Saturday 30 April 2011

linkys



Time once again for another serving of hot fresh bookmarky links from my Delicious page:

The Forgotten Man: A Q&A With Curator Elisabeth Sussman About Paul Thek and His Decades-Long Disappearance - ARTINFO.com


William Bennett :: Bang the Bore

Yugoslav War Memorials | HOW TO BE A RETRONAUT

The Quietus | Features | A Quietus Interview | Fighting Her Corner: An Interview With Poly Styrene


k-punk: The only royal wedding commentary you need

rigorousintuition.ca - View topic - “Loch Ness Monster” – the Scottish paedophile nexus

Yuck 'n Yum presents @ cabin:codex 29.04.11

To the DCA last night for cabin:codex at the Centre for Artists’ Books in the subterranean depths of the Centrespace. Before the event began I took a few photos and here they are:


Alex is a human flyer


Alex from rear


Zoe Irvine + Pernille Spence read out a list of words


The list of words


The centre of the Centre for Artists' Books


An assortment of books


The 'urban' wall


Flyers, neatly arranged

Thursday 28 April 2011

Yuck 'n Yum presents at cabin:codex 29.04.11 promo

Centrespace, Visual Research Centre, DCA, Dundee

Preview Event with live performances: Friday 29 April, 5 - 8pm

cabin:codex will showcase over 100 Artists’ Books and multiples selected from the collection of Centre for Artists’ Books at Visual Research Centre, DJCAD.
The exhibition will consider two inter-related but opposing ‘landscape’ themes; the Urban and the Feral. The books will be presented as an open display and are available for handling by gallery visitors; this refreshingly immediate experience celebrates the artists’ intentions in adopting the non-hierarchical visual and tactile format of the Artists’ Book.





Wednesday 27 April 2011

Yuck 'n Yum spring 2011



After a very extended hiatus, the spring 2011 issue of Yuck 'n Yum is now finally online. Read it, and learn to love again: LINK

Tuesday 26 April 2011

not-nice

Extract from Kate Zambreno, O Fallen Angel:

Maggie likes the not-nice boys who are mean to her.
Maggie likes the not-nice boys who pull her pigtails on the playground.
Maggie likes the not-nice boys who pull down her skirt and push her up against a wall.
Maggie likes the not-nice boys to force her to her knees.
Maggie likes the bullies and Maggie likes the ones who torture her, who deprive her of her sanity, who leave her awake during sleepless nights wondering what went wrong? what could Maggie have done differently to make him love her?

Sunday 24 April 2011

Zazou @ Kage nightclub, Dundee 22.04.11

To the Kage on Friday night for the latest edition of Zazou. "Stefan Blomeier and Il Discotto play forgotten classics from the seediest and most decadent dancefloors of the 70s, 80s and beyond. Expect gleaming chrome plated Italo, glacial Minimal Synth and laser guided Cosmic Disco......"


Waveform transmission 1


Waveform transmission 2


Waveform transmission 3


People, dancing

Friday 22 April 2011

My art career in the form of a show and tell

The morning of our recent Yuck 'n Yum AGK promo shoot, each member of the editorial team took turns to deliver a 'show and tell' presentation about themselves and their artwork. My carefully planned Powerpoint talk was incompatible with the DCA's computer, but I managed to successfully wing it by referring back to the various posts marked "Retrospective" on this 'ere blog. Here for your delectation is a summary of that talk, with images and words roughly as I gave it:



I always was a precocious talent. This is my first art prize, awarded by Bob Holness for a drawing I did of a Barry Flanagan sculpture in Leeds City Art Gallery. I was 7 at the time, and as you can see it's quite accomplished.


Your correspondent on the left


Still Life 3

I had a curious route to Dundee. I went to art school in Leeds and applied to do painting in Glasgow but didn't get in. At that time I was going out with a girl who was on the sculpture course there, so I lived up in Glasgow for a few months and did a lot of reading about conceptual art. Then I went to Staffordshire University for a year, but didn't like it and applied to go to Dundee. I'd been reading a lot in this time and I was interested in incorporating writing into my art in some way.


Spacial Awareness 1

I read this article by Dennis Cooper about Torbjörn Vejvi, and I made diagrams based on various sporting tactics.


Cheshire Cat

I was taking a lot of inspiration from literary sources, as well as the Disney adaptation in this case.


13 Means to an End

A set of paintings that paired image and text working against each other.


In Situ

This was an installation combining Situationist graffiti and a dirty joke from Viz magazine on the wall on the college cafeteria.


Valis Exegesis (On Behalf of Philip K Dick)

I went to Chicago on exchange in 2002 for three months, and on my return I took part in a group show in Shoreditch. This is a shot of the installation.

Back in Dundee:


Study for Domestic Arrangement


Lessons in Institutional Critique III

This is work from my degree show in 2004.


Olympia

This is at the Embassy gallery in Edinburgh, and I made drawings in black Biro of lingerie models from the Freeman's catalogue. The floor was covered in black heart-shaped confetti, a piece called Rosegarden Funeral of Sores. This was a really bad time for me personally, as during my stay in Chicago I'd been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, which is a really bad disease, and there is no cure. This was around the time when I'd started to get ill. I've since made a lot of work about funerals and memorials, because a part of me has died and I want the art to commemorate this.



Like many other artists I have to work for The Man, and in my case this is for the Bank of Scotland. I took part in the Nine Trades project and I introduced some work colleagues to screen printing at the DCA. Their brief was to make prints out of their workplace doodles, which were then framed and displayed on the walls of the HBOS call centre.



In the last few years I've been writing about art a lot, both for Yuck 'n Yum and also for The Skinny. For each issue of Yuck 'n Yum I'll write about some aspect of contemporary visual culture that I'm interested in. I think it's worth writing for The Skinny as a lot of people read it, and it's good to have the Dundee art scene in there.

LINK


Maquette for a Memorial (Silk Forget-Me-Nots with Comme des Garçons 2 Man Eau de Toilette)

My most recent artwork, produced for the Generator Projects members' show.

Tuesday 19 April 2011

Yuck 'n Yum presents at cabin:codex 29.04.11

On Friday 29 April from 5pm, Yuck 'n Yum will present work at The Centre for Artist Books Re-launch Project in the DCA Centrespace. I made a flyer for said event, and here it is:



Exhibitions Department homepage

We will join Nina Chua, Dave Fyans, Zoe Irvine + Pernille Spence and Catherine Street on the Friday the 29th at 5pm as part of a programme of live works responding to the notions of book and reading.

cabin:codex will showcase over 100 Artists’ Books and multiples selected from the collection of Centre for Artists’ Books at Visual Research Centre, DJCAD.
The exhibition will consider two inter-related but opposing ‘landscape’ themes; the Urban and the Feral. The books will be presented as an open display and are available for handling by gallery visitors; this refreshingly immediate experience celebrates the artists’ intentions in adopting the non-hierarchical visual and tactile format of the Artists’ Book.

LINK

Monday 18 April 2011

Yuck 'n Yum AGK promo shoot BEHIND THE SCENES!

To the DCA yesterday to shoot a promo for the 2011 AGK. You can see what happened at last year's event HERE. Anyway I took a few photos, and here they are:


Cilla sees all


Andrew adjusts the sound


Gayle adjusts a light


Alex, Gayle and Alexandra strike a pose


The delightful Alexandra and your correspondent enjoy a post-shoot drink on the terrazza

Friday 15 April 2011

Dance Mania



Dance Mania: Chicago house label that also released a great deal of ghetto/booty house beginning in the early 1990s. One of the more important labels related to ghettohouse.
Rate Your Music



Wikipedia: Dance Mania is a Chicago record label founded by Jesse Saunders in 1985. Jesse conveyed Dance Mania in 1986 to Raymond Barney when he left for Los Angeles. It released many house music and acid house records in the 80s and early 90s and defined the ghetto house sound in 1994 and 1995. DJ Funk (who was already producer for the label) bought it in 2005 and made a new release (#1001). This first new EP since 2001, Pop Dat Thang, is a medley and reprise of DJ Funk's old tracks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_Mania



Discogs profile: A CHICAGO label that was founded by Jesse Saunders in 1985. Jesse conveyed Dance Mania in 1986 to Raymond Barney when he left for Los Angeles. Label became known for raw, percussive TRACKS from the very beginning. Early hits included Lil' Louis' 'Video Clash', 'How I Feel' , 'War Games' , '7 Ways' by Hercules, and perhaps the most known classic, 'Housenation' by House Master Boyz And The Rude Boy Of House, The in 1986. Ray's own company; Barney's records distributed many of the early Chi-labels, like G Strings, Chicago Underground, Warehouse Records (2), etc.. In the period of 1992/93 Dance Mania began to release records from new the breed of Chicago artists, namely from the likes of: DJ Funk, Paul Johnson, Eric Martin, Traxmen, Parris Mitchell, DJ Deeon, DJ Milton and so on... Label returned to it's roots, to the dirty side of Disco that was always very popular in Chicago. In few years DM released somewhat 200 records, making the matrix number rise close to DM300. At the moment (feb-2001), there hasn't been much activity from the label. Future will show whether more releases can be expected...
http://www.discogs.com/label/Dance+Mania


this is not detroit techno...
this is straight jackin chicago warehouse beats. one of my all time favs.
dsemben

Over the last 20 years there has been a mutation within the Chicago and Detroit house scene. Our story begins with the birth of the Dance Mania label, started in 1985 by Jesse Saunders. The label quickly became known for its proto ghetto house sound, providing artists with a platform to release work that focused more on a raw, percussive and bass heavy sound. Early tracks such as The Browns ‘What’s That’ and House Master Boyz And The Rude Boy Of House – House Nation contained cut-up vocals and fast-paced drum work at the forefront of the tracks which became a huge influence upon the following wave of ghetto house. Early Dance Mania records were championed by many DJs such as Ron Hardy, whom himself was known to play a huge range of new and exciting records in the scene aswell as controversially playing records backwards!
futuresoundstemporary


PERFECT!
RR7I7

If you don't know about it Dancemania is a label out of Chicago that started in the mid '80s with some pretty known anthems and artists. It wasn't till the early '90s when the more known names such as: DJ Funk, Paul Johnson, Dj Deeon, etc. were putting out heaters on DM, with ghetto and disco sounds. Within a few years the label put out more songs that you could download in one day off of hype machine. By 2001 they put out the DM 300!! Over 300 songs on a single independent label out of Chicago! Pretty cool if ya ask me?
Mad Decent - Mixcloud


best techno song ever....for me!!
TheBlazen001

Rate Your Music discography


Dance Mania at Clone Records

Ruben Fleischer chats to some of the seminal Chicago label's main producers back in 1998, including appearances from Waxmaster, DJ Deeon, DJ Funk and Dance Mania owner Ray Barney.

Thursday 14 April 2011

(((echo))) @ DCA 14.04.11

To the DCA this evening for the curiously-parenthesesed event (((echo))), billed as "short presentations by local artists responding to the current exhibition by Manfred Pernice."

Artists participating were Eilidh McNair, Emma McIntyre, Valerie Norris and Louisa Preston.


The revue


Art by Val (I cannot guarantee this is the right way up)


Val speaks


Art by Emma (I cannot guarantee this is the right way up)


Emma speaks

Tuesday 12 April 2011

Manfred Pernice @ DCA - The Skinny




My review of the DCA's Marnfred Pernice show has appeared in the Skinny, and here it is: LINK

Sunday 10 April 2011

TIN ROOF fundraiser 10.04.10

To Dundee's TIN ROOF studios today for a fundraising barbecue. I took a few photos and here they are:


Your correspondent


Ross takes photos


A sudden sporting event breaks out


Inside TIN ROOF


The TIN ROOF periodical


Rachel and Jessica rock the Breton look