MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES 2 - exhibition closes in 3 days! (June 3) Thanks so much to D-Lux, all the folks at LIFT, and kudos to all the other participants, it is a group I am proud to have been a part of. (the exhibition looks GREAT! & there was some very nice work in the show!) Visit LIFT's online store to see more of the awesome toys in the exhibition and to purchase some of these fine items, and also, become a fan of LIFT on Facebook.
Tonight was VERY entertaining- @ The Public Trust, This American Life contributor, and founder of "Found" Magazine, Davy Rothbart and his brother, musician Peter Rothbart,of The Poem Adept, performed some music and read from the most recent and best found notes, love letters, signs, and other random found scribblings.
I wish I had some sort of found inspiration for today's MACRODON, yet I do not... I'll try to keep my eyes peeled, but I just don't really seem to happen upon these kinds of things... so here is the MACRODON I call Crystal Castles Creature #4.
Seek out any of these folks stuff (and buy it!), it is entertaining, funny, smart, and a bit voyeuristic (in a non-creepy way... most of the time).
Part of the performance included Peter Rothbart's cover of a song called "The Booty Don't Stop" from a found tape titled "Booty Tape", here is the same song, performed life elsewhere, and YES I have purchased the "Booty Tape" (available on the Found magazine website) and CAN NOT WAIT to hear it (!!!) alright, enough typing, as this was a bit much for my usual silence and lack of typed words on this blog... more later... for now, listen:
William Lamson's"Work and Trade" collection of 285 trades at Pierogi Gallery(including a MACRODON! -seen third shelf from top, center-right; between two shelves with foliage; to the right of a green vigil praying candle, with what I am assuming to be an illustration of a MACRODON on it; and in front of what appears to be a surrealist painted backdrop of the MACRODON's natural habitat, and to the left of what I imagine to be a sci-fi anime VHS movie, a Christmas card, and a unicorn mug), see pixelated detail below: again, below is Will's automatic drawing traded for a MACRODON:
and, here is another reimagination of Will Lamson's automatic drawing -in a way, coming full cirlce, back to my initial interpretation of the similarites between Will's drawing and the MACRODON figure traded- by referencing that original MACRODON figure in this recreation Will's drawing:
now, what is happening here, I am not so sure of... a) MACRODON emitting a burst of smoke/fire b) MACRODON fart (wow!) c) whale like blow-gusher? d) inhalation/absorption of another MACRODON
Opening this Friday, May 29 at Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn (MAP), William Lamson's solo exhibition "Work and Trade", features projects in which the artist creates a mark-making system through collaboration with forces outside of his control , including a device that consists of a ceiling fan, string, a balloon, and a marker, to create "automatic" drawings. As part of the "trade" component, visitors are invited to offer Lamson something in exchange for a drawing of their choice, at which point the traded item becomes part of a collection of unique objects on display in the gallery. Among those traded objects a MACRODON can be seen... and below, the MACRODON appears alongside it's trade:
just to elaborate a bit on William Lamson's automatic mark-making process, check out this rad video he shot at Pierogi gallery documenting a work in progress:
this is but a taste of this fascinatingly clever concept -allowing visitors the ability to make a trade for a drawing, and through a dialogue with the artist, also to determine the content of the exhibition as well as a system of value for the work offered and traded. check out William Lamson's "Work and Trade" blog, for such gems of trades, such as a cast of a dog skull, several apples, and what appears to be a Fabio CD (?!).
I'm not sure if Willselected the drawing he did for our trade because of a slight MACRODON resemblance in the scribbley-mess (it is not unlike many of my own scribbley-messes), or not, and it was rather subconscious, or simply a serendipitous occurrence... but I saw something there which prompted a theme in today's illustration, a sort of re-interpretation, or response to Will's drawing:
the evolution of #104 (click link, scroll down), but also instead of seeing the upper tendrils as "necks/heads" they can also be like the appendages/arms of a squid/octopus, with a mouth/beak in the center...
