Comments on: Gordon Matta-Clark’s Films and Videos http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/gordon-matta-clarks-films-and-videos/ /// art / exchange / events / re-enactment /// Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:33:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Amy http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/gordon-matta-clarks-films-and-videos/#comment-12350 Amy Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:15:31 +0000 http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/gordon-matta-clarks-films-and-videos/#comment-12350 Opening Reception for Urban Alchemy/Gordon Matta-Clark October 30, 2009 5pm - 9pm "The placement of Matta-Clark’s work in the building by Tadao Ando offers the means to recall the artist’s lost interventions. Ando's and Matta-Clark's structures break the visual and symbolic boundaries normally associated with the architectural “box” by allowing light to penetrate spaces in unexpected ways. Moreover, the exhibition programming builds upon Matta-Clark’s desire to give abandoned objects and buildings new meaning by connecting the artist’s social activism to present-day St. Louis." The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts http://mattaclark.pulitzerarts.org Opening Reception for Urban Alchemy/Gordon Matta-Clark
October 30, 2009 5pm – 9pm

“The placement of Matta-Clark’s work in the building by Tadao Ando offers the means to recall the artist’s lost interventions. Ando’s and Matta-Clark’s structures break the visual and symbolic boundaries normally associated with the architectural “box” by allowing light to penetrate spaces in unexpected ways. Moreover, the exhibition programming builds upon Matta-Clark’s desire to give abandoned objects and buildings new meaning by connecting the artist’s social activism to present-day St. Louis.”

The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
http://mattaclark.pulitzerarts.org

]]> By: Amy http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/gordon-matta-clarks-films-and-videos/#comment-12349 Amy Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:12:57 +0000 http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/gordon-matta-clarks-films-and-videos/#comment-12349 Urban Alchemy/Gordon Matta-Clark opens October 30, 2009 and runs until June 5, 2010 at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. "The placement of Matta-Clark’s work in the building by Tadao Ando offers the means to recall the artist’s lost interventions. Ando's and Matta-Clark's structures break the visual and symbolic boundaries normally associated with the architectural “box” by allowing light to penetrate spaces in unexpected ways. Moreover, the exhibition programming builds upon Matta-Clark’s desire to give abandoned objects and buildings new meaning by connecting the artist’s social activism to present-day St. Louis." –http://www.pulitzerarts.org/events/film-poetry-other/mattaclark/ Urban Alchemy web catalog: http://mattaclark.pulitzerarts.org Transformation: http://mattaclark.pulitzerarts.org/translation Urban Alchemy/Gordon Matta-Clark opens October 30, 2009 and runs until June 5, 2010 at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.

“The placement of Matta-Clark’s work in the building by Tadao Ando offers the means to recall the artist’s lost interventions. Ando’s and Matta-Clark’s structures break the visual and symbolic boundaries normally associated with the architectural “box” by allowing light to penetrate spaces in unexpected ways. Moreover, the exhibition programming builds upon Matta-Clark’s desire to give abandoned objects and buildings new meaning by connecting the artist’s social activism to present-day St. Louis.” –http://www.pulitzerarts.org/events/film-poetry-other/mattaclark/

Urban Alchemy web catalog: http://mattaclark.pulitzerarts.org

Transformation: http://mattaclark.pulitzerarts.org/translation

]]> By: Robert Holloway http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/gordon-matta-clarks-films-and-videos/#comment-119 Robert Holloway Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:49:19 +0000 http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/gordon-matta-clarks-films-and-videos/#comment-119 Hi, wrt your Post-script #2: some Gordon Matta-Clark links: this now has its own domain, follow my url. thanks, Robert http://www.mattaclarking.co.uk/ Hi, wrt your Post-script #2: some Gordon Matta-Clark links: this now has its own domain, follow my url. thanks, Robert
http://www.mattaclarking.co.uk/

]]> By: Lucas http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/gordon-matta-clarks-films-and-videos/#comment-118 Lucas Fri, 12 Mar 2004 23:47:56 +0000 http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/gordon-matta-clarks-films-and-videos/#comment-118 yep ainsley I was feeling exactly the same thing as you - I knew that GMC's films were in an archive in France, [Lightcone - www.lightcone.org] but I despaired of ever getting to seeing them - the southern hemisphere being the un-great place it is when it comes to accessing interesting culture. So it was tops to be able to see this stuff at the CCA - and to realise that it's not really the kind of thing I would hire for a cinema screening [with the exception of maybe Tree Dance, and Fresh Kill...] - definitely works better on TV screens running simultaneously in a room... However, looking over Light Cone's archive, there are still plenty of GMC films that were not in the CCA show - like Clockshower, Open House, Conical Intersect, Days End, Fire Child... Tree Dance by the looks of it was definitely a College piece - was done at Vassar College NY, 1971, but I don't think GMC was himself still a student at that stage(?)...The still B/W photos are beautiful too - huge old tree, no leaves, spindly branches spreading in all directions, then these heavy sacs semi-transparent, each couching a human figure some horizontally, some vertically. Humans like ripe fruits on a barren tree. By the way, I love your idea of a "Home Degradation" TV show. Have you submitted any of your ideas/projects to the Network of UnCollectable Artists yet? [www.uncollectables.net] yep ainsley I was feeling exactly the same thing as you – I knew that GMC’s films were in an archive in France, [Lightcone - http://www.lightcone.org but I despaired of ever getting to seeing them - the southern hemisphere being the un-great place it is when it comes to accessing interesting culture. So it was tops to be able to see this stuff at the CCA - and to realise that it's not really the kind of thing I would hire for a cinema screening [with the exception of maybe Tree Dance, and Fresh Kill...] – definitely works better on TV screens running simultaneously in a room…

However, looking over Light Cone’s archive, there are still plenty of GMC films that were not in the CCA show – like Clockshower, Open House, Conical Intersect, Days End, Fire Child…

Tree Dance by the looks of it was definitely a College piece – was done at Vassar College NY, 1971, but I don’t think GMC was himself still a student at that stage(?)…The still B/W photos are beautiful too – huge old tree, no leaves, spindly branches spreading in all directions, then these heavy sacs semi-transparent, each couching a human figure some horizontally, some vertically. Humans like ripe fruits on a barren tree.

By the way, I love your idea of a “Home Degradation” TV show. Have you submitted any of your ideas/projects to the Network of UnCollectable Artists yet? [www.uncollectables.net]

]]> By: Ainsley http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/gordon-matta-clarks-films-and-videos/#comment-117 Ainsley Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:46:55 +0000 http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/gordon-matta-clarks-films-and-videos/#comment-117 Well.Just yesterday i was sitting in a library in sunny Dullsville looking through one of matta-clark's books and thinking to myself,gee wizz i'd like to see his film's one day. And today i check my e-mail and was alerted to the existence of this entry. Pretty spooky boo Lucas. But i get youre point about dovumentaries. That got me thinking.Fuck the documentary.In this reality tv day n age wouldn't it make for a good spin on the whole renovation rescue etc where they send someone away for a few days and when they come back their house has been lovingly gentrified. Instead, they come back, and are greeted by some stinky artist standing on their front lawn with a look at what ive done expression on their face and pointing to the lovely big incisions made to the abode and the nice new slant on the floorboards. I still haven't thought of the show title. Leave that to the execs. Fondles. p.s. I believe Tree Dance was a student Film. In my head i see it filmed on college grounds.If so i like the context. ainsley maxwell Well.Just yesterday i was sitting in a library in sunny Dullsville looking through one of matta-clark’s books and thinking to myself,gee wizz i’d like to see his film’s one day.
And today i check my e-mail and was alerted to the existence of this entry.
Pretty spooky boo Lucas.
But i get youre point about dovumentaries.
That got me thinking.Fuck the documentary.In this reality tv day n age wouldn’t it make for a good
spin on the whole renovation rescue etc where they send someone away for a few days and when they come back their house has been lovingly gentrified.
Instead, they come back, and are greeted by some stinky artist standing on their front lawn with a look at what ive done expression on their face and pointing to the lovely big incisions made to the abode and the nice new slant on the floorboards.
I still haven’t thought of the show title.
Leave that to the execs.
Fondles.
p.s. I believe Tree Dance was a student Film.
In my head i see it filmed on college grounds.If so i like the context.

ainsley maxwell

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