Avant Garde
Go! Push Pops
The Push Pops are a radical, transnational queer feminist artist collective. Geared toward engendering ‘Embodied Feminism,’ the collective is primarily concerned with the expenditure and conservation of the self in relation to the Other. Employing the female body – that which is bound to a cross-cultural language of desire, signification and power – in tactical, ideological strategy, the Push Pops utilize gesture, exclamation and popular idiom to embody a new and discursive physicality. Neo-Dada, Fluxist and Feminist, their performance work posits the body as a danger to the operation of reason and male economy of lack. A wild leap, an elusive slogan, a paroxysm of the flesh – The Push Pops reinscribe the body through participatory ritual, spontaneous performance and interactive multi-media installation.
There's as much of this as you can stand on YouTube. Or at their home page.
Caution: lots of patriarchy-demolishing swears in the second video.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 17, 2014 -
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Category: Feminism, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Avant Garde
Antics of the Artists
The filmmaker's home page.
Those wacky, outrageous bohemians!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 21, 2013 -
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Category: Aliens, Literature, Movies, Avant Garde, Surrealism, Fictional Monsters
POUND, by Downey Sr & Jr
The first clip shows Robert Downey Jr's first role in the year 1970, in a film by his father, Robert Downey Sr. As an example of late-60's weirdness-- Well, let's hear from Leanne Benson at IMDB:
I saw this film last night at the Barbican in London, apparently it hadn't been shown for thirty years, longer than I've been alive! We were warned at the beginning that it wasn't the easiest film to watch and with that in mind, I actually found it not too difficult to watch. All the characters were very different and I really like the idea of having people play the animals. It was pretty sad but also heartwarming in a way. I loved Robert Downey jr as the puppy, so cute!!!
I would say that the film was pretty bizarre and I'm not sure if I could watch it again for a while but for someone like me who is interested in they ways of past decades, I think it was a brilliant peek into the late sixties. There was one particular character, the old lady who played the dog with the mange problem who I thought was brilliant, amazing styling and directing. A film that should be available to be shown.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 18, 2013 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Celebrities, Movies, Avant Garde, Surrealism, 1960s
Kou Kou
こうこう | koukou from takashi ohashi on Vimeo.
Here is something akin to fireworks for the 4th.
"KOU KOU is a visual work based on an abstract animation synchronized with a song comprising the unique syllabic sounds of the Japanese language, without actually using any full words."
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 04, 2013 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Languages, Video, Avant Garde, Asia
Trevor Winkfield
I rather like the weird paintings of Trevor Winkfield. Do you?
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 19, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Eccentrics
Graffiti-bot
One of the less practical automatons, the juvenile delinquent of the robot species.
Learn more here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 09, 2013 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, AI, Robots and Other Automatons, Juvenile Delinquency
Fluxion
Let me know at which point you bail from this piece. But if you love it instead, be prepared to pay a high price for each CD--for some unfathomable reason.
More about the musician.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 12, 2013 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Music, Avant Garde, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Pre-internet Underground Book Distribution
Original ad here.
Gather around, children, and you shall learn of an ancient time, before the internet. A day of paper fanzines and weird information obtained only via books delivered by snailmail.
The main purveyor of such good stuff was the Loompanics catalog. Alas, they were driven out of business in 2006. The current website using their domain name is a shell and a scam by cybersquatters.
Over one hundred Loompanics books have been tagged as a Goodreads collection. You can get a small sense of what they were all about there.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 11, 2013 -
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Category: Drugs, Avant Garde, Books, Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies and Slackers, Conspiracy Theories and Theorists, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s
On Space Time Foam
This is an art installation in Milan, where you crawl with other museum patrons over a plastic surface. Lot of weird pics at the link.
But is that plastic suspended over a high well of emptiness, an atrium or courtyard, as it seems in the video? And guaranteed not to break?
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 10, 2012 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Science, Europe
Documenta
I'm sorry I learned about the Documenta Art Festival only just now. The thirteenth one occured this past September, and there won't be another for five more years.We'll have to content ourselves with these videos till then.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 06, 2012 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Bombast, Bloviation and Pretentiousness, 1950s, Europe, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
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