hyde or die

Photo of Terence Koh by Marco Anelli

The artist Terence Koh has been appearing every night at the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester, England, as part of Marina Abramovic’s performance showcase during this month’s Manchester Festival (through July 19). For his four-hour piece, Koh lies on the floor in a shirt made from crushed pearls, his face and feet covered in powder. Curled up in the fetal position, he plays Nat King Cole’s “Mona Lisa” over and over on his iPod. But tonight Koh is honoring the artist Dash Snow, who died today in an apparent drug overdose. Koh will change his tune to “Cheree” by the synth-punk band Suicide. As Koh explained in an e-mail message, “It is for one of my best friend’s Dash and that is our favorite song together and we used to dance to it together.” Strangely, the song was used in the closing scene of “Downtown 81,” which was about Jean-Michel Basquiat, another artist who died way too soon. via…

July 15, 2009, 8:57am  

Polaroid by Dash Snow

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March 11, 2009, 10:43am  

» Yale art student Aliza Shvarts' senior art project consisted of artificially inseminating herself while inducing miscarriages over and over in the name of art.

this seems to me to be the most obvious and selfish way to get attention for ones “art”.  as an aspiring art historian this offends me. it offends me that she got into this school, that she is getting attention for it, that this is even a thought.  i feel like there are a million ways to convey the same ideas and political/corpreal relationships without doing this. there are millions of men and women who are fighting every day to get pregnant and can’t. there are millions of men and women fighting for women’s right to choose and this is the type of fodder that just feeds the pro-lifers arguments about people’s lack of respect for life.  she took the easy way out, lowest possible road.  there is nothing intellectual, stimulating, interesting, or intriguing about this piece.  it is a train wreck.

*i am not just grossed out, i count paul mccarthy, dash snow, and tracy emin as some of my favorite artists.  there are sophisticated and beautiful (even if not conventionally so) ways of getting political ideas across.  this is NOT one of them.

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April 17, 2008, 11:55am  

i totally adore dash snow.  i am a bit angry that i didn’t buy anything at his last show. he is the smallest, most mild-mannered man i have ever met, which is interesting.

April 15, 2008, 3:50pm