overheardontheferry

 


Lately I've been connecting to new art mostly on the internet, through emails that I get, stuff that pops up on Pinterest and doing random searches of sights. 

One of the first pages I started following when I joined tumblr was overheardontheferry and it never fails me. This is my landscape, my portrait. 

The author was a mystery which I soon was trying to detect. Okay, so here is a cool, creative person who rides the boat the same time as I do and sees the queer and ordinary and just puts it out there. I had finally decided that it must be the girl who had the blue hair at one time (I was jealous because I wanted dark blue hair like hers). I had seen her on the boat with her iphone out all the time and figured she must be taking pictures discreetly. I planned to confront her the next time that I saw her, but our paths have not crossed since then. 

Today when I decided to do an Art on Staten Island post for overheardontheferry I checked out the page more closely and found Instagram and Twitter links. Nothing on the Instagram page for clues, but oh no! the heading on the Twitter page was "Born and raised Staten Islander, Associate Director at an advertising agency in Manhattan, and a really cool guy"... a GUY... so my theory of the creator was wrong! Will this change how i see the posts now? Will I still relate to them? My message in a bottle.

Anyway... Tumblr Art

At the Tumblr Art Symposium Christiane Paul, professor of visual arts at The New School, defined Tumblr as platform that many artists share their work through, but the collection of collages, video art, engagements and reblogs are not a united art form. That was my original thought, the authors were curators of what they liked or wanted to communicate, and the pages that were sited as Tumblr art didn't seem much more evolved than that. I was looking too hard for a creative layout or use of images. But i'm starting to see some of the pages as more innovative output, like an artist book or a Fluxus action- record a specific thing daily, etc. Those are the Tumblr art pieces, more subtle so harder to dig up.

What does it all mean?

Steven Lapcevis's "V I R U S" Video Installation.  

"The installation intends to explore the detrimental effects of the excessive consumption of nonessential information through mainstream media outlets and how it ultimately distorts and poisons our views of reality."

Thoughts can be similar to objects in that they 
sometimes bounce off and other times stick to a thing.



So much visual information. (U.S. converted McDonald's flag, Commercial references, Cereal, Guns, Hypnotic rolling of pills, signs, vibrating type) 
So much is happening. (The voice- it doesn't matter what it is saying, Rolling dollar signs, black bodies ejected into the sky at the airport, but the music is hopeful so you know they are headed someplace good, canned laughter.) How can you take your eyes off the big screen to see what's happening on the side? Two smaller screens, mr boulder head and, the floating smoking one eyed puppet.

Lapcevic's old icons were there- pig headed men with chattering teeth, spoiled or angry child. Of course I love the new image - the eye- bounces off the edge of it's lid and all of the other iterations.

Okay, I'm tapping my foot to the jingle the second time through, but the whole audience is getting nervous now- "You will spend money"

Saturday, August 3, 2013, 10:00PM at the Full Cup.