Archives for posts tagged ‘performance’

Daniel Eatock

  Daniel Eatock Work from Quarter Mile Groove (video), Closed Loops, and Best Before October 26, 2008. Eatock’s site is a massive database of work that should be perused at leisure. ____________________ Quarter Mile Groove “The recording translates the length of its vinyl groove into audio allowing listeners to experience the 1/4 mile length of […]

Industry of the Ordinary

Industry of the Ordinary Work from the projects  Industry of the Ordinary is the collaborative performance art/sculpture team of Adam Brooks and Mathew Wilson. Their manifesto is: “Through sculpture, text, photography, video, sound and performance Industry of the Ordinary are dedicated to an exploration and celebration of the customary, the everyday, and the usual. Their […]

leonardogillesfleur

leonardogillesfleur An are collective consisting of Leonardo Giacomuzzo and Gilles-Fleur Boutry, leonardogillesfleur’s work addresses the temporal nature of video work and photography, with many pieces serving as (mostly) static re-enactments of snapshots, where physical strain/time betray the nature of the pieces as video. They also have some fairly hilarious visual pun and analogue mash-up work […]

Michael Love

Michael Love Work from the projects, Self Portrait with Rifle, and the Library Appropriation Project. I bumped into his website today, and he may just be one of my new favorite artists. Good job Canada. Statement from Library Appropriation Project below, statement from Self Portrait with Rifle attached to image above (done by me for […]

Urban Camouflage

Urban Camouflage, work from the only body of work that I know they (he/she?) have. Urban Camouflage deals with the question how to camouflage oneself and one’s identity in the urban space. Our costumes are inspired by the ghillie suits, the military camouflage suit. It was an adventure to wear the suit in the stores […]

Yevgeniy Fiks

Yevgeniy Fiks Work from the piece Lenin For Your Library? I saw a show the Fiks was a part of at the Art Laboratory Berlin recently and there was a fantastic piece which I could not find on the internet. Opposite the wall of letters from various corporate libraries was the piece described below (by […]

David A. Parker

I saw David A. Parker‘s photographs in a show a couple of years back and have continued to be intrigued by his “Escape Strategies” series.  I also like the “Circular Reasoning” series:

Jasper van den Brink

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 […]

Steve Lambert

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

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.