We enter in the presence of work, without ever inhabiting their own space, we pass through dark and narrow corridors wondering, perhaps even worried about where the path is taking us, we arrive at sunlit empty spaces, we ascend through sections of the...
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Wednesday, 15 May 13 - 07:32 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in misc |
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more here
here's one of those exhibits that makes me wish i was an art tourist. so many faves!
congrats andreas!
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
this Friday, May 10, 6-8pm at the Glass House (199 Elm St., New Canaan, CT), Arp (aka Alexis Georgopoulos) will perform the site-specific piece, Erratics, alongside work by noted visual artist Tauba Auerbach as part of the Night Sounds performance series.
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Friday, 10 May 13 - 01:12 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in misc |
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Erratics consists of a suite of compositions written for cello and French horn. For this performance, three double-sided vinyl acetates will be pressed with the singular musical elements from the compositions and will be arranged by Arp live on site using two turntables. Due to the fragile nature of vinyl acetate, the sound will degrade, distort, and dissolve during the performance. This quality will be exploited to emphasize ideas of material, relation to time, to sound and to degradation and obfuscation.
rvng intl will be releasing a deluxe and very limited version of this material Arp performs as part of the Night Sounds series. This will feature exclusive artwork by Tauba Auerbach and be on 3 LPs featuring the acetates with which Arp is performing, allowing the deluxe-buyer to mix their own version of the album. A standard version featuring two 20-minute sides of the Arp mix will also be available.
more at rvng intl
so excited about this. if i weren't in the hospital, i'd be there too :(
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
If I function within a predictable programmed reality, can I rebel? And how can I do it? Only malfunctioning programs and apparatus allow for freedom. Only a malfunctioning functionary can hope for freedom. The essence of freedom is unpredictability. but-
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Monday, 06 May 13 - 09:59 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in misc |
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5 minutes in this seems amazing. post-alphabet images that serve as maps...
via univocal books
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
Rauschenberg's 20 acre estate on Captiva Island, will be transformed into a creative center that welcomes artists of all disciplines from around the world to live, work, and create. The Residency is inspired by bob's early years at Black mountain college
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Saturday, 09 March 13 - 11:24 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in misc |
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good morning captiva light.
mark lyon was already up and out shooting.
shortly after this we were on the boat, out on the water...
after riding in the boat for what seemed like forever, we ended up on north captiva.
so amazing and desolate.
got sort of obsessed with this table...
and these steps.
and this place...
and this camera and its blue button...
while we were here on north captiva, matt "sweets" hall, who worked for bob the last 18 years of his life, struck up a conversation with a fellow walking the beach. he asked matt if he knew of useppa island... he wondered if we'd like to have lunch there... matt told him "we'd love to but, it's a private island." the man said "i'll call ahead. you'll be my guests today."
what good is a private island without a croquet court... am i right?
decent clay courts
it was a pretty grand place if a little creepy. i mean, a private island?
mitt romney was giving a talk to the board of directors of the vitamin gum corporation.
quick post lunch game of chess and then we were back on the water...
these guys came and said hello.
nice to arrive at the rauschenberg estate from the water.
cant' believe that when someone said to me "we gotta get home" they meant this.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
ROLU WHEN DOES SOMETHING STOP BECOMING SOMETHING ELSE? (Objects for Constructing One’s Own Interior Cosmos) CAPTIVA - Please join us March 8th From 7:00PM – 8:30PM as Matt Olson of ROLU broadcasts live from Robert Rauschenberg’s estate in Captiva Florida
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Thursday, 07 March 13 - 12:31 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in misc |
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if you're in chicago on friday... i hope you go!
845 W. Washington Blvd
Chicago, IL 60607
Please join us March 8th From 7:00PM – 8:30PM as Matt Olson of ROLU broadcasts live from Robert Rauschenberg’s estate in Captiva Florida reading Rauschenberg quotes. This is an active event and requires crowd participation to transform a ROLU piece into something else.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
the question before me is, "wether the restoration of the arts and sciences has had the effect of purifying or corrupting morals." which side am i to take? that, gentleman, which becomes an honest man, who is sensible of his own ignorance, and thinks him-
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Wednesday, 06 March 13 - 02:32 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in misc |
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i've officially gotten myself in over my head again... in a good way.
thank god for espresso, lemons and limes and good water.
dante carlos designed the book and chuck olsen/vidtiger helped us with the film.
so much fun to make this! more about this project soon.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
Pepperidge Farm created a cookie in honor of the island. It is a Dark Chocolate Brownie cookie called Captiva. Notables: Captiva was the full-time home of world renowned artist Robert Rauschenberg. His home still stands there. South Seas Island R
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Tuesday, 26 February 13 - 10:03 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in misc |
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this is a dog named beauty.
she was abused in her early years. luckily, she found her way to correl and lauren (who live and work here at rr's estate) and she seems to be finding her way to trust. she likes to let a few "ruff ruffs" go as i approach her, but then she finds a submissive mode of being and she approaches, with caution and hope. she closes here eyes... lowers her head... and seems to be saying to me "please dont hurt me!"
that's how i feel about the future... "please dont hurt me!"
Laura Brunellière and allie hankins (who are both amazing) threw a party. i didn't go :( i dont like parties.
mark lyon went wearing only this leave... so now i wish i would of went.
i work here at this table. when i get stuck i walk around the corner and play the piano.
so grateful to Laura Brunellière for helping me make a video today. (this scene will look familiar to former rolu'r claudette and rolu=brolu sammie warren as she's wearing blue gingham and a kelly green scarf)...
it is for a project rolu is doing at and for the aspen institute where a group of museum directors are having a symposium about the future of the museum.
full moon the other night.
i've said it a million times before (and maybe that much today) "gratitude is heaven" - blake
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
Everybody wants to be free / But before this can be / You've got to learn, learn how to see / Just from what it is that you want to be free / Why do we waste our lives / Wy do we stay asleep / So many confused words / So many total disasters there are
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Thursday, 21 February 13 - 08:19 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in misc |
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r.i.p. kevin ayers.
(thanks a.g.)
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
"We will never find the sense of something (of a human, a biological or even a physical phenomenon) if we do not know the force which appropriates the thing, which exploits it, which takes possession of it or is expressed in it." - gilles deleuze (1962)
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Tuesday, 19 February 13 - 09:57 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in misc |
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i'm on captiva island doing a robert rauschenberg residency. it's day two of thirty. so great. bewildering, really. grateful beyond measure. if you follow me on instagram, you may have seen most of these images. hope to post more but, there's a lot to do.
and there are a bunch of totally amazing people here. we will present our work to each other after dinner a few nights next week. i'm going to invite everyone to the beach where i will leave my laptop containing a slideshow of rolu projects, then i'm going to swim away from them on the shore until no one can see me. (a glass bottom boat and rower will accompany me for safety :)
if you want it, i swear, there is magic in the world.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
Alterity is a philosophical term meaning "otherness", strictly being in the sense of the other of two (Latin alter). In the phenomenological tradition it is usually understood as the entity in contrast to which an identity is constructed, and it implies
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Wednesday, 13 February 13 - 08:14 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in misc |
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the ability to distinguish between self and not-self, and consequently to assume the existence of an alternative viewpoint.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
two radios with home-made autotune on every signal received. every station is in tune with every other station. even static is in tune. peace on earth. - if you want to make your own: -take any radio, open it up -clip the wires headed to the speaker at
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Tuesday, 05 February 13 - 06:33 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in misc |
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peace on earth.
instructions to make your own here in the comments.
via soft circle
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
bail bonds sign from previous tenant? Renting this space feels like I was given a gift and I don't want to mess with that. And for whatever reason, I think maybe I've attached the symbolism of that to the sign. The sign is the sign! Plus, when folks ask -
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Friday, 04 January 13 - 08:53 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in misc |
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our good bud kellen opened a new shop in brooklyn called shark tooth. she is dealing with textiles, amazing rugs and quilts mostly. here's what she told me:
"In the south there are toooonnnssss and tons of old quilts. these objects lit my fire somethin' fierce and I started buying them up and occasionally fixing them on request, and reselling them. the process of mending something so old really allows you to become intimately aware of the thing itself and consequently how it came to be. The rugs and linens and coverlets etc all came afterwards... when the interest became both design and process. On top of all that "talk" a big part of it, the truthful foundation of it all, is that I love to travel and I love to pick. So I've spent the last few years slowly molding my dream job. I have a particular weakness for ceramics, folk art (or kid art), and leather seating. yep. I do. So this textile store... which I do want it to be mainly a resource, is also a 300 sqft leather seating-folk art- found ceramic- etc. store."
shark tooth is at 284 atlantic ave brooklyn. you'll know it by the bail bonds sign i mentioned in the title of this post.
congrats kellen! you're the best! can't wait to hang out there.
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
curated by lulu wolf: andy beach, eric timothy carlson, matt connors, ditte gantriis, gemma holt, doug johnston, clemens kois, max lamb, mary manning, ian mcdonald, jonathan nesci, jim oliveria, study o portable, omar sosa + nathalie du pasquier, ro/lu @
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Thursday, 13 December 12 - 12:18 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in misc |
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yves levine (after walker residency) - rolu (edition of 50)
wish i could be there! so many of my faves! have fun everyone! all under $500!
andy beach, eric timothy carlson, matt connors, ditte gantriis, gemma holt, doug johnston, clemens kois, max lamb, mary manning, ian mcdonald, jonathan nesci, jim oliveria, study o portable, omar sosa + nathalie du pasquier, and ro/lu
please enjoy the time and space.
posted by matt olson
Taking the form of an ongoing series of video presentations by publishers, designers, and artists, Slide Shows offers one possible cross section of a newly emergent landscape of contemporary art publishing. To be continued - slide shows chatlotte cheetham
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Friday, 02 November 12 - 09:45 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in misc |
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Slide Shows, presented by Fillip, is a specially commissioned project by Charlotte Cheetham as part of the Print Centre, during IbA that took place in Vancouver.
love this. chk it!
please enjoy the day.
posted by matt olson
the sand is like the water that, in water, is invisible, is lost in the desert, where neither the sand nor the desert is distinguished. in that indefinite or infinite space similar but opposed to the rigorous precisions traced by the labyrinth, one makes
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Friday, 12 October 12 - 01:45 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in misc |
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our friend laurel broughton reminded us that a year ago today, we were doing this!
here there, there here for high desert test sites at joshua tree (+more here & here)
thanks again to andrea zittel and brooks hudson thomas.
this weekend will, hopefully, be a bit more relaxed than the one a year ago.
please enjoy the day.
posted by rolu
24 Farben-für Blinky (24 Colors—for Blinky) was executed in 1977, shortly after the untimely death of Imi Knoebel's close friend, the German painter Blinky Palermo (whose work is also on view at Dia:Beacon). For Knoebel, this moment proved significant. Pe
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Tuesday, 09 October 12 - 09:58 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in misc |
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imi knoebel’s cycle of 21 shaped paintings - 24 Colors—for Blinky... as cookies!
please enjoy your time.
posted by matt olson
THE PLANT - a journal about ordinary plants and other greenery - Issue 3 Launch Party september 22nd - in 0fr Paris New Issue, New name! See you there! 0fr bookshop - 20 rue dupetit-thouars, paris -- after-party at candelaria - 52 rue de saintonge, paris
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Monday, 17 September 12 - 10:13 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in misc |
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issue 3 of the plant journal - now known as the plant - is coming soon!
i have a short piece in it about three's company and my first plant love.
please enjoy the time as is passes.
posted by matt olson
Over-Booked launches … of Printed Matter, the inaugural presentation of a long-term partnership and collaboration between the Walker and Printed Matter, showcasing some of our favorite publications. These shelves present a rotating selection of publicatio
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Wednesday, 12 September 12 - 02:37 PM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in misc |
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over-booked: a chapter from the ny art book fair, a collab between printed matter and the walker, is happening this weekend.
all kinds of cool stuff is happening. if you're able to attend, make sure you visit the walker library and check out the rosemary furtak collection on sat from 12-3. amazing.
and there's a lot of great posts at the design depts blog too. today is an interview with our friend João Doria. (both he and rosemary furtak appear in this post : - )
please enjoy the time that is passing.
posted by matt olson
Concrete is a composite construction material composed primarily of aggregate, cement and water. There are many formulations that have varied properties. The aggregate is generally a coarse gravel or crushed rocks such as
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Tuesday, 28 August 12 - 11:30 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in misc |
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our friend lulu hanging on the concrete pieces of settee x three (after burton photo).
they traveled from sit and read in brooklyn to mondo cane in tribeca yesterday.
stop by and say hi to them ( and lulu and p=mc² )\
btw - check out this doc our pal benjamin critton made about the project!
please enjoy your time.
posted by matt olson
this issue is a nod to the season of summer and also the many complexities and beauty between couples and pairings of: ideas, buildings, people, books, film, food and imagery. i thank the contributors for their thoughful submissions. please enjoy! - kw
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Friday, 24 August 12 - 08:45 AM (GMT -06:00) By ro / lu in misc |
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Issue 3 of Kiosk Paper by Kersti Werdal
just in time too as i swear i can feel summer slipping away in the air here.
please enjoy the time while it passes.
posted by matt olson
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