screaming silence

3 days in the mountains

2011-02-12T07:03:00.015+01:00

part of me sleeps...

2011-01-15T18:47:00.003+01:00

I've Moved

2010-02-06T21:25:00.004+01:00

melanniemartsolf.com

bfa thesis exhibition

2009-11-15T23:40:00.003+01:00

c0da

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Alongside of some really great work, Artist's Statement, an interactive, digital remediation will be at Object and Thought (across from the MCA) Thursday OCT 28th thru the 30th.

jurors:

Rori Knudtson rknudtson.com

Caitlin Green galleryuccs.org

Womb Tomb @ A Motley Effort

2009-10-08T23:52:00.009+02:00

Thanks to everyone who headed to the other side of the tracks to our cold and dirty installation site.

Extra x's and 0's to my Man, Nervosa Cringe, and Eric Hall,

for the help with construction, pod creation, and transportation.

The event was a great success and we've got the digitally enhanced images to prove it.

Below is an image of Salina's and my post-human, updated archetype.

Site specific installation needs to be experienced.

We applied great effort to induce phenomenological impact, so it pains me to simply show a still image but here it is anyway.

More images from the exhibition by Susan Porteous Evans at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bwevans/sets/72157622509962170/

photo by Steve Gottshall

A Motley Effort

2009-10-02T08:19:00.006+02:00

First Friday show in RiNo at the dirty warehouse.

Visit my and Salina's installation, WombTomb.

(Guaranteed to offend christians or your money back)

juried by Matthew McConnell and Brian Evans

we can fake it!

2009-09-14T05:30:00.003+02:00

This is Salina and my version of the New and improved Lavern and Shirley theme while filming at the compound...

my virtual wedding performance

2009-09-04T06:20:00.002+02:00

Finally got around to uploading my (crappy quality) wedding video from

CVA performance April 10, 2009.

street art

2009-08-25T02:28:00.004+02:00

by flatblackinkcorp

coup de foudre

2009-08-25T02:11:00.005+02:00

flesh connection

Performance: Rojo Kermes, Museo De Las Americas

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Rojo Kermés - July 25, 2009

Nervosa Cringe as Mujer Arana at Museo Benefit

I attempted to coerce the guests of Museo De Las Americas to have their fortunes told by the Spider Woman. Nervosa Cringe created this manifestation of the legendary Mujer Arana.

puppet-scape

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l-r :lady Augustine, queen of the sea. SSSammySnakeEyes, the Dread Pirate Pablo y DDdragonhead.

rest sextet

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EVIDENCE (i dreamt i was henry adams)

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documentation:

evidence captured by nervosa cringe

antithesis documentation: exhibit A

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unraveling...

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many thanks to everyone who came to the show friday

FRIDAY NIGHT 7p: unraveling the borromean knot

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what do you have to do that's better than watching my video (as well as 10 of my contemporaries) on a BIG SCREEN for free. Sit near me, I'm bringing Flask.

antithesis pics coming soon

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as soon as my eyes cease their bleeding and the fingers uncramp ...

steve gottshall, melannie with string, may 2009

MAYDAY:antithesis: installation show

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m.d & m.d for b

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My Virtual Wedding pics

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Thanks to everyone who attended my wedding last night

my virtual wedding still, april, 2009

reverend walter, 2009

gioia9 y conchita, courtesy of steve gottshall

M.V.W., steve gottshall, 2009

more pics on my wedding photographer's flickr page:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bicyclesteve/page2/

courtesy of anonio ascencio...

steve gottshall, 2009

super8: "PULLED aWAKE"

2009-04-11T22:51:00.007+02:00

brian and i made a film. most likely, it'll be one of the most symbolically profound cinematic experiences since Pierrot Le Fou.

WED. 15 APRIL2009. 8PM. THE BUG THEATER. 3864 NAVAJO

heart's arms

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Will Oldham graced this cowtown with his gigantic presence on Sunday. My knees are still weak, heart's arms still bound.

photo courtesy of steve gottshall, 5 April, 2009: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bicyclesteve/

oh, wait, wrong one,,,.\ MY VIRTUAL WEDDING::::

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She's tyin' the bloody knot!

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fate line install at CVA. 12 mar 09

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photo courtesy of Antonio Ascencio, 2009

your feet haven't grown much. photo: antonio ascencio

ladder legs, antonio ascencio, 2009

Robert Nachman stares in awe, lol

the first cut down

Thank you thank you thank you Maria, Antonio, Steve and Jeremiah!

Feb.First Friday opening cancelled

2009-02-03T08:44:00.001+01:00

Due to Pissface owner who doesn't pay employees the wages he owes them.

RE:RE:RE: this is the last time

2009-02-03T08:38:00.001+01:00

million dollar ad

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!Ignition

2009-01-26T18:32:00.006+01:00

http://thepinglepad.com/music/2007/August/Ignition(Live).mp3
Ignition - Bonnie Prince Billy

"...what do you think of my fate line..."

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the bee hovers at the jaguars nostril

2009-01-04T23:15:00.009+01:00

these aren't black and white images. Just the natural color (or lack thereof) of Ohio in the winter

Ohio, December 2008

Music: Beezle. Will Oldham

pagan paper for sale or barter

2009-01-04T18:56:00.010+01:00

Fine printmaking paper (with the remnants of one-of-a-kind prints on one side) stained with menstrual blood. Ideal for ritual drawing or writing (c'mon Brian Rendon, you know you want some).
BUY NOW

creep

2009-01-04T03:54:00.011+01:00

Prince defies more boundaries than anyone else ever.

This remediated version of creep suggests all that it needs to say, omits the obvious,
Prince's signature dark and wet postmodern stylings...shoobydoowahhhh.

can't even imagine reproducing

2008-12-21T04:54:00.007+01:00

H e looked at me with blank eyes today. Guess they always were but I used to fill them with my imagination, with conch shells and rocking chairs. stupid. That's what I get for inviting the corpse.
On a brighter note, nuclear fallout at BMOCA. Badass.
I actually drove to the arian city today to check out video's from CU's video collection (in and out of time) Even though this contained videos that explore the exact things that I've been visual researching-- so exact, I felt a bit nauseaus...not sure why. This is what art is, right? RIGHT?

sigh for now, I found more interest in Erika Wanenmacher's installation " The Science Club: The Boy's Room, NOw, Forever, Then, Part 1 . The boys room installation devoted to the Atomic melted my metal heart. I spent far longer than was dictated by the quarters in my meter reading blackened books and metal desks. Even the stitching on the quilt screamed obsession.

It'll be there til the 27th.

Erika wanenmacher, Science club installation

erika wanenmacher, science club installation

sex dreams

2008-12-15T19:54:00.003+01:00

violin & candlestick, 2008's ending

ever since i've been practicing tibetan dream yoga (and haven't left my nest for weeks), i've had some strange dead guy visits.

the other evening, aa showed up at my hotel carrying a giant slab of raw, shrink wrapped meat as if he was delivering room service...i'll spare you the details of the second portion of this dream. Then loandbeholdtightly, georges braque appeared and presented me with a gorgeous cubist rendition of my cunt, he said that licking it was getting him nowhere...

apparently, all of this time had passed without anyone having the balls to tell the man that painting was long dead around here. Well, I've got Big Balls...

if

2008-12-15T04:24:00.000+01:00

realized that 'if' keeps showing up in my bathwater in order to destabilize the past and its unceasing analyzation.

Maybe the detective that cares for nothing but the present is a futurist.

evidence (1987)

2008-12-13T00:56:00.001+01:00

time stills, sequence 4, 2008

dreams & dust & dust & dreams

2008-11-23T09:10:00.002+01:00

Lately, I've been attempting to contact Raimundas Malasauskas from a lucid dream state to ask him if he'd be my virtual bridegroom. Somehow, instead, Guy Debord shows up and says that he'd like me to help him with some guerilla re-arrangement of a grocery store. He hates how the insidious fucks manipulate one's experience of Dérive through the calculated control of product placement that forces you to walk past a bunch of unnecessary expensive shite in order to get to the essential items. We're going to stack things to the ceiling, piling everything on top of the useless, pricey, impulse buys so that if a mesmerized consumer attempts to buybuybuy, they have to pull the item from the bottom of the commodity totem causing everything else to come crashing down on top of them. I suggested a climbing rope to get to the toilet paper at the top of the product sculpture, but he told me that that was an unimportant detail and that I was banished from the SI for at least 3 nights.

The phone woke me at 9am and it was Vito Acconci (I'm sure it was him, who else would do this?) vocally masturbating on the other end of the line. Unfortunately, I was no longer dreaming.

The following images are excerpts from a recent series titled

Time Stills: The Solitude of SImulteneity

(I figured Raimundas Malasauskas wouldn't mind sharing the title of his narrative since we're going to be electronically and cosmically linked if all goes according to plan)

from time stills, Sequence 1, 2008

from Time Stills, sequence 1, 2008

The Center for Photography at Woodstock is exhibiting the provocative work of Toni Pepe. I enjoy this work for its incredible use of light to evoke mystery and the suggestion of narrative. Powderydust concatenates the images while metaphorically suggesting time, memory and absence...

Toni Pepe, Untitled, 2007, from the series, Angle of Repose

"Absence and presence is a recurring theme within this series, implying that each image works to reference something beyond the frame. Photography best portrays this thematic approach since by nature; photographs possess a fundamental quality of absence. All of the elements within the frame—the props, costumes and gestures prompt the notion and tangibility of loss and memory. If we had never met could I still have a memory of you? Can we make present something that is absent?"

I had this dream,

2008-11-11T02:57:00.000+01:00

I've selected the following self- portraits because they speak nothing of self. The pastel colors appeal to me on occasion in the same way that cake frosting appeals to me on occasion. In addition to this, I'm interested in the way that the mirrors offer a multiplicity of reflection, the drama of the wigged courtesans, and my isolated voyeurism combine to create an odd allegorical abstraction.

mirror1, fall, 2008

mirror2, fall, 2008

mirror3, fall, 2008

videoKilled the radioStar

2008-10-28T16:40:00.001+01:00

girls just wanna, 2008

yellow cake, 2008

nikeFace, 2008

The above images are indicative of the way that I view contemporary society.

Sure glad time is speeding up so that we can get this era over quicker. I'm worried we're going to loop back though... The guy in this photograph on exhibit at the Contemporary Art Centre, Lithuania was worried about the same thing in 1970...

Despite the fashion photography style of this image, which I dislike, I dig the way the frame renders the subject's near limbless and the way the man looks irritated by this. Or maybe he's irritated because a photographer has cut a hole in his ceiling to to take his picture. OR perhaps he just glimpsed the future, and despite being dressed appropriately and having a socially acceptable haircut, was disgusted by the political climate and his previously hot girlfriends sagging soul.

Martha Rosler, Point and Shoot, 2008

I appreciate Rosler's new series for its glaring juxtapositions as well as its utilization of new digital media. It is on view in conjunction with the lecture series, OUT NOW!, on view at e-flux until November 8th.

Voices for Creative Nonviolence http://www.vcnv.org

Emily-Jane Major, Marie Claire, R.I.P, 2004-6.

Beyond the social critique, I appreciate the necessary obviousness of this series in the way that it gives the viewer no choice but to shatter the illusion.

It is part of HpF 09 Helsinki's festival of photography, that aims to revisit fundamental questions regarding contemporary photographic practices.

HpF 09 opens 21 Jan and runs through 24 May 09.

Does time go slower for people who live in the past?

"modern women cry, modern women don't cry"

2008-10-27T21:23:00.000+01:00

The following images are of my creative collaborator, María Félix , a.k.a. nervosa cringe.

They are representative of Maria's passion for film, mexican wrestling, and soaps

In addition to the fact that they I feel that they really express the wants and desires of the modern woman, I chose them for their expressiveness.

nervosa's new man, 2008

despite all my rage, 2008

hairballoon, 2008

Chiharu Shiota, Waiting, 2008

I love the unmistakable work of Chiharu Shiota for its release of trapped emotion and

for its hugeness.

Magdalina Abakanowicz, Red Abakan, 1969

In addition to its historical relevance, I appreciate this piece for its ability to simultaneously impact me physically, emotionally and intellectually.

It is 1 of 120 included in the Vancouver Artgallery's homage to Art and the Feminist Revolution running from 4 October - 11 JAnuary 2009.

I'm interested in this work for its boundary pushing integration of new media, text, and human interaction. Camille Utterback's recent work explores the same concept using color and organic shape.

The Milwaukee Art Museum is housing the work of Camille Utterback as part "Act/React", an exhibition dedicated to "intuitive, digitally developed art".

when images stutter

2008-10-18T06:41:00.000+02:00

sequence 73, 2008

The above grid contains images that find their weight in color. Together they stutter a primary

sequence that rhymes with Bataille.

The experimental work of

Zbig Rybczynski

is currently a part of The City Rises, an exhibition at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art.

I like this piece because it reminds of dada collage, digitalized.

Walker Art Center is presenting the first solo exhibition showcasing work by

multidisciplinary artist,

Tetsumi Kudo.

I like this sculptural work for its suggestion of the alive and organic.

Tetsumi Kudo seems to have managed to escape being categorized or boxed in by cultural style labels and art market fashion.

Nalini Malini's paintings/ installation at the Arario Gallery in the Chelsea district also suggests the organic, as well as eternal narrative.

Her work reimagines the Greek Myth of Cassandra, a figure Malini understands as symbolizing "unfinished business of the woman's revolution".

this is the time

2008-10-09T19:16:00.000+02:00

and this is the record of the time

The following photographs of photographs are important to me because they document the decades leading up to the recent 50th birthday of my friend Teresa Vito. Teresa's a role model and an inspiration to me as the first woman I met making a living as an artist. I met her when I was one quarter of a century alive. Our families both come from the mountains of Abruzzi. We shared a porch, and many stories, at a house on Madison and Colfax for many years.

Teresa Vito is one spectacular human.

The following images are from the

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art ContemporaryCollection as Aleph06.03.2008-26.10.2008

They appeal to me because they represent many pieces of work, created from many mediums, understood as a multitudinous, layered, visual archive that echoes a plethora of voice and time.

I am now obssessed with ALEPH

Sarah Lucas, Bunny Gets Snookered #3

"A comparative reading of the literary oeuvre of the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges forms the point of departure for this investigation. Borges’s oeuvre and its conceptual as well as narrative landscape is used as a methodology to build up a sequence of potential narratives (and fictions), continued (as if) en abîme in a collective archive of visual imaginary.

Aleph – the cosmic point that contains all times and places in the universe, a fabled observatory that figures the endlessness of all things – frames the sequences of potential structures and possible fictions: from the issues concerned with the principles of identity and meanders of authorship through paradoxes of language and space-time confluences down to conjunctions of universe and utopia, reality and fiction, mirror and encyclopaedia. The exhibition emphasizes the processual reading of the act of collecting as practice(s), in which combinations and permutations of arrangements create ever new meanings, contexts and relationships between artworks."

Matthew Ritchie with Aranda\Lasch and Arup AGU: The Morning Line

Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville

"The Morning Line is challenging architectural convention: The team of collaborators has designed the first semiasographic building, an architectural language that directly expresses its content through its structure – a structure that is simultaneously generating itself and falling apart, enclosing an interactive environment inside which a possible future can be seen – and changed."
This work exemplifies, in unconventional and dynamic architectural expression, concepts that are gripping me at this time.

[This may lead us to curator and writer Raimundas Malasaukas (who I'm attempting to contact while I sleep), the brilliant Craig Douglass Dworkin,

and cockroaches that crawl out of your dreams and onto the sidewalk to be stepped on by a boy, in front of your eyes, the next day.]

Interactive exhibit #2

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.you know you want me to take your picture.

aboutFace

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antonio, the great, fall, 2008.

stevel knievel, fall, 2008

nervosa cringe, fall, 2008.

The above images are brilliant because they spell out something that smells like love. A constant exchange of energy and support from people who like me even though I'm usually an annoying and demanding dick.

Outside of my apartment, in Lakewood Colorado of all places, theLab recognizes art that eschewed galleries. Ironic, no?

In Plain Sight: Street Works and Performances, 1968-1971

What's most interesting to me about the above group is that they came together to create without concern for product.

Poetry and polaroids aligning with the pulse of the city and creation.

I think that Jung would be intrigued by Hannah Weiner's project that involved waiting to meet the only other Hannah Weiner in the phonebook. The other HW was a psychotherapist and never showed up. In 1972, Hannah, the poet went to Bellevue. She turned the words she saw on people's foreheads into poetry.

All night jazz session at the Cy Laurie Club, Great Windmill Street, 31st March 1956

The above image from the Soho Archives, currently displayed at The Photographers' Gallery, appeals to me because it documents a dynamic time and place...I've never been to London in the mid-20th...

Nor have I visited Pakistan in 2008...

A Pakistani woman gestures next to a burning effigy of Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders during a protest against a recent Dutch film that portrays Islam as a ticking time bomb aimed at the West in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, March 30, 2008

Clearly, this image, its contained spirit that raises fists against racism and oppression, contains Benjamin's notion of the aura.

Interactive photo exhibit after Jeanne- Claude and Christo!

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September 18th, 2008, 7 pm, Novo coffee 13th ave between Broadway and Bannock

Outta the gallery: Artistic Disruption of the dull

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tour de fat: puppets, denver, 2008

tour de fat: pile of bikes, denver 2008

I took the above images at City Park at New Belgium Brewing Company's, Tour De Fat. bikes, music, food, beer, people dancing in costumes on Saturday afternoon in the park...Someone even traded their ugly rav4 for a bicycle! This event restored a bit of my faith in things human. The images can't come close to capturing the energy, but they acknowledge and revere that energy, and that is why I like them.

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THE XIU XIU POLAROID PROJECTS #4: THE FINAL BLOW, David Horvitz

Having an undying adoration for Polaroid, (still, I can't let go, need an analyst to help me deal with the grief), I love David Horvitz's above images because they combine instant film and street performance.

In addition to all the wonderful things you can buy From/ For David, you can be a part of a happening, a celebration, and instant image making, and who the fuck wouldn't want to be a part of this?

OUT OF THE CORPSE THERE IS A (DIGITAL) FLOWER.

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The Scale of Intervention

I feel that BIG SPRAYPAINTED messages are often the best way to get one's point across. This image is great because the cyclist included in the frame allows you to really get the picture.

"Co-organized by Conflux, an annual festival dedicated to pyschogeography, and moderated by the founders of the celebrated street-art Web site Wooster Collective, this panel will look at possibilities for artistic disruption within urban environments. Taking its name from a film by the London-based Cutup Collective, which plays with the viewer's perception of a street scene, the panel will feature artists whose work ranges across a variety of mediums and materials. From reformulation of billboard advertisements into powerful, politically oriented collages to the subversive reformulation of street signs, such as pedestrian crossings and bike lanes, the featured artists will demonstrate how they dislodge the customary navigation and perception of urban space."

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VINCHEN

I like this piece because it's photographic record temporal work indicative of contemporary street art.

This ain't your parent's visual lexicon.

bod;food;porn;

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Eat Me, Fool Moon, End of Summer, 2008

Opening September 13th, Brooklyn Gallery,

VertexList presents “New Blood”, a group exhibition which "probes the empty, vacant, and vacuous nature of a world full of things where perception and the direct experience of “real-life” are blurred by the dense atmosphere of media,

consumption, and entertainment."

New Blood will feature a performance by the bad-ass- fabulous

NAO BUSTAMANTE

Indidigurrito, 1992

"That's how Nao kicked off her infamous 1992 work "Indigurrito" in which she strapped-on a burrito to her loins and called for white men to come up on stage, take a bite out of the burrito and absolve themselves of 500 years of the white man's guilt. There was no shortage of enobled participants, who knelt in front of the protuding offering, some taking delicate bites, others deep-throated chunks. "

(I want Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Nao Bustamante to become King and Queen of the Universe)

This powerful image from Bustamante's upcoming performance strikes me for its rawness and the way she still manages her composure and stare despite the bizarre get-up.

"Given to Want", a live performance by Nao Bustamante

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Had my family the foresight to leave me a trust fund, I would fly to Denmark to see Body Berserk at Kunsthallen Brandts

Body Berserk
Five international video artists
show works focusing on the body
September 12 - January 11, 2008

Pipilotti Rist, Pickel Porno, 1992

Cecilie Dahl, Clothes for a Summer Hotel

These videos appeal to me for their dream- like

imagery and visual metaphor as well as their critical inversion of the mainstream.

They've inspired me to continue

experimenting with layering my own images...

For Instance:

Eat Me, End of Summer, Full Moon, 2008

Layering imagery, to me, is like a pile of grid. I like the element of chance involved in randomly stopping the video, and the gauzy stuttering reminds me of his dreams.

visual culture: there must be O d eROr d Er

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The Order of Things, 11 september- 4 January, 2009, at MuHKA begins its reading of classificatory image collections with a project by Vancouver artist,

Roy Arden.

The images below are 2 of 30,000+ archived for Arden's online project titled

The World as Will and Representation.

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.

the spectacle...we want it.

2008-08-14T01:44:00.000+02:00

These photographs were taken from my bar stool where a multitude of rowdy humans share a fascination for physical extremes. The only time my eyes gaze the screen is through a lens.

It's interesting to me to see something through many lenses, something that's alive in a strange, far away sort of way. Capturing random moments, expressions from weirdo televised world, trapped "live".

"If they start chanting U.S.A., I'm outta here" -- Stevel Knie3vel

"Just look a the emotion!!!" "I think I just had a feeling!" --e from the analog

"These images speak in triangles, through the lens' of the lost..." --lady auch

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Images that Urge me...

The 2008 Liverpool Biennial international exhibition MADE UP, running from 20 November to 20 December, 2008, will feature the work of Tracey Moffatt.

Hyper-real and cinematic, Tracey Moffatt unashamedly constructs worlds of her own...

from Tracey Moffatt's Something More series, 1989.

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Miwa Yanagi's work elaborate fabrications parallel Moffatt's in their disruption of traditional perception and fantasy-soaked imagery. Her work is on view through May 4th at the Caroline Wiess Law Building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houson.

Yanagi Miwa, Elevator Girl House B4 from the series Elevator Girls, 1998

Elevator Girl House 1F' (1997)

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Merging Myths and the Everyday "Fiction for Real", an exhibition National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, has 14 works exclusively by women on display. Among these is the photographic fiction of Sophie Calle. Weaving color and dream-like imagery, Calle's work recalls a really juicy nap.

Sophie Calle, 'Letter B from B,C,W" [part] 1998