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Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts
Howard Finster’s Paradise Gardens
The Gee’s Bend Quilters Collective
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“In my music I wanted to place myself in the position of a man of fifty thousand years ago, a man who ignores everything about western music and invents a music for himself without any reference, without any discipline, without anything that would prevent him to express himself freely and for his own good pleasure. This is what I wanted to do in my painting too, only with this difference that painting, I know it-western painting of the last few centuries, I know it perfectly well-and I wanted to deliberately forget all about it. . . But I do not know music, and this gave me a certain advantage in my musical experiences. I did not have to make an effort to forget whatever I had to forget”.
- Jean Dubuffet (Llhan Mimaroilu, “Jean Dubuffet: Musical Experiences,” http://www.avantgardeproject.org/agp74/Dubuffet.pdf).
Dubuffet’s artistic ambition to pursue an art form that was in fact formless, timeless, and ephemeral propelled him to discover sound as a visual material. His experimentation with exotic instruments and lo-fi recording technologies set the foundation for understanding sound within an outsider art context, and shows how both the marginalized means of perception (listening) and the marginalized members of the art world coexist with the intention of being untamed by tradition and unchanged by cultural values and “taste”.
Have a listen to Dubuffet @ Ubuweb:
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Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
Mark Cline’s Foamhenge/Dinosaur Adventures
Vollis Simpson’s Whirligig Park
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Today we did a site visit at the Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY, where we hope to end our trip. The Wassaic Project Summer Festival coincides with the last leg of our journey, and today we were able to speak with Eve Biddle, who runs the project, about possible options for site-specific installation during the festival. The place has an absolutely beautiful sprawling barn and a 7-story renovated grain factory to use as exhibition space. Early ideas include doing some silkscreen demos out of the back of our car and playing sound recordings from Alisa’s amp in the trunk. More information to come as our proposal coalesces.
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By Alisa Saario
Recorded from the depths of an abandoned and forbidden cave in Kingston, New York, this work represents the acoustic potential found within natural environments and the destructive forces of human intervention. Most likely, the caves were occupied by a cement manufacturer and now contain the immense metal remnants of a once booming industry. The decayed landscape of the cave is rendered through jumping on collapsed metal shafts, breaking discarded bottles, and intervening in the space with human body and voice.
As Homage to Edith Piaf…
He wore motorbike pants and boots, a black leather blazer with an eagle on the back . His motorbike went like a cannonball , spreading terror in the entire region…Because everyone knew well how much he loved his bitch of a motorbike.
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