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John Chris Jones, The Internet and Everyone, 2000. On view in The Library of Helen DeWitt part of "The Library Vaccine" at Artists Space, NY (Sept 25 - Nov 16) "The Library Vaccine" presents few collections of books in order to sample art's distinctive relationship to the book form in its singularity, and in its states of reproduction, distribution and accumulation. Among them is the library of writer Helen DeWitt, who since the late 1990s has addressed the governance of language by social machines. On her practice, she addressed “debugging the system of signs” from the perspective of linguistics, coding, and the visualization of data, among others. #HelenDeWitt #ArtistsSpace #PMx #PMxPostMeridiem #Internet #Publications #JohnChrisJones (at Artists Space : Exhibitions)

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Artist Joan Jonas giving a lecture on her performative work. poetry, music, and politics. October 9, 2014. Organized by Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts #JoanJonas #PMx #PMxPostMeridiem #PostMeridiem #Wattis #CCA #Music #Poetry #Politics #Drawing #Performance #JasonMoran (at California College of the Arts)

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Juan Capistrán, "I cannot all rebuild what so many men persist in destroying," 2013, Video, color, 5:00 min and "Crowd Control or Your Fantasy Version Of The World Is Doomed To Failure," 2014, Etched glass. Recently on view at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, as a part of Made in LA exhibition. Juan Capistrán works in sculpture, painting, video, photography, drawing, installation, performance, and sound—whichever method best serves the specific project. A Mexican-born artist who grew up in a predominantly African American neighborhood in Los Angeles, Capistrán deftly maneuvers between subjects ranging from the civil rights movement to punk music to the art of the 1960s, blending practices, references, and themes into subversive critiques of American culture. #Juan Capistrán #Minimalism #Body #PopCulture #CarlAndre #HammerMuseum #MadeinLA #LosAngeles #LA #PMxPostMeridiem

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Tala Madani, "Eye Stabber," 2013, single channel, stop motion animation, 1:35 minute. Tala Madani’s paintings, drawings, and stop-motion animations construct grotesque worlds and fantastical scenes in which the boneheadedness of men reaches a fever pitch. Madani tends to depict her male protagonists as disemboweled, humiliated, and pathetic entities, quickly rendered figures that leak fluids, engage in curious homosocial rites of passage, and inflict intolerable pain upon one another. #TalaMadani #Grotesque #StopMotion #PMxPostMeridiem

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Pablo Guardiola, from "Maintenance Yard," on view at Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco (9/5 to 10/11, 2014). Through photographic and sculptural metaphors, Guardiola gives new meaning to objects, and weaves new stories. "Maintenance Yard" explores the 'markers of geography through historical figures Francis Drake and George Dewey, plotting story lines from the Bay Area to the Caribbean and back, emblematic of Guardiola’s own personal trajectory' (Hotchkiss). The works are heavily anchored in the idea of History as equation, where History is approached as a multiple choice narrative; inevitably the plot of the story is about its process of creation and the endless outcomes and permutations that can arise. #PabloGuardiola #Shark #Conceptualism #PMxPostMeridiem

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Art in the City. Los Angeles. 2014. #PMxPostMeridiem

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Art in the City. Texas. 1974 Stephen Shore, "West Ninth Avenue, Amarillo, Texas," October 2, 1974, from the series "American Surfaces," chromogenic print. Image courtesy the artist and 303 Gallery, New York. Last day to see it in the exhibition "Aperture Remix," (05/24 - 9/26, 2014) at Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego. In the 1970s, Shore set the standard for large-format color photography of the vernacular landscape, producing coolly detailed photographs that transformed the environment into evocative tableaus. The "American Surfaces" series consists of snapshots photographed on the road to Amarillo, Texas between 1972–1973. #StephenShore in #Apertureremix @mopasd #PMxPostMeridiem

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Gerard & Kelly, "Kiss Solo," 2012 Four-channel video and sound. 45:00 min. On view at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, as a part of Made in LA exhibition. Through performance, photography, choreography, video, and writing, Gerard & Kelly upend the discipline of dance and its relation to the visual arts while remaining resolutely within its boundaries. By taking cues from conceptualist dance of the 1960s and 1970s, strategies of appropriation and institutional critique of the 1980s and 1990s, and more recent developments in queer theory, Gerard & Kelly question traditional assumptions of gender and sexuality. Photo by Elisabeth Berntein (Installation view, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, 2013, from www.ucla.hammer.edu) #Gerard&Kelly #Performance #Choreography #Dance #Video #Writing #Gender #Sexuality #Queer #Theory #HammerMuseum #MadeinLA #LosAngeles #LA #PMxPostMeridiem