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In the Company of LeXo - The Problems of the Commons Are Here [Zizek at Zuccotti Park, 10/10/11]
LeXo, a Paris based electronic band, and I have spent the better part of 8 weeks ‘remixing’ and re-situating Slavoj Zizek’s Occupy Wall Street speech as an electronic music track. We are currently working on a more in depth write-up of our process working across countries, continents, DAWs as two strangers who have never met but connected in the realms of musical taste and political ideology. Expect a more formal post about that in the next week or so. In the meantime, enjoy the Zizek remix. Spread the word and share feedback. This is our attempt to reimagine how something like the Zizek speech can experienced and shared.
#occupychristmas
P.S. I drew the cover art/portrait of Zizek in case you’re interested.
Click through for more information about LeXo’s work or my own.
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A video preview of Fatima Al Qadiri’s Genre Specific Xperience
I’m jealous of anyone that attended the premiere of the work at the New Museum last month. I had planned on interviewing her but things fell through. Perhaps another time. For now, I’ll revel at her particular brand of brilliance in the form of new music that re-interprets the juke, hip hop, dubstep, electro-tropicalia and 90s Gregorian trance sub-genres of dance music. Original videos produced for the songs were created by artists Kamau Patton, Tabor Robak, Thunderhorse Video, Sophia Al-Maria, Ryan Trecartin and Rhett LaRue.
I second all of this: Fatima Al Qadiri’s work is brilliant and incredibly original. If you don’t know her work, get acquainted. It’s worth your time.
‘Christian Loubitin’ by Peter Lippmann
Consumerism meets classical art. The rest of the series can be seen by clicking the link above.
Destino: The Completed Disney and Salvador Dali Collaboration
Say what you will about Dali, he was an absolutely brilliant artist. And yes, he ranks among my favorite painters. I think the incorporation of Dali’s ‘landscapes’ and other (famous) paintings in this video is deftly executed. And gorgeous, just gorgeous. So here’s your 6 minutes of beauty for the day.
Art Street View: Launched by Red Bull, and initiated by the Brazilian advertising agency Loducca, this project allows you to search street art by location and artists.
Via Silicon Maniacs, an awesome French language digital culture blog
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My work explores the relationship between postmodern discourse and life as perfomance.
With influences as diverse as Nietzsche and John Cage, new tensions are created from both traditional and modern textures.
Ever since I was a student I have been fascinated by the ephemeral nature of meaning. What starts out as triumph soon becomes corrupted into a dialectic of greed, leaving only a sense of nihilism and the inevitability of a new synthesis.
As shifting forms become clarified through boundaried and personal practice, the viewer is left with an impression of the limits of our condition.
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I’ve been meaning to post a photo of this book for awhile. Awhile ago I was asked if my artwork could be used on the cover of a book about Arab and Arab-American feminisms. After a few years and several publishing houses, here is the book in all of its material glory. I admit it’s pretty surreal to have a book with my artwork on the cover sitting on my window ledge next to a copy of DFW’s The Pale King. I get a bit giddy every time I see it. This may be the only thing I ever publish so I am going to relish in it for a bit.
The book, which is available for order on Amazon, is full of insightful and intelligent essays. I highly recommend the book, so go buy it. Show it some feminist love!
The original piece can be seen here and was part of an exhibit commemorating the opening of the Arab American National Museum.
Still from Rien a Cacher / Rien a Craindre, a sound and design installation at Paris’s la Gaîté lyrique. Here’s a video for more about the project.
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When you’re actually on the stage after dealing with the “rock ‘n’ roll bullshit” and noticing how the disco sound system is so much louder than the one you’re playing through, you pray your instruments don’t fall apart and you begin to play. You forget about everything else in the world. You forget how much the pay is and that you’re not really playing for enthusiastic young kids but for bored young adults—and it becomes a challenge to try to move them, blow their brains out, put some edge into the atmosphere by using what is now a technologically primitive social tool, the electric guitar.
The club is the mediator or frame through which the music is communicated. The band literally plugs into the technology of the club in order to magnify the sound, turning a possibility into actually, making what is heard by the musicians themselves accessible to an audience. People pay to see others believe in themselves. Maybe people don’t know whether they can experience the erotic or whether it exists only in commercial
”Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon ““I’M REALLY SCARED WHEN I KILL IN MY DREAMS”
Via ArtForum (Circa 1983)
Still From Waste Land
This film walked very fine lines between exploitation and redemption but ultimately veered into the realm of the latter. Highly recommended.
“Media ecologies are processes of emergence of particular assemblages, which are discovered and participated in by following the activity of material processes. They are also conceptual devices that question the evolving couplings of humans, animals, networks, machines, the like of blog posts and emails, air and ‘ether’, and art, in order to fight the claustrophobia of fixed structures.”
From “Autocreativity and Organisational Aesthetics in Art Platforms”
I saw Sharon Eyal’s “Too Beaucoup” last night at the Harris Theatre. Without question, this was most the visually stunning modern dance performance I’ve ever seen. Minimalist, stylish and entirely otherworldly. And the music! The music, which included pieces by Depeche Mode and Gang of Four, was fantastic. The entire performance was an esoteric celebration of the corporeal as perfunctory and performative. And the costumes looked like a combination of the Kiki Smith sculptures and the lead singers of Ladytron. My mind was so completely and utterly blown. There’s nothing like being in the presence of art to inspire you to run off and create your own.
“Santa Sangre”
I’m not sure what else to say about this film other than it is a work of utter genius. Electra? Oedipal? A Freudian surrealist dream? And the score is fantastic.
Anyone else seen it?
P.S. The painting “The Temptation of St. Anthony” by Dali (as well as the one by Ernst) seems appropriate in light of this film.
There’s a lot going on in 9000’s art: satire, detournement, culture jamming, and critique.
And I’m into all of it.
H/T Pepperonina
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I'm Christina Dennaoui. Sometimes I wax philosophical on culture in the digital age. I have an interest in social media, cultural studies, electronic music, critical theory, middle eastern politics, ethnographic research and digital anthropology. I make beats. I drink bourbon. I'm a nice lady, so you should talk to me.
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