Jun
1st
Fri
1st
an experiment in oblique angles
Companion blog: Hooker's Ramblings
My artwork web site: http://www.davidjphooker.com
Bad spellers are a breed apart from good ones. A writer with a mind that doesn’t register how words are spelled tends to see through the words he encounters — straight to the things, characters, ideas, images and emotions they conjure. A good speller, by contrast — the kind who never fails to clock the idiosyncratic orthography of “algorithm” or “Albert Pujols” — tends to see language as a system. Good spellers are often drawn to poetry and wordplay, while bad spellers, for whom language is a conduit and not an end in itself, can excel at representation and reportage.
more than 95 theses: a few thoughts on academic time management
A lot of this applies to teaching art as well
Having received some interesting feedback on my previous post about academic life, I’m going to say a few more things about academic time-management, in a things-I-have-learned-in-a-long-life sort of way:
1) I know this is obvious, but I have to say it: you’re never going to write much if you…
Article on Contemporary Portriature in the latest CIVA SEEN
Features a conversation I had with colleagues Jeremy Botts and Greg Schreck
May
26th
Sat
26th
Join the Feast - Smart Museum of Art — The University of Chicago
why, oh why did I not find out about this until now???!!!
May
10th
Thu
10th
Alexandra Bircken, “Pferdchen,” 2008.
Rocking horse (wood), knots, bolts, wool.
13.75 x 88.5 x 36 cm.
Untitled (Kramer and Newman Make Sausge),” 2012 (stainless steel, chromed sausage and two trucks) by Rirkrit Tiravanija at Gavin Brown’s enterprise. The name references characters from the TV show “Seinfeld.” (via Frieze New York, Part 2: Highlights from the International Contemporary Art Fair : Arts Observer)
“A-Z Aggregated Stacks #7,” 2012 (cardboard and plaster gauze) by Andrea Zittel at Andrea Rosen Gallery of New York. (via Frieze New York, Part 2: Highlights from the International Contemporary Art Fair : Arts Observer)
“Ship of Fools,” 2004 (thread, yellow paper, glue, vases, wood and PVC) by Joe Scanlan at Galerie Martin Janda. (via Frieze New York, Part 2: Highlights from the International Contemporary Art Fair : Arts Observer)
May
8th
Tue
8th
http://www.atwork27.org/
an exhibition of art done on moleskin notebooks. Some good, some lame.
May
3rd
Thu
3rd
…do weed whacker handles rolled in oatmeal really make someone “a poet of humble things”? I would say that the Whitney has given up on skill and craft (just when some of the most interesting art theorists are again calling for its necessity), but I don’t need to say it because the Whitney says it for me. One piece was constructed with what the artist described as “extraneous, doggedly ‘wasted’ labor,” and the result was intentionally ugly so that the piece could be deemed aesthetically useless as well. I dare the artist to be consistent enough not to make “use” of his art by refraining from adding his Whitney Biennial appearance on his curriculum vitae.
May
2nd
Wed
2nd
The contingency of the creative act and the potential of the repetition are core concerns in my work. Using different methods of mechanical reproduction, from photographic reproductions of artworks (as a readily available material, form of mediation, and zero degree expression of photography) to more recent devices including paint mixing machines and word analysis tools (which belong to post-fordist shifts in consumption and labour and consumption, encountered mass-customization and information analysis), my practice explores mediation, possession, and quiet gestures of interruption.
