William Basinski, ‘The Disintegration Loops’, performed live by The Wordless Music Orchestra, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY (2011)
Tag Archives: repetition
Hadley+Maxwell
Hadley+Maxwell, ‘Nature appears, As one looks Looking at this that painting, such a picture,…’ (2010)
collage on paper of 7 English translations of the novel ‘The Idiot’, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Gavin Turk
Gavin Turk, ‘Return to forever’ (2009)
A Jackson Pollock style painting made from attempts of the Artists signature, repeated in various sizes and colours onto canvas.
Zoe Leonard
The series ‘You see I am here after all’ by Zoe Leonard.
A work comprising several thousand vintage postcards of Niagara Falls, dating from the early 1900s to the 1950s. Rendered stereotypical and generic through repetition over decades, these landscape motifs are emblematic of mass culture’s transformation of natural sites into tourist destinations. As installed at the Dia Art Foundation, Beacon, NY.
Martin Arnold
Ending of Martin Arnold‘s ‘Alone. Life wastes Andy Hardy’ (1998)
“The cinema of Hollywood is a cinema of exclusion, reduction and denial, a cinema of repression. There is always something behind that which is being represented, which was not represented. And it is exactly that that is most interesting to consider.” – Martin Arnold
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Joachim Koester
‘To navigate, in a genuine way, in the unknown necessitates an attitude of daring, not one of recklessness (movements generated from the Magical Passes of Carlos Castaneda)’ (2009) by Joachim Koester
Through the choreography of drawings and bodily movements, Koester traces methods intended to access or express physical sensation beyond cognition. In an ambiguous dark space, a mime performs the exercises described by the infamous anthropologist Carlos Casteneda in his 1998 book Magical Passes. According to Casteneda, these were secret shamanic gestures meant to enhance one’s ability to navigate “the dark sea of awareness”.
At the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover. Fullscreen for slightly better view.
