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Archive for the ‘art’ Category
Meow Wolf Due Return Kickstarter
Monday, January 3rd, 2011
Meow Wolf – the Due Return Kickstarter
This is not my project, but I am going to be helping out with a little bit of the programming and soldering for some of the elements in it. The folks with the art collective Meow Wolf up in Santa Fe are putting this together for the CCA in May and it threatens to be extravagant.
In their words:
*YOUR DONATION THROUGH KICKSTARTER WILL BUILD THE SHIP*
*The ship is 70ft. long, 25ft. wide, and 14ft. high. Your donation gives us the lumber to build it.*
An inter-dimensional ship has settled on an alien landscape. Once a seafaring vessel, it now bares the marks of its previous voyages; a hodge-podge of transport devices and retro-fitted technologies.
The ship’s interior speaks of the rich history of the ship and its passengers, a history that is discoverable through a vast fictional archive presented throughout the ship.
The foreign environment that the ship resides in is filled with alien flora, fauna, and fungi; glowing trees that interact with audience members, cliff dwellings sprouting mysterious fruits, and creatures that sing alien tunes.
This project will incorporate video, live performance and extensive interactive elements to submerge the audience into a fully-operating fictional world.
Designed and directed by Meow Wolf, the installation will be a collaboration with over 100 artists, including national and international artists. Meow Wolf expects this project to garner attention from leading art publications when it opens in May of 2011.
Support the Due Return Kickstarter
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Now it’s Today
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
The challenge starts today! What is your thing-a-day for Fun-A-Day? E-mail us at funadayabq@gmail.com if you’ve got any last-minute questions or ideas. See you in a month!
Projects may vary from the pragmatic to the imaginative and abstract. You can do a painting-a-day, a postcard-a-day, a carbon transfer, a loaf of bread, a transcription of a conversation between children, or a photograph of a piece of origami that you leave in a public place.
Email us with brainstorms or feel free to post ideas to this page.
Fun-a-day was started and is perpetuated by the Art Clash Collective out of Philly. Have the fun guys.
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sMeSs
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
SMeSs burps text messages to (un)known targets un(knowingly). The penultimate Surrealist Act (according to Niels Bohr) is walking out of the shower and texting your girlfriend in the middle of the night. This program misses the mark by far. It will blind a cat however, and it puts the keys to probable chaos in the hands of anonymous gentlemen and wildwomen. Must enlist to receive arms.
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eMaim
Monday, March 15th, 2010
eMAIM fires off blind and random e-mails to any one of a collection of (somewhat) willing victims. The ultimate surrealist act (according to Breton) is walking out into the street with a gun and firing at random. This is a less dire implementation of the same intent. Send poetry to who knows who. You’ll never get it back. You’ll never hear of it again. Get it out of your life and into someone else’s.
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Sounds from the Swamp
Monday, March 1st, 2010
Drum Swamp 02.04.2010 FULL AUDIO>>
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Inside the Great Pyramids
Sunday, February 21st, 2010
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Stratham College of Art and Mechanics
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Announcing the Stratham College of Art and Mechanics – issuers of a quality education in both the Arts AND Mechanics. There are so many benefits to being enrolled in an Art School. Won’t you join us.
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Ubu Roi Apohadion
Monday, January 18th, 2010
The other night some of us did this. This is proof.
“Ladies and Gentlemen: it would be superfluous – aside from a certain absurdity in an author’s speaking of his own play – for me to come here and preface with a few wor, after such famous critics have cared to discuss it — among whom I must thank, and with these few all the others, M.M. Silvestre, Mendès, Scholl, Lorrain and Bauer —, if I did not feel that their benevolence had found Ubu’s belly big with more satirical symbols than we can possibly pump up tonight. The Swedenborgian philosopher Mésès has excellently compared rudimentary creations with the most perfect, and embryonic beings with the most complete, in that the former lack all irregularities, protuberances and qualities, which leaves them in more or less spherical form, like the ovum and M. Ubu, while the latter have added so many personal details that they remain equally spherical, following the axiom that the most polished object is that which presents the greatest number of sharp corners. That is why you are free to see in M. Ubu however many allusions you care to, or else a simple puppet — a schoolboy’s caricature of one of his professors who personified for him all the ugliness in the world.”
Next (only other) show, February 4th a Space Gallery
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162 things
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
162 bottles were hung with 162 notes inside. A participant would enter the room and take the knife hanging on the wall to cut one of the 162 strings, dropping a bottle and shattering (generally) it on the floor. If the bottle was not broken it would be handed to the participant to dash against the wall. Upon successful breaking I would rifle through the shards and pull out the participant’s fortune, silently handing it to them.
photos by Jon Donnell
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Sacred & Profane 2009
Monday, October 5th, 2009
162 x
bottles
slipknots
hooks
nails
messages
broken bottles
12ft lengths of string
Sacred & Profane happens every year at Battery Steel on Peaks Island in Portland, Maine. It is an amazing event that arises out of the community with no fees, no paperwork, no contracts, no applications, no advertising, no marketing, and no shit. An increasingly rare breed of pure events with no commercial or bureaucratic concerns. It makes me fall in love with Portland even more all over again. I am honored to have been a part this year.
More thorough commentary when I can muster it.