We were talking about his billboards in class today and it just gave me a sick, heavy feeling in my chest.
― tanuki, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://shapeandcolour.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/candyart.jpg
― judith, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 03:02 (twelve years ago) link
fuck the world
― tanuki, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
guy from last night has the FGT solitary bird print hanging over his bed
also he lists agnes martin under his "people who inspire him"
i'm gonna stop typing things before i jinx everything
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think I could be with anyone who wasn't at least interested in art.
― tanuki, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
fgt about it guys
― tropical mall lady (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 04:49 (twelve years ago) link
“Unlike most artworks in a museum, you are allowed to touch this piece and to take away a piece of candy. Gonzalez-Torres made this artwork in memory of Ross Laycock. At the time the work was created, Ross had recently died of causes related to AIDS. The candy pile starts each day at 175 pounds, which was Ross’ ideal body weight. As visitors take candy, the pile gets smaller. This process mimics Ross’ weight loss as a result of his illness. Museum staff replenishes the candy regularly. Gonzalez-Torres’ decision to portray Ross with multicolored, shiny candies was a thoughtful one. Seeing such a large pile of candy on the floor stimulates notions of abundance, sweetness, and happiness—feelings associated with Ross, which the artist wished to share with viewers in a unique way.”
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
fgt it? I fgot what I was sposed to fgt!
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah. That Gonzalez-Torres piece was one of the ones in the exhibit that hit me most viscerally.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
Also, in the first room with the older photographic prints, they were playing music from this compilation
http://www.discogs.com/Various-AC-DC-Blues-Gay-Jazz-Reissues-Volume-One/release/860313
which I haven't been able to track down, but looks AMAZING.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think I took a candy in D.C.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
i once took one of the sheets from the gun violence paper stack, followed by everyone else in the gallery rushing to take one
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
i did this at the frieze fair once and got a mean look from the woman who was minding the stand. i told her that if she wanted to display a fgt she had to learn how to be generous.
― judith, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
boom
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
xp
omg
∞ <3
― tropical mall lady (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
ugh stevie i owe you an e-mail or something about archiving
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
For some reason I was reading the first gaythread I'd posted in — man I sound dumb.
― tanuki, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
hey tanuki, what new felix gonzales-torres piece is up at the AIC? i was there last week and didn't see anything besides his date piece which is up permanently.
the first time i saw someone use the abbreviation FGT i was sort of shocked because it was in reference to a piece i made (as in like, "x + fgt = this piece") and it took me a second to realize it didn't mean faggot
― 1staethyr, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
I can't find anything about it on the AIC website — it's a large panel divided in two with text painted on each one and ends with something like "close-up of an ejaculating dick".
― tanuki, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
waaaaait i think that's this piece by larry johnson:
http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_139919_507473_larry-johnson.jpg
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
oh shit you're right *is an idiot*
― tanuki, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
lol i'm kind of a johnson stan
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
he did a series of pieces about the kennedys, this one is my fave:
http://www.spence.net/collection/photos/artwork103/full_240.jpeg
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
so what is FGT short for?
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
― tanuki, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
oh, right
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
Better than Lepore IMO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrvxi1-3SDY
― tropical mall lady (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 9 February 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
dude is channeling some serious diva snap
I'm trying to watch Todd Haynes' Poison right now but it is sooooo baaaaad
― tropical mall lady (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 10 February 2012 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
:(
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 February 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
I saw it a little over a year ago, again, and it brought back the feeling of the plague years quite vividly. Maybe only in people old enough, of course.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 February 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
aw, i like it. i think i liked the faux-doc part the best but i'd have to rewatch it to make sure
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Friday, 10 February 2012 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
that is my bf's favorite "gay" movie
― tanuki, Friday, 10 February 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
I do prefer Pvt Idaho, Paris Is Burning & Fight Club
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 February 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
I'm just not getting the wooden acting and awful sets and ridic narrative motion
― tropical mall lady (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 10 February 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
it's meta?
I guess someone's not getting a boner from the prison stuff... See if you spot a future star acting under a psedonym.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 February 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
re: the sets, iirc he wasn't exactly rolling with a huge budget
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Friday, 10 February 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
Oh the prison thing I am totally into fwiw. But wouldn't it have been cheaper to just, like, go find somewhere outside with lots of rocks and dirt? It's kinda Querellian
― tropical mall lady (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 10 February 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, he was coming off a banned Barbie-doll film xp
nah, more theatrical this way a la Un Chant d'Amour
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 February 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
OH OH Also I got season 3 of Mary Tyler Moore out of the library on a whim (I'd never really seen it before and always passed it over on Nick at Nite as a kid) and I am SO FUCKING IN LOVE W/ THIS SHOW, FUCK
― tropical mall lady (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 10 February 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
Poison was his first feature iirc? The banned barbie film was his MFA thesis.
Hey gays!
― sarahell, Friday, 10 February 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
I have taken a piece of candy from the pile and a sheet of paper from the stack.
― jaymc, Friday, 10 February 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
hey gurl(z)
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Friday, 10 February 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
you're in NY? xp
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 February 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
T/judith - was the FGT curtain up at sfmoma when you visited?
― sarahell, Friday, 10 February 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
Me? No. This was in Chicago and San Francisco.
Although I may be in New York at the end of April.
― jaymc, Friday, 10 February 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
but which stack and which pile?
― 1staethyr, Friday, 10 February 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
I'm all right, jack / keep your hands offa my FGT stack
― tanuki, Friday, 10 February 2012 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
The pile was the Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) piece. I don't entirely remember what the stack-of-paper piece was. I gather he's done a few different ones. This was at SFMOMA in early 2004.
― jaymc, Friday, 10 February 2012 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
The pile was at the Art Institute of Chicago, probably around the same time.
― jaymc, Friday, 10 February 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link