Self-Obliteration in Three Parts

1967 Yayoi Kusama film with psychedelic sounds in three pieces, YouTube style.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

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Lady Gaga is the New Hirst. Moment of Gaga is the New Flesh.

Face it, moment of Hirst is so 2009.  After attempting to elevate Bedazzler culture to high art for the benefit of hedge fund managers, I think we’re all bored.

But no one is bored by Lady Gaga (at least not for the next 13-14 minutes).  Gustavo Turner of the LA Weekly’s has produced [...]

LACMA Has the Best Art Thing in LA Right Now

I guess this post means I’ve woken up from my winter hibernation. I’ve changed some of the back end of the site, and the right sidebar isn’t behaving, but welcome the new wider format, intended to catch up to higher resolution monitors. Let me know if anything (other than the sidebar) isn’t working [...]

Hipster Scene In Seoul

They’re officially everywhere.  Not that it came as a surprise, but it was kind of a familiar and homey to discover a hipster scene in Seoul.  Not that there were fixes piled outside or anyone wearing a keffiah, but there was, as the photo above indicates, beer in cans, a sure sign of [...]

Sojung Kwon, Planning A Year @ Gallery Dam

One of the reasons I’m currently in Korea is that I can take advantage of the excellent guidance as Sojung Kwon, seen at right in the above stitched panorama (see giant size here)of her installation Planning a Year: Mondays at Gallery Dam.  In March of 2010, Sojung will be exhibiting the whole of [...]

Performance Art in LA Now Has a Blog of its Own

Perhaps surprisingly, there aren’t any performance art blogs out there that I know of. Sure lots of artblogs cover performance art, but none cover it exclusively. Carol Cheh, a friend who is a LA-based writer and curator has remedied this vacuum by starting Another Righteous Transfer, a new blog covering LA’s currently vibrant performance [...]

El Hombre Invisible

My dear friend Edith Abeyta re-staged William Burroughs shooting of his wife Joan for the Tropico de Nopal 2009 Calavera Fashion Show, starring Tom Jennings and Joshua Stehlik in the parts of Bill and Joan, respectively. The whole thing is amazing – kudos to all involved. Video by Youtuber tomicdesu.

Below – Edith [...]

Disappointed with your ©Murakami prints? Sue

Clint Arthur bought $12,000 worth of repurposed handbag material sold as prints from the ©Murakami boutique and $2,655 worth of prints from the gift show and is pissed off that the prints from the boutique (Louis Vuitton material stretched over stretchers) were just made from leftover handbag material.  Not that I thought that the [...]

Ton of Evidence

Puzzling Evidence, definitely a high priest of high culture and high strangeness, has posted a ton of videos to YouTube, covering almost three decades of actions, performances and happenings, primarily in the Bay Area. (via Laughing Squid).

Above – Mongoloid, SF based DEVO cover band.  Far better than actual DEVO at this point.

Above [...]

Do The Weekend

I’m kind of busy with Post-Post-Apocalypse this weekend, so that’s a lot of me on this list.  But there’s other non-me stuff if you’re tired of my stuff, too.

Thursday, January 15

Post-Post-Apocalypse: Michael Lewis Miller’s 5th Apocalyptic Birthday Bash @ The Loft. Michael is trying to assemble 50 cakes for his not [...]