Ghost Lines Project

Alison Nguyen took these photographs while Shona Masarin and I...

Sat, 11 May 2013 15:23:08 -0400

Alison Nguyen took these photographs while Shona Masarin and I were shooting Ghost line on location in Kingston, NY. The bottom photograph is a panorama created in-camera (on a Diana camera).

Studio scribbles of a movement character “smudgy”....

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 23:25:13 -0500

Studio scribbles of a movement character “smudgy”. Playing with continuous line drawings and the comedy of line.

Exquisite Corpse

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 23:20:04 -0500

Exquisite Corpse

Drawing Surrealism

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 23:17:00 -0500

Drawing Surrealism:

Don’t miss “Drawing Surrealism” at the Morgan Library. The show reveals a rich assortment of surrealist drawings using various graphic techniques including automatic drawing, collage, decalcomania, exquisite corpse, and frottage.

Dadaland

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:11:02 -0500

Out of his nine openings framed in curls, man exhales blue vapor, gray fog, black smoke. Sometimes he tries like a fly to walk on the ceiling, but he always fails and falls with a crash on the table covered with the best crockery.

-Jean Arp

In Weathered Time work-in-progress collaboration by Michelle...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:06:04 -0500

In Weathered Time work-in-progress collaboration by Michelle Dorrance and Cori Olinghouse Created in response to David Parker’s invitation to perform in his curated “Cabaret: Triple-Distilled dances” in the Fridays at Noon series at the 92 St Y

October 5, 2012

Video by Nic Petry

Photo by Alison Nguyen during production shoot of Ghost line by...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:00:59 -0500

Photo by Alison Nguyen during production shoot of Ghost line by Shona Masarin and Cori Olinghouse

I became more and more removed from aesthetics

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:53:44 -0500

“It was the distinction of Jean Arp to have at a certain moment discovered the true problem in the craft itself. This allowed him to feed it with a new, spiritual imagination. He was no longer interested in improving, formulation, specifying an aesthetic system. He wanted immediate and direct production, like a stone breaking away from a cliff, a bud bursting, an animal reproducing. He wanted objects impregnated with imagination and not museum pieces, he wanted animalesque objects with wild intensities and colors, he wanted a new body among us which would suffice onto itself, an object which would be just as well of squatting on the corners of tables as nestling in the depths of the garden or staring at us from the wall…To him the frame and later the pedestal seemed to be useless crutches…”

Alexandre Partens in the Almanach Dada

Ballet Mécanique by Fernand Léger

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 23:41:54 -0500

Ballet Mécanique by Fernand Léger

Ballet Mécanique is a Dadaist post-Cubist art film conceived,...

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 23:36:00 -0500

Ballet Mécanique is a Dadaist post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by the artist Fernand Léger in collaboration with the filmmaker Dudley Murphy.

Notes from screening at Anthology Film Archives:

beautiful entrancing rhythms
camera work - jump cuts - pull you in and repel you simultaneously
magnetic pulls
great cubist rendering of the body - lips, eyes, framed in sections against post industrial machine movement
organic - in-organic in sync and out of sync
barrage of imagery
landscape overlays
lost in time and space
images of mind, memory floating, transposed - creating pattern
revealing pattern - commonality of gestures
double meanings
collage - simultaneity - variety (variety of Keaton, vaudeville)
beautiful collage rendering of paper Chaplin puppet at end - eccentric dance via animation cut and paste
puppetry
language of symbols, images
slapstick of camera and movement

Pictured: Stan Laurel “Hardy walked a thin line between...

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 23:28:35 -0500

Pictured: Stan Laurel

“Hardy walked a thin line between playing heavy and playing fatty. Laurel adopted a retarded squint, with suggestions of idiot savant. Their characters were at sea, clinging to each other as industrial capitalism was breaking up and sinking. Beautiful losers, they kept it funny, buoying our spirits. Laurel and Hardy… forever.” (from Ontic Antics: by filmmaker Ken Jacobs)

Laurel is a slow slow slow clown - very innocent, naive - keeps his cool - little tension - great movement of eyes, eyebrows, mouth - signature faces - in moments of pause. Body language of ridiculous absurdity - slow to register disruptions.

Created by Lauren Simkin Berke

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 12:08:05 -0500

Created by Lauren Simkin Berke

Production still taken by photographer, Alison Nguyen during...

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:43:08 -0500

Production still taken by photographer, Alison Nguyen during film shoot of “Ghost line” with film artist, Shona Masarin.

Pictured: Cori Olinghouse

Photo by Andrew Jordan (Pictured: Kai Kleinbard as blob...

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:29:00 -0400

Photo by Andrew Jordan (Pictured: Kai Kleinbard as blob character)

Photos taken from a live performance of Ghost lines, performed...

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:24:00 -0400

Photos taken from a live performance of Ghost lines, performed as part of Movement Research at the Judson Church June 4th, 2012.

Photos by Ian Douglas

Film still by Shona Masarin (pictured: Cori...

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:15:27 -0400

Film still by Shona Masarin (pictured: Cori Olinghouse)

Interview with Cat Gilbert about my “Ghost lines” project with Shona Masarin which combines elements of dance to create a “vintage” 16mm film.

http://the22blog.com/2012/09/04/an-interview-with-cori-olinghouse/

“Loony Tom” by James Broughton

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:59:00 -0400

“Loony Tom” by James Broughton

notes on process

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 14:07:40 -0400

Dada ghost clown

Non-sequitor

Visual rhyming

Collage

Absurdity

nonsense

taking turns looking backward

moving imperceptibly forward

riming history

scrambled body

picking moments out of a bag

portraits isolated

rupture

ghost time

land line

no-one on the other side

other side

what’s on the other side

is there time

is there anything

is there void

is there full or empty

is there light or shadow

aching for rewind

going back going back

cycle round

absurd ways to catch those moments

isolating body histories

glimpses

snapshots

turning dial and stopping on specific years

capturing visual data

and unrolling it out of my sleeve

archival process

data connections

going back over things

getting stuck

everything same value

scrolling through records

finding things

recording things

mapping things

playing things

cataloging things

storing things

uncovering things

what are the archival body actions?

Dada erases order, meaning

Does not attempt to reconcile opposing forces

In the silence – sound of

Throwing objects in the dark

Seeing how they resonate

Absurd foley art

Dada sound

Non-sequitor

Walt Disney - Fantasia - Mickey The Sorcerer’s...

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:58:50 -0400

Walt Disney - Fantasia - Mickey The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Working with Eva Schmidt on her conjuring solo - as a Beckettian shadow figure.

Dada timeline

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:55:37 -0400

Dada timeline