A work from my personal collection: The Art Guys' Goatee Off, ca. 1990. It's documentation of a performance piece where the Houston-based artists grew goatees and played a round of golf, shaving bit by bit as a way of keeping score (go tee off, get it?). Their beard hair is what you see glued to the golf balls. Meret Oppenheim, drink your tea.
i have a very similar collection!
I think I will leave this post up for several weeks.
the art guys came to my school to lecture several years ago. they probably gave the best lecture I saw while I was in school. the intro video that they showed totally blew my mind. it was an "art guys" logo and every three or four seconds a different stock video transition would take effect and transition the same logo on top of itself. i have looked for that video on their website several times with no luck....
That sounds great--I haven't seen that piece. Someone should curate a selection of their video work, if that hasn't been done already.
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A work from my personal collection: The Art Guys' Goatee Off, ca. 1990. It's documentation of a performance piece where the Houston-based artists grew goatees and played a round of golf, shaving bit by bit as a way of keeping score (go tee off, get it?). Their beard hair is what you see glued to the golf balls. Meret Oppenheim, drink your tea.
- tom moody 2-08-2007 10:14 pm
i have a very similar collection!
- j in jc (guest) 2-09-2007 6:16 pm
I think I will leave this post up for several weeks.
- tom moody 2-09-2007 7:14 pm
the art guys came to my school to lecture several years ago. they probably gave the best lecture I saw while I was in school. the intro video that they showed totally blew my mind. it was an "art guys" logo and every three or four seconds a different stock video transition would take effect and transition the same logo on top of itself. i have looked for that video on their website several times with no luck....
- jmb (guest) 2-09-2007 9:20 pm
That sounds great--I haven't seen that piece. Someone should curate a selection of their video work, if that hasn't been done already.
- tom moody 2-09-2007 9:31 pm