dayoutlast is a record of my direct engagement with mostly contemporary art, mostly Los Angelean.

As this blog has evolved since its 2010 inception, so has my perspective. What I once perceived as central within the investigation was what was central, literally, within the photographic frame that I shared here. While still an important consideration, such thinking has also given way to more peripheral considerations, ones also accompanied occasionally by text (written manifestation of thought) and the oscillations between them. What's missing here are larger unknowns surrounding issues of presentation and representation; the amount of time and space it actually takes to accomplish such first-hand observations; and the quandaries between documentation and interpretation.

Despite my attempt to communicate here with image and text what is essential in some respect about the artwork, neither representation should ever be considered a substitution for the primary viewing experience. Of course, occasionally there are exceptions.

Most of the time, these posts are merely remnants---residual fragments---from my last day out.

Saturday, April 19, 2014

Flora Wiegmann "Dyslexicon" @ c.nichols projct















































What does graphic text stuck to a wall and a moving body in space have to do with one another? Apparently, more than one might think.  How an individual interprets interactions, how they are executed, and how they are documented are just the tips of the complications, good ones I might add. The performer depicted here was one of a cast who were dancing in the space for extended periods of time for the duration of the exhibition.  

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