#andy graydon

a body positive boot camp with ag fitness training;

So, here’s a thing I was surprised to discover recently: I still weigh exactly the same as I did in February. There was me, in the nurse’s office for what I had assumed was something completely unrelated, and asked to step onto the scales. I did that stupid female thing, you know: giggle-giggle, no don’t tell me. I knew the news would be objectively “bad”, but despite my being a smart girl who…

INTERVIEW

Andy Graydon

Vostok Faretheewell, 2012

Open this weekend: Video_Dumbo : "Quasi Cinema" Contemporary video art exhibition featuring installations by Aram Bartholl, Leslie Thornton, Ernesto Klar, Andy Graydon, Naho Taruishi, Ali Miharbi, Annica Cuppetelli, Cristobol Mendoza, Ken Jacobs, Max Hattler, Niklas Goldbach curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy 112 Water Street, Brooklyn, NY during Dumbo Arts Festival: Saturday 9/24: 2-11PM Sunday 9/25: 2-9PM

"Quasi Cinema is a term that Brazilian artist Helio Oiticica coined in 1973 in reference to his experiments with film, slide projections, and new modes of cinematic reception. His ongoing series pursued the challenging attempt to distill the essence of cinema into a cinematic imaginary.  The featured works in this exhibition are taking this concept as the outset for new arguments - some express this concept in media other than that of cinema itself, others re-appropropriate and "misuse" the primary functionality (and inherent poetics) of film projection.