October 2010 Archives
LA:
http://www.welcometolace.org/exhibitions/view/elysian-park-museum-of-art/
http://www.epmoa.org/
I am in a Reanimation Library exhibition at DoVA Temp Gallery in the University of Chicago. The show is 10/22 - 11/13.
My piece/ info on my piece/ instructions to for my piece can be seen below:
http://davidhorvitz.com/fax/
A group exhibition with Céline Duval, David Horvitz, Elisabeth Tonnard, f.ART magazine and Rick Myers, curated by David Senior.
October 16th - November 8th 2010
Opening Saturday, October 16th, 6-9pm
37 Greenpoint Avenue, 4th Floor,
Brooklyn, NY 11222
718 383 9621
www.booklyn.org
It is a funny little place - the space of books. This small show will have some art and a lot of books. The artists make different kinds of books, but they all make books. All the artists repeat themselves, in some way. The loose construct for this grouping of work focuses on strategies for seeking out images and the impulse towards repetition in an artist's process and also in the final work. There are many artists’ books that lean on photography - photographs that are made, found, reproduced, reworked and put onto a page and then the pages are put together with other pages. Celine Duval and Elisabeth Tonnard both work extensively with archives of photographs, sorting them and drawing out connected gestures, narratives and forms. Rick Myers and David Horvitz both insert their body in the process - documenting their own repeated gestures, behaviors and observations - tracing a sentiment, an after-image, or the metamorphosis of a material. f.ART is brand new. The two artists/editors, Rachael Morrison and Ivalyo Gueorgiev, have been accumulating found images and creating a magazine of collage. Accumulation is a big part of the idea here, of artists’ that accumulate images, collect gestures and allow them to hang together in the space of their work. A book can serve as a container for these accumulations, and its space can be a discrete area for these projections of memory, movement, and thought.
Thursday, October 14 at 8:00pm | |
| SOLOWAY 348 South 4th Street Brooklyn, NY | |
I
will be screening Penelope Spheeris' classic Los Angeles punk
documentary from the early 80's, The Decline of a Western Civilization.
I am from Los Angeles, this is from Los Angeles. This is local punk night. The beach, the Palos Verdes Peninsula, sunsets, driving around aimlessly, teenage suburban angst, art punk, slam dancing, black flag, X, fear, hermosa beach, ETC............. ... Joining me with other punk localities will be: Ed Steck from Pittsburgh, showing a punk video he made about Pittsburgh. Ragnheidur Gestsdottir from Iceland will be screening a classic Icelandic punk documentary made roughly around the same time as Decline, Rokk í Reykjavík. It will not have subtitles. Maybe she will translate it for us, or we can just drink Black Death and watch it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wi http://en.wikipedia.org/wi http://en.wikipedia.org/wi http://en.wikipedia.org/wi BRING YOUR OWN BEER/ BRING YOUR OWN BLACK DEATH BRING YOUR OWN INGREDIENTS FOR A OKI DOG: - 2 links Hebrew National** hotdogs, broiled or grilled - 1/3 pound pastrami, grilled slightly - 1 or 2 slices AMERICAN cheese - 4 oz. Chili - 1 large burrito-size tortilla - flour Oki Dogs, a hot dog stand in Los Angeles, frequented by all the LA punks in the late 70s and early 80s (which I ate at once before a Go Gos concert at the Greek Theatre), short for Okinawan Dogs (the owner supposedly flew in Okinawans as indentured servants to work in the kitchen) , should be the food of choice for the night (though, maybe some rotten shark, a sheep's head, a primanti sandwhich is also just as relevant). Bring your own ingredients to make an Oki Dog! We can find tortillas in the area! Posted by Oskar Mire 12/7/07 at 11:19 am # Some 25 years ago, there was another Oki-Dog location on Santa Monica Blvd., right across the street from Astro Burger. The local punk rockers adopted the place, and after gigs at the Starwood there would be vast hordes of leather-clad hair-dyed malcontents inadvisedly consuming Oki Dogs and free kim chee (and purchasing their methedrine from the back door). It was THE punk rock meeting place in Hollywood for several years. The management even kept a couple of tables segregated from the rest during normal business hours when the place wasn’t absolutely swarming with punk rockers, and these were known as PUNK ROCK ISLAND. When pan-handling homeless punk kids showed up during the daytime with no money to buy food, they would be given free ice water and kim chee and told “YOU NO BUY NOTHING, YOU GO PUNK ROCK ISLAND!” Posted on someone's Myspace Blog: Oki-dogs, (or Danny's dogs) was the big after-hour hang-out for LA punkers, circa 1980-84. You can hear Darby Crash say; "See you all at Oki-Dog!" at the end of the Germs live album (the one of the last show), 3 days before he died. I think that night was my first visit to Oki Dog...It was a little hot dog/burrito stand on Santa Monica Blvd., about a mile east of the Starwood, where many shows- including that Germs reunion gig and weekly "new wave night" Tuesdays- took place, as well as Rodney Bingenheimer's disco. Just a walk-up window with a fiberglass canopy, 6 or 8 picnic tables, with a parking lot capacity of 20-25 cars. But after a show between 50 to 500 punks would meet up there: after the Whisky, after the Starwood, after Florentine Gardens, Palladium, or Stardust Ballroom gigs- even after shows at the Vex-15 miles east and over the L.A. river, after Godzillas in the valley, or the Coo Coos nest in Costa Mesa way down in Orange County, and Perkins Palace up in Pasadena. Wherever the show was, afterward we all ended up at Oki- Dogs. Just hanging out, scamming chicks, drinking ten high in surrounding alleys and apartment building laundry rooms 'til the sheriff would run everyone off. Then it was on to "punk rock park"- 2 blocks to the southeast- then run off , like clockwork, by the West Hollywood sheriff deputies. Then it was off to Errol Flynns abandoned estate in the Hollywood Hills (seen in many movies, such as "Breathless" w/ Richard Gere), or the Hollywood Cemetery, which shared its southern walls with 20th Century Fox. The cemetery was usually a good place to hang 'til morning, since it was too big and spread out for cops to effectively corral the punks in, not to mention by the time we got there it was the last stop in the cat and mouse game of cops and punks, and all but the most dedicated or homeless (like me and my friends) had gone home. | |
I am guest blogging on Laurel Ptak's I HEART PHOTOGRAPH blog this week.
http://iheartphotograph.blogspot.com/
This is my first post, which is a synopsis of what I will be doing:
H e l l o E v e r y o n e -
I hope you are all good.
I will be guest-blogging here for one week starting right now.
I am going to explain what I will do, and what my intentions are.
I want to slow things down a little.
Go offline a little.
Go and wander around and see what can be discovered (uncovered).
And then put that discovery (uncovery?) online, right here, and let it re-circulate.
Let me get to the point.
With some guidance from a friend, David Senior, who is a librarian at the Museum of Modern Art New York Library, I have browsed through Moma's library collection with the goal of finding seven publications. For each publication I will make simple snap-shot documentation photographs in the library, and post the images here, with a link to the publication's call number in the library's database. One publication each day for the entire week.
The publications will be mostly photo-related (or at-least, contain photography), and will ideally be published material that I have never seen before in person, or did not even know existed.
By photographing them and posting the images, I am re-circulating evidence that they exist. I hope that people may go and find them (or something else), since these do exist in a publicly accessible archive. Anyone can go to the Moma library and look at the collection. It's free (and if you are sneaky, you can sneak right into the museum without paying after visiting the library).
That's it.
The first post will be coming sometime later today.
Thank You and I Hope You are Having a Good Day,
- D a v i d