Ryan Trecartin’s New Work

Ryan Trecartin‘s videos are seriously breathtaking. My friend Mya put it well when she said, “He’s successfully simulated the feeling of what it’s like to watch reality TV.” Terrifying and hilarious. I wrote a post about it over here so I’ll refrain from launching into any further hyperbole. Just watch.

Above: K-CoreaINC.K (section a).
Below: Sibling Topics (section a).

Comments 3 Comments
Author Graham Kolbeins
Date August 7, 2009
Categories Art, New Media, Queer, Video

3 Responses to “Ryan Trecartin’s New Work”

Sir Tenton August 11, 2009 at 1:41 pm #

holy fuck, that was incredible. THANK YOU
Sir Tenton August 11, 2009 at 1:42 pm #

Who else makes stuff like this?
Sweetie Pie January 23, 2010 at 7:17 pm #

No one makes stuff like this. hyper-apocalyptic piece of post-consumerism/ like a visual nuclear holocaust. amazing.

Matt Furie

Always in tha Doghouse, 2013
Mix tape by Carlos Rosales-Silva
From his contribution to the online zine Image File Press

gaymanga:

Gengoroh Tagame (田亀源五郎) expounds on the virtues of using sci-fi, fantasy and costume drama to create fictional worlds ruled by S&M!

From an interview with Anne Ishii and Graham Kolbeins at the cat café Die Katze in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Read more from that interview in The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame: The Master of Gay Erotic Manga from PictureBox!

Check out my new NSFW video with Gengoroh Tagame!

“La Cara Infinita,” 2013
by Dorian Wood (feat. Eddika Organista)
video directed by Dorian Wood

Read L.A. Record’s great interview with Dorian:

[…] “La Cara Infinita” was born from my high regard and respect for all women and also inspired by this piece that was heavily publicized and took place at MOCA. It was spearheaded by Marina Abramović and I was one of the participants. The performance piece involved approximately a hundred artists incorporating themselves into this dinner gala filled with trustees and celebrities. It was a five-thousand dollar plate type of event, at the cheapest. All of the performers were placed in specific areas, almost as endurance pieces. One of the performance formats involved the invitees sitting around a table and in the middle was a lazy susan, and there was a naked woman on it slowly moving as these people watched. The piece was interesting and powerful. Then they questioned Marina Abramović as to why there were only naked women and the director of MOCA blatantly expressed, even at the event itself, that male nudity makes businessmen very uncomfortable.

Wow.

I was so horrified to hear that. So why are you having naked women? Because it makes them comfortable? It just totally ties in to my utter disgust for the way women are treated in media and have been portrayed for centuries. So many things are still socially acceptable. Anything that hints at femininity is seen as a form of weakness and submission. The song came from this fury.