Archive for January, 2008
Robert Smithson. Spiral Jetty.
Spiral Jetty. Photo via mbuitron at flickr
The Spiral Jetty is an earthwork sculpture constructed in 1970.
Built of mud, salt crystals, basalt rocks, earth, and water on the northeastern shore of the Great Salt Lake near Rozel Point in Utah, it forms a 450 m long and 4 m wide counterclockwise coil jutting from [...]
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Tags: landart, minimal, Smithson
Spiral Jetty Threatened
Via Artfagcity:
This just in via MAN: A new drilling contract in Utah threatens Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, an emergency email from the artist’s widow, Nancy Holt, informs journalists. A number of pipes and pumps will be laid beneath the water and shore, as well as roads built for oil tank trucks, and cranes for other [...]
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Home is where the art is…
Graffitti on the walls of 475 Kent Ave. Williamsburg, sprayed on during evacuation. Photo via BruceLabounty802 on flickr (see here for the entire set.)
It’s called gentrification. You take a bad neighborhood with low property values and good location. You set up a squat with a public kitchen run by anarchists. You rent out the surrounding [...]
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Tags: New York, urbanism
Radek Retrospective (Part II)
Radek Community. Against Everyone. Action, 1999. Photo via Kovolev.com at flickr
A week ago, the Radek Community announced its dissolution. Little has changed in Moscow since then. Most people just smiled and said something like “Didn’t those guys break up a while ago already?” Basically, they saw the announcement as another non-event in a normalized [...]
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Tags: actionism, Osmolovsky, performance, Radek
Radek Retrospective (Part I)
Photo via http://sil-kin.livejournal.com/93975.html
Since last night, it is official. The Radek Community no longer exists. The Radeks were once the “children of Moscow Actionism”: in the late 1990s, they made (or helped to make) a number of key performances in public space. They participated in the building of a barricade in the center of Moscow in [...]
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Tags: actionism, performance, Radek
Technology fetishism from afar
I don’t really like technology fetishism. It makes me a little nauseous when the flat aesthetic of screen design steps out into an art space, proving once again that the fetishization of use value creates nothing but useless attractions. Somehow for me art is more about all kinds of things that the internet can’t [...]
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Tags: ZKM
I spent the time after New Years reading the German Ideology, texts on institutional critique.
But I was also answering some questions the artist Szasza y Pal from Budapest set to Dima Vilensky and me after we held a two day seminar at Transit in November.
The text got much too long, so I’m posting the full [...]
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Tags: Chto delat
