Events this weekend (if you're trying to plan ahead and/or looking to sell some art)

MERCADO 1
Saturday, June 21, 2008, 7pm
810 East 13th Street
Austin, Texas


The Mercado is an anarchic open market where artists and collectors can connect directly, with live music and refreshments. Our goals are to make art more affordable, to help artists make a living, and to provide a venue for ephemeral and noncommercial art.
participate:

if you want to show/sell your work or do an installation or performance, write to
info@mercadoaustin.com

P.S. Ivan Lozano will have an installation up for the event!



POETRY READING AT OKAY MOUNTAIN
Saturday, June 21, 2008, 8pm
1312 E. Cesar Chavez Suite B (behind the pinata shop)
Austin, TX











A note from Dan Boehl:

"Dear Friends, Family, and Distinguished Enemies,

Please join me, Erin Vaughan, Jeff Daily, Josh Rios, and Christopher Savage for a poetry reading spectacular held at Okay Mountain, June 21st at 8pm.

There will be free beer and the Kings of the F**king Sea will be showing slides of their summer vacation where they engaged and destroyed the forces of their arch rivals, the Cobra Sombrero.

Friends and Family, hope you can make it. Enemies, did you see the new Rambo movie? Yeah, be prepared.

Sincerely,

Dan Boehl"

I Luv You Kalup!

Kalup Linzy does it again. Ew, how I love picturing them fancy art people watching this in the gallery...

scroll to the bottom to see the video

And he has one of them new-fangled wikipedia entries, too:

Kalup Linzy (born July 23, 1977) is an American video and performance artist currently living and working in Brooklyn. Born in Clermont, Florida, Linzy graduated from the MFA program at the University of South Florida in 2003. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture video art workshop, and in 2005 received a grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. Recently, he was named a Guggenheim fellow for 2007-2008. Linzy's best known work is a series of video art pieces satirizing the tone and narrative approach of television soap opera.[citation needed] Linzy performs most of the characters himself, many of them in drag. Linzy also performs on stage using many of the same characters. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, and Artforum.

Performance Artist Riddles

Q: How many performance artists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: I don't know. I left.


Q: Why did the Performance Artist stare at frozen orange juice can for 2 hours?
A: Because it said 'concentrate'.


Q: What did the Performance Artist say to the hot dog vendor?
A: Make me one with everything.


Q: How do Performance Artists go through the forest?
A: They take the psychopath.


Q: What did the Performance Artist get on his I.Q. test?
A: Drool


Q - what has two legs and bleeds a lot?
A - Half a performance artist



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Notes on Net Art

Marcin Ramocki wrote an amazing list of talking points about Net Art 2.0, trying to delineate the thing or give it some structure or something. It's still a very uncharted practice in that the edges are completely blurred and there's still so many possibilities in the "medium." Critical writing about it is a double-edged sword in that it both helps those who haven't immersed themselves in it to understand the appeal and "catch up" with what's going on while helping artists solidify what they are trying to do either in relation or in opposition to a set of constraints. And that's the negative part of charting this territory, that in doing so, categories become fixed, the edges become more defined, and the crazy anything goes attitude it has held so far runs the risk of transforming into a strict model, or template for what Net Art is.

California Video

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New American Talent is a national all-media competition open to artists living and working in the United States. This year 2 bees are included in the show: Jill Pangallo & Anna Krachey. Awesome.

Congratulations to Jill!

One of our Bees, Jill Pangallo, was chosen as Best Artist by the Austin Critics Table Awards 2007-2008, and her video/performance/installation Note To Self was voted Best Work of Art.
Check out the rest of the awards here.

A JPEG tribute to Cindy Wilson

I'LL GIVE YOU FISH
I'LL GIVE YOU CANDY
I'LL GIVE YOU EVERYTHING I HAVE IN MY HAND

WHY DON'T YOU DANCE WITH ME?!?
I'M NOT NO LIMBURGER!!!!!!

Bryan Boyce's STATE OF THE UNION

STATE OF THE UNION

Baby Bush meets Tubby-land.

Completed in August 2001, this project was initially just a simple comic skewering of George W. Bush and his defense policies—but after September 11th, it took on a whole new meaning. State of the Union now has a surreal documentary quality that is genuinely disturbing.

"George W. Bush is reimagined as Teletubbies' giant baby-in-the-sky for Bryan Boyce's uproarious short State Of The Union; Daddy's boy makes the same gurgling sounds, though his eyes launch smart bombs at the small, defenseless bunnies who hop around the countryside (one hauntingly devoid of Teletubbies)."
—Village Voice

"Bryan Boyce's hilarious Bush-meets-Telletubbies spoof, State of the Union garnered some of the most enthusiastic and raucous audiences of this, or any, festival."
—Paul Power, in the 42nd Thessaloniki Film Festival program

Nohegan's Coming Down the Pike!

Just to get everyone pumped, here's a little blast from the past…



"Nohegan Horror" (2006) by Jamie Wentz and Kurt Mueller

and



"Sister Golden Hair" (2007) as interpreted by Bunnyphonic