Class Assemblages
Posted by michelle on 05 Dec 2007 at 10:01 am | Tagged as: announcements
With the new year drawing nigh, Salon Mijangos is working on a new schedule of art classes. For those of you that don’t remember, Alberto Mijangos founded the small art school in order to cultivate a lively, local community on South Flores St.
His daughter, Laura Mijangos, will keep the school open and plans on adding several new classes. I’d like to invite anyone interested in Dadaist collage and assemblage to sign up for a class that I will be teaching next semester. We will study the works of Hannah Hoch, Raoul Hausmann and Kurt Schwitters. Visit the home base of Salon Mijangos for details on class schedules and instructors. The image above is Haumann’s “The Art Critic.”
In other news, Dee Mitchell finally convinced Art in America to publish his Report from Austin. This month’s issue gives a tip of the hat to the hot Austin art scene, but it doesn’t necessarily give any glowing reviews. Mitchell says the Texas Biennial needs a theme and points out the crazy idea that art kids actually stay in Austin after they finish undergrad. He writes thoroughly about the brief history of some Austin institutions like Laguna Gloria and the Blanton, but gives a stilted example of the art that’s thriving in Austin. To be fair, that is also the downside of print media with limited space to run a few photos. Write a blog, Dee!!!
Triangle Project Space currently houses one of the best curated shows of the year with works by a majority of Mexican artists as well as a few celebrities like Bruce Nauman and Erwin Wurm [is he a celebrity for the fat car? maybe not...] I could write more, however, this is work that should be seen and not read.
Our fellow blogger/webbie, Neoaztlan, will have a party at Salon Mijangos on Friday, so don’t miss it! Also, since it is the giving season, don’t forget Emvergeoning’s First Birthday on December 10th. We’re still deliberating on what to do about this auspicious day…Any suggestions?
Over and out.
Emvergeoning Scavenger Hunt across Texas ?
Through a dance party!!!!!
I am so there.
through a dance party darkly?
i’ll rock that shit, homie.
redactio ad infinitum.
Höch was a social archaeologist working in reverse. Her montages break down what we see and know, and put the fragments back together in a way that makes us question the concepts of identity, culture, and subjectivity. Höch found the self in the Other in order to deconstruct racism, sexism, and politics. She didn’t limit herself to angry anti-bourgeois messages or the macho posturing of some of the male dadaists, but expanded the scope of her work to mine the intersection between public images and private selves. And on top of all that, she did have an excellent bob.
I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well as materials for paintings; they suited the purpose just as well as factory-made paints… It is possible to cry out using bits of old rubbish, and that’s what I did, gluing and nailing them together.
…spontaneity, absurdity and individual psychic
‘I’ll tell you the ultimate secret of magic. Any could do it.’