Documentation by Jan van Rooij, Amsterdam.
Western Digital at RijksakademieOPEN
Category: DEFIANCE
I follow Yoko and Yoko follows me at MCA Sydney
An invitation arrived to respond to Yoko Ono’s instructional film scripts. The suggestion of a film. Film as it exists in a proposition, an invitation, a request to think. ‘Visualise peace’ Yoko says. Visualise film. #summerofyoko
Q. Which Yoko piece(s) are you responding to and how?
A. I am taking Yoko Ono’s current day Twitter feed as an unrequited instruction set. I follow Yoko Ono and Yoko Ono follows me.
Q. If we imagine a spectrum in which predetermined structures, scores, instructions sit at one end and spontaneity, intuition, improvisation at the other – where does your work sit in that spectrum? Or is that spectrum faulty to begin with?
A. I have a structure within the walls of the MCA. The technology of the image projection. The design of the seats. We have voice, light, human will. I feel energised by unbridled human energy in tightly controlled environments.
Postscript. I don’t believe in freedom in art. It can only be given by imposing a structure or rule set upon it. There is no freedom. There is no restraint.
New performance
‘I follow Yoko and Yoko follows me’
Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney
6 February 2014, 6:00-9:00pm
http://www.mca.com.au/news/2014/01/31/interpreting-yoko-onos-film-scores/
Torrance Art Museum, Southern California
UNCO – Australian Video
Curated by Ian Haig
‘Five Production Company Logos in 3D’
August 31st – October 12th, 2013
Opening reception: Saturday August 31st, 6 – 9pm
Torrance Art Museum
3320 Civic Center Drive
Torrance, CA 90503
http://www.torranceartmuseum.com
Jack screens at Institute of Contemporary Arts London.
Jack 2012
4K RED video, 12 minutes
Director of Photography Mikael Brain
Composer and Sound Designer Philip Brophy
ICA London, Sunday 19 January 2013
Curated by Elsa Coustou, Lucia Garavaglia
and Alana Kushnir in collaboration with the ICA
Supported by MFA Curating, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Full details and bookings at http://www.ica.org.uk/35422/Film/Artists-Film-Club-Walking-Sideways.html
In response to the exhibition Fourth Plinth: Contemporary Monument, this Artists’ Film Club presents a selection of moving image works which delve into the social dimensions of architectural monuments. These monuments and their surrounding environments are more than a physical space; they generate individual and collective memories. The works reference the longevity of some built structures and the impermanence of others, exploring how histories are inextricably bound to geography and the synthesis of time.
The screening will feature works by Ludovica Carbotta, Shaun Gladwell, Leopold Kessler, Benjamin Orlow, Deborah Ligorio, David Maljkovic and Emile Zile.
The Research and Destroy Department of Black Mountain College.
Group show curated by Jean Bernard Koeman
Opens Friday 19 October at W139 Amsterdam
Featuring Stian Adlandsvik, Frank Ammerlaan, Saar Amptmeijer, Leyla Aydoslu, Sara Bjarland, Sven Boel, Kees Boevé, Antonia Breme, Crystal Z Campbell, Melanie Ebenhoch, Johan Henning, Roderick Hietbrink, Jan Hopf, Jeroen van der Hulst, Saskia Noor van Imhoff, Asger Behncke Jacobson, Katrin Kamrau, Daniel vom Keller, Bram Kinsbergen, Joris Kritis, Linda Lenssen, Mahal de Man, Tim Mathijsen, Sofia Montenegro, Xue Mu, Suat Öğüt, Marc Oosting, Olivia Alders Plessers, Thomas Raat, Daniel Rödiger, Fabian Schröder, Rosa Sijben, Kema Spencer, Edward Clydesdale Thomson, Britt Vangenechten, Kasper de Vos, Amanda Wasielewski, Jonas Wijtenburg, Emile Zile, Felicia von Zweigbergk.
http://w139.nl/en/article/21084/the-research-and-destroy-department-of-black-mountain-college/
The Last Event at Netherlands Media Art Institute.
Performance for the last event at NIMk/Montevideo.
Archive, Artist, Audience, Voice, Trust.
October 19, 20.00 Keizersgracht 264 Amsterdam
with JODI, Mark Bain, Justin Bennett, Germaine Kruip, Pawel Kruk, Rosa Menkman, Leonard van Munster.
Media Art is dead. Long live Media Art.
http://nimk.nl/eng/the-last-event-nimk
http://www.facebook.com/events/403137066422591/
Evolutionary Level Above Human
Bill Drummond in Amsterdam
Bill Drummond of the KLF / Timelords / K Foundation was in Amsterdam as guest of the Art Reserve Bank, an alternate currency project based in the Amsterdam Zuidas financial district.
We were The 17, a vocal project that has no audience only participants. A human ring around the financial district where one person after another would scream the word MONEY.
Waiting for the scream to come around, you are left thinking about the pre-crisis office architecture surrounding you, the consensual hallucination that art and banking is, the power of the voice and the trust involved in such a performance. When the scream comes to you it is more of a football chant or rural command, not singing, not melodious. As it passes it feels like the unity of a dance party, solitary individuals united by a moment. The energy of communal experience, a line that passes through acid house, singing in taverns, mosh pits, sport chanting and choirs. The voice – the very first thing and the very last thing.
The White Room was the first ‘grown up’ album I bought. The mythic qualities of the KLF seduced me. Masked pop stars. Sample heavy production. Symbolism and shadow. Read Drummond’s book 45. It’s a self-help text for me, in the same hallowed territory as my viewing of Tarkovsky’s Stalker every six months. Two weeks ago I came across a plastic-wrapped copy of 45 at a small departure lounge shop in Sandakan airport Malaysian Borneo. Sitting amongst Malay fashion and beauty magazines, looking solitary and bemused, it was some kind of omen. I made a photograph of it and took it with me to Amsterdam.
Crispin Glover on David Letterman
