TANK performance

So our art group PIN did a performance/installation at TANK in nyc this past weekend. The performance part was to hand out pieces of gum with our logo stamped on the wrappers to people in the audience to chew and then stick to a panel we made of our circle logo in whatever way they chose to do it. We wore tee shirts with our logo on it and we took a video of it with recorded background noise including the audio of the other artists in the show. The final video will be remixed and edited into a low-fi abstract recycled art piece with the soundtrack accompanying it. Should be interesting as a projected audio/visual installation. Thanks to the curator Lauren Rosati for pulling a somewhat chaotic evening together. The theme of the show was Build/Decay - i just found out that our panel with the gum on it was thrown out after the show - so i guess that's the decay part (heh-heh). Atleast we did the show and i think it all turned out the way it was supposed to. Our group rocks!!

old work revisited

I am looking at some old collages that I made 2 years ago - they speak to me now - why? They seem to contain perhaps a level of mystery that some of my newer works are missing. At the time I made these collages I was undergoing alot of changes in my life and they really appeal to me - I think I can learn something from these old collages. I believe I can't go back to an old style of working because of the passage of time; growth spirtually mentally and physically. So, I don't intend to make new artworks that look like this because that wouldn't be possible. Perhaps I can take the pieces of it that I am intrigued with and incorporate it somehow into the art I am making and add.

February 10, 2007

So - looking through old collages i decide to redo this one .... i    I think i'm channeling AVAF - psychedelic tripped out stuff - I 'm still revisiting old work that I haven't looked at in awhile with a new eye - everything changes - but some older work still looks good to me - even better in fact than some of my more recent pieces. I'm also dying to do some sculpture with discarded plastic stuff all clear - with maybe some weird lighting and then taking photos or videos of it. Oh and definetly into containers right now - redecorating them to make sculpture boxes kind-of - I have a bunch of $1 store pkgs. that would work well in this vein and also some plain plastic containers that I can use.

AHHH .....a note about this collage - the black background is really not there - I couldn't figure out a way to scan it without a background - maybe I'll try photographing it and repost it. The shape inside the black background is really the actual shape of the collage.

Oh yeah, I'm really diggin' Noah Lyons aka retardriot and paper rad zine right now. The guys a genius!