Archive for November, 2010
Clown meat tastes funny, and other observations on ceramics
Having launched the impressive and well-received Karen Karnes retrospective on view now at the ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center, Curator of Ceramics Peter Held traveled to Santa Fe at the end of last month for the conference “CRITICAL Santa Fe: Developing Criticism in Ceramics,” at which Las Vegas-based critic Dave Hickey spoke and, as Peter put it, “stirred up the proverbial pot.” (Pun clearly intended. Those ceramics people are a clever bunch. The best Dave Hickey quote of the conference, according to Peter: “Clown meat tastes funny.”) Other speakers at the conference included Donald Kuspit, Janet Koplos and poet and critic Raphael Rubenstein.
Here’s just a taste of what Peter saw at the NCECA conference in Santa Fe:
Above: Nathan Craven installation, Kosmeo, 6 ft. x 10 ft. x 7 in
Above: Adrian Arleo, Apiary Twins, clay, glaze, wax encaustic, 21 1/2″ x 20″ x 15″
Above: John Mess, Landfill No. 23, 11 x 13 x 9
Shortly after his return to Tempe, Peter turned around and headed to Chicago for SOFA (Sculpture Objects & Functional Art), and he brought back the photos below to share:
Above: Cristina Cordova @ Ann Nathan Gallery, SOFA Chicago
Above: Marc Sijan @ Ann Nathan Gallery, SOFA Chicago
Above: Elise Siegel @ Dubhe Carreno Gallery, Chicago
Above: Richard Notkin’s The Last Syllable of Recorded Time, 2010, white earthenware clay, glaze, watercolor and pastel, 77″ x 51″ x 2″ @ Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago
Above: Peter Held (on the left, in sunglasses) and Jeffrey Spahn in Millenium Park, in front of Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate.
Chris Todd – Open for Business
Chris Todd Title – America’s Toughest Jukebox Business – Sucker Punch Sally’s*America’s Toughest Jukebox “takes requests.” It plays a selection of cover songs performed by Joe Arpaio, whose identity has been fictionally re-cast from controversial sheriff to gruff lounge singer. In this alternate existence, Mr. Arpaio is a versatile crooner whose repertoire includes a number of memorable tunes. America’s Toughest Jukebox affords customers a special opportunity to consider how things might have been if Sheriff Joe had chosen a different “calling” and to contemplate his sociopolitical impact in a poetic, casual and humorous light. The Scopitone, a film-based jukebox popular in Europe in the 1950s and 1960s, provides inspiration for the exterior of America’s Toughest Jukebox.
*Todd’s piece was originally set to appear at the Sucker Punch Sally’s location at Mill Avenue and University Drive before they closed their doors in June of 2010. This jukebox is now available for loan to businesses in downtown Tempe, with certain guidelines. Please contact the ASU Art Museum to make arrangements.
Saskia Jorda – The Shoe Mill
Peter Bugg with Ryan Peter Miller – ASU Art Museum Store Mary Lucking – Rúla Búla David Tinapple – Cartel Coffee Lab Cyndi Coon – Downtown Tempe Community, Inc. (DTC) Jon Haddock – The Headquarters Tania Katan – The Library Bar & Grill* Adam Murray – Caffe Boa Wendy Furman – BrandX Custom T-Shirts Matthew Mosher – Fascinations Erin V. Sotak – La Bocca Chris Todd – Sucker Punch Sally’s* Jen Urso – The Bicycle Cellar Nic Wiesinger – Monti’s La Casa Vieja
Erin V. Sotak – Open for Business
Erin V. Sotak Title – Stowage from the Eternal Optimist Business – La Bocca To most individuals lemons are the symbol for all things sour, however, for the eternal optimist, the lemon is an icon of hope and promise. In Erin Sotak’s invented mythology, it is a prize greater than gold to sailors, a secret misplaced, forgotten hope that is eternally waiting to be found.Stowage is a component of the artist’s larger ongoing quest. The history of the lemon and specifically the Sfusato Amalfitano, a type of lemon unique to the Amalfi coast of Italy, are used by the artist to interweave connections between La Bocca and the ASU Art Museum.
Order a glass of lemonade next time you are at La Bocca to get an edible connection to the mythology.
Saskia Jorda – The Shoe Mill
Peter Bugg with Ryan Peter Miller – ASU Art Museum Store Mary Lucking – Rúla Búla David Tinapple – Cartel Coffee Lab Cyndi Coon – Downtown Tempe Community, Inc. (DTC) Jon Haddock – The Headquarters Tania Katan – The Library Bar & Grill* Adam Murray – Caffe Boa Wendy Furman – BrandX Custom T-Shirts Matthew Mosher – Fascinations Erin V. Sotak – La Bocca Chris Todd – Sucker Punch Sally’s* Jen Urso – The Bicycle Cellar Nic Wiesinger – Monti’s La Casa Vieja
Matthew Mosher – Open for Business
Matthew Mosher Title – weTouch Business – FascinationsweTouch is a pair of networked devices – one located in this exhibition and one at Fascinations on Mill Avenue – that communicate through the sense of touch between two people. Technology has come a long way in bringing people together virtually across vast distances through telephone voice services and, more recently, computer video conferencing. However, these interactions are limited to the visual and aural senses. During a video chat there is a creeping sensation of the other person not really being there; you can see them but cannot touch them, and you can never truly make eye contact. Cell phones lack the quiet presence provided by simply sitting next to another person.
weTouch provides a third means of interaction. Through two internet-enabled handheld devices weTouch recognizes when, in the museum or in Fascinations, a person places their palm on the device. When touched, the device sends a signal across the cloud to its paired device, causing its partner device to heat to body temperature. Should someone in the other location place their hand on the paired device, they will immediately know that someone in the original location is thinking of them. When the paired device is touched it will heat up the original device in response, letting both users have a quiet moment of sensory connection.
Saskia Jorda – The Shoe Mill
Peter Bugg with Ryan Peter Miller – ASU Art Museum Store Mary Lucking – Rúla Búla David Tinapple – Cartel Coffee Lab Cyndi Coon – Downtown Tempe Community, Inc. (DTC) Jon Haddock – The Headquarters Tania Katan – The Library Bar & Grill* Adam Murray – Caffe Boa Wendy Furman – BrandX Custom T-Shirts Matthew Mosher – Fascinations Erin V. Sotak – La Bocca Chris Todd – Sucker Punch Sally’s* Jen Urso – The Bicycle Cellar Nic Wiesinger – Monti’s La Casa Vieja
Wendy Furman – Open for Business
Wendy Furman
Title – Open for Business
Businesses – BrandX Custom T-Shirts
T-Shirt designs include: Karen Atkinson (untitled), Gordy Grundy (Fellowship of Fortuna), Jon Haddock (Zeitgeist), Seth Kaufman (Touching Neighbors), Christiane Robbins (Booby in Lost Hills, I-5_ Stopping Series), Susan Silton (untitled), Joost Van Oss (untitled), Mark Dean Veca (As Cold As They Come, Part III), H.K. Zamani (Stella(r) #8).
Saskia Jorda – The Shoe Mill
Peter Bugg with Ryan Peter Miller – ASU Art Museum Store Mary Lucking – Rúla Búla David Tinapple – Cartel Coffee Lab Cyndi Coon – Downtown Tempe Community, Inc. (DTC) Jon Haddock – The Headquarters Tania Katan – The Library Bar & Grill* Adam Murray – Caffe Boa Wendy Furman – BrandX Custom T-Shirts Matthew Mosher – Fascinations Erin V. Sotak – La Bocca Chris Todd – Sucker Punch Sally’s* Jen Urso – The Bicycle Cellar Nic Wiesinger – Monti’s La Casa Vieja Related Links: Wendy Furman’s Website BrandX Custom T-Shirts Website Karen Atkinson Gordy Grundy Jon Haddock Seth Kaufman Christiane Robbins Susan Silton Joost Van Oss Mark Dean Veca H.K. Zamani Open for Business Printable Map Open for Business
Adam Murray – Open for Business
Adam Murray Title – Resonance Business – Caffe Boa Adam Murray believes sonic energy (vibration) is stored over time. He is fascinated with the sound of that energy. The installation in this gallery space is the artist’s own experiment with the idea that sound is absorbed and contained within physical objects. Four objects (a brick, a floorboard, a wine glass and a fork) inspired by objects in Caffe Boa, are suspended from the ceiling where they are set up to potentially receive audio from all sides – recording the history of this space through sound over the course of the exhibition.
Murray’s installation at Caffe Boa is an auditory interpretation of the aural events that fill the restaurant space, projected through speakers every hour on the hour. It emanates into the environment and creates awareness of the physical space and history it contains.
For the closing event of the exhibition, the artist will create a live sound performance in which he attempts to extract the aural events from the four objects, releasing the sounds which have been absorbed.
Saskia Jorda – The Shoe Mill
Peter Bugg with Ryan Peter Miller – ASU Art Museum Store Mary Lucking – Rúla Búla David Tinapple – Cartel Coffee Lab Cyndi Coon – Downtown Tempe Community, Inc. (DTC) Jon Haddock – The Headquarters Tania Katan – The Library Bar & Grill* Adam Murray – Caffe Boa Wendy Furman – BrandX Custom T-Shirts Matthew Mosher – Fascinations Erin V. Sotak – La Bocca Chris Todd – Sucker Punch Sally’s* Jen Urso – The Bicycle Cellar Nic Wiesinger – Monti’s La Casa Vieja
Tania Katan – Open for Business
Tania Katan Recent Living History Tours Presents… Checked Out: The Rise and Fall of The Library Bar & Grill Business – The Library Bar & Grill*Recent Living History Tours sets out to tell the stories of bus boys, waitresses, cobblers, jewelers and others who worked hard to create a sense of identity, purpose and income, only to have their place of employment shut down. Recent Living History Tours is a series of monologue-tours given in public spaces; there is no admission fee, no items sold and very few props used. The tour guide (Pina Sbrocca) tries to inhabit characters that they know very little about because of social, economic and geographical distance. Recent Living History Tours explores what it means to reenact history as it unfolds and how our personal histories and professional personas are much closer than we think.
*The project was originally set to occur in The Library Bar & Grill location on Mill Avenue and 5th Street before they closed their doors in May of 2010. Katan’s original proposal was adjusted with the performance now appearing at the ASU Art Museum.
Saskia Jorda – The Shoe Mill
Peter Bugg with Ryan Peter Miller – ASU Art Museum Store Mary Lucking – Rúla Búla David Tinapple – Cartel Coffee Lab Cyndi Coon – Downtown Tempe Community, Inc. (DTC) Jon Haddock – The Headquarters Tania Katan – The Library Bar & Grill* Adam Murray – Caffe Boa Wendy Furman – BrandX Custom T-Shirts Matthew Mosher – Fascinations Erin V. Sotak – La Bocca Chris Todd – Sucker Punch Sally’s* Jen Urso – The Bicycle Cellar Nic Wiesinger – Monti’s La Casa Vieja Related Links: Tania Katan’s Website Information Regarding The Library Bar & Grill Closing Open for Business Printable Map Open for Business
Jon Haddock – Open for Business
Jon Haddock Title – Zeitgeist Business – The Headquarters Partnering with The Headquarters, a headshop on University Drive and Ash Ave, Jon Haddock’s project consists of two images. The first is a photograph installed in the gallery cataloging headshop ephemera collected by the artist from roughly 1972 to 1982 titled 1974; the second, titled 2010, is located in the poster racks at The Headquarters. The image was arrived at through an interview with the owner of The Headquarters regarding his best selling posters, and how the themes have changed over time. As the artist was informed, Bob Marley posters have always been great sellers, but more recently posters portraying bad guys and gangsters have been the trend. The artist set forth to create a contemporary image in line with the trend. The subject of the second piece is Edgar Valdez Villarreal – La Barbie – the American born high-school football star, who is the alleged leader of Los Negros, and until recently fighting for control of the Beltrán-Leyva Cartel.
Saskia Jorda – The Shoe Mill
Peter Bugg with Ryan Peter Miller – ASU Art Museum Store Mary Lucking – Rúla Búla David Tinapple – Cartel Coffee Lab Cyndi Coon – Downtown Tempe Community, Inc. (DTC) Jon Haddock – The Headquarters Tania Katan – The Library Bar & Grill* Adam Murray – Caffe Boa Wendy Furman – BrandX Custom T-Shirts Matthew Mosher – Fascinations Erin V. Sotak – La Bocca Chris Todd – Sucker Punch Sally’s* Jen Urso – The Bicycle Cellar Nic Wiesinger – Monti’s La Casa Vieja Related Links: Jon Haddock’s Website The Headquarters Website Open for Business Printable Map Open for Business
Cyndi Coon – Open for Business
Cyndi Coon Title – Park Here Business – Downtown Tempe Community, Inc. (DTC)Park Here creates a contest to encourage users to participate. By filling out a quick five question survey about parking in downtown Tempe, individuals become eligible to win a Downtown Tempe Community gift certificate and a drawing from the artist, which are created based upon responses of individuals to the survey. The artist is creating a drawing a week from September 6, 2010, through January 24, 2011. Each weekly winner will be announced on the Downtown Tempe Community Facebook page and in the exhibition space at the ASU Art Museum, where each drawing will also be on display. Winners will be invited to a closing of the exhibition to pick up a gift certificate and drawing. Signage and information on the project will be displayed at the entrance and exits of the parking garage, as well as handed out by parking monitors throughout Tempe.
Saskia Jorda – The Shoe Mill
Peter Bugg with Ryan Peter Miller – ASU Art Museum Store Mary Lucking – Rúla Búla David Tinapple – Cartel Coffee Lab Cyndi Coon – Downtown Tempe Community, Inc. (DTC) Jon Haddock – The Headquarters Tania Katan – The Library Bar & Grill* Adam Murray – Caffe Boa Wendy Furman – BrandX Custom T-Shirts Matthew Mosher – Fascinations Erin V. Sotak – La Bocca Chris Todd – Sucker Punch Sally’s* Jen Urso – The Bicycle Cellar Nic Wiesinger – Monti’s La Casa Vieja
David Tinapple – Open for Business
David Tinapple
Title – AUDIO TROUBLE
Business – Cartel Coffee Lab
AUDIO TROUBLE is about feedback. We all know what normal feedback sounds like – that high pitch scream from a audio system amplifying itself over and over again. When audio is sent from sender to receiver, the person on the receiving end listens and has the opportunity to respond. These responses are recorded and played back to the sender who hears them, responds and the cycle repeats. In this instance, the feedback loop is much longer and it is filtered through its listeners. Tinapple has altered the system with a slight time delay, creating possibilities that the results will still be a resonant human sound.
INSTRUCTIONS:
When you speak, your sound will be recorded. The sound is sent to Cartel Coffee Lab where it is played on an identical set of headphones. This transmission takes a few minutes. In Cartel Coffee Lab, people will hear this on the headphones and say something in response. Their responses will be sent here. What you are hearing is the collection of these responses.
As you listen, please feel free to respond by speaking clearly into the headset.
The recordings from both locations are available online:
http://tinyurl.com/audiotrouble
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Open for Business Artist Spotlights:
Marco Rosicelli – Buffalo Exchange
Saskia Jorda – The Shoe Mill
Peter Bugg with Ryan Peter Miller – ASU Art Museum Store
Mary Lucking – Rúla Búla
David Tinapple – Cartel Coffee Lab
Cyndi Coon – Downtown Tempe Community, Inc. (DTC)
Jon Haddock – The Headquarters
Tania Katan – The Library Bar & Grill*
Adam Murray – Caffe Boa
Wendy Furman – BrandX Custom T-Shirts
Matthew Mosher – Fascinations
Erin V. Sotak – La Bocca
Chris Todd – Sucker Punch Sally’s*
Jen Urso – The Bicycle Cellar
Nic Wiesinger – Monti’s La Casa Vieja
Related Links:
David Tinapple’s Website
Cartel Coffee Lab Website
Open for Business Printable Map
Open for Business
Saskia Jorda – The Shoe Mill
Peter Bugg with Ryan Peter Miller – ASU Art Museum Store Mary Lucking – Rúla Búla David Tinapple – Cartel Coffee Lab Cyndi Coon – Downtown Tempe Community, Inc. (DTC) Jon Haddock – The Headquarters Tania Katan – The Library Bar & Grill* Adam Murray – Caffe Boa Wendy Furman – BrandX Custom T-Shirts Matthew Mosher – Fascinations Erin V. Sotak – La Bocca Chris Todd – Sucker Punch Sally’s* Jen Urso – The Bicycle Cellar Nic Wiesinger – Monti’s La Casa Vieja
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