Conceptual Videos

Logarilla >> Masks (2009, 148MB, 1:33 min.) By Derek Larson.

James Kalm braves fall showers and trains his way to the Bowery s New Museum for the first major museum exhibition by Urs Fischer.

James Kalm climbs to the top of the pile of tires in this reinvention of Allan Kaprow s Yard at the debut exhibition of Hauser & Wirth New York.

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James Kalm catches up with conceptual artist Ward Shelley on the closing day of his exhibition Who Invented the Avant-Garde and other half truths . This exhibition presents three bodies of recent work, Archive an installation of hundreds of idea boxes that represent an externalization of the artist s mind, Sleeper Experiment in which the artist is exposed to a computerized voice repeating donated texts from viewers, and the Timeline Paintings which trace the developments and derivations of various cultural happenings in graphic form.Includes extended explanations of the works by Ward Shelley.

James Kalm has been watching the progress of this extensive installation for weeks. Black Acid Co-Op is the collaboration of Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman, and this piece explores the dark manic recesses of meth-lab culture and its analogues relationship to middle America, and the glamorous New York art world. Entering through the basement, visitors ascend through a labyrinth of burned out trailers meth-labs and art galleries in a journey through an hellatious environment of cultural debris.

James Kalm wends his way to the North side of Williamsburg and checks out two of the latest mechanical fantasies by Jonathan Schipper. The Slow Inevitable Death of American Muscle poses two muscle cars in a slow-motion death collision. Running twenty-fours a day for the six weeks of the exhibition, these cars, relentlessly smash into each other under 28,000 lbs. of hydraulic pressure. In Measured Angst a beer bottle is broken and reassembled in a mechanical intervention against entropy, parodying the limitations of scientific problem solving. Includes an interview with Jonathan Schipper, and a six week time lapse documentation of the collision.

James Kalm goes west, to bring viewers an exhibition double bill. Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida have created a stir that reverberates throughout the New York art scene. Though working with unique individual means, their excruciating examinations of art world norms reveals the faults and foibles of our materialistic and celebrity obsessed view of current artistic success. Dalton s installation questions the basic notions of value, while Powhida probes the structures of power assigned by the media. Both present a poignant and comic depiction of Institutional Critique .

James Kalm anxiously returns to the Metropolitan Museum for the debut of The Pictures Generation . As a young artist he witnessed the rise of this group first hand. Deriving their images from photographic sources, their philosophic underpinnings from the French Deconstructionists and their attitudes towards presentation from commercial and corporate campaigns, the Pictures artists ascended the heights of art world stardom in short order. Their assimilation of the mass media and use of nontraditional means is a prime influence on today s New Media . Featuring excerpts from comments by Douglas Eklund, Associate Curator in the Department of Photographs.

James Kalm brings viewers this brief preview of what will, no doubt, be one of the most controversial exhibitions of the Spring season. Featuring fifty artists from twenty-five countries, this is the first edition of Generational the New Museums entry into the international mega show territory. Organized by Lauren Cornell, Massimilano Gioni, and Laura Hoptman, much of the curatorial process involved an informational-sharing group of more than 150 curators, writers, teachers artists, critics and bloggers world wide (though not me). This methodology was intended to expand the curatorial process and challenge the traditional single-source method of creating an exhibition.

James Kalm slips in five minutes before closing and goes on the LD (Low-Down) to bring viewers a brisk walk-through tour of this historic Manzoni Retrospective at Gagosian Gallery. Piero Manzoni is perhaps one of the most influential proto conceptualists. This exhibition places his groundbreaking work in a chronological context with other artists like Yves Klein, Alberto Burri and Willem de Kooning. Probably best know for his Artist s Shit (Merda d artista) and Base of the World Manzoni died at age 30. Because of the tight security and a strict no-photo polocy at the gallery no commentary was possible. Audio was provided by an interview with Roy Basnett on 105.9 FM, The Voice of Liverpool broadcast March 16, 2009. For purposes on this interview, the persona of Loren Munk was adopted.

James Kalm is graciously allowed to document this, the first major retrospective of Martin Kippenberger at MoMA. This exhaustive survey covers works from the early eighties to shortly before Kippenberger s death in 1997. In Part I, Kalm focuses on the installations, and highlights the artist s influential status in what has currently been termed Pathetic or Abject Art . Featuring an extended interview with Ulrich Strothjohann, Kippenberger s longtime collaborator and project consultant.

James Kalm brings viewers along for a jog through some of the current shows at Manhattan s Upper East Side Galleries. To compliment his Downtown exhibition at Gavin Brown, we visit Michael Werner and view more new paintings by Peter Doig. We then zip into Zwirner s most engaging painters at Michell-Inness & Nash.

James Kalm salutes the Kalm Report viewers with this year end medley of shows. A strange alignment has brought a pair of exhibitions that feature European Conceptualists and proto Minimalists. ZERO in New York at Sperone Westwater features the works by members of this group never seen in New York before. Initiated in the late 50s by Heinz Mack and Otto Piene this tendency became an international movement forming collaborations with artists in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland. Minimal and Conceptual art in Europe The Helga and Walther Lauffs Collection at David Zwirner presents some of the most influential artists working in this mode during its formative years. Beyond the Canon: Small Scale American Abstraction 1945 to 1965 at Robert Miller is a museum quality survey of paintings by artists who are the foundations of the New York School. With examples by Jackson Pollock, Richard Pousette-Dart, Lee Krasner, Al Held, Hans Hoffmann, Norman Lewis, Ad Reinhardt and Adolph Gottleib et. al.

James Kalm guides viewers through a Bowery studio visit with artist Fred Gutzeit, through the development of his Lee Wall mural, to the installation and the work s debut at Pocket Utopia in Brooklyn s cutting edge neighborhood MoJo. The enigmatic persona of Lee Lozano (1930-1999) is the inspiration and muse, which inspired Gutzeit s project. Lozano was a ubiquitous force in the burgeoning early era of Soho. In a brief career spanning barely a decade Lozano moved through all the major art movements of the period, collecting eminent friendships among a broad cross section of the New York art world. Her pioneering actions are seen as provocative achievements in conceptual art, and led to her eventual expatriation from the New York scene.

James Kalm bikes to Long Island City s PS1 Contemporary Art Center for a tour of an exhibition featuring Minus Space. Begun about five years ago by the husband and wife artist team of Matthew Deleget and Rossana Martinez, Minus Space has achieved international recognition as a focus of reductivist abstraction. This show gives an overview to the various stratigies being employed by artists which derive from the formalistic and conceptual approaches encouraged by the project. Including interviews with Manfred Mohr, Simon Ingram and founding partner Matthew Deleget.

James Kalm adopts his art historian hat to bring viewers this documentation. On the evening of October 23, 2008 a panel discussion ART IS COMMUNICATION IT IS THE ABILITY TO MANIPULATE PEOPLE was held at the Art Directors Club on West 29th Street in Manhattan. The panel was moderated by journalist Gabriel Sherman and included: Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator of the Department of Media at the Museum of Modern Art, and Chief Curatorial Advisor at PS1; Anne Pasternak, President and Artistic Director of Creative Time; Lauren Cornell, Executive Director of Rhizome and Adjunct Curator at the New Museum; and Mario Naves, artist, critic and writer for The New York Observer. This video is excerpts from that discussion. Because cameras and recordings were forbidden, the framing and sound quality are less than optimal.