John Cage performing Water Walk on TV game show I’ve got a secret in 1960, while being set up as something of a freakshow the presenter still goes to great lengths to convince the audience that Cage is ‘serious’. Cage handles the occasion with a light touch and a good sense of humour, when the presenter warns Cage that while the audience are nice people … some of them are going to laugh, is that alright he replies with a winning smile of course I consider laughter preferable to tears.
via WFMU
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He’s Kevin Atherton Head of the Media Department and soon to be head of Fine Art in NCAD. They’re his students wisely keeping their faces hidden.
The full list (all 129 of them) of the proposals for the Rhizome 2007-2008 commissions, some great stuff there well worth perusing.
Monster Truck gallery relaunches today at 6-8 pm on 73 Francis St with the preview of a group show Plasticine featuring Sheila Rennick, Fankenstyles, Andrew James Jones, Bennir Reilly, Nevan Lahart, Connor Wickham, Louise Butler, Run Wrake, James Earley, James Kirwan, Magnhild Opdol, Claire- Louise Bligh, Carly McNulty and Nina Tanis. The exhibition is curated by Alan Butler and Lola Rayne Booth who previously brought you the great Art Vending machine project.
What better way to remember Sol LeWitt who died on Sunday then to link to his Sentences On Conceptual Art, in my opinion pretty much everything an artist needs to know about art and all the better for being in succinct points and not embedded in dense tedious verbiage. (Guess who’s writing his thesis at the moment)
Brel sings Ne Me Quitte Pas, love the tears. Should be compulsory viewing for all the lame Brel imitators.
David Byrne on plans in the US to increase the royalty rates for web radio, plans which would more then probably force non profit web radio stations like his own excellent one off the air.
Ah you know there’s an election coming when the parodies shift up a gear, a nice take on Bertie’s reign set to Dolly Parton’s Here you come again
I managed to get to Limerick for the opening of eva where I’m exhibiting at the moment. My initial impression was that it’s a strong show but quite uneven. What caught my eye was Jesper Just’s film It will all end in tears, which I’d seen at Freize last year and happy to see it again, which was beautifully installed in a large space in the City gallery, also at the City Gallery was Alix Pearlstein’s two channel video projection Distance again very well installed also worth checking out were Wolfgang Staehle’s Ludlow Street in City Hall and Thorns Ltd sound installation in probably the best location of the exhibition – a turret in King John’s castle. My own work Unreliable Narrations is showing in the belltable but dissapointingly hadn’t been installed to my specifications and will have to be reinstalled. But as always it’s worth the trip.
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