Light Shows and the Fluxus Cab Driver: Jeffrey Perkins, Part II

Nicknamed "the Fluxus cabdriver" by Nam June Paik, Jeffrey Perkins is an artist and filmmaker who has worked in relative obscurity for over four decades, having collaborated in the 1960s with Fluxus artists including George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, and Alison Knowles. Until recently he was best known for his light projection performances and his "Movies for the Blind" (based on sound recordings of interviews with passengers in his cab). He recently completed a documentary, The Painter Sam Francis, an endeavor that was itself 40 years in the making. He continues to do performance art, most recently at X-Initiative and Daniel Reich Gallery in New York, and his artwork was most recently on view at Front Desk Apparatus Space. In Part Two of this two-part interview, Perkins discusses redeeming the catastrophe of his documentary, and getting out of the driver seat his new work. PART I is here.
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Light Shows and the Fluxus Cab Driver: Jeffrey Perkins, Part I

Nicknamed "the Fluxus cabdriver" by Nam June Paik, Jeffrey Perkins is an artist and filmmaker who has worked in relative obscurity for over four decades, having collaborated in the 1960s with Fluxus artists including George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, and Alison Knowles. Until recently he was best known for his light projection performances and his "Movies for the Blind" (based on sound recordings of interviews with passengers in his cab). He recently completed a documentary, The Painter Sam Francis, an endeavor that was itself 40 years in the making. He continues to do performance art, most recently at X-Initiative and Daniel Reich Gallery in New York, and his artwork was most recently on view at Front Desk Apparatus Space in New York. In Part One of this two-part interview, Perkins discusses his life and work in the 60s and 70s.
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Tino Sehgal Presents a Work in Progress

In a lecture at the 2005 Frieze Art Fair, art historian Thomas Crow presented an insightful inquiry into the critical implications inherent in the relationship between works of art and the architecture they inhabit. In particular, he examined the "star-chitecture" endemic to the modern museum and typified by the Guggenheim Bilbao, and the ways in which it functions as a spectacle that competes for attention with the actual works of art it is meant to showcase.
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Crowd Control: The Art of Artur Zmijewski

A group of naked men and women play a game of tag in a former Nazi gas chamber; a choir of deaf-mute youths "sing" a Bach cantata in a church; a unit of nude Polish army guards practices a military drill in a ballet studio. Warsaw-based artist Artur Żmijewski (b. 1966) uses film, video, and photography to present staged "social experiments" he has devised—ranging in theme from the politicized (social difference and exclusion) to the psychosocial (collective behavior, conflict management, and human vulnerability).
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