Thomas Dozol (courtesy of NP Contemporary Art Center)
Join us on a gallery walk in the Lower East Side this Sunday, March 6th, as a wrap up and recap to this week’s art events. Led by Artcards editors, who are also independent curators, Helen Homan Wu and Howard Hurst. The tour offers an exclusive opportunity to engage in conversations with gallerists, curators, and the art. We will also be attending the closing party of Thomas Dozol’s All Together Now (Studies for a Missing Utopia)! exhibition at NP Contemporary Art Center. Being a native LES New Yorker, I wanted to start the tour with a slightly exotic touch, going for dim sum brunch on the brim of Chinatown. Sign up here, or if you have questions, contact me at Review@artcards.cc.
Tour Details:
March 6th, 2011
Sunday, 1PM
Brunch in Wing Shoon Restaurant
165 East Broadway
10 1/2 Galleries
Starting at Reena Spaulings Gallery and ending with Jen Bekman Gallery.
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