shitty buzz

second show cancelled.

derek albeck

derek albeck

armsrock

"life, and other modern legends. The dress-rehearsal
Armsrock

From Armsrock's black book:

“the streets, the great spectacle…… the living epic theater….. The differences, which must naturally occur when taking “outside” “inside”…… The danger of the total dramatization (hopeless romantics)….. Weight and lightness……. Dark light, light darkness…… Cardboard city(and the floor is painted on)…… an ironic conversation with myself and the ghost of Brecht……. Tristesse for all its worth. the modern legend….. Building more stages and shifting focus (mine and others)…… Finding a natural way of navigating in the hated whitecube….. Wagners old cardboard trees."

(from wooster)

RockFace D'arm (installation)
Armsrock and D*Face

(from vynilpulse)

the walls were all drenched in memory
Armsrock

(from armsrock's blog)

for marv

nsfw

(via raddudes - see previous post)

recent decent

The Nomadic Sun

Rad Dudes

Keggers of Yore

true lies

dain

wooster junky lately

Scratching the Surface

“Sous les pavés, la plage!” (Beneath the paving stones - the beach!) - Anonymous graffiti, Paris 1968.

Paris, May 1968. When the enragés started digging up the stones from the Boulevard St. Michel to use them as weapons against the forces of the old order, they came upon the sand that covered the surface underneath them. The earth. Beneath the concrete, the earth. Beneath the urban environment, nature. Beneath the artificial, life.

Behind all these brick and concrete walls, these dull, grey surfaces that condition our existence, behind all of these cities, there is life. There are individuals, there is nature. “Scratching the surface” is an act of creation taken from lifeless forms. It is the subversion of lifeless forms. The act of engraving the idea of life on a wall, of creating the image of an individual, an iconographic piece of representational symbolism that will endure. As if rendering him eternal by bringing him to life where life was not supposed to be. By carving it out of that which is still-born by its very nature, by its design.

So until the symbolical demise of all walls that separate, that impose, that condition, of a social system that overbuilds in order to control and perpetuate its grasp on the divisions that stem from this eternal partitioning and keep individuals in place, it will be easier and easier to forget who we are, where we come from and what nature is really all about. How easy it is to lose track of what our nature really is while caught amid this saturated, un-organic environment. "

-Vihls, Portugal

[from wooster collective]

truth

tyson

no go away i don't want to do that

excuse poor colour balance on first image. shitty flash.








f.t.w.







EDIT JUNE 5: ^that is not drugs. it's plaster, from converting my room into a temporary studio. some is still stuck to the rug. whew.

So I'm showing twice times this summer as part of a competition called The Moving Figure. Once at MaRS (23rd and 24th) for doors open toronto (will be there 8-430 on the 23rd at the Atrium), and then at the Ontario Science Centre from june 22nd to july 5th. "Celebration" (?) on the 5th. Word!

ARTISTS:
Alexis Barattin, Alexandra Bayliss, Yigi Chang, Matthew Coffey, Nick Counter, Morgan
Eadie, Andrew Foerster, Frances Howell, José Gascón Hũrtado, Annyen Lam, Amelia
Levick, Ian Mack, Colan Nicholson, Sabrina Parolin, Bartosz Piwowarczyk, Caitlin
Russell, Eryn Russell-Hill, Minji Seo, Elise Victoria Louise Windsor, Liam Torrance
Wylie, Paul Zulauf

In the meantime, check this shit:

http://hypem.com/track/683183/Hot+Chip+-+Touch+Too+Much+Fake+Blood+Remix

elevation

david lynch have my babies

some stuff i've been up to

new works

sweet eraser

matt coffey
2009

oh no he didn't