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Hey guys,

Polly here, I signed up to this site called design boom, it's cool, they sent me this link to the Frieze Art Fair.. check it out (especially look out for tom friedman's work 'yarn dog' is hilarious!) :

http://www.designboom.com/snapshots/frieze06.html

ps- who's interested in this idea of the an end of year exhibition???

rays extra suplamentary cool images.

www.mocanomi.org.

hey peoples i came across this in a journal and i think its rad.
nice deers.i love deers.
its christian holstad.from an exhibition terms of endearment.
on at moca.(museum contemporay art in miami)anyway just thought i'de share
all this extra journal bits i got floating around.




and this is a funny one......its called "one flew over the void"
by javier tallez.he shoots himself outa a cannon across the mexico/u.s border.
deals with lots of issues,but also very amusing.sorry kinda crap image.

ray tells of one of the greatest recentish film......YOU AND ME AND EVERYONE WE KNOW.

all pics from thecia.com.au

before i start let me just say two things:
1. whats with the newish weird code of distorted letters one must enter to comment?
2. how do you put pictures without them all being in a weird line or on one side or other not how i want things?
okay so i asked two things,but one is retorical.

Frieze(quite like this journal)nov-dec 2005. pg.38-39.
An article about the excellent film "you and me and everyone we know".If you heven't seen it you must go get it,andrew recommended it to me.its about an artist and according to him(i don't know i'm not quite one yet)is the most accurate portrayal.anyway its a really great film,if you like arthouse good ones. theres some great quirky characters like the kid above who is my fave and of course the woman playing the artist is actually an artist and the writer of the film.
Miranda July is a video and performance artist who was fairly successful in the art world and who was accepted into the Sundance screenwriting program for feature films,where where wrote this genius film. there are quite a lot of references to her own art work in the artists story.And there was a lot of focus on her being an artist during all the publicity for the film.
basicly as they said in the article"quirky video artist makes film about quirky video artist" july says its more accessible than her previous work and that she "traded the elitism of the art world for the star system".
Theres some great bits about the art world like when two curators think an artists hamburger wrapper is "ART" until he throws it away. anyway i'm so glad to have found this art-film in a journal so i can tell you all about it and
learn a little more my self.
so go watch it,if you like them emotional,quirky,arty,sensitive and funny you will sooooo love this film.
and its being about an artist makes it even better for us art school types.
enjoy.

THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE CURATOR - The Venice Biennale

Polly: eyeline 52 pg 36, I found a 4 page article on The 50th Venice Biennale, 2003 written by Graham Coulter-Smith who will be refered to as 'Wanker' in my blog. The theme for the 2003 Venice Biennale was 'The Dictatorship of the Viewer', a phrase that highlights the artist/curator/spectator relationship to the work itself. The article is long and alot of it is bollicks but I've picked out some of the cool stuff that was entered into the 2003 Biennale. In the entrance featured the word work of Francesco Bonami and Daniel Birnbaum's, titled; 'Delays and Revolutions', quote from the first bit;

"Art survives as its caricature. Its charm lies in its irrelevance. Everything concerning it is a justification of its gratuitousness. Its arbitrary values confirm the fact that they are vacuous. Art is a circensian mode of expression."

I think it's kinda funny/intriguing that the exhibition is so self-conscious in the theme.. I really like it.. I can certainly relate there! Art and expression is very much about self-questioning and making decisions etc. The piece of work that I couldn't miss (above) was a video of a crowd of naked people having sex, then behind is another crowd of spectators (clothed) who cheered them on at 'climaxes' of the film.. hehe.. wouldn't you love to take your grandparents to see this?!

Anyhoo Wanker talks about all the different medium and highlights from the show. Wanker also has a go at Patricia Piccinini (who's great I reckon!) saying that if she were a man she'd be a multi-millionaire by mass-producing her cuddly creatures. It really aggravated me that Wanker had such a gold intro that talks about artists freedom nowadays in expression.. then he goes on for 3 more pages critising great artwork. It was interesting nevertheless and lead me to check out some really cool international artists.

Lucy McKenzie

Hey there Brad here.

Found an article on Lucy McKenzie in Parkett no76 2006. She's a Scottish artist who focuses mainly on painting, but also indulges in drawings, prints, photographs, performances and videos. What grabbed my attention was her wide array of cultural references.

The painting below is called "The Danger in Jazz". Initially looking like a pretty dull Jazz reference, it's actually drawn from a video still of Lionel Ritchie's performance at the 1984 Olympic games. Wow. Lionel Ritchie eh.

Interestingly enough the 1984 Games was the one in LA that was boycotted by the eastern block, so rather than just being cheesy cheeky 80's nostalgia the painting also deals with the cold war, when both the east and west used pop music and sporting events as staged propoganda.

This then morphs into the above painting "They are lying on their C.V.'s"

I was also struck by this painting of Olga Corbut as my sister used to be a gymnast and i pretty much never heard the end of how excellent this Olga Corbut person was. Well, this painting is based on the moment when she lost. So there Alice. Nice effect tho. Must go to work now.

http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/artnow/lucymckenzie/default.shtm

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/lucy_mckenzie.htm