dimanche, mars 16, 2008

9h30 vendredi le 14 mars 2008 || rm103 Boris Dornbusch and Daniel Webby || I always say the contrary to what you say I always say the same as you


Collaboration
Starting point - Casten Holler video of twins saying "I always say the contrary to what you say" or "I always say the same as you" to each other.|| the visual starting point: the basketball court at the back of the mt st studio (Boris) || National sport of Croatia, and the loop/basketball has the same colours as the Croatian national colour. (interesting additional information) --> does it change the way we view/experience this work?

what's the relationship between Boris' and Daniel's work:
does it matter which is whose? || inside/outside || viewing out/ breaking in || the basketball as the detergent (??) || picture/painting: can be viewed as still image(s) and may have more room for narratives to come in || failure || what's the dialogue? || difference between artist-run spaces and dealer galleries? what's the subject? || medium of video? time, expression of time? || artists - critics - collectors, etc. || experience v.s. documentation

Do I understand any of the written text? How do the experiences differ between the 2 (or 1?) work? || the failed [dead] suicide bomber basketball in the end room looks as if was set up to tell a sad story, does the message on the phone says "mission accomplished" or "that's it, nothing more".. is the phone necessary if it was only tied to the ball for the recoding purpose? I don't think the phone took part in the process - the phone was not attached when the ball broke in the window; i even suspect if it was the very ball that did the breaking.. not convinced but a good story told. yea? like my first reaction to the collision of the twin towers: nah, it can't be true. pop a song in your head n have it repeat a 1000 times, you'd gradually grow to like it. tell the same story 100 times, no matter how unbelievable it is, people accept it being 'true'.. and vise-versa. || how we generate/pass on information in relation to the critical mass is h*ll-yeah a mass. || The video work gives a quite romantic feel, a lot softer than the real objects and it seems more open-ended.. i personally enjoy the repetitive action of shooting the ball into the loop, and since we don't see the people doing it, the basketball stand becomes a symbolised object.. like a goal... or... don't know, somehow your attention is fixed in the double frames against the grey background. camera angle looking down but projection level forced [me] looking up... seems educative. therefore we had a 2-hour session on it but nah, i said nothing.

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mardi, novembre 06, 2007

Elam Open Days 2007

preview function fri 9/11/2007 @ 18h.
Lv2 Main Fine Arts Building
20 Whitaker Place

"Elam Open Days 2007 is an exceptional opportunity for the public to see the calibre of talent coming out of our School and to understand why Elam is renowned as the leading fine arts school in New Zealand," says Associate Professor Derrick Cherrie, Head of Elam, the National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries (NICAI). "Our Master of Fine Arts, Postgraduate Diploma and Bachelor of Fine Arts programmes provide the platform for academic and artistic development at all levels and the results, quite clearly, are outstanding."

Don't know whats gonna happen, might as well go and have a poke around. Well wth i just live across the road of course i'd have to be there. Would be gud to see all the Art... sorry... no one makes art around here... oops.. sorry... i should stop making dangerous statements. but who cares really i get nervous too easily and fok up everything. it's exactly the reason behind all my sorrows. yea right whatever, talking it up again.. but maybe that's who i really am - a big fat bluff so as to comfort my own insecurity... insecurity in what? being too happy, too optimistic, too naive, too passionate about life and therefore losing focus in the art of living.. sorry i used that word again.

anyway i just want to hind myself in my a-hole and constipate.



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18h Thu 8/11/2007 GambiaCastle. Exhibition Opening: Stuart Sherman

18hFri 9/11/2007 ArtSpace. Exhibition Opening: Tom Kreisler

13h Sat 10/11/2007 GusFisher. Talk: Jonathan Gibb and Linda Tyler on Vernon Brown

15h Sat 10/11/2007 ArtSpace. Talk: Aaron Kreisler in response

18h Mon 12/11/2007 Elam Lecture Theatre. Kitty Anderson and Gavin Delahunty: Against Cultural Confinement. Easy Listening Monday 12th November

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