“Likewise, I had been querying Colin about his advertising strategy, mailing list, public relations, etc., and asked him why the gallery did not produce press releases, and he explained that there was a very small window of time in which the visual work of art is experienced before this perception is inevitably shaped by language, and this window should be kept open as long as possible: that we should resist prematurely foreclosing the meaning derived from the visual, resisting as long as possible channeling the viewer’s experience through the strictures of language. There exists relatively few texts as written by Colin de Land”
IRAN (1971)
In the 1970’s, a petroleum pipeline firm commissioned french film-director Claude Lelouch to make Iran (1971) as a gift for the Shah’s wife. He apparently shot six miles of film in order to make the film, which is an incredible example of juxtapositional editing. The score was composed by Francis Lai.
I LIKE THIS
Bob Cobbing
Louis Armstrong plays trumpet on a camel in Egypt in 1961 while his wife films.
Trisha Brown’s Leaning Duets (1970)
so good
Creatures of Comfort: Triple Threat
Tori: “It’s funny for women because journalists pit women against each other. If you think about Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton they were all much more similar to each other than we are. We have tits. We have three holes. That’s what we have in common. We don’t even play the same…
w nasatir 2011 more here
w nasatir 2011 more here
