The Order of Things, 11 september- 4 January, 2009, at MuHKA begins its reading of classificatory image collections with a project by Vancouver artist,
The images below are 2 of 30,000+ archived for Arden's online project titled
Roy Arden, The World as Will and Representation, 1989-2007 In addition to the aesthetic and connotative power of the color red that dominates the images above, I'm interested in these images because they are a small part of a larger whole. ...An overwhelming urge to collect, corral and attempt to create order where before there was seemingly none. In our present state of visual overload, the internet taking it to gluttonous extreme, we begin to organize images as if they are words...Well, they are aren't they?
Employing the logical, old alphabet as a "curatorial trigger",
The Order of Things
will also be exhibiting the work of Julian Rosefeldt
Julian Rosefeldt, Global Soap, 2001-2002
Like Rosefeldt, I love trapping the electronic animal. I am intrigued by the formulaic, programmed emotion people are being conditioned to adopt. Are these physical expressions innately human, or is globalization McGenerifying the world?
... e-flux has translated Muhka's musings on the classificatory impulse...
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Manifesta7, running from 19 July- 2 November, will be revisiting
Michael Snow's 1982 film So is This.
I appreciate this humorous piece for its amalgamation of film and text as well as the ironic suggestions within.
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The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of PA will be displaying new work by Douglas Blau from September 5-December 7.
I like the way that people stand together and read these images as if they were a giant, communal newspaper.
"The big picture is depiction itself. Centuries of picture making appear distilled through Blau's art into an essential cast of characters and repertoire of plots, periods, styles, locations, and genres."
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OhlimpX.live, 2008
bedroom at 2nd ave, 2008.
My contribution to the whole creates an odd, fragmented narrative, I think.
The bottom grid contains images inside of images inside of image, of my own surroundings. The contrast to TV land is astounding.
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