PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This project was born from a fascination with the golden mean, a sacred proportion used in the arts for centuries from the designers of The Parthenon to Leonardo DaVinci to Salvador Dali to Mondrian. The golden mean is also the basis for the Fibonacci sequence, the spiral pattern commonly found in many aspects of the natural world. This performance work by two New York-based artists, David Moscovich (USA) and Beatriz Albuquerque (Portugal), examines Caravaggio through a cascade of concrete poetry projections on passersby and buildings, while at the same time, the text is destroyed, deconstructed, reimagined and transformed gently into a microphone. The active audience is invited to follow the artists in their performances along 14th street, a physical trajectory which itself follows the golden mean.
PROJECT PROPOSAL
The golden mean, or the divine proportion, has been used in art for centuries. This project explores the divine number, 1.618, by projecting concrete poetry and through live spoken performance which interacts with the projected piece while at the same time will act as a short essay on the concept of the golden mean throughout time, including reiterations of the mathematics of the ratio itself. The text from the projected piece will be deconstructed, collaged and transformed gently into Moscovich’s mouth and consequently into the microphone, with great care to avoid the cadence typically associated with the genre of “spoken word”.
The video will be projected onto members of the audience along 14th street, the street and its buildings. The microphone will be amplified through a handheld amplifier. The artists will perform on one of the four street corners for each avenue along 14th street between 6th avenue and Avenue C. The duration of each piece will be 14 minutes and 56 seconds, directly proportional to the golden mean itself, in other words, 1.618 minutes multiplied by 9.
The street itself is considered a canvas, and will be divided in this way by the golden mean, using the streetcorners as the four points of the canvas rectangle.
The public will be engaged through the projection of the video interacting with their clothes, so the piece will vary depending on what is visible on their clothes and the way they choose to respond to the video, spoken text, and the space surrounding the public. The artists will be interpreting the text which appears on their clothes.
LOCATION
The artists will perform on one of the four street corners for each avenue along 14th street between 6th avenue and Avenue C.
TIME
Thursday, October 17th, 2013 between 5PM-8PM, with a second and third choice being Friday or Saturday of the same week, respectively.
Art In Odd Places Project Proposal
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This project was born from a fascination with the golden mean, a sacred proportion used in the arts for centuries from the designers of The Parthenon to Leonardo DaVinci to Salvador Dali to Mondrian. The golden mean is also the basis for the Fibonacci sequence, the spiral pattern commonly found in many aspects of the natural world. This performance work by two New York-based artists, David Moscovich (USA) and Beatriz Albuquerque (Portugal), examines Caravaggio through a cascade of concrete poetry projections on passersby and buildings, while at the same time, the text is destroyed, deconstructed, reimagined and transformed gently into a microphone. The active audience is invited to follow the artists in their performances along 14th street, a physical trajectory which itself follows the golden mean.
PROJECT PROPOSAL
The golden mean, or the divine proportion, has been used in art for centuries. This project explores the divine number, 1.618, by projecting concrete poetry and through live spoken performance which interacts with the projected piece while at the same time will act as a short essay on the concept of the golden mean throughout time, including reiterations of the mathematics of the ratio itself. The text from the projected piece will be deconstructed, collaged and transformed gently into Moscovich’s mouth and consequently into the microphone, with great care to avoid the cadence typically associated with the genre of “spoken word”.
The video will be projected onto members of the audience along 14th street, the street and its buildings. The microphone will be amplified through a handheld amplifier. The artists will perform on one of the four street corners for each avenue along 14th street between 6th avenue and Avenue C. The duration of each piece will be 14 minutes and 56 seconds, directly proportional to the golden mean itself, in other words, 1.618 minutes multiplied by 9.
The street itself is considered a canvas, and will be divided in this way by the golden mean, using the streetcorners as the four points of the canvas rectangle.
The public will be engaged through the projection of the video interacting with their clothes, so the piece will vary depending on what is visible on their clothes and the way they choose to respond to the video, spoken text, and the space surrounding the public. The artists will be interpreting the text which appears on their clothes.
LOCATION
The artists will perform on one of the four street corners for each avenue along 14th street between 6th avenue and Avenue C.
TIME
Thursday, October 17th, 2013 between 5PM-8PM, with a second and third choice being Friday or Saturday of the same week, respectively.
Stonecutter: STONECUTTER ISSUE 1 LAUNCH PARTY JUNE 29
Stonecutter: STONECUTTER ISSUE 1 LAUNCH PARTY JUNE 29: "Please join us to celebrate the release of Stonecutter on Wednesday, June 29 from 7-11pm at 61 Local, 61 Bergen Street at Smith Street in..."
Today I was hit hard by Anselm Kiefer's new exhibition at Gagosian Gallery. What was it exactly that hit me?
Forget the links, go see it. From the press release: "Kiefer has transformed the space that surrounds Occupations into a labyrinth of glass and steel vitrines, some more than twenty feet high..."
Forget the links, go see it. From the press release: "Kiefer has transformed the space that surrounds Occupations into a labyrinth of glass and steel vitrines, some more than twenty feet high..."
Hanging out with Dikko Faust at Purgatory Pie Press in lower Manhattan. Purgatory Pie Press started in the late seventies and they are still creating museum quality handmade books using hand-set wood and metal type. Here Dikko is printing a three color job on his sturdy Vandercook machine. You might notice he is hand mixing the ink on the end there -- not work for a novice printer. Every movement he makes tells a story -- this has been his life for many many years, and he knows every aspect of printing from mark one. He refers to it as "a dance," where he trips the print lever, lets go of the floor pedal that holds the paper and swings it through the rollers across the inked plate. As each page runs through, he turns and hands it to me and I set it on a wooden rack for drying. The job is part of PPP's long postcard subscription; every single postcard is printed by hand with extreme care and expertise.
Faust also teaches advanced letterpress classes both at the Purgatory Pie Press studio and at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, and is currently on a tour of the northwest with his wife and partner in crime, Esther K Smith. Esther is herself the author of How To Make Books, Magic Books & Paper Toys, and The Paper Bride, available from Random House. Together they are Purgatory Pie Press, and have been doing this for thirty years. They have exhibited at Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smith College, San Francisco's Center for the Book, London's Victoria and Albert Museum, The Tate, MOMA, Brooklyn Museum, Cooper-Hewitt, National Gallery of Art, The Getty, Corcoran, The Walker, and the San Francisco MOMA.
On this day we were listening to Albert Ayler and Sun Ra. Faust told me one of his favorite drummers was Andrew Andrew Cyrille. We agreed also on Han Bennink. When I brought up William Parker something shifted in his speech, and he said, I've played with him. You've played with William Parker? I said. Once, he said. Faust was talking about his trombone, which was propped up under his extensive cd collection. Who is this man? Letterpress expert AND trombonist? This is no ordinary print shop. Check out their inventory if you will. Instabooks, Purgatoys, yearly datebooks all in limited runs. Does Dikko Faust have a batmobile? I wouldn't be surprised.....
It's getting better and better. This email is from today, from the one and only Munter Jack, with a link to a new interview in Word Riot by David Hoenigman, author of Burn Your Belongings. Hoenigman hosts a wacky performance art show in Tokyo, Japan called Paint Your Teeth. The shows he is archiving on video as well. The last video David sent me there was an impromptu stripper -- according to David his wife was only surprised that she stripped for free. Who strips for free? she said. Performers at Paint Your Teeth strip for free, apparently. What other antics happen at these events? Check for yourself. But first, read the interview he did with Munter Jack.
Here is an excerpt I really enjoyed from the interview:
Who or what has influenced your writing?
Old people. The older and madder the better. When I return to my home town in the north of England I spend a lot of time standing around in charity shops, listening to old people talking about hip operations, cataracts and mad stuff like someone they know who got CJD from eating squirrel brains. They have these fantastically dark and at the same time very humorous conversations as they rummage through large boxes of second hand underpants.
(cute email from Munter Jack posted below)
Hey David,
I'm in Word Riot. Your mate Mr Hoenigman did an interview. And, I owe you big thanks. Once again! Cheers mate, he found me through you and Louffa Press. Thanks a lot! He says you're going to publish some of his work. Go for it fella.
Munter Jack
Here is an excerpt I really enjoyed from the interview:
Who or what has influenced your writing?
Old people. The older and madder the better. When I return to my home town in the north of England I spend a lot of time standing around in charity shops, listening to old people talking about hip operations, cataracts and mad stuff like someone they know who got CJD from eating squirrel brains. They have these fantastically dark and at the same time very humorous conversations as they rummage through large boxes of second hand underpants.
(cute email from Munter Jack posted below)
Hey David,
I'm in Word Riot. Your mate Mr Hoenigman did an interview. And, I owe you big thanks. Once again! Cheers mate, he found me through you and Louffa Press. Thanks a lot! He says you're going to publish some of his work. Go for it fella.
Munter Jack
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