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Excursus I: Reference Library
Up On My Back, and I Will Take You Thither
Opening, Wednesday, September 14, 6:30pm
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Excursus is a new series at ICA that invites the public to come together, converse, and peruse archival material in the context of the present. Designer Andy Beach, known for his blog and curatorial interventions under the name Reference Library, inaugurates the series with Up on My Back, and I Will Take You Thither, a project that takes inspiration from the Centaur Book Shop, Philadelphia’s own Prohibition-era radical press, record store, and bohemian meeting place.
On Wednesday, September 14 at 6:30pm come celebrate the opening with a talk about the Centaur by curator Lynne Farrington of Penn’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To be followed by an after hours reception on the ICA terrace.
Throughout the season return for a game of chess, roundtable discussions, workshops, and other free events. Find out more at: www.icaphila.org/excursus
Mark· 09/12/11
Matt Anderson has released a new extended trailer for his documentary, Fall & Winter.
He has also started a Kickstarter page to raise funds to complete the film here.
Please check it out and support this important, powerful film.
“I happen to be the most expensive clothing designer in the world. I am sorry for that.”
A fixture of Los Angeles’ west side, Bijan’s billboards at Santa Monica and Sepulveda,
which he designed and art directed himself, will be sorely missed.
Mark· 04/22/11
James Goggin, Design Director
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
4 April F200 7pm CalArts
Erstwhile graphic designer, LSD entrepreneur, and apocalyptic thinker.
a film by Matt Anderson
‘Fall & Winter’ is a documentary that explores the origins of our global crisis in order to better understand the catastrophic transition we have now entered. This film presents the ideas and experience of a wide range of people dedicated to confronting this crisis head on. The result is an analysis of our failing institutions and culture so we may be equipped to handle drastic collapse and foster a vital, fundamental rebirth in the way we live on this planet.
Amsterdam (1965-1967), as installed by Experimental Jetset
W139
Warmoesstraat 139
1012 JB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
February 17 - March 14, 2011
CONTRA MUNDUM I-VII BOOK RELEASE
Sunday, Dec. 5, 7pm
Mandrake
Featuring music by Dallas Acid
and films by Matt Anderson.
(a film by William Eggleston)
Tuesday 11/2 @ 8:00pm
at Cinefamily
Legendary photographer William Eggleston, working with filmmaker Robert Gordon, recently edited thirty hours of video footage he’d shot in 1974 of friends, family, and eclectic characters encountered in the bars and back roads of his hometown of Memphis, as well as New Orleans and the Delta region. The hypnotic result is Stranded in Canton, a film that consistently teeters on the edge of dream and nightmare states. Father of Modern Color Photography he may be, but he kicks just as much ass in eerie B&W, wrenching glorious images out of the early Sony Porta-Pak to conjure a febrile, desperate atmosphere that captures the Southern Gothic with an extraordinarily raw and rambling intimacy. The evening’s open bar is sponsored by Maker’s Mark — and special guests TBA! Dir. William Eggleston, 1974/2008, digital presentation, 77 min.
(This rare screening of Eggleston’s underground video masterpiece is organized by the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at LACMA in conjunction with its exhibition “William Eggleston: Democratic Camera – Photographs and Video, 1961-2008″)
Mark· 11/01/10 
HITO STEYERL & GEORGE BAKER
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
LACMA Brown Auditorium, 7:00 p.m.
Berlin-based artist Hito Steyerl’s practice as a filmmaker and theorist presents some of the most challenging and thought provoking observations on documentary and image production today. Join Steyerl for an overview of her work followed by a conversation with art historian George Baker, Associate Professor of Art History at UCLA. A related program of Steyerl’s videos will also be screened at CalArts on Thursday, October 7, 2010. The event is free. No tickets required. Mark· 10/05/10
New York Times obit.
Owen Luder’s Brutalist Trinity Square car park in Gateshead, made famous in the film Get Carter (1971) is undergoing demolition. Owen Hatherly offers his thoughts in The Guardian.
“After his arrest, neighbours painted a colourful picture of Raymond polishing his Ferrari
in his silk dressing gown before taking the bus into town to go shopping.”
Sad to hear of the recent passing of New York designer Tobias Wong. I often referred students to his clever takes on everyday objects and conceptual approach to product design. A personal favorite was his a desktop pad of dollar bills glued on one edge.
An interview is here.
Mark· 06/02/10
Experimental Film in a Museum Context: MATERIAL
Tuesday, May 4, 7:00 pm
LACMA
Brown Auditorium
Free, tickets required, available one hour prior to the program
The final discussion in the three-part series, MATERIAL will consider the physical conditions of film pertaining to issues of preservation, digitization, process, and nostalgia. Participants include Morgan Fisher, artist, Mark Toscano, filmmaker and film preservationist, and Jennifer West, artist. The conversation will be moderated by Rita Gonzalez, assistant curator, Contemporary Art Department, and Alex Klein, Ralph M. Parsons Curatorial Fellow, Wallis Annenberg Photography Department. The event is co-organized by the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department and the Contemporary Art Department and is supported by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund.
Image: Jennifer West, Naked Deep Creek Hot Springs Film (16mm film neg soaked in lithium hot springs water, Jack Daniels and pot - exposed with flashlights - skinnydipping by Karen Liebowitz, Benjamon Britton & Jwest), 2008.
Mark· 05/04/10