Ben Watson and Xenochronic revolution
Unassuming Genius 16-vii-2020
(link above > sound file)
To start with, saxophonist Taneli Viitahuhta - ex-Heteroskeleton, Rab-Rab member in Helsinki - improvised a response to "Flap" by Ben Moran Healy (guitar) and Jessica Harper (violin). His saxophone stylings were peeled off their tangy Yorkshire sticker and applied to "Okay You Sort It Out", a drum solo by Guy Evans, and "Bank Holiday Time Again", a bass excursion by Jair-Rohm Parker Wells - itself originally a response to a duet by Ben Moran Healy and Rob Jones of the Psychedelic Bolsheviks, unacknowledged legislators of many thoughts in your head. But hold on! With "Unassuming Genius", Taneli was suddenly exposed - Lou Christie-like - as a Nordic sax nouveau to challenge Jan Garbarek, ECM, Steve Lake and all who sail thereupon ... Wowie Zowie, as Pamela Zarubica was wont to say ...
Unassuming Genius 16-vii-2020
(link above > sound file)
To start with, saxophonist Taneli Viitahuhta - ex-Heteroskeleton, Rab-Rab member in Helsinki - improvised a response to "Flap" by Ben Moran Healy (guitar) and Jessica Harper (violin). His saxophone stylings were peeled off their tangy Yorkshire sticker and applied to "Okay You Sort It Out", a drum solo by Guy Evans, and "Bank Holiday Time Again", a bass excursion by Jair-Rohm Parker Wells - itself originally a response to a duet by Ben Moran Healy and Rob Jones of the Psychedelic Bolsheviks, unacknowledged legislators of many thoughts in your head. But hold on! With "Unassuming Genius", Taneli was suddenly exposed - Lou Christie-like - as a Nordic sax nouveau to challenge Jan Garbarek, ECM, Steve Lake and all who sail thereupon ... Wowie Zowie, as Pamela Zarubica was wont to say ...
11 Short Theses on Curating
2022
1. Curator is not the new artist, but the philosopher of late capitalism
2. Writing exhibition texts is philosophy
3. Artists are plebs
4. Curating is GOLD
5. Gold is money
6. Money is sweet (but hard)
7. Etc.
8. Etc.
9. Yadi-yada
10. Number ten
11. Curators have up to this point only interpreted art. The point however, is to change it.