Recently I’ve been trying to put to words what I’ve been contemplating with a few works in progress. Here’s what I have so far:

1.The ideology of the gaze functions as the conceptual frame for the logic of the gendered body.

2.The legitimation of desire functions as the conceptual frame for the culture of the public sphere.

and

3.The emergence of post-capitalist hegemony invests itself in the authentication of power/knowledge.

I was hoping to open these topics up to discussion on this site, seeing as you all are some of the smartest folks I know.

Just kidding. I made those up on this site: http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/toys/randomsentence/write-sentence.htm

i laughed out loud when i read this

“for Ian”

I am proud to announce the first show to be held at the new MEME Gallery in Cambridge, Accumulation!

Accumulation (phase I) will provide an environment to witness the evolution of a space that has
been activated by accumulated creative action. Over the duration of this exhibition the 6 Boston-
based artists and curators of MEME will spontaneously create an evolving installation.
All evidence from these actions will remain in the space and each artist will be challenged with
how to interact with another’s remnants. Accumulation will challenge ideas about artist
collaboration while creating an innovative exhibition of performance art documentation.

Accumulation’s opening will be held on June 13th from 12-6pm. Because of the nature of this
exhibition, a closing, complete with a screening of video documentation of all occurrences in the
space will also be held on June 26th from 7-10pm.

Artists include:
Alice Vogler
Bradley Benedetti
Dirk Adams
Philip Fryer
Sandrine Schaefer
Vela Phelan

Located in Central Square, Cambridge, MEME will provide space for ephemeral art to be
made and witnessed. A tireless schedule of exhibitions, screenings, residencies and workshops
will bring together local, national and international artists. MEME’s goal is to provide
support for ideas that typically have a difficult time finding a place in the world. Keep an eye
out for local artists PRINCESSdie, GJYD, Rome’s Travis McCoy Fuller, and The Present
Tense’s Archive release event in the upcoming months!

Event

524 – Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians.
1530 – The Augsburg Confession is presented at the Diet of Augsburg to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
1949 – Long-Haired Hare is released in Theaters starring Bugs Bunny.
1967 – First global satellite television programme – Our World
1975 – Mozambique achieves independence.
1981 – Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.
1982 – Greece abolishes headshaving of recruits in the military.
1983 – India wins the final of the Cricket World Cup against the mighty West Indies at the MCC’s Lord’s Cricket Ground in London.
1991 – Croatia and Slovenia declare their independence from Yugoslavia.
1997 – An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian Space station, Mir.
1998 – In Clinton v. City of New York, the United States Supreme Court decides that the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 is unconstitutional.

Birth

1560 – Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634)
1612 – John Albert Vasa, Polish bishop (d. 1634)
1755 – Princess Natalia Alexeievna of Russia (d. 1776)
1814 – Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (d. 1896)
1864 – Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1941)
1865 – Robert Henri, American painter (d. 1929)
1894 – Hermann Oberth, German physicist (d. 1989)
1903 – George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), British writer (d. 1950)
1903 – Anne Revere, American actress (d. 1990)
1907 – J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1908 – Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (d. 2000)
1911 – William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1980)
1912 – William T. Cahill, Governor of New Jersey (d. 1996)
1921 – Celia Franca, Canadian ballet dancer (d. 2007)
1925 – Ted Stepien, American business (d. 2007)
1928 – Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate
1928 – Bill Russo, American jazz composer (d. 2003)
1932 – Peter Blake, British artist
1939 – Harold Melvin, American musician (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) (d. 1997)
1939 – Allen Fox, American Tennis Player
1946 – Ian McDonald, English musician (King Crimson and Foreigner)
1952 – Tim Finn, Kiwi singer/songwriter
1954 – David Paich, composer (Toto)
1956 – Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004)
1956 – Anthony Bourdain, Chef and author
1959 – Jari Puikkonen, Finnish ski jumper, Winter Olympics medalist
1959 – Paris Themmen, American actor
1962 – Phill Jupitus, English comedian and broadcaster
1963 – Doug Gilmour, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 – George Michael, British musician
1964 – Johnny Herbert, English race car driver
1964 – Greg Raymer, Professional poker player
1966 – Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese (DRC) basketball player
1968 – Oleg Taktarov, Russian martial artist
1969 – Zim Zum, American musician (former Marilyn Manson guitarist)
1970 – Roope Latvala, Finnish musician (Children of Bodom)
1972 – Mike Kroeger, Canadian musician (Nickelback)
1974 – Jim LaMarca, American bass guitarist (Chimaira)
1975 – Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
1978 – Layla El, 2006 WWE Diva Search winner
1979 – Brandi Burkhardt, American beauty queen
1979 – Katie Doyle, American actress and reality television star
1979 – Hirooki Goto, Japanese professional wrestler
1980 – Maja Latinović, Serbian model
1981 – Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper
1982 – Rain, Korean singer (Rain, Jeong Ji-Hoon)
1983 – Todd Cooper, British swimmer
1987 – Joseph John Sledgianowski III, American Artist
1987 – Lil’ Wil, American rapper

Deaths

635 – Emperor Gaozu, first emperor of the Chinese Tang Dynasty (b. 566)
1861 – Abd-ul-Mejid, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1823)
1866 – Alexander von Nordmann, Finnish zoologist (b. 1803)
1868 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
1974 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1893)
1984 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
1985 – Morris Mason, American murderer (b. 1954)
1988 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born musician (Anthym/What Is This?, Red Hot Chili Peppers) (b. 1962)
1990 – Ronald Gene Simmons, American mass murderer
1995 – Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1997 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer (b. 1910)
2001 – Joseph John Sledgianowski Senior (b. 1916)
2002 – Jean Corbeil, Canadian politician (b. 1934)
2007 – J. Fred Duckett, American sports announcer (b. 1933)

I have a new tattoo that says “TOLERABLE”.

Claes Oldenberg

Martha Rosler

EFlux Pawnshop

St. Georges Marsh

and…

Tay Lore?

…if you’re home on the internet now, you’re probably not (those of you in boston) attending this colloquium on performativity at the museum, which looks like it’s going to be killer.

one of the speakers is the last remaining member of canadian power group General Idea, a very early (high school) influence of yours truly.

And if you don’t know who general ideas is, GO LOOK NOW PLZ

Sorry if it just appear strangely. I try to figure how this site works…

“Suddenly evolution does something absolutely amazing here, when the young discover that the grown-ups don’t know what it’s all about. So we have the young world doing its own thinking; and without any experience, it had to make many mistakes. But it’s getting now where it’s not being politically exploited the way it was at first. I find the young everywhere around the world are completely intent in thinking about the total world. They’re not impressed with local nations anymore. There’s a young world coming along, each child born successively in the presence of less misinformation. Just think, until I was eight years of age, I had been told it’s inherently impossible for man to fly. I’ve had undue, enormous amounts of misinformation. Each child, now, is being born in the presence of a great deal more reliable information.
I’m getting letters now—not very often, about five a year—from children who were born after humans got to the moon. How they find I’m someone they can write to I don’t know, but they do, and they write incredibly beautiful letters, and the syntax couldn’t be better. They say they are familiar with the critical path of all the things that had to be done before the blast-off to get humanity over to the moon and back safely. They say, “Humanity can do anything it needs to do; why don’t we make this thing work?” So a young world is coming along which may very likely exercise that option.”
-Buckminster Fuller

Yo, do everything with nothing! We got it!

I just bought this interesting take on the adjoining of two pieces of our childhoods into one shitty cheap little machine.

Of course it was made in China, and I thought I was getting a deal a time being while buying but prices online were less…

I really want a beer right now. Oatmeal Stout would do it. (: So of course on impulse I went out and bought that “RetroDuo” thing 3 days ago after remembering my brother and I had a decent amount of (super)Nintendo games left lying around. So this machine can accept either original or super nes cartridges and has a switch to toggle between 8-bit or 16-bit. Thats pretty fuckin’ sweet! BUT, the directional pad (or whatever you call it) is really sticky. I can barely ever make Mario crotch down. I might just have to buy a new SNES controller, and another Super Metroid considering I left all of my good video games at the Butcher Shop and they’ll never mail them to me. (Russ mail me my package and my w-2 !!!)

And so I’m just drinking coffee and playing Super Mario Bros 3 getting really frustrated. (I was playing Super Mario Bros 2 but it was too hard)

That is my least favorite enemy.

And I’m coming up to Boston for Ian’s performance event he is hosting. just to tell you all.

After we don’t need to worry about money, let reenact/reinvent some awesome history.

new monument unveiled in Iraq yesterday

&

candy becoming a little too sour?

alex bag at the whitney
“If anything, the video reminds us that museums have turned into playgrounds for grown-ups: Pipilotti Rist’s shoeless lounge at the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim’s touchy-feely “theanyspacewhatever” exhibition. In other words, the time is ripe for Ms. Bag to revive one of her most reliably acerbic characters: the pretentious art student.”

post-pretentious?

starting to hate NYtimes art reviewers
“Consider an arrangement of partly broken glass boxes and the cardboard FedEx cartons in which the glass boxes evidently were sent through the mail. This piece by Walead Beshty is briefly amusing, but unless you read philosophical and political ideas into it, how different is it, really, from David Letterman throwing a watermelon off the roof? At least with Mr. Letterman you get to see the object bursting. ”

maybe you’re watching a little too much TV Kenneth Johnson and need to spend some more time with art.

DONT FOR GET

Hey everyone, I just found this on the other blog I contribute to (monthly). Lockers as gallery space! awesome, I think. We could start one at school (that I don’t attend).

Check it out.

for all you new media nuts

i found this on art source, i’m gonna submit a speaker sculpture that i’m gonna finish when i get back to boston

its called: the right way to pray

: Mayor’s Office of Arts, Tourism & Special Events

Art today is more dynamic than ever. New techniques and ideas in multimedia art such as digital photography, interactive sculpture, video installation, graphic design, animation, and projections are at the cutting edge of contemporary art. The NEW MEDIA exhibition will use the interior of Boston City Hall as a showcase for a new generation of art and artists in Boston. The exhibition will be displayed from June – August 2009. Although some equipment is available, artists will be asked to provide their own computers, video players, projection equipment and monitors for the duration of the exhibition.

DEADLINE: February 28, 2009

Please submit the following:
· 5 jpegs (72 dpi), or photographs, of work.

· 1-5 minutes of video work in either vhs, dvd format or a link to your website.

· Brief description sheet of the work you are proposing.

· Resume or brief description of your art experiences.

· A suitable self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) if you would like your proposal/support materials returned to you.

· The Mayor’s Office of Art’s, Tourism and Special Events is not responsible for loss of/or damage to support materials that are not accompanied by suitable SASE)
Submissions sent by email are encouraged
DELIVER, MAIL OR EMAIL COMPLETED APPLICATIONS TO:

John Crowley, Exhibitions Director
Mayor’s Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events
Boston City Hall, Room 802
Boston, Massachusetts 02201
Phone: 617/635-2368 Fax: 617/635-2397
john.crowley@cityofboston.gov

check it out, Louis is in some ad on the side of a website.

hahahahahahaha bad

cute men in bikinis.

Cobblestones on brighton. Traffic jam. Anxiety meets sleep deprived boy. Aura reaches aural sepsis. And I said thank you Pat, thank you morphine, thank nurse for the inability to communicate and crossing two IVs through my vein.