The audiovisual remix of Gil Scott-Heron’s “New York Is Killing Me” directed by Chris Cunningham premiered last Sunday (26, September 2010) at the Moma (Museum of Modern Art).

Cult filmmaker, musician, photographer, and producer Chris Cunningham is known for his highly acclaimed music videos for artists including Aphex Twin, Björk, Portishead, and many others. Since 2003 his focus has moved to music. Recently, he has headlined festivals around the world with his new live show, and is presently working on his first audiovisual album. 
The three channel version video  from Gil Scott-Heron’s New York is Killing Me is also available for viewing on Chris Cunningham’s website.

Video: Chris Cunningham | Music: Gil Scott-Heron

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I will not make any more boring Art is an early piece of conceptual text art by John Baldessari but it still has not lost its impact nowadays. It demonstrate his thinking at the time and his developing interest in Conceptual art.

In 1971, Baldessari was commissioned by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada to create an original, on-site work. Unable to make the journey himself, he suggested that the students voluntarily write the phrase “I will not make any more boring art” on the gallery walls. Baldessari committed his own version of the piece on videotape. Like an errant schoolboy, he dutifully writes, “I will not make any more boring art” over and over again in a notebook for the duration of the tape. In an ironic disjunction of form and content, Baldessari’s methodical, repetitive exercise deliberately contradicts the point of the lesson to refrain from creating boring art.

I will not make any more boring Art is typical of Baldessari’s work, for not only does it contain humor, but it is also a strategy, a set of conditions, a directive, a paradoxical statement, and a commentary on the art world with which it is involved. Like all his work to date, it addresses, on many complex levels, issues about art, language, games and the world at large.

Photos and video John Baldessari | Sources: Electronic Arts Intermix | MoMA collection | Ubuweb

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