December 6th, 2013 – Christian Marclay, “The Clock”

This week Susanna Crum, local artist and Museum Administrator at 21c, selected Christian Marclay’s, “The Clock” for our interpretation. The MoMA has a wonderful description of the piece on their website, “Winner of the Golden Lion award at the 2011 Venice Biennale, Christian Marclay’s The Clock is a cinematic tour de force that unfolds on the screen in real time through thousands of film excerpts that form a 24-hour montage. Appropriated from the last 100 years of cinema’s rich history, the film clips chronicle the hours and minutes of the 24-hour period, often by displaying a watch or clock. The Clock incorporates scenes of everything from car chases and board rooms to emergency wards, bank heists, trysts, and high-noon shootouts.”

Susanna Crum & Rudy Salgado Jr. will be featured at December’s Food for Thought: Lunch & Learn. Susanna was the recipient of the inaugural Hadley Prize, presented by the LVAA and the Community Foundation of Louisville. This $5,000 award went to one local visual artist to participate in enrichment experiences to help pursue their personal ambitions and achieve their full artistic potential. The presentation will highlight the pair’s work as artists both individually and in collaboration, their plans for creating a print shop (and the importance of the local community in the decision to move to Louisville), and a discussion of how, even in works that are attributed solely to one of them, the other has played an integral role.

Food For Thought will be held December 10, 2013, Noon-1:30pm at the Louisville Boat Club, 4200 River Road. $25 for LVAA members, $35 for non-members, price includes lunch, dessert, and beverage. Pre-paid reservations must be made by Friday, December 6. Please call 584-8166 x100. Walk-ins welcome after 12:30 (no lunch), $10.

Related articles

• The Human Clock: Songs Mentioning Time (humanclock.com)
  

November 15th, 2013 – Norwood Creech “Dry Grasses #12”

This week we welcomed special guest and multi-media artist Anne Peabody to the program, who chatted with us from Brooklyn, NY. She chose Norwood Creech‘s photograph “Dry Grasses #12”.

Anne and her husband and have just moved in to an 1870’s carriage house in Brooklyn and have come up against a world of problems— the most recent being having to rewire the home, which hasn’t been done since the old, fabric covered wires were put in. The heat and most of the electricity have been out for weeks and it’s been pretty cold in New York! Dry Grasses #12 was made by one of her favorite photographers, Norwood Creech. The grasses in the image remind Anne of their wiring and the turmoil in her house and studio. Pupunanny, by Afrika Bambaataa is a song Anne has used for years to energize herself when she wants to clean her studio. She says, “The energy of it seems to match the craziness of the grasses and like nature, feels like it calms me at the same time.”

This week we created a playlist of songs that are full of energy yet still seem to be calming at the same time—if you have some cleaning to do this will be what you need to get you motivated and off your feet!

You can see Anne’s installation “Truth or Dare” at the Troublesome Houses exhibit until December 14th, 2013 at PUBLIC 131 W. Main Street.

Related links:

• Anne Peabody on KET’s “Louisville Life” (ket.org)
• Watch Anne’s piece “Wheel of Fortune” installed before your eyes in this video provided by 21c.