26/5-NY12 a chelsea of choices
Yesterday wasn't again very productive, off to Brooklyn and discovered a great art bkstore, will have to do some serious shopping there before I left. headed back to Manhattan, visited a storefront performance near to 34th st Penn Station on my way to Whitney Altria for the concert performance. Two performer wrapped in stockings are doing some pushing and body-contact improvisation, the most interesting part is that it just happens at street-level, where bypassing pedestrians and people in the cars droiven by suddenly find something like this and could glimpse at it and have some fun for few seconds or minutes. despite it is a 12 hours ongoing piece.
The concert at Altria said to be a multimedia one, but like the one at the Kitchen, it is just another projector doing its own thing. The performer is a group of vocalist and musicians, with the music all via digital treatment. They performed together a new piece by composer Phil Kline, a world premiere piece based on some surrealist novel. Despite he is highly recognized, sitting through the music for around an hour, for my ears not having any musical sense, I rather just entertain myself with the store-front window for few minutes and head off. A talk in SF, has addressed to this art fair tempo in viewing works, which is constantly in motion and of making decision, whether to slow down to see something more closely or just continue to walkby.
It is the same experience when you are in Chelsea, a sea of galleries. IAs matter of fact, this is already my second trip to Chelsea on this trip, the Matthew Barney one finished early in the month at Barbara Galdstone led me to visit it once I arrived. The highlight of this round is Kababov's paintings, Aperture's re Generation, Exit on an ecological theme, then not so gd Oiticica, plus one show called: Irrational thoughts should be followed logically, which have just one gd piece, but really enough, for HK won't like it, but really my taste (by just reversing one of the shelf-board of an ikea-like cupboard in the opposite direction, yes, that's all). Finally worth mentioning, is a show bumped into accidentally, curated by Art in America critic E. Heartney.
Hung Keung just like to check out those plenty galleries that I haven't marked for myself, and also pullover for food, like stopping at McDonald today, and therefore slowed down my planned schedule, which led to the end, I finally got not much time left to fully see the Jenny Holzer's photoshow of many of her outdoor projections at the last stop, and then plus the subway congression, found myself a bit late for the Whitney Independent Study Program paper presentations. HK stayed behind in Chelsea, to meet Song Dong etc. again for the Asian Art Week prgrams, which includes tonight a showing of So Man Yee work. The talks I attended were great, with thoughtful response from scholars, I just wonder how the opening gathering could compare with such an intellectual treat.
The concert at Altria said to be a multimedia one, but like the one at the Kitchen, it is just another projector doing its own thing. The performer is a group of vocalist and musicians, with the music all via digital treatment. They performed together a new piece by composer Phil Kline, a world premiere piece based on some surrealist novel. Despite he is highly recognized, sitting through the music for around an hour, for my ears not having any musical sense, I rather just entertain myself with the store-front window for few minutes and head off. A talk in SF, has addressed to this art fair tempo in viewing works, which is constantly in motion and of making decision, whether to slow down to see something more closely or just continue to walkby.
It is the same experience when you are in Chelsea, a sea of galleries. IAs matter of fact, this is already my second trip to Chelsea on this trip, the Matthew Barney one finished early in the month at Barbara Galdstone led me to visit it once I arrived. The highlight of this round is Kababov's paintings, Aperture's re Generation, Exit on an ecological theme, then not so gd Oiticica, plus one show called: Irrational thoughts should be followed logically, which have just one gd piece, but really enough, for HK won't like it, but really my taste (by just reversing one of the shelf-board of an ikea-like cupboard in the opposite direction, yes, that's all). Finally worth mentioning, is a show bumped into accidentally, curated by Art in America critic E. Heartney.
Hung Keung just like to check out those plenty galleries that I haven't marked for myself, and also pullover for food, like stopping at McDonald today, and therefore slowed down my planned schedule, which led to the end, I finally got not much time left to fully see the Jenny Holzer's photoshow of many of her outdoor projections at the last stop, and then plus the subway congression, found myself a bit late for the Whitney Independent Study Program paper presentations. HK stayed behind in Chelsea, to meet Song Dong etc. again for the Asian Art Week prgrams, which includes tonight a showing of So Man Yee work. The talks I attended were great, with thoughtful response from scholars, I just wonder how the opening gathering could compare with such an intellectual treat.
posted by jaspar at 9:42 PM
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since you are always travelling this long distance, buy a good headphone which seal off the outside noise well, rather than turning the volume up, and it won't be dangerous for you since you are travelling on some transportation, not e.g. walking in the street. There are lots of reports on the same damaging to hearing in the US after the iPod came out. do take care.
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