I am semi-appalled and disgusted by how great these are, I don't think I'm picking up on half the tricks this guy is using.
http://www.artslant.com/work/image/2028/sprecher_1.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/38/94363588_b8de21b876.jpg
Jered Sprecher
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Sunday, 16 August 2009 12:57 (fourteen years ago) link
also, yes ruth root!
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Sunday, 16 August 2009 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.vimeo.com/4768078
can't wait for this documentary about sister corita
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1EkBpKvDgAo/STrBp3mQrWI/AAAAAAAAApU/bQq2fLhYSLI/s400/GlennLigon.jpg
glenn ligon
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 23:05 (fourteen years ago) link
richard aldrich:
http://www.corvi-mora.com/richardaldrich/big/33.jpg
this is maybe one of my favourite paintings ever btw
― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈colinda❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Monday, 14 September 2009 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Right now I am gear up into Christian Boltanski hypermode.
― EDB, Monday, 14 September 2009 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
can't find any good pictures of his drawings which i saw a few days ago and was blown away by, but here are some tetsumi kudo sculptures:
http://images.nymag.com/images/2/daily/entertainment/08/07/15_artcandy_lg.jpghttp://images.artnet.com/images_US/magazine/reviews/kley/kley7-11-08-13.jpg
― xuxa pitts (donna rouge), Monday, 14 September 2009 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Back to Felix-Gonzales Torres hypermode!
I was just awarded a fellowship (!!!) to do research on artistic forms of representation and mourning amid the AIDS crisis, so at last I'll get to really get busy on FGT, but also Robert Gober! This isn't a field of interest I'm too well versed on, so if anyone else has particularly apposite examples...
― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Friday, 21 May 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
That is, of other artists dealing with aids in non-obvious, highly coded ways.
― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Saturday, 22 May 2010 00:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I know he's kind of old news, but I've been thinking about Mark Ryden lately:
http://www.markryden.com/images/painting/treeshow/paintings/large/Yoshi.jpghttp://www.markryden.com/images/painting/meat/cecelia/The_Ecstacy_of_Cecelia.jpghttp://www.markryden.com/images/painting/three/butcher/The_Butcher_Bunny.jpg
― Darin, Monday, 24 May 2010 14:46 (fourteen years ago) link
@EDB - If it's not too far afield, your study could encompass musical responses to AIDS such as Diamanda Galas' Plague Mass and Bob Ostertag's All the Rage.
― Scelsi Hotel (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 24 May 2010 15:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Robert Blanchon is a hip ref. these days i think
― plax (ico), Monday, 24 May 2010 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i came here to post blanchon ;_;
― joe scarborough and peoples (donna rouge), Monday, 24 May 2010 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link
(although a good deal of his stuff overtly addresses AIDS)
― joe scarborough and peoples (donna rouge), Monday, 24 May 2010 17:09 (fourteen years ago) link
larry johnson's work is all about codes tho!
http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_139919_507473_larry-johnson.jpg
― joe scarborough and peoples (donna rouge), Monday, 24 May 2010 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
My Ostertag and Galas examples fail the "non-obvious, highly-coded" test, so never mind!
― Scelsi Hotel (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 24 May 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda makes sense that people who were directly thinking about aids would be more didactic in their approach whereas other queer artist thinking about the body etc. favour strategies recontextualisation/subversion as an analogue for like cruising/subversive sites of pleasure or whatevs. FGT kind of just sits at the intersection between Tom Burr/Roni Horn queer appropriations of Minimalism and General Idea style agit prop.
― plax (ico), Monday, 24 May 2010 19:28 (fourteen years ago) link
― Scelsi Hotel (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, May 24, 2010 10:44 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink I'm very interested in this, and think I'm actually going to make an ILM thread about it, especially given my interests in house and disco during this time. However, given the fellowship's theme of "image and spectacle", I'll be specifically writing on strategies of representing the AIDS infected body such that the imposition of Ronald Reaganian Silence and the shutting down of Mapplethorpe exhibitions, etc. can be circumvented (in a way that does differ from General Idea style agit prop, i.e. the sort of explicitness of say ACT UP. In the space between silence and silencable, if you know what I mean).
If I may quote FGT: “Two clocks side by side are much more threatening to the powers that be than an image of two guys sucking each other’s dicks, because they cannot use me as a rallying point in their battle to erase meaning. It is going to be very difficult for members of Congress to tell their constituents that money is being expended for the promotion of homosexual art when all they have to show are two plugs side by side, or two mirrors side by side, or two light bulbs side by side.”
― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Monday, 24 May 2010 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
So wait, are there TWO famous people with HIV named Larry Johnson?
― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Monday, 24 May 2010 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
btw, its back in print and this book is pretty solid for FGT sources
― plax (ico), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean
http://www.amazon.com/Felix-Gonzalez-Torres-Miwon-Kwon/dp/3865211968
― plax (ico), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
plax otm, was thinking the same about the initial query, e.g. that most artists addressing AIDS in the '80s directly named it (probably because of how little national discourse there was about it, or that the conversation being had about it on that level wasn't interesting/didn't address the realities of the disease), cf. general idea's appropriation of robert indiana, AIDS activist tapes, etc
i don't know whether or not LJ the visual artist has AIDS but some of his work addresses it, however obliquely (his pieces about the kennedy family, like the one i linked to above, which are tied to discourses on mourning, celebrity, hustling etc).
― joe scarborough and peoples (donna rouge), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i need to stop saying 'discourse'
― joe scarborough and peoples (donna rouge), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
nah its a good word
― plax (ico), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Xposts: that book was the first thing I had planned to get, actually.
― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
a lot of the full essays are readily available on the internet and its bulked out w/ sontag and barthes but worth it for the shorter statements and the repros are A+
― plax (ico), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
EDB where are you based? if you have enough fellowship $ you should travel to nyc and visit the FGT foundation, they've got tons of literature on him there
― joe scarborough and peoples (donna rouge), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
can anybody just visit that btw?
― plax (ico), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
gotta make an appointment and have a viable research project first iirc
― joe scarborough and peoples (donna rouge), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
pfft viable research project
― plax (ico), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I was wondering about that too, I have no idea what they do/ what's actually there, I just imagine that all the offices come with a pair of clocks and the candy bowl at the reception is always plentiful.
I live in Toronto, but was thinking about taking a trip up to New York this summer anyways. The fellowship offers money for travel and research, actually; I was joking with people before that if my University wants to send me to go to new york for a week to stop in to the Felix Gonzalez-Torres foundation I'd certainly accept.
And bulked out w/ sontag and barthes is not a bad thing, for me at least.
― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
welll its just death of the author and the voicover from unguided tour
― plax (ico), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
but yeah, me neither
Naming Names: The Art of Memory and the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt is an awesome essay abt the aids quilt that raises a lot of issues wrt to instigating a venue for memorial/discourse/activism around aids related issues and implies why a more overt language was needed in contrast to, as joe says, the mainstream suppression of the gay men's health crisis.
― plax (ico), Monday, 24 May 2010 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Btw EDB i think Tony Feher might be worth looking into but I won't pretend I know a whole lot about him.
― plax (ico), Friday, 28 May 2010 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
like he makes these really intimate sculptures out of found materials and is all "intensely personal language" and also has been included in a good few AIDS related group shows
― plax (ico), Friday, 28 May 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks a lot. The above mention (or introduction, for me) to Tom Burr was useful, given that post minimalism is kind of my thing, and so he is someone I plan to look into.
As I think about it more, I think that this: "queer artist thinking about the body etc. favour strategies recontextualisation/subversion as an analogue for like cruising/subversive sites of pleasure or whatevs." is the sort of thing I want to pursue (granted, not so much in the context of cruising and pleasure so much as in terms of a site to talk about disease and mourning). Given that this is not an area of familiarity for me, I think it's definitely best to be careful to make claims about means of viable activism, but I'll see what I think after I've done research on all this.
― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Saturday, 29 May 2010 02:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Otherwise:Mark Bradford is an artist whose work I think is really beautiful, and also makes me want to rush to the library and read up on critical urban geography written about Los Angeles.
http://rickyday.net/blog/MarkBradfordLosMoscos.jpghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KiKDykb0sFg/SCtNXp7YlVI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/_S8b2xUcpN4/s400/mark_bradford_kryptonite.jpg
― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Saturday, 29 May 2010 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Really fucking tired of art that makes ironic use of childish themes.
― hills like white people (Hurting 2), Saturday, 29 May 2010 02:41 (fourteen years ago) link
who did those hotel room sculptures in the 70s by piling all the furniture into piles and photographing them. i remember seeing these all the time for a while and now i cant for the life of me remember who it was and ive tried googling this. this is like how it took me years to re-find tom friedman after i heard about him in secondary school.
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 23:21 (thirteen years ago) link
also edb i have been thinking about your thesis proposal since the last revive and i am now jealous i am not writing it.
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
turns out i was thinking of florian slotawa
http://www.mocp.org/Slotawa_web.gif
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 08:58 (thirteen years ago) link
An artist I have been 'thinking about' ;) <3 <3 <3http://img691.imageshack.us/f/123qrp.png/
― uNi-tArDs (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:44 (thirteen years ago) link
hmm, that did not work
― uNi-tArDs (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:45 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i31.tinypic.com/xlxmaq.jpg
― uNi-tArDs (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:48 (thirteen years ago) link
― plax (ico), Tuesday, July 27, 2010 6:24 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Having started doing research this week, let me just say: : D
Let me add to this thread: Alfredo Jaar
Whereas shoving pictures of War Torn 3rd World labourers in front of you, national geographic style, would be so glib and heavy handed as to render it ineffectual as art, his use of these types of images, via his arrangement of them (in mirrors, light boxes, etc.) and the according way that they are hence seen by and related to by gallery goes, I think, is laudable (of course I get so caught up in the technique that I forget the content, but that's a whole other matter).
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4v3o2tzGt1qzw5wjo1_500.jpghttp://www.leftmatrix.com/jaargeowr.jpghttp://thephotoexchange.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/alfredo_jaar_lowress3.jpg
― EDB, Sunday, 12 September 2010 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, now grasping the connections between image, self-presentation, and psychic identity in her work, I've come to really appreciate Gillian Wearing. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TEcR6mijjFo/SvhbPGK5MfI/AAAAAAAAAHw/Rh7-Q7_6HFg/s400/gillian_wearing2.jpg.jpeg
http://www.artslant.com/userimages/3/Gillian_Wearing_FAF08.jpg
― EDB, Sunday, 12 September 2010 01:09 (thirteen years ago) link
My favorite painter is an oil painter named Thomas PaquetteMaybe you have to see this guys work in person before you can realize or truly appreciate the beauty of itI luckily had a random encounter with his paintings on exhibit when I was at collegeI would describe his work as having profound beauty, grace and subtletyBut to use words from a press quote on his website: "Look into the art, and be drawn into the world of subtle drama and dramatic beauty he finds in ordinary places. All of the light, darkness and shadow—as well as the insinuation of hue and tone—in nature and life are expressed."http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/8172/010springinprovence2z.jpghttp://www.thomaspaquette.com/paintings/096/springbirchz.JPG
― false prophets talk in metaphors (CaptainLorax), Sunday, 12 September 2010 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
from the most recent press interview on his siteMS - Discuss which part of the creative process you find most stressful.TP - All of it is stressful if you are doing it right.
― false prophets talk in metaphors (CaptainLorax), Sunday, 12 September 2010 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Monday, May 24, 2010 2:59 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Somehow my brain froze and I thought that Magic Johnson's name was Larry.
Also:
Doris Salcedo
http://www.spudart.org/blog/images/2007/doris-salcedo-chairs.jpghttp://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/salcedo.jpg
― EDB, Monday, 4 October 2010 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link