PIPS

Memories of Provflux 2007

PIPS in the UK

Brian Rosa, Jason Groves & Kickball Jesus, June 2008, Manchester

TRIP 2008

http://trip2008.wordpress.com/

The Loiterers Resistance Movement

http://www.nowhere-fest.blogspot.com/

Morag Rose at Provflux V!

Who SCREAMS MORE...
Who DRINKS MORE...
Who has MORE TO SAY ABOUT ART, PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY and THE URBAN SPECTACLE and Gives LESS OF A SHIT ABOUT WHAT WANKERS GET OFFENDED ALONG THE WAY THAN KICKBALL JESUS?

MORAG ROSE OF MANCHESTER'S "INFAMOUS" LOITERER'S RESISTANCE MOVEMENT AT PROVFLUX V, AUGUST 7-11, 2008! THE TORCH OF THE FATE AND DESTINY OF THE FUTURE OF PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY IS BEING PASSED...

Using It Up, Reception Tonight!

Elwa Productions Presents:

Quinn Corey
Zane Claverie
David Allyn
Shawn Gilheeney

and

The McGurk Brothers!

Rabbit Hole Gallery
33 Washington St
Dumbo, Brooklyn

Tonight!

and next week...

check ELWA Productions for all the details about the show.
Under Construction, but check back in a few days to see all the great work in the show!

Enjoy.

Christina Ray Announces Conflux V will be the FIRST EVER "Laptop-Free" Psychogeography Festival in the WORLD!

Christina Ray Announces Conflux V will be the FIRST EVER "Laptop-Free" Psychogeography Festival in the WORLD!

Sources close to Ms. Ray have quoted her as saying, "I'm SICK and TIRED of the "SPECTACULAR SEPARATION" that has come to characterize the Conflux Festival in recent years and now finally I'm going to do something about it because I HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLD OF PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY FOREVER!"

Psychogeographers everywhere are being told to Leave their Laptops at home and instead focus on the "Experiential" and "Non-Tecnologically Mediated" aspects of the Conflux event as they unravel in real space and real time this year.

http://confluxfestival.org/conflux2008/

Stocks Tied to Global Psychogeography Commodities Market Up in Late Day Heavy Trading

Stocks tied closely with the Global Psychogeography Commodities Market rose sharply today in last minute heavy trading with the announcement of Kickball Jesus's pending retirement from the World Psychogeography "Scene". Analysts say the biggest jumps were in the stocks of producers of devices such as Hand-held GPS Units, Cell Phones, ipods and Laptops now that Psychogeographers Worldwide  will no longer have to fear Kickball Jesus showing up at Psychogeography Festivals running around threatening to smash these devices "into shit" and "shoving them up" unsuspecting Hipster Artists assholes in the name of "Deafeating the ALL PERVASIVE SPECTACLE in all of its incarnations".

Kickball Jesus was lying in a fetal position clutching dearly to Mother Earth drenched in a pool of sweat dry heaving channeling and petitioning the Aztec God Quetzalcoatl to bathe the earth in the blood of all those who are BLINDED BY THE SPECTACLE in a sweat lodge on the outskirts of Metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona at press time and could not be reached for comment.

Kickball Jesus Ends "Shock And Awe" Terror Campaign Agaisnst World Psychogeography Community

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!

Kickball Jesus Ends "Shock And Awe" Terror Campaign Agaisnst World Psychogeography Community!



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Hipster Psychogeographers Worldwide throw up their hands REJOICE and Breathe SIGHS OF RELIEF! The World of OVERPRICED BORING ELITIST JURIED Psychogeography Festivals Dominated by Projects that Further SPECTACULAR TECHNOLOGICAL SEPARATION FROM THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT are now SAFE once again for Hipster Psychogeographers Worldwide to Participate in!!!

HALLELUJAH!

Volta 2008 NYC

I thought that the Volta fair had an interesting line up. Each gallery gives over their booth to a single artist or group of artists. This made for an interesting mix of designs and displays. Essentially, each artist was able to run wild with various themes and ideas. Sometime with success, others without.

Some of the various things that were of interest to me:

An artist called Peter Sarkisian had this really cool sculpture called Extruded Video Engine. It was a composition of projections into an extruded mold, with all the parts and gear moving. Not really sure how it is done, but the effect is very cool, apparently he had been working on this project for a better part of five years.

Next project that I enjoyed was created by the Fruit and Flower Deli, they let the artists from International Festival take over the booth and throw a continuous party! Drinks were served and everybody seemed very happy.

Some interesting photography that I enjoyed, but cant remember the artist at this moment, it is almost 5am. The artist would sit on a NYC street corner for two weeks taking thousands of pictures. He would then stitch a bunch together with people doing similar things. In one everybody is scratching their head, another everyone is exhaling cigarette smoke.

Of course no art fair is complete without some pop tart art. The Rove gallery in London had some art by William Pope. He was using some pop tarts to express himself. You can see for yourself here:

One last high point for me was some work by Suzannah Sinclair. She is represented by Samson Projects in Boston. The pictures dont do these paintings any justice. They also had some nice drawings on paper by the same artist. The women she paints are hauntingly beautiful, could all be her...

I enjoyed seeing a lot of this fair. Having one artist for each booth makes it really easy to pay attention and focus and specific themes within an individual artists work. The location on 34th street was pretty nice, close to a lot of subways stops, the place was pretty busy for the time we spent there.

Pulse 2008

By the time I got to the Pulse fair today it was pretty quite. I talked to a few people and they all had expressed that it was a little slow. There are so many different fairs and art event in New York this week, it is hard to see all the different things on offer.

Of course, one of the first things that greeted me when entering the Pulse fair was the now infamous "art" skull:

I thought these small sculptures/reliefs made from old vinyl were fun. They are really well made and detailed, the artist is Carlos Aires and the gallery is Kinz, Tillo + Feigen.

Came across these totally radical architectural collages. Really clever, I enjoyed these very much, there was only this one at the booth, but they had a nice book with a whole lot more of this artists work: Dionisio Gonzalez.

Next on the map for weirdness and grotesque playful beauty awards goes to the artist Jock Mooney. There are not too many images on the gallery's website, but this guy is really prolific, creating all kinds of zany collections of imaginary worlds:

This painter William Steiger, I thought was really great. Really precise, exact painting that I thought worked really well in this painting with the birds eye view:

So one last hit for me was this guy using some serious skills to render these impossible worlds of paper, cardboard, and stone. Man can this guy draw, I think it is some of the best rendering I have seen in a long time. So precise, I came back to this drawing a few times.

So... no art party is finished without a good ol' orgy, so I leave you with the WOW factor of the evening, whatever you may think of paintings like this, it sure does look like fun!

SCOPE 2008 Opening Preview

Went to Scope last night for the preview event. The fair is running through March 30th. I was generally excited about some of the work I saw around the fair. Obviously, with so much art work, there are bound to be some horrors, I saw some really horrible painting.

Some highlights for me:

Here is my brother speaking to the artist of the piece to the left. I think he is describing how he buys and the cuts up the lines of cocaine that he puts in the work. A Swiss artist named Comenius, he was pretty interesting using cocaine to spell out Christian Dior and selling dollar bills for incremental amounts. Each dollar bill is framed and is sold, eventually the last dollar for sale will be sold for 4.5 million dollars...

Saw these buddha heads that were really impressive, made entirely from sequins. Not sure if the photos do them justice, but they were really impressive:

Next on the roster was an artist that was based in NYC but now lives in Berlin. He used to be a performance artist but is now working on felt paintings that are hilarious pop. The series is called Infinite Pizza, judge for yourself...

Another artist that I enjoyed was from Brazil, used to be a graffiti artist, who like most street artists realized they needed to make paintings and "art" objects to make money, so this is what we get. I think his works were very impressive and unique...

Hey Frank, ran into this little "living sculpture" on the way out of the fair, may be a candidate for Pflux V. ATT, a veggie powered car that is giving trips around the city for a simple barter. Sounds cool, of course no one was around when we were there and needing a ride, but to be honest, I did not have anything to barter anyway...

All in all, a pretty good fair experience, just remember to eat some food before you go into the endless halls of creativity, it can become overwhelming very quickly on an empty stomach!