Saturday, November 28, 2009

Fail Harder


Wieden+Kennedy 12
2006

An experimental advertising school within the Wieden+Kennedy agency in Portland, members of W+K 12 used clear push pins to create this dazzling mural, reminding of the importance of failure during the creative process.

See their process here.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Untitled (Plate IX)


David Moreno
1993

I want to heal in a tender yet pithy and subversive manner too...

Read this excerpt from the Healing exhibition text by Feature, Inc.:

during the early 90s when the socio-political surrounding aids and disease were big topics in the trendiest part of the contemporary art world, david moreno made a group of four diptychs that quietly approached the epidemic personally and constructively, from the point of view of healing -- specifically the healing abilities of art and artists. each painting has an unframed left panel of a chromo-litho xtracted from a book on venereal and skin diseases that was published in 1890. the person or part of person represented is resplendent with the effects of the advanced stages of their disease. the right gold framed panel is a painted copy of the same person or part of person healed by the artist.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Untitled (A Curse)


Tom Friedman
1992

In 1992, American conceptual sculptor Tom Friedman hired a witch to curse a spherical space 27 cm above a gallery plinth. It is not known if the curse travels with the plinth, or remains in the original location. Or if it has since expired.

I am currently looking for a witch in an attempt to reverse the curse.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Robin Redbreasts's Territory


Jan Dibbets
1969

Jan Dibbets displaced a robin in a park by giving it a perch, and moving the perch every day.