SPIDER CHAVS + MORE

SORRY I HAVENT POSTED for a while.

Has it been a while?

TA-DA!~! im back!!!

So many things have been happening actually. 

KMOSSED catches up with Spider Chavs, Frieze, Hunger Mag and the Dazed awards before getting busted by Mr Brainwash, and the whole entire time (a week) I haven't had internet! OUCHHHHH!!!!

So….there was Frieze. Anneliis Beadnell from P·P·O·W gallery NYC flew over to install  "Infinity Kisses" for Moving Image at the Bargehouse and I helped out. Haven't seen her since we both worked at Jack the Pelican Gallery in NYC 4 years ago so big catchups, liquor and hugs for everybody.

I didn’t actually make it to the Frieze Art Fair in Regents Park, however 4 of my best mates went and called it bland. The art I mean. What was NOT bland at all was the amount of plastic surgery and million dollar stretched to art oblivion smiles that froze out the entire fair. FRIEZE! 

Hung out with the Spider Chavs Friday night. 
Business as usual. 

 This time in honour of the Pussy Riots.

""Note- Flying Red Hat in background!""

Sighted them the next day outside  the Dazed Office on Old Street.

Snapped some more pics on further down Old Street. 10/10 Spider Chavs!!

Went to The Hunger Launch at RANKIN last Tuesday. The usual, manic, fun, free, everyone’s good looking and kinda blends into one big European drumstick.

My good looking friends @*HUNGER *Emmet Green, Alex Moon-Age and Louie Banks +2 *LOVE*

 So its the night after HUNGER, our internet is still on holidays (as our neighbours internet also). HMMM, what to do?!? Smoke a cigarette and pull out the magazine.  A Magarette.

Open to the page on artist computer geek CORY ARCANGEL. Can you imagine my luck? Its about art and the internet. THE INTERNET!!! Im sucked in straight away.

Cory is really cool. He hacks computer games in the name of art. Hes been shown at the Whitney, the Tate, MoMA and Neue. He talks about how social networks these days are like wearing teeshirts ten years ago, identification, advertising and publishing. He’s even got a blog “Sorry I haven’t posted”, which collects blog posts from around the world which begin with those very words. 

Interesting that self-publishing has bought out all this guilt.

“And its funny: to communicate the idea that you’re not communicating is that great paradox of non information.”

Other cool bit in conversation is how the presence of the web has changed art, and the global culture it has created. And how funny it is that the entire world loves watching cats on film (thanks You Tube - too true!)

“Why is it that cats unite the world in this way? And a lot of the time, you can’t even tell where the video is from, if the people didn’t put any identification in the text.

Its an anonymous bit of culture.”

Incidently, 10 years ago, in 2003, Cory sent his work to one of my best friends Thea Baumann, for an exhibition called Fragged in New Castle, Australia.

She was doing internet curation, and he was one of the first budding wave of artists reflecting on games culture in the internet world. She showed his work Super Mario Clouds, Super Mario Rave (dreaming of raving) and I Shot Andy Warhol, Nintendo Entertainment hacks (NES).

Cool huh! Now he's super duper famous!

Went to the Dazed G-Shock awards last night and have absolutely nothing to say about that, except that Holly and I lent against a wall which was actually fake (or maybe just for watches), and got busted by Mr Brainwash, from the Banksy Film, 'Exit Through the Gift Shop'  AND this absolutely beautiful creature with her KTZ purse and matching nails.

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