Collab Fest 16 - 03.25.09
tonight we will take the old collab fest pieces to the water heater and do something with them. first, we will offer to give them away to anyone who shows up. then we will cut them up and make little booklets out of them (and maybe make some little sculptural objects out of some of them). at the end of the night we will take the ones that are left and distribute them around town. that will be the end of stage one of the collab fests.
(we did the first part of this.)
i may try another short and fairly simple performance piece tonight. i want to do an exhibit of three empty chairs on pedestals. after a while i'll place a dictionary, open to the page with 'chair' on it, on one of the chairs, a can of campbell's soup on another one, and the decorated '17' sign from the studio annex on the third one. a little while later i'll try to get two people to join me either standing, squatting or kneeling on the chairs, one holding the dictionary as if reading it, the other balancing the soup can on their head, while i 'hold' the ‘17’ sign in my mouth. i'll use the black 'pedestals' that are already at the water heater and place them in front of the mirror. the photographs should look pretty good, and a number of imbricate and/or colliding interpretations would seem inevitable. it also could be fun, if folks will join in.
(we did the first two parts of this.)
we watched a short video called Dad's Pantry Drawer by Ralph Eaton and Matt Ames. we talked about edward tufte, scratch acid and paul flaherty. most of the time we tried not to walk on the paintings exhibited on the floor. lisa from las vegas dropped in to see what collab fest was about and stayed for 3 hours. just before she left she said '"this is way outside of my comfort zone. there aren't any boundaries here."
photos by ralph eaton
(we did the first part of this.)
i may try another short and fairly simple performance piece tonight. i want to do an exhibit of three empty chairs on pedestals. after a while i'll place a dictionary, open to the page with 'chair' on it, on one of the chairs, a can of campbell's soup on another one, and the decorated '17' sign from the studio annex on the third one. a little while later i'll try to get two people to join me either standing, squatting or kneeling on the chairs, one holding the dictionary as if reading it, the other balancing the soup can on their head, while i 'hold' the ‘17’ sign in my mouth. i'll use the black 'pedestals' that are already at the water heater and place them in front of the mirror. the photographs should look pretty good, and a number of imbricate and/or colliding interpretations would seem inevitable. it also could be fun, if folks will join in.
(we did the first two parts of this.)
we watched a short video called Dad's Pantry Drawer by Ralph Eaton and Matt Ames. we talked about edward tufte, scratch acid and paul flaherty. most of the time we tried not to walk on the paintings exhibited on the floor. lisa from las vegas dropped in to see what collab fest was about and stayed for 3 hours. just before she left she said '"this is way outside of my comfort zone. there aren't any boundaries here."
photos by ralph eaton
posted by jim leftwich at 11:59 AM
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