I first saw Jasper van den Brink‘s photographs on the cover of Cabinet Magazine’s Electricity issue. Great issue, by the way. The photographs from the “Pigeon Lights” series are intriguing, but I also like the more performance-oriented projects, such as “Bouncing Balls”, in which 200 colored balls are placed on a drawbridge and allowed to […]
Archives for the ‘performance’ Category
Steve Lambert
Thursday, 19 February 2009
Steve Lambert‘s Add-Art plugin for Firefox replaces Ad’s in your web browser with curated art images. The images are updated every two weeks and features young contemporary artists and curators. I came across his work for the first time with the Shopdropping exhibition curated by Pond Gallery in San Francisco. He also has great drawings […]
Hasan Elahi
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
After being accused of terrorism, Hasan Elahi decided to save the government the trouble of spying on him and started streaming his daily activities. He also showed up on the Colbert Report last May.
Marisa Olson
Monday, 16 February 2009
Marisa Olson trains to be on American Idol in 2005. Check out her audition tape and training blog
Guy Ben-Ner
Monday, 16 February 2009
Guy Ben-Ner, Stealing Beauty, 2007 From UBU Web A boy comes home from school with a note indicating he was caught stealing money from his peer at school. His family is put to the challenge to educate him about the meaning and border lines separating private property from its “other”. The movie starts as a TV […]
Jill Magid
Monday, 16 February 2009
In Jill Magid’s “One Cycle of Memory in the City of L“, the artist contacts and becomes friends with the public surveillance camera (CCTV) operators for the city of Liverpool. They guide her over cell phone as she moves through the city, readily visible by the distinctive red trench coat that she wears. At one […]
William Lamson
Monday, 9 February 2009
William Lamson Work from Me in America. The entire site is well worth looking at, particularly Intervention, and Hunt and Gather. Lamson also has some great video work.
Zoë Sheehan Saldaña
Friday, 6 February 2009
Zoë Sheehan Saldaña Strike Anywhere, and work from Shopdropping.