Tanner America is a satirical blog about a seemingly typical American family, the Tanners: Rob and Allison Tanner and their kids. Rob and Allison document their average lifestyle in bizarrely mundane, clearly photoshopped snapshots. Each photo depicts a moment in their lives accompanied by a short, often very funny, caption. The images are altered in such a way that they become some sort of strange sculptural works. At the same time they form an implicit critique to the Tanner’s American lifestyle and the way they use the internet.
The blog is updated on a daily basis. I have no idea who is behind this, but I’d love to know!
Jon Sasaki, ‘Flyguy triggering his own motion sensor’ (2010)
A flyguy (one of the familiar dancing inflatables that wave people into carwashes and fast food restaurants) has been moved into the gallery and hooked up to a motion sensor.
The following pictures were taken at the Dia:Beacon, one of the Dia Art Foundation’s residencies in the state of New York. They have an impressive collection of iconic pieces of art, and each artist has their own room inside their wonderful building, the former Nabisco box printing facility built in 1929.
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…
The show runs until the end of this month and coming Friday, the 28th, during the Kunstweekend Charlois, we will have an altered exhibition and special activities at Galerie Gallery!
This coupon is made to be inserted in the Walgreens EasySaver Catalog available every month at Walgreens, a chain of superstores comparable to Walmart.
Wesley Willis (May 31, 1963 – August 21, 2003) was a busker, musician, comedian and artist from Chicago. A diagnosed chronic schizophrenic, he gained a sizable cult following in the 1990s after releasing several hundred songs of simple but unique music, with emphasis on his humorous, bizarre, and frequently obscene lyrics. In addition to his large body of solo musical work, Willis fronted the punk rock band the Wesley Willis Fiasco. He also produced hundreds of unusual colored ink-pen drawings, most of them of the Chicago skyline and CTA buses.
Stephen Wiltshire is a British man who was diagnosed as autistic when he was a child. He’s also been noted for his exacting memory, which allows him to recreate [in drawings] vast scenes he sees only once. This video shows his 16-foot-panorama of Rome after taking one helicopter ride above the city.
Christoph Schlingensief
Christoph Schlingensief, ‘The last supper’
‘Little shrine’
The trailer of a documentary on Schlingensief’s action ‘Auslaender raus!’
Christoph Schlingensief died last Saturday, the 21st of August, at the age of 49.
Watch the documentary “Deutschland, deine Kuenstler: Christoph Schlingensief” below.
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