Leaving this sunday
i am going to build pieces there with the help of a university and the students, we have about 1.5 weeks to build stuff.
a bit of a translation problem, and materials issues…..
but truly an adventure
i have never been west of SF
oh, too late for shots, i leave sunday
i did get some shots a few years ago for when i went to africa tho
i am a bit tripped out by the whole thing, but feel incredibly lucky.
I have a few days free after the festival, anyone ever been there?
Suggestions of what i should see or do in India??
all the best
kal
this is a real great article, something you could email your republican dad…..
This Country Just Can’t Deal with Reality Any More
As Election Day 2010 approaches, the consequences of the nation’s three-decade-old decoupling from reality are becoming painfully obvious. http://www.alternet.org/news/148206/this_country_just_can%27t_deal_with_reality_any_more/
See it all end…
COSMICISM AND CONTEMPORARY FORESTRY
From Northern California
at THE JACK HANLEY GALLERY
OPEN NOW
Closing Party: Saturday, 6-9 PM, August 28, 2010
136 watts street.new york, ny 10013. 646 918 6824. jackhanley.com
In comparison to very tall trees, the San Francisco artist Kal Spelletich suggests, people are losers.
Passing through the flame one by one, the hot dogs are like tiny damned bodies suffering in a miniature hell.
and more……
German Art Critique of current show up at Jack Hanley:
The artist Kal Spelletich are hybrids of plant and machinery for his exhibition in New York not quite succeeded. But he talks about him, the words are not big enough. The visitor feels while in the gallery as on a fair.
Gallery Shot
Opening night
opening nights with Der kalifornische Künstler Kal Spelletich
can a machine for Barbecue “feeding the masses,” as they call Spelletich.
poor weenies
The ominous-looking device looks as if it belonged to the household of “Mad Max”. Hot dogs are skewered and over a flame in a circle it around. The poor sausage.
Hundreds of dogs cooked by the one-an-only Ivory Serra!
are hybrids of plant and machinery for his exhibition in New York not quite succeeded.
Crown of the New Yorks!
Kal Spelletich selbst spricht von einem „Frankenstein“, den er da geschaffen habe - von einer „unheiligen Allianz“,
Thank you so much for your contributions to help fund this show!
It means a lot to me. I am incredibly, deeply grateful. I can stretch this funding out far beyond my wildest dreams.
Jelle Gerbrandy
Daniella Jaeger
Scott Beale
Ron Lillycrop
Joseph Carames
amyj
Dustyn Roberts
kathy
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Thomas Rødningen
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Jason Hadley
sudhu tewari
Garrick
Robert Collison
Ken
Frank Hellum
Susan Spelletich
Al Honig
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Robin Ward
Laura Lent
Tanya Augsburg
Jennifer Hall
Chris Johanson
James Goode
Chris Harvey
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Annabelle Port
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Kathy
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I have a NYC show this week,
the opening is Thursday. August 5, 2010.
Show up for the opening.There are robot trees and large scale photos, a new BB-Q on the street serving up food for the masses annnnd the beer will flow freely!
Thanks to EVERYONE who helped with my fundraiser. I am so …. fulfilled!
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Bill Viola Statement
The acknowledgement or awareness or recognition that there is something above, beyond, below beneath what is in front of your eyes, what our daily life is focused on.
There is another dimension that you just know is there, that can be a source for real knowledge, and the quest for a connection with that and identifying that is the whole impetus for me to cultivate these experiences and to make my work.
And on a larger scale it is also the larger driving force behind all religious endeavors. There is an unseen world out there and we are all living it.
1997 catalogue. Whitney museum, David Ross-Peter Sellers
Helloo
As far as my fundraiser……
I know a lot of you are not so into the online format of paying.
We can work this out!!
email me,
spellkal@gmail.com
Any extra monies I get at this point will define how far I can take this exhibit…..
It ain’t over until it is over!
With more funding I can;
Get more food and drink I can provide at the opening and closing events!
Must feed the hungry masses in NYC with my new BB-Q
Directions:
From the freeways
Cesar Chavez (Army St.) exit from 101 or I-280 North or South, take Cesar Chavez East, go about a mile from 101, 2 blocks from 280, go through intersection of 3rd St., immediate right onto Illinois St., go one block, building is kitty corner, on your right.
Look for the red light, ya can’t miss it.
FROM DOWNTOWN
South on 3rd. Left on Cesar Chavez, immediate right onto Illinois St., go one block, building is kitty corner, on your right.
Look for the red light, ya can’t miss it.
FROM THE MISSION
East on 16th street from Portrero St./the mission, take a right on 3rd., go south a couple of miles, Left on Cesar Chavez, immediate right onto Illinois St., go one block, building is kitty corner, on your right.
Or, go East on Cesar Chavez FROM THE MISSION, go through intersection of 3rd St., take immediate right onto Illinois St., go one block, building is kitty corner, on your right.
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Neither Kal Spelletich, KALTEK nor anyone associated with this event shall be held responsible or liable for any LOSS, DAMAGE, INJURY or DEATH arising from any activity organized, sponsored or promoted by Kal or the presenting organization anywhere in the universe, forever.
EVIGILO FABRICA LABORIS EXERCITUS SODALITAS
I have a great great show in New York City that opens on August 6, 2010. I live in San Francisco, Ca. I can’t afford the expenses of the exhibit. So I am trying this fund raising effort below.
Treebot that is goin to NYC
HERE IT IS IN ACTION:
redwood from Santa Cruz, Ca.
Opening
Aug. 5, 2010, 6-9PM
The Jack Hanley Gallery http://www.jackhanley.com/
136 Watts, N.Y., N.Y. 10013
646-918-682
Some theory about my upcoming show at The Jack Hanley Gallery
Sometimes it feels like the apocalypse. Endless wars draining the US treasury, no money for health care, education or jobs. The planet is getting destroyed right before our eyes. Today. Right now. It makes me wonder what to do with my life.
I am sticking with art, for now.
California Monterey Pines, the trees that I have been using for my new pieces, are covered with a healing lichen (Usnea Barbata, commonly referred to as Old Man’s Beard, Beard Lichen, or Treemoss). This lichen has a symbiotic relationship between fungus and alga. (We CAN all get along)!
A tree covered with traditional healing herbs. If the forests lose their root system-the very ground on which they stand-so our planet loses grounding as well. How little control even the most ingenious among us have over the awesome, intricately interconnected natural forces with which we so casually meddle.
Our culture has made an excruciatingly dangerous and arrogant claim to have such complete understanding and command over nature, claiming that we can radically manipulate and re-engineer it with minimal risk to the natural systems that sustain us.
It can be so overwhelming, this heedless destruction of nature. I feel compelled to do something, to pay homage to the perfectness of the natural world. So, I thought, why not start in my back yard with trees? And yet, try and show something ominous is happening.
Maybe it all started with Sir Francis Bacon, he best encapsulated the new ethos when he wrote in the 1623 De dignitate et augmentis scientiarum that nature is to be “put in constraint, moulded, and made as it were new by art and the hand of man.”
It reads like a Greek tragedy about human hubris. A political class eager to believe that nature had indeed been mastered. Augmenting nature.
COSMICISM AND CONTEMPORARY FORESTRY
From Northern California
machines, robots, photographs
A technologically mutated organic hybrid to of and for trees.
1. A bio-engineered permutation.
(a.) a deliberate attempt to cross two parents with desirable characteristics and incorporate said characters in next generations.
(b.) a synthesis of nature and technology
(c.) to produce an anomaly.
2. Deviant transmogrification.
(a.) post nature.
(b.) new species struggling for life.
(c.) an unholy marriage.
3. The Paradox of Technology.
(a.) It could save us. can it save us?
(b.) It is killing us.
I want to save the world, to stop the fascists destroying our planet and economy. It can be so overwhelming. So, I thought, why not start in my own back yard. An endangered species.
The opening night will also include BB-Q from a machine/tree BB-Q the DJ stylings of only San Francisco, California musics by multiple Ca. x-pats.
The philosophy of cosmicism states that there is no recognizable divine presence, such as God, in the universe, and that humans are particularly insignificant in the larger scheme of intergalactic existence. Perhaps we are just a small species projecting our own mental idolatries onto the vast cosmos, ever susceptible to being wiped from existence at any moment. This also suggests that in the context of a much greater struggle between large-scale universal forces, the majority of undiscerning humans are creatures with the no more significance than insects. The theory of cosmicism was developed and used by the American writer H. P. Lovecraft.
Jack Hanley Gallery I 136 Watts Street, New York, NY 10013
take Canal St. East, way east, 2 blocks past Hudson, left on Watts.
I Tues–Sat 11-6pm mail at jackhanley.com
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