Over the next few weeks the whole crew at Rise Industries will be participating in a residency (some in person, some via mail/skype/phone/email) and show over at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry in west Los Angeles. We will be tracking the development of our various projects and excursions here of course.
Michele and I will start inhabiting their lab and gallery spaces this week, and get down to doing some research and interventions. Later this week Sarah Rushford will join us there, and we will be organizing information flows to and from the rest of our membership in order to get them involved. This whole undertaking will be experimental in a few different ways, especially as an experiment in modes of collaboration and attempts at cross-pollination of ideas. We shall see how it goes.
In the meantime, I have been tossing together some ideas and images related to our vague research directions of time and distance.
Since the Earth rotates at a steady rate of 360° per day, or 15° per hour, there is a direct relationship between time and longitude.
The vernal equinox itself precesses very slowly in a westward direction relative to the fixed stars, completing one revolution every 26,000 years approximately.
During the time needed by the Earth to complete a rotation around its axis (a sidereal day), the Earth moves a short distance (approximately 1°) along its orbit around the sun.
Therefore, after a sidereal day, the Earth still needs to rotate a small additional angular distance before the sun reaches its highest point. A solar day is, therefore, nearly 4 minutes longer than a sidereal day.
Locations (to date):
Munich, Germany
WGS84 48° 8′ 0″ N, 11° 34′ 0″ E
48.133333, 11.566667
Los Angeles, CA, USA
WGS84 34° 3′ 0″ N, 118° 15′ 0″ W
34.05, -118.25
Somerville, MA, USA
WGS84 42° 23′ 15″ N, 71° 6′ 0″ W
42.3875, -71.1
Boston, MA, USA
WGS84 42° 21′ 28″ N, 71° 3′ 42″ W
42.357778, -71.061667
Haridwar, India
WGS84 29° 57′ 36″ N, 78° 9′ 36″ E
29.96, 78.16
Here are some photos from our first day preparing for the upcoming Rise Industries residency at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry. We will be part 8 of the 100/10 (100 Days, 10 Visions) project series and plan to collaborate across time and space with our fellow Rise Industries members from around the globe.
Thank you Anna and Elaina for a great day today! Jeremy and I are so inspired that we haven’t left the studio since we got home.
Before I get into this post for real, let me just say I have a backlog of photos from many great art shows and other events from the past year – and for whatever reason (something to do with either managing an apartment building project, or working on a play or two, or getting some installations done or some other such nonsense) I have not gotten around to posting anything about them at all. So, I am going to try and get this archive of stuff out into teh interwebs where people can actually see it. Since its been awhile for many of these, I may just put up my photos, or try and write some brief things about them. Either way, if you want more info on any, post in the comments and I will get to it.
With that out of the way, this one is more recent than some: the Wabi Savvy group show at Jaus gallery in West LA – Ichiro Irie’s fantastic little space on a suburban street across from the rock climbing gym. Wabi Savvy is a satellite exhibition of Gateway Japan Organized by Torrance Art Museum, and features over a dozen contemporary Japanese artists with the tag line “The image you already have of the warped Japanese sensibilities are probably all true”. The show opened right after the recent earthquake, then tsunami, then nuclear disaster in Japan – so Japan’s plight was already on everyone’s mind at the show which may have colored our perception of the works presented. The show ran from March 18 to May 1, 2011.
A very coherent show across many media, I found several standout works among the small collection.
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These pieces, playing with the boundaries of frame, were super well crafted with a sense of humor and play in the escape from 2d.
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These books were presented in a glass case, and looked as if they had been sanded down or carefully cut and glued – creating a grain made up of the layers of pages and text.
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This amazing time-lapse, super close up video, created alien landscapes of spores and molds growing and evolving. The soundtrack really filled out the world presented, and it was pretty captivating to just stand and watch.
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The 8-bit sushi was the postcard image for the show, and summed up pretty well the collision of contemporary culture with a retro nod and respect for traditional cultural forms.
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In this video, a soundtrack triggers small electrodes attached to people’s faces, making them involuntarily twitch and shudder in a subtle and possibly slightly painful dance.
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This hat deserves a place at the Royal Wedding of William and Kate.
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Lastly, a dancing teddy bear which had a video camera hidden inside it was placed out on the sidewalk to capture pedestrians’ reactions. The videos were then displayed on the wall opposite the bear itself, which danced away the whole night.
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