new mix on here

may 2013

show at open space in baltimore

Hey you guys I contacted open space and they are accepting proposals for the fall. I really think we should do this!!!

I have been working on the credits idea, and the wishing well idea, and the pissing in the wind idea. All of those things seem to tie in a bit from our feel from last year ie. the empty overcoming obstacles pamphlet via siobhan.

I still would like to call the show Friends with Benefits. Anyone else have thoughts?

Happy New Year!

For Park

Sorry it's late!

Short mix

Here is some music for the end of the world and also for just walking around and stuff.

download here

mix cd in 3 Acts:

i almost had this mix finished in september but it was missing some things and so i added these sound clips that separate the songs for a hopefully entertaining mix cd in 3 acts! enjoy

oh yea and in case it doesn't put it back correctly, this is what the song order is:

SSAC and K.Saari Gallery invite you to

A Casual Evening with the Curator of Geometry Satellite or the Curiosity Rover

Thursday September 20th, 6:00pm

Tour and Brief Talk will begin at 6:30pm

Located 635 Lincoln Avenue, in Old Town Square

(in the former Quicksilver retail store)

 

Geometry Satellite or the Curiosity Rover is a Steamboat Springs Arts Council pop-up gallery collaboration with K. Saari Gallery. Park Myers, Arts Council artistic director, will be giving a tour and brief talk about the project and scope of the exhibition. Join us and the artists for beverages and lite fare at 6:00pm, Myers will begin at 6:30pm.

Please let us know if you plan to attend by emailing info@steamboatspringsarts.com. For more information about this exhibition and other SSAC programming please visit our website steamboatspringsarts.com

Image: .01 kilo Curiosity Confetti, an artwork created specifically, by Siobhan Feehan, for Geometry Satellite or the Curiosity Rover. Stemming from an earlier work by the artist, Cosmic Confetti, Feehan has produced confetti from imagery transmitted from NASA's recent Martian explorer, the Curiosity Rover.

Prettyboy

Dan Deacon has a song on his new album America called Prettyboy which I like because it's like a secret slice of America for just us who have lived here and swam in it. And also here is an interesting article about language from Nat'y G for your downloading pleasure.

http://vimeo.com/46897823

You're the best Park!

We should do this!
Maybe with the photo from duck neck?

scroll down to the brass mirrors ughughguhgh

Yampa Valley Arts and Gallery Guide!

http://issuu.com/skitowndeb/docs/agg_s12_online/13

Also you can look at my pretty cheesy welcome letter on the 5th page!

July 2012 Mix

July2012_Mix There are 8 musicians on this mix, 2 songs each. I found a new lady to take Florence and the Machine's place for this year. Enjoy!

stuff for you from Japan!

Hello! OK so first of all this Michael Serra was in the Toronto airport:

And also we saw this Louise Bourgueois piece in Roppongi Hills, Tokyo:

There was an exhibit in Roppongi of Middle Eastern artsist, which was too politically motivated for my tastes, but some things reminded me of you guys which is cool, and also there was a great technique used for one which I might like to appropriate down the road!

For Sio, these reminded me of your collages aesthetically. They are from a middle eastern artist.

For Park. This was a black water fountain. The video shows that the fountain was not falling back on water but a plastic-y surface which made a bad noise which I dislike and think detracts, but also lets the black fountain spatter around the fountain making a really beautiful drawing on the space around the fountain. Anyways I thought the black fountain idea was something you might be into (not to mention the cool space it is residing in): I thought i took a photo of this artists name but I didn't :(. i thought it looked like a really rad gravestone. which for me brings in a whole new opening point for the conversation sio and I were having about obituary videos and rolling credits. Could be cool to engrave credits on a gravestone, make rubbings, etc!

aaaand last but not least: In Japan there are Shinto shrines everywhere and you can pay a dollar to get a fortune. The fortune matches a stick you shake out of a can by way of a number. so you open a drawer with the number that matches the stick you shake out. If the fortune is bad, you tie it to a place in the shrine (picture below) which brings me to a whole new entry point to the wishing well idea! Anyways, take a look:

MONTECARLO EXHIBITION

Ok so here is the tiger that i think I will use. criticism is welcome.

OK so this is a very mocked up mock up of the tiger. I explain in the video.

Closing in on the finish line! Here is a mock up of my over piece

And the link to the finished video, attached to the coal miners helmet

Here is a still of my tiger- thoughts?

Prepositional Metro Stops

Here is my first version, let me know what you think.

Hello, my name is Vanessa Gogliettino and I do not play well with others  am lazy   panic at the idea of talking about my work    have been busy doing everything but this  have commitment issues AM HERE.

After several failed attempts to create a new cohesive body of work for this show, I went back to my roots. It's a project I haven't entirely been taking seriously until just a few weeks ago and now I can finally offer you guys some insight to my process and the product.




Lets start at the beginning...

I started making "collages" following our graduation for a couple of reasons. 1. The loss of facilities (space suitable for clay work, kilns, wood shops, etc.) and 2. because of my newly incurred student loan debt. Without tools, space or money I started looking more towards paper based processes. I had the tools and I had a table, I knew I could make it work. I bought about 20 sheets of 15"x15" inch watercolor paper and it sat untouched for a long time. If you have ever sat in front of a blank sheet of paper you know the soulless bitch she can be. A blindingly white, black hole... a vortex capable of sucking your imagination dry...a desert, a cannibal, a sink hole. You get it.




In need of inspiration, I went to my local thrift stores and started going through their book sections. I would grab old encyclopedias and other books that had a lot of visual information in them. I tended to grab books that were about 20 years old or more. The quality of the colors in these older images was really attractive to me. Vintage like, kind of stagnate and definitely not from a contemporary printer. I would tear through these books, pulling any images that struck me for any reason. I have a poly-envelope filled with these images now.


THE REAL WORK


With my stock pile of images I begin to play around. My "collages" tend to actually consist of only 2 or 3 photos. By combining just a couple images I find that a lot more information starts to reveal itself with in each individual image. Though each photo has been extracted from its original context, the co-image begin to develop an entirely new context. There combinations can do a number of things, some of them below.


1. Create a narrative
2. Create a dichotomy
3. Reveal an underlying theme
4. Tell a joke
5. All of the above...

What the coupling does for each viewer is different and to me it doesn't matter how it affects the viewer, just that it has. The response simply acknowledges that I have successfully given these images a second chance, a new light. I admit that I have an initial idea when I first combine them and it is definitely not arbitrary. Sometimes it might be more obvious then others but either way, I don't think I will insinuate anything to the viewer via the title. To each his own.


Offering a second home to "left for dead" images was something that I came to on my own but here is an interesting project going on in NYC. It's basically a library full of dead books, discarded by libraries and other institutions but reclaimed by and for artists. It's called the Reanimation Library.


http://www.reanimationlibrary.org/index


Let me give you guys an example from the newest of my Left for Dead series. The following images are mostly pulled from 1987 National Geographic magazines. Kind of to commemorate there 25th Anniversary bound into a magazine that everyone keeps but rarely looks back in to.

So in this series I pulled the images, matched them, scanned them on to my computer and then digitally collaged them. I did this so I could reprint them on a larger scale. By increasing the scale I can take them out of the magazine context. The size isn't handleable, its approachable. In addition I wanted to print them onto a translucent paper. If you are familiar with Duralar or Mylar, imagine their frosted/matte papers, the paper I am printing on is very similar but has a little more tooth and is actually cotton based, not a plastic. This kind of foggy paper calls to the ghost of the image. My plan is to have 10 to 12 of these pieces and to hang them at a small distance from the gallery walls, another way to let them behave in a ghostly manner. I will post more as I have finished them. 


Sorry for the delay folks.

so you know my bus stop schedule idea? I was thinking of making the destinations all prepositions, like "about, across, beside," etc which I think ties in with Sio's general view of the gallery, but also skews enough away from actual destinations. I want to know what you think of that, and also, I want to go off of a real city's bus stop map template. I found some cool Japanese ones, they aren't all that different from other confusing bus schedules (which is the general idea in a way) but I want to know your take on it, for instance- do you think it matters what cities these templates come from? I want to make three total for the show. I was thinking of doing three separate templates. letmeknowwhatyouthink!

I found the perfect fog! (for the gallery)

The helmet and projector are here!! Thinking of maybe including this text alongside but probably not.

Mountains form
when lands collide.
Rocks and dirt, drift into each other
and in the process of their merger
the air finds a path
creating a cave.

When I think about caves,
I think about choices
and how we face obstacles.

I remember how darkness
narrows down our options
and how sometimes,
that feels like a decision.

So we fumble in the dark
trying to make our way through.
we tunnel and carve a path,
nestle in uncomfortable places,
go deeper; loose our way.

At some point
we might decide to must turn around
give up on reaching the other side.
Find a new cave.

Also, found the press release from a group show in Berlin, thought it had some nice things to say about art today.

Hey you guys,
I realized with my three, almost complete final proposals, I was trying to create A GUIDE TO OVERCOMING OBSTACLES via three paths

1) over - hiking collage -- group of hikers climbing from top to bottom of gallery wall, will be created there so model of this has to be envisioned
2) under - cave video -- coal mining helmet with video projection attached,
3) through/around - tourist desk-- pamphlet, mix tapes, maps, advice pamphlets, how to's, inspirational posters

I have attached a piece my studio mate did that I relates to these things.

I can do anything

mix

hey I know i havn't made one in a while.. and this one is only 44 minutes long.. but there are some songs I just GOTTA share!

march_2012

Steam Neon

In relation to my previous post, I was thinking about the "poster" and Parks desire to have work that relate to Steamboat Springs, CO. I have a few poster designs that I have in mind that all revolve around a pattern I found in a Toulouse Lautrec coloring book.
I realized with the body removed, the design looked kind of like steam. Could this be made into a neon? I will post posters with this design in a bit, but I think it would look nice together.

Collaborative Tourism

I have been thinking about the upcoming projects that revolve around collaborations planned for Colorado in May.
Just recently, my studio collective was invited to create a window display at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. A task that was challenging not only in its spacial property (9' x 14' x 2' space plus impossible scheduling issues) but the fact that we were not a "collective" and our work was vastly different from each others. It is hard enough to find an individual artistic voice, let alone a uniting choral tone among a group. This experience had me thinking about different ways of conducting a setting where we would be able to create a context as individuals, while still creating a cohesive idea about our work together and it's relationship to Steamboat Spring, CO.
One setting that seemed both applicable and ripe in possibility was the idea of a "Tourism Desk". You know when you walk into a building that is used for a few purposes, there is a table where people post job adds, business cards, event listings, brochures and pamphlets etc. This space is a setting for a cacophony of incongruous information. Being that our work processes are not related and coming from various areas of the U.S., this table might allow us to build a bit of a drawing board. Kate, maybe you can include a mix tape or the "Pray for Rain" recording. Copies of reading or printed brochures about our previous work? Park, maybe photo copies of pieces from your previous show?
I see it as a wall, with large prints that look like posters and/or the Neon. Below that there will be a bevy of paper goods that can be about a past work or present collaboration context. Maybe they are each on sale for $1. See model above.

what's up?

hey so 80+ days to our show..

and I want to call back your memories when we were last together as a whole. I remember Siobhan saying, "I wonder if we will all live in the same city ever again." And who knows, but we will all be together again for the first time in almost 3 years.

Inspiration for each of you:
Vanessa
Kate
Park

I LOVE THE CAVEBASEMENT! It's perfect! Thank you for posting that video, it made it much clearer for me in my head. Kate's visit to New Orleans was not only a fantastic time, but a very productive brainstorming sesh. We held meetings daiy and kind of narrowed things down to these ideas and plans of creation:

1) absence as a value
2) liminal space travel
3) wishful thinking

Kate- Wishing Well and Porthole

Vanessa- Packaging Molds and Projector Jam

Me- CAVEBASEMENT projection and Steamboat Organized Neatly ala
I'll elaborate:
The CAVEBASEMENT really sparked my interest because when I was in Iceland, I saw a photography exhibition about one of the coal minors that was buried underground for 50 days in Mexico a few years ago. One of those poor souls was a triathlete and continued his exercise regimin underground by tying lumber to his body, climbing up and down the course etc, see picture above. I thought these pictures were an amazing example of facing adversity and somehow keeping our goals ahead of us. Anyway if this I wanted to create a projector that was inside of a coal mining helmet, so the place where the light is, projects images or video vignettes of solitude or hope. Haven't really figured out that aspect of things yet but I think it'll look really poetic.
Also Kate and I were talking about possible shapes etc. to create to use for a neon light piece or maybe collect tiny little objects and create a shape, or cut a shape out of mesh window screening- we saw this done at an exhibition in NOLA it looked like helicopter shapes and when the overlapped it darkened...

CAVE/BASEMENT

This is a not so good quick and dirty video of the "cavebasement" as Sio so nicely named it. Talk soon!

Depending on my employment, I may drive...
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tickets to steamboat

Hey guys- I found roundtrip tickets to steamboat on trip advisor for $500 flying out from DC on May 19th and flying home on Monday the 28th. Seems like this is the best we can get. Let me know if you guys spot any other travel deals!

Trip Advisor

Exhibition Dates

Hello Monte Carlo,

The exhibition dates are as follows:

Opening Thursday May 24 - Saturday May 26. This is memorial day weekend so we can all decide on which night we would like to have the opening.

Installation will be the week leading up to the opening, May 19 - 26.

The show will be up through mid July.

Happy New Years!

This is a collaborative piece between Jasmina Llobet & Luis Fernández Pons. I thought the combination of googly eyes and wallpaper/wrapping paper was especially relavent.
http://www.llobet-pons.net/llobet-pons3/2007/40-tamboret/tamboret.html

Groundlessness

Some of the ideas/inspirations I have been trying to make work around...

Free fall and Nose Dives

B A S E Jumping
(Building - Antennae - Spans - Earth)

Momentary loss of stability when I am above the cloud line.

Art Display Apparatus (ie the backs of frame)

Object Placement & Interior Design

Weather and Atmospheric Phenomena

Duchamp's explanation of inframince/infrathin

Gallery Floor Plan

Duke Riley

Hey guys, so I read an interview of this artist and then I looked at his work on his website and I think he is someone who's body of work can be related to by all of us. He sort of likes to re create history but is very active in manifesting his own type of cultural landscape- which is something I think we can hone in around for the show. Like he made his own boat and sailed around the east river of NYC and titled some work, "the united islands of the east river." So I just think he's great and rebellious and romantic, and I think these are kind of some themes I would like to explore. Wild west mothah fuckas!

I COMMAND THE THREE OF YOU TO ENTER THIS FUCKING CONTEST

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a history (unfinished)

MONTECARLO

Beginning with a moment/experience of documented awareness, to a current status, and to a continuing future; a history, a future, a manifesto.

By Park C. Myers, self appointed Diagrammatic Director of MONTECARLO

montecarlo:

1. Vanessa Goggletino

2. Siobhan Feehan

3. Kathryn Learson

4. Park C. Myers

Initiation:

When the encounters of all 4 (that is now montecarlo) consisted of the numerous interactions between each other, (1 + 3, 1 + 2, 2 + 1 +3, and continuing to 4, et al) the possibility and the unknown potential of montecarlo was present. It was at this plaza, a nacient and initial extended moment, figure 1, that there was a mutual understanding between all involved that montecarlo was formed.

figure 1

The fractured, momentarily cohesive, sometimes peripheral but always present group of individuals then set off to become a substantial and multi-institutional force that has and will continue to defy know arenas of experience.

Current representations:

montecarlo as in of nodes¹ is of four and always one. Geometrically montecarlo can be represented by this static polygon, figure 2. While this polygon is drawn from montecarlo’s current (9.12.2011) geographic location(s) it also represents a single node which can be used in intellectual arenas in which montecarlo needs to be represented as a single node.

2a 2b

(Note that the simplicity of this object is not always static and when seen in higher dimensions can take on dynamic and non-visible representations’ necessary to communicating a “history” , “future” , or “manifesto”.

1. node: A point at which lines or pathways intersect or branch; a central or connecting point

montecarlo as a collective energy, comprised of individual energies:

1. Emotion, base, maternal, observant, tactile, physical, homeward

2. Power, celestial-adventurer, light, siren, executer with ease, opposite of disparate

3. Potential, fuel, original driver and pilot, independent without exclusivity, humorous

4. Concept-rigid, fabricated-wealth, research, man, stylized, romantic, anxious, reckless

CURRENTLY FINISHING, LOVE PARK

timelines

Park and I spoke and decided it would be a good brainstorming exercise if everyone chronicled some memories of monte carlo. Below is my timeline:

September 2005
I was sitting with Drew Clark in the commons on the grass. I didn't know you yet and I heard Drew say, "What is Park doing?" with a little laugh. I looked up and you were casually walking around on the second story in nothing but your crisp white boxer shorts. It was like the world was your living room.

I walked up the stairs and saw your dreadlocks and you were so small and had huge earrings in, and I thought, "oh great, she's a pothead." And then later we passed around your sketchbook and it was so beautiful and I was jealous. And then finally we became friends, probably around the second handle of bacardi.

You had really curly blonde hair and it was really bouncy or maybe you were really bouncy. You circled closer into my periphery because Drew Clark had a crush on you. I was standing with the two of you at a party and you kept banging the back of your hand against the wall saying, "I can't feel anything, see? I feel nothing!"

kentucky
Siobhan was the last one to put her stuff in the car but the Monte Carlo was already filled with things like sparklers and the fog machine. She pulled out the handle of fog juice and was like, "really?"

water with nice white stick
It must have been April and we really needed to go to nature. So we went to a small reserve by a body of water. Park had a funny camera- I think it recorded to VHS. There were all of these really interesting pieces of wood. Park picked one up and said to himself, "This is such a nice smooth stick." I think you put that one on a chain.

wrestling
I think we had graduated or were just about to graduate and we climbed into the wrestling gym that Pete had made. I started stamping the mat really fast and you called me "The Shake." We called Siobhan Joan of Arc, and Park was "The CATCH." Then we went to our apartment and sat in the bathtub.

duck neck
This was the time we decided to go camping in a trailer park! We ate pot brownies and sat in a cabbage patch.

the beach
The last time we were all together was in this place. We boiled lobsters and steamed mussels and we all wore black bathing suits.

HELLO MONTE CARLO!

I am sorry to have been out of touch for a while, I can safely say this has been one of the busiest summers of my life. More on that later

Give me the business:
Our show is slated for the early spring of 2012. Though it may come sooner, I would like to have it during a time where there will be plenty of exposure. I will know by the end of September.

In reference to GAME FACE thoughts...
1. I have also been interested in the use of 'collaging' documents/data/media (in a somewhat serial format) that map/document a specific space through the use of 'non-visual data'. I have been referring to it as information cartography:

In a way it tells a story as well, a narrative of information. With respect to that I think it is a splendid idea to begin passing around images (hard copy to begin with to keep us grounded). I will need everyone's address asap.

2. I will send the schematics of the gallery space as soon I get them in about a week and a half. Things to consider:
-The gallery is in a historic train depot, built in 1908
-Becuase of this the walls are not in a general white cube, they have alcoves and more prominent walls.
-In the center of the gallery there is an option to move four walls they jut out from a central column. This will all make sense when I send photos and schematics.

3-4. I think it is necessary to start producing some collaborative matter, whether or not it ends up in the show. I will post more current work and some more ideas I have been playing around with.

Finally I want everyone to remember that while the sky is the limit pretty soon we must come up with a cohesive projection/direction ( I think we are close).

love,
Park

Sio this reminds me of your yearbook

split family faces

http://www.ismercuryinretrograde.com/

How to:

4th of July!

State of the Union

Game time Game Face

Dear Monte Carlo,

This past weekend 75% of our little collective was fortunate enough to convene for several hours on a lovely Sunday afternoon. We ate shrimps, drank rose, and talked about art. Below is a re-cap of how we see the show coming together over our distances from one another:

1. Looking at the collages that Vanessa and Sio have been making, it is easy to see where their minds easily converge. I think that it would be a healthy exercise to begin passing around images to one another to make pairs or families of. Kind of make a game of it. As the images are filtered through each of us, a broader picture will come together of how we may curate these images in a way that the viewer can follow our odd logic. This idea gave me the idea to form some sort of loose narrative..

2. I'm not saying like a narrative from a movie, but I think it is helpful to think of the show as having a beginning middle and end. A place to build, a place to have a climax, and a place to end. However, not sure what the space looks like, or if we could have moveable walls, or whatever, so this might not be particularly feasible.

3. Back to #1. As I mentioned, since we are far apart, fabricating games that enable us to bounce ideas off of each other seems to be the agreed upon way to begin our collaboration. Since all of our work is so different, we think that every piece should be collaborative in some way. So in addition to playing picture association games, we can also play word games, because I would really love to have some beautiful vinyl text on the walls.
*At a local festival they had this amazing piece that was a vinyl lettered timeline in list form. It was made to look very weathered and old- and at first I thought it was- and next to every span of years was a beautiful statement. I will try to find a picture of this.

4. Collaboration ideas are as follows:
a. Credits, hallway of projected credits with insightful language in lieu of names
b. wall of collage/ picture associations
c. videos of people orating their wills
d. Unicorn roadkill

5. The unicorn roadkill was an idea that sio had while in school. We were thinking that when it comes time to travel to CO, we will drive out together with the fallen unicorn and document it as we journey across america, to eventually have it in the show.

So Park, since we haven't heard from ya, let us know if we are thinking along the same lines or if we are totally off base from you, or any ideas that you have cooped up in that little head of yours!

Love,

Kate

May 2011

HEY... WHERE'S PARK?

Name Ideas for Credits

1. Bunny and Anotinette
2. Recha Bullock
3. Randy Honeycutt
4. Chet Helck
5. Lydia Voles
6. Herb Gillette
7. Earl Virgin
8. Danny Almond
9. Dusty Rothrock
10. Mahogany hopkins
11. Ed Gloria

I was reading How to Wrap Five Eggs which inspired me to make some custom wrapping paper.

One is with illustrations of Houdini, the other is pieces of a jungle and the queen mum trying to stop her skirt from blowing up (a la Marilyn Monroe).

Springtime Mixes

March:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/rclglj
April:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/rqwmb5

http://jessemclean.com/biblio/heaven-and-earth-and-television-magic-the-cinema-of-jesse-mclean/

I like this and need to think about it..

http://pleaseenjoy.com/project.php?cat=1&subcat=&pid=75&navpoint=4

No,no,no. Not like a real dream...but a vision.

Dear Monte Carlo,

Today I sold my very first piece of art: the bats that are here on this very blog! I sold them! And I am so happy but also kind of sad because I love those bats. And I love you too. God Bless Monte Carlo.

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