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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Press Play.

Actually, if you hit that Play button nothing will happen. It's just a screengrab from Hustler of Culture where you'll find Xeni Jardin from BoingBoing TV talking with artist David Byrne.

Here's a bucket and a bushel full of other links about Playing the Building . . .

Roberta Fallon on Fallon & Rosof's Artblog. There you'll also find links to Roberta's sister Cate's videos on YouTube.

The npr story.

Rob Harvilla in the Voice.

Joe Bendik in NY Press.

Justin Davidson in New York Magazine.

C-Monster!!!

Pitchfork TV

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

More Song About Building, Pt. 2.

The crew at Creative Time seems to have a knack for finding great old buildings and exploiting them in the service of art. Previous wonders The Plain of Heaven and A Psychic Vacuum and, presently, David Byrne's Playing the Building have opened the doors of buildings that hadn't seen the light of our eyes in a long, long time. As strong as the art has been it's always been an exhilarating side thrill to peer into history through the portal of these unlocked spaces.

Monday, June 02, 2008

More Song About Building, Pt. 1.

Here's the first set of my pics from David Byrne's Playing the Building. In a word . . . AWESOME! This'll be the first in a series of what will be three posts. Next up . . . building pics. And lastly I'll post some thoughts that go a little deeper than "AWESOME!". But seriously, it really is. Press play.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Who Sings You?

David Byrne on the NYTimes online front page

The recently damaged David Byrne will be launching his much-anticipated project for Creative Time, Playing the Building, on Saturday. He talks about it in his online journal here. The Times is psyched about it here. And, of course, I'm psyched about it HERE. Here's a list of things to prime the pump. I can't necessarily explain some of them, especially The Kinks' song. I've been trying to read as little as possible about the piece so this list comes more from intuition and past experience than anything. Really. I'm not really sure what I'm doing here. But that's OK.

Listening and remembering:
Brian Eno, Discreet Music
Francisco Lopez, Building [New York]: Listen. Remember.
Fear, "New York's Alright...If You Like Saxophones,"
Joey Adams
Tom Recchion, I Love My Organ
Oskar Sala, My Fascinating Instrument
The Kinks, "Oklahoma U.S.A."
Afternoon Penis
Scott Walker, "Farmer in the City"
Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis, Deep Listening
Spire or Spire.
Trisha Donnelly from The Plain of Heaven

On a totally personal note:
Pearl Harbor & The Explosions, Pearl Harbor & The Explosions
Toure Kunda, Natalia
Robert Fripp, Under Heavy Manners
David Byrne, "The Revolution"

Multiplicity.

The Collected Multiples of Cary S. Leibowitz, a survey of the collected multiples of Cary S. Leibowitz opened last week at the much beloved Printed Matter in Chelsea. Leibowitz is a Creative Time multi-alumnus and winter cap king. I haven't seen the exhibit yet, but I'm betting that it will kick my (Candy)ass. Why you would miss this show is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me.

Coast-to-Coast.

Via the nearly legendary C-Monster I learned that Eve Sussman's The Rape of the Sabine Women is going to be getting it's west coast premiere at SFMoMA. Lucky coast.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

What Becomes A Billboard Most?

Legends do. This made my day a couple weeks ago. A series that started as signage ends up on a tee-shirt that lands on a sign. Art is awesome and confusing. The best lie in town. I mean that in a good way.

And can I say how much I love how perfectly the reflected saw horses match the shoes? I think I just did.

Thursday, May 22, 2008

The Memory Band.

Director Matt Wolf (on left) and coproducer Kyle Martin. (Photo: Dawn Chan via Art Forum)

Came across a post today on Art Forum Diary about the premiere the new Arthur Russell documentary, Wild Combination. The filmmaker looked kind of familiar then I remembered that it was former Creative Time video fellow, Matt Wolf. Cool. There are a couple other Creative Time connections to Russell as well. 2001 Art in the Anchorage musician/composer Phil Niblock made the incredible 1986 film, Terrace Of Unintelligibility, which featured Russell. And a quick search of the Creative Time archives revealed that Arthur Russell himself participated Art in the Anchorage 8 in 1991.

Monday, May 05, 2008

Worlds In Collision.

No, I'm not talking about the most underrated Pere Ubu album of all time. I'm talking about two things I love in very different ways: Creative Time and (Hold for it . . .) David Patrick Columbia's New York Social Diary. The latter is the only obsession I have that's weirder than the one I have for The Hills. In my regular check of NYSD over the weekend it was a kick to see Creative Time's benefit gala get the full DPC treatment. The link is here. Scroll down for the pics. (Above, the scene. Below, the seen.)

* Press Play.

* More Song About Building, Pt. 2.

* More Song About Building, Pt. 1.

* Who Sings You?

* Multiplicity.

* Coast-to-Coast.

* What Becomes A Billboard Most?

* The Memory Band.

* Worlds In Collision.

* Um, Rock Star Much?

About the author Brent Burket has his own art blog, Heart As Arena. He also writes for ArtCal Zine. Brent has been a member of Creative Council since January 2005.

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