(incli)NATION

Fifty People, One Question: Brooklyn

"Take 5 minutes out of your day and WATCH THIS BEAUTIFUL VIDEO! really.
Fifty People, One Question: Brooklyn from Crush + Lovely on Vimeo.

With or Without You - Sungha Jung, Child Prodigy

More YouTube goodness: Sungha Jung, child prodigy. Yes, we're spending too much time on the YouTubes these days, but when my friend emailed this link to me, I was blown away. You will be too. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4CR3GoB3YY

Art Basel Miami: Let the Games Begin!

Kim Joon, Bird Land-Armani (detail), 2008

Just got this great summary from Artkrush who will be on the scene again this year bringing you all the goodness to be found. Be sure to keep checking back as the month develops...

"Talk of bursting bubbles and crashing markets has bled through the front page and into the art sections of today's news. And so, as crates of canvas arrive in Miami postmarked from around the world, the most coveted position available in today's art world is that of the spectator."

Dream Holiday: Bucky Fuller, Chris Burden and David Byrne

If I were not going to be floating in my father's Arizona pool week after next, here is a list of the things I would be seeing on my [imaginary] trip to NYC. [not that I in any way take for granted my father's generosity...]

Erector Set Skyscraper at Rockefeller Center Is Adult Fantasy: ...a sweet, old-fashioned tribute to boyhood optimism...Chris Burden's "What My Dad Gave Me"... [images]- Bloomberg News

Dymaxion Man: The visions of Buckminster Fuller: By staging the retrospective, the Whitney raises—or, really, one should say, re-raises—the question of Fuller’s relevance. Was he an important cultural figure because he produced inventions of practical value or because he didn’t?- New Yorker

and of course...

[David] Byrne’s new installation produced by Creative Time, “Playing The Building,” is located downtown in the Battery Maritime Building, which was built in 1909, closed in 1938 and hasn’t been open to the public for 50 years.

Edith Piaf and Django Reinhardt

Don't know what it is about this photo that moves me. Edith Piaf and Django Reinhardt sitting for a portrait no doubt but they both seem miles away, absorbed in the intimacy of touch. She is reading his palm and as I lacerated my own right hand in a fit of rage last night and ended up in urgent care, I am particularly sensitive to the fragility of my body and indeed my life...

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Let's Get Lost @ NWFF Oct. 26 - Nov. 1, Seattle, WA

As long time Chet Baker fans, we can't wait to view this one:

OCTOBER 26 - NOVEMBER 1, Fri - Thurs at 7 & 9:15pm

LET'S GET LOST

(Bruce Weber, USA, 1988, 35mm, 119 min)
In the 1950s, Chet Baker's jazz trumpeting, edgy, intimate crooning and pretty boy good looks epitomized West Coast "cool."When famed photographer Bruce Weber caught up with him three decades later, time and drug addiction had ravaged his life and angelic beauty with deep valleys and crevasses. LET'S GET LOST artfully intercuts gorgeous black and white footage of the gaunt latter-day Baker, with images of the young jazz trumpeter in iconic 1950s early television and film appearances and photographs by William Claxton. Shot by Weber and cinematographer Jeff Preiss during what would turn out to be Baker's final year, the film also includes interviews with friends, family, lovers and associates. This transfixing, bittersweet portrait of the jazz legend won the Critics' Prize at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award. Nearly 20 years since its premiere and nearly 15 since it has been seen in any medium, we're pleased to present a brand new 35mm print of a recent restoration done by Weber himself.

"It's the music doc as film noir, with a vampirish city-of-night gleam that suits the subject and his darkly romantic sound."-Jim Ridley, THE VILLAGE VOICE





OCTOBER 26, Fri at 7 & 9:15pm
NOT AVAILABLE ON VIDEO

Bob Dylan on the Chabad Telethon: One of the Only Redeeming Reasons to Live in LA; The Ten most Incomprehensible Bob Dylan Interviews of All Time

We just heard about the new Bryant Park Project over at NPR and while perusing the web component of the project, we ran across this great YouTube clip. Have a listen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mVAn4X5zNc

"Dylan's been giving bad interviews for so long that New York Magazine compiled a list that they call "The Ten Most Incomprehensible Bob Dylan Interviews of All Time." Now I applaud them for their research, and it's certainly worth a look, because they tracked down video of most of these trainwrecks. (A 1986 classic is above.) But I take issue with New York's slant.

How many times have you heard Bob Dylan characterized as being out of it and incoherent? How many jokes have been made about him mumbling and rambling through songs and sentences? It's a pretty old and predictable take, and it has little or no basis in reality.

Say what you will about Dylan. You may think he's past his prime, you may think his songs go on forever, and after watching interview clips like the one above, you may think he's a jerk. But make no mistake--he knows exactly what he's doing.

Beer, Babes and Butoh:The Bridge Motel Blowout, Seattle 9/15/07

      

...For those of you who don't already know, the Bridge Motel has been a Seattle icon of sorts for the last 50 years; needles in the sheets and no questions asked. A year ago DK Pan took over as manager with an eye to holding this event just before the motel was to be razed [I thought that was Pan in the picture on the left, holding the red umbrella on the roof of the motel, but it was probably either Sheri Brown or Diana Garcia-Snyder performing "Praying Walk", I think...]. The only stipulation for artists was to avoid the subject of drugs, prostitution, or other obvious cheap motel clichés.

We showed up around 7:30 and jumped right in, though we didn't have the courage to open the door to 'The Van'--Mike Min's contribution to the festivities--at least not at first.

The event drew around 1200 people (according to the people who should know), though the small footprint of the motel and parking lot made it seem like twice that number. We found a place in the line and settled in.

      

Standing in the phenomenally long line, I thought I heard the sound of howling, and as the crowd parted, there it was, a perfectly preserved, young coyote--stuffed, mind you--sitting in a Red Flyer wagon, flanked by the curious and the confused...

read the rest HERE

...For those of you who don't already know, the Bridge Motel has been a Seattle icon of sorts for the last 50 years; needles in the sheets and no questions asked. A year ago DK Pan took over as manager with an eye to holding this event just before the motel was to be razed [I thought that was Pan in the picture on the left, holding the red umbrella on the roof of the motel, but it was probably either Sheri Brown or Diana Garcia-Snyder performing "Praying Walk", I think...]. The only stipulation for artists was to avoid the subject of drugs, prostitution, or other obvious cheap motel clichés.

We showed up around 7:30 and jumped right in, though we didn't have the courage to open the door to 'The Van'--Mike Min's contribution to the festivities--at least not at first.

The event drew around 1200 people (according to the people who should know), though the small footprint of the motel and parking lot made it seem like twice that number. We found a place in the line and settled in.

      

Standing in the phenomenally long line, I thought I heard the sound of howling, and as the crowd parted, there it was, a perfectly preserved, young coyote--stuffed, mind you--sitting in a Red Flyer wagon, flanked by the curious and the confused...

read the rest HERE

Sympathy for the Devil @ MCA Chicago, 9.29.07

As far as I'm concerned, this is THE show to see this fall; a perfect storm of music, art, and politics with the likes of Tony Oursler, Richard Prince and Jack PIerson, together with (incli)NATION favorites like Marnie Weber, Dave Muller and Jason Rhoades, not to mention references to Warhol, Lou Reed, Destroy all Monsters, Red Crayola, and Kraftwerk among many others.

So now all we need to get are tickets and a schedule and see you there!

CHICAGO.-The explosive social and political climate of the late-1960s produced a revolutionary spirit that led to the fusion of avant-garde art and rock music. Artists as diverse as Andy Warhol, The Velvet Underground, Captain Beefheart, and Richard Hamilton burst forth with new creative endeavors. The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, presents Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, the first major exhibition devoted to the convergence of contemporary art and rock music over the past forty years. Sympathy for the Devil opens on September 29, 2007, the MCA’s official 40th Anniversary and the kick-off of “40 Free Days,” and closes on January 6, 2008

more at the MCA

via Artdaily

"To the Masses" @ Scion, LA 8/25/07

If you're going to be in LA this weekend, be sure to check the opening at Scion Space on Saturday night. Gonna be great!  -d.

Scion Installation gallery goes big with a new show curated by Giant Robot's Eric Nakamura and featuring work by Caroline Hwang, Olaf Ladousse, and a tight group of international post-design artists who spend their days changing the way our world looks. (SND)

Note: This exhibition remains on display through Sat 9.8 (Wed-Sat: 11am-6pm).

via Flavorpill

http://www.scion.com/space/

"Gift for the Screamer's @ Raid Projects, Los Angeles

We just missed this one as the opening was on Sat. but we could not resist posting the release--proving once again that the west coast rocks, this great new project from Craig Leonard, in addition to being conceptually intruiging and visually stunning piece, is generous to a fault. Great work!

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Raid Projects presents Craig Leonard -- Gift For The Screamers, on view August 4 - 25, 2007. Multidisciplinary artist Craig Leonard has given himself the task of finding the former members of the legendary Los Angeles punk band the Screamers in order to give them handmade records of their archival recordings.

In a continuation of his research-based practice, Leonard's "Gift for the Screamers" draws on the multifarious categories of sculptural installation, archival research, performance, audio experimentation, and community activism.

In the archives of the Centre for Experimental Art and Communication (1973-80), Leonard uncovered what he thinks could be punk's Holy Grail. For four months in 1977, the Centre housed the first punk club in Toronto under the title "Crash & Burn". One of the artifacts in the Crash & Burn collection is a rare demo tape from the Los Angeles synth-punk band the Screamers. During their active years (1977-81) the Screamers played several electrifying live shows but in the end never released an official record.

In true DIY fashion, Leonard has used the original recordings to create playable records, which he fabricated in the gallery space, simply using a rubber mold and liquid plastic. The finished records will be given to the former members of the Screamers as a symbol of the record the band never ended up making. Along with the multiple handmade records, the centerpiece of Leonard's installation is his rudimentary "laboratory" displaying the remnants of the record-making process.

Craig Leonard's recent projects have relied on research and community partnerships including: an examination of Cuba's underground libraries; a compilation of obsolete concepts from the Oxford English Dictionary; and a proposal for an anti-canon of Canadian literature. Leonard teaches Intermedia at NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Raid Projects is dedicated to promoting the understanding and engagement with contemporary art via exhibitions that reach diverse audiences in Los Angeles, and internationally, and offer the opportunity to establish a dialogue with significant developments of our time in contemporary art practices globally. By an ongoing program of collaborations with a wide range of artists and curators we aim to present and document challenging new work in all mediums by younger, as well as more established artists, from Los Angeles, across the United States and abroad.

Since its founding in 1999, Raid has created over 100 exhibitions, both at the Los Angeles gallery and at museums, institutions, universities and alternative spaces worldwide, that have included the work of more than 500 artists from around the world. Previous projects have been manifested in London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Istanbul, Mexico City, Sydney and other cities.

via ArtNewsDaily

more here

Bat For Lashes - What's a Girl To Do

So much bad news lately. Dark times. Lately we've been feeling, well, like this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=n1wnOUH2jk8

Oliver Mandić 'My Love Wants Only to Watch Kurusawa Films'

Below is "a music video from 1981 by Oliver Mandić, a big-time 1980s eastern European pop star, transvestite, drug experimenter, orientalist (natch), perfectionist and all-around controversial guy." --benperry.net

I think it is absolutley amazing and must be watched by everyone under the age of 20:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFGObRscWas

A big 'thank you' to benperry.net for this one

Fujiya & Miyagi, "Ankle Injuries" creative scripting on YouTube

Absolutely fantastic video. Obviously scripted pixels into die, but great nonetheless. The kids are complaining they ripped off Gondry's White Stripes vid, but they just don't know...there is nothing NEW in the world. ENJOY!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5XVeENmLMk

Mackris v. O'Reilly @ the Rendezvous, Belltown. 6.28.07

Mark your calendars now for this one! Sure to be an hilarious evening!

"On Thursday June 28th, Artdish will be celebrating the long-awaited CD release of Igor Keller's oratorio Mackris v. O'Reilly in the Grotto Room of the Rendezvous (2322 2nd Avenue) in Belltown. The party will begin at 6:00 and should go on until midnight. Come meet Igor along with your other favorite Artdish personalities and get a copy of the CD, the cool poster, and each of the hilarious T-shirts.

from the website:

Mackris v. O’Reilly The Oratorio
Mackris v. O’Reilly is an oratorio for 28-piece chamber orchestra, 26-voice chorus and three soloists (soprano, tenor and baritone) set to the original court complaint filed against pundit, Bill O’Reilly, on October 13, 2004 and O’Reilly’s on-air settlement announcement given on October 29, 2004.  The style of the piece is a traditional neo-baroque that makes the most of the oratorio format.  Its 31 parts include seven chorales, two madrigals, three choruses (parts of the chorus matched up with components from the orchestra), four stand-alone recitatives, two instrumental entrances and numerous arias.  All of these parts add up to a two-hour running time.