We all know the game of telephone where a message is whispered from one person to another until it comes out changed at the other end.
TELEPHONE is the same, but done with art, each artist's work inspiring the next. Sculpture to photograph to poem to music...
This particular game has been played twice before and a new one is starting right now. Check the TELEPHONE site for instructions and sign up to participate.
Steve Messam is a British environmental artist renowned for his large-scale, site-specific installations that transform and reimagine everyday environments.
More on Steve's website.
Liza Lou's Trailer is a walk-in sculpture made in and of a 1949 Spartan Royal Mansion mobile trailer. Themes within are masculinity, noir, stereotypes — all made with beads.
The video has Lou and curators discussing the piece and its transportation and installation at the Brooklyn Museum.
Here's the museum's official page on the piece and here's Liza Lou's official website.
Anecdote Alert
The piece reminds me of a friend's home in DTLA. He owns a 13,000sf building that consists of two floors. The top floor is his living space and the main floor has had rotating purposes in the 15 or so years I've known him.
For much of it, filmmaker Nirvan Mullick lived there, but for another era, they brought in an Airstream trailer and tarted it up into a nice living space, complete with lawn and picket fence. They would rent that out on AirBnB. It was quite interesting to be staying in a trailer and outside your door was a lawn, complete with outdoor furniture and such but then beyond your fence you were in a loft and outside those doors was downtown Los Angeles.
I mentioned the building in my post on Lem Dobbs as it appears in the film The Limey. I spent many nights in this building and I have grand associations of it with DTLA as it and Skid Row were all I knew about the area for many years.
James Lake is known for his phenomenal cardboard sculptures, some of them self-portraits.
His latest piece is stop-motion animated short called Another Day. Lovely work:
More on Lake's site.
This is from a few years ago but for some reason I didn't link it back then. So: Isaac Cordal's Urban Inertia series from Montreal.
I cannot imagine the number of hours that goes into one of Jan Huling's pieces. Incredible work.
More on Huling's site.
Ann Weber is a sculptor in Los Angeles who works a lot with found cardboard. I saw her work featured on Colossal today.
I thought this short video was an inspiring look at her process from "garbage picking," as my mother would call it, to sculpting:
More on Weber's site.
I'm not sure if Bastien Dausse considers himself a dancer or an acrobat, or both, but he's also an inventor and... sculptor, maybe?
Check out this video, which features Dausse and another performer working with two of his sculptures. Fantastic stuff.
And then there's this bit of business:
Which, of course, reminded me of this dance scene from Hal Hartley's Surviving Desire:
Dausse's site is here: Barks Copagnie.
If you dug these pieces, you'll also appreciate my post on Unorthodox Choreography.
Jeremy Mayer disassembles typewriters and then reassembles them into full-scale, anatomically correct human figures and other sculptures. He does not solder, weld, or glue these assemblages together — the process is entirely cold assembly.
His guiding principles:
Emulation is beautiful.
Sustainability is crucial.
Patience is paramount.
Abundance abides.
These principles are expanded on on Mayer's website:
