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Guest Top Ten
Do you have your own 2003 top ten art list to post? email it to me at smblog@sympatico.ca and I'll post it here. Or click on the comment link below and post it yourself.
Louise Bak's 2003 Art Top Eleven (links by SM):
- Getting an early-read of Philip Monk's new book "Double-Cross: The Hollywood Films of Douglas Gordon". I think it will be a critical surprise when it is released in 2004 from The Power Plant and The AGYU.
- Guy Maddin's Cowards Bend The Knee was the most splendidly sordid video installation at The Power Plant.
- Will Munro and Jeremy Laing's performance at Zsa Zsa, that involved multiple erogenous appendages and orifices was a pure delight.
- Bjork's outdoor concert on Olympic Island. Even her twee "thank-you" after each song was otherworldly.
- Virtual Clearcut by Brian Fawcett was one of the most touching books I've read in a long time.
- Christine Duncan's sound poetry performance in the annual Musicwork's fundraiser (at the Gladstone).(anyone got a good link for Christine Duncan? please post a comment -ed)
- Jeremy Deller's lecture at the Power Plant. The range of his folk/vernacular interests, ranging from aging burlesque workers to acid brass combinations was eccentric and inspiring.
- Chester Brown's "Louis Riel" (Drawn and Quarterly). A comic-strip biography, that is an entertaining and extensively researched account of the life of one of the country's most shadowy historical figures.
- A.A. Bronson's "The Quick and the Dead" at The Power Plant.
- Young and Sexy's "Life through One Speaker," Peaches' "Fatherfucker," Outkast's "Speakerboxx", were at the top of my play-list. I also re-visited Elliot Smith's "either/or" in my sadness, when I heard he committed suicide at 34.
- The limo-ride with pornstar Ron Jeremy, (as the last gal he saw) before he returned to L.A.
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Guest Top Ten
Do you have your own 2003 top ten art list to post? email it to me at smblog@sympatico.ca and I'll post it here. Or click on the comment link below and post it yourself.
Kelly Richardson's 2003 Art Top Ten (links by SM):
- The Innocents - Taryn Simon at KW, Berlin, Germany
- The Weather Project - Olafur Eliasson at Tate Modern, London, UK (distracting sputtering smoke machines aside)
- I want I want a group show curated by Alistair Robinson at Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK (fantasy landscapes, longing and willful escapism what's not to like?)
- A video that I saw of Francis Gomilas up in Newcastle, UK (I wasn't clever enough to ferret out a title at the time, sorry)
- David Hoffos installation for the Sobeys award at AGNS, Halifax
- David Shrigley's billboard commission for the Gloucester Road Underground station, London, UK
- Vagamundo Ricardo Miranda Zunigas video game that parallels the plight of undocumented immigrant labor in New York City. Have a go!
- Festival Times 2003 a group show at Stills, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Atlas - Gerhard Richter at Whitechapel, London, UK
- Eric Fensler's G I Joe public service announcements (I think they've been around for a while but I saw them this year so...I also dont know if they qualify as art but I dont care, it's my list - get your own) ( hooray! LOVE these also -ed)
Guest Top Ten
Do you have your own 2003 top ten art list to post? email it to me at smblog@sympatico.ca and I'll post it here. Or click on the comment link below and post it yourself.
Ken Montague's Top 10 art list (no particular order)(links by SM):
Ken says: "You wanted it, and you got it...peace + love, k."
- Bjork / Outdoor concert on Olympic Island (fireworks. sublime.)
- The Simple Life, starring Paris Hilton / Episode 1 (it's the only one I've seen, but it was beyond funny.)
- Snapshot Now @ Jamie Angell Gallery (Jamie's best group show ever)
- Elizabeth McIntosh @ Greener Pastures (get pregnant, get happy... beautiful work)
- 20 Years of Run-DMC @ eyejammie / Chelsea, NY (nostalgic.)
- Opening of DIA Beacon / Beacon, NY (heavyweight art. especially the Richard Serras.)
- Development of the "Hospital District" on Queen West (especially the re-opening of wonderful Luft on Ossington, Clint Roenisch's smart new venture, and Stephen Bulger's clean, modernist space - "better fits" for all... )
- New Saatchi Gallery, County Hall / London (neat, old-school interior space for showing new British art)
- Janet Cardiff @ Louisiana, Copenhagen (perfect environment for her sound experiments.)
- A.A. Bronson @ The Power Plant (Barr Gilmore did a good thing.)
Guest Top Ten
Do you have your own 2003 top ten art list to post? email it to me at smblog@sympatico.ca and I'll post it here. Or click on the comment link below and post it yourself.
Dave Dyment's Top Ten
- best exhibition: tom sachs at the deutsche guggenheim
- best group show : soundtracks at blackwood, AGO, power plant, etc.
- best retrospective: christian marclay at bard college
- best show i didn’t actually see: pierre bismuth at the AGYU
- best record : the hidden cameras’ « the smell of our own »
- best single : outkast’s « roses »
- best live show : radiohead at the ACC (do you mean skydome? -ed)
- best film still not released : larry clark and harmony korine’s « ken park »
- best sitcom : the BBC’s « the office »
- best shows to look fwd to in 2004: mark lombardi at the AGO, john kormeling at the power plant, mark leckey at mercer union, rodney graham at the AGO