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About transsexual mayhem, kinetics & vulnerability in art. November 20th, Thursday - Trannie art
We showed kinetic projections (partly based on the painting we did of
Chantal this spring) that were slowly changing all the time. And some rythmic
more erotic stuff
November 5th, Tuesday - Kinetic art
Today the term kinetic art stands mostly for moving sculpture, often
terrible earthy hippie wind sculptures or rusty third rate squatter robotics
in the survival research tradition.
A very famous artist in France, he worked as a kind of futuristic city planner, constructing giant city "kinetic towers" from Paris to Osaka, that beamed light effects & blasted sound all over the place. Now, some years after Schoeffer's death, his atelier -a sort of walk-in light/sound/movement interactive machine- is used as a setting for high-class receptions & dinners. Leave it to the french. Can you imagine George Bush inviting guests for drinks in a Louise Bourgeios environment? Explaining over canapes to foreign heads of states her phallic and incestuous imagery maybe.. October 25th, Saturday - Sick Art
The new pix are in various small sizes meant for the upcoming Kunstsupermarkt shops, to be sold like records out of a box. But i'm skeptical about our sense of what's appealing.. The paintings are elegant enough, but mentally belong to the group we did for the recent Apotheke show (about art, war & politic) and are therefore somewhat negative. They feature fragmented depictions of bandaged party girls that we found in an old dutch "ladies' encyclopedia", combined with dated party patterns, and placed on a sickening yellow background, the color of despair and suicide according to most color studies. There's also one of a grim looking male tying a piece of rope around his upper arm. Sounds commercial doesn't it? Just leave it to us. Afterwards we went to a party at the Big Eden club where there is no
end to 80's revivalism night after night. Well at least people still act
nice, not the way hip people thought they had to act "cool" in the 80's.
The germans really took new wave ethics too seriously, combining their
version of absolutely humorless cool with their natural german wariness
into something frigid. Even the new wave people themselves were in the
end so relieved they could start acting friendly again when their culture
was swept away by acid house.
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t
the 
ooking
into Kinetic Art a bit. There's some stuff to be rediscovered there.
pending
time working on a set of paintings that involve more hand painted parts,
and less stencilled shapes. (One of the reasons people don't buy our stuff
so lightly is because they assume that because it is partly made with stencils
there must be a hundred copies around, which is not true because most are
too complex for that, made with lots of layers much like traditional kimono
painting.)