Art News:
Negativland: Our Favorite Things
Opening reception Sat., November 6, 6 to 9 PM, through November
28, 2010
Nau-haus Art
223 E, 11th St. Houston Texas, 77008
contact: Dan Allison, 281-615-4148
dan@nau-haus.com
National CD Release image above,
exhibition images at link below
N E G A T I V L A N D B I O :
Since 1980, the 4 or 5 or 6
Floptops known as Negativland have been creating records, CDs,
video, fine art, books, radio and live performance using
appropriated sound, image and text. Mixing original materials
and original music with things taken from corporately owned
mass culture and the world around them, Negativland
re-arranges these found bits and pieces to make them say and
suggest things that they never intended to. In doing this kind
of cultural archaeology and "culture jamming" (a term they
coined way back in 1984), Negativland have been sued twice for
copyright infringement.
Over the years Negativland's
"illegal" collage and appropriation based audio and visual
works have touched on many things - pranks, media hoaxes,
advertising, media literacy, the evolving art of collage, the
bizarre banality of suburban existence, creative
anti-corporate activism in a media saturated multi-national
world, file sharing, intellectual property issues, wacky
surrealism, evolving notions of art and ownership and law in a
digital age, and artistic and humorous observations of mass
media and mass culture.
see more Negativland here:
http://www.texascollaborative.com/Negativland.html
Declared heroic by their peers
for refashioning culture into what the group considers to be
more honest statements, Negativland suggests that refusing to
be original, in the traditional sense, is the only way to make
art that has any depth within commodity capitalism...
- NEW YORK TIMES
It’s an often ignored request,
but you may pay more attention to the phrase “Please remember
to take all your belongings” after seeing Negativland’s eerily
mesmerizing new project…
- NEWSWEEK
Negativland…known for their
media pranks....
- TIME MAGAZINE
A provocation and a
punk-inspired commentary on our mercenary culture…eloquent and
impassioned spokesmen for ideas like a “creative commons”…it’s
salutary to see these smart and influential guys get a gallery
show.
- ART IN AMERICA
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Nau-haus Art Space is located at 223 E. 11th St.
in the Houston Heights. Gallery hours are from
noon to 5, Saturdays and Sundays or by appointment.
Owned and operated by Dan Mitchell Allison,
Nau-haus is dedicated to the exploration of new
and emerging talent, as well as a venue for
established work by Houston's independent visual
artists. For more information about T.C.A.Projects
and Nau-haus e mail to dan@nau-haus.com or visit
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