I Am Still Alive

Better late than never

Eric Triantafillou writes a great essay in this month’s Brooklyn Rail about Signs of Change @Exit Art:

“I’m not advocating we stop mounting shows like Signs of Change in order to sit around and think about how to mount shows like this. Our practices – the process of putting this exhibition together and the work in it – are, as the curators have said, a site for thought, a beginning. If it maintains a self-reflective component, active experimentation can be a form of thinking and rethinking. But constant doing sometimes precludes us from ever really asking certain questions, questions that would necessarily place more value on certain ideas and actions and less on others. It is when we become trapped in doing – in a compulsion to act, then to affirm that act with more of the same – places us at risk of making history rhyme.”

Finally getting over this cold/flu/whatever in Brooklyn, NY. posted to twitter

2 colour Screen print on Somerset hotpressed off-white 190gsm.
Edition of 50, signed and numbered by James Brown
Paper Size: 38×56 cm. Image Size: 27×39 cm
£30 plus £4 p&p.

GetGlue and the new app from the guys at Iridesco – Co-Op stood out from the crowd.

I missed this NYTimes profile of ESPO back in May. Thanks to Dan for sending it my way.

A love of graffiti has gained Steve Powers notoriety on the streets, fame in the art world and a long arrest sheet. It has also earned him a Fulbright scholarship…Mr. Powers has stopped painting illegally. “I wanted to find a way to grow out of it while succeeding at being creative,” he said.

I woke up on the early side today and made some changes to this site’s layout. I am largely re-organizing things to make room for some fun projects and to accommodate a new direction for I Am Still Alive as an organization. I reckon the new masthead is a bit easier to navigate now, in any case.

More to come. Apologies if things look a bit too spare for now.

New orders are getting the Mike Perry tape treatment while supplies last.

I have been slipping these into orders recently.