Jimmie Durham, ‘Stoning the refrigerator’ (1996)
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Aaron David Ross
Aaron David Ross, eZen Garden (2011)
http://www.aarondavidross.com/eZenGarden.mov
(Right click, “save link as”)
A simple way to use mouse scrolling as a direct means of meditation.
INSTRUCTIONS
* Download File
* Open in Quicktime
* DO NOT PLAY
* Two finger scroll (laptop) or use a scrollwheel mouse (desktop) to scrub the video
* Rake the garden at the rate you choose.
Pietmondriaan.com’s 2nd birthday!
Today is Pietmondriaan.com’s second birthday, and we wish to extend our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who’s been following us! Your responses so far have been great and we hope to have you back here anytime!
The beautiful picture above was sent to us by Fieke van Berkom and is part of our collection of Mondriaan-inspired miscellany. Keep those coming as well!
All the best, Michiel and Simon.
Orson Welles
Still from ‘F for fake’ (1973) by Orson Welles
A documentary about fakery that focusses on the notorious art forger Elmyr de Hory and Elmyr’s biographer, Clifford Irving, who also wrote the celebrated fraudulent Howard Hughes autobiography, then touches on the reclusive Hughes and Welles’ own career (which started with a faked resume and a phony Martian invasion). On the way, Welles plays a few tricks of his own on the audience.
Erin Shireff
Stills from ‘Live feed’ by Erin Shireff
In Shireff’s online project Live Feed (2007–ongoing) we can watch her walking around a vaguely human-shaped mound of clay that dominates her tiny studio. Though this is supposedly a ‘live feed’ of artistic creation, despite Shirreff’s constant movement the clay monolith lies inert, failing to take shape as a sculpture.
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys
Pictures of the exhibition ‘Objekte als Freunde’ (‘Objects as friends’) by Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys at the Kestnergesellschaft in Hannover, on view until August 16, 2011.
The exhibition consisted of 168 photographs of installations of the most random objects from 1 euro-shops or thrift stores, all of the same size and very detailed.
From different corners of the room came a generic, dull, computerized voice describing different colours and their associations and meaning. This sound belonged to the animation shown below.
