WATCHING- William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

54th BFI London Film Festival

William S Burroughs: A Man Within

By Yony Leyser

Documentary that looks back at the life of William Burroughs through the eyes of his friends. Includes some rare archive footage and interviews with amongst others: Laurie Anderson, Patti Smith, John Giorno, Peter Weller, Gus Van Sant, David Cronenberg, James Grauerholz, Jello Biafra, Iggy Pop, Sonic Youth,....

SHOWS - Trisha Brown Dance Company at the Tate Modern

Sunday 17 October 2010, 13.00-14.30
Early Works (1968-1975) presented at the Tate Modern as part of Celebrating Trisha Brown

Trisha Brown in Avalanche Magazine Summer 1972

READING 003 (and watching/ listening)

CHANCE
Documents of Contemporary Art
Edited by Margaret Iversen
Whitechapel Gallery Ventures Limited, London
MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2010

La Monte Young, Composition 1960 #10, 1960

CHANCE CONVERSATIONS:

An interview with Merce Cunningham and John Cage - Walker Art Centre

LECTURING - First week of 2010/11

Draw each other Level 1

Draw a white still life Level 1

Illustrate a memory Level 3

Illustrate a memory Level 3

SHOWS - Polytechnic at Raven Row, London E1

Selection of video work produced in the UK in the late 1970's and early 1980's exploring ways of engaging with narrative and content. Curated by artist curator and writer Richard Grayson.

Highlights:

Cornelia Swann

Graham Young

At Raven Row, 56 Artilery Lane, London E1 7LS

www.ravenrow.org

PHOTOGRAPHY- Diamonds

"Sayag Your photographs are all full frame. Do you ever crop your images?

Rauschenberg I don't crop. Photography is like diamond cutting. If you miss you miss. There's no difference with painting. If you don't cut you have to accept the whole image. You wait until life is in the frame, then you have full permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.


Sayag You don't miss very often, from looking at the contact sheets.


Rauschenberg It's because I wait; I wait until it's there again. Whatever is there is a truth, but a truth you have to believe in. What you see in front of you is a fact. You click when you believe it's the truth. The information is waiting to become in essence a concentration, concentrated so clearly that it can be projected back into real life, into your recognition. It could be any size."


- Robert Rauschenberg and Alain Sayag, extract from interview, in Robert Rauschenberg: Photographs (New York: Pantheon Books, 1981- Reprinted in Chance, Documents of Contemporary Art, Whitechapel Gallery, 2010




This interview was on my mind when I shot this photographs today.
Location between Liverpool street and Old Street, London
Camera: Canon EOS 1000D
Photographs where not digitally manipulated.

QUOTE- Yoko Ono

Beginning of Yoko Ono's Snow Piece (Tape piece III):

Take a tape of the sound of the snow falling. This should be done in the evening. Do not listen to the tape. Cut it and use it as strings to tie gifts with. 

Yoke One stated:

 "The only sound that exists to me is the sound of the mind. My works are only to induce music of the mind in people.' ...'There is a wind that never dies.'... 

 The wind is the moving mind, the mind that according to John Cage, 'is part of the air',the mind that is able to transcend 'the falsehood of consciousness' and fly. (Jacqueline Baas, The Sound of the Mind, 2005. Published in Chance, Documents of Contemporary Art, edited by Margaret Iversen, published by The Whitechapel Gallery)

DANCE- Performance with Michael Clark Company

From 27/08/2010 to 30/08/2010 at the Tate Modern London.
More info at: www.michaelclarkcompany.com

Michael Clark

Full dress rehearsal Thursday 26/08/2010.
Photo found on Michael Clark Company Facebook page. 

Tracks used in the performance:

1)

2) 

3)

It's No Game by David Bowie - Group 2

4)

Artist book - Flownatomies

Copyright (c) Ana Vicente 2008

Flownatomies ... is inkjet printed on handmade paper. Reproduced from the original 40 X 50 cm ink and pencil drawings. First edition of 7 copies hand numbered and signed.

London,  2008

QUOTE- Jean Tinguely

'In his 1959 Manifesto For Statics Tinguely exhorted his fellow artists to "stop painting time. Cease building cathedrals and pyramids that crumble away like sugar decorations. Breathe deeply, live in the now, live on and in time. For a beautiful and absolute reality." He then abridged his manifesto, had 150,000 copies printed and dropped them from airplanee over Dusseldorf.'

- extract from Art of the 20th Century, Taschen

Jean Tinguely - Homage to New York (1960) from Stephen Cornford on Vimeo.