Thinking of Walter de Maria and the line in infinite space

Walter de Maria :"... but it is, that the real notion of an infinite space is perhaps one of the few thoughts that is worth thinking about more than once."

	MEANINGLESS WORK
	Meaningless work is obviously the most important and significant art form today. The aesthetic feeling given by meaningless work can not be described exactly because it varies with each individual doing the work. Meaningless work is honest. Meaningless work will be enjoyed and hated by intellectuals - though they should understand it. Meaningless work can not be sold in art galleries or win prizes in museums - though old fasion records of meaningless work (most all paintings) do partake in these indignities. Like ordinary work, meaningless work can make you sweat if you do it long enough. By meaningless work I simply mean work which does not make money or accomplish a conventional purpose. For instance putting wooden blocks from one box to another, then putting them back to the original box, back and forth, back and forth etc., is a fine example of meaningless work. Or digging a hole, then covering it is another example. Filing letters in a filing cabinet could be considered meaningless work, only if one were not considered a secretary, and if one scattered the file on the floor periodically so that one didn't get any feeling of accomplishment. Digging in the garden is not meaningless work. Weight lifting, though monotonous, is not meaningless work in its aesthetic since because it will give you muscles and you know it. Caution should be taken that the work chosen should not be too pleasurable, lest pleasure becomes the purpose of the work. Hence, sex, though rhythmix, can not stictly be called meaningless - though I'm sure many people consider it so. Meaningless work is potentially the most abstract, concrete, individual, foolish, indeterminate, exactly determined, varied, important art-action-experience one can undertake today. This concept is not a joke. Try some meaningless work in the privacy of your own room. In fact, to be fully understood, meaningless work should be done alone or else it becomes entertainment for others and the reaction or lack of reaction of the art lover to the meaningless work can not honestly be felt. Meaningless work can contan all of the best qualities of old art forms such as painting, writing, etc. It can make you feel and think about yourself, the outside world, morality, reality, unconsciousness, nature, history, time, philosophy, nothing at all, politics, etc. without the limitations of the old art forms. Meaningless work is individual in nature and it can be done in any form and over any span of time - from one second up to the limits of exhaustion. It can be done fast or slow or both. Rhythmically or not. It can be done anywhere in any weather conditions. Clothing, if any, is left to the individual. Whether the meaningless work, as an art form, is meaningless, in the ordinary sense of that term, is of course up to the individual. Meaningless work is the new way to tell who is square. Grunt Get to work WdM March, 1960.

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jtwine posing as Nike of Samothrace at the Devils Golf Course in Death Valley, USA

JT as Nike of Samothrace is a set of reenactments of the famous Hellenistic sculpture and is part of a series of performances in Death Valley, California, which are investigating the idea of "body in space". They are part of the evolving body wrap performances staged at various locations around the world. The project explores ephemeral sculptural concepts.

The Winged Victory of Samothrace, also called the Nike of Samothrace, is a 2nd-century BC
marble sculpture of the Greek goddess Nike (Victory). Since 1884, it has been prominently displayed at the Louvre and is one of the most celebrated sculptures in the world. H.W. Janson described it as "the greatest masterpiece of Hellenistic sculpture."
The Nike of Samothrace, discovered in 1863, is estimated to have been created around 200–190 BCE. It is 8 feet (2.44 metres) high. It was created to not only honor the goddess, Nike, but to honor a sea battle. It conveys a sense of action and triumph as well as portraying artful flowing drapery through its features.

Flight Exercises in Death Valley - waiting for updraft

Selected images from UPDRAFT a flight exercises performance for drive-by tourists at the Artist's drive in Death Valley. An area of multi-colored claystones from the ancient ash-falls of the Artist's Drive Formation, where various metals have oxidized the clay creating eye-popping reds, yellows, greens, blues, and purples.

3 from the war-games series

wargames #11,12,13,  pen and ink on letter-size paper, 2014

Jurgen Trautwein on earth day

LOOSE - 5 recent abstract drawings

LOOSE 1-5, each pen and ink on letter-size paper, 2014

Fool of Self - selected drawings 2014

pen and ink drawings each 8,5 x 11 inches 

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The walking encyclopaedia

AirSpace Gallery and The Walking Artist Network present The Walking Encyclopaedia - a physical & online repository for walking practices, presenting over 150 walking practitioners and artworks.

in Stoke-on-Trent, UK

http://walkingencyclopaedia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/the-walking-encyclopaedias-walking_11.html

Synthetic Zero March 5th and 15th at Bronx Art Space

The next Synthetic Zero Event will be TONIGHT, Wednesday, March 5th 6-9pm and Saturday, March 15th, 7-10pm, curated by Mitsu Hadeishi, at BronxArtSpace (only 20 mins from Union Square). The show includes performance, experimental video, and visual art. 

performance
Patrick Quinn - multimedia performance - New York, NY (Sat only)
Cory Kram - performance - Philadelphia, PA (Sat only)
Anna Lise Jensen - performance - New York, NY (Wed only)
experimental video
Kyra Garrigue - "Passage" - Troy, NY
Julien Poldevin - "Symp/tone" - Nantes, France
Joan Oh - "Double Tap, Construe" - Philadelphia, PA
Sandrine Deumier and Alx P.op - "Un.reality" - Toulouse, France
Michael Betancourt - "Dancing Glitch" - Savannah, GA
Kim Collmer - "The Conversation" - Cologne, Germany
Fran Lejeune and Jean-Michel Rolland - "Neons Melody" - Lorraine, France
Charles Chadwick - "She Saw His Reflection and Thought He Was Inside" - San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Guli Silberstein - "Video Work" - London, UK
Jasmine Powell - "Counterparting" - Berlin, Germany
visual art
Sabrina Barrios - installation - New York, NY
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow - sculpture - Brooklyn, NY
Frank Spigner - electronic installation - New York, NY
Meg Duguid - newspapers - Brooklyn, NY
Anna Lise Jensen - photography - New York, NY
Emily Roberts-Negron - prints - Woodstock, NY
Shannon Novak - iPad interactive installation - Auckland, New Zealand
Jurgen Trautwein - interactive installation - San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Maya Jeffereis - video installation - Brooklyn, NY
Alyssa Casey - collage - New York, NY
Karl Heinz Jeron - video installation - Berlin, Germany
Tycho Horan - prints - New York, NY
Jess Willa Wheaton - painting - New York, NY
Balam Solo - interactive cube installation - New York, NY

If you would like to submit work for a future show, email us at art@bronxartspace.com with information about your submission; links, images, etc. Video should be submitted as a video file, Vimeo, or YouTube link.

Synthetic Zero / BronxArtSpace
305 E 140th St #1A
Bronx, NY 10454
art@bronxartspace.com (If you need a phone number for shipping purposes, please email us.)

DIRECTIONS:
The art space is at 305 E. 140th St., #1A, Bronx NY 10454.
We're about 20 minutes from Union Square. From Manhattan, 4-5 train to 125th, transfer to 6, one stop to 3rd Ave/138th St, it's 2 blocks from there. Note there are two exits at 3rd Ave/138th, one at Alexander Ave and one at 3rd Ave. Ring 3A or 1B if 1A does not answer.
PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO FRIENDS! Thanks.

Note: These events are made possible in part by contributions from individual donors, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Puffin Foundation.

Brittles - new acrylic paintings on recycled newspapers

Brittles are acrylic paintings on collages using the official journal of a town in Southern Germany.

The series explores country,

county or town borders, inclusions and exclusions seen from a fictional satellite point of view.

New Animations at jtwine.com

DEADplanetFINE*

DEADplanetFINE* 

An Uber-Wahnsinn paranoid trembling project 

DEADplanetFINE*, is a web 1.0 retro-renaissance remixology project consisting of looped animated mouseover-gif-film-crawls.

DEADplanetFINE*, are animated acid humorous social-commentary-line-drawings interwoven with abstract blink-scrolls, that reflect on the nightmarish state of the world.The project touches issues of war, race, rape, violence, loneliness, torture, sexism, porn, gadgetism, obsenity, power, greed, intoxication, pollution and the human folly in general.

Depending on the movement of the mouse the animations take on various speeds and directions of motion.

DEADplanetFINE*, uses a poly-linguistic-sound-blur-drone. The languages are used for their phonetics and not for the meaning of the words. 

DEADplanetFINE* attempts to expose, in a funny way, the crazy world we live in, which seems to have followed the same principle over the past aeons, which is the perpetual reoccurrence of the same.

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