Slog - Comments on A Portrait of the Artist as a Regular Guy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/05/a_portrait_of_the_artist_as_a_regular_gu I was disappointed in this year's exhibition of MFA grads from UW, but two artists stood out, and Fred Muram is one of them. Thing is, Muram's three videos in the show are only half the story. They're part of a performance series he does that's like a mild satire on artist lectures and autobiographical documentaries. In this one, which is, unfortunately, not on display at UW (he sent it to me after I requested it), he plays a regular guy playing an artist. His low-key narration gives the distinct impression that, as an artist, he doesn't know what to... Copyright 2008 Thu, 31 May 2007 14:45:27 -0800 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:53:36 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by darius My quicktime gave me an error alert, therefore I was only able to listen to the project. He sounds funny, I like those Beck songs, felt like the cassette diaries we used to keep as kids.

"Get under a cardboard box and move around"?

Sometimes I really get into an accidental experience of a piece of art, like when at a theater and the film celluloid buckles/melts in the projector (a Derrida film at the Little Theater on 19th was canceled after 15 minutes for that, good enuf for me!), or renting a long movie on VHS and you mistakenly put tape2 in first (I watched Until the End of the World that way and was amazed until half way through the 2nd tape - such inventive story line I thought!).

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I think I'll go to the Henry next week

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