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October 2007 Archives
Leave the woman where she is.
She has two arms of her own
And two legs for that matter
(Which, sir, are no longer any affair of yours).
See that you yourself come through.
Continue reading "The Impact of the Cities," after Bertolt Brecht.
This person has similar credentials to the last in many ways. Caro Niederer, a Swiss artist, wife (I think maybe now ex-wife) of David Weiss of the superstar Fischli and Weiss humorous Conceptual art team. (Their most famous, and most wonderful work, is the Rube-Goldberg-like film “Der Lauf der Dinge.”) Represented by THE premier and most well-funded Swiss gallery, Caro is highly career-success motivated and has had all the correct connections, due to her liaison, and knows how to use them. Unfortunately, she has spent almost no time or motivation on developing any technical ability or heart. A true study in “Alessandro-Allori-ism.”
Continue reading And Yet Another CC Genius.
In his recent article “Zhang Huan, Stark Naked and Covered With Flies,” Perreault discusses and dissects some artworld bubbles. Two excerpts:
“Artopia pays no attention to the Chinese art bubble, nor to the bigger art bubble in general. Bubbles come and go. The Bigger Bubble is tied to the stock market. The stock market drops and the art market follows one year later. It has happened twice on my watch. Now it is real estate, everywhere but in New York City high-income zip codes, that is plummeting. Will art follow?”
Continue reading John Perreault’s Artopia Blog Site on Art Bubbles.
Yes, also at this moment greatly pushed by the Consensus Clique. David Chieppo. A very young American living in Switzerland, hanging with the Right Crowd. It can't have anything to do with that or his boyfriend being an important curator can it? He has even been recently put in a museum show with Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman and Joseph Beuys. Good that the first and the last are dead, I suppose. Maybe True Consensus Correct "talent" has little to do with painting ability.
Continue reading Yet Another Consensus Genius..
It would be interesting to note whether or not Doig is aware of Uttech -who has been working in this manner since...probably before Doig was even born. It looks like.....nothing borrowed, nothing gained time......IN SPADES!
Presented without words. Getting better than Kilimnik, but ...
Peter Doig is a Scottish painter living in Trinidad. He's one of Europe's most expensive living painters.
Continue reading Another Consensus Genius..
Caroline Noble Whitbeck's manuscript, Our Classical Heritage: A Homing Device, was the 2006 winner of Switchback Books' Gatewood Prize as selected by judge Arielle Greenberg. She holds a BA in Classics (Latin) from Harvard College and an MFA from Brown University. Born and raised in New York City, she currently resides in Philadelphia, where she is working toward a PhD in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. Her short play "Woof" was produced off-Broadway as part of the Young Playwrights Festival 2000, and her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from Horse Less Review, Lumina, Elimae, Cab/Net, and Word For/Word.
Valise
All day the birds
annotate
Continue reading Poem of the Week: "Valise" by Caroline Noble Whitbeck.
Continuing our series on Consensus Malpractice ...
The Brooklyn Rail is a wonderful website of “Critical Perspectives on Arts Politics and Culture.” Sharkforum readers should check it out. One recent article in the “Art Seen” section I found very enjoyable: “Call it Merde” by artist and art critic James Kalm. He has his own youtube page with videos of art criticism.
A few excerpts to tantalize you:
"As the new art season opens, led by the charge of the market bulls, we’re confronted once again with the latest, the hottest, the chic-est. For this somewhat jaded spectator, who’s experienced our culture’s willing desensitization via a plethora of evermore “shocking” gestures, I find myself wondering about its relationship to that most base of all materials: shit, crap, doodoo, poop. ..."
Continue reading "Call it Merde (and They Will Eat It)": James Kalm’s Excellent Article.
View image largerAnd the week is launched with a Feeding Frenzy Funny by Steve Hamann with MSB and some input by the Shark. Enjoy. MUCH more is to come!
It’s in the system, baby. You get that for which rewards are given. Here’s how it works, in list form.
1. If you are a curator in an out-of-the-way place, or at least want to climb the social ladder as a curator...
Sean Singer was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and grew up in Florida. His first book Discography won the 2001 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by W.S. Merwin, and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is also the recipient of a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His poems appear in Drunken Boat, La Petite Zine, Salmagundi, Tin House, Pleiades and others. He lives in Harlem, New York City.
Billie, Later
1
Wounds etch themselves above and below
Drink sober lungfulls of hush.
Bloodsoap & will, the threadbare
Noises of an amber tube and a bird.
Continue reading Poem of the Week: "Billie, Later" by Sean Singer.
Coming Soon To Sharkforum! The Shark will take apart in large bite size chunks MCA Curator Dominic Molon's 'job search' like attempt to ingratiate himself with the international set, showing all the usual suspects from LA and from NYC in the Museum Of Contemporary Art's rock music and art exhibition 'Sympathy For The Devil' while almost completely ignoring the amazing art and rock scene right here in his own front yard. Grab your popcorn and find a front row seat people. This, is going to get sharky and prehistoric chomp chomp!.......Sympathy For The Devil, indeed......
The September issue of OCHO is out, guest edited by Grace Cavalieri. OCHO was founded by Didi Menendez and is the MiPOesias print companion.
Sample poem from the issue:
Bird's Eye View by Fleda Brown
Even after the war, things wanted to go on
lockstep, our house in Terry Village one of
a hundred shotgun army barracks dragged into place.
We had one-fourth of one, thin-walled, set up
for GIs returning to school. And a great mud-puddle
out front, children eddying between buildings
looking for something to do, digging under
Continue reading OCHO #12 guest edited by Grace Cavalieri.
One of my neighbours, H. R. Fricker, is a exceptional artist, originally known for his Fluxus, Mail Art work, but he has done a variety of artwork in his career. Fricker has pushed an approach influenced by early Conceptual Art into a personal and poetic "Contextual Art" far more intriguing than most Neo-Conceptual Art. Matthias Kuhn, himself a remarkable artist and curator-cum-art-project-organizer (as I find him to be, even if he was rather faint-hearted and worried about his “connections“ in the face of my newspaper article on local curatorial malpractice), has written a post about Fricker’s newest internet-based project. I translated it and am presenting here.
The internationally renowned Swiss artists H.R. Fricker has launched a new undertaking in his website “placeofplaces.com,” ...
Continue reading H.R. Fricker: Place of Places.com — Signage for Living Rooms.
Jackie K. White has published poetry and translations in such journals as ACM, Blackwater Review, Folio, Quarter after Eight, So to Speak, Spoon River, and Third Coast. She has been a fellow at Ragdale, the Virginia Center for the Arts, and the Mary Anderson. She is an editor for the literary annual RHINO and an associate professor at Lewis University. Her PhD in Creative Writing is from the University of Illinois at Chicago where she also completed concentrations Latino/Latin American and Women’s Studies. Two of Jackie's chapbooks were published in 2007, Bestiary Charming by Anabiosis Press and Petal Tearing & Variations by Finishing Line Press.
Guide
Sprouts up heat down and school doors push June
out into another neon meta-bud-green stress:
Continue reading Poem of the Week: "Guide" by Jackie White.
Adam Fieled is a poet/musician currently based in Philadelphia. His first book Opera Bufa was released by Otoliths Press in 2007. Another book is forthcoming from Blazevox Press. He has also released two albums: Darkyr Sooner (mp3.com, 2000), and Ardent (Main Street West, 2004.) He is a University Fellow and PhD candidate at Temple University in Philadelphia.
from Opera Bufa
#1
Losing is the lugubriousness of Chopin. What’s lost might be a sea shell or a tea cup or the bloody scalp of an Indian; it hardly matters. When you are lost, the heart recedes
Continue reading Poem of the Week: from Opera Bufa by Adam Fieled.
vacant apartment by Ursula Sokolowska
"The Impact of the Cities," after Bertolt Brecht by Ray Pride
And Yet Another CC Genius by Mark Staff Brandl
John Perreault’s Artopia Blog Site on Art Bubbles by Mark Staff Brandl
At The Chopin Theater, Mention Sharkforum, Get Two Tickets For The Price Of One! by The Shark
Yet Another Consensus Genius. by Mark Staff Brandl
Why Does That 11 Million Dollar Doig Look Like Nothing So Much as a Poor Ma.. errrrh- I Mean 'Rich Man's Version of Wisconsin Master Painter Tom Uttech? (20k, Maybe 30k) by The Shark
Another Consensus Genius. by Mark Staff Brandl
Poem of the Week: "Valise" by Caroline Noble Whitbeck by Simone Muench
"Call it Merde (and They Will Eat It)": James Kalm’s Excellent Article by Mark Staff Brandl
Shark Attack: Curatorial Malpractice Week by Mark Staff Brandl
A Short Guide to the Consensus Curator Career Ladder; or Why All Shows Look the Same by Mark Staff Brandl
Poem of the Week: "Billie, Later" by Sean Singer by Simone Muench
Imagine You are A Curator, Curating a Rock Music and Art Exhibition, and, That You Are Guilty Of Curatorial Malpractice: Wouldn't You Be Nervous Given The Shark Infested Waters That Surround Chicago? by The Shark
OCHO #12 guest edited by Grace Cavalieri by Simone Muench
