Last Friday night — before rushing home to watch the first Presidential Debate — your friends at Dossier attended the opening of Amelia Bauer’s Environs exhibition at Capricious Space in Brooklyn. Capricious Space is a relatively new, invitingly cozy addition to Williamsburg’s art scene and was a fitting venue for Bauer’s refined collection of drawings, [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Free Ramen Noodles and Clean Underwear
September 29, 2008 – 11:25 am
Michael Moore is distributing his newest film, Slacker Uprising, free through his website. We fully support his mission of getting slackers off their asses to vote. If you take the time to watch the movie, you’ll learn that no election since 1968 has had a voter turnout of more than 56%. My mother says that [...]
Moon and Moon in Seven Acts
September 26, 2008 – 2:32 pm
Difficult to describe, Moon and Moon’s debut album VII Acts of an IronKing — out Nov. 1 on La Société Expéditionnaire records — is an operatic mix of spoken word and story-telling not to be overlooked. The sounds are chilling and epic, and the cast includes Stephonik Youth and seven-year-old Olivia Galarza, who narrates. Lead [...]
Visual Poets: Yukio Mishima & Jean Genet
September 23, 2008 – 2:16 pm
Both Jean Genet and Japanese author Yukio Mishima rejected the dominance of words in their only films — Un Chant d’Amour and Yukoku (Patriotism), or The Rite of Love and Death — both just released on DVD this year. Omitting dialog, the films depend purely on gesture to express sexuality, desire, repression and escape, and [...]
Chris Johanson at Deitch Projects
September 23, 2008 – 1:17 pm
Well, you’ve got just under a month to get to Deitch Projects to take in the current Chris Johanson show Totalities, which closes October 25th. The timing couldn’t be more perfect: It just clouded over, we’re being told it’s now officially fall, and what we want to do most is to look at bright colors [...]
Paradise Now on Earth
September 22, 2008 – 3:32 pm
“As long as you have people working for money and not love, there will be violence.” In light of current events, I believe this message from the Living Theater‘s Paradise Now carries some weight. Released on DVD earlier this year by Arthur Magazine, this 1968 performance has been on my mind. Perhaps I have been [...]
The Awesomeness of Tim and Eric
September 19, 2008 – 3:02 pm
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, of the Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, are two of the most progressive comedians to ever sing and dance on TV in a hamburger costume. Their long periods of uncomfortable silence, video glitching, super-surrealism, emotionlessness — and some of the best homemade costumes/props of all time — are [...]
