Liam Gillick - Deutscher Pavillon, Biennale di Venezia 09

There are some bits in German, but the most of the actual lecture is not overdubbed and in English (the beginning and again starting around the 5 min mark)



Portrait of Liam Gillick by Sean Dack Unique Digital Projection C-Print 2005

Film Stills #2

Why We Need Audiophiles

Why we need audiophiles

No Connection

Fire

Walk-By Movies

"About Halfway Between West-Egg and New York" (Production Still) 2003

A film of mine will be screening at the The Amie and Tony James Gallery, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue at 35th Street. It runs from April 13-27th.


Walk-By Movies
Curated by Linda Norden
March 2 – April 26, Nightly 5:00 PM – 10 PM
The James Gallery's "Walk-By Movies," visible and audible only from the street, presents an urban, pedestrian version of the drive-in theater. On the heavily trafficked corner of Fifth Avenue and 35th Street, a curated series of films and video programs will be projected onto the gallery wall starting at 5:00 p.m. nightly. Building on the audience of street viewers attracted to the exhibition “People ‘Weekly’,” the new series further explores the windowed, street-level location of the gallery. Conceptually, "Walk-By Movies" addresses a longstanding dilemma faced by artists and curators: museum-goers cannot be expected to sit through a film or video in its entirety. By showing works that lend themselves to delimited viewing, while embracing the distinctly urban habits of window shopping and strolling, “Walk-By Movies” provides both a novel method of exhibiting contemporary film and video and a unique public art experience.
Films change “weekly.” See gallery window for program.

Block Rockin Tweets

Twisten to Yr Heart

It's Happening

Cyborg Eye



and vaguely related

Still

A still from a film I will finish sooner than later, because it's taken me too long this time.

Surface Tension

Notes Na 6 Tygodni No. 51

Some works of mine are featured in the most recent issue of the Polish Arts Magazine: Notes Na Tygodni (Notes For 6 Weeks).
The images accompany an interview with Mark Fisher, author of the blog K-Punk and his relation to the concept of Hauntology.

The article starts on page 94. It's all in Polish, but you can always pull some Googlese. At the least it will be amusing and perhaps a bit skewed and ghostly.

Notes Na 6 Tygodni No. 51 PDF

K-Punk

Michel Auder

My friend Michel has his new film screening in NYC right now. It's a work of totality of the life of an artist and it's amazing.

Music in the way I've been thinking..#1

I've been really into what is deemed as "Post-Minimalist" and "Contemporary Classical" composers as of late... Something I sort of delved into back in undergrad for a bit. Now seems to be coming back in a personal resurgence. I nice breath of musical fresh air in the world of instant downloads. Something slower, conceptual and inherently linked to the past and present musical and artistic environments.

Here is one:

Ingram Marshall

And an interview with him:

Ingram Marshall interview

To me this music has a direct link to my bread and butter of electronic artists such as Aphex Twin, et al..

I may make this an ongoing series of linkages.

On the street..

Sorry.. Maybe next time...

China 1983

Fascinating Images



Shenzhen circa now



Shenzhen circa 1983

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh describes 'executive assassination ring'

Via the Minnesota Post

City

iphone/ipod shuffle backlash

Buttons and knobs


Give me knobs and buttons any day over the virtual

I've been saying this for a while and this is why I will not use an iphone... I feel like Apple is making the same mistake that music/audio companies made in the late 80's/early 90's with hardware and interfaces. All based on menus and a lack of the tactile.. Nowadays, you can see the trend in music devices has shifted away from all of that and back to a more analog sensibility and sometimes even going back to pure analog...

This gallery on one of the most read tech blogs is a good example of this slow building backlash.

builder vor boatin

Builder Vor Boatin

Drawings, sketches, models and samples
Nine Hamburg art students (Martin Jaekel, Jamis Marwitz, Johannes Erik Oldendorf, Egle Otto, Christian Rothmaler, Phillip Schwalb, Anna Steinert, Johanna Tiedtke) and three artists working in New York (Davide Balula, Sean Dack, Rachel Garrard)
Curated by Dirk Skreber

March 7th - April 18th
Opening March 7th, 7-9pm
Hours Thursday - Saturday 12-6pm

Silvershed
119 West 25th Street, PH, New York, NY 10001
(Between 6 & 7th Avenues) Tel: 1-646-322-3324
www.thesilvershed.org http://www.thesilvershed.org/bvb.htm

With special thanks to Ditze-Stiftung, Ingo Offermanns, Radeberger Pils, and TheTheyCo.com


Press Release:

Silvershed opens its second season of artist-curated shows with an exhibition organized by Dirk Skreber. The artists gathered for the show are nine art students of Skreber's from Hamburg, and three artists working in New York: Davide Balula, Sean Dack, and Rachel Garrard (from Paris, LA, and London, respectively.) The show is playfully titled 'Builder Vor Boatin' as a German-English wordplay that sounds like 'Pictures are forbidden' in German (bilder verbotten!) The show presents sketches, photos, proposals and plans for visualizing future artworks free of practical or physical limitations...

Eight of the German students partake in a project combining their proposals into one concept. Their stated plan is to build a future model of a utopic universe based on the potato as an idea for a structure, a material, as well as a symbol. Their project, entitled "2020 - The Beginning of Überding" references art-historic links from Mario Merz to Jörg Immendorf: "The picture must assume the funktion of the potato".

Sean Dack describes a tour - a plan for an installation - replete with a ticking heartbeat in an anechoic acoustical foam-lined hallway. A cacophony of stretched audio, a projection of failed filmed project as well as a sculptural totem related to an earlier work, is conveyed in text and model.

Balula's project is for Mexico City, where everything has been built on lakes. Now that so much of the local water is being drawn from the ground, many of the buildings in Mexico City are hollowing into the ground. Balula’s project converts the forces of the attraction in the ground into elevation dedicated to the famous Latin American Tower.

Garrard's entry for the show describes a proposal for an exhibition called ‘The space in between’. In her extensive proposal, "representing a non-solid state referring to the energy and light between the physical, mental and spiritual bodies. The work deals with the portrayal of life showing the sensitivities that often go unnoticed, the anxiety pain and beauty of the world and the struggle to exist." Accompanying video stills and drawings show the placement of an oblique screen (distorting or undistorting a distorted image?) of projection of her body rendered in a time-altering slowed down and stretched out plasticized space.

Egle Otto’s drawings of a wearable sculpture of a dress festooned with sculptural hands projecting in space from extended rods speaks to issues of autonomy and proxemics, evocative of Rebecca Horn's early sartorial artworks, but multiplied in a Post-Modern Baroque style.

While known primarily for his paintings, Skreber, a leading contemporary German artist working in New York, has also widely shown installation interventions and model-based sculpture. Many of these sculptures are pieces that are completed by the viewer imagining inhabiting or traversing the suggested space, - which often takes a humorously terrifying form and scale.


Builder Vor Boatin will be on view Thursday-Saturday 12-6pm from March 7th-April 18th
Reception Saturday March 7th from 7-9pm. Opening Remarks by Martin Köttering (President, HFBK)

Special thanks to Ditze-Stiftung, Ingo Offermanns, Radeberger Pils, and TheTheyCo.com

For further information contact Ambre Kelly, Ambre@thetheyco.com


Silvershed is an artist-run not-for-profit contemporary art space. Organized as an opportunity for artist led discussion amongst artists, curators, critics and the public, Silvershed explores issues of 21st century consciousness through exhibitions, moderated artist talks, and film screenings. The 2009 season is curated by invited artists to organize conceptually rigorous exhibitions that would be difficult to realize in commercial venues. Silvershed is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.

CCTV

15 Step

Kinda wish they had done Myxomatosis. Ha.

Sightings

Plan/ Sketch #2

Lecture: Thursday Feb 12th at 5PM

Lecture: Thursday Feb 12th at 5PM Columbia College, Chicago

Closings#1

Downtown

Plan/Sketch

Seems like not everyone is doing so bad these days.

PS. I did not find this, somebody else did today. Also, obviously not my receipt.

City Tryptych Part 1/3

The Mezzanine

Dressed Up Like Art Galleries

Circling

Munich 2008

New Sculpture

"Untitled #4(Blue/Red)", 2008
consumer electronics encapsulated in rubber
30" x 13" x 20"

Courtesy of Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami

Paul/ Miami

Police Presence

In The Future

Contemplating what's going to happen....

World record BASE jump off the Burj Dubai

Staccato

Staccato, Los Angeles's premiere up and coming lady DJ duo have a new mix up. Check it.



Definition Mix

Buchla

Really excellent jam on a Buchla Modular by Alessandro Cortini.
More at www.blindoldfreak.com.

Back to posting

Anniversary

Sunday was the three year anniversary of this blog.. Didn't think I would keep it up this long to be honest.
I really can't think about much else until tomorrow is over, but at that point I'll do some sort of real post.
Thanks always,

SD

Obama-Biden 2008

Let's do this..

Find your polling place here:


Google maps

Part of the Weekend Never Dies

Clip from the tour documentary about my friends in Soulwax. Directed by the amazing Saam Faramand, and featuring other bros like Mr. J. Murphy.

theanyspacewhatever

theanyspacewhatever

October 18 2008, VERSUS: Carl Craig. At Cité de la Musique, Paris, France

Carl Craig + « Les siècles » orchestra + the pianist Francesco Tristano ? An improbable alliance that was quite simply mind-blowing ! This unique meeting between a classical ensemble and techno music was powerful, solemn and danceable all at once! For the concoction to work, it needed a guide: Carl Craig. Originator of the project, the emblematic Detroit producer/DJ worked with pianist Francesco Tristano to arrange his compositions for an orchestra. Distinguished guest, Moritz Von Oswald made a valuable contribution to the project, offering fans a rhythmic arrangement and a new piece co-written with Carl Craig. The result is impressive: a unique sound aesthetic that breaks down barriers between seemingly incompatible music styles – as described by François Xavier Roth, musical director and conductor of the “Siècles” orchestra: “There is no hierarchy in music, only a quest for high standards”. Historic concert !

A scout

Turbulence

Dubai # 2

Unique Digital C-Print 24"x30" 2008

CROSSROADS / ROCK MY RELIGION

Sean Dack "No Encore" Installation View, 2001

CROSSROADS / ROCK MY RELIGION
OCTOBER 10th 2008 - JANUARY 7th 2009
Interfaces between Rock Music and Contemporary Art (1956 – 2006)
DA2 Domus Artium 02 /Salamanca_Spain

ARTISTS: Saadane Afif / Doug Aitken / Cory Arcangel / Kenneth Anger / John Baldessari / Mathew Barney / Joseph Beuys / Christa Biederbick / Marc Bijl / Dara Birnbaum / Peter Blake / Slater Bradley / Olaf Breuning / Janet Cardiff / Danny Clinch / Tony Cockes / Bruce Conner / Felix Curto / Bruce Davidson / Mike Kelley/Destroy All Monsters / Sean Dack / John DiStefano / Sam Durant / Jon Mikel Euba / William English / Robert Frank / Ugnius Gelguda / J. L. Godard / Douglas Gordon / Dan Graham / Rodney Graham / Bob Gruen / Andreas Gursky / Richard Hamilton / José Iges / Derek Jarman / Nam June Paik / Judith Barry&Richard Kern / Largen&Brea / David Lamelas / Mark Leckey / / Robert Longo / Gered Mankowitz / Christian Marclay / Jose Luis Martín Frías / Enrique Marty / Malcom Mclaren / Robert Mapplethorpe / Dave Allen&Jonathan Monk&Douglas Gordon / Ronald Nameth / Albert Oehlen / Yoko Ono / Tony Oursler / Pejac&TMori /Jose Luis Pérez Quiroga / Jamie Reid / Raymond Pettibon / Robert Rauschenberg / Mick Rock / Mimmo Rotella / Jon Savage / Ira Schneider / Mark Seliger / Stephen Shore / Linder Sterling / Miguel Trillo / Gavin Turk / Alan Vega / Alejandro Vidal / Andy Warhol / Alfred Wertheimer / Vivienne Westwood / Ernst C. Whiters / David Wojnarovicz / Baron Wolman / X_PRZ.
CURATED BY:Javier Panera
ORGANIZED BY:EXPLORAFOTO.
Festival internacional de fotografía de Castilla y León
INFORMATION: DA2 _DOMUS ARTIUM 2002 / Avenida de la Aldehuela s/n / 37003 Salamanca_Spain / T [34] 923184916 / F [34] 923183235
www.ciudaddecultura.org/da2
da2@ciudaddecultura.org

BlogBubble

Band Crash

Let them eat cake (we skip dessert anyway)

Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,

Meghan, you need to brush up on your irony and Marxism...

Megan McCain and Stereolab's "Ping Pong"


From Pitchfork.com


"OK, let me get this straight. For a blog post about her father's debate with Democratic Presidential Candidate Barack Obama on Friday night-- a debate that centered a whole lot around our country's recent economic catastrophe-- the "Song of the Day" was Stereolab's "Ping Pong"?! Really?!

Here are the lyrics to "Ping Pong" (according to various lyrics websites, and verified by going back and listening to the song again):

it's alright right 'cos the historical pattern has shown
how the economical cycle tends to revolve
in a round of decades three stages stand out in a loop
a slump and war then peel back to square one and back for more

bigger slump and bigger wars and a smaller recovery
huger slump and greater wars and a shallower recovery

you see the recovery always comes 'round again
there's nothing to worry for things will look after themselves
it's alright recovery always comes 'round again
there's nothing to worry if things can only get better

there's only millions that lose their jobs and homes and sometimes accents
there's only millions that die in their bloody wars, it's alright

it's only their lives and the lives of their next of kin that they are losing
it's only their lives and the lives of their next of kin that they are losing

it's alright 'cos the historical pattern has shown
how the economical cycle tends to revolve
in a round of decades three stages stand out in a loop
a slump and war then peel back to square one and back for more

bigger slump and bigger wars and a smaller recovery
huger slump and greater wars and a shallower recovery

don't worry be happy things will get better naturally
don't worry shut up sit down go with it and be happy

dum, dum, dum, de dum dum, de duh de duh de dum dum dum... ah ah
dum, dum, dum, de dum dum, de duh de duh de dum dum dum... ah ah

OK. OK. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that Meghan McCain didn't just pick this song randomly, since she usually picks songs that have something to do with what her blog posts are about. So what the hell is going on here?

A) Meghan McCain completely doesn't understand sarcasm and truly believes that this song is about how the economy will just work itself out and everything will be all right. (See also: Ronald Reagan's re-appropriation of Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A.")
B) Meghan McCain is using this song as a critique of people who are against the government's proposed $700 million bailout of Wall Street, which her father supports. "Uh huh, the free market is going to fix everything, ha ha," she says. "Riiiiight."
C) Meghan McCain wants to overthrow the entire capitalist system!"

New Show/ New Work

For Shot Spot, at Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

DJ Mix

One of my best bros has posted an amazing mix online..

Go check it out.



DJ Max Pask ‘Escape From Planet Max Pask’

Massive

New Show

S H O T S P O T

October 4–November 1, 2008

Xaviera Simmons
Tom Whitridge
Scott B. Davis
Joseph Michael Lopez

Katrine Le Gallou
Thierry Dubreuil
Jason Eskenazi
Aura Rosenberg

Sean Dack
John Miller
Joyce Pensato
James Siena

James Welling
Laurie Simmons
Ariane Lopez-Huici
Chris Gentile

(Curated by Katia Santibanez & G. Young)

Opening Reception: October 4th, 5:30–7:30pm
Gallery Hours: Thu.–Sat., 11–5pm

Geoffrey Young Gallery
40 Railroad Street
Great Barrington, MA 01230
413-528-6210
art@geoffreyyoung.com

http://www.geoffreyyoung.com/

Dystopia Now

It's in the books

New

See you on the dark side of the moon...

RIP Richard Wright..

David Foster Wallace R.I.P.

LA TImes


Gawker

Probably the most important contemporary author for me.. Very sad.

From "Oblivion"

“But it does have a knob, the door can open. But not in the way you think. But what if it could? Think for a second—what if all the infinitely dense and shifting worlds of stuff inside you every moment of your life turned out now to be somehow fully open and expressible afterward, after what you think of you has died, because what if afterward now each moment itself is an infinite sea or span or passage of time in which to convey it, and you don’t even need any organized English, you can as they say open the door and be in anyone else’s room in all your own multiform forms and ideas and facets? Because listen—we don’t have much time, here’s where Lily Cache slopes slightly down and the banks start getting deep, and you can just make out the outlines of the unlit sign for the farmstand that’s never open anymore, the last sign before the bridge—so listen: What exactly do you think you are? The millions and trillions of thoughts, memories, juxtapositions—even crazy ones like this, you’re thinking—that flash through your head and disappear? Some sum or remainder of these? Your history? Do you know how long it’s been since I told you I was a fraud? Do you remember you were looking at the RESPICEM watch hanging from the rearview and seeing the time, 9:17? What are you looking at right now? Coincidence? What if no time has passed at all? The truth is you’ve already heard this. That this is what it’s like. That it’s what makes room for the universes inside you, all the endless inbent fractals of connection and symphonies of different voices, the infinities you can never show another soul. And you think it makes you a fraud, the tiny fraction anyone else ever sees? Of course you’re a fraud, of course what people see is never you. And of course you know this, and of course you try to manage what part they see if you know it’s only a part. Who wouldn’t? It’s called free will, Sherlock. But at the same time, it’s why it feels so good to break down and cry in front of others, or to laugh, or speak in tongues, or chant in Bengali—it’s not English anymore, it’s not getting squeezed through any hole. So cry all you want, I won’t tell anybody. But it wouldn’t have made you a fraud to change your mind. It would be sad to do it because you think you somehow have to. It won’t hurt, though. It will be loud, and you’ll feel things, but they’ll go through you so fast that you won’t even realize you’re feeling them (which is sort of like the paradox I used to bounce off Gustafson—is it possible to be a fraud if you aren’t aware that you’re a fraud?). And the very brief moment of fire you’ll feel will be almost good, like when your hands are cold and there’s a fire and you hold your hands out toward it.”

Intercontinental

Der Baader Meinhof Komplex

Trailer, W bonus Can soundtrack.

Der Baader Meinhof Komplex

And Home...

Water Tricks and Ghosts

City Coated in Neon Optimism

Malls in China

I've always wanted to screen a film about police states, control, paranoia and capitalism in a mall in China. So here you go.
"If You See Something, Say Something." Shown at the Bailian Xijiao Shopping Mall, center court, Shanghai, China. (Throw in a little Bentham-esque architecture to boot).

more new

Delia Derbyshire Early Dance track

Amazing

NYC

Wood Paneling and Ocean Sounds

Stanley's Boxes

New

House of Cards

In Radiohead's new video for "House of Cards", no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data.

Directed by James Frost
From the album IN RAINBOWS

Counterfeit

Retail

Extended

Ghost Hardware at Daniel Reich Gallery has been extended through July 12...

Daniel Reich Gallery 537A W 23rd st

Tony Kaye talks about Stanley Kubrick

When the cameras come around

My mother and the house I grew up in, captured by google street view..