“As Acconci’s art shifted from poetry to body-oriented performance in the late 1960s, he often incorporated photography as a means of returning his art to the page and of creating something that would last beyond the moment. This work, dubbed a “photomatic enunciation piece,” is a photo-booth strip showing five random flashes of the automatic camera as the artist sang Cole Porter’s 1934 song “Anything Goes” with exaggerated clarity. Merging performance, chance occurrence, conceptual art, and an assertively anti-art process, Acconci’s work is quintessentially of the 1960s.” –the Met
Hisatoshi “Poppo” Shiraishi came to NYC by way of Tokyo, then London in 1978. Poppo and his girlfriend Tsuya had met at fashion school in Tokyo during the early 70’s. After graduating Poppo and Tsuya had traveled to London, being captivated by the punk scene there at the time. Poppy began studying Butoh, the avant-garde dance form, and after some to and further travelling, he and Tsuya moved to New York City, attracted to the vibrance and excitement of the downtown scene. Continue reading POPPO SHIRAISHI, with Nocturnal Emissions, Newcastle, 1990→
The Washington Color School was a visual-art movement that was centered in Washington D.C. from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. The work was a form of abstraction that developed from color field painting, as exemplified by the work of Mark Rothko and Helen Frankenthaler. Continue reading The Washington Color School, Pt1→
At exactly noon on this day in 1883, American and Canadian railroads began using four continental time zones. The standardization of time standards on the continent stemmed from the problems encountered by the railroad industry in scheduling arrival and departure times as trains made their way across the US and Canada. Continue reading On This Day: North America’s First Time Zones: November 18, 1883→
The Incubator 