Images from Frankie Martin's installation "One Minute Rave," at Canada. Press a button outside a cloth-draped doorway, enter the room with the black light, strobe, and cardboard cutout DJ, and you have exactly one minute to freak out. Actually you can do it multiple times, but you have to keep sticking your hand outside the doorjamb to hit the switch that activates the music and lights. Some very nice handcrafted work, geometric patterns, psychedelic drawing, and pure kitsch from the era of smart drinks, glow in the dark whistles, and floor shattering bass lines. Which is still going on in many parts of the country, and/or in a state of being perpetually revived, as the '60s psychedelic thing continues to morph with new technology and new crops of initiates. The vibe might also be "the early years of rave" before the DIY spirit gave over to corporate interests, if that era ever in fact existed. Maybe it's just an ideal rave of the mind. To put it in some historical context, this was to the early '90s what Kenny Scharf's black light rooms were to the late '60s, but less sardonic and more girly--and I mean the latter in a good way. It's truer to the spirit of the show than saying "post-feminist" and it's certainly not grrr-ly.
hi tom, i don't know how to blog, this is my big debut. so can you call me at the gallery? your photos of frankie's installation are BEAUTIFUL. and we'd like to put them on the website. i'm sure i'm not supposed to do this this way, but we'd love to borrow those images and give you the credit. thanks a million, suzy butler, CANADA
Thanks, I was happy with how they turned out, especially shooting in a dark room lit by strobe and ultraviolet! You're welcome to use them. I'll give you a call tomorrow (Sat.)
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Images from Frankie Martin's installation "One Minute Rave," at Canada. Press a button outside a cloth-draped doorway, enter the room with the black light, strobe, and cardboard cutout DJ, and you have exactly one minute to freak out. Actually you can do it multiple times, but you have to keep sticking your hand outside the doorjamb to hit the switch that activates the music and lights. Some very nice handcrafted work, geometric patterns, psychedelic drawing, and pure kitsch from the era of smart drinks, glow in the dark whistles, and floor shattering bass lines. Which is still going on in many parts of the country, and/or in a state of being perpetually revived, as the '60s psychedelic thing continues to morph with new technology and new crops of initiates. The vibe might also be "the early years of rave" before the DIY spirit gave over to corporate interests, if that era ever in fact existed. Maybe it's just an ideal rave of the mind. To put it in some historical context, this was to the early '90s what Kenny Scharf's black light rooms were to the late '60s, but less sardonic and more girly--and I mean the latter in a good way. It's truer to the spirit of the show than saying "post-feminist" and it's certainly not grrr-ly.
- tom moody 3-27-2005 6:08 am
hi tom, i don't know how to blog, this is my big debut. so can you call me at the gallery? your photos of frankie's installation are BEAUTIFUL. and we'd like to put them on the website. i'm sure i'm not supposed to do this this way, but we'd love to borrow those images and give you the credit. thanks a million, suzy butler, CANADA
- anonymous (guest) 4-02-2005 1:55 am
Thanks, I was happy with how they turned out, especially shooting in a dark room lit by strobe and ultraviolet! You're welcome to use them. I'll give you a call tomorrow (Sat.)
- tom moody 4-02-2005 2:05 am