DEXTER SINISTER WILL OCCUPY THE COMMANDER’S ROOM AT THE 7TH REGIMENT
ARMORY EVERY DAY FROM 4 MARCH TO 23 MARCH 2008 RELEASING A SERIES OF
PARALLEL TEXTS THROUGH MULTIPLE CHANNELS OF DISTRIBUTION WHICH REFLECT ON
THE 2008 WHITNEY BIENNIAL.
Matthew Barney, performing Drawing Restraint 2 on an Etch-a-Sketch.
Global Warming
Never Remember
a general experiment to examine whether the feild of aesthetics is conscious of a politicized art history
this drawing was shown in a beginning drawing course at a prestigious art institute on the day of the 21st of October, 2005. It was shown with all of the other works by the students, in other words an image surrounded by many others.
it was deemed average on all accounts, by passed if you will.
the drawing is a copy of an original done by Adolf Hitler for a Triumphal Arc to be erected over the Brandenburg Gate, 1925
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‘le societe du spectacle’ by G. Debord is now available as a podcast
… streamable to your ipod
Still Perfect Lovers
After Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Pair of cellophaned, unconsumed clocks
2006
Stay, Just a Little Bit Longer
Area rug
2007
An area rug is walked across to view a title plaque, reading UNTITLED (STAY, JUST A LITTLE BIT LONGER). The worn rug is relocated to the artist’s living room at the conclusion of the exhibition.
Always and Forever
Pair of lamps purchased at an Estate Sale
2006
Eva and Franco Mattes (a.k.a. 0100101110101101.ORG) reenacting Joseph Beuys’ “7000 Oaks” in a synthetic world
Beuys’ project begun on March the 16th 1982, at Documenta 7, in Kassel. His plan called for the planting of seven thousand trees, each paired with a columnar basalt stone. Beuys intended the Kassel project to be the first stage in an ongoing scheme of tree planting to be extended throughout the world as part of a global mission to effect environmental and social change.
The Mattes are reenacting Beuys’ work “7000 Oaks”, staging the new performance in the synthetic world of Second Life. The first virtual tree and stone were planted on March the 16th 2007, exactly 25 years after the original oak was planted.
The 7000 basalt stones have been stacked on Mattes’ island in Second Life: Cosmos Island. The diminishing pile of virtual stones will indicate the progress of the project, which will go on until all 7000 oaks and stones will be placed. Second Life inhabitants will have the chance to take part to the performance, placing stones and trees in their lands.
This work is part of Eva and Franco Mattes series of “Synthetic Performances”: reenactment of historical performances inside synthetic worlds where body, space and time can be completely reinvented. The series started at the beginning of 2007 and will feature works by artists like Vito Acconci and Marina Abramovic.
“Joseph Beuys’ 7000 Oaks” is commissioned by Centro de Arte Juan Ismael, Fuerteventura (Canary Islands, Spain), for the exhibition “Deambulatorios de una jornada, en el principio y el proyecto Tindaya”, curated by Nilo Casares.
More information and contacts: www.0100101110101101.org
“pop music for the year 4000.”
“Formed in Vienna in the mid-1990’s, the farmersmanual collective represents media art at its most anarchistic. While being best-known for their recordings, in recent years the group have shifted their emphasis towards extensive live performances, in which imaginative computer animation, synchronized with ‘chaos-particle-accelerating’ music, and the overall ambience of uncontrollable technology form a seamless whole. This globe-trotting group with a fluctuating line-up of four to five members hail from the same Mego label roster as last year’s Avanto visitors Fennesz, Pita and Hecker. […] ‘Our performance at Gloria will not be open to remote interaction. Our presentations at Aula will discuss a lot of these issues and demonstrate some, but the main issue here is a human interface: a more intensive contact with us for a smaller group of people. Our project is a work in progress and at Aula we want to reveal the process behind it that drives us and could possibly also drive other people. Honestly, it’s also a process of understanding our own contributions to a project that has no clear definition/target. No decision, no corporation.” (Hiaz via e-mail, 19.9.2001).’” [Anton Nikkila]
farmersmanual (1), farmersmanual (2), farmersmanual wiki, Mego 777
| VIRTUAL TIMELINE VIRTUAL TIMELINE VIRTUAL TIMELINE VIRTUAL TIMELINE | |||
| Entreprenurial Capitalism | Monopoly Capitalism | Multinational Capitalism | Virtual Capitalism |
| Steam Power | Electric Power | Micro Power | Nano Power |
| Property Rights | Corporate Rights | Copy Rights | DNA Rights |
| Nature as Other | Alien as Others | Knowledge as Other | Biology as Other |
| conquest of nature | 3rd world conquest | conquest of intelligence | conquest of existence |
| nationalism | imperialism | multinationalism | globalization |
| tuberculosis | cancer | AIDS | GGS (gray goo syndrome) |
| film | television | computer | wetware |
| Mechanical | Instantaneous | Logico-iconic | Fractal |
| realism | modernism | postmodernism | rhizomatics |
| high art | art as commodity | plagiarism | hypermedia |
| frame | screen | chip | bio-chip |
| possession | mediation | interface | introjection |
| image | collage | simulacra | chaotics |
| worker vanguard | consumer | affinity | virtual |
(RIPPED FROM RHIZOME.ORG)
For Immediate Release
Contact: jonathon_keats@yahoo.com
CONCEPTUAL RINGTONE SILENCES CELLPHONES
Subscribers Hear Four Minutes and Thirty-Three Seconds of Silence Whenever Someone Calls Them… Artist Jonathon Keats Offers Silent Ringtone Free-of-Charge Through Leading Ringtone Provider Start Mobile… Silence May Go Platinum in 2007…
JANUARY 5, 2007 - Since the beginning of time, pure silence has been available only in the vacuum of space. Now conceptual artist Jonathon Keats has digitally generated a span of silence, four minutes and thirty-three seconds in length, portable enough to be carried on a cellphone. His silent ringtone, freely distributed through special arrangement with Start Mobile, is expected to bring quiet to the lives of millions of cellphone users, as well as those close to them.
“When major artists such as 50 Cent and Chamillionaire started making ringtones, I realized that anything was possible in this new medium,” says Mr. Keats, whose previous art projects include attempting to genetically engineer God. “I also knew that another artist, John Cage, had formerly tried, and failed, to create a silent interlude.”
Mr. Cage once famously composed four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence, which was performed on a piano, in front of a live audience, back in 1952. By all accounts, though, his silence was imperfect, owing to the limitations of the technology available at the time. “John Cage can’t be blamed,” says Mr. Keats. “He lived in an analog age.”
“My Cage (Silence for Cellphone)” dispenses with performer and piano and auditorium, instead utilizing a continuous stream of silence produced on a computer, and compressed to standard ringtone format. This silence can be heard whenever a call comes through, whether out on the street, at a noisy concert, or in the quiet of home. A remastering of Mr. Cage’s classic, “My Cage” is also a remix, according to Mr. Keats. “It introduces serendipity into the equation, delivering performances unpredictably, whenever calls come unexpectedly. You never know.”
The silence may take place without the listener being aware of it. Or the listener may hear a call - phantom silence - when there’s no one on the line. “‘My Cage’ is all-encompassing,” Mr. Keats explains. “Even those who don’t use it as a ringtone have the potential to experience it, in the silence of an unanswered call.”
While noting that Mr. Keats doesn’t have a cellphone of his own, and may be less-than-qualified to make global pronouncements about them, Start Mobile CEO John Doffing believes that “My Cage” may be a platinum hit. “People want a respite,” he says, “and not everybody has the time or money to go to a spa. The virtues of silence are unsung.”
Nevertheless, Mr. Keats is careful not to take credit for silence in general, and hopes that people will bootleg his creation, just as he was inspired by John Cage. Mr. Cage, who died in 1992, could not be reached for comment.
“My Cage (Silence for Cellphone)” can be downloaded now at http://www.startmobile.net/433
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Jonathon Keats is a conceptual artist, novelist, and critic. For his most recent project, at the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, he exhibited extraterrestrial abstract artwork. He has also attempted to genetically engineer God in a petri dish, in collaboration with scientists at the University of California, and petitioned Berkeley to pass a fundamental law of logic - A=A - a work commissioned by the city’s annual Arts Festival. He has been awarded Yaddo and MacDowell fellowships, and his projects have been documented by KQED-TV and the BBC World Service, as well as periodicals ranging from The San Francisco Chronicle to New Scientist. He is represented by Modernism Gallery in San Francisco. For more information, please contact Mr. Keats at 415/673-9052 or jonathon_keats@yahoo.com
