A $250,000 video art display is slowly creeping up at Los Angeles International Airport. 17 artists from all over the States are participating. Hopefuly, they won’t all make silly looking screensavers.
Downtown Eastside Vancouverians got all fretful over a burning building that was actually a video installation by Montreal artist Isabelle Hayeur. Setting the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floor windows of a heritage building ablaze with Blu-Ray projectors, the artist assumed that “unless someone is really, really drunk” there wouldn’t be any alarming “ambiguity.” Wrong. Read more »
There are still some 80’s Paul McCartney Paul McCarthy video art up at tank.tv, if you’re into doll assault, creepy voiceovers and mayonnaise. (Not be confused with Paul McCartney in a false memory of that one Video Art class you came to hungover.)
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Marilyn Minter’s spit slurping film “Green Pink Caviar” will make its West Coast debut when it starts playing on Sunset Boulevard and at several other LA locales this weekend. Hype or Die feels like this is “a little like sloppy seconds to NY’s inaugural viewing,” but it’s actually worse: every Madonna fan in Europe has already seen the salacious display. |Hype or Die|
Image via Green Pink Caviar
Best Buy Allows In-store Art Installation
Borna Sammak’s Best Buy video installation went off without a glitch last night, partly because it wasn’t quite as illicit as I imagined given the artist’s unauthorized past participations. Curator Thomas McDonnell promised Best Buy reps that the two-hour television takeover, comprised of thirteen videos, would attract a lot of not-normal people who might buy stuff at the electronics store. Art in America interviewed the artist and curator, detailing their releasing the high-definition videos into their “natural habitat.” |Rhizome|
Photos by Ceci Moss/Rhizome
Madonna and artist Marilyn Minter are “planning a collaboration” according to the Daily News, but nobody knows what it is. Minter guesses the 50-year-old pop star wants to be photographed or videotaped, presumably with a face full of slobber and jelly similar to the “Green Pink Caviar” video she bought as a backdrop to her “Sticky and Sweet” tour.
After it’s two month run in Times Square, Marilyn Minter’s saliva slurping film “Green Pink Caviar” will go on display in Madonna’s upcoming tour. Minter was surprised by the request, and initially wondered, “Wow, how much does she want me to pay her?.” But Madonna, a collector of Minter’s photos, paid a lot of loot and sent tickets to see the video on display at her next concert in London. Update: Video of Green Pink Caviar as Madonna’s concert backdrop. |WWD|
Standard Hotel Takes Guests To Hell and Back
While hell is rife with Nazi rallies, titties and lightning, heaven is inhabited by Michael Jackson, Lassie and dead presidents. Somewhere in between it’s just chorus lines and public transportation or so suggests an intriguing new video installation in the Standard Hotel, looming over the Highline. The video, “Civilization,” was installed last week and is composed of more than 400 video clips to take guest on an ascent to Heaven or descent to Hell, depending on which way they’re riding. Preview the work directed by Marco Brambilla above, and save yourself a trip to the Meatpacking District, which is something close to hell.
Marilyn Minter Sexes Up Times Square
Starting tomorrow and running through April, a salacious new video installation will give Times Square tourists something other than the Naked Cowboy to gawk at. Chewing Color, a selection of video art curated by Marilyn Minter, will show films that “strike a delicate balance between beauty and disgust.” The hourly video program includes Patty Chang’s “Fan Dance,” Kate Gilmore’s “Star Bright, Star Might,” along with Minter’s own “Green Pink Caviar,” for which the trailer is included above. The program was curated for 44 1/2, Creative Time’s video art presentation on MTV’s outdoor screen between 44th and 45th street in Times Square.
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