Pete Driessen Visual Artist/Painter: 10/10/10

Thursday, October 14, 2010

MCA - VOTE ARTS

Vote Arts! Filmed at Giant Steps Conference, Wellstone Center, St. Paul, MN. Thanks, pete

New CSI Images back from the CCC/KQ? Labs!

Detecting Curation Detritus-Orange Fuzzy String/Yarn. From Metal Detection Performance at Curatorial Cult Club/Kwestion Quration?, Walker Art Center Open Field, Minneapolis, MN USA, 9/1/2010. Pete Driessen © 2010.

A new album of my CSI images from Curatorial Cult Club/Kwestion Quration? have been posted on my Facebook page. Taken in studio, these artist cell phone images illustrate the hidden detritus collected with a metal detection device during my performative Detecting Curation event at the Walker Art Center Open Field commons on 9/1/2010. Whether small or large, metal or plastic, sticky or slippery, a partially eaten Wolfgang Puck hamburger or a lost silver peace sign earing/necklace hanger, the images reflect, reframe and represent the wide spectrum of artist, viewer, audience, participant, administrative, museological and curatorial activities that often go overlooked within the subterranean spatiality of the art center. The participatory found objects and process based studio images both combine and become exhibitionary elements and alternative publication components. pete

Monday, October 11, 2010

Thanks to They Won't Find Us Here Gallery!

Thanks to all those who ventured out to view my opening of Nauticalia Tentacalus at They Won't Find Us Here Gallery on Friday Night! A beautiful mid October night and fall evening in South Minneapolis was perfect for gathering, conversing, and talking art. That little pinkish beige ceramic and metal ship in the window was a "Find" at a local thrift store. It is unlabeled, actually lights up thru the portholes, and was a beacon signal to let gallery viewers know that they had found the right spot. I'm guessing it's from the 50's or 60's. If anyone who knows more about this type of lamp-- please send me a note-- because I am researching its value. Images of the installation in the raw gallery space will be posted on Facebook soon.

x0x0x pete

Photo Credit: Sean Smuda.

Pete's Reading List

Barthes, Roland. Elements of Semiology. Trans. by A. Lavers & C. Smith. NY: Hill & Wang, 1994.
Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. Trans. by A. Lavers. NY: Hill and Wang,1994.
Bataille, Georges. (Peter Connor, Trans.) The Tears of Eros.San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1989.
Batchelor, David. Chromophobia. London, UK: Reaktion Books, 2000.
Battenfield, Jackie. The Artist's Guide.Philadelphia, PA: Da Capo Press, 2009.
Berger, Ways of Seeing. NY: Viking Press, 1973.
Bhandari, Heather & Jonathan Melber. Art/Work. NY: Free Press, 2009.
Bohm, David and F. David Peat. Science, Order, and Creativity. NY: Bantam, 1987.
Bohm, David. Causality and Chance in Modern Physics. Philadelphia: U. of Pennsylvania Press, 1971.
Bohm, David. Wholeness and the Implicate Order. London: Routledge, 1995.
Bois, Yves-Alain. Painting: The Task of Mourning. From Art in Modern Culture: An Anthology of Critical Text. (F. Franscina & J. Harris, eds.) NY: Harper Collins/Icon, 1992, p. 326-330.
Brown, David J. & R. Merrill. (Eds). Violent Persuasions: The Politics and Imagery of Terrorism. Seattle: Bay Press, 1993.
Capra, Fritjof. The Web of Life/A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems. NY: Anchor Books, 1996.
Capra, Fritjof. Tao of Physics/Exploration of Parallels Between Modern Physics & Eastern Mysticism. Boston: Shambhala, 1991.
Casati, Roberto & Achille C. Varzi. Holes and Other Superficialities. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995.
Chomsky, Noam. The Culture of Terrorism. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1988.
Critical Art Ensemble. Electronic Disturbance. NY: Autonomedia, 1994.
Critical Art Ensemble. Flesh Machine. NY: Autonomedia, 1998.
Deleuze, Gilles, & Felix Guattari. Anti-Oedipus/Capitalism and Schizophrenia. NY: Viking Press, 1977.
Duncan, Carol. The Aesthetics of Power./Essays in Critical Art History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 1993.
Foucault, Michel. Discipline & Punish/The Birth of the Prison. Trans. by A. Sheridan. NY: Vintage Books,1995.
Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. (R. Howard, trans.) NY: Vintage, 1988.
Foucault, Michel. The History of Human Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction. (R. Hurley, trans.) NY: Vintage, 1990.
Ginzburg, Ralph. EROS. Volumes 1, 2, 3, & 4. NY: Eros Magazine, 1962-1963.
Green, David & Pete Seddon. (Eds.) History Painting Reasssessd. Manchester, UK: Manchester UP, 2000.
Grof, Stanislav. The Holotropic Mind: Three Levels of Human Consciousness. San Francisco, CA: Harper Collins, 1993.
Herman, Edward S. & N. Chomsky. Manufacturing Consent/The Political Economy of the Mass Media. NY: Pantheon,1988.
KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation. July 1963. (ID from http://www.parascope.com on June 23, 1997)
Lawlor, Robert. Sacred Geometry/Philosophy and Practice. NY: Thames and Hudson, 1995.
Lawlor, Robert. Voices of the First Day/ Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1991.
Lawson, Thomas. Last Exit: Painting. In Art After Modernism: Essays on Rethinking Representation. (B. Wallis, ed.) Boston: Godine/The New Museum, 1984, p. 153-165.
Livingstone, Margaret. Vision and Art: the Biology of Seeing. NY: Harry N. Abrams, 2002.
LN324-91/Study Manual/Counter Intelligence. (Manual 2 English of 7 Manuals). USA-SOA. pp. 11, 51,154, 199, 208, 216, 227, 222, 230-1, 262-4. Government Documents/Information from U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy .
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Spiritual in Art/Abstract Painting 1890-1985. NY: Abbeville Press, 1986.
Mariner, Joanne. Ghost Prisoner/Two Years in Secret CIA Detention. Human Rights Watch. February 2007, Volume 19, No. 1(G).
Marzorati, Gerald. A Painter of Darkness: Leon Golub and Our Times, An Essay on Art and Politics. NY: Penguin, 1992.
Maturana, Humberto & Francisco Varela. Tree of Knowledge/ Biological Roots of Human Understanding. Boston: Shambhala, 1992.
McEvilley, Thomas. The Exile’s Return: Toward a Redefinition of Painting for the Post-Modern Era. NY: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Mitchell, William J. The Reconfigured Eye/Visual Truth in the Post Photographic Era. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 1992.
Nelson-Pallmeyer, Jack. School of Assassins. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1997.
Nochlin, LInda. Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays. New York: Harper & Row, 1988.
Peat, F. David. Synchronicity/The Bridge Between Matter and Mind. NY: Bantam New Age, 1988.
Perlmutter, David D. Vision of War/Picturing Warfare from the Stone Age to the Cyber Age. NY: St. Martins Griffin, 1999.
Puppi, Lionello. Torment in Art/Pain, Violence and Martyrdom. New York: Rizzoli International, Ltd., 1991.
Raven, Arlene, Cassandra Langer, Hoanna Frueh. Feminist Art Criticism/An Anthology. NY: Icon Editions, 1991.
Scarry, Elaine. The Body in Pain/The Making and Unmaking of the World. NY: Oxford UP, 1985.
Sennett, Richard. The Fall of Public Man/On the Social Psychology of Capitalism. NY: W.W. Norton,1992.
Sheldrake, Rupert. A New Science of Life/The Hypothesis of Formative Causation. London: Anthony Blond, 1985.
Spanish Translation. Interrogation Manual. p. 24/Terrorism and Urban Guerrilla. p. 16,18,40,118. Government Documents/Information from U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy.
Stanfield, Alyson. I'd Rather be in the Studio. Golden, CO: Pentas Press, 2008.
Steinberg, Leo. The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and In Modern Oblivion. 2nd Edition. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press,1996.
Study Manual/Handling of Sources/1989. School Of Americas (SOA)-Watch . Columbus, Ga. (ID from SOA-Watch web site on April 28, 1997).Government Documents/Information from U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy .
Study Manual/Handling of Sources/1989.(Manual 1 English of 7 Manuals). USA-SOA. Pp. 1, 4-5,14,16, ?, 22, 25, 27-28, 30-31, 5?, 56, 61-62, 65.Government Documents/Information from U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy
Tacayan."Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare, by "Tacayan." (ID from Pinknoiz@well.com)
Talbot, Michael. The Holographic Universe. NY: Harper Collins , 1992.
Tuten, Fred. Fischl’s Italian Hours. In Art in America, November 1996, p. 77-132.
Voltaire. Candide.
Wilber, Ken. The Holographic Paradigm & Other Paradoxes/Exploring the Leading Edge of Science. Boston: Shambhala, 1985.
Winkleman, Edward. How to Start & Run a Commercial Art Gallery. NY: Allworth Press, 2009.
Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States. NY: Harper & Row,1980.

Pete's Quotes.

Whatever he does to the the web, he does to himself. Chief Seattle

...be a voice for the voiceless.
Archbishop Oscar Romero

Art is either pLagIARism or REVOLuTion.
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Painter

Communication is transmitted by a labyrinthic system of intermediaries and third persons. Handling of Sources, 1989, p. 4.

Endless Money forms the Sinews of War. Cicero (106-43 BC), Roman Statesman & Philosopher

The first Casualty, when War comes, is Truth. Hiram Johnson (1866-1945), U.S. Senator

Never doubt that a small number of dedicated people can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that every has. Margaret Mead (1901-1978), Cultural Anthropologist

We are dreaming within a greater dream. Robert Lawlor, Cultural Anthropologist, Voices of the First Day, p. 125.

How can and must desire deploy its forces within the political domain and grow more intense in the process of overturning the established order? . . . The major enemy . . . is the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
Michel Foucault, French Philosopher, in Deleuze & Guattari, Anti Oedipus, preface.

....leaders of applause and slogans at the high school football or baseball games. From Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare, p. 25.

Catholicism frequently provokes madness. Michel Foucault, French Philosopher, in Madness, p. 255.

A work of art opens a void, a moment of silence, a question without answer, provokes a breach without reconciliation where the world is forced to question itself. . . the world is made aware of its guilt. . . . the world that becomes culpable. . . .Where there is a work of art, there is no madness; . . . madness is contemporary with the work of art, since it inaugurates the time of its truth. The moment when . . . the world finds itself arraigned by that work of art and responsible before it for what it is. Michel Foucault, French Philosopher, in Madness, p. 288-89.

...to generate, to alter, or halt human behavior. KUBARK, 1963, p. 4.

Power is at the tip of the phallus. Michael Fried, Art Historian, in Courbet’s Realism, p. 189.

...pocket litter should be carefully examined.
In Combat Intelligence Manual p. 77.

Pete Driessen Visual Artist/Painter

Thursday, October 14, 2010

MCA - VOTE ARTS

New CSI Images back from the CCC/KQ? Labs!

Monday, October 11, 2010

Thanks to They Won't Find Us Here Gallery!

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