The Elizabeth Dee Gallery is currently screening 4 videos from Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn. “Masters of None” (above) along with “All Together Now” (below) mark a departure from narrative and dialogue driven work for the duo.
The stress of Dodge and Kahn’s endeavors often involve exploration into a post civilized society. In showing the viewer how to start over, they hope to expose problems with our current structure.
The gallery has also made available “I See You Man” and “Nature Demo” for examination.
Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn
14 June - 2 August 2008
Elizabeth Dee Gallery
NYC
The experimental video “games” of William Lamson are definitely worth a l00k. These videos I’ve classified as games because most of the trials involve rules and a field of play. In “Vital Capacity” (above) more permutations occur than would seem possible. Head over to William Lamson’s website and have a look for yourself.
The puppet has never been the straight man. The burden of responsibility is lost between the brain and the hand leaving the page blank for a new persona. This unrestricted glimpse into the subconscious has been a rich source of entertainment and in some cases altered public opinion to the point of revolution.
The Santa Monica Museum of Art is investigating the man on the hand with a series of events that run in conjunction with “The Puppet Show”. The exhibit has works from 28 contemporary artists including Dennis Oppenheim (above) and Christian Jankowski (below). Go have a l00k.
The Puppet Show
24 May - 9 August 2008
Santa Monica Museum of Art
The Graffiti Research Lab is, “dedicated to outfitting graffiti artists with open source technologies for urban communication”. This entity is encouraging community within the public arts while expanding the genre at an unprecedented rate.
Enjoy “L.A.S.E.R. Tag” it is a stunning use of simple technologies. The Graffiti Research Lab and Theodore Watson offer free open source software and complete instructions so that you can build one for yourself. Now that’s going BIG!
I woke up lacking energy looking for something to snap me out of it. Then I remembered this De La Doom track. Hard to beat this master flow. The crowd must have been psyched to see De La Soul and then out walks the metal face. You gotta love how CDilly says “Rock Co. Flow”.
Occasionally video installations can produce effects that are indistinguishable from magic. Peter Sarkisian accomplishes this feat time and again with each new piece. His current show at the I-20 in Chelsea promises to amaze.
Jet-Set Graffiti has put together this great video of classic KAWS. I’m still coming to grips with the fact that 1997 was more than a decade ago. Ugh. The video shows KAWS roaming NYC placing some of his first ads there.
BLU has done it again with perhaps his most ambitious wall painted animation to date. MUTO spans 2007-08 and was conceived in Baden and Buenos Aires. It just goes on and on, everytime that you think that it must be over, something bigger happens. This one is a masterpiece. I can’t wait for someone to produce a DVD with all of BLU’s amazing videos in one place. Muto translated from Italian is “Dumb”.
Nick Walker, one of the Owl’s favorite vandals is at it again. This time he’s on Old Street in London. There are several remarkable things about this footage. The law is all over, taking pictures. He’s got a guy cleaning up overspill. There is a hardy round of applause when he’s done. It would seem that the graffiti climate is changing on both ends of the spectrum.
