Ryan Trecartin, philly video artiste

haha when i first saw his stuff i was like "this is SO noize board"

saw some of the new stuff in LA recently - he still unnerves and excites me like few other active artists do

count me in

have you seen the piece that's currently up at SFMoMA?

I am posting to you from December 27th and the answer is yes

What did you think of the show overall Sarahel?

this is kinda tl;dr but still interesting: his blueprints for his W magazine spread, using some of his frequent collaborators as models

http://dismagazine.com/dysmorphia/9844/ryan-trecartin-w-magazine/

1 - The Fore Head, Cheek Bones, and Jaw Line will be very Concept Vehicle, "Facial Steering": So that the Face Vaguely Feels like a Steering Wheel or a Navigational Device for Long Distance and Memory.

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A friend played me the youtube excerpts of I-Be Area a month ago, then I finally got to watch the entire film all the way through last night -- I was sort of expecting those to be the highlights but watching the bits in sequence only brought out the themes of raising adopted children as a form of rebellion against your already-incredibly-strange-parents -- it's barely random, this is all going to make 100% total sense

i love the detail in the W spread about eyeshadow influenced by the colors in financial charts

Donna are you still in LA? I believe our fair city may be in for a Ryan Trecartin treat later next year...

Also he lives here now, not Philadelphia

i am still here! i saw his MOCA show the first week i got here

curious about this treat!

Trailer for Any Ever which I guess is a 2007-10 compilation that opens at PS1 later this month

http://vimeo.com/24322738
http://ps1.org/exhibitions/view/323

Might have to go check that out since I've only seen his stuff on youtube

OMG SO GOING TO PS1 MY NEXT NYC TRIP

the one with all the child actors is amazing

...which is now apparently up!

http://vimeo.com/24631059

So Peter Schjeldahl just said he was the "most consequential artist since the 1980s"

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2011/06/27/110627craw_artworld_schjeldahl (not available to non-subscribers) unfortunately.

IDK if that's reasonable or not, but my wife has been a ridiculous stan of his for a while.

i liked that schjeldahl piece! its nice when he begrudgingly credits artists active after ~1975

he seems to answer my question of "is it worth going to see these videos at the whitney instead of just watching them on youtube" with a resounding "no"

I get more out of them watching them at home, but I'll still probably go see the PS1 show.

http://riverofthe.net/

http://mam.paris.fr/fr/expositions/ryan-trecartin-lizzie-fitch might go to this if i can get the cash, i love paris anyway so.

Re’Search Wait’S on his vimeo channel is one of my favorite things these days.

http://dismagazine.com/distaste/new-style-options/36271/telfar-ss-2013-formale-life/

center jenny is one of the greatest things i've ever seen

http://vimeo.com/75735816

YOU'RE IN COLLEGE

seeing this guy advertised on the tube is kinda mad

Are you going to the exhibition?

yeah course, someone to go with pending. saw an ica showing of his work the other week, was cool but they def didn't choose his best (affe, cj, k-corea inc) - 'tommy-chat just emailed me' was the highlight & I hadn't seen it before, made it all worthwhile

What exhibition we talking about?

I most recently saw a video of his up at Bard in their curatorial center, was pretty good, involved some kind of party bus full of women -- not a huge departure from the I Be Area stuff but good. We still quote the older videos, esp saying that someone "has an amazing area, and deserves fans"

about a half a year ago some idiot thought it would be a good idea to show four of his works back to back in a theater and it was one of the most physically excruciating things I've seen

it was more disorienting than any noise show that I've had to walk out of, although the film it started with, junior war, was actually surprisingly amazing because it truly captured a certain kind of horrible white drunken midwestern teen existence, like an episode of jackass with a trecartin filter on it

yeah the 4 back to back is what I did. not excruciating but could have been better chosen yeah