Animals on the street!

Click HERE for NYTimes Article

More indexin'

Mmmmmm: a link to the entirety of Fritz Lang's "M"

(watch above YouTube portion (1/11) and follow to the rest)

Snow's So Is This (part 1/5)

Bazin reading for indexicality class

In case you have not read Bazin's short piece on the Ontology of the Photograph:

CLICK HERE

THIS PIECE by Bazin is also worth reading in relation to cinema and ideas of temporality, duration, repetition, and death (to no one's surprise).

Stih & Schnock at Brown in April

The following workshop and lecture are being sponsored by the JNBC/Public Humanities people, again partly in concert with the Art + History group. It seems like it might be something we should consider.


lecture April 16:
Art Goes Public - Memorials and Interventions
Lecture, Thu (1-2 hours, including Q & A)


“Art Goes Public – Memorials & Interventions”


This lecture explores how memory functions in the social sphere
and how it is reflected symbolically in the space of the city.
Conceptual artists Stih & Schnock will discuss how the intrusion
of art in public space affects everyday life in memorial projects
including “Places of Remembrance”, “BUS STOP”, Rosa Luxemburg and
interventions like the Sarajevo-project and “Invitation” at
Berlin-Alexanderplatz. Collections as containers of memory will be
explored in “Who Needs Art – We Need Potatoes”, “The Art of
Collecting - Flick in Berlin”, and, most recently, “The City as
Text” and “Show Your Collection”.



workshop April 17:
LIFE~BOAT - Collections and Hybridity
Workshop, Fri 10-12 (lunch break) 1.30 – 3.30 pm


“LIFE~BOAT – Collections and Hybridity”


LIFE~BOAT explores our relationship to and obsession with boats
and the sea. The physical aspects of the uncontrolled, often
dangerous, bodies of water are ever present as they create the
psychological need to overcome nature’s force and to develop
survival strategies. This workshop will reflect how the arts
create metaphors for longings and projections, where dreams and
nightmares fuse into each other and touch social and political
topics. The participants will encounter elements of familiar
places in the most unlikely of territories and discuss cultural
conversion in relation to cultural mobility. *The *encounter of
maritime topics and objects will create a model of the world en
miniature, *which exposes cultural hybridity in an* abstract kind
of travel, visualized in a multi-media installation as combined
result of the workshop.

CV

Stih & Schnock are conceptual artists who explore how memory functions
in the social sphere and how it is reflected symbolically in urban
spaces. Their intrusion of art in public space affects everyday life in
projects like "Places of Remembrance" (1993), "BUS STOP" (1994/95), "The
City as Text - Jewish Munich" (2007), "Invitation - Berlin
Alexanderplatz" (1997/98).
They also focus on art collections as places of collective memory.
Examples include: "Show Your Collection" (2008), the environment at the
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart "Who Needs Art, We Need Potatoes" (1998), "The
Art of Collecting - Flick in Berlin" (2004).

Renata Stih has taught art and technology, film and media at the
University of Applied Sciences in Berlin for many years.
Frieder Schnock received his PhD in art history and is a former curator
at the Museum Fridericianum in Kassel.
Together they have taught at numerous American universities, including
Princeton, Harvard, SAIC Chicago and MICA Baltimore.
They live in Berlin.

Exhibitions (selection):
Deutschlandbilder. Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (1997)
CTRL Space. ZKM Karlsruhe (2001)
Signs from Berlin. The Jewish Museum New York (2003)
Die zehn Gebote. Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden (2004)
Schrift Bilder Denken. Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (2005)
Die RAF- Ausstellung. Kunstwerke, Berlin (2005)
Berlin Messages. Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale (2005)
Displaced. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2005)
Reality Bites. Mildred Lane Kempner Art Museum St. Louis (2007)
Modelle - Materialisierung von Konzepten. Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin
(2008)
(Keine) Angst / (No) Fear. Kunstverein Ludwigshafen (2008)

Atta Kim

-From the Museum Project

Click HERE for more images from Atta Kim. His On Air series is also quite interesting as we think about temporality. 

RFK in KY

An Art + History reading group I'm involved over in Public Humanities is bringing in the artist John Malpede in a few weeks to speak to the class. One of his latest works is "RFK in KY", a reenactment of Bobby Kennedy's anti-poverty trip through Kentucky in 1968.
I think that this visit could be of real interest to the class, so please take a look at the project website, and I should have more info about when he'll be here soon (probably a Friday at 12:15, possibly March 6, 13, or 20).

"Brunettes" "&" "Colonization"

In the last moments of class I blurted out a reference to a misremembered performance.

Hang that in your permanent collection, Ms. Calle.

Here is a link to an archived electronic imprint of Janet Cardiff's Her Long Black Hair.

Unmarked

This article is a must-read on cinema and archive and decay:

Ruin, Archive and the Time of the Cinema.

Watch Sophie Calle.

Look at some Woodman photos.

DERRIDA:

Derrida on Freud's ghost and Kafka's ghost from the film Ghostdance.

Derrida archive

The Derrida archive lawsuit, Irvine

This appears to be the entire 2003 documentary Derrida

Strangers (1999-2001) by Shizuka Yokomizo

"Dear Stranger, I am an artist working on a photographic project which involves people I do not know…I would like to take a photograph of you standing in your front room from the street in the evening. A camera will be set outside the window on the street. If you do not mind being photographed, please stand in the room and look into the camera through the window for 10 minutes on __-__-__ (date and time)…I will take your picture and then leave…we will remain strangers to each other…If you do not want to get involved, please simply draw your curtains to show your refusal…I really hope to see you from the window. "

Boris Mikhailov

In more than four hundred photographs taken between 1997 and 1999 Boris Mikhailov paid homeless people in the Ukraine to reveal their bodies to his lens. He says of the series, titled Case History, "We as spectators are the ones who are humiliated and degraded by the confrontation, exposed to a truth we cannot walk away from and cannot bear to share...I wanted to copy or perform the same relations which exist in society between a model and myself."

Miwa Yangi

Speaking of ICP and Tomoko Sawada...
Check out their Fall 2008 exhibition of Japanese photography:
http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.3962161/

It also includes the artist Miwa Yanagi whose work "My Grandmothers" shows her performing women's fantasies of themselves as elderly women is amazing. http://www.yanagimiwa.net/e/grandmothers/e/index.html

She has also done a lot of work performing girls and acting out fairytales...

Kohei Yoshiyuki

Kohei Yoshiyuki

gelati silver prints from the series The Park, 1973

"For these photos, taken in Tokyo’s Shinjuku, Yoyogi, and Aoyama parks during the 1970s, Mr. Yoshiyuki used a 35mm camera, infrared film, and flash to document the people who gathered there at night for clandestine trysts, as well as the many spectators lurking in the bushes who watched—and sometimes participated in—these couplings."

Tomoko Sawada

"In the tradition of Claude Cahun, Cindy Sherman, and more recently Nikki Lee, Sawada plays a host of characters and identities in her self-portraits. With each new get-up she transforms into someone else. In the ID-400 series, reminiscent of Andy Warhol's photo-booth portraits from the 1960s, Sawada used a public photo booth to create an "army of me," - but not me. She spent weeks continually changing her physical appearance and dress to invent a total of four hundred different new identities. The facial characteristics and expressions are so varied and elastic in these candid shots that they become in of themselves a subtle study of physiognomy."

2008 Archive Fever exhibition

Tacita Dean

Floh: Baby Lotion, 2000

Stan Douglas

Overture, 1986

black and white 16mm film with looping device and mono optical soundtrack

Image Size: Variable

ARCHIVE FEVER--Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art
2008 ICP exhibition

Organized by Okwui Enwezor, Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art presented works by contemporary artists who use archival documents to rethink the meaning of identity, history, memory, and loss. The works presented take many forms, including physical archives arranged by peculiar cataloguing methods, imagined biographies of fictitious persons, collections of found and anonymous photographs, film versions of photographic albums, and photomontages composed of historical photographs. The images have a wide-ranging subject matter yet are linked by the artists' shared meditation on photography and film as the quintessential media of the archive.

Christian Boltanski, Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Jef Geys, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Craigie Horsfield, Lamia Joreige, Zoe Leonard, Sherrie Levine, Ilán Lieberman, Glenn Ligon, Robert Morris, Walid Raad, Thomas Ruff, Anri Sala, Fazal Sheikh, Lorna Simpson, Eyal Sivan, Vivan Sundaram, Nomeda and Gediminas Urbona, Andy Warhol

In 2006, the Met had an exhibit, "On Photography: A Tribute to Susan Sontag"

Eduardo Cadava

Hill/Adamson and Sander illustrations reproduced in the 1931 publication of Kleine Geschichte

look at this!: re: pointing in barthes and schor

John Baldessari, "A Person Was Asked to Point", 1969, a series of photographs depicting an outstretched finger pointing to banal objects. Color photos mounted on museum board. Two from the series, 29 x 42.5 in. each.

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