that-unsound: March 2008

30.3.08

dave miko , artist and performer and SOUNDS

http://www.myspace.com/davemiko

Dave Miko artist and performer is making some very interesting sound/voice pieces at his My Space

26.3.08

muffeta opera for the throat-ed by majena mafe

Reconsidering Feminism: A Year in Review
quote..."Over the last year, a series of exhibitions and cultural initiatives in New York and elsewhere have sought to reconsider the feminist legacy in contemporary art and the new directions it has inspired in the work of emerging artists and collectives. This roundtable discussion with artists, critics, and historians will include a critical review and analysis of such events. It will also include an attempt to envision the steps to follow in the collective efforts to write recent feminist art history and implement the lessons learned from these initiatives. Participants include Janine Antoni, artist; Aruna D'Souza, Assistant Professor of Art History and Women's Studies, Binghamton University; Sharon Hayes, artist; and Molly Nesbit, Professor of Art History, Vassar College, contributing editor, Artforum, and (with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rirkrit Tiravanija) organizer of the ongoing project Utopia Stations. Moderated by Connie Butler, The Robert Lehman Foundation Chief Curator of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art".

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MOMA and DADA

Representing Dada
quote..."To mark the close of the international Dada exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York, MoMA hosted a day-long symposium to consider issues involved in representing Dada through texts, images, and objects, with a particular focus on the semantics of display. A distinguished group of scholars discussed landmark Dada exhibitions and past publications, with the aim of addressing how Dada has been defined historically, geographically, and conceptually.

Introduction
John Elderfield, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Does Dada Dissolve into Surrealism?
Didier Ottinger, Senior Curator, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris
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New York Dada? Looking Back after a Second World War
Catherine Craft, Independent scholar and critic
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"Join Dada!" Aspects of Dada’s Reception since the Late 1950s
Hanne Bergius, Professor for the History of Art, Design and Architecture,
Burg Giebichenstein, University for Art and Design, Halle
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Dada and Surrealism Reviewed: From London 1978 to New York 2006
Dawn Ades, Professor, Department of Art History and Theory, University of Essex
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Approaching a Myth: The 1988 Reconstruction of Berlin’s First International Dada Fair of 1920
Helen Adkins, Art historian and independent curator, Berlin
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The Making of Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York (1996)
Francis Naumann, Independent scholar, curator, and art dealer
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“The Pattern that Connects Is a Meta-Pattern”: Dada’s Ongoing Challenges to Museum Practices
Tobia Bezzola, Curator, Kunsthaus Zurich
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Roundtable: Displaying Dada 2005–06

Leah Dickerman, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Laurent Le Bon, Chief Curator, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris; and Anne Umland, Curator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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The Thought Is Made in the Mouth: Dada Sound Poetry and Manifestos
An evening of historical Dada poetry with LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Bob Holman, and Pierre Joris. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Dada".

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24.3.08

Helene Cixous

21.3.08

listening by jean-luc nancy

"Music is the art of the hope for resonance: a sense that does not make sense except because of its resounding in itself. It calls to itself and recalls itself, reminding itself and by itself, each time, of the birth of music, that is to say, the opening of a world in resonance, a world taken away from the arrangements of objects and subjects, brought back to its own amplitude and making sense or else having its truth only in the affirmation that modulates this amplitude."

20.3.08

Lorna by Lynn Hershman

«Lorna» belongs to the very early interactive works of art of the 1970s. Even before there were computer-supported systems to develop an dcontrol multimedia systems of presentations. Lynn Hershman's environment could be seen as prototype for interactive and non-linear film narrative. She presents the story of Lorna, a woman who lives in her apartment without any contact to the outside world. She suffers from loneliness and despair. An important object in this spatial seclusion is of course the television—mediator to the world and apparatus of interaction. The observer finds himself in the role of the protagonist again. He searches for the continuation of the story and for existential logic in the labyrinth of scenes. The jumps, circular arguments, and breaks in teh course of the pictures are bewildering, depicting the psychological state of the main character. Many more or less voyeuristic points of view form a piecture of the self-directed existence of a person only confronted with herself. Lynn Hershman's work ranges between bitter satire and desperate drama—the outcome remains open. Three possibilities can lead to the end of the story: despair and death by suicide, departure and escape by leaving the apartment followed by air travel, and—maybe the most thrilling variant of all—shooting the television. Death to the medium.

(Source: Media Art History, ed. by Hans-Peter Schwarz, ZKM Media Museum, Munich/Amsterdam 1997, p. 123.)

Works by Lynn Hershman:A Room of One's Own: (Echo Nar cissus)

Commercials for NY Hotel Rooms

CybeRoberta

Deep Contact: The First Interactive Sexual Fantasy Videodisc

Phantom Limb Photographs

Roberta Breitmore

Teknolust

yoko

Yoko Ono (b. 1933)

1. Cough Piece (32:31) Yoko Ono, Cough Piece, 1961.
2. Let's Go On Flying (1:10)
3. Snow is Falling All the Time (1:10)
4. Mum's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow (2:13)
5. No Bed for Beatle John (w/John Lennon) (4:44)
6. Toilet Piece, 1971 (:30)
Tracks 2-5 lyrics
Tracks 2-5 from Aspen No. 7
Track 6 from Fluxus Anthology
RELATED RESOURCES:
Yoko Ono in UbuWeb Film

Jelle Meander & Maja Jantar

Jelle Meander & Maja Jantar

Maiandros Sonoros

1) knitterBA! 01:30

2) al amin dada 06:04

3) plain english ( )

4) amorgós 14:28

[view score, part 1]
[view score, part 2]
[view score, part 3]

5) plain english (and I) 00:20

6) spiegel van alies II 11:45

7) plain english (fuck off) 00:19

8) lan~schnitt~eichen 13:38

9) left square bracket 00:57

10) spam, dorothy, spam! 04:15

[view score]

11) spiegel van alies Ie 'ach wie nichtig, ach wie flüchtig'

NOTES
*1-3-5-7-9 published on mmmzzzz (barcelona)

*2 published in leonardo music journal (mit), commissioned by klang aktionen, münchen, 2004

*4 published on logos public domain 14 (gent), with robot orchestra by godfried-willem raes and programming by kristof lauwers

*6 published on krikri cd 2003 (gent)

Maja Jantar & Jelle Meander - Live in Geneva & Brussels

1/Spiegel van Alies I - 03:12

2/ Organon (by Paul De Vree) - 02:40

3/ Rzscz - 01:25

4/ Bezette stad (by Paul van Ostaijen) - 05:56

5/ Entlö-Entlau - 00:47

6/ Smeekbede - 01:44

7/ Waar de zon slaapt - 03:06

8/ Coded messages - 04:19

9/ Amorgós - 10:42

10/Bestiarium (by Ernst Jandl) - 02:11

11/Spiegel van Alies I - 04:10