Dienstag, 26. Juni 2007
working on your day off
There is an upside to working on your day off, especially when no one else is at the office. At home, I have approximately 150 square feet of space in which to dance to my favorite music, much of which is taken up by a bed, a chair, bookshelves, and other items. Here at the gallery, there is more than twenty times that amount of space and only a few paintings on the wall to watch out for. No one else is here, the cleaning guy is finished, and I have an hour to dance by myself to too-loud music before I have to meet a friend for our weekly lunch/study date. A pre-lunch workout of the best kind.Last year, everyone who listened to the micro/click-house type of electronic music that I like so much proclaimed their love for Akufen's "My Way" album and "Deck the House" single. I missed the boat so much on that one, and only now, a year later, do I get it. Such beautiful collages.
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my friend lori is bothering me. she's right here in the computer lab all telling me about your "interests," and said i should tell you to add daniel spoerri and or tom friedman to your interests. she also though we should be friends. ...lori: "you're stuck dan?"
is akufen on mille-plateaux? if i'm wrong, what label? i like the stuff..
Both records I mentioned are on Force Inc. I should say that my initial rejection of the music was that it wasn't micro-y or click-y enough, and too dancefloor-ready. Now I realize that the two don't have to be mutually exclusive and that my tastes don't have to be limited to the headphone-friendly. I danced up a storm at the gallery.
Well, I don't know about adding Daniel Spoerri and Tom Friedman, though I appreciate what both have done/are doing. However, I'm all for adding new friends and finding out more. I know Tom Friedman's deal pretty well, what with the Phaidon book I have and seeing the New Museum survey exhibition a few times this summer and just being around New York. Spoerri on the other hand I must plead ignorance about. What works of his are you most interested in? Do tell.
dan never takes his journal seriously but he does like daniel spoerri...we are both in a modernist class together where he was brought upand he has a book out called "the anecdoted typography of chance"that i think you can still find now & dan was very excited about it. also, i wanted to find an image of that those books that kid from new york makes & i couldn't think of how to do it except that there is a really nice image in a new bookput out (by the same guy teaching our modernist class) called"inside magazines" by patrik andersson & judith steedman and on page 33there is a lovely book called "the empty city" with sewn covers by that boyfrom new york.....:)
I'll look it up next time I'm at St. Mark's Books or Untitled. Ha - Do I come across as taking my journal seriously? I sort of do, but that isn't a judgement call on anyone else's! I got your e-mail.. I'll write back when I get home tonight. Hopefully it won't be too late. I have to decide whether or not I can stomach another few hours at the library after work.Brian
lori, it's a POSTmodernist class, for christ's sake.
no way dan! even pax said the theory might be post buteven the class is called modernism. anyway, paxsaid neither of us are right...and what a horrible thing to evenpick a fight about!!! mod/post/post post hahaha! sorry brian...(oh and i made a mistake, the book is called "an anecdotedtopography of chance" )
first of all lori, the class is called, "the art of assemblage." the word modernism is no where near the name of the course. second, the class and all its inate theory and material are constructed around a duchampian model - the class is structured so as to be a sort of functional tautology, if you will. (i let that book title missquoting go by the way, because it would have been so embarassing for you.) more importantly, however, we're trying to fit into the larger framework of exceptional comedy here. try to see things in a vaudevillian context.
by the way, i enjoyed your itallics
by the way, i enjoyed your itallics
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