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Artists at Work: ‘Muralmorphosis’ and ‘Inside the Painter’s Studio’
Last month I attended the first screening of Muralmorphosis, the short animated film documenting the mural project of the same name curated by Sean Stoops (and organized by the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program) at 2nd and Race Streets during the 2009 Fringe Festival last September.
The great society at Little Berlin and Basekamp
Little Berlin and Basekamp, part of my First Friday route, were both you-had-to-be-there moments, something quite different from a quiet gallery visit in the middle of the week. Little Berlin‘s exhibit, Offerings, is made of works created by small groups of four people collaborating together. The total number of participants at play–71 participants in 20 groups–was pretty amazing. Little Berliners Alex Gartelmann and Martha Savery mixed and matched group members for the most part, so participants barely knew or didn’t at all know their collaborators. Little Berlin, once again, is reaching out beyond their core group and finding lots of ... More » »
Philadelphia Notes
An artists’ demolition derby in a still from Aaron Rose’s Beautiful Losers (2008)Lives of the Artists (ca. 2000) I asked Tyler Kline to join me at the January 21 International House screening of two films on art/skateboarding cultures since he comes out of a Portland skateboarding and art scene of a younger generation than Aaron Rose’s Beautiful Losers (2008) and I thought he could provide footnotes (which he did). Rose’s film made for an interesting comparison with Ted Passon’s Space 1026 (2007) and told quite a different story of how the art and community developed. Rose portrayed Margaret Kilgallen, Mike ... More » »
Weekly Update – ICA, LLG and collective energy
This week’s Weekly has my review of the Locally Localized Gravity show at ICA. Below’s the copy with pictures. Here’s Libby’s post and my post with links to other picture sites. Give Me FeverThe ICA’s buzzed-up show celebrates collective energy. Opening night. Participant deeply engaged with the interactive installation by, I believe, Red 76, at the opening of ICA’s Locally Localized Gravity. The Institute of Contemporary Art‘s winter shows opened in an atmosphere of exuberance, noise and energy. Fueled by the preshow buzz about “Locally Localized Gravity”—a show celebrating four prominent local collectives—more than a thousand people jammed the barn ... More » »
Counting at the ICA
Space 1026′s treehouse adventure park The Institute of Contemporary Art invited eight artists and artists’ group to create installations, as part of the Locally Localized Gravity show. One of the main ideas here is that the installations will serve as staging areas for special events impressarioed by the eight. The exhibit opened Friday to a crowd so large the walls practically bulged. Three of the Philadelphia collectives–Space 1026, Black Floor and LURE–have quite a number of members altogether, so the artists themselves contributed to the swollen crowd. Ultimately, more than 100 artists will perform or show or contribute in some ... More » »
