Koudlam meets Cyprien Gaillard

by Art Fag City on April 24, 2009 · 10 comments

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Haven’t visited the New Museum’s Younger Than Jesus triennial yet?  Want to find out why the critics are raving about artist Cyprien Gaillard’s video performance with Koudlam?   This quality of this youtube excerpt may make that difficult, but its enough to give viewers a sense of the piece.  Enjoy. I guess.

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  • Brian Droitcour

    Another art blog I read reguarly posted a excerpt from the same work with similar commentary (i.e. “What’s the big deal?”). Disseminating fragments through YouTube is a good way for an artist to get the word out about his work, I guess, but it becomes problematic when critics assume they can pass judgment on something that exists outside the internet from a fragment found online. It’s kind of like reading a few pages of a book on Amazon’s preview and saying “This isn’t as good as Michiko Kakutani said it is.”

  • Brian Droitcour

    Another art blog I read reguarly posted a excerpt from the same work with similar commentary (i.e. “What’s the big deal?”). Disseminating fragments through YouTube is a good way for an artist to get the word out about his work, I guess, but it becomes problematic when critics assume they can pass judgment on something that exists outside the internet from a fragment found online. It’s kind of like reading a few pages of a book on Amazon’s preview and saying “This isn’t as good as Michiko Kakutani said it is.”

  • Art Fag City

    I’ve watched that video four times at the New Museum. “What’s the big deal”? wasn’t my take. The clip gives a sense of the work, but is so poor quality I think it’s hard to actually enjoy the piece. In short, we agree.

  • Art Fag City

    I’ve watched that video four times at the New Museum. “What’s the big deal”? wasn’t my take. The clip gives a sense of the work, but is so poor quality I think it’s hard to actually enjoy the piece. In short, we agree.

  • c.moore

    The quality is sufficient to be understood in sydney, Australia. Enjoyable audio, video content disturbingly familiar of men behaving badly… what is this ‘Big Fight Club’… or just an educated bash up with middle class dickheads. MMM Certainly allows us to contemplate PEACE not WAR.

  • c.moore

    The quality is sufficient to be understood in sydney, Australia. Enjoyable audio, video content disturbingly familiar of men behaving badly… what is this ‘Big Fight Club’… or just an educated bash up with middle class dickheads. MMM Certainly allows us to contemplate PEACE not WAR.

  • kathy

    This is being screend and performed live at Tate Modern in the Turbine Hall, Friday July 3rd, at 22.00..

    http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/musicperform/18355.htm

  • kathy

    This is being screend and performed live at Tate Modern in the Turbine Hall, Friday July 3rd, at 22.00..

    http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/musicperform/18355.htm

  • kathy

    This is being screend and performed live at Tate Modern in the Turbine Hall, Friday July 3rd, at 22.00..

    http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/musicperform/18355.htm

  • kathy

    This is being screend and performed live at Tate Modern in the Turbine Hall, Friday July 3rd, at 22.00..

    http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/musicperform/18355.htm

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