Arts Arts in America
Today, the Stranger suggests you ease into:
Slide Crawl 2 (ART) What would happen if artists reviewed themselves? If when they spoke in public, they talked about their fears instead of their intentions? At an artist-run collective like Crawl Space, real, serious, open conversation about art is a definite possibility, and might even happen at Slide Crawl 2, the second installment of a relaxed quarterly slide show. This one’s featured artists are Cat Clifford, Tony Weathers, and Portland’s Stephen Slappe. (Crawl Space Gallery, 504 E Denny Way #1, 322-5752. 7:30 pm, donation suggested.) JEN GRAVES
Also tonight: Thievery Corporation (some of whose songs from The Richest Man in Babylon will appear on the Tiger Woods PGA Tour ‘06 video game, which is a little weird) will play the Moore.
In other thieves: I don’t know what the hell a buchla music easel is, but it looks like this, was swiped from the Evergreen State College, and some students are very upset about it.
In other upsets: South Africans are getting worked up about a racist ringtone. Will those honkey boers never learn?
In still other upsetting upsets: Here is a beautiful still from Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait that directors Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno have been making for three years. Beautiful because it reveals the true dimensions of professional sports, so often obscured by TV and print coverage that erroneously magnifies the players. The infrastructure, the stadiums, and their investors are the real stars:
From the International Herald Tribune:
It sounds like a documentary, but it feels much more like raw feed that only occasionally evolves into performance art. There are no interviews and no analysis, which actually comes as a relief considering that soccer and Real Madrid, in particular, are among the most overanalyzed subjects on the planet.
In other overanalyzed subjects: My heart is Montague, but my prick is nonpartisan.
In other pricks: Critics—specifically film critics—totally blow.
And, just to prove it: Snakes on a Plane is being hidden from the critics. SOAP goes straight to the fans!
I worked on that exact Buchla easel when I was a junior at Evergreen. It was great for learning the basics of electronic music synthesis. You patched sound modules together with these crazy cords with banana plugs on the ends. I hope they find it.