Obliteration and Focus at the Bass Museum

story © Michael Betancourt | published May 4, 2003 | permalink |  |  

story © Michael Betancourt | published April 10, 2003 | permalink |  |  

A ONE-NIGHT ART EVENT AT HOTEL BIBA
FEATURING 28 ARTISTS ON APRIL 25, 2003

West Palm Beach, FL (April 7) – The second annual SHOWTEL will take place at Hotel Biba in West Palm Beach on Friday, April 25, 2003 from 7-11 pm. Over twenty artists from South Florida will be taking over the hotel to install their site-specific projects. The installations, projection and sound pieces, sculptural, and performance art works will be placed in rooms and throughout the grounds of the hotel. Closer Magazine called last year’s event, attended by over two hundred people, “one of the most exhilarating and original art events of 2002.”

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story © Michael Betancourt | published February 14, 2003 | permalink |  |  

A spectacle of violence forms around the scene of the crime. The phantom public audience is self-conscious when they encounter the site of violence. It is the “as if” quality of murder sites seen in mass media that create a gathering point around the “wound.” The cohesion of civil society is menaced by violence; this is its source of fascination—the threat it poses through its relationship to chaos.

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story © Michael Betancourt | published January 30, 2002 | permalink |  |  

1. Imitative (creation of mimetic illusion)

2. Deformative (painterly motion in Bacon)

3. Transformative (paranoiac-criticism, metamorphic images, based in perceptual recognition)

4. Simulation (where the image becomes the thing imaged)

story © Michael Betancourt | published December 19, 2001 | permalink |  |  

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