Funeral Songs

Daniel Mudie-Cunningham’s project to collect songs to be played at funerals has opened at MONA in Hobart, Tasmania.

I chose a song by Daniel Johnston.

Photo by Pandarosa

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In Search Of New Alliances

Five Production Company Logos in 3D showing in a group show at P.ART Zwolle,

curated by Edwin Stolk/The Organisation.

Participating artists:

MERLIJN TWAALFHOVEN (NL)
ISABELLE SCHILTZ (BE)
ROBBERT WEIDE (NL)
EMILE ZILE (AU)
SEAN HANNAN (NL)
MARIJKE UITTENBROEK (NL)
HRISTINA TASHEVA (BG)
EDWIN STOLK (NL)

22 JANUARY – 4 MARCH 2012

http://insearchofnewalliances.blogspot.com

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The Sina Khani Show at Mediamatic Amsterdam 14 April 2011

This beast of a live talk show is now embalmed on YouTube for all interested parties to witness, both now and into the future. I think I did an ok job as a co-host but I am not game enough to watch the whole show again just yet. Shout outs to Sina and Harry Merry.

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Bring Your Own Light Emitting Visual Display Technology

One-night only. Powerboards and extension leads. Pixels and beams.

Featuring: Gavan Blau, Sally Blenheim, Ry David Bradley, Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Greatest Hits, Ian Haig, Joe Hamilton, Sam Hancocks, Sean Healy, Christopher LG Hill, Amelia Hirschauer, Spencer Lai, Matt Leaf, Maximum Rim, Rowan McNaught, Dale Nason, Antuong Nguyen + Pageant,  Joshua Petherick, Johann Rashid, Sibling, Soda Jerk, Swanbrero, Nic Tammens, Alex Vivian, Oliver van der Lugt, Yandell Walton, Marcin Wojcik, Warran Wright, Wikileaks, Emile Zile

BYOB MELBOURNE
Level 1, 18 Ellis Street, South Yarra
Friday, December 16 2011 7-11pm

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Five Production Company Logos in 3D on Federation Square Urban Screen

Screening through December. Curated by Abigail Montcrieff of Experimenta Media Arts. Full schedule at http://www.fedsquare.com/events/fedtv/.

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Prosume This

THE PRODUCT IS THE MEDIUM

‘This Friday we open our show, Prosume This! – the Product is the Medium, at the electronics store BEKO at Kottbusser str 9 in Berlin. Beko is a typical mid sized electronic retail chain who will lend us some of their corporate space. We are using 30 of their high definition screens to show works by 10 great artists. For a couple of hours during their regular opening times, we’ll display video and net-art pieces on the stores TV walls.’

18th of November, 17:00 – 19:00 BEKO, Kottbusser Str. 9, Berlin

Artists: Anthony Antonellis, Anika Schwarzlose, Constant Dullaart, Baden Pailthorpe, Michael Manning, Emilio Gomariz, Adam Cruces, Niko Princen, Emile Zile, JK Keller.

Prosume This is organized and curated by Kim Asendorf, Anika Schwarzlose & Jonas Lund.

This entry was written by EZ, posted on November 16, 2011 at 7:19 am, filed under electricity, exhaustion, hot, hysteria, liberation, spiritual, warm and tagged , , , . Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Three performances by Emile Zile

Open Archive Abbotsford
97 Nicholson Street Abbotsford
Melbourne, Australia

7pm November 30, 2011

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Checklist

On December 9 I will leave Melbourne to begin a year at the Rijksakademie (or longer, depending on the funding situation in Holland).

Four weeks to have lasagna at Pellegrinis, float in the ocean at Point Lonsdale, have a beer with Marcos, paint mum’s fence, visit Sam Bear for socks and survival gear, eat stretched zataar from Mankoushé, find office rooftops, make an Oxo Ovo video, learn the Melbourne shuffle, eat spanakopita from Le Bon, watch Ancient Aliens with Bob in the forest, write a script, eat an ‘everything’-bagel from Glicks, throw away old band tshirts, work on my melanomas, eat a bbq pork roll from Nhu Lan. Not to mention Open Archive, Warneet Ngargee, BYOB Melbourne

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(7 months clean) Facebook Relapse

After a 7-month self-imposed exile from faceache/farcespace/fakesbook I have returned to the dark-blue citadel. Some thoughts…

Love it or hate it, it is an undeniably powerful form of communication. My primary reason for return is event notifications. I witnessed this in a very concrete way in Indonesia during Video Vortex festival; the local underground runs on facebook. Quick-turnaround gigs that defy the authorities. Moving to Australia for a few months has made me aware of this in Melbourne. I will continue to publicise the events I organise over multiple formats (paper, papyrus, smoke rings) including FB.

Trying to organise an event in Melbourne with very FB-centric people has made the process longer and less dynamic. Giving up my rejection of FB might make these wheels turn quicker. Receiving no response to emails when organising with the IM-minded is very frustrating. Non-response to email is a cultural turn, brought on by platform-burnout, info-overstimulation and a proliferation of services demanding our limited attention.

Upon leaving FB I tried Twitter and the then nascent Google+. The information gleaned from a well-curated tweet-tube can be a potentially useful mess of news, opinion and links. I find it a beneficial resource and a stark contrast to the personal swill on FB. Google+ is in it’s infancy and may be only valuable to unify a suite of google products under one user account. If I willingly submit to the data-mined commercial world of google, which is already hosting my domain name mail service, I may offer myself willingly on the sacrificial altar of FB too. My personal caveats for this re-appraisal of FB include using tight privacy controls and only posting links from my blog into FB rather than transferring the ‘original’ data to their servers. The arrival of G+ has driven Facebook to develop and improve beyond their usual aggresive-algorhythmic user-accumulation method. Privacy controls are cleaner, sharing between groups is simpler and the subscriber function means it is possible to post public and non-personal updates on FB without being ‘friends’ with someone. I will continue to support open-source and small scale social networks such as Diaspora and Mediamatic.

1200+ ‘friends’ – too much. This time inside the walled garden I want to be much more strict – quality over quantity. Those already in my life and dear to me, the people who make me laugh rather than the web 2.0 promo-careerist entrepreneurs who talk loud and do nothing.

Post-Web 2.0 self-portrait below via Michael Dieter.

This entry was written by EZ, posted on September 27, 2011 at 2:07 pm, filed under blood, domination, exhaustion, hysteria, submission and tagged , , , . Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Anonymous offering to the urban homeless or Melbourne Sculpture?

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BYOB MELBOURNE

Bring Your Own Beamer Melbourne, December 16 at Tristian Koenig gallery

More details to be announced soon…

Organised by Antuong Nguyen, Sam Hancocks, Ry David Bradley and Emile Zile.

Assange psychic warrior mk-ultra cia test subject gone rogue gif by Sam.

This entry was written by EZ, posted on September 12, 2011 at 6:54 pm, filed under cold, electricity, hot, hysteria, spiritual, warm and tagged , , , , , , , , , , , . Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Catalogue text for Marc de Jong’s FLOCK WORK show at Gould Galleries Melbourne

http://www.gouldgalleries.com/Exhibitions/tabid/84/ctl/ExhibitionDetails/mid/420/eid/18/Default.aspx

http://prdctvsm.com/

Marc de Jong FLOCK WORK
Gould Galleries, 270 Toorak Rd. South Yarra
Opens Thursday 08 September 2011 – Saturday 08 October 2011

EXPANDED FERVOUR (SUBTERRANEAN UNDERGROWTH)

In Marc de Jong’s FLOCK WORK we are presented with explosive moments of energy controlled and contained. Removed from their origin as stock photography they appear to be slowed to the point of growing organically. His images of curling ocean waves, fireworks, volcanos, black holes all deal with brutal, spectacular energy. Electricity, water, gravity, fire – elemental forces man has tried to contain. These are portraits of entropy – a moment of peak energy about to dissipate – the greatest force frozen and permitted to grow a mould-like flock veneer. In this manner they are meditations on the speed of global image culture, overgrown phosphorescent works that contain our shared visual culture.

COPY PASTED (SIGNED AND SEALED)

Stock footage and universal logotypes have long been a fascination for de Jong. From the early sign-jacking of the re-advertising project to his re-appropriation of Mad Max in oils, to the alternate reading of nationalist pride in his combination of Australian Aboriginal colours and the Eureka stockade flag. Marc has continued a tradition of very precise and controlled re-use of contemporary imagery. In FLOCK WORK we are witness to a sifting of imagery from stock photography libraries that privilege moments of dynamic intensity only to seal them in their explosive state and alchemically make them permanent on canvas. Somewhere between printing, painting and electrostatic experimentation lies de Jong’s flock process. Generating sparks in their big bang moment in the studio, these canvases represent and also contain the energy used to make them.

SERENE SMILE (YOU VAIN CREATURES)

de Jong’s Buddhas stare out from the walls, peacefully surveying the folly of man’s attempts at longevity and permanence. These heads stand apart in this body of work as the only manifestation of a human form. A humble, resigned, knowing, curling smile that sees the world from it’s jungle home at Angkor Watt, Cambodia. These faces are the key to understanding Marc de Jong’s metaphysical concerns – they are the serene reflections of man surveying and attempting to understand the world. Fame dissolves, humanity is extinguished, but life continues in the pores of the earth. Surfaces of the world will again creep with lichen and moss, much like de Jong’s flock seems to grow and emit a faceless living energy.

Emile Zile 2011

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Video Vortex Indonesia

Presenting and performing in Indonesia for Video Vortex #7 part of CELLSBUTTON #5: Yogyakarta International Media Art Festival.

http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/7-yogyakarta-2

http://www.natural-fiber.com/cellsbutton/

This entry was written by EZ, posted on July 20, 2011 at 5:22 am, filed under hot, hysteria, liberation, plastic, warm. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Rijksakademie Amsterdam

In January 2012 I will begin a two-year studio residency at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten.

This entry was written by EZ, posted on June 20, 2011 at 7:27 pm, filed under electricity, hot, hysteria, liberation, plastic and tagged , , , , . Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Review of ‘Five Production Company Logos in 3D’ by Urszula Dawkins in Realtime 103

http://www.realtimearts.net/article/103/10353

Philip Brophy, in his catalogue essay for Five Production Company Logos in 3D, sees Emile Zile’s groin-level gesturing aptly as a ‘spoof’ on masturbatory corporate excess. It strikes me also as a kind of post-mass-media shadow-puppetry, almost as though Zile might be telling us a story around the campfire, his flickering hands casting the shape of mythical battles or god-heroes onto thin air.

This entry was written by EZ, posted on June 11, 2011 at 9:49 am, filed under electricity, saliva, warm and tagged , , , , . Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Two shows: Omer Fast at NIMk, Anti-photojournalism at Foam

Omer Fast: Dialogue, Reality, Fiction, Documentation, Overidentification, Recreation, Narrative.

Antiphotojournalism: Truth, Representation, Evidence, Distribution, News, Mourning, Humanism.

See them while you can.

NIMk until July 23 – curated by Petra Heck. Foam until June 8. Amsterdam – curated by Carles Guerra and Thomas Keenan.

http://www.foam.org/press/2011/antiphotojournalism

http://nimk.nl/eng/omer-fast-interview

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Icon Worship – Aya Sofya, Istanbul May 2011


 

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‘Larry Emdur’s Suit’ archived by Dutch online video art platform Limboland

Orginally screened at Lost and Found, Amsterdam’s long-running night of cultural oddities, video and storytelling hosted at the Theatrum Anatomicum.

http://limboland.tv/kunst/het-beste-van-lost-found/larry-emdurs-suit

This entry was written by EZ, posted on April 25, 2011 at 9:46 am, filed under electricity, exhaustion, hot, hysteria, liberation, plastic, saliva, spiritual, warm and tagged , , , , , , , , . Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

‘Off Beat Cinema’ magazine interview

Hard copy available at Overtoom 301 — PDF offbeatcinema

This entry was written by EZ, posted on April 22, 2011 at 10:12 am, filed under exhaustion, warm and tagged , , , , , . Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Dianne Tanzer Gallery show opens April 2

http://diannetanzergallery.net.au

This entry was written by EZ, posted on April 1, 2011 at 3:29 pm, filed under electricity, hot, liberation, warm and tagged , , , , . Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

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