QUOTE: Francis Bacon

"Very few people find their real instincts. Every now and then there's an artist who does and who makes something new and actually thickens the texture of life. But it's very rare. You have to be able to be really free to find yourself in that way, without any moral or religious constraints. After all, life is nothing but a series of sensations, so one might as well try and make oneself extraordinary. extraordinary and brilliant, even if that means becoming a brilliant fool like me and having the kind of disastrous life that I have had. That is it."

Francis Bacon (1909-1992), Anatomy of an Enigma, Michael Peppiatt, Westview Press, 1996

CLOSED: Artist Talk, Daniel Eatock 15/05/12 Spike Island, Bristol

Artist Talk, Daniel Eatock

PRESS RELEASE

London-based artist and designer Daniel Eatock is "interested in connections between image and language, titles, punch lines, miscommunication, subversions, open systems, contributions from others, seriality, collections, discovery and inventing."

Eatock's work features in The Artists’ Postcard Show, and in this talk he will introduce his work which includes commissions for Channel 4 as well as projects such as his ongoing attempts to draw the perfect freehand circle and choreographing a set of dances to accompany car alarms.

Eatock balances on a chair and gives a talk at the Walker Art Centre, 2009

Car Alarm Dance, 2007

Car Alarm Dance 3, 2007 

Car Alarm Dance 4, 2007

Read what Eatock has to ay on the Car Alarm Dance series over at his site here

Eatock is currently showing One + One (through – 31/3/12 at the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston Upon Thames. 

You can read an interview with him about the show at Dazed Digital. 

CLOSED: Frieze Art Fair Talks Program 04/05/12-07/05/12 New York

Frieze New York 2012: Talks Program

FRIEZE PRESS RELEASE

Frieze Talks is a daily program of presentations, panel discussions and conversations that will take place at Frieze New York. Featuring leading artists, writers and cultural commentators, the talks program is presented by Frieze Art Inc. and programmed by Cecilia Alemani. Participants include: Okwui Enwezor (Director, Haus der Kunst, Munich), Glenn D. Lowry (Director, The Museum of Modern Art, New York), Saskia Sassen (Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology Columbia University, New York) and Sheena Wagstaff(Chairman, Modern and Contemporary Art Department, Metropolitan Museum, New York).

In its inaugural year, Frieze Talks takes as inspiration the unique location of the fair: the geographical, social and cultural neighborhoods of Randall’s Island. This year’s program is organized thematically, focusing on the notion of the atlas, it will investigate different ways of mapping, describing and exploring. From geo-political maps to fictional sites; geographical explorations to mental states, Frieze Talks will consider the means by which art and artists have tried to represent and organize the world.

Frieze Talks will open with ‘Mapping the World of Art: André Malraux and hisMusée Imaginaire‘, a’ keynote lecture by acclaimed French philosopher and art historian Georges Didi-Huberman, who has spent more than twenty years of studying the history and theory of images.

Critic and curator Robert Storr will analyze the work of Gerhard Richter and his influential ‘Atlas’, the ongoing archive of photographs, sketches and materials the acclaimed artist has been collecting since 1962. Also presented will be a conversation between artist Zoe Leonard and art historian Rhea Anastas; as well as lectures by artists Allan Sekula and Taryn Simon.

Frieze Talks will also present four panel discussions on current debates in contemporary art and theory. Topics include: ‘Expanding Museums’ in which three directors of major New York museums discuss the role of contemporary art institutions in the way we experience our cities; ‘New Geographies’, considering issues of new ethics and relativism; ‘On Land Occupation’, focusing on new ways to re-imagine borders and geographies; and ‘Collection Cartographies’ on private art collections that are geographically focused.

Cecilia Alemani commented: ‘Frieze Talks is an exciting platform where artists, critics, curators and writers will exchange ideas and create a fruitful dialogue. I look forward to welcoming a diverse group of speakers who will bring their own unique visions and perspectives on this year’s topic – the atlas.


CLOSED: Sean Parker 12/03/12 @ SXSW, Austin USA

IT Genius Shaun Parker interviewed by Al Gore for the SXSW Festival 

'Parker is an entrepreneur with a record of launching genre-defining companies that reinvent ways to spread information online.'

Parker at the WEB:2.0 Summit 

Visit the SXSW channel here

If you're interested in information culture, the general interlect, social labor and what it's doing to our brains you might like this essay: 

‘…social labour is the endless recombination of myriad fragments producing, elaborating, distributing, and decoding signs and informational units of all kind. Every semiotic segment produced by the information worker must meet and match innumerable other semiotic segments in order to form the combinatory frame of info-commodity, semiocapital.’

Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, Cognitarian Subjectivation

http://worker01.e-flux.com/pdf/article_183.pdf