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  

People are reporting that Dash Snow died yesterday of an overdose in his apartment.  If this is true, the world has lost a great talent.

image via i-peach-feng-shui

July 14, 2009, 9:01am  

Minneapolis opens at Peres Projects in Los Angeles on July 2:

Minneapolis is a city in the Midwestern United States, known for its high rate of literacy and racially tolerant atmosphere. In many respects it is the ideal American city, where coexisting cultures thrive, and in turn breed successive generations of even more creative, talented inhabitants. “Minneapolis” considers the implications of Minneapolis, its legacy and impact on everyone who has never been there. via…

I will be on a plane to go spend a long weekend in Pebble Beach* so I have to miss it.  Stop rubbing it in.

So here’s the deal, you have to go. You have to take pictures. You have to send them to me.  With artists like Terence Koh, Bruce laBruce, and Dash Snow, why would you not want to?

*Pebble Beach, that’s right.  It will be luxurious.

June 25, 2009, 1:28pm  

Polaroid by Dash Snow

via simko

March 11, 2009, 10:43am  

Are my fears coming true? I just received this from one of my favorite galleries in Los Angeles, Peres Projects, I know they opened a new location but still.

Peres Projects, Chinatown, Los Angeles will close to the public upon the end of “Sack of Bones.” Please join us for a closing reception for the current exhibition and the gallery.

Javier Peres is pleased to present SACK OF BONES, a group exhibition featuring: Jack Goldstein, Dan Colen, Tara Delong, Dash Snow, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Neil Jenney, Mark Flood, Bill Hayden, George Herms, H.C. Westermann, Bruce LaBruce, Daniel McDonald, Andrew Rogers, Arsen Roje, Agathe Snow, William C. Taylor, Donald Urquhart, Oscar Tuazon, Eli Hansen, Kaari Upson, Sebastian Mlynarski and Banks Violette.

The exhibition as a whole may appear deadpan, satirical or pathetic – in any case each of the constituent works turns its back on complacency, and, in doing so, becomes material evidence of resistance (kicking from within the sack). In other words, with all that is stacked against the mutinous artist and the mutinous viewer, hope could lie in objecthood itself.

Sack of Bones (Los Angeles)” will be on view at Peres Projects (969 Chung King Rd, Los Angleles 90012) December 13 through December 20, 2008, T-Sat 11am-6pm.

December 10, 2008, 3:54pm  

Art crush of the day: Dash Snow and Dan Colen’s Hamster Nest

December 03, 2008, 5:28pm  

Dash Snow Untitled, 2007. 

I know I have been hearing some negative things about Dash Snow’s work lately, and I agree that I am not absolutely in love with every piece he has ever created.  Some pieces though, really blow me away.  If this isn’t a sophisticated, aesthetically sound and complete on the landscape of media in our society today, then I am not sure what is. 

*Personal note, maybe I am too attached to this piece.  I was at the opening, standing next to Dash, in front of this piece, looking up at the ceiling where the video of him and his friends “finishing” on the piece.  It was surreal, to say the least.

September 11, 2008, 1:00pm  

» 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.

via danhacker:

April 17, 2008, 11:55am