Twitter Taster

For people not on twitter, this is a taster of my recent points of interest

Firstly I have a curated at two person show with Laura Buckley and Sture Johanesson opening at Autocenter in Berlin March 21 from 7pm running until April 19. Flyer above.

(The space also has an incredible auction midway through the show for a night  coming up at the end of March with work by David Ostrowski, Oliver Laric etc).

Grab the brilliant new issue of COS magazine with interview with Tino Seghal and fruit fair photos by Wolfgang Tilmmans in the free in-store print edition

My interview with Collier Schorr for Dazed

Jodorowsky Comic archive

Le Gun running art school workshops

Rob Pruitt's online book shop and flea market on ebay

Banking on Banks

An anonymous tip off sent me this in the morning - Banks Violette's old painted guitar fragments from his hardcore days before the art world is on sale on ebay. I don't know how I feel about this. There's something vampiric about that cashing in process. Especially when it's a work that hasn't been created as an art object (brings up that old idea whether a work of art is so because the artist's sees as such - or in this case the consumer).

Still it kind of fits with the ideas behind Banks' work - in fact even testing his arguments. In the interview I did with him for Hell Bound, he talked about the idea of faith of being something transformative.

“That there’s an imminent value in that thing – in the wafer or the coffin. You direct your faith towards it and that makes it something more. And if you have a whole community doing that, then you have a religion or a subculture or you have art.”

Maybe if some art geek wants to see this old broken instrument as art then it counts...