Seth Kim-Cohen: My Body Blushed to the Whistle of the Birch
Sat, 13. Aug 2016
West Space
Level 1/225 Bourke St
Melbourne, VIC
Level 1/225 Bourke St
Melbourne, VIC
3PM-5PM
FREE
FREE
Two men shall fall: one by his own hand, one by that of another. Alpha defers to Omega. Vega, the second brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere is in its ascendance. The first brightest star burns out. The philosopher-kings fall deaf before the braying mule. In a copse of birch lies the corpse, in four parts:
Adorno at Altamont
Allegory of the Cave
America, America is Killing its Youth
Attali at Altamont
(Something like a song cycle with appropriated video and narration in what appears to be someone else’s style, possibly 1941 (or 1969?) (or 1977?) (or 1982?), “Frankfurt,” San Francisco, New York, Berlin.)
Artists
Seth Kim-Cohen
Seth Kim-Cohen is an artist, musician, and writer who makes as little distinction between these categories as he can get away with. He is author of Against Ambience (2013), In The Blink of an Ear: Toward A Non-Cochlear Sonic Art (2009), and One Reason To Live: Conversations About Music (2006). His gallery-based practice – which Artforum describes as “collegial and awkward, a real-life mistake framed by a semifictitious context” – has been presented on all but three continents. His bands Nil/Resplendent, The Fire Show, and Number One Cup have released eight full-length albums since 1995. Kim-Cohen is Associate Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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