Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Following the right hand of...


Pierre Bismuth
ongoing

Pictured is "Following the right hand of Sophia Loren in 'Too Bad She's Bad'" (2009). Bismuth's series is an interplay between adoration and distance. By following the lead actresses' right hand with a marker, what results is an abstract line that obliterates the person.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Chrono-shredder


Susanna Hertrich
2007-2009

The date advances on its own, shredding over 24 hrs.

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Numbers


Are Blytt
2009

I even like how it is a tetraptych.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Sixteen Months Worth of Drawing Exercises in Microsoft Excel


Danielle Aubert
2009

As soon as I started working outside of the arts, I started drawing in Excel. One project was to chart the rudest person's progress in warming up to me, but when I finally decided that it was time to begin collecting data, it was too late. The months of coaxing him out of his prickish shell worked, but I had nothing to show for it. I considered turning him back only to start over, but it wasn't worth the trouble. The project was scrapped, more like an Excel doodle.

Danielle Aubert, however, stuck with all of her Excel projects, producing her collection of drawings in three renditions. Pictured above is her book, published by Various Projects, Inc., and can be purchased through their Project No. 8 here. Her other collections made for web and video can be viewed on her website.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Shopping Losts


Simon Attwater
2009

I love finding handwritten notes, and I've always wanted to do a project that shows how much I like fonts. London-based Attwater nails both the found and typographical aspects with Shopping Losts, an ongoing project where he turns found shopping lists into "something to be treasured." Touche.

My favorite:

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Out of Order #1


Marianne Viero
2005

The backs of library books, faded by the sun, are displayed like so.

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Untitled


Unknown
2007

While we're on the topic of pylon cones, this is another piece happened upon in Toronto.  I found this in the east end one morning in May.  The chain as barrier is an obvious choice; the chain as thread is oft-forgotten.  Maximize on the chain, throw a cone on that baby, and you have an undeniable blockade... with an illusional effect.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Untitled


Unknown
2009

A jack o' lantern carved from a pylon cone was found and photographed in Toronto by Stan Krzyzanowski. Destructive but harmless, the vandalism behind this marks a quiet mischief that only the best street artists possess. I don't know about 'haunting beauty', but roguishness, I fear, is beautiful.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Two Projects Involving Height

My roommate is working on a radio piece on height, and these two pieces immediately came to mind. In ascending order:


My Height in HB Pencil
Jonathan Monk
2002


Full Length
Jack Falanga
2007

"My Height in HB Pencil" is a postcard to be hung anywhere, with the line six feet from the ground. Produced by Art Metropole, edition of 200. "Full Length" measures the artist's height and width.

My arms outstretched 4'9" illustrates how much I like these.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Climate Control


Michael Rakowitz
2000-2001

Rakowitz built a climate control system for P.S.1 in Brooklyn. The artist says it best: While the system is adjustable and can maintain a stabilized environment for the display of even delicate works on paper, there is no space to exhibit other art: Climate Control completely engulfs the room. The result is an absurd machine built to maintain itself.

Monday, October 5, 2009

Holding Room


Jack Falanga
2007

This is a proposal for, "A room with no entrance. An exterior corner is constructed to follow the frontal contour of the artist's body in sleeping position. The proposed space functions to hold room and as a room to hold."

A room to hold.

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Balloon Project


Kelli Harper, Vanna Zona, Leann Diehl, and Dan Guzek
with a Wooster Collective grant
2009

For one of my birthdays I made balloons and planned to hand them out on the street. It was too windy and cold that year (as it always is on March 6 in the northeast, Toronto no less), so my project didn't come to fruition. Instead the balloons were in a show. In a gallery. Far from my birthday. Stationary.

Wooster Collective, based in NYC, celebrates street art around the world. Occasionally they put forward the question: If you had $50 to spend on art, how would you spend it? This time, Kelli Harper, Vanna Zona, Leann Diehl, and Dan Guzek took the prize with "Balloon Project", where they bought $50 worth of balloons and handed them out on the streets of Pennsylvania.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Google Earth/Google Images


Chris Lee
ongoing

Chris matches landscapes from Google Images with captures from Google Earth.

Pictured: Capri, Italy

Friday, October 2, 2009

You Fit Into Me

Margaret Atwood
1971

You fit into me
like a hook into an eye

a fish hook
an open eye

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Railings


Greyworld
1997

These rails are tuned to play "The Girl From Ipanema" when dragged along with a stick.

I melt.