Interview with Philip Fryer and Sandrine Schaefer of The Present Tense
BU Buzz Spring 2012
I knew performance art would come to this. ASSHOLES!
Beheaded lamb.
A pair of cruel art students in Germany are defying authorities - and moral decency - by promising to forge ahead with the ritual decapitation of a lamb in the name of art.
The callous students in Berlin plan to use a home-made guillotine to behead the defenceless animal online for thousands to witness.
Their sick project, titled ‘An Experiment Experiment Representing the Current Conditions Surrounding Democracy’ involves a public vote as to whether the lamb is decapitated.
DONT GET ME WRONG, THIS IS A STUPID PIECE, BUT HOW IS IT ANY DIFFERENT FROM ANY PIECE THAT UTILIZES MEAT AS A MATERIAL?
Dieter Appelt - Der Augenturm (The Eye Tower), 1977.
… from The Body: Photographs of the Human Form by William A. Ewing, Chronicle Books, 1994.
In ‘Augenturm (Eye Tower)’, 1977 Appelt built a wooden tower out of tree branches, each one the length of his body, and placed it in the waters of a lake. This rising above the water - the element from which all life springs - by way of a simple construct, can also be read symbolically: as man evolving away from a primary interrelationship with nature into the role of master over nature. The primal harmony of living beings with the natural world, sacrificed in our developmental history, is used by Appelt to reactivate the vestiges of this memory still inside us.
… text via the Kicken Gallery http://www.kicken-gallery.com/appelt/pm_e.txt
New Works
Performance, Movement, Built Objects, Digital Projection
March 2012
In December 2010, Banksy declared that all profits from his current print sale would be gifted to Russian art anarchist group Voina, two of whose members are in prison awaiting trial.
* Voina is a performance group known for their provocative and politically charged works of performance art like drawing an 60-metre phallus graffiti on a St Petersburg’s Liteiny bridge , and instigating a sex party in a Moscow Zoological museum.
Transnational Art Actions: an Artist Talk with Daniel S. DeLuca & Sandrine Schaefer
When: Monday, May 28th, 2012
7pm-9pm
Where:
55 Norfolk St, Cambridge, MA 02139Artists, Daniel S. DeLuca and Sandrine Schaefer have recently returned from a 7 week art making excursion in Mexico. During that time, they traveled in and around Mexico City, Puebla, Oaxaca, and the mountain town of Xilitla. Both artists juxtapose ancient and contemporary art and architecture through the use of contextual materials, icons, and a site-sensitive approach to location. They will present selected works and observations from their travels and experiences with Mexican culture. Some themes they will discuss include: infiltrating the body into public spaces, the process of travel and its affect on art-making, and the power of sunshine.
Sandrine Schaefer is a Boston-based Artist, Writer, and Curator. She is a co-founder of The Present Tense, an art initiative that produces and archives live art events and exchanges in transient spaces. She has been actively showing her own work and the work of others internationally since 2003. Sandrine’s ephemeral artwork explores cycles of the invisible becoming visible. Sandrine is inspired by site sensitivity, the relationship between accumulative action and endurance, manipulating duration to challenge the parameters of real time, and the promise of collaborative imagination. Her work playfully addresses the shared human experience of fitting in, both corporally and conceptually.
Daniel S. DeLuca is a Boston based artist, and current Mobius member, who uses formal techniques from performance/conceptual art to realize his work. His projects explore structures and concepts related to politics and globalization, art, and psycho-geography. His work has been shown nationally and internationally in the context of private and public spaces, galleries, and performance art festivals. Daniel is currently developing artistic research projects that investigate semiotics and the creation of new language, and large-scale reoccurring events around the world.
H U A N +
More culture is slowly smothering us and turning our faces black. —- Zhang Huan
Zhang Huan —-
Family Tree 2000 (New York, USA)
1/2 1998 (Beijing, China)
Foam 1998 (Beijing, China)
Marina Abramovic with model of her new performance art space in Hudson, NY
