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These cityscapes from Atelier Olschinsky’s series Cities and Plants are incredible.
Actually, after looking at their website, apparently everything they do is this good.
via Marius Watz via Colossal
Dev Harlan - “Parmenides I”, 2011
The more I think about this piece and the more I watch the video, the more I like it.
Its title really seals it for me.
Jorinde Voigt, Horizon Studies
Voigt’s drawings are so damn awesome. She currently has work in the exhibit Seeing/Knowing at Gund Gallery in Ohio (along with Marius Watz, Casey Reas, Julie Mehretu, Rafeal Lozano Hemmer, Emma McNally +more)
I think I love everything U-Ram Choe does. Always in awe of how much life his sculptures seem to exhibit.
I’m currently reading an interview (found here, via ARTINFO) with Marina Abramovitch in a lead up to her retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art this month. I’ve made a couple posts already concerning the importance of participation and living in an incentivized culture.
Near the beginning of the interview Marina asks Laurie Anderson about her first performance piece. Her piece was a “Concert for Cars” which was a group of cars all honking their horns as if playing instruments.
What’s interesting to me, however, is not the performance itself but what Anderson had to do to get people to participate:
LA: It was a concert for cars. I was living in Vermont, and there was a concert every Sunday night in a little gazebo in the middle of the town square. No one got out of his car. And I thought, “This is so strange.” I mean, I know it’s a car culture …
MA: But it was like going to the movies.
LA: A drive-in theater. After each number, they would honk their horns for applause. The applause sounded better than the concert. So I made a show for the cars. I learned a lot about working with people from that. When I was trying to get people to be in the show, no one wanted to beep his car’s horn. But here’s the secret: If you make it competitive, suddenly people are interested. So we said, “We have an audition for the cars in the supermarket parking lot this Saturday, and if your car wins, we need you.” They said, “OK!” So that’s how we got people interested. We only did one show because it was so difficult to organize.
It’s incredible how much more people are willing to do once you make them compete with each other. Even some silly performance art piece turned into a success because they were given their own personal incentive (regardless of how superficial that incentive is).
Give people a reason to participate and they will be more functional members of their communities.
