Sunday, February 28, 2010

Family Unit

For the last several weeks, I have been working on curating a show at Elektrohaus here in Hamburg. I called it Family Unit. It was a group show featuring artists from Hamburg (Francisco and Markus Schork, Michael Schieben), Berlin (Glas Institute), NYC (Wyatt Nash) and myself.

It also featured performances from Macaco Mau and Glas Institute, both groups live in Berlin. Brian (Macaco Mau) is from Copenhagen originally, and is part of the group that runs the Sudhaus (Alte Kindl Brauerei) where we often throw parties. Glas Institute consists of Markus, Maura, Jan and Lu who are all friends of mine that live in Berlin. You will see pictures of them on older blog posts.

RSS, a group from here in Hamburg, DJed along with Phoung Dan and Brandon.

All in all it was a very special night and I am very happy that it turned out better than I could have imagined. Thanks to Berndt and everyone who participated and to everyone who came.

I really want to thank Julia for being such a tremendous help. I couldn't have done it without you.

OK, here are a bunch of images from the installation of my piece (which is called Power Structure/Confusion), the individual installations, and the party itself.

The last images are of another piece I did, much smaller (like 70 x 40 cm), that will be in the show Product of Exchange in Berlin next week. Its pre is pretty indicative of the scale and type of drawings I am doing at the moment.



For my piece, I drew 3 individual drawings at A4 size (29 x 20 cm) and made them fit together like a puzzle from any direction, then applied to them to the wall like wallpaper. It was a really hard thing to do and like I said, without Julia no way I could have done this. I covered a 8.5 m x 3 m wall and the DJ booth and the bar. To me it was an encompassing piece because I like to draw, I like to DJ and I like to party. I think that it was quite successful in the end.








It was really really hard to get a good overall shot of the piece because of the way the room is built. This is as close as I could get to a full shot. Maybe when I go back there tomorrow, I can get a better one, but I doubt it.





This is a still from Michael Scheiben's piece The Internet. It was so much fun fucking around with that piece. He made a program that mirrors the people so that they see themselves projected in the art space. He then made some tools that the people at the exhibition could use to play with the people, like fake glasses, a red dot, a toothbrush and allowed the exhibition visitors to make their own by supplying paper and a marker.



Wyatt Nash's piece. Essentially this made out of styrofoam and coated with some sort of rubber like substance and finished to have the texture of wood. Since I've know Wyatt his work has been about housing and southern white trash imagery. I love him and I love his work. It was really awesome that it worked out that he was here when I had this show. Nice to have him around.



This is the Glas Institute installation pre performance. During the exhibition, Glas Institute performed inside the installation, then when they were about done, they dropped the curtain revealing Jan holding up the mattress. He then cut the supports and did a flip onto the mattress. I thought I made a video of the performance ending, but instead I didn't hit record until after it was over when I thought I was hitting stop. Fuck.



Francisco and Markus Shork's piece. Its hard to see it in this image, but this is a 'dot matrix' drawing of 2 faces made from the two of them finger painting the image. It takes on an ornamental like form from certain angles and certain focus levels, then as you move around it the image reveals itself. Very Beautiful.







This is the drawing for Product of Exchange and some details of the drawing to show you the line work. I will actually be putting in 3 pieces, but this is only one I have pictures of at the moment.



Thanks a lot Hamburg. You guys really turned out and made the Family Unit.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Shitloads...

Hey Ya'll!

I got a card reader for my camera and have a computer that I can use to upload these pictures. Cool.

These are a bunch of random pictures from the last couple months. I have to DJ tonight, so I will be brief about what and who you are looking at. Unfortunately they are in reverse chronological order for some reason. Nice upload...

Malmö, Sweden


We had no idea that SLUT meant 'closing' or 'Finished' and these signs were all over this one shopping area. Funny shit. The guy on guitar is Thomas from dd/mm/yyyy. We played with them at the DLTD Art night at Debaser in Malmö. DLTD is gonna put TE393 on vinyl in like May. Sweeeeettttt.

Copenhagen, Denmark


I ended up catching this snowball in the chest. We were on a river the day after we played DRONE club in Copenhagen. Great show. The people at the show went berserk.

Hamburg, Germany


This is the harbor as of like a week ago.

Berlin, Germany




The band is Strange Forces. Cool guys. We played with them on NYE at the Alte Kindl Brauerei. They're back in Oz, where they come from, until March, but then they'll be back in Berlin.

Hamburg, Germany






Those are all from a show we played with the Gallantiers at the Gängeviertel on Christmas night. See the Germans celebrate Christmas on the 24th, so a show on the 25th is completely acceptable. It was nice. The pics below are from Christmas at Elektrohaus, where I live.






This is on the wall at the Laundromat on Hein Hoyer Str. WTF? I never once forgot to pickle in my laundry. Why would I start now?




Man, this day was so fucking cold. But for some reason Till and I stood on the outside deck of the boat on our way back from Finkenwerder, where we have our practice space. I remember thinking my hands were gonna fall off...




Julia and I went for a walk one day before it got too cold and I got that nice shot of her and that pic of the moon over the Elb Tunnel Entrance.

Alright, I got no more to show ya'll. Hope shit is good for each and every one of you. So you know, we are going to tour to Italy and possibly into the Eastern European countries in April, then back up to Scandanavia for a few shows in June. More info on those things later.

Be good.