new blog

hey guys just to mess with you i switched over to wordpress to blog.

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new blog

hey guys just to mess with you i switched over to wordpress to blog.

robertswindows.wordpress.com

finally got to work on some new things over break

the flight of the dodo

seeing this exhibition at the project gallery in ireland has really helped me think about my own work the show's bio is below.  all the artists exhibited are consciously making work related to connecting the past with our future some take a personal exploration while others look critically at social groups and there effect on the future.  

i really like the whole show, because it's helpful to me.  I've become something of a sinic and like Louise Bourgeoise have come to only like people/things that help me.  "it's a very, very sad thing to say" ::im not sure if that is really true but i've been considering it after reading an interview of hers::

karen yama currently in two different shows.  one called "the cult of personality/portraits and mass culture" (top image) at the galleria erna hecey and the one at the museum of contemporary photography  called work/place.  (bottom one)

i am always drawn to photographs of photography ie:levine as they bring up questions specific to the use of photography in our culture.  These images are examples of methodology for curating and displaying one's own environment (home/work) and the ways in which people display their own snapshots.  Size of images, heirarchy, placement in space (cubicle), portraits of whom, age of portrait; all considerations people make when exhibiting their own photography.  

::no info on object or artist::

An installation at the Bridge gallery in NYC devoted to recycled art repurposed for furniture design. Not currently available, shown in 2006.

I like to be resourceful and try to be accountable for my own waste and appreciate that quite a few artists have taken to using wasted objects as the source materials for artmaking. I also love when those same wasted objects can be re-used as functioning art objects like chairs and light fixtures and while this particular chair may lead to splinter's in the ass it definately brings up questions of consumption and re-invention.

linda abdul
(still from film)
What we saw upon awakening presents a scene of perhaps a dozen young men clad in black pulling on the remains of a bombed-out structure in Kabul, the ruin a legacy of decades of war in the region. Ropes are fastened to the ruin at various points, and the men strain to pull them as if to tear down what remains of the building. The ropes create a complex and resonant image. They literally form a web, with associations of entanglement, and create a similarly biomorphic form like an octopus. Entangled in this web are memories of ruin, collapse, and history.

this image made me think about the construction of new realities. a bombed out ruin is better torn down then seen as document of a century of war. we can choose to forget the past and create a new identity that works for us now, we may not feel connected to values of the past and becomes the responsibility of the new generation to not only strike out what's deemed incongruous but also to establish a reality more suitable for our own ideals. that in that of itself is a notion which pervades in all aspects of personal and societal existence.



Tercerunquinto
Archive for Sale, a Sacrificial Act, 2007
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Image courtesy of the artists.

Vis-á-Vis: Dialogues between Artists and Curators from the Western Hemisphere

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Speakers:

• Fernando Bryce, Artist
• Miriam Basilio, Assistant Professor of Art History, Museum Studies, New York University.

Fernando Bryce’s artworks narrate alternative versions of history throughout a series of drawings that reproduce images, documents, and texts, elaborating new meanings and contexts. Bryce will converse with Basilio addressing issues of authorship, historical legitimacy and the contradictions of modernity as a universal discourse.

This program will be the opening event of PINTA, the Latin American Fair for Modern and Contemporary Art, that comes back to the city this coming fall for second year. PINTA will take place from November 13th to 16th, at the Metropolitan Pavilion and Altman Building, NY.

I liked this image because of it's connection to the artifact finding of anne r hall. these ubiquitous paper boxes are displayed on a table each with their own identities and the title of the work is archive for sale. no description of their contents just the commodification of potential ideas, images, personal histories, and narratives.

soulja boy lyrics

not a current exhibition but a year ago today this was #1 on the billboard top 100.

soulja boy (crank that) : by soulja boy

"Soulja Boy Off In This Hoe
Watch me Crank It
Watch me Roll
Watch me Crank Dat Soulja Boy
Then Super Man Dat Hoe
Now, Watch me You...
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now, Watch me You...
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now, Watch me You...
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)
Now, Watch me You...
(Crank Dat Soulja Boy)"