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		<title>The Fear: Lenny Bruce and Total Expression</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is an email interview with artist Matthew Rana. He and collaborator Eric Garduno&#8217;s installation &#8220;Parrhesia&#8221; is part of SITE Santa Fe&#8217;s current exhibition, Agitated Histories. Rana&#8217;s work has been shown nationally in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York, and internationally in France, Sweden and Italy. He is a featured contributor to the online journal Art Practical and his writing has appeared in There is No Two Without Three, I’m a Park and You’re a Deer and most recently, AfterWords: Texts on Voice. He holds an MFA/MA in Social Practice and Visual &#38; Critical Studies from the California College of the Arts, and a BFA in Art Studio from the University of New Mexico. Agitated Histories runs through January 15, 2012. Why is it important for you to inhabit the voice of Lenny Bruce? Besides the mutual appreciation that Eric and I have for his comedy, the initial impulse to inhabit Lenny Bruce’s voice was due in part to his obscurity today. What could Lenny Bruce say that we couldn’t? Even though he has been the subject of books, plays, performances and a film, he remains a bit of a forgotten figure. And this, despite the fact that his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mythic Tones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MITCH EASTER ISLAND/Tonight, my thoughts bounced between how much action The Strangeloves did or didn&#8217;t get as a result of their 1965 hit &#8220;I Want Candy&#8221;, to whether or not The Beatles spiraled into a song writing pattern that replaced girls and dancing with a metanarrative about being The Beatles, to thinking how a band like R.E.M. was born during a time when lyrical obfuscation sounded honest. Maybe it&#8217;s aesthetic. Maybe Bow Wow Wow&#8217;s version of &#8220;I Want Candy&#8221; is better than the original simply because I&#8217;d rather have sex with Annabella Lwin than the singer of The Strangeloves. Maybe Michael Stipe&#8217;s incomprehensible, guttural exclamations allow the songs to expand when the listeners&#8217; experiences are married to lyrical misprision. Maybe the cryptic nature of The Beatles developed out of a sense of self-preservation. Maybe. POST SUBSTANCE/Eggman and Walrus is currently showing the work of Robert Minervini and Scott Anderson. The space is situated on what I think is the second floor of a building at 103 Palace Avenue in Santa Fe. In the first room, you&#8217;re greeted by an honors thesis exhibition of paintings by UNM student Gabriel Perez, after which you descend into a room of Anderson&#8217;s work, followed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Refresh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the site is getting a makeover (because it&#8217;s overdue and because I flubbed the stinking update). I&#8217;ll be searching for old images, etc. to drop into the older posts and slowly but surely making this new site work better than the old one. First up will be an overview of Scott Anderson and Robert Minervini&#8217;s show in Santa Fe and the upcoming Superheroes thing at 516. I&#8217;m going to go through some old interviews, too (and make new ones!) and put either the audio or the transcription on here, as well. I know it&#8217;s sort of old news mixed with new news, but that&#8217;s how I&#8217;ll start. I&#8217;ll also finally put in something about Generator, so we can put that to rest. Also also, Conrad Frieburg is coming to UNM as a visiting lecturer, which will be worth checking out. It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve even been interested in posting, so long so that The Normal has become The Tan, the downtown contemporary space has been re-launched, Erin Elder has taken the helm at the Tamarind Gallery and more and more.]]></description>
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		<title>Summer 2011/B</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow night at Harwood, expect to see new work by Xuan Chen, Cristina de los Santos, Jessican Kennedy and Zona. The shows are part of the Artscrawl thing and run from 6-8 pm. There are also openings this Saturday at Richard Levy Gallery and 516 ARTS, though the Levy Gallery opening is actually an auction of photographs to benefit 516 ARTS and Seed2Need. The two shows at 516 (Worlds Outside This One and Across the Great Divide) are part of the unCOMMON GROUND collaboration. This double show explores community as it relates to land issues and sustainability. There a bunch of events mixed up with, too. I&#8217;m most interested to see what guest curator Erin Elder has put together as part of Worlds Outside This One. She and her sister Nina (as well as Nancy Zastudil) currently run PLAND near Taos, NM.]]></description>
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		<title>Summer 2011/A</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sitting here eating yogurt off my shirt, trying to decide if automatic doors have ruined the courtesy of opening a door for someone else, or if they exist simply to allow germaphobes to enter Target stores. Kurt Gödel was not a germaphobe. Turns out he was merely afraid of being poisoned, which is why at the end of his life, he only allowed his wife to cook his food. That fear of eating took its toll, Gödel weighing only a bit more than my six-year old son when he died of starvation in 1978. During his lifetime, he offered up ideas that shook the fundamentals of Einstein&#8217;s theory of general relativity, but, eventually, he couldn&#8217;t get past the idea that there might be cyanide in his Frosted Mini Wheats. And so summer begins in Albuquerque (and beyond). It&#8217;s harder to draw a crowd in July than October, but this summer seems sort of full. While some shows are just hanging around&#8211;Eva Hesse and Antoine Predock at the University of New Mexico Art Museum&#8211;some shows are wrapping up&#8211;Meow Wolf&#8217;s The Due Return at CCA&#8217;s Munoz Waxman Gallery in Santa Fe. There are a number of events scheduled into The Due Return, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloody, Sunny Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Walking through the alley between 4th and 5th Streets, between Central and Gold Avenue, an explosion of blood on the concrete, a woman taking pictures of gas meters, preparing to drive across the desert this afternoon to Phoenix, the thoughts racing about art process, about the use of materials, thinking about Jarrod Beck and the accretion, the forced entropy of his installation at Generator and also thinking that I&#8217;ve been out of town so much I haven&#8217;t seen any shows to write about&#8211;excepting George Shaw, Jesper Just, Lindsay Seers, the Side Gallery, the images I&#8217;ve seen of Ant Macari&#8217;s show in Sunderland (which I didn&#8217;t make time to go to). There is a sense that a million splinters equals something else, that a burned canvas with string or crushed aluminum trumps ink on paper or cast iron, which it could, but who knows? And maybe the lack of psychedelia in England is more about frugality than anything else, or what&#8217;s essential to focus on, which is why Damien Hirst I guess is so lauded and reviled. Beck was mind-splittingly inside his installation, stained by graphite and vaseline and plaster and by his desire to translate a fragile, noumenal moment from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wayne Rooney was Tripping Balls (part 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So if class is something the English can&#8217;t shake, race is something we can&#8217;t shake here. After the Newcastle victory, I cooked some food and Lee and I sauntered down to the Star and Shadow for a fundraiser. I think it was for the MFA students at Newcastle University. The DJs spinning everything from The Smiths to The Dum Dum Girls to New Order to Beyonce. I met Matt Hearn, Narby Price, Lauren this, Rachel that, Briony. I also met Shannon, who talked with a mouthful of marbles. There&#8217;s a strange story there, but it&#8217;ll stay between me, Lee and Ms. Marbles. The essential thing is that the low altitude raised my alcohol tolerance to super-human levels, enough that I should have saved my money and stuck with water or soda rather than pints. At some point we left but the bar we were heading to closed early, so we walked back over Byker Bridge, back past the glassed-in ticket booth of the Star and Shadow, back through the painted doors and into dance mayhem. The night ended with an invitation to go to the beach &#8220;to see titties&#8221; the next morning. The  woman inviting us wanted to show hers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wayne Rooney was Tripping Balls (part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It would have been nice to have regular blog postings during my trip to Newcastle, but in all honesty, Lee Turner of Hole Editions and I were working so hard, day in and day out, that I didn&#8217;t make time for it. However, I did write down my daily activities; from my initial thoughts of north east England to the basic day to day of work in the print studio. I&#8217;ll break it all into pieces and post it here. But what matters is to recount the trip in a way that gets across the feeling and meaning of my time there, to accurately describe the golden-topped Dutch women and the wind on the tarmac at Newcastle airport, the young boy/girl at the foot of the disembarking stairs whose hair was thick, blowing in the wind as other uniformed airport staff sat insouciantly in a work vehicle with no windshield. The wind. The wind about knocked me down, and I should have known that it would be strong when, as we circled east toward the North Sea, the plane was practically flying sideways. But the landing was fine. Customs was fine. Though I did worry (why I don&#8217;t know) about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://milkwax.com/?p=1161</link>
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		<title>VBC</title>
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		<title>John Whitney &#8211; Arabesque (1975)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The First in a Series of Experimental Film and Videos Killed or at Least Severely Maimed by the Rise of YouTube and Personal Computing [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7h0ppnUQhE[/youtube]]]></description>
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