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(From the Surveillance Camera Players)

Art and Crime Exhibit #1
(Sydney Morning Herald, 7 February 2003)

As Colin Powell was addressing the Security Council, a tapestry version of one of the world’s greatest anti-war works, Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, which usually hangs outside the council chamber, was covered by a blue curtain with United Nations logos. Officials insisted the curtain was there to [...]

Zhu Ming, 3 March 1999, Performance at Meikoy Gallery, Beijing.

Zhu Ming is going to be crawling across the water in Sydney Harbour in this bubble on Sunday 9 March, Saturday 15 March and Sunday 16 March at 2.30pm. It’s at Farm Cove, between the Sydney Opera House and Mrs Macquarie’s Chair, and can be seen [...]

My flatmates and I are trying to work out a creative way to modify a sign which has appeared around various local train platforms. It says: Graffiti costs an arm and a leg. The trick being to change it into a pro-graffiti slogan with a few deft textastrokes and some whiteout. The best I’ve been [...]

Yesterday, 37 black boxes were fastened to walls and girders throughout Union Square subway station in Lower Manhattan. Each box featured a single white word written in contrast with the black: fear. Within minutes after they were discovered (presumably, they were put there in the early morning hours), the subway was evacuated, trains were diverted, and [...]

Dozens of human-like dolls covered in fake blood and vomit were placed on the streets of Buenos Aires in a controversial arts project. Ambulances were called and passers-by distressed after seeing what they believed were dead bodies on the corners of some of the city’s major streets and avenues. One angry citizen told Clarin newspaper: [...]

I have a weeks extension. How? Using Zeno, of course. I informed my supervisor that since yesterday there was one day until it was due, and that I needed to complete half of what I had done in half of that day, and then half of the half remaining in the remaining half, and so [...]

New DIAGRAM (2.3) is out, and rocks.

The following picture accompanied an interview with Jean Baudrillard published as “Entre le cristal et la Fumée”, in Les Humains Associés, Number 7.

Reading personals columns is extremely addictive. I read the local personals, internet personals, music magazine personals, anything. I think the personals should become a new genre, as in, read for their own sake, studied, documented, catalogued, themes and movements identified and codified. There should be awards for the best and worst written personal advertisement of [...]

He features in Derrida, a new film that debuted at Sundance this year. It’s going to be showing in Melbourne in August at the International Film Festival—hopefully it makes it to Sydney at some point.

Curiously, as I happened upon deep in the Credits, it appears that Mark Z. Danielewski, otherwise known as the guy who [...]

The first work you come across at the MCA at the moment is a massive pencil drawing by Paul Noble, called Acumulus Noblitatus. It took me about fifteen minutes to decode the message encoded down the left hand side of the work; turns out it’s a quote taken from The Law of Freedom in a [...]

“We want to enclose the universe in the work of art. Individual objects do not exist any more.”

(Gino Severini, “The Plastic Analogies of Dynamism—Futurist Manifesto 1913”, in Umbro Apollonio (Ed.) Futurist Manifestos, Thames and Hudson, London, p. 118)

Yesterday I bought the Futurist Manifestos and subsequently have decided to start a (virtual) Futurist exhibition. First up [...]

One38.org didn’t always merely host 1000 Ridiculous Tragedies—they used to have lots of vaguely net.art related paraphenalia up there, including some cool chain email manipulations. How can I get my hands on one of these, I hear my crazed audience drooling, rising off your collective seats—craze no more, audience, I have located them for you, [...]

“You are here.” [Text from shopping centre map]
“I am in here.” [David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, p. 1. ]

Titles of Artworks I have Yet to Manufacture

The Possibilities Are Endless
Every Choice Is Wrong
Do Not Make A Mistake
You Are Not Alone
Nobody Knows The Real You
There Is No Future
The Way Is Dark But He Has Left Us Signs
Interesting [...]

Went and saw the Alchemy exhibition at the Brett Whiteley Studio yesterday; I fall in love with him a little more each time. The guy working there was kind enough to let a group of us in even though it was closed to the public (should’ve checked the website before we visited). The theme was [...]

Driving with friends the other day, we saw a sign outside a house advertising an art exhibition. You can’t just drive past that, so we stopped and went inside. There was a young man seated outside the screen door who responded to our greetings by merely opening it for us, and resuming his seat. Inside, [...]