literally the best thing you can do if you have writer's block is to set aside a day where you don't write or work on your own projects at all and just go outside to rapidfire see a bunch of the works of others. see a musical put on by a local university. walk around a place with old architecture just to marvel at it. look at an art exhibition where the artist depicts himself being impregnated by a porn star. find the obelisk named Joe. turn Joe's whispered wisdom into your new muse. rejuvenate the part of you that wants to create!
"Proceeding with my studio practice amidst a massive civil unrest and pandemic is a challenge that has reset my vision and intentions tremendously. After visiting and recording a few protests in Brooklyn, the only thing I could execute at a time like this is a reimagined safe space and a tribute to Breonna Taylor. This digital memorial can be seen in my video for The 1975's song 'Having No Head'. The short animation film is an alternative universe and recreational park where post-human Black femme bots have superior autonomy and immunity in a natural landscape.
The other figures wearing gold hazmat suits are headless and lack immunity. Lately, I've shifted my interest to modelling recreational park landscapes in response to my research into Manet's painting 'Luncheon in the Grass' (1862–63). The painting is considered the start of modernism and was controversial for depicting a female nude as the bourgeoisie and non-divine. Because 2020 is a major global paradigm shift, I feel like we are finally entering a new collective historical movement and theoretical shift as drastic as the dawn of early modernism. Therefore, digitally reimagining and reanimating 'Luncheon In the Grass' has become my main motif for pieces like 'Having No Head' and other projects I'm currently producing. A gesture that welcomes the new movement."
July 15, 2020: As part of a curated online exhibition, The 1975 and Ben Ditto paired up to feature artist Jacolby Satterwhite on the track 'Having No Head'. Satterwhite used the opportunity to memorialize Breonna Taylor within a virtual park landscape. (source)
My favorites this month were Nighthawk, Fest, The Fall and Bubble Bath!
Nighthawk - Špela Čadež (2016), The Fall - Boris Labbé (2018), Absent Minded - Roberto Catani (2013), Bubble Bath - György Kovásznai (1979), Animated Putty - Walter R. Booth (1911), Fest - Nikita Diakur (2018), Le Parc aux Cerfs (2023), Tampopo - Jūzō Itami (1985), Cloudy - Filip Diviak & Kateřina Čupová (2018), The City - Sabin Bălașa (1967), Krabi - Václav Mergl (1976), Amane Diary - Amane Oda (2021), Stupid Dinner - Victoria Vincent (2023), Kitten - Viktor Minakhin (1968), La Sagra - Roberto Catani (1999), Il pesce rosso - Roberto Catani (1995), dream girls - TAEETIMEE (2023), Country Ball 1989–2012 - Jacolby Satterwhite (2012), A Short Vision - Peter Foldès & Joan Foldes (1956), Ave Maria - Ivan Ivanov-Vano & Vladimir Danilevich (1972)
Great Hall to be transformed by kaleidoscopic Jacolby Satterwhite video installation
This autumn, one of our iconic spaces, The Great Hall; will have a radical makeover by a new multimedia commision by performance artist, Jacolby Satterwhite.
In week 3 I wanted to continue with the flow of inspiration and ideas so I decided to source this by researching practicing artists. These artists are what I found.
Jacolby Satterwhite is an artist who often explores themes of queerness and identity in his work. He is known for creating fantastical, surreal landscapes and characters that are inspired by his personal experiences and family history. His work, generally, reflects on his experience as a gay man and is heavily informed by his family history and his mother's schizophrenia.
Overall, Satterwhite's work is often seen as a celebration of the queer experience, as well as an exploration of the complexities of identity and personal history. His use of technology and animation allows him to create fantastical, otherworldly landscapes and characters that reflect the fluidity and multiplicity of the queer experience.
The other artists I have found through this I have added a brief response to their role as an artist and the effect their work has on me.
Antonio Velardo shares: With a Love Poem and Acid Beat, a Grand Space Feels the Heat by Ted Loos
By Ted Loos
Bucking the rules, and the canon, Jacolby Satterwhite remakes the Met’s Great Hall with his multimedia “A Metta Prayer.” It draws on Titian and video games.
Published: September 27, 2023 at 03:07PM
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life sucks and everything keeps being sanitized for the whims of corporations but the contemporary art museum here got a maximalist bizzaro multi-media art installation by a queer black man who uses a mix of video, VR, sculpture, oil paints and projections to show his progression as an artist blending grindhouse aesthetics with naturalistic and mythological influences and sexuality, including a section where he depicts himself in a surrealist dreamscape being impregnated by a gay porn star. so as long as there's that maybe we can get out of it alright
worst art experience of my life was being trapped in a room with an old white guy while we silently watched the artist being gay impregnated by a gay porn star and then give birth to himself multiple times over. neither of us went for the headphones on the wall but i already knew they were playing some electronic funk bc this was the second time id gone to the exhibit bc i loved it so much. after like five minutes this old dude just turns to me and says "thank you" and then leaves. awful. 10/10 would do it again