Art Outings – January 14

January 15, 2010 at 6:03 pm
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Last night I attended the Rhizome Commissions presentations at New Museum. I was greatly amused by Kristin Lucas’s presentation of her project Versionhood where she is exploring copies, re-births, refreshes, and emulations. (Personal bias note: recently I dreamt I was in New Mexico with another Angie Waller who was a cop.) Lucas’s work inspires me in her inexhaustible experiments in applying terms of our digital lives to our interpersonal relationships and anxieties. I look forward to the release of her book journaling the complete project.

Speaking of versions and body doubles, one of the groups presenting screened a video of their project with voiceovers describing their work while they, the sources of the voices, sat in silence. Creepy.

Last night I also attended the opening for Iannis Xenakis at the Drawing Center. The scores are visually quite stunning. Perhaps there is an equation to decipher the relationship between visual and aural beauty.