Sasha Archibald’s show Air Kissing is opening Wednesday March 5th at the Arcadia University Art Gallery in Philadelphia.
OPENING EVENT
March 5 at 6:30 p.m, Arcadia University Theatre, Spruance Fine Arts Center. Panel discussion with exhibition curator Sasha Archibald and participating artists James Mills, William Powhida, Mira Schor, and Momenta Art co-director and artist Laura Parnes. Opening reception to follow immediately afterward in the gallery.
The question seems to be should I try and talk about methods of institutional critique or be a method of institutional critique? I think the latter would be a lot more interesting. If you happen to be in Philly Wednesday night I encourage to come out and participate in the discussion. For further reading see Tyler Green’s Q&A with Sasha on Modern Art Notes.
I’ve set myself up to fail with this blog. Anyone can post whatever they like, and now that I have stopped allowing anonymous posting, I look like an asshole. So, in the spirit of constant criticism and envy, two of my main sources of inspiration, I’m going to create a mini-wall of shame on the blog and start a new drawing today of all the comments. Hopefully, it will yield something I can sell back to the art world. Infinite regress. As one thoughtful commenter noted, it’s all fuel for my one trick pony. I’m going to ride this pony into the ground until it’s tiny little legs crack and buckle under the weight of my own failure.
Viva la anonymous posting. Let’s make this blog crackle with hate. Spew! Spew!
A shot of Jade Townsend in his installation at Priska during the opening. Townsend recommended Caucus in a review/interview of his ambitious second solo show, Yard Sale, which you should all check out before it closes Saturday. You have to get outside to get the full impact of his sculpture. Art info says it better here. Anyway, it’s the kind of show that makes me want to dust off my career as a critic and write something serious about Townsend’s work.
The following comment was recently posted by an anonymous enemy:
you know your work is at about the same level, right? making a joke about another shitty artist does not make your work less of a joke.
you are mimram without the money for a billboard. -anonymous
Well, There’s that and then there’s David Joselit’s opinion in the current issue of Artforum regarding my painting “Ganek Acquires Powhida” in a show called Air Kissing curated by Sasha Archibald. The show opened last fall at Momenta Art in Brooklyn and is scheduled to open in March at Arcadia University outside of Philadelphia. It’s an excellent show that engages the contemporary art world from multiple angles. While I often find myself thinking similar thoughts as anonymous, Joselit’s words are a reminder that William Powhida exists largely as a perception.
I’m a horrible self-promoter. I actually have some work up in New York for all you William Powhida enemies, er, I mean FANS. The New York Enemy/Ally Project is now complete at Schroeder Romero. The SchroRo ‘Ho’s’, as they were nominated by Janet Phelps1 , are the winning allies with a 91% certainty rating. I guess giving people free booze is a good way to make friends. Well, that and showing me.
Rudy Giuliani, presidential hopeful, was the most clear cut enemy, with a near sterling certainty index of 97%. No matter how people felt about the art world nominees, nearly everyone one voted for the Republican ghoul as an enemy. Apparently, the art world hasn’t forgotten his attack on the Brooklyn Museum for Sensation, a show he hadn’t seen when he got all indignant and morally superior.
While I hope the project resonates on different levels, at the very least it re-affirmed my belief in humanity. While I am thrilled so many people find Patrick Mimran (84.74%) and Dash Snow (84.31%) repugnant they are pretty much harmless products of our hero worshipping, celebrity obsessed society unlike Giuliani who would plunge the world into a new dark age by using fear as an instrument of control and a premise for war. I can’t think of anyone who is more ideologically and morally corrupt that Giuliani, so I hope this is the only contest he wins in 2008. Wait, Bush is certainly as evil as Rudy, but I think Giuliani is potentially much worse. Bush has always been spoiled and certain of his power, but Giuliani would morph into something hideous given so much authority.
Anyways, come check out the show, if not for me, then for all the other excellent artists, including Eric Heist (the artist I want to be when I grow up), Michael Waugh (co-curator), Jen Dalton (the artist I should do battle with), David Wojnarowicz (how amazing is it to be in the same fucking gallery?), and Laura Parnes.
(above: Eric Heist’s sculpture,
left, Jen Dalton’s participatory installation)
