Kiki and Bubu discuss the problems of the unfettered market and the possibility of planned economies. Go here if you don't see the video above.

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Yes, the video is two years old, but I still love it. I think that might be Rufus Wainright playing a shoe salesman at one point.

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Here is some entertainment while I'm blogging elsewhere.

The last one reminds me of James and me at plays with badly-behaving audiences.

This is a VernissageTV video of a performance by Rachel Mason at Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland. In this clip she performes "Dzhokhar Dudayev (Chechen Wolfes)". Visit the VernissageTV website for more information and more video.

Here is my quick video of Flora Wiegmann's performance during the preview of the Whitney Biennial as part of the "Animal Estates" project of Fritz Haeg. Click the screen icon on the lower right for a bigger version. She's a wood duck!

Visit this New York Times article for more information on the artist.

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Ina Diane Archer, whose collages and videos were singled out by almost everyone who saw them in the show we curated in the fall of 2006, sent me a trailer for her video 1/16th of 100%!?. If you're going to be in Atlanta, go see it as part of

Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970
Part II: January 24 – May 24, Spelman College Museum of
Fine Art, Atlanta, GA.

She describes it thusly:

1/16th of 100%!?, video (23 minutes)
Ina Diane Archer
Writer, director, editor 1993/96

Montage that examines themes of appropriation, miscegenation and minstrelsy through manipulated footage found in Hollywood movies from the 1920s through the 1950s -- including Imitation of Life, Showboat and The Jazz Singer.

I love this sweet little piece. When I first walked into the room, I just heard some muffled sounds and didn't know where they were coming from. Check out B. Blagojević's review in the ArtCal Zine.

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After attending a performance by John Moran at PS122, James and I encountered this violist improvising on the platform across from us in the L train's First Avenue station, with a bit of unexpected dance accompaniment. This is a station where you can't cross over to the other side without going back to the street, or we would have moved over there to give him some money and talk to him. If anyone knows him, ask him to drop me an email.

The video is made up of several clips that I combined, and I'm no video editor. My apologies for the abrupt transitions.