2009 December : Finley + Muse

building a new apparatus

Posted: Dec 30 | Author: John Muse | Filed under: News & Updates | Tagged: Aldrich Museum, Living Under Satellites, Paul Swenbeck, Sleeping Under Stars, Wormwood & Haze

Paul Swenbeck of Wormwood & Haze has fabricated a ceiling turner for us.

Imaginative Feats: second place on Funnelpages

Posted: Dec 23 | Author: John Muse | Filed under: News & Updates | Tagged: Funnelpages, Su Tomesen

Thanks for the replug, Funnelpages. And if for any reason Su Tomesen, the new titleholder, cannot fulfill her reign, we would happily take over for her.

Samantha broke it. And she fixed it.

Posted: Dec 23 | Author: John Muse | Filed under: News & Updates | Tagged: "They broke it. Let them fix it.", Samantha Salazar

Samantha Salazar took over the rotating platform and the double-sided projection surface for her new work, Craving.

Dylan Broke it. And he fixed it.

Posted: Dec 21 | Author: John Muse | Filed under: News & Updates | Tagged: "They broke it. Let them fix it.", Damien Hirst, Dylan Ravenfox, William Butler Yeats

Dylan Ravenfox created new media for each of the five video sources in the Cantor Fitzgerald exhibition. The full title of his installation work: To See or Not See (and Hear): On the Physical Impossibility of Beauty in the Mind of Someone Living: On The Semiotics of Interspecific Expressions of Misery, the caustic, hollow consumption of ‘meaning’, and the search for asylum in the extraction and implantation of a reel.

Sam and Goda broke it. And they fixed it.

Posted: Dec 21 | Author: John Muse | Filed under: News & Updates | Tagged: "They broke it. Let them fix it.", Flat Land, Goda Trakumaite, Imaginative Feats Literally Presented, Sam Kaplan

Goda Trakumaite and Sam Kaplan worked with the Flat Land apparatus, and here is their break-fix.

Jane broke it. And she fixed it.

Posted: Dec 15 | Author: John Muse | Filed under: News & Updates | Tagged: "They broke it. Let them fix it.", Jane Holloway, Quické Translations

We showed Jane Holloway’s Quiché Translations in Cantor Fitzgerald Thursday night during “They broke it. Let them fix it.” But she was unable to make the event. So Jane, Hannah, and John looked at her work together the following night.

Imaginative Feats undone and done

Posted: Dec 14 | Author: John Muse | Filed under: News & Updates | Tagged: Imaginative Feats Literally Presented, Matthew Callinan

John, Matthew, and Hazel packed and erased the exhibition.

Jovial Tales for Tragic Sensibilities in Florida and Georgia

Posted: Dec 12 | Author: John Muse | Filed under: News & Updates | Tagged: catalog, Jovial Tales for Tragic Sensibilities, New Langton Arts

We have a few copies of Jovial Tales for Tragic Sensibilities, the catalog for our 2003 exhibition at San Francisco no-longer-a-gallery, New Langton Arts. RIP? We would gladly send one to anyone plucky enough to write and ask and declare unwavering fascination with such tales. But here’s what Amazon will do for you.

“They broke it. Let them fix it. In order.”

Posted: Dec 10 | Author: John Muse | Filed under: News & Updates | Tagged: "They broke it. Let them fix it.", Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, reboot Imaginative Feats

This is not your regular come-when-you-want-to art opening. There are multiple works to shuffle through multiple video-projection gadgets, and so there’s a method and an order to these things.