Showing posts with label video performance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video performance. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Boston Typewriter Orchestra
The Boston Typewriter Orchestra is a group of human beings who organize sound to create rhythmic patterns using typewriters. I had the opportunity to interview them this past month.
Sunday, January 03, 2010
whether|man
When I saw a few of this artist's videos posted on DVblog.org, I knew I had to include it here on Humor As Art. It goes without saying that timing, delivery, artistry, composition , and content are all well represented here which makes this performer's video work (whether|man Andrew Schneider) Humor As Art, or Art As Humor.
After you watch the above video watch all his videos at whether|man
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Patrick Rock
Patrick Rock
Rock's Box Gallery
Judging by what Patrick Rock's artist statement: "I am not prepared to make a statement at this time." leads me to believe the work is open for interpretation. Which is the way great art should be, and Rock's work leaves enough for us to contemplate in the short amount of time he gives us in his videos? performances? videotaped performances? The lines are not defined, nor should they be. Rock's work breaks form in a lot of traditions of humor, performance art, and video art which is why the work stands out. It's an honor to have his video pieces on this site, as I've been admiring his work, nearly, once my foot landed in Portland. He's an Oregon native who studied in San Francisco only to come back to Portland to start his gallery Rock's Box. If you're an artist coming back to Portland, starting your own gallery is in my opinion "doing it right".
Thursday, January 10, 2008
The Blue Noses Group-Americanizer
From: Art of Russia
In the art of the group "Blue Noses" are embodied the innovatory trends of Russian modern art – the communicatory and the comical. The artists work in zones, borderline for the aesthetic and social response, and with the most poignant problem for these zones and the general social state. The art of "Blue Noses", as a worldview, tends sooner to the Rabelais-like simple-hearted clear thinking, than to social criticism. Frequently their works represent video-documentation of some absurd and hilarious actions, performed by the artists as improvisations based on pre-prepared roles. The works of "Blue Noses" elegantly balance on the edge of the everyday and artistic phenomenon, reminding one of a half-professional, half-amateur video, where the intended fiasco is indistinguishable from a dilettante blunder. The model of the world of the "petty man" is affirmed through parody in diverse ways of ridiculing the fetishes of mass consciousness. "Blue Noses" mockingly imitate the high art of the XXth century, mass culture, television, glamour, the joy of leisure, the spectacle of sport, the sacred rituals of everyday life etc. The whole existential state of the petty man appears in their works in an energetic, sympathetically-idiotic manner.
Alexander EVANGELY
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