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New Orleans bummer-folk duo HAWN recently finished mastering their first EP, Spree, produced by Michael Winter. Stream it here. (above: John Craun and Michael J. Lee, of HAWN, live at the Circle Bar pre-renovation)
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Louisiana artists, Brian Guidry and Philippe Landry were invited to join forces to create visual works of art & design that investigated music and sound for the large group exhibition entitled, Duets at Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery on the 4th Floor of the Monroe Library of the Loyola University Campus. The show runs thru mid-September.
By including sound installations, interactive works, video and a variety of other media, the exhibit engages viewers by incorporating art works created by visual artists, musicians, writers and a host of creative individuals.
above: Egyptian Beehive. Bust, figurines, furniture accessories, magnetic cassete tape loops. 2012
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Maria Levitsky is presently wrapping up her MFA at University of New Orleans, with her thesis exhibition Uncanny Mirror of Available Darkness having opened earlier this month at the University of New Orleans St Claude gallery, on show until June 2nd.
Maria has many achievements under her belt, not only does she produce incredibly beautiful platinum-palladium prints that allow available light to create an elegant relationship between camera and room, but she was once a Coney Island snake dancer and a dj with the world-renowned/jersey-based WFMU. -
Georgia based artist Derek Larsen combines video collage, cutouts and painting abstractions in an absurdest manner. The above piece, Droopy Columns is a projected video on freestanding screens, with each piece communicating in morse code telling bad jokes and showing fatigue through slouched posture.
Morse code: “Three cannibals are eating a clown and one asks the others, ‘does this taste funny to you?’”
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To Live in the South, One Has to be a Scar Lover is on sale through the Constance Shop.
Edited by curator Maaike Gouwenberg and artist Joris Lindhout, it is the first publication of a long-term research project on “Gothic” as a cultural strategy. By looking at Gothic traditions in literature from different countries, Gouwenberg and Lindhout try to formulate an understanding of what Gothic can do, culturally and socially, in a society. Their investigation begins with a Gothic practice, that originated in the Southern States of North America, characterised as Southern Gothic.
Design by Constance. Video by Akasha Rabut. Song: Keep Still by Belong
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Occasional Papers just released the first anthology of its kind, Graphic Design: History in the Writing (1984–2011), which comprises some of the most influential published texts about graphic design history. The book documents the development of the relatively young field of graphic design history from 1983 to today, underscoring the aesthetic, theoretical, political and social tensions that have underpinned it from the beginning.
