Juicing the Independent

Curator Howie Chen and artist/attorney Jason Kakoyiannis have launched a new series of programs called "Juicing the Equilibrium: Critique, Value, Markets, Prices," which aims to jolt the market-critical capacities of the art world with shots of academic, para-art world realities. The two sum up the project's goals in a question: "How can the robust analytical tools and models of the social sciences—whether they be data driven, behavioral, network, or quantitative-be utilized to mend the deteriorating ability of critical practice to narrate its own complex reality?"
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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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Alex Hubbard on the Abstract Labor of Video

"Somebody had to do it" is the title of New York-based artist Alex Hubbard's debut exhibition—referring cleverly if deceptively to the artist's pursuit by a number of the city's galleries and the anonymous, slapstick destruction of found objects in his videos. Though the artist's body is not present or even visible in the videos, his gesture and labor are palpable in the work's direct evocation of the body through altered still lifes. His paintings—drippings and textures in abstract, often heavy forms and wild colors—work to the same effect, and to no less quiet ends. Here Hubbard ties the seemingly disparate to connect these media:
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