Post
2008-02-29 23:56:21
MCA mailing list (not displayed), chainletters, stamps, US Post Office, hand made frames, mail box, table, etc

Description: A chain letter was anonymously mailed to the MCA's mailing list in advance of the exhibition, the original along with more for people to take or address were displayed in the gallery space.

Brian Taylor, Philip von Zweck and Main Gallery present a work with paper
2008-03-06 21:29:28
mixed media on paper, curation
variable

Description: Every week for the duration of the show Brian Taylor and I each sent a package of works on paper to Main Gallery (Las Vegas). Brian and I had no idea what each other were sending. Main Gallery would rehang the show each week incorporating the materials Brian and I sent (or could choose to exclude things), Main Gallery had to take our parts and turn it into art. The above is the final version.

not titled (exchange/ book)
2008-03-01 01:56:40
Book, contributions
8 1/2 by 11

Description: 30 or so people each contribute 100 pages which are then collated and bound into 100 books. Each participant gets 2 copies back and the rest are sold to cover expenses. 3 anticipated volumes (first is done, second is in production). Among the 60 or so amazing people who have played along are some who can be found on this site. they include Volume 1: Marc Fischer (of Temporary Services), Katy Fischer, Brian Kapernekas. Volume 2: Carrie Gundersdorf, Andreas Fischer, Karen Reimer, and John Arndt.

VONZWECK
2008-03-01 01:03:26
living room, friends art, lectures
12ft X 14ft

Description: living room as exhibition space, complete with lecture series. open to the public every week. Some of the amazing people you can find on this site who have done shows include: Andreas Fischer, Carrie Gundersdorf, Brian Kapernekis, Karen Reimer, and Marc Fischer (of Temporary Services); also on this site is the awesome John Neff who lectured. You should check out all of their work, like now or soon or something. www.stopgostop.com/VONZWECK

Temporary Allegiance
2008-03-01 00:57:19
flag pole, website
25 feet

Description: A 25 ft flag pole that anyone can sign up to fly whatever they want on for a week at a time.

Temporary Allegiance (detail)
2008-03-01 01:02:04

Description: Some flags

Blind Spot feeds the Sons of God
2008-03-01 00:50:22
live radio broadcast
88 unique one hour programs over 3 years

Description: Blind Spot produced one hour live to air radio art broadcasts weekly on WLUW, Chicago. For "Blind Spot feeds the Sons of God" we collaborated with some of our art hero's, Sweden's The Sons of God. Blind Spot cooked and fed the Sons of God 7 types of vegetarian meat substitutes live to air. The photo above is of Philip von Zweck, John Wanzel (Blind Spot) and Kent Tankred and Leif Elggren (the Sons of God) although Paul Dickinson and Richard Holland (Blind Spot) also worked on this program. 88 programs were produced in all. www.stopgostop.com/blindspot

Fryvalry (with Kevin Jennings)
2008-03-01 01:07:07
performance

Description: two deep fat fryers (one vegetarian, one meatetarian) you bring it, we fry it, you eat it.

Object Lesson: Dan Gleason
2008-03-01 01:14:34
Still from cable access tv program (in production)
30 minutes X however many episodes

Description: Object Lesson is a half hour tv show in production but not yet being broadcast. The program consists of structuralist inspired videos of objects supplied by friends set to a sound track of their choosing. The above is an image from Dan Gleason's program, an Orca phone spinning, shot in time lapse with only a red light accompanied by an audio collage he made. Carrie Gundersdorf who is also featured on this fine site is one of the people who loaned an object and a soundtrack: Russian nesting dolls and Louder than Bombs by the Smiths. Its a good one.

Something Else
2008-03-01 01:20:34
radio program
4 hours a week by 12 years

Description: Something Else is a weekly radio program of Sound Art, New Music and live performance on WLUW. Something Else only airs works submitted for broadcast, and only airs them in their entirety. Something Else seeks to present things which otherwise would not be broadcast. I think the only person on this site who has actually been on Something Else is Trevor Paglen and that was a long time ago, but Something Else has broadcast great works by John Arndt and Stephen Lapthisophon. www.myspace.com/somethingelseradio

Negative Hallucination
2008-03-01 01:30:50
publications
variable

Description: Copywrite free materials are cheaply replicated and distributed for free in public spaces. First three are pictured above. They have been distributed in Chicago, New Orleans, Atlanta, Houston, Baltimore, New York, Richmond, Columbus, Washington D.C. and other cities.

Wedding Services
2008-03-01 02:07:17
Performance, Marriage
forever if you got it right

Description: The image above is a still from a powerpoint converted to video which is a proposal for an exhibition, but in reality the project is performing weddings for friends for free. Who wants to pay some stranger to take part of what could be, maybe should be the most important day of your life? Something like 11 weddings in 12 or so years. A few of the people on this site who have shown the uttermost trust in allowing me to be part of that event include Katy Fischer (and Ben Vida) and Carol Jackson (and Jim Dorling).