Author: Pol Rosenthal
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Art Idea: Instant Tableaux
1. Find a beautiful pile of rubbish that is in a public area (filthy lot or illegal dump). 2. Lifting an object… 3. …place a brightly colored cloth beneath it. 4. Return it to its origin. 5. Repeat until all objects have been re-based. Voila. Instant tableaux.
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On Transgression In Art
[I’d like to say all the things I’m going to point to here, but I didn’t. I thought them, but Mike Barthel wrote them.] Reading The Awl today and came across this wonderful meditation on transgression in art by Mike Barthel. ‘In Defense of Offensive Art…‘ Why should, Mister Barthel questions, offensive art be judged…
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Beyond the Pyramids, the Square
Cairo-based artist and musician Ahmed Basiony died on January 28 from asphyxiation while participating in the successful Egyptian popular uprising. 100radiostation.com has been playing his music continuously ever since. His Vimeo channel has only two documents of his live sound, but it’s interesting stuff (via Dangerous Minds). Disquiet.com offers a small view of his life’s work…
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Review: Losing Control in Soweto
Spoek Mathambo Remember that name. Spoek is a musician and designer in South Africa. His cover of Joy Division’s “She’s Lost Control” came into my world last night via the ever perverse homolandia (NSFW). It’s a beautiful take on an old anthem; both are dismal yet somehow joy inducing. They both make use of minor…
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Art Idea: Contemplations
1. mount a bicycle to a piano to allow it to strike the wires and produce sound. should look insane/crazy. and be awful sounding. build a fleet of these. 2. how can you produce bright red fireball explosions? the kind that they have at major exhibitions where it’s all points of light sparkling in the…