Urban Honking

We can’t stop listening to this in the office. Definitely the highlight of SXSW was seeing Lykke Li play her kazoo / triangle / peace sign necklace and Saul Williams and David Banner at our space in quick succession. B.O.B. and TJ Chapman from TJ’s DJs were there and after her set was over, they […]

On one of my first nights in town, I went to a woman named Teague’s house for her 28th Birthday. Felicity and I were in charge of making vegan carrot cake cupcakes. During the evening, I met a guy named Matt who was interested in my work with The Committee, and told me about another […]

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During my stay in Melbourne, I had two lovely hostesses – Lisa Radford from Damp, and Felicity Managan, a friend of Lisa’s and mine. These ladies picked me up from the airport, lent me a cell phone for the week, made sure my afternoons and evenings were booked with openings, music shows, dinners and parties, […]

One of my favorite events of the trip was a visit to an opening at what I hear is a new-ish gallery in Melbourne, off of a laneway (alley) north of the central business district. When we showed up at the gallery, it was closed, and men in black ski masks were releasing freshly inked […]

Just before leaving town, Harrell emailed me a link to an article in Melbourne’s paper about the new curator of contemporary art at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) and suggested I try to see up a meeting with him. We were able to have coffee together during the latter half of the week, and […]

When I sent the show announcement to the citizens, I mentioned I’d be in town for a few days and available to grab a beer if anyone was interested. We got what I thought were a surprising amount replies, and I managed to see several people, including Boruk, pictured above. I guess an Ambassador’s work […]

I can hardly do it justice here, but I took some pictures of the Group Group Show installation with my hand-held camera. I’ll post the images below the cut. pictured: The KingpinsChicks On Speed showed a video, lots of nekkid ladies rockin out in a lush green jungle (?).Damp’s family tree- each member of the […]

Another thing I did in while I was away was go to a night of the Melbourne International Biennial of Exploratory Music. One of my favorite pieces was by Lukas Simonis from Rotterdam, pictured below.Trying to write about this kind of music makes me feel illiterate, however I will say that he had an impressive […]

Here’s a link to a PDF of unMagazine, with an article including The M.O.S.T. titled, “Conflict, Hierarchy, and Hard Work.” (pg. 22) Labels: collaboration, MOST, publications