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With Help From Volkswagen, Kraftwerk Relives Autobahn
Kraftwerk, the German techno pop group that improbably came to fame in 1974 with "Autobahn," an almost lyric-less piece of synthesizer music, has come back for a grand eight-show retrospective at MoMA. The lead-up to their premiere last night was highly anticipated, with tickets being resold for huge amounts online. What they were buying into was a specific presentation of Kraftwerk, with curatorial and advertising agendas.
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Ready to Burst? Michael Clark at the Whitney
Michael Clark's Who's Zoo, commissioned for the 2012 Whitney Biennial performance series on the fourth floor of the museum, did not live up to expectations. A legendary London-based choreographer and dancer, Clark famously worked with the late gender-morpher, costume-as-art performer and London nightclub habitué Leigh Bowery, and Y.B.A. star Sarah Lucas. His project at the Whitney, which ended yesterday, involved a live residency during museum hours and recruited volunteer participants. Though I saw the work on Apr. 5, apparently it changed immensely over the course of its run.
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Orchestral Manoeuvres at the Armory
This year for the first time the annual Armory Show has a program of performance and film. It is modest, to be sure, but it could prove a refreshing alternative to viewing the booths.
The program got off to a firm start on Wednesday at the VIP preview with an unusual composition by Icelandic artist Örn Alexander Ámundason, "Kreppa: A symphonic poem about the financial situation in Iceland," superbly performed by the Metropolis Ensemble, a New York chamber orchestra that specializes in new music and contemporary composition.
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Film in Spotlight at the Whitney Biennial
This year's Whitney Biennial turns decisively toward performance and film. The Breuer building's 4th floor is devoted to live events, where folding chairs are set up before a 6,000-square-foot theater. Performances will also take place amid the works on the 5th floor mezzanine. Biennial curators Elisabeth Sussman and Jay Sanders invited Thomas Beard and Ed Halter of Light Industry, the Brooklyn film and video center, to book screenings for 15 film- and video-makers, giving each artist about a week to screen their work in the museum's second-floor theater.
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Trippy PST Performance at Broad Center
Regardless whether there was something in the water at the Broad Art Center at UCLA: watching Single Wing Turquoise Bird Experimental Digital Art's "Light Show," on Jan. 26, was a trip. The "Light Show," an oozing, swirling bottomless fall into layers of transforming colored forms and images, also boasted a top-notch band, which would have been well worth listening to on its own, as it comfortably shifted between acid rock, jazz and R&B in tandem with the projections. The "Light Show" is one of the performance offerings sponsored by the Getty Museumand LA>
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2012, aluminum, wood, sublimation print on polyester and concrete, 71 3/4 by 122 1/2 by 135 inches overall. Courtesy Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New Yor
