Vast Arcade Los Angeles Notes, LAX
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Rita Gonzalez suggests commercial spot as a compliment for the exhibition. More than intrusion, I hope that it would open up the window for a brief moment in TV, and get away from the commercial aspect of advertisement spots. Reminds me of ASCO videos, made for public access TV 20 years ago. It would be nice to puncture the spectacle:
1. Man falling from the tiled roof into the large palm tree in a horrible but very fake accident.
2. A shout out of local variants and poetic resonances ala this...
3. Commercial for Hombre Satelait Verdusco's Complete Recordings
4. Something with multiple vanishing points/ vantage points
5. Something with alchemical reasoning
*I saw something in Chinatown the other day: Things gathered together in display cases without glass- high above eye level. The things were tied to the walls and furniture with wire- many connecting points being made between the things and the walls and furniture, all in the name of keeping them from falling during an earthquake. I like the idea of creating literal connections between items in the exhibit
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*A plan for the space...
* For the postcard and publicity, I was thinking that a photograph made to look antiwue would be nice, complete with die-cut edges or gold foil spot color. An inspiration would be this... or this...
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* Groups photos are also fascinating as are the photos of S. Curtis, what with their being posed and somehow aesthetisized versions of reality- more real than real.
* Installation is coming soon- there's more updated plans for the show here. Postcards illustrating what I wanted to do with the group photo will be available at the opening. Also, a poster will be available which is a collaboration between myself and Rita Gonzalez, who I can't thank enough for all she's done in both keeping the wheels on and inspiring the path.
* We feel like we're continuing to lose all that passes before us, and we despair- not because we want ownership over anything in particular, but simply because the speed at which whole peoples, cultures, voices disappear, is horrific. One has said 'Stop making art, start making museums' but this is flawed because even the homemade museum aspires to something institutional.
There is a way to take a shoot off of the sterile plant that is the museum and graft it to a moe robust root-stock. It has to do with an institution that oscillates between more than two points, one that interferes with its own operation, one that completes no theses but is in constant search for them. This type of hybrid form of museum would be an everchanging edifice, organic in nature and spectral in reach."
Santa Muerte, from the book Musings on Museums and Collected Notes of Santa Muerte p. 12
* "What's more, the museum walks hand in hand with the institutions of destruction. With their origin in the menageries of royals and their evolution into the preserving and fetishizing arm of king and queen's imperial armies, the museum has a morbid history indeed."
Santa Muerte, from the book Musings on Museums and Collected Notes of Santa Muerte p. 43
