November 2009
33 posts
A Developing New Home
You can see my new project in beta (really alpha) stage of development at: Chicago Arts Press.
I’m currently in need of testers. If you are interested, let me know by e-mail.
listening to "Indigo trio: Nicole Mitchell... →
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William Conger on Chicago Art
Formal Perversity in Chicago Art
By William Conger
No one talks about regionalism in contemporary art anymore. Nowadays new art is either international or it isn’t art. That conclusion is suggested by curatorial jet setting, the plethora of international art fairs, and the money obsessed art world. It’s facilitated by globalization in all of its forms. The art world is flat and regionalism is...
Dave Rempis Interview
Editorial Note: Since this interview, the Rempis Percussion Quartet has released a fourth CD: “The Disappointment of Parsley” on NotTwo Records. You can also see the group play live in Chicago at the end of January.
What inspired The Rempis Percussion Quartet to come together and make this music?
Dave Rempis: I think it’s a combination of things. First, the personalities of the...
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Official Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery Site →
Corbett vs. Dempsey Gallery - My Unsolicited...
Sitting during my lunch listening to the first Rempis Percussion Quartet CD has reminded me to repost tonight an interview I did for that album with Dave Rempis. My mind, however, has been wandering to the art world. Namely, which galleries of interest might have a November opening coming up.
It just so happens that one of my favorite galleries, Corbett vs. Dempsey almost does. Their Margo Hoff...
Chicago Human Rhythm Project Web site →
Interview with Lane Alexander, Founder, Chicago...
First of all, congratulations on the Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s (CHRP) 20th anniversary. How has the audience and environment for tap changed over that time? Thank you for the well wishes. It has been quite a ride.The audience continues to grow and is more sophisticated as CHRP has presented extraordinary tap and percussive arts virtuosos for 20 years. They’ve seen and heard the best of...
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Official Ken Vandermark Web site →
"bitsmoke" and a Small Gallery
In the run up to “Project Condor” Casey Farina and I talked about another piece he had composed, called “bitsmoke.” He needed a performance space and my small gallery space, Chicago City Arts, was going to be empty for a couple weeks for reasons that completely escape me now. The point is, I had the space, he had a video work.
A video piece in four quadrants. The idea was...
Watchbitsmoke: percussion; live at Chicago City Arts Gallery
Watchbitsmoke: horns, live at Chicago City Arts Gallery
Watchbitsmoke: movement; live at Chicago City Arts Gallery
Watchbitsmoke: electronic; live at Chicago City Arts Gallery
Looking Back at Project Condor
I asked Casey Farina to be in the “Structural Elements” new media show based on a recommendation. When we finally got to talk, the topic moved to a year-long project he was working on.
The project - Project Condor - was based on airborne objects with multidirectional speakers hanging below flying in improvised and preprogramed formations while the speakers would emit pre-composed and...
WatchProject Condor: A Casey Farina piece produced/promoted at the Broadway Armory by Chicago City Arts Gallery
Three "New Media" Artists
There is one more video in this series of interviews with “new media” artists. It’s of Paul Hertz, but Paul - and I mean this in a good way - needs to be encountered on his own. All three of these videos were shot by my good friend Gretchen Hasse and are unfortunately a bit mangled by YouTube. They were carried out in conjunction with the first art exhibition I ever put together:...
How to submit whatever you'd like to submit
Ah, I thought I forgot something.
There are three ways to submit comments, etc., to this blog.
On the Web at:
http://culturalchicago.tumblr.com/submit
By e-mail at:
culturalchicago@tumblr.com
Or you could contact me in general by old fashioned e-mail at:
chicagocityarts@gmail.com
A Look Back - Part 1
Many of you likely don’t know that at the same time I was publishing the first run of Cultural Chicago, I was operating a small art gallery: Chicago City Arts Gallery.
It’s a tough business but the memories are good. I enjoyed all of the exhibitions. One that was particulary satisfying was the “American Ruralist Movement.” It featured group of outsider/folk artists...
Subvert Twitter (if you have time)
Here’s a short plug for NoWordsTwitter, the non-verbal Twitter movement. Post audio, images, video, or ASCII-ish art and create conversations with an entirely different kind of noise.
A Rebirth of Sorts
I have no idea how many people noticed the disappearance of CulturalChicago.com, but I have come to miss it and all the great people I met through it.
This time around, things will be a little different. Only free services will be used. An example of just how much you can do on the Web for free. These services will be used for illustration then sometimes reviewed, critiqued, relied upon or...
