Carsten Höller, ‘One Minute of Doubt’ (1999)
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Gregory Laynor
Gregory Laynor, ‘The Making of Americans’ (2008)
A reading of Gertrude Stein’s The Making of Americans in 913 mp3’s, one for each page of the book. Available on ubuweb
Jordan Wolfson
Jordan Wolfson, ‘Con Leche’ (2009)
Watch on ubuweb
Shot on video in Detroit Michigan, the characters walk through the desolate streets in real video sometimes in groups and sometimes alone. The image wobbles, flips and turns inside of the video frame. A commercial voice over actress speaks from texts Wolfson collected from the internet referencing identity, technology, memory and mortality most of which are personal accounts spoken in first person. Every few minutes Jordan Wolfson interrupts her giving basic formal instructions and adjustments distorting her tone, volume, and “sex”
Caroline McCarthy
Caroline McCarthy, ‘Souvenirs (Blue) & Golden Wonder’ (1998)
Cut-Out Swimming Pools from Holiday Brochures, Crisps, Shelving, Wire
Rosemarie Trockel
Rosemarie Trockel, ’56 Brushstrokes’ (1990)
The ’56 Brushstrokes’ are the product of a Painting Machine designed by Rosemarie Trockel. Seven rows of eight brushes are attached to shafts oufitted with steel rollers, which are drawn along a track approximately two meters long by a spool driven by an electric motor. The brushes are manufactured by Da Vinci, the painter’s brush factory in Nürnberg, with the hair of real artists. As they are pulled along, the brushes are first dipped in watercolors and then drawn over Japanese paper, so that they leave behind eight different brush strokes running in multiple broken “autograph marks” parallel to one another.
Hadley+Maxwell
Hadley+Maxwell, ‘Metal Pessoa (Carte)’ (2012)
Re-designed menu, part of a body of work entitled ‘Metal Pessoa’. This also includes a performance with a recording of Maxwell reading Fernando Pessoa’s unsigned, “Letter to Two French Magnetists” (1919), interpreting it through a range of voices influenced by Heavy Metal styles. Listen to an excerpt here: http://www.hadleyandmaxwell.net/metal-pessoa-berlin/
