CONSUMPTION

In 1973 Richard Serra and Carlota Fay Schoolman made Television Delivers People.

Who delivers your news?
Who owns your news?
Who owns the internet? (Does the Internet provide for us or do we provide for it?)
Who delivers you?

Found via TheImagist.com

Albers to Artschwager ...

Whilst browsing Tate Liverpool's 'Works on Display' section I encounter subconscious Internet poetry.

"booth concepts"

VOLTA says via e-flux:

This bold curatorial emphasis will set a path for VOLTA's future to remain always on the forefront of new ideas.

Exhibiting galleries for VOLTA7 2011 will be selected by a Curatorial Committee composed of art critics and curators of an international pedigree. These include:

Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, São Paolo
Christoph Doswald, Zürich
Jasper Sharp, Vienna
Francesco Stocchi, Rome


Sure, babes.

P.S. Whoa! : http://ny.voltashow.com/Internship-Program.5732.0.html $150 per day! Man, that's really good! $$$chi-ching$$$ ... Do it!

It happened suddenly

Moonmessage Part III

Approximately seventeen days after posting this and approximately seven days after posting this, I received this beautiful text from writer and musician Roi Cydulkin:


Connect with Roi on the interwebs via Beige.

Merci, Roi.

Via EL PAÍS.com, I find Parship ...

Bermused, I conduct an interview with myself:

What do websites like Parship offer us?
I guess they give people the opportunity to find love/companionship. I know of many people who have met lovers online, I don't think there is a problem with online-dating per se, but Parship seems to frame it in a strange way, they offer 'professional dating for professional people'.

What does that mean?
I guess it means Parship is for people who don't have time to meet non-professional people, people outside a professional context, or are not interested in non-professional people because they themselves are always working? I don't think we should criticise such people: the reality of the situation is that everyone must work a lot, the majority of their time in fact, to function in this system. Most people have to be 'professional' to exist in this society so maybe that is Parship's angle?

It sounds like you're saying that because most people are 'professional' they have trouble dating/finding a relationship?
I think the issue is the dynamic that emerges when people become automated in a society where work and money are the only value systems. There are two issues here, one being the need for "stable", legitimate, traditional relationships to maintain the economy (i.e. to create heterosexual, monogamous, nuclear families where the woman labours for free [this is simplistic, and arguably passé, but still holds on a fundamental level]). The other being the alienation that people feel not only in their work situations but - because work permeates almost every facet of life - in day-to-day/social/extra-curricular situations as well. Thus there is a collision of people feeling unable to relate to others, combined with the external expectation that states we are only legitimate subjects if coupled.

That's very complicated! Is it simply a question of lack of time these days?
Apparently Parship is 'based on 30 years of scientific research', so it would suggest they've been onto this 'problem' for a while. I would say it's more a sign of the demise of the backbone of capital (nuclear family myth) trying to cover up it's demise with yet another capitalist venture (this is the raison d'être of Capitalism and also why it's so difficult to eliminate - Capitalism reacts rapidly to every change in circumstance, it's a shape-shifter). And anyway, people have time to be on Parship so they have time not to be on Parship, I think it's just a step further in current society's assertion that we are too time-pressed to know ourselves, understand ourselves, and meet others (which I think need not necessarily be in the construct of a "Relationship") who may complement that self.

Are you saying value in the eyes of society only stems from recognition of traditional couple-status?
It's extremely simplistic but, in a word, yes. Those who don't fit into that structure are seen as (for men) either "dirty old men"/womaniser-bachelors or (for women) spinsters/promiscuous hussies. These people are really made into an Other in society's eyes. Some people may disagree, but even homosexual relationships are now being 'accepted' only if they fit into the heterosexual, capitalist model of monogamy (i.e. gay marriage, which needless to say I support despite its paradoxical nature).

Are you crazy? Why are you so cynical and negative?
I'm not negative! I'd say that I'm an optimistic cynic! I'm really still trying to get my head around all of this. But I believe we need to be aware of the structures that surround us so we can fully comprehend where we're at and realise that we can work together to end alienation and establish real community and really fulfilling relationships with ourselves and others!

Hippy.
Your mum is.

frieze e-newsletter says ...

Espousing Art/Education/Freedom for all is a method taken by the few to sell magazine advertising, "save the arts", maintain sponsorship from freedom-for-all promoters like Deutsche Bank, et al.

I guess this is the only way today? Artists Space welcomes The James ...

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"While before, luxury had been constrained by excess and empty ostentation, The James has evolved the concept to accommodate the more enlightened values and aesthetics of today's culturally minded traveler."



When self-reflexion is commodified
When self-criticism serves capitalism
Self-critique is no longer critical

"Progress" (Moonmessage Part II)

I posted this the other day and so far have received three responses.

2 x email:

1 x conversation:
With Sarah.

RADIOACTIVITY / ELECTRICITY

Coincidental listening/learning.

Politics ≈ friendly chat over the hearth

(Reagan and Gorbatchev via Wiki)

moonmessage010110@gmail.com (Part I)

Email me your news and stories so that we can start a dialogue/email performance to be then played live at an event we will make together in 'real life' and real space, as opposed to virtual space but real time. The key idea would be to exchange ideas and stances. To arrive at a position communally, even in dissonance. Think of it as durational. Online time spent together but separate - connexion but dislocation - what is that space in between?

EMAIL ME: moonmessage010110@gmail.com

rodin.jpg

Quotidian pain

A, Bruxelles, C, D, E, F, Genève, H, I, J, K, London, München, New York, O, Paris, Q, R, Sydney, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Zürich

More Marina (via Stephen Russell and The New York Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/03/03/garden/0304-Location_index.html

"The performance artist Marina Abramovic divides her time between a SoHo loft and a star-shaped country house, both designed with bold colors and a spartan aesthetic by the Manhattan architect Dennis Wedlick."

runway

I wrote an article for the current runway magazine. Visit: runway.org.au for more info on the mag and to purchase. Click below to read my piece.

The Truth of the World (found on a bus)

London, c.2010

PRESS FOR 15 MINS. OF LIGHTING

– Sign, level 7, Fisher Library, The University of Sydney, 5 June 2010

Life

Untitled (Fashion, Art), 2010

"The Marina Abramović finissage dinner at MoMA with Givenchy" [via Twitter]


Pictures by Olivier Zahm @purple-diary.com

FRAUD ART

2009

Art lists

Street obseration #1

I was sitting on a bus (242) at an intersection (Wormwood St. EC2) when one of those ute/billboards drove by. The billboard part of the ute read:

Married but want more?

illicitencounters.com

The home of discreet Cheating

This occurred circa 3 February 2010, circa 22:00.

I stumble across Artaud in Deleuze & Guattari's Anti-Oedipus ...

... I am writing about a segment of Charles Chaplin's 1936 film Modern Times ...


... I update my Facebook status with a quote from Anti-Oedipus and I mis-spell the first 'est' as 'et' ('is' as 'and'), though they are the same phonetically: "Le corps et le corps/il est seul/et n'a pas besoin d'organe/le corps n'est jamais un organisme/les organismes sont les ennemis du corps." - A. Artaud ...


... I receive an email from Anna Schwartz Gallery to inform me that Edward Scheer has written a book called The Infinity Machine: Mike Parr's Performance Art, 1971-2005 ...


... I am indifferent and delete the email ...

... I discover, via Google Books, Susan Sontag has written a beautiful essay on Artaud in Antonin Artaud: A Critical Reader, edited by Edward Scheer ...



... Roi sends me the video below via Facebook, he says, "artaud, l'acteur (carl dreyer's 'la passion de jeanne d'arc,' in godard's 'vivre sa vie')" ...



... Vivre Sa Vie is one of my favourite Godard films.

Motivation poster 1

Amy is studying to be a physiotherapist. She suggested I make posters as reminders and stick them on my wall. Apparently it really helps to have visual triggers. It's more effective than simply thinking to oneself: 'I should do my physio'. Amy suggested 'Do your physio', but I preferred this (please click):
Thank you, Amy.

Message from Kate

Kate left me this message on the night of 26 February 2010. ♥

Rehabilitation

'Ability' is relative. Brian says we are all actually 'temporarily able' until we are (inevitably) 'disabled'. The only variables are at what point it happens in your life and whether it kills you (i.e. immediately).

Dancing is one of my favourite pastimes. I have learnt recently that it is also a good way to combine physiotherapy exercises and fun, because physiotherapy exercises are not fun. I call this Dance-Hab.

Dance-Hab is a fantastic way to make 'rehabilitation' more enjoyable, but you know it's equally fantastic even if you're not in rehabilitation-mode. Dancing makes us all feel better (remember you don't necessarily need to walk to dance). Dancing makes us all more 'able' (not everyone's restrictions are physical). You don't need anything (except maybe music) to start Dance-Hab - it's free and you can do it anywhere, anytime.

Can you imagine how shiny the world would be if everyone did fifteen minutes of Dance-Hab a day?

Take it from Jay-Z and Alicia: 'There's nothing you can't do.'

Some facts of the moment(s)

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Photography and text (quick and easy art)

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