Word: artists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...studio on New York's Long Island. But how great is "great"? Meaning has drained out of the idea of greatness because today it is so inextricably confused with fame, and fame with celebrity, all on the dumb level of publicity--and Pollock is the most publicized and celebrated artist in American history...
...Spooky is an experimental artist who calls his bizzarre mixes "objectiles" (objects + projectiles). A philosophy and French literature major, he exhibits a seemingly unhealthy fascination with obscure theorists, playing off them to explain his own work and DJdom in general. Catching up with the man at the Middle East, we explore the recombinancy of everyday life...
Spooky: I think it's an issue that the artist usually gives up control of the matter once the music goes out or once a critic goes by the gallery. They become the interpreter of the aesthetic. And to me what I'm doing is dealing with the notion of a conceptual framework where narrative itself becomes an ambiguous and amorphous place. Your music, who created it, who owns it, who distributes...
...trying to create a forum for. This album, Riddim Warfare, for example, There's such a wide variety of people on it. You have Julia Scher who helps run MIT's media department, she has a spoken word piece. Or Mariko Mori who is a really major Japanese artist at the moment. All of these people, the vocalists, I asked them what do they feel like living in the late twentieth-century, media saturation, electronically-accelerated culture, etc etc. And so each person came back at me with all this kind of wild stuff. I mean Mariko came back with...
...someone that there's more to you than a dinner at the Border and an Adam Sandler movie? Pull that hair back in a casually messy do, don some paint-splattered black clothing, and a wooly sweater, and take a little jaunt towards Porter Square to let your tortured-artist personality emerge at the Lizard Lounge. (You know you're there when you see a gargantuan lizard plastered to an otherwise bland piece of aluminum siding.) The Jeff Robinson Trio presents "Jazz and Poetry"--enough poetry to titillate even the most avid of English concentrators. 1667 Mass...