I wrote this review of the happenings over at FLUXspace in Kensington. It was intended for Theoretically, but it didn’t quite make the cut, as its a bit off-focus from ‘the work’ . The focus needs to be shifted before it can be considered, but I didn’t want to loose the thoughts. Here they are.
Something is in flux in Philadelphia, namely the world of Art. A space has emerged in the North of the city called ‘
FLUXspace‘ – it is an artist-community driven gallery, housed in a massive industrial space that is also home to Art Making Machine Studios. This space has developed out of the efforts of a community of artists, all playing their own role in this new Art: one with the vision for the space, others with equipment and energy, some who are very good at communications – all making art and nurturing community around their creative act.
The space is raw in FLUX – the gallery itself presents new challenges to the artwork that enters. There are two white walls, one exposed brick, and the the fourth side of the cube boasts a massive industrial plate-glass window who’s age and history shows through the scattered broken panes. Read More »
Lastnight turned into some kind of crazy art-fest brainstorming funtimes with loads of people in our living room. We’re working on an idea to bring back the infamous Mr. Jones from his inaugural role as Pumpkinhead at Copy Gallery last year.
Also lastnight: an idea was born that I’d love to see someone (or more-than-one) execute on. I think that the medium of ‘Sit-com’ or ‘TV Show’ more broadly could be explored as an extension of the idea of bringing ‘art’ into the sphere of popular culture, it feels like there is a lot of potential there. One thing that sparked this idea was the fucking-awesome Print Liberation TV Commercial that’s been recently released. I love how they’ve used a cultural-consumable medium to have some serious fun. I’d love to see a whole line-up of programming unfold that includes entire series of shows interspersed with commercials in this vein. Read More »
I just came across this review on Fecal Face, a new blog that @bethheinly showed me on Sunday night.
I’m pretty goddamn excited about this approach – its simple narrative structure coupled with the prominence of the visuals/photography are super-clean and very successful. I want to try this out, although I’m still ramping-up with the camera, I’m confident my photos will get better as I do it more.
If you’re making art one night and would be open to someone new to drink with and think with and take pictures of the whole damn thing, drop me a line.
