‘Canvases’ by Brad Troemel.
Check out his great blog The Jogging. I will post some more of his work soon!
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Adam Cruces
Adam Cruces, ‘Vertigo’ (2008)
Check out his website for more nice videos, such as ‘Shane (After Jack Goldstein)’, a remake of Goldstein’s 1975 video.
Martin Kohout
‘Moonwalk’ (2008) by Martin Kohout.
Videos by Martin Kohout. You can watch them on his website during opening hours.
Two more:
‘A Ride Trough: Haiti:360° ‘ (2010)
‘The Vehicle S’ (2008)
Parkplatz project
Bernd Lohaus, first artist of Parkplatz.
Last week opened ‘Parkplatz‘. An exhibition of 6 small solo shows on a parking lot in the city of Breda (NL). Every month an artist will create an artwork specifically for one parking space. The work will remain in this parking space for the entire month, then a new artist will choose another space for a work. Go see this this summer in Breda!
Next artists:
Thomas Bakker, Colin Peeters, Kristof van Gestel, Gabriel Lester and Marjolijn Dijkman.
Bruce High Quality Foundation @ Whitney Biennial
A definite highlight (for me) of the Whitney Biennial was the work ‘We like America and America likes us’ (2010), by The Bruce High Quality Foundation.
With its title and form referring to Joseph Beuys’s performance ‘I like America and America likes me’ (where Beuys was picked up from the airport with a Cadillac ambulance and brought to the gallery, where he lived with a coyote for three days) an old ambulance stands in one of the rooms of the Whitney, a film playing on its windshield. The film is comprised of different clips taken from youtube videos. The female voiceover tells us about her difficult relationship to America, while it is constantly unclear whether America is a man, a woman, a lover, a friend, or really just the country.
The original video that’s shown on the windshield of the ambulance.
Joe Scanlan – ‘Wanderers in the expanded field’
‘Wanderers in the expanded field’ by ??? Joe Scanlan.
Craig Leonard
Sexy Neighbors
I saw Sexy Neighbors play live at The Charleston, NY, last Monday.
Below are three songs from their album ‘Dream Out’, which is currently growing on me…
Check them out!
Alex Hubbard @ Whitney Biennial
The other highlight for me was the video ‘Annotated Plans for an Evacuation ‘ (2009) by Alex Hubbard.
In the video, Hubbard continuously alters the look of an old, used Ford Tempo. He does this with styrofoam, plaster and spraypaint in a way that makes it seem like he has a very clear plan for the make-over. However, over the course of the video, the purpose for his alterations becomes increasingly unclear, while their pointlessness becomes ever more clear.
The video, as installed at the Whitney.