Previously published on Goatdog’s Movies, goatdog.com, December 4, 2004 Most of the 201 minutes of Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles are taken up with the camera observing the protagonist, Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig), meticulously doing household chores. That’s nearly three and a half hours of real-time housecleaning, washing dishes, preparing […]
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Overlay: A Conversation with travis (interviewed by Rebecca Zorach)
That’s not a typo: it’s just travis, with a small t. travis is unclassifiable: painter, performance artist, noise punk rock front man, urban gardener, world traveler, speed-demon of a typist. We met up in April in Backstory Café and talked about his current work, his travels, his experiences with Rainbow PUSH and Johnson Publishing, and […]
Gerald Williams
In honor of the upcoming opening of Gerald Williams’s exhibition at Kavi Gupta, here’s the interview I did with him for Never The Same in 2011 (published 2013).
There is nothing beautiful in this
(reposted from http://overease.blogspot.com/) Among other things, I teach and write about public art. It’s strangely difficult to define “public art.” It may be understood as art found in public space and freely accessible to all, but it typically also refers to art that’s funded by public money—which is to say taxpayer money. Less often, it refers […]