kim's bedroom press release
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PRESS RELEASE
KIM'S BEDROOM
17 March through 24 April 2000 in MU-De Witte Dame, Eindhoven
Opening: 17 March at 8pm
In Kim's Bedroom, conceptualizer and guest curator Kim Gordon (SonicYouth)
introduces the spectator to an extraordinary, personal world in which visual
arts, photography, film/video, fashion and music have come together. The
project includes an exhibition, a music performance, a film night and a
publication with CD.
The artists Gordon invited are either active in more than one domain or at the
crossovers of the disciplines mentioned before. The layout of the exhibition is
a striking interplay of the distinctions between public and private, inside and
outside, fantasy and reality. The MU space has been transformed into an
interior referring to a film set. A curved wall leads the spectators via a
succession of works by Jessica Wood, Jutta Koether, Kim Gordon, Rita Ackermann,
Spike Jonze, Sophia Coppola, Richard Kern and Raymond Pettibon to the focal
point of the exhibition. In this intimate space, the bedroom, one of the
artworks is an installation by fashion designer Susan Cianciolo. In this
'homely' environment, the audience is
invited to see themselves - and obviously to be seen - in the Cianciolo
designs. In the bedroom, the audience can make their own selection from video
films by Tamra Davis, Sadie Benning, Cameron Jamie, Tony Oursler, Dave Markey,
Lisa Rinzler, Kathleen Hanna and Kim Gordon. With the presentation of Kim's
Bedroom, MU has realized an exciting project in which recent developments in
contemporary art are shown in juxtaposition. The majority of the participating
artists have come up with new works for the exhibition.
During the opening of the exhibition, the publication designed by Purple in
Paris will be presented. This publication contains works by most of the artists
participating in Kim's Bedroom, and includes a CD. The music performance will
start at 9pm on Saturday 18 March 2000 in Cultureel Centrum De Effenaar.
Participating musicians are Quix-o-tic, Steve Malkmus, Jim O'Rourke, Ikue Mori,
DJ Olive, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore. On Sunday 19 March, from 8pm onwards,
films and videos by Raymond Pettibon, Dave Markey, Cameron Jamie and a
selection from the video recordings of the exhibition
will be shown in the Rembrandt Cinema.
For photographic material, interviews and detailed explanation, please contact
Ton van Gool, director of MU.
Opening hours
Monday through Friday 10am to 6pm
Saturday 10am to 5pm
Sunday 1pm to 5pm
Kim Gordon
Kim Gordon was born in 1953 in Los Angeles. She has been living and working in
New York since 1980. She graduated form the Otis College of Art and Design in
LA She worked for several Soho art galleries in the early 1980s. At Jo Bear1s
request she compiled an exhibition for his new White Columns gallery in 1982.
Mike Kelley and Tony Oursler were among the participants in this show. Dan
Graham invited her to join in a performance of am all
female rockband, which marked the start of her first bang CKM. Together with
Thurston Moore, Lee Renaldo and Richard Edson she formed Sonic Youth in 1981.
Kim has been a member ever since. With Sonic Youth she has made numerous
albums and has performed in all major rockclubs and festivals in Europe, Japan,
Australia and America. In 1992 together with Julie Cafritz she founded Free
Kitten. Kim Gordon directed videos for The Breeders, she
co-produced Hole1s album Pretty on the Inside and in 1994 she started the
clothing line X-girl. In 1996 Gordon was involved in an exhibition entitled
Baby Generation at Parco gallery in Tokyo. This November Kim Gordon is
releasing a record with DJ Olive and Ikue Mori.
MU - De Witte Dame
In 1995 the former Philips factory at Emmasingel in Eindhoven was
reconverted into De Witte Dame after a design be architect Bert Dirrix. In May
1998 the complex was opened. De Witte Dame holds the Eindhoven Public Library,
The Design Academy, Philips Design, Art Library De Krabbedans and MU Art
Foundation. MU compromises several art-initiatives and has an exhibition space
of its own measuring over 600 square meters. Ten to twelve
projects are realized each year covering the areas of art, architecture and
design. Ton van Gool is the current MU manager.
Publication : Purple Book
The publication will contain material by most of the participating artists. It
will be designed and published by Purple.
Purple is a magazine that was founded in 1992 by a group of young critics,
artists and curators. Their program was to create a new kind of space for
artists to present their work and express their ideas; and to design a network
through which people working in different disciplines, could easily access new
information and each other. 14 issues later, Purple continues to evolve and
refine its original program. A typical issue features interviews, articles and
presentations covering a wide range of topics and disciplines
which include; film and video, politics, fashion, architecture, sexuality,
science, photography and music. Each issue is built around a loose theme which
serves to create a link between subjects--past examples have been: Indian
Summer, Violet Violence, Post-Sex. Since its inception Purple has expanded to
include the Purple Fashion, Purple Sexe, and Purple Fiction modules. The texts
are written in roughly equal parts French and English, without translations.
CD
The CD, which will be part of the Purple Book, is to contain material
selected by Kim Gordon. The selection will be made up of music and sounds
created by participating artists, as well as feature contributions by musicians
deemed fit within the atmosphere of the project as a whole. A choice is going
to be made form contributions by the following artists: Loren Mazzacane, Chan
Marshall, Julie Cafritz, Michael Morely, Mike Kelley, Raymond Pettibon, DJ
Olive, Ikue Mori, Kim Gordon, Rita Ackermann, Jutta Koether, Kathleen Hanna,
Yoshimi (Boredoms), John Fahey, and Adris.
ARTISTS
Rita Ackermann Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1968, Ackermann currently lives and
works in New York. Ackermann is best known for her paintings of young female
characters. Richly painted these works explore issues of sexuality, danger,
and ambiguity. The paintings resist definition, and are often times
described in contradicting terms. They at one moment pursue an utopianism,
while in the next moment carry an edge of cynicism. More recently Ackermann
has explored the use of murals. However, she still remains committed to the
complication of meanings in these large scale works. Ackermann has exhibited
in the US and Europe. She has had solo exhibits at Andrea Rosen
Gallery and the Swiss Institute in New York. And in Europe she has had solo
shows at Interim Art in England, Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens, Greece,Bartok
32 Galeria, Budapest, Hungary and Peter Kilchman Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland.
Sadie Benning
Film- and video director Sadie Benning was born in Madison, (Wisc.) in 1973 and
is currently living and working in New York. Among her best know works are the
Judy Spots (1995 15 min.), German Song (1995 6 min.) and Flat is Beautiful
(1998 50 min.). Flat is Beautiful explores with great depth and sensitivity,
the emotional and psychological life of an eleven-year-old girl. This girl
faces the challenges of living with a single mother and her
gay roommate in a society that can be less than forgiving about sexual
orientation. In It Wasn1t Love (1992) Benning stages her own Hollywood movie
in her bedroom at home. Using a Fisher Price toy camera, Benning achieves a
quality of cheap, low-tech, and immediacy in the film. Her videos have an
intense eerie dream quality. Benning also made a series of narcissistic
self-portraits where she assumed both male and female personae.
Susan Cianciolo
Best know as a fashion designer, Cianciolo is also a successful film
director. Her film Pro Abortion / Anti Pink was awarded critics choice at the
Rotterdam Film Festival in 1997. Her fashion work is very different from pret
a porter. Her creations are all handmade and her use of cutting, folding, and
pasting onto existing clothing produce an almost gathered quality. Her
hallmark is the knitted, embroidered or crouched patch stuck almost
involuntarily on or between her designs. Cianciolo also leaves part of the
design process up to her buyers; having them complete the creations.
Her denim skirts, part of the Run Collection, must be cut to the desired length
by the wearer herself. Cianciolo1s shows have proven controversial. Her
latest collection was shown by sleeping models.
Sofia Coppola
Sofia Coppola was born in 1972 in Los Angeles. In 1994 Coppola started her own
fashionline Milk Fed. She also co-hosted the TV show Hi Octane with Zoe
Cassavetes. For the past 6 years Coppola has been photographing teenage girls.
The style in which Coppola takes the photographs create a post Calvin Klein
mood. Most recently Coppola has immersed herself in film. Her short film Lick
the Star premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 1998. And
her first feature film, The Virgin Suicides, starring James Woods and Kathleen
Turner, was shown at the 1999 Cannes Film festival. It is due for release
towards the end of this year.
Tamra Davis
Film director Tamra Davis, (1962, LA) has made three films: Guncrazy (1993),
CB4 (1993) and Bill Madison (1995). She has directed a number of videos for
Sonic Youth. Davis1 has also made several short documentaries. One of which
investigates women in the music underground.
Mark Gonzales
Mark Gonzales is a 30 year old artist / poet from Los Angeles, CA who currently
lives and works in San Francisco. His colorful paintings and child-like
drawing style are both comical and deeply profound. The work Gonzales produces
reflects the raw energy of youth along with a deep sense of spirituality and
razor sharp wit. Gonzales utilizes a vast array of materials to create his
works. Various types of paints and markers, photocopy collage and his unique
miss spelled text come together to produce
his signature style. His peculiar influences and the topics discussed in his
work reflect a wide variety of contemporary issues. The themes of love,
religion, the media, fashion, sex and basic human emotion are repeatedly
referred to in his creations. In addition, Gonzales maintains a strange
obsession with American millionaires. Portraits of, or references to people
such as Howard Hughes, Warren Buffet and Malcolm Forbes are commonly
featured in his works. Ironically, Gonzales maintains that most things he
creates are taken form personal experience or from television shows he used to
watch when he was younger. A great deal of Mark Gonzales1 early popularity was
based in the fact that he was (is) one of the most famous professional
skateboarders in history. The maneuvers he created and the ease in which he
performed them have achieved legendary status within the skate world. In
fact, the designs he created for the bottoms of his skateboards were where his
career as an artist really began. Mark Gonzales
has mounted exhibitions of his artwork worldwide. His has had solo exhibits at
Alleged Gallery, Inc., in New York (1994, 1995, 1996), X-Large in Los Angeles
(1994), Galerie Analix in Geneva Switzerland (1998) and Parco Gallery in Tokyo
(1998). Gonzales1 artworks and writings have established a solid reputation
and huge following in both America and Europe and his works are widely sought
after by a diverse and dedicated group of collectors.
Kim Gordon
Kim Gordon is an artist, musician and curator, living and working in New York.
In 1998 Gordon was involved in the collaboration freetime, with Rita Ackermann
and Jutta Koether. Freetime participated in the exhibition entitled I Love New
York at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne. She was also involved in the exhibition
Baby Generation in Tokyo. Gordon has curated shows in NYC at Annina Nosei
Gallery and White Columns. She has written critical art essays in Art Forum,
ZG Magazine, Real Life and various artist
catalogs. She is currently creating art and working as a musician with Sonic
Youth.
Cameron Jamie
Cameron Jamie is momentarily living and working in Los Angeles. He has mounted
solo exhibitions in LA and Bordeaux and has taken part in many group
exhibitions in the US and internationally. In the past Jamie1s work focused on
sequential interpretation and an amusing / disturbing morphing of portraiture.
For his one person show in Los Angeles, for example, Jamie1s commissioned a
series of portraits which originated with the pastel sketch of a cartoon
character or toy. With each rendering, the commissioned artist
(who ranged from a caricaturist to a ŚStoner1 artist) accentuates or completely
deletes certain physical features. In one series, a sketch of the artist posed
with a Bart Simpson Doll, is turned, through Jamie1s process into a portrait of
a mother and son by the last rendition. Cameron Jamie1s fascination with
apartment and pro wrestling inspire his latest series of videos and
photographs. Apartment wrestling was a movement of pictorial soft core
pornography that became popular n the 601s and early
701s. It depicts people wrestling in their homes. Although apartment
wrestling was a well known adjunct to the S&M scene, it is comparatively
innocent. Using average residences instead of sets and stages, viewers
fetishized not only the wrestling poses and the depiction of Śplay fighting1
but the domestic interiors which became the arena. Viewers watched as intently
for a piece of dirty laundry caught in the frame, as they did for an incidental
show of flesh. Like the genre he emulates, Jamie1s matches
are set in ordinary homes. The documentation of these matches are never done
by professionals. Instead, Jamie collaborates with whomever happens to be
around, lending a suprisingly refreshing amateur Śhome video1 perspective.
There are, however,
peculiar innovations. For the series, Jamie traveled to Mexico City, drew a
self-portrait and commissioned a mask maker for Mexican pro-wrestlers to
fabricate a mask from it. The result is a theatrical, androgynous, abstraction
of the artist likeness that conceals/reveals his identity. Wearing long johns
that emphasize his thin, gangly frame, Jamie transforms into a nameless,
animated character, inverting the process that began with
the previous portrait series. Participants are asked to improvise dialogue
while the match goes on. The resulting videos flip back and forth between
documentary filmmaking and a ritualized, staged performance.
Spike Jonze
Born in 1969 as Adam Spiegel. His fame and popularity are due to his work as a
filmmaker in the skateboard streetculture. Jonze1s childlike pleasure and
imagination are widely renowned. His brilliant way of watching and filming,
his use of color and his way of editing make him a very popular music video
director. Jonze1s credits include videos for Ween, Dinosaur Jr., REM, Daft
Punk and Chemical Brothers. His clip for the Beastie Boys1 Sabotage is widely
considered a classic. Jonze has also made commercials
for the likes of Levi1s, Nike, Nintendo and Coors. Jonze recently completed
his first feature film, Being John Malkovich. It is due to premier in November
1999. Besides workings with mega budgets he keeps on making low budget videos
such as The Rockefeller1s skank by Fat Boy Slim. In addition to his work in
film and video, Jonze writes and photographs. He is never without his camera
and is know n for his guerilla style snaps. Spike Jonze1s stories and photos
appear in the Beastie Boys1 Magazine, Grand Royal
and in Juxtapoz.
Richard Kern
Dave Markey
www.geocities.com/wegotpower/
Jutta Koether
An artist and critic, Koether is originally from Cologne Germany and now lives
and works in New York. Her work is both spiritual and deeply intellectual. Her
earlier work is know for its incorporation of literary sources. At times
illegible, Koether places quotations from Freud, Walter Benjamin and René Char
on her canvases. Some of her canvases appear to be heavily layered, while
others take on the quality of a water color. Her work also often references her
dual cultural identity. She expresses observations of an artist originally
from Germany living New York. In Koether1s latest solo New York show, "sun / /
ny" her work explored the idea of the sun. She researched the beliefs and
interpretations of the sun cross
culturally. Koether discovered that common between cultures is a belief in the
power of the sun. It is a creator, generator, inspirer and a destroyer. In the
colors and materials Koether chooses, she maintains this pull between the
different and often opposing forces of the sun. As in much of Koether1s
earlier works, her paintings defy closure. They are loaded with material,
eclecticism and open-endedness which is crucial to our understanding of
them. Koether has had six solo exhibitions at Pat Hearn Gallery, in New York.
She has had solo exhibits at Daniel Bucholz Galerie, Galerie Sophia Ungers and
Galerie Monika Spruth in Cologne, Germany, Bruno Brunnet Galerie, Berlin,
Germany and Galerie Bliech-Rossi, Graz, Austria. Koether has been included in
group exhibitions throughout the US and Europe.
Raymond Pettibon
Born Raymond Ginn in 1957, he adopted the nickname Pettibon given to him by his
father. He graduated from UCLA in 1977 with a BA in economics. His drawing
career began in 1975 when he became a political cartoonist for the UCLA
newspaper. In 1978 Pettibon self-published Captive Chains, the first of over
100 raw, scrawled, 20-30 page zines dealing with sex, violence, drugs and
hippies. Other titles of his zines are Pig Cupid, Selfishness and Tripping
Corpses. Pettibon began to mix and match graphic styles around
1983. His first solo show in New York was in 1989 at Feature. By the early
Ś901s, his tone had gone from acetic to omnipotent-reflective. His following
slowly grew form ragtag cult to high muck-a-muck. Pettibon it the apotheosis
of so-called Śbad1 drawing: once people thought it sucked, now connoisseurs
line up for it. Pettibon1s starkly black and white drawings have an aggressive
and atonal look. His greatest accomplishment is the aggregate way he fuses
words and images on paper, turning them into something new - not cartoon,
illustration, illumination or literature but an obtuse art born in the amniotic
fluids of poetry, philosophy and dissent.
The words and the pictures are inseparable. Pettibon deploys numerous graphic
styles and visual sources, among them Hollywood noir, pulp-fiction covers,
comic books, TV and album cover art. Amongst Pettibon obsessions are:
President Kennedy1s love life and its connection to the Mafia, surfers,
baseball, the bible, J. Edgar Hoover, Joan Crawford, Elvis, Charles Manson,
the letter A, mushroom clouds, trains and a lot of dicks.
Pettibon has produced more than 7000 drawings and mounted solo exhibits. He
designed covers for Sonic Youth, and numerous flyers and posters for music
events.
Lisa RiNzler
Lisa RiNzler works mainly as a cinematographer outside of Hollywood. Her
credits include Wim Wenders films, the Hughes Brothers1 "Menace to Society",
and Tamra Davis films. Rizler recently completed work on a short film
documenting three adolescents in a mental hospital. Each youth wrote and
performed their own story. The outcome is extremely emotional and thought
provoking. The film succeeds in capturing a truth and beauty inside each kid
as their story unfolds.
Jessika Wood
Jessika Wood was born in Karlsruhe, Germany. For the past 19 years she has
resided in the United States. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles,
CA. Wood has always taken part in art. Her work has been shown at Galerie
Martin Suppan in Vienna, Austria, Spanish Kitchen, Los Angeles, CA and Kantor
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
al
>releasing a record with DJ Olive and Ikue Mori.
what are the words i'm looking for?....ah yes, "told ya so"
gabe loewenberg
al wrote:
> >This November Kim Gordon is
> >releasing a record with DJ Olive and Ikue Mori.
>
> what are the words i'm looking for?....ah yes, "told ya so"
but...
see my post from the SLR email... spring 2000...
--
gabe - http://home1.gte.net/gloew/gabe.htm
The Simpsons Quote of The Day for 3/14/00:
"my eyes! the goggles do nothing!"
- rainier wolfcastle
"mmm... ovulicious" "more testicles means more iron"
-homer simpson -lunchlady doris
"get hard against the hollow
get deep beneath the shallow
make the leaders follow
get live
bust lies
fuck it up!"
-mike watt - http://hootpage.com
"listen! do you hear that ticking? that's you! you're the bomb!"
-henry rollins - http://www.two1361.com
Brian Dimeler
Is this SYR5 or something completely different? Chris?
al
>Mori.
>
>Is this SYR5 or something completely different? Chris?
it's SYR5. although, it being something other than a SY or "SY with ___"
release, it might be promoted or titled differently than past releases,
methinks.
as for Gabe: c'mon man, you should know better: the latest speculated
release date is always the most accurate.
gabe loewenberg
al wrote:
> as for Gabe: c'mon man, you should know better: the latest speculated
> release date is always the most accurate.
well, considering that just today. SLR said "coming this spring", and that
kim's bedroom press release originated in europe... no offense to the eurpeans
in here, but sometimes you guys get things a little late (even though the rest
of SYRs were available in the us and europe on the same day in the past via
mail order...).
bottom line... i'll go with what SLR says... we'll see...