If you are in New York you can see this video (+the rest of the film) in the New Museum til July 5th. Most of the parts of the exhibition just bores you (especially all painting stuff) but his videos if you havent seen them yet are sooooo coooool. Theres also some cool thing by Tris Vonna Michell and a very bad thing from a very bad art group from Germany (Aids 3d). But if you like to bore yourself by contemplating about art cliches, a nice picture for you:
So after you are bored I give you a song by La Roux / Skream you might have heard about, but which will get you back on your limbs anyway (those of you who prefer the lifestyle of a crawler: I never forget about you! Keep on CRAWLING!!!!)
La Roux - In It For The Kill (Skream Remix)
or try this one:
this song was released on RTN020 "Esoterik 1"
What the New Museum says about Ryan Trecartin: "b.1981 Webster, Texas. His videos conjure alternate realities that are populated by a motley cast of unstable, often ambiguously gendered char-acters, some of which are played by Trecartin himself." I don't know about this. I cant think things like that, but I can think them like this: It was just time that someone did stuff like this. It has all those stupid psychedelic forms and colors and trash spectacle things in it and it shows itself as a show of different lifestyle opportunities all close to crashing (as they all always are, but mostly their protagonists have better ways of blurring the their selfdestruction). then maybe radically accelerating by taking the seemingly most powerful option within their lifestyle and burning it down. The films are didactic plays. Ha ha. Après moi, le déluge! (Louis XV)
In one of the films girls promote themselves as the new super girl group in their bed-sit (go this way if you want to see one of the best films ever: "The Bed-Sitting Room" - 1969/Richard Lester/UK) and over their bed hangs a painting of Can's former singer Damo Suzuki (who quit the band in the 70's for his girlfriend and the jehova's witness=rock band singing is a sin. Smash. Holger Czukay said that after damo's relationship with the girl his relationship with god's only true crew ended as well... sad sad damo, he is touring around still but his singing now=thumbs down. While Holger Czukay's records=thumbs up still.)(Maybe I'm going to translate a cool interview with him I once found, but don't count on me. He says that he has many ways to write music: sometimes he watches movies and does as if he was writing the score, and that what comes out he will rework until it becomes a song).
I watched one of Trecartin's early shorts you will find on his youtube channel. I think it was "commercial 2003" which ends with this new psychedelia screen. the style thats quite famous around lo-fi/nwa/hippystyle bands right now. He did it in 2003... so we can state (for the books) the style goes back to 2003, at least! (if you want to make a game out of it: comment this post and show me that the style is even older by giving me links.)
Oh by the way: he makes shitty sculptures!
Ryan Trecartin's complete films downloadable on UBUweb:
A Family Finds Entertainment (2004)
(Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me) (2006)
I-Be AREA (2007)
-Pjtr
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