Tag Archives: John Cale

ANTON VIDOKLE IN CONVERSATION

In conjunction with the exhibition ANTON VIDOKLEIMMORTALITY FOR ALL: A FILM TRILOGY ON RUSSIAN COSMISM, the artist and e-flux editor will join Adam Khalil for a conversation.

Scored to music by John Cale and Éliane Radigue, the three parts of the trilogy—THIS IS COSMOS (2014), THE COMMUNIST REVOLUTION WAS CAUSED BY THE SUN (2015), and IMMORTALITY AND RESURRECTION FOR ALL! (2017)—investigate Cosmism, a forgotten philosophy that combined Western Enlightenment, Eastern philosophy, Russian Orthodox traditions, and Marxism, before falling victim to Stalinist repression.

ANTON VIDOKLE IN CONVERSATION WITH ADAM KHALIL

Saturday, January 19, at 2 pm.

The Commons at 401

Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space

401 Richmond Street West, 4th floor, Toronto.

ANTON VIDOKLE—IMMORTALITY FOR ALL: A FILM TRILOGY ON RUSSIAN COSMISM

January 19 through March 16.

YYZ Artists’ Outlet

140-401 Richmond Street West, Toronto.

Cinematic images: Anton VidokleImmortality For All: A Film Trilogy on Russian Cosmism (stills), 2014–17, HD video, color, sound, 96 minutes, in Russian with English subtitles, courtesy the artist. Book cover credit: MIT Press.

JOHN CALE AND ARIEL PINK IN THE HIGH DESERT

DESERT DAZE—the Joshua Tree music festival where fans converge to see their favorite bands, and enjoy the campgrounds and metaphysical offerings of the Mystic Bazaar—is back.

Iggy Pop and Spiritualized are headliners, but of particular interest are scheduled sets by Ariel Pink and John Cale.

ARIEL PINK, Friday, October 13.

JOHN CALE, Saturday, October 14.

DESERT DAZE 2017, Thursday, October 12 through Sunday, October 15.

INSTITUTE OF MENTALPHYSICS, 59700 Twentynine Palms Highway, Joshua Tree, California.

desertdaze.org/

ARIEL PINK—DEDICATED TO BOBBY JAMESON, out now.

arielpink.bandcamp.com/album/dedicated-to-bobby-jameson

JOHN CALE—FRAGMENTS OF A RAINY SEASON, out now.

smarturl.it/FragmentsOf

Cover of new album by Ariel Pink; and John Cale, photographed by Julien Mignot.

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CELEBRATING TONY CONRAD

A key figure of Manhattan’s avant-garde, Tony Conrad was “an integral part of the ‘secret history’ of the ’60s….from camp cinema to structural film to minimal music to experimental rock ’n’ roll to video art and more.” — Branden W. Joseph, the author of Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts After Cage (2008).*

Tony Conrad (1940–2016) composed and performed with La Monte Young and John Cale in the Theatre of Eternal Music; appeared in and prepared the musical soundtrack for Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures (1963); directed the experimental film Flicker (1966, which has been known to induce hallucinations); sang backup vocals for Lou Reed and Cale’s pre-Velvets band The Primitives; collaborated with Mike Kelley and Tony Oursler; and was part of the media studies faculty at the University of Buffalo.

“You don’t know who I am, but somehow, indirectly, you’ve been affected by things I did.” — Tony Conrad**

A year after Conrad’s death, THE BROAD MUSEUM’s Un-Private Collection series takes over the Theatre at Ace Hotel for the West Coast premiere of Tyler Hubby’s documentary film TONY CONRAD: COMPLETELY IN THE PRESENT.

Henry Rollins will moderate a post-screening conversation with Hubby and Tony Oursler, and Kim Gordon—who collaborated with Conrad—will perform a set to close out the evening.

 

TONY CONRAD: COMPLETELY IN THE PRESENT, Thursday, March 16 at 8 pm.

THE THEATRE AT ACE HOTEL, downtown Los Angeles.

thebroad.org/programs/un-private-collection-tony-conrad-completely-present-henry-rollins-tony-oursler-tyler-hubby

 

*Branden W. Joseph, email to author, in J. Hoberman, “Tony Conrad, Experimental Filmmaker and Musician, Dies at 76,” New York Times, April 9, 2016.

**The Guardian, quoted in Hoberman.

Image credit: Press notes, tonyconradmovie.com

Image credit: Press notes, tonyconradmovie.com