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Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
by Michelle Y. Hyun
Kate Cooper, Johan Hjerpe, Richard John Jones, K.D., Seth Lower, Société Réaliste, Goldin + Senneby at Mission 17
June 5th - July 18th
Posted
7/11/09
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, for I am the great and powerful OZ!” yelled the wizard in L. Frank Baum’s “The Wizard of Oz.” The Great Oz or the man behind the curtain turns out to be a humbug – a hoax or a jest, or as Dorothy says, “a very bad man,” in the classic movie. Curated by Mission 17 assistant director and curator, Laura Mott, the works in The Man Behind the Curtain traverse the liminal space in between truth and deceit, commerce and thef... [more]
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Darren Almon's Video Bearing
by Michael Buitron
Darren Almond at David Patton Los Angeles
November 22nd, 2008 - January 10th
Posted
1/6/09
One can enter the loop of Darren Almond's 35 minute video 'Bearing' at any point; the viewer is bearing witness to a Sisyphean task. In the caldera of an Indonesian volcano, workers lay sections of pipe to channel the sulfur-laden steam venting from cracks in the earth. In one scene they 'seed' the plume to form precipitate, creating a hiss as sulfuric acid is made. People enter and disappear into the clouds, chipping away at the bright yellow rocks.
For the extended middle section of the video,... [more]
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