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 Guest post by Virginia Konchan
Cultural treatments of what Jeffrey Eugenides (qua Austen) termed the "marriage plot†of fiction include post-romantic polemics (Laura Kipnis' 2004 Against Love), arguments for and against biological and gender essentialism, chick lit and post-feminist writings, and queer and trans literature (as well as post-9/11 and world literatures reframing the metaphor of war as between cultures and races, rather than genders).  Keeping pace with the culture industry's manufacture of fantasy, Hollywood continues to churn out variations on the theme of marriage, whether representative, in the US, of market demand and actual statistics, or not, in reality TV (The Bachelor; Wife Swap) and, in film, such as the 2013 rom-com Austenland, directed by Jerusha Hess (an adaptation of Shannon Hale's novel, based off Pride and Prejudice, about a British resort recreating the Austen era, to fuel the obsession that every woman's platonic double—Mr. Darcy, aloof yet smoldering with passion—awaits us just around the corner).
The timelessness of the marriage plot is today played out against the backdrop of radically transitive labor conditions for women, as the bar for accreditation (an industry's "terminal degree†or minimum standard of experience) are continually raised, in a post-manufacturing, service, and what Sarah Kendizor calls a "post-employment†economy, sealing the neo-pilgrim passage (noir version) from a welfare to a fully corporatized (i.e. neoliberal) state.
Today's resurgence of Darwinian logic, manifest in neo-Gladiator survivalist narratives such as The Hunger Games, undergirds global capitalism, with the exception of independently-owned businesses or careers (internally funded or reliant on patrons, philanthropy, and trustees). A women who chooses to entreprenurialize (work independently, start a business or brand, freelance) adjusts not only to the rollercoaster cash flow, as Whitney Johnson, who left Merrill Lynch to co-found Rose Park Advisors with Clay Christensen, in the Harvard Business Review Blog Network, points out, while the recent global downturn fuels the American DIY rhetoric of entrepreneurial activity, such 'independence' isn't always volitional: layoffs abound, and, despite soft stats of "productivity gains,†job creation does not. "Approximately 43 million people, or roughly 35%-40% of the private workforce in the U.S., are currently doing some type of contingent work; this number is expected to grow to 65-70 million within the decade, well ahead of the 1% rate at which the labor force is growing,†Johnson notes, citing research from MBO Partners' State of Independence in America report, about "independent†U.S. laborers (an individual working 15+ hours per week whether as a freelancer, contractor, or owner of a micro-business): "Stripping out the c. 25 million people who are working part-time and are potentially under-employed, MBO calculates there are currently about 17 million independents,†a statistic expected to increase to 23 million by 2017, based on a 6.3% per year growth rate, that could easily swell to over 30+ million in the next decade as large and small corporations, as well as the government, continue to employ contingent labor (40% of the workforce is defined currently as contingent labor; that number is expected to rise).
Blue Jasmine, starring Cate Blanchett, is Woody Allen's 44th feature film: his protagonist, Jasmine neé Jeanette, is a divorced socialite whose husband Hal, played by Alec Baldwin, after amassing millions the Bernie Madoff scandal, is caught, jailed, and commits suicide. This female lead differs radically (in her labor situation and social rôle) from the female ingénue of Annie Hall, the irascible Diane Keaton.
Jasmine struggles to accept her functional unemployment (she has virtually no job skills in a market where you can buy goods, but not survive, on credit) after her divorce, arriving on her working-class stepsister, Ginger's, doorstep in the Mission District of San Francisco with an equipage of Louis Vuitton luggage, perfectly-coiffed hair, and a desire to begin again (but not before polishing off several stiff martinis with Grey Goose). The conversation Jasmine has with Ginger about her prospects, post-Hal are nothing short of comedic: I was always good at design, she muses, and decides to take a day job as an assistant in a dental office to pay for online classes in interior decorating, a revelation of subdued hilarity echoing that of Aunt Bernie in George Saunders' story "Sea Oak,†who, resurrecting from the dead, answers the call to neoliberal entrepreneurialism by directing male strippers. Her advice, to evolve from sex work to a white collar career: "Go show your cock! [ . . . ] That is the first part of Phase One.   After we get the new place, that's the end of the first part of Phase Two.  You'll still show your cock, but only three days a week. Because you'll start community college.  Pre-law. Pre-law is best. You'll be a whiz. You ain't dumb.â€
Jasmine's painful labor skills assessment doesn't stop her from catching the eye of a new money tycoon with coastal property. She meets her second alluring husband prospect, played by Peter Sarsgaard, at a party—impressed by her Chanel digs, he asks her out, and she proceeds to play the part of a successful businesswoman to a hilt, offering to design his new home. The following scene has them antiquing together, before looking at engagement rings. The prize, if we follow the moral logic of Blue Jasmine (the rhetoric of American democracy) goes not necessarily to the hardest worker (Calvinism), smartest entrepreneur (meritocracy) or most monied sophisticate (philistine aristocracy), but the best con-man—or woman—the artful, or artless, swindler with a heart of gold.
Jasmine's life, seen within Western cinematic (independent and mainstream) representations of women from David Lynch's doppelgangers, to besties escaping, by driving their car off a cliff, abusive spouses——Thelma and Louise—or for Madame Bovary, what Jonathan Franzen calls "married person's (i.e. false) consciousness,†reflects the fact that in today's contemporary novel, cinema, and pop culture, our "heroines†have more choices, but they are still often scripted, between the dangerous fiction of a woman that has, or does, it all (cinematized in 2011 feature film I Don't Know How She Does It, starring Sarah Jessica Parker), and the neo-confessional celebrity spectacle of a woman such as Gaga, who bares her struggles publically, usually receiving social grace upon delivering the now-ubiquitous message that celebrities (and royals) are people too.
Whether broadcasting happy-go-lucky debauchery (Chelsea Handler), sexscapades (Paris Hilton), gold-digging (Anna Nicole Simpson), infidelity (Elizabeth Hurley, Sandra Bullock), domestic violence (Rhianna, Halle Berry), addiction (Lindsay Lohan), or the everyday travails common to all women (childbearing, weight gain, marriage, divorce, and illness), in the public eye: the more seemingly human the portrayal (Kate Middleton taking her time—two weeks—as reported in the media, to return to a size O, post-George), the more love from the public, despite the most basic incongruity of all: celebrities and royals, unlike the average consumer of their self-representations, aren't forced to work a 9-5 job, or any job, beyond performing, to survive.
Never has the anti-logic of the privatization movement been more relevant as an extended metaphor, to domestic security—not for our homeland, but for women. The rule of the market (liberating free or private enterprise from any bonds imposed by the government—the state—no matter how much social damage this causes), and, internationally, NAFTA, has resulted in widespread wage reduction, de-unionization, the elimination of workers' rights, no price controls, slashed public expenditure for social services: deregulation, in short, of all protections (environmental, commercial, financial) allowing citizens a basic standard of protection beyond the right to file a lawsuit (after one's non-codified, and thus nonexistent, rights have been violated). This state of non-rule leaves subjects or those without job skills vulnerable to market vicissitudes (governmental rule by the nation's media conglomerates—i.e., the 1%) backed, as we know, by International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank.
Today, women receiving federal aid for supporting a child are cut off if living with or married to a man in the States, penalizing a working class woman's desire to raise a child with the child's father or other male figure, and making a two-family income, albeit with one income from Uncle Sam, an impossibility, and raising the question of how far we've come, as a gender, from being literal chattel or objects of tokenistic exchange (decried by Engels in his 1884 The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State) and today, when the insecurity of all formerly stable institutions, including marriage and the family, underscores the fact that the market is the new head of state for Western women, just as the husband continues to be in many Islamic cultures, usurping law (husbands are allowed to beat their wives and children as long as they don't leave any physical marks, an Islamic court in the United Arab Emirates ruled in 2010), to say nothing of ongoing cultural epidemics of sexual violence, domestic abuse, public stonings, factory labor, sex trafficking, and labor exploitation, keeping women, worldwide, in a dangerous existential (i.e. labor) situation.
In short, the stress of financial survival, in neoliberal America, trumps life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, for men as well as women (the latter camp still on the outskirts of legal personhood, the Equal Rights Amendment not having yet passed). The inequity of our child care and maternity leave policies are the source of international shame, women aren't being hired for executive positions, with obvious exceptions (New Zealand, Grenada, Barbados, and Andorra all have or have had female heads of state), and despite puncture holes in "the new glass ceiling†(the illusion that we occupy a DIY, may the best man win, meritocracy, innocent of structural inequities, as evidenced in Huff-Po writer Jeannette Cajide's endorsement of her boss Mark's neoliberal quip: "If you want to overcome sexism and racism, be the best!â€) continues.  The Count by VIDA, documentaries such as Miss Representation, and other reports on the dearth of authorial and executive parity between men and women in the U.S. workplace underscore the facts: but while the "new glass ceiling†for women may indeed be prevailing, media-driven misogyny, and a restructuring of service economy jobs, even in senior positions, or internalized and externalized locked doors to design, IT, and engineering fields, the fact remains that, as Gail Becker said in the Huffington Post, "firsts†set a precedent that can then be modeled for other women, as relationship and cultural standards (equality and freedom from abuse, violence, and intimidation), codified laws, and hiring authorities. "Frankly, I look forward to the end of that necessary prepositional clause — a time when we don't need to define someone by the barrier they broke. But until that day, my commas are standing by, ready to remember those who helped tear away barriers for me.â€Â  As a New Yorker cartoon character put it to her husband: "I prefer the illusion of safety to the appearance of privacyâ€: reality, however painful, lying in wait beyond the illusory binary, for women, of marriage-cum-financial survival and self-fulfillment through career (Harlequin romance plots aside).
A neoliberal economy puts all subjects, particularly those whose commodity has historically been domestic labor or the sale of their flesh, in a precarious position, forced to choose between wage labor, sex labor, an unsalaried, uncontracted job in a helping profession, or, if lucky (possessing liquid capital or loan accreditation), entrepreneurial activity. As Jasmine discovered before it was too late, women not independently wealthy must labor to survive, like men, either in a career or in a form of domestic or sexual service, to a husband, family or both.
What's needed now are not just rooms, but salaries of our own, in careers that don't bottom out upon our advancement, and domestic partnerships that don't bottom out when the human commodity (the wife) reaches her shelf life in consumer capitalism (i.e. mature age). "Should Sancho Panza, Oroonoko, Moll Flanders, Frankenstein's monster, Queenqueg, Tom, Lily Bart, Josef K.., Lolita, and Om, in A Fine Balance, really have no say in their own fates?†asks Jane Smiley in Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel, broadening the live question, apropos to the health care crisis in America, of whether being able to cultivate the means to acquire needs, to echo Marx, let alone pursue one's teleological ends without bearing the stamp of manufacture from a husband, or suffering, in silence, an exploitative labor situation, is a privilege, or a right.
Virginia Konchan's poems have appeared in Best New Poets, The Believer, The New Yorker, and The New Republic, her criticism in Workplace:  A Journal for Academic Labor, Quarterly Conversation, Barzakh Magazine, and Boston Review, and her fiction in StoryQuarterly and Joyland, among other places.  The recipient of grants and fellowships to Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Ox-Bow, and Vermont Studio Center, Virginia is co-founder of Matter, a journal of poetry and political commentary.  Currently, she is pursuing her PhD in the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Dark comic of yore, Bobcat Goldthwait came to Bloomington, Indiana, last week, to do stand-up at the Comedy Attic, plus lectures around screenings of two recently directed films—the blistering cultural satire God Bless America, and  Willow Creek, a Bigfoot found footage horror flick. About God Bless America, Goldthwait said to a small Halloween evening crowd at the Indiana University Cinema: "I wanted to indict rather than parody.
In God Bless America, a society teetering on the edge of cultural decay is declared in faux-reality series like Dumb Nutz, and a mock-up of American Idol called American Superstars, where the grotesque imagery of "reality†bombards sensitive, exasperated main character Frank's tiny living room. Frank—played by Joel Murray—is a character, Goldthwait admitted, "most of my friends say is me.†Frank's world is a right-wing mash-up of "9-11-2001 – Never Forget†license plates, American flags, radio heads screaming in military troupes' defense, Obama in a Nazi uniform, and, most importantly for Goldthwait's agenda, Sound Bites: meaningless perpetrators of a shallow society, where "No one talks about the personal or important,†but only about what was on TV the night before, regurgitating. Such is the timbre of Frank's non-specific office drone environment, where he is assaulted with water cooler chat so disgorged he at last declares: "A shocking comment has more wit than the truth,†before unfolding his stapler, aiming it like a gun at his docile co-workers, and asking, "Why have a civilization anymore if we're no longer interested in being civilized?â€
Frank's day only gets worse. Corporate higher-ups, citing a "No Tolerance†policy, after eleven years of employ, fire him for sending flowers to the receptionist. His next visit is to the doctor who, while informing Frank he has an inoperable brain tumor, takes a cell phone call, unleashing a painfully privileged litany, something about a newly souped-up car. Frank proceeds home. Against the endless wails of an infant next door, he sits couch-ridden, sipping beer, sobbing, yet again before the enormous boob tube, where teenage "reality goddess†Chloe rails at her father for buying her the "wrong†brand-new car, dropping the gem of a line, "You're not listening to me. You're talking to the cameras!†At this moment, Frank's own phone rings, his estranged eight-year-old mirroring Chloe in her lament of the horror of her own mom having bought her a Blackberry instead of an iPhone. Frank hangs up, retrieves a pistol from a shoe box, steals his sobbing baby-wielding neighbors' yellow Mustang, and drives to "reality goddess†Chloe's high school. Unabashedly, in broad daylight, he shoots her.
Witness to the killing is sixteen-year-old Roxy, disgusted schoolmate of Chloe, played by Tara Lynne Barr, who couldn't be happier with Frank's murderous deed. The misanthropes team up, donning throwback garb à la Bonnie and Clyde, embarking on a nationwide killing spree aimed at obliterating the thoughtless and digitally absorbed—from people who take up two parking spaces, to boobs who take calls in the movie theater, Frank and Roxy unabashedly eliminate the American unkind.
The barefaced fact of Frank, a middle-aged man, running around the country alongside sexy, sixteen-year-old Roxy comes to the fore as the duo shops for bandit garb in a thrift store. "Frank,†asks Roxy, "Do you think I'm pretty?â€
Frank's response: "I refuse to objectify a child. Fuck R. Kelly! Fuck Vladimir Nabokov! Fuck Woody Allen! No one cares if they hurt other people.†Roxy's response is deflated, sulking, as she attests to the absurdity of the duo carrying on as "platonic spree killers.â€
I was reminded of this particular exchange during the Q&A session following the film, when Goldthwait, in response to a question as to his rationale behind casting Barr as Roxy, said, "When she came in to read, she didn't play it too vampy. Other actresses were sexy, coquettish, doing the Lolita thing. Tara was wearing overalls.â€
This all made me think of a discussion in a class I'm in, where we read "researched†fiction and poetry. Recently we discussed Nabokov's Lolita as a historical work. Nabokov, in his essay, "On a Book Entitled Lolita,†attests the novel's inspiration as a newspaper story about an ape in the Jardin des Plantes who, "after months of coaxing by a scientist, produced the first drawing ever charcoaled by an animal: this sketch showed the bars of the poor creature's cage.â€
This statement, coupled with the book's stunning linguistic mastery, has always made me see Lolita as being about far more than pedophilia—far too complicated to be reduced to a dangerous text condoning child rape, or in some cryptic manner portraying Humbert Humbert as enviable. My sense has always been that Lolita, in pointing so blatantly and grotesquely to pedophilia, deflates its taboo. I have also secretly believed Nabokov's choice to set the novel in America as a bit of a nod to the States' sexual repression. He knew American readers (and publishers) would sexualize Lolita, characterize her, to quote Goldthwait, as "vampy,†in control of her own pre-adolescent, seductive powers, a self-aware temptress in her own right:
My class's discussion digressed: a fellow student called Lolita "the "rape-iest†book he'd ever read, likely responsible for subsequent generations of rape culture. Questions swarmed: what should the academy include in its required reading lists? Should a progressive, Queer revaluation of texts chuck away Lolita for good?
I am fascinated with the conflicting views America projects upon "Lolitaâ€â€"vampy actresses too young and seductive for their own good, adolescent temptresses in need of righting by an ethically firm, middle-aged Frank. Despite this brand of righteousness, sexual tension percolates every hotel room of God Bless America, Frank stubbornly refusing to share a bed, Roxy urging him on (as in Lolita, Frank and Roxy roam amongst cheap motels of the Eastern U.S.). An uncomfortably paternalistic extended scene features Frank teaching Roxy to shoot teddy-bear laden trees, prepping for banditry:
This is not to discount that God Bless America, assaulting and unforgettable in its depiction of a screen-sutured society obsessed with reality TV (scathing, not quite like anything I've seen before), renders Frank and Roxy's joke that they'll "move to France and start a goat farm,†wildly appealing. Goldthwait's wit is wise, his declarations pristine, his intent earnest. And there's nothing more cringingly American than Frank's final words to Roxy, before detonating her, himself, and the entire studio audience and performers of competitive singing show, American Superstars: "I do think you're pretty."
August Evans has written in Mexico, Sweden, and Aix-en-Provence, France, where she taught English before returning to the U.S. to complete her Masters of Humanities degree at the University of Chicago. She has taught college English and Humanities in Chicago, and studied fiction writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Currently she is an MFA candidate at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her fiction and book reviews may be found in HTMLGiant, Melusine, and Monkeybicycle.
Smart Painting: An Interview with Josh Reames
October 31, 2013 · Print This Article
By Kevin Blake
Josh Reames makes smart paintings. Whether he is deliberately utilizing painting tropes, such as the dripping brushstroke, or deploying obvious geometric abstraction, Reames' work acknowledges his awareness of the painting vocabulary while creating his own grammar from canvas to canvas. Reames aligns his understanding of painterly tradition with his interpretation of contemporary experience that speaks directly to the viewer through text, emoji, palm trees, and anything that seems fitting in the moment of creation. As Reames carves out his own space in the painting world, he wittingly nods his head to a history he  knows well.
Kevin Blake: You have an interest in the escapist ideal, and while those ideals are more overtly addressed in your multimedia constructions, I think your paintings, at times, depart from those ideas and allow for a more eclectic read. Can you talk about your modes of production and how those different methodologies have different relationships to your conceptual framework?
Josh Reames: Sure, I think the paintings lend themselves to an eclectic read, but only as a group. I try to keep individual paintings focused on specific ideas. I think all of the work addresses escapism, just in varied ways. The tropical imagery and psychedelic drug references are just as involved with escapism as the act of painting is. The eclectic read is a product of my scattered focus, which is probably a product of internet culture. My conceptual framework is pretty broad; if I had to describe my intentions with painting it would be to use painting as some sort of filtration device for cultural bi-product. I mean, I'm super into the idea of relativity (cultural, moral, etc.), and painting has this ability to literally flatten images and references into a rectangle. By pushing images together and composing them into a painting, you can flatten the references and remove the hierarchy of importance. So Abstraction, palm trees, emoji, drippy brushstrokes, dollar signs, cigarettes, and the Sphinx can all be flattened to the same level – composition. Either nothing is really dumb anymore, or all of it is, it's getting hard to tell.
KB: You make pictures that perpetuate your grasp of the canon of abstract painting, and I wonder if there is any escape from those parameters. When you are making paintings, how do you filter your knowledge of abstraction (historical and contemporary) to maintain something that is your own? Can artists escape the initiated forms they supersede? Can painting ever escape from itself?
JR: Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like the need for iconoclasm is outdated. I think the idea of superseding or escaping abstraction comes from some need for a linear narrative of "this became that, then that became something else" which I think has been a legit way of understanding a progression of artists, at least for the past few hundred years. But now I think it's a little different; sampling, re-sampling, homage, and straight plagiarism are all viable forms of historical awareness in art. The drippy brushstroke has historically been an abstract tool, meant to express the presence of the artist – a remnant of the physical self. But over time, that becomes a trope, a symbol separated from it's original context. I think this is liberating in a way. It's sort of like Tarantino using the tropes of old kung-fu films like Zatoichi and Lady Snowblood; he takes an outdated thing and makes it fresh. In that sense, Robert Motherwell or Franz Kline didn't have the internet, so I have a fresh set of tools to play with.
KB: Is sampling, re-sampling, homage, and straight plagiarism unavoidable at this point?
JR:Â I mean, all the best artists have stolen, it's just easier now. When you are completely inundated with images on a daily basis there becomes this subliminal pool of imagery and information that seeps into the studio. I don't think it's completely unavoidable, but if you are like most artists with access to the internet, it is pretty difficult to avoid. That being said, I don't think there is anything wrong with it.
KB: Your paintings reference artists like Charline Von Heyl and Christopher Wool among others and I am curious as to how you think you arrived at those influences? What I am trying to understand from your perspective, is how you feel about so many artists drawing from the same well. The internet provides an infinite range of source material, yet the pool of imagery that seeps into your studio, seems to be oozing into everyone else's simultaneously. Fortunately, you are distilling it all in an interesting way. It is a pattern in art history for contemporary artists to be in dialogue with one another. How do you negotiate those terms and demands?
JR: I love Wool and Von Heyl, I think they are some of the most important living painters. I relate to how Wool handles abstraction, especially with the screen prints, in an almost hands-off kind of way. He takes abstraction, historically an emotionally charged way of painting, and filters it through a Warhol-ian process that removes the hand. I think there is a lot of humor there, super dry though. So good! There are only so many ways to make paintings; different combinations of styles, tropes, paint handling, tools, etc. Eventually it's not difficult to take a step back and see artists doing similar things. I'm not sure it matters though, as long as the thing being made is interesting and has some connection to the artist. After that it's all personal taste.
KB:Shifting gears a bit, I was hoping to talk to you about text in your paintings. Often times, text is integrated into the image and sometimes the text appears to be squeezed out of the tube on top of an abstract composition–your paintings "YYY" and "Land Grab" come to mind. How does text operate for you in your paintings?
JR:Text is a way to guide the viewer, to give some sort of context to an otherwise abstract painting. I always integrate the text so that the letters or symbols double as marks, either sprayed or squeezed in the same way any other mark would be made on the canvas.
KB:I'm interested in your word choices and how, if at all, you see them as a personification of yourself. Or are the words derived from language you see fitting into your escapist trajectory?
JR:I keep a running list of text ideas in my sketchbook and on my iPhone. The word combinations that get used are usually really open ended, allowing for specific/individualized reads, but also have a specific connection to me. Sometimes it fits the escapist trajectory, but others will be references to books I'm reading or words that I came across that stuck with me.
KB: Can you talk about how the array of non-traditional painting materials have made their way into your painting practice? Spray paint, airbrush, and fluorescents, to name a few, seem to be the rage. Are these materials and/or high key palettes coincidence or do you think they reflect something more concrete?
JR:In a broad sense I think non-traditional painting materials, usually applied to abstraction, are a way to make abstraction relatable. Matias Cuevas' poured paintings on carpet, or Andrew Greene's glass abstractions are good examples; they bridge the gap between a messy abstraction which really just exists as a historical trope, and everyday materials, which pulls the trope into something new. I don't think my work really fits in this category,  I think using airbrush and fluorescents aren't that uncommon; I started using the airbrush because I have no patience with paintbrushes. I'm a pretty shitty painter if you put a brush in my hand, I can never make it do what I want it to do! The airbrush is different, it's way more versatile, and quick. As far as the high-key color palette's go, I'm sure there's some coincidence there, maybe trends – personally I just like shiny things…
KB:I think you are right, these techniques are becoming more and more common in contemporary painting practices. Maybe it relates to a culture of instant gratification, immediacy, and even escapism. Does the pace of everyday life influence your material applications and the speed at which you make your work?
JR:I agree, I think people (artists included) generally have a short attention span and as a result, a lot of impatience. I know I do. I am always able to look at a painting that took months to complete and think "wow, that took a lot of time". But I don't think the amount of time something takes makes it any better than if it was quick. Again, my use of the airbrush is entirely about speed and impatience. I want the paintings to look meticulous, with slick surfaces and plenty of precision – but I want to make a lot of paintings, so speed is key! The pace of everyday life probably has an indirect influence on that.
KB:Speaking of the pace of everyday life, how do things look in your studio right now as you prepare for your solo exhibition at Luis De Jesus in Los Angeles this January? What do you plan to show?
JR:It's crazy in here, I just got back from an 11 day trip to NYC where I saw some pretty rad shows (Josh Smith, John McCracken, Joshua Abelow, etc.). It's great to be back in the studio working on some new paintings. I think I'm going to make a handful of emoji paintings and text paintings with text-message shorthand. The working title is THE INTERNETS. Time is such a luxury though, I've been considering hiring a studio assistant so I don't have deal with those pesky tasks like stretching and priming canvases… we'll see!
Kevin Blake is an artist and writer working in Chicago.
October 29, 2013 · Print This Article
"Tumblr is a great way for people who don't create content to share content thus lending their life some kind of creative import.† This is the somewhat omniscient Jayson Musson's tweet from a couple of weeks ago. The more I think about it – and I have been thinking about it way too much – the more I realize that he's probably right. There are a lot of people on Tumblr and I am one of them. And I cannot get enough.  But you know what, I don't care if these people haven't created the content they're posting, at least they're posting content – which, in of itself, is a creative act.  And it's visual, and I personally am constantly learning from it.  It's a visual literacy of the highest import.
My own Tumblr, Installator, is a curated (for lack of a better term) blog of other people's content.   Installator (wrapit-tapeit-walkit-placeit) is essentially a compendium of art in a state of movement – being installed, de-installed, moved, crated, knocked down, hung, lifted, cleaned, screwed together, and on and on. It's about art as an object, but decidedly not the object that most people understand it to be. Not precious, or in some cases priceless, well-lit aesthetic nuggets that just seems to appear on walls, or pedestals, in fields, on buildings and above couches. These are images of artworks that are not static.
Sometimes I wonder if people who go to museums or galleries think these things just kind of magically appear overnight – like some sort of aesthetic fairy flitting down to delicately place a painting on a wall with their sparkly fairy-dusted level. Well they don't, and there is a magical coterie of individuals who do make it happen: art handlers/preparators/riggers/etcetera. I am not an art handler, though I have done my fair share of handling art (I'm also married to a former preparator). It is with the utmost respect for these folks that I showcase them in the photos that make up Installator. Other people are impressed too. Of the many comments I do get on one photo or another – a common one is some form or another of: "I want to do this for living!â€
Looking for images can be a pain in the ass, but when I find a good one I get really excited. I have a loose set of criteria that I stick to when finding them; ideally it's a large jpeg; includes an image of a person(s); is of an artwork or artist that I admire; is visually representative of the act of installing or de-installing and has to be stimulating to look at. Funny pictures help, as do process-oriented sets of images. I mostly start with a Google image search including an artist's name (or sometimes an artwork) and the word "installingâ€. Another route I take is plundering the Facebook photo albums of museums. I find that European museums do the best job of documenting their behind-the-scenes, but there are a few museums with their own oft-updated Tumblrs, blogs and websites (the Dallas Museum of Art, Contemporary Museum of Art, Houston and the Walker Art Center are tops.)
At this point it seems as though a lot of Museums are catching onto this peeking-behind-the-curtain-thrill. Many of them are sharing much of the work that goes into setting up an exhibition, not only by posting more and more images for the public, but also using it as a form of education about the lives of artworks. This can only be healthy. It humanizes the pricelessness that these objects are assumed to have once they enter the institution. It also showcases the care for these objects from a preservation standpoint. I thought this quote from the Chrysler Museum of Art was interesting, even though the images they did post were some of the most beautiful I've come across: "We generally do not discuss anything related to the movement of art. There are lots of reasons for this, ranging from the obvious (security) to the obscure (proper protocols and handling). …. We rarely if ever actually photograph art being moved. This is [a] field where mistakes are not an option, and a great work of art being damaged because somebody tripped over a photographer just can't happen.â€
There is also what I cannot find.  I have a mental list of artists whose work I would very much like to see installed. There are also museums that simply aren't interested in showing how work travels from the bowels of their storage to the walls of their galleries. Outside of Instagram, commercial galleries very rarely show images of their artists work being installed (though Salon94 has a great blog that features this). Along the same lines, it's often difficult to find images of art fairs being loaded in. Artists who have their own websites also rarely show images of their work from this viewpoint (Sterling Ruby and Martin Eder (?) are a couple of exceptions). Holy Grail images would include almost anything pre-1980, better yet pre-1950.  The Smithsonian's Archives of American Art (watermarks excluded) is by far one of the best resources I've found. As far as mediums go, who knew it was so hard to find images of drawings and photographs being installed?
A short wish list, in case anyone was inclined to do some of their own digging and submit: Morris Louis (a good one, though this one is pretty good), Allan McCollum, Eve Hesse, Cady Noland and On Kawara.
What's next? I thought an old fashion artbook might be a good way to harness a lot of what's happening on the Installator tumblr. There is more to mine here: from the relational aesthetics of it all to the art historical precedents of installing art.  However, after looking into it and making a couple of inquiries, I realized that it would never happen. I don't own these images and I certainly wouldn't want to deal with the red tape (from artist to gallery to museum) about ownership and rights. Nonetheless, I do worry that with the fleeting nature of screen-scrolling, people aren't really looking. Good old fashion page-turning sounds nice to me – maybe one of these days. For now, I'll still be looking for content and posting it for my 137,507 "followersâ€.
Bio: Britton Bertran ran 40000 from 2005 to 2008. He currently is an Instructor at SAIC in the Arts Administration and Policy department and the Educational Programs Manager at Urban Gateways. An occasional guest-curator, he has organized exhibitions for the Hyde Park Art Center, the Loyola Museum of Art and several galleries. You can find him trying to be less cranky about the art world on twitter @br_tton. Stay tuned for a couple more guest posts where Britton will be waxing poetic on what's wrong with the Chicago art world circa 2013, while thinking out loud about how to fix it and another post about looking forward to 2014 (and maybe a top 10 list of sorts too.)
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- "KULTÚRA NAPJAINKBAN, dan perjovschi után szabadon" (via richardlivesus)
- "The Acrobatic Sculptures of the Rooftop Garden". Alexander Calder's "Man" being installed at SFMOMA
- MoMA staff dismantling Pablo Picasso's "Guernica†(1937) for shipment to Spain. Photo taken on September 8, 1981 by Mali Olatunji. Image © The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- "Monumental wall sculpture by Ellsworth Kelly installed on Dartmouth campus. This major site-specific work, titled Dartmouth Panels, was commissioned by longtime arts patrons Leon Black '73 and his wife Debra, who contributed $48 million towards the creation of the center.†(artdaily.org)
- "This piece is made of ceramics, a medium which Robert Arneson helped bring to a full-fledged, independent art form. Typically, large-scale works such as this would be made out of bronze or marble. Luckily for our installation crew, this piece is hollow, meaning it only weighs between 500-700 lbs. Heave-ho!" (SFMOMA)
- "This incredible sculpture by Turner Prize-winning artist Anthony Gormley, consisting of 40,000 clay figures, has been put on display at an empty Tudor manor house…. It took five days to place the humanoid characters into position across the ground floor of Barrington Court, a National Trust Property near Ilminster in Somerset. The installation 'Field for the British Isles', was originally created in 1993 and has been loaned to the property by the Arts Council Collection through its Trust New Art Programme.â€
- Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Placebo), 1991. Installation process. Image courtesy of the Williams College Museum of Art; photo by Roman Iwasiwk (curatedobject.us)
- Dominique de Ménil supervise l'acrochage d'une toile de Barnett Newman en 1991. | Dominique de Ménil oversees the hanging of a Barnett Newman's painting in 1991. (Marc Riboud, circa 1991, 38 x 52 cm via Galerie Verdeau, via tongue depressors; via bruvu)
Gallery Weekend Chicago: South Side
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Last month, in the midst of the crazy Expo Chicago extravaganza, I had the pleasure of going on a tour with Gallery Weekend Chicago. GWC was founded by Chicago gallerist Monique Meloche in 2011 and offers annually a weekend of private gallery and museum tours. I went on the Sunday tour which took us down to the Washington Park and Hyde Park neighborhoods on the South Side and made stops at the Arts Incubator, the Smart Museum, the Renaissance Society, and the Logan Arts Center.
The Arts Incubator in Washington Park was the first stop of the day. This space, part of the University of Chicago's Arts & Public Life Initiative, was conceptualized by Theaster Gates, who is now director of the project. The Incubator is home to an artist residency program, a community arts education program for teens, as well as an exhibition and performance space.
The Incubator currently hosts five resident artists. They have access to all of the facilities at the Logan Arts Center, where we headed later in the day, and have studio space at the Incubator. The Space Between, an exhibition of these artists' work, was installed at both the Incubator and the Logan. The work addressed the social differences between these two spaces – one located in the University-centric Hyde Park, the other in the adjacent Washington Park neighborhood.
Despite the early hour of our arrival four of the five artists were kind enough to meet us at the Incubator to show us around their studios and the exhibtion: Avery Young, Cecil McDonald, Cauleen Smith, and Tomeka Reid. We were also joined by the curators Allison Glenn and Monika Szewczyk.
Cauleen Smith created two "space stations" for the exhibition – one in her studio at the Incubator and the other in the gallery at the Logan. The installation in her studio played off the aesthetic of a work space with filing cabinets, a work table and a temporary wall made from screens that she used to screenprint wallpaper for the other space station at the Logan. There were also shelves with plants and small artifacts that she made from materials found in the surrounding neighborhood: chunks of cement and fragments of a road sign.
Avery Young and Cecil McDonald have a shared studio space, the floor of which was laid out with Avery's work for Groun(d), a solo show now up at the Incubator.
In the main exhibition space Avery Young, Tomeka Reid, and Cecil McDonald spoke to us about their work.
After going to the Smart Museum and the Renaissance Society (both of which have amazing shows up right now – Suicide Narcissus at the Renaissance Society blew me away.) we ended the day at the Logan where Monika Szewczyk showed us the other half of The Space Between, featuring Cauleen Smith's other space station, photographs by Cecil McDonald, assemblage works by Avery Young, and sound pieces by LeRoy Bach.
Monika also gave us a tour of building and, by the way, the view from the 10th floor is pretty phenomenal.
Bailey Romaine is an artist and bibliophile based in Chicago.


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The visitors were reduced to 10 men for the last 40 minutes after James Tarkowski was sent-off for a second bookable offence but the Bees produced a resilient rearguard action to emerge deserved winners.
Orient had enjoyed the better of the first period with David Mooney , Dean Cox and Romain Vincelot all going close before the Bees took the lead with their only shot in target in the first-half and that came in added time with Trotta's sublime finish.
Collecting a pass from Adam Forshaw 20 yards from goal, he directed his shot wide of the diving Eldin Jakupovic and into the bottom right-hand corner of the goal.
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Britt Assombalonga struck twice in two second-half minutes as Peterborough saw off MK Dons 2-0 and strengthened their grip on the final League One play-off place.
Assombalonga struck first in the 58th minute when he finished off Josh McQuoid's teasing low cross before slotting home from the penalty spot after Conor Washington was fouled.
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Helen C. Keaveny, 84, of Shakopee, entered eternal life Friday, April 12, 2013, at St. Gertrude's Health Center in Shakopee.
Born August 23, 1928, on the family farm in Birch Coulee near Morton, the daughter of Patrick and Hattie (Ecker) Keaveny.
Helen graduated from Morton High School in 1946 and graduated from St. Catherine University in 1950.
Having worked her entire life as a consumer consultant with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Denver, Col., she also worked several summers for the U.S. Park Service at Glacier National Park.
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Survivors include her sisters, Joan (Bernard) Frank, and Mary Johanneck; brother, Maurice; sister-in-law, Margaret Keaveny; many nieces and nephews.
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THE arrest of Scots College old boy Paul Peters has shocked his former classmates - particularly as the position of black sheep of the Peters family has long been occupied by his older brother Brent, who friends joke occupied a seat ''at the GPS table at Long Bay jail''.
Doug Peters, a pilot with Cathay Pacific, and his then wife Beverly, a physiotherapist, had four children - Wayne, now a successful investment banker, Brent, acquitted of attempted murder and heroin supply, Paul, a businessman who worked for years in Hong Kong, and Robyn, a former ballet dancer.
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By 15 or 16 ''Brentos'', as he was known, had pressed so many weights that his neck had all but disappeared. ''He walked around the school as though he was about to hit someone, which he often did,'' the classmate said.
A former teacher said Brent was such a narcissist that ''when it was raining he would look into the gutter to see his own reflection''.
Brent hit turbulent times after leaving school to work as a bouncer at the Venus Room at Kings Cross.
At the age of 25 he was charged with attempted murder after allegedly trying to run over two police officers who had mounted a stakeout at Neilsen Park in Vaucluse after receiving a tip-off that drug deals were taking place in the area.
Three years later he was charged over a major heroin trafficking ring run out of Kings Cross. He was acquitted of both charges.
At their trial, Peters and his wife Kathleen explained their affluent lifestyle was due to dealing cannabis and stolen cigarettes rather than heroin.
Father Doug later became embroiled in a federal police case aimed at freezing Brent Peters's assets.
Doug Peters said real estate purchases he had made on his son's behalf were from his own money. He told the court that he had saved money during his career as an airline pilot and currency courier. He said that when he left Hong Kong after his retirement he had carried $1.25 million in cash in his suitcase.
Rather than depositing the money in a bank, he kept it in a trunk, he said.
Also drawn into the matter was the eldest son, Wayne Peters, a well-known investment banker.
He told the court that his relationship with Brent was ''quite distant'' and that he had no business dealings, apart from executing some trust documents, and advancing him $200,000 for his bail and legal fees after his arrest.
Wayne Peters, 54, was the managing director of Swiss Banking Corporation in Australia, before heading to Hong Kong where he ran the fund manager Allard Capital Asia.


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The Department of Justice: Serving it up real good
Dara Purvis has a great raw story column concerning the Department of Justice and its recent beef with Southern Illinois University. The Civil Rights Division is threatening the university with lawsuits alleging violations of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Their crime? Funding scholarships deemed racist by the DOJ. What makes a scholarship racist, you might ask?
As Dara explains it:
There are three programs apparently judged to be racist: one called "Bridge to the Doctorate," that provides funds to assist "underrepresented minority students" to pursue "graduate study in science, technology, engineering, and math." Another, called "Proactive Recruitment and Multicultural Professionals for Tomorrow," aim at increasing "the number of minorities receiving advanced degrees in disciplines in which they are underrepresented." And the third, "Graduate Dean's," is for "woman and traditionally underrepresented students who have overcome social, cultural, or economic conditions." From these three efforts to provide financial assistance for traditionally underrepresented students pursuing graduate degrees, the Department of Justice alleges a "pattern or practice of discrimination against whites, non-preferred minorities and males," according to the letter sent to the University and discussed in the Chicago Sun-Times.
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TORONTO -- Toronto All-Star forward Chris Bosh is expected to need "weeks" to recover after surgery to repair a facial fracture suffered when he was struck by Antawn Jamison's elbow.
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The Raptors have a one-game lead over Chicago for the final spot in the Eastern Conference playoffs with five games left, including Wednesday night's game against Boston, and aren't likely to get Bosh back before the end of the regular season.
"It's not a fracture that would require screws or plates or anything like that," Marks said. "It's just a small flap of bone, per se, that's been put back in the right position so that it maintains that structural integrity. This would be in the time frame of weeks, perhaps, to set in place and to be healed."
Toronto's leading scorer sustained a "maxilla and nasal fracture to the right side of his face" when he was accidentally struck by the Cavaliers' forward in the opening minutes of Tuesday night's 113-101 loss to Cleveland.
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Bosh was coming across the foul lane when he was hit by Jamison's flailing left arm. Bosh immediately dropped to the floor and grabbed his head in anguish as blood streamed from his face. He was taken to the Cleveland Clinic, where a CT scan revealed the fractures.
Marks said Bosh was checked by an ophthalmologist, who said there were no vision problems. The maxilla fracture was non-displaced, and did not require surgery, but the decision was made to repair the nasal fracture.
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"When something like this happens it's time to rally, it's not time to fold the tents," Triano said.
Reggie Evans started in Bosh's place against the Celtics, while Hedo Turkoglu returned to the starting lineup in place of Wright, who left Tuesday's game with a sore right ankle.
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Castle Expansion
You know you've always wanted a Castle! ...unfortunately it also comes with a pesky French Knight, who is sure to Taunt you mercilessly. Seven new cards to add to the insanity that is Monty Python Fluxx.
This pack comes with a Keeper: The Castle, a Creeper: French Persons, three Goals that use them, as well as the Action: Second Taunting, and the New Rule: We Already Got One!
Price: $3.00
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Monty Python Fluxx Poster
Price: $1.00


text: You'll want to hide and not come out of this beautifully decorated second floor room. Enjoy a long soak in the double Jacuzzi in front of an electric fireplace, or soothe your muscles in the gorgeous shower with double showerheads. A queen sized bed and craftsman armoire complete the room, which is just steps away from the second floor sun deck.