i planned on heading to the whitney today. got there and they were closed. no problem- just a bit further uptown is the guggenheim. the current show "the third mind" was great! above is Linda Montano's Mitchell's Death (1979). in this performance montano grieves the death of her former husband mitchell. she chants/prays, remembering phone conversations, thought patterns and all other obsessive thinking we engage in while mourning. all the while she has acupuncture needles puncturing her face. a catharsis is definitely occurring. below are other highlights for me at this show.
James Lee Byars, Untitled Object.
this is the outcome from a performance, Processional, which he performed at a zen monastary. he unfolded an accordian-style book (200" long), then brushed a single line in ink.
Paul Kos, Sound of Ice Melting
i found this piece pretty amusing! and i was little concerned about the water and all those cables! "it represents 8 microphones amplifying the silence of 2, 25lb blocks of ice melting in real time. the eletronic hissing and din of environmental noise drown out the conceptual 'silence'. to contemplate the sound of ice melting is to directly apprehend transience and contingency."
La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela, Dream House
"This new site-specific Dream House installation is a rare counterpart to the 16-year ongoing Dream House installation at 275 Church Street. Young and Zazeela characterize the Sound and Light Environment as a time installation measured by a setting of continuous frequencies in sound and light." i could have stayed in this carpeted room all day. you were totally absorbed in sound and light! definetly need to check out the ongoing installation on church street.
Jordan Belson, samadhi, film w/sound(1967)
like the dream house above, i also could have stayed in front of this video for days!
this is the outcome from a performance, Processional, which he performed at a zen monastary. he unfolded an accordian-style book (200" long), then brushed a single line in ink.
Paul Kos, Sound of Ice Meltingi found this piece pretty amusing! and i was little concerned about the water and all those cables! "it represents 8 microphones amplifying the silence of 2, 25lb blocks of ice melting in real time. the eletronic hissing and din of environmental noise drown out the conceptual 'silence'. to contemplate the sound of ice melting is to directly apprehend transience and contingency."
La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela, Dream House"This new site-specific Dream House installation is a rare counterpart to the 16-year ongoing Dream House installation at 275 Church Street. Young and Zazeela characterize the Sound and Light Environment as a time installation measured by a setting of continuous frequencies in sound and light." i could have stayed in this carpeted room all day. you were totally absorbed in sound and light! definetly need to check out the ongoing installation on church street.
Jordan Belson, samadhi, film w/sound(1967)like the dream house above, i also could have stayed in front of this video for days!
another piece worth noting is Robert Irwin's, Untitled 1964-66. this painting was just briliant. from a distance it looked like somebody's 'white paintings' - you know, auster, elements nearly indiscernible. once you got right up to it, you realized the painting was made up of tiny pink and green dots. the dots were laid down in a grid and the colors became darker as they approached the center. loved it!
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