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Thanks to Camilla Singh from MOCCA for sending me images to go with that drawing show review:
Alison Norlen,Untitled, mixed media on paper, 2004. Collection of the artist, photo: Kim Clarke.
Courtesy of MOCCA.
Anna Torma, Draw me a car (detail), hand embroidery on linen with silk threads, 2004. Collection of the artist, photo: Kim Clarke. Courtesy of MOCCA.
 | As another smog day dawns in Toronto, I am thinking about the futuristic dystopia, "The Lost Continent" by Norman Spinrad in which the American economy survives solely on tourism, as people fly in from Africa to see the amazing smog. Americans, who must wear filters continually, have lost their technological prowess, their minds dulled by continual exposure to airborn pollutants."As we stepped out onto the cracked and pitted concrete, the spectrum of reality changed, as if we were suddenly on the surface of a planet circling a bluer and grayer sun. The entire grotesque panorama appeared as if through a blue gray filter. But we were inside the filter; the filter was the open American smog and it shone in drab sparkles all around us." |
| Sound depressing? It is! But at least its just a story, not like the real smog that has been literally deppressing the systems of Torontonians for weeks. Friends are tired and cranky, eyes are scratchy, lungs are tight. Some people are getting sick, others are moving much too slowly to get a full day's work in. On days like these the mere fact that someone is driving a car is enough to make me deeply dislike and distrust them. I am misanthropic cause I'm crabby cause I and my loved ones are oxygen depleted, but also because the days of driving cars in cities must, surely, be nearly coming to an end. Need cheering up, like me? Tino's photoblog, Bike Lane Diary and Darren Stehr's critical mass pictures at Toronto Cranks are very pleasing. | |
UPDATE: see video clip here.
Kristin Lucas, Magic Eyes Cream Headache Sandwich , 2005. three channel video installation, running time 4 minutes (image taken from Postmasters)
Yesterday was a good art day. First off Kristin Lucas sent me links to her current show at Postmasters in New York. This woman's art never ceases to surprise me. Yes she is my friend, she is also ff'ing brilliant. In the 4 minute video installation, "Magic Eyes Cream Headache Sandwich" two arms with lives of their own, try to feed the head some cake. And play music. It's like a post-cyborgian birthday part: love your own detachment, embrace the mind/body split, desire the explanatory gap, and you might just have some fun.
Next I dropped in at Angell Gallery to see Geoffrey Pugen's show. I made a note earlier about a video of his that I liked - the video in this show was even better. Abstracted morphing mandella's made from the smooth tanned bodies of futuristic aerobics-type folk encircle the slowly morphing heads of animals. I was not totally excited about Pugen's prints, most of which you can see here. They provide a distopic chuckle, but the videos are on another level; technically lush, conceptually insidious, and visually mesermizing.