Tag Archive for "01SJ"
O+A, Requiem for fossil fuels
01SJ Biennial, St. Joseph’s Cathedral, San Jose. Photo Everett Taasevigen
O+A, Requiem for fossil fuels
01SJ Biennial, St. Joseph’s Cathedral, San Jose. Photo Everett Taasevigen
O+A, Requiem for fossil fuels
01SJ Biennial, St. Joseph’s Cathedral, San Jose. Photo Everett Taasevigen
O+A, Requiem for fossil fuels
01SJ Biennial, St. Joseph’s Cathedral, San Jose. Photo Everett Taasevigen
O+A, Requiem for fossil fuels
01SJ Biennial, St. Joseph’s Cathedral, San Jose. Photo Everett Taasevigen
If you are looking for a change in your holiday sound track, O+A’s Requiem for fossil fuels was a transcendent performance in St. Joseph’s Cathedral at the 01SJ Biennial in San Jose.
In November, O+A performed Requiem again at the World Financial Center’s Winter Garden in New York, and the concert will be broadcast Thursday evening, December 2, as part of WNYC’s New Sounds series. Don’t miss it. Below the jump is a mini-preview.
Stephen Vitiello, Tall Grasses (location shot), 2010. Courtesy of the artist
I am thrilled to be in dialog with artist Stephen Vitiello about his exhibition Stephen Vitiello: Tall Grasses, along with Christopher Cox, exhibition curator and Executive Director of the Salina Art Center on Friday, October 29. I hope you can make it, if you are in the area.
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Stephanie Syjuco, Future Shock Nesting Boxes, 2005
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Saul Becker, Strip, 2010
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Jim Campbell, Ambiguous Icon #1 (running falling), 2000
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Peter Chilvers and Sandra O’Neill, Air, 2009
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
John F. Simon, Jr., Every Icon, 1997
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Beatriz da Costa, Pigeonblogger, 2006/2010
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Robert J. Lang, Peregrine Falcon, 2010
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Daina Taimina, 13-Symmetry, 2005, and Gail Wight, Ghost, 2004
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Christopher Locke, Egosiliqua malusymphonicus, 2010, and Hilarofustis atarium, 2010
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Erik Klein, Altair Musical Interference, 1975/2009
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Natalie Jeremijenko, Feral Robotic Dog, 2006
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Eduardo Kac, videotext works, 1985-86
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Gail Wight, Ghost, 2004
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Ken Goldberg and Karl F. Böhringer, flw, 1996, and Frank Oppenheimer, bamboo cane
Small Wonders, San Jose International Airport
Tad Hirsch, Tripwire, 2006
I just returned from San Jose working on the 2010 01SJ Biennial where, among other projects, I worked with Jaime Austin and Shona Kitchen to install “Small Wonders,” a cabinet exhibition based on the idea of the wunderkammer at the new expansion of the San Jose International Airport – which has some amazing public art, and you should definitely fly through there next time you come to the Bay Area.
Small Wonders includes work by Saul Becker, Jim Campbell, Center for PostNatural History, Peter Chilvers and Sandra O’Neill, Beatriz da Costa, Amy Franceschini, Ken Goldberg and Karl F. Böhringer, Tad Hirsch, Misako Inaoka, Natalie Jeremijenko, Eduardo Kac, Erik Klein, Robert J. Lang, Christopher Locke, Frank Oppenheimer, John F. Simon, Jr., SuttonBeresCuller, Stephanie Syjuco, Daina Taimina, and Gail Wight.
Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, August 7, 1930. via Wikipedia
The words of the song “Strange Fruit” were originally penned in 1936 under the name Lewis Allan by Bronx schoolteacher Abel Meeropol in reaction to a photograph of the 1930 lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana.
I don’t think I’ll ever be able to listen to Billie Holiday’s memorable rendition of Strange Fruit the same again after viewing this photograph, which is part of the point of Piotr Szyhalski’s Labor Camp Orchestra, including its “cover” of Strange Fruit – to make visceral the Iraq war. To take us beyond the blaring headlines, patriotic jingoism, and national security fervor to a place that is literally unforgettable.
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