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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Kalup Linzy
Kalup Linzy (born July 23, 1977) is an American video and performance artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Born in Clermont, Florida, Linzy graduated from the MFA program at the University of South Florida in 2003. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture video art workshop, and in 2005 received a grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. Linzy was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2007. Linzy’s best known work is a series of video art pieces satirizing the tone and narrative approach of television soap opera. Linzy performs most of the characters himself, many of them in drag. He also performs many of the same characters on stage.
Kalup Linzy, excerpt from ‘Keys to our heart’ (2008)
Interview here
Kendell Geers
Mandla Reuter, ‘Coppice’
Mandla Reuter, ‘Coppice’ (2002)
An intervention that caused people to have to find a different way into the room.
Mike Nelson, ‘To the memory of H.P. Lovecraft’
Anish Kapoor
‘Shooting into the corner’ (2009) by Anish Kapoor.
Installation at the Royal Academy of Arts in London (2009). A canon shoots 11 kilograms heavy wax balls into the corner of the next room.
Frank Zappa plays the bicycle
Frank Zappa plays the bicycle. His TV debut on the Steve Allen show (1963).
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Michael Kontopoulis
‘Machines that Almost Fall Over’ (2008) by Michael Kontopoulos.
A system of sculptures that is constantly on the brink of collapse.
Johannes Vogl
Johannes Vogl, Ohne Titel (Marmeladenbrotstreichmaschine) / Untitled (Machine to produce jam breads) (2007)
Daniel Bejar
Daniel Bejar, ‘The visual topography of a generation gap’ (2006 – now)
A copy was made from Bejar’s original apartment key, then a copy was made from that copy. This process was repeated until the original keys information was destroyed, resulting in the topography of a generation.
Driessens & Verstappen
During the etching process five keys are submerged in an etching solution. From time to time one of the objects is removed from the solution, until finally a small unrecognisable shape was left over.
During the galvanisation process, metal atoms from a copper sulphate solution are deposited onto the objects by means of electrolysis. Just like during the etching process, four keys have been subject to the chemical process for an increasing period of time.
Driessens & Verstappen, ‘Morphoteque #13′ (2003)
Locks of love
Locks of love at the Ponte Milvio in Rome, Italy.
Locks of love are the padlocks fixed by loving couples to symbolize their eternal love. A couple would hang a padlock after inscribing their name or initials on it and throw the key away so that their love is locked forever.
Don Justo’s Self Built Cathedral
Do it yourself: Justo Gallego Martínez is building his very own Cathedral in Mejorada del Campo near Madrid, Spain.
This is no “model” cathedral and he is neither a qualified architect, nor engineer, nor bricklayer — he is a farmer. “The plans have only ever existed in my head” and have evolved over time in response to opportunity and inspiration.
Ferdinand Cheval’s ideal castle
Ferdinand ‘Postman’ Cheval’s ‘ideal castle’.
Cheval began the building in April 1879. He claimed that he had tripped on a stone and was inspired by its shape. He returned to the same spot the next day and started collecting stones.
For the next 33 years, during his daily mail route, Cheval carried stones from his delivery rounds and at home used them to build his Palais idéal, the Ideal Palace. First he carried the stones in his pockets, then a basket and eventually a wheelbarrow. He often worked at night, by the light of an oil lamp.
Cheval spent the first two decades building the outer walls. The Palace is a mix of different styles with inspirations from the Bible to Hindu mythology. Cheval bound the stones together with lime, mortar and cement.
More after the jump.
Stephen Lichty
‘Two Bears’ by Stephen Lichty.