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Helen Pynor Underneath, 2006
knitted human hair
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Johannes Domenig Untitled, 2018
animal fur, laptop keys
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Mariona Berenguer About desire, 2020
‘The focus is on the distance necessary for desire to exist, since it develops depending on the tension generated by the distance between the object of desire and the subject, using attraction and rejection as the main mechanisms associated with it.’
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Domenico Gnoli Black Hair, 1969
acrylic and sand on canvas
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Adrienne Antonson Gloves, 2008
human hair
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Millie Wilson Various, 1994 – 1995
Synthetic hair, wood, brass, enamel paint, satin, feathers, fox tail, etc.
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Mona Hatoum Jardin Public, 1993
painted wrought iron, wax and pubic hair
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Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen A Void, 2008
‘Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen re-enacted work by Janine Antoni by painting the floor with her own hair.’
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Jenine Shereos Leaf Series, 2011 – 2017
‘These delicate and weightless tree leaves are made by tying together individual strands of human hair. The leaves look remarkably real. The only clue of their origin is a wisp of hair that extends from the points of each leaf.’
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Chrystl Rijkeboer Perfect Strangers, 2004
Figures crochet with human hair
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Masako Takahashi Documentation 9/11, 2001
‘Artists hair on silk panel. This piece took months to make. The “writing” became jagged and slanted on 9/11 2001 when the Twin Towers were bombed in NYC.’
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Richard Artschwager Various, 1999 – 2002
Horse hair
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Lorna Simpson Wigs (Portfolio), 1994
Waterless lithograph on felt
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Marlene Haring Because Every Hair Is Different, 2005
‘Beginning with the idea that long, fine, blond tresses are the quintessence of feminine beauty and pushing it to an absurd extreme, Haring transforms herself into a creature.’
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Katrina Neiburga HAIR, 2019
‘Sit back, relax and find yourself in Katrina’s little hair salon.’
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Gu Wenda United Nations: American Code, 1995 – 2019
‘A tent constructed entirely of ropes of human hair dyed in rainbow colors—uses bodily remains to give an aura of authenticity to a vision of transnational togetherness.’
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Kate Kretz Threat of Heavy Weather I, II, III, 2006
‘“Threat of Heavy Weather” embroidered from human hair feature an open mouth revealing what is normally kept hidden, a psychological maelstrom.’
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Tom Friedman Soap, 1990
Soap and pubic hair
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Sonya Clark Abe, 2012
Five dollar bill and human hair
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Alice Anderson Rapunzel, 2008
‘The tale of ‘Rapunzel’ has inspired recurring motifs in Alice Anderson’s work – the fall and swathes of blazing red hair; the tower; the scissors; the coveted child who is maltreated; the true mother and the false mother – have appeared in earlier works of hers as well as in this show. She brings to them her own fantasy identifications, but the frisson remains attuned to the fairytale original.’
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Meret Oppenheim Fur Gloves With Wooden Fingers, 1936
Fur gloves, wooden fingers, nail polish
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Brittany Schall Hair Portraits, 2011
Pencil on Mylar
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Masooma Syed Crown, 2005
human hair twined, twisted, and knotted
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The Kid DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD?, 2011
Sculpture in platinum silicone, fiberglass, stainless steel, human hair, oil paint
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Willard Wigan Chopper, 2013
‘A renowned microsculptor has crafted what may be the world’s smallest ever piece of art – inside a hollowed-out strand of hair. Willard Wigan created his tiniest work to date using a microscopic flake of gold from a chain and a speck of his own stubble. The steady-handed artist brushed his face after a shave before working on the dot of hair which had become embedded in his fingerprint. The 55-year-old then painstakingly hollowed out the stubble before shaping a detailed chopper motorbike inside it by working in between heartbeats. Using microscopic fragments of diamond which he adapted into a tool, Mr Wigan spent 16 hours a day over a five-week period producing the remarkable piece at his studio in Birmingham. The chopper – which measures just 3 microns – is smaller than a human blood cell and only visible through a microscope.’
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Mike Kelley Double Figure (Hairy), 1990
Found stuffed animals
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Gao Hang An Asian with Blond Hair and White Background, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
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Nicole Wermers Infrastruktur, 2015
vintage fur coats permanently sewn onto the backs of modernist chairs
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Ioana Nemes The White Team (Satan),2009
fur, leather, horns, gold, epoxide, paint, lacquer, wood
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Robert Gober Short Haired Cheese, 1992 – 1993
Beeswax, human hair
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Nina Beier Various, 2017
‘Pressed behind glass, Nina Beier’s human hair wigs become preserved artifacts frozen in time.’
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p.s. Hey. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. Yes, huge loss. Such a shame she didn’t live to see ‘Jeanne Dielman’ trump ‘Citizen Kane’ in the all time best film vote. ** Charalampos, She’s great, yeah. And I’m really glad you liked the Tate poems so much. Me too, duh. ** Probably, male, Hi! Thank you for returning. Yes, of course, the war in your country is overwhelmingly awful and impossible not to read and think about almost constantly. I would strongly advise you not to try methadone. I’ve had so many friends who got involved with opiates and their surrogates, and it has always lead to terrible things. And not ‘sunny days’. that’s for sure. So I really hope you’ll stay away from that. You told Kettering that you’re trying to write. Can you say more about that? Of course I’m very interested. No, I don’t have any taboo questions that I can think of. I’ve only read a couple of Michael Cunningham books quite a long time ago. I think I thought they were okay, but I don’t think I was in love with them. He’s a very nice person. He was supportive of me when I was younger and not very established as a writer yet. Do you like his work? I would be very happy to learn more about you and talk more with you if you feel like being around here. It’s been very interesting and a real pleasure so far. Have the best day you can. ** Jack Skelley, I’m retroactively ‘praying’ that your test came back neg and you rocked the living fuck out of everyone. So, gulp, how are you? ** Tosh Berman, She has a lot of really great films. A total master. ** Cody Goodnight, Hi, Cody. I seem to be fine so far today. ‘Je, Tu, Ill, Elle’ is okay to start with, I think. I don’t know ‘Digital Bath’ by name, but I’m going to spin it shortly. I really liked ‘Duelle’. What a strange movie. I hope you optimise your day and/or vice versa. ** A, Hi. Huh, being a writer has made me an optimist who thinks humans are inherently wonderful. Writing’s effect is very versatile clearly. Glad you had a topnotch weekend. I just edited all weekend, but it was good. That Nulick-involved ‘Please welcome …’ post sounds good to me, yes. ** Misanthrope, I met Patti Smith once in her beginning phase, and she was really nice to me. So I suppose she’s nice generally. I’m a fireworks lover who still has all my digits and balls too. You just gotta light the fuse and run. Pretty simple. ** BimboFagDoll, Well, hello there! Yes, it has happened, but pretty rarely. If you’re really BimboFagDoll, it’s a pleasure. You’re quite a legend, as I imagine you know. I like your writing too. ** Mitch, Hi, Mitch! Sweet that you liked the Rulfo. Thus far the riots haven’t really happened in central Paris, and I’m much more of a day person than a night person, so, other than sharing the anger at the fascist, racist police, I’m pretty away from the outburst. You stay away from whatever is potentially unsafe in your neck too, okay? Thanks! ** Dominik, Hi!!! We worked this weekend both days, yeah, specifically because we have a grant submission deadline today. Still no promise on the funding at all at the moment. The person in charge of our film is completely failing us. When our film breaks box office records, I’ll pay love to pay your rent for year. But that’ll never happen, I’m pretty sure. Love making the person in charge of our film trip and fall into a meat grinder, G. ** Steve Erickson, Hi. Not really so much, other than sharing everyone’s anger. A lot of events have been cancelled. Last night the metro and RER trains shut down at 9 pm, but I was home by then. It’s hard to believe that that musical as you describe it could possibly not be awful, but, hey, how was it? ** _Black_Acrylic, I saw a stage production of ‘The Elephant Man’ starring David Bowie as the elephant man. Risking the wrath of Bowie worshippers, he was pretty terrible in it. William Orbit! That takes me back. ** Mark, Hi. Oh, wow, cool, thank you about the zine. That’s exciting. And exciting that you’re going to/working at the Printed Matter Book Fair. I only went to one of them, but it was really excellent. ‘I, Boombox’, yes, I agree! Dude, seriously, Winchester Mystery House, so good. Take the extra, added tour too. Do have any idea of what kind of roadside attraction you would build? What a truly fantastic idea! Awesome, thank you! Big day to you. ** Okay. Uh, yeah, a hair themed post. I guess it was probably inevitable. Anyway, that’s it, there you go. See you tomorrow.
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Fuck, I can only repeat myself, but I’m so sorry whoever’s in charge of your film is doing such a crap job. (And I’m sure this was a very friendly way of putting it, considering your love…) Did you at least manage to meet the grant submission deadline?
I’m currently trying to figure out how to register and pay taxes as a freelancer in Austria, which is… not much fun either. (Although I have to say that everyone I’ve contacted so far – both individuals and entities – has been really helpful.)
Love getting you a pair of human hair gloves and leaving it up to you what you use them for, Od.
Hi, Dennis! Well, I know about opiate, my dad and uncle been heroin addict, and dead’s now ( sad violin music again))). From time to time, I use codeine pills or syrup, but yeah, methadon it’s another level. Anyway. Sure, Cunningham working in more commercial league, but I ask about him, because found you are both create elegant and unique structures for your stories(among American big writers). And I know what inspired your books emotionally, but knows zero, what inspired you create all these crazy creative structures (“Frisk”, “Guide”, “Period”, etc). Only another writers( like structures “Less than zero” = “Play it lays”) ? Or, maybe, not from books/movies territory? Sorry, if you answer on this question in your blog before. Yeah, I write, but now, I stuck in torturing situation: I can’t write like I see this in my brain, and I can’t quit writing and robbed banks. Thanks
Dennis, Hair can be nice, but I don’t need hair on my cheese. Sheesh.
I do love the galleries, though. You know that. 😀
Yeah, she seems like she’d be cool to hang out with. (And then we’d start talking politics and she’d murder me, so there’s that.) Patti Smith, that is.
Oh, man, I feel like I’m the kinda guy who would light the firework in his hand and forget he’d done it and BLAM!
When I was kid, we went through the apartments behind us lighting off firecrackers and throwing them on people’s balconies (yes, kids from the apartments were doing it too) and there was just a split second where a bunch of about 20 of them almost went off in my hand. They started popping just as they left my hand. I was like, YIKES! So I let other light and run now, haha.
But yeah, I could man up and do it. 😮
Into the office today and then off tomorrow for the 4th. Bleh. Oh, and off Thursday for my mom’s oral surgery. Kayla’s taking off that day too. Should be a good family day or something, I suppose.
Did I just fist bump in the air about your green light on the Nulick-post? Hell yeah! Thank you DC. Best news ever. I hope you feel some elation and let your brain rest after the editing binge of the weekend. Yeah, yeah – Bret says the same shit, he doesn’t believe in the idea of being a tortured-writer and he always has fun, and thinks writing books is a lovely process. Maybe I’ll get to that space… Congrats on the grant-deadline but I know this is DARK to say but you and Zac are loved/supported enough by the planet, that if you did do a GoFundMe for post-production, people would contribute to that but I feel like you have an ‘ick’ about GoFundMe? Also William Orbit mention on the blog. Have you listened to his album with Madonna, ‘Ray of Light’ ? Running away to an island today with no screens, just a beach house and ocean. Ciao.
Hi, Dennis–
I was Covid positive day of the event so I missed my own event. Everyone sez it was fun. Sold out. Jerome read my parts to the videos. Other readers shared anecdotes about me. Like I was dead. Back in L.A. now and still very fucked-up. I can give more deets later. Overall a successful trip. Someone mentioned William Orbit. He produced a series of off/odd Beach Boys remixes, of which “Feel Flows” is very psychedelic.
Hairs to you – hahaha! I recently donated two of my hair-related sculptural objects from the 90s to the Tom of Finland Foundation. The first is called Samson, it consists of a full pony tail of mine that is compressed between two pieces of glass in an old-school wooden tennis racket frame. The second is called Men’s Hair. It’s a collection of locks of men’s hair sealed in framed glass “slides.” All of these slides fit neatly into a locking wooden box — kind of a Pandora’s Box.
Yeah, I know about WMH, it’s kind of amazing that I never been there. Shame on me!!! Have you been to Gilroy Gardens? The circus trees are so cool. https://www.gilroygardens.org/play/circus-trees I have a vision for a roadside attraction loosely based on the Mystery Shack that used to be at Knott’s Berry Farm. There is still a version of it at Calico Ghost Town. https://www.calicoattractions.com/attractions.html Basically, what I have in mind is a series of forced perspective gags combined with raked spaces that do variations on the “gravity defying” tricks. I’d like to theme it in the style of Sir John Soane’s Museum in London. https://www.soane.org/ I have been building a small stylized replica of the Soane’s museum in my studio for the last several years. I’m pretty obsessed with Soane.
We are excited about the Art Book Fair and will also submit the zine to Printed Matter for consideration. If you’d like, you can contact me at [email protected] and we can figure out a way to get you some copies of the zine. José and I are going to Greece in August. Have you spent any time in Athens? Do you have any recommendations? We will be staying with our friend who runs The Queer Archive https://www.thequeerarchive.com/
Much as I dearly love that Tom Friedman sculpture, it must be a devil to keep in storage for any length of time.
Here’s how much of a lightweight I am these days: still coasting on the caffeine high from the black coffee I had with my lunch at the Italian cafe today. No more coffee for me until Sunday morning, them’s the rules.
Hi Dennis.
How are you? I’m ok-ish. Another interesting post dedicated to hair art. As much as I find hair gross to look at when it’s not on someone’s head, the art in this post is still very impressive. I just don’t want to touch it. I saw Nicolas Roeg & Donald Cammell’s Performance two days ago. Really strange film. May like it more than Don’t Look Now. I showed some friends The Swimmer last night and they found it bizarre. I may see Aliens with a friend in a few. If I’m not too tired, im going to watch Rivette’s Duelle tonight. Also have been listening to a lot of shoegaze, mostly m b v. Have a great day or night, Dennis!
GOOD VIBRATIONS is adapted from a 2012 film about the label and Terri Hooley, but I didn’t know it existed till after I saw the play. I wouldn’t make great claims for the play, but it was really exuberant and fun. (The music includes Hooley’s favorite songs outside punk, such as Hank Williams’ “I Saw the Light,” the Shangri-Las’ “Past, Present & Future” and Love’s “Alone Again Or.”) Glen Wallace, the actor who played Hooley, is very good at conveying charm and charisma. I’m sure it’s a romanticized version of the man and scene, and I’m curious to read more about the real Hooley.
Artsfuse published two of my reviews today, on Divide and Dissolve’s SYSTEMIC (https://artsfuse.org/275941/july-short-fuses-materia-critica-3/) and Alice Winocour’s REVOIR PARIS (https://artsfuse.org/276108/film-review-revoir-paris-remembrance-of-trauma-past/). The SYSTEMIC review is the second one in their July “Short Fuses” column.
I’m working on a new song inspired by the two-note guitar riff of a Slipknot song. (Ironically, they sampled a loop created by Fatboy Slim themselves on it.) The current version includes a sample of the original, but it’s mixed and treated to be unrecognizable, and the rest of the instrumentation sounds more like a broken music box. I feel like I’m running out of melodic ideas, so starting out with samples can be a good way to get past writers’ block.
The situation with the film seems very grim. As someone else suggested today, have you thought about trying to crowdfund post-production funds?
Hi Dennis. I also write everything with my own plucked hair in order to keep word count down. I just saw the new Wes Anderson movie, have you had a chance to see it yet/did you like it?
Hair makes me think about going bald. It’s unlikely for me, but a usual concern. I’m sure I’ll have gray hair by 30 though.
Hi, Big D! I spent the weekend just trying to figure out what I should be doing creatively since I’m done with my fiction piece. How does that go usually for you? Oh, and I hope the editing went well.
By the way, I’ve been looking up some interviews you’ve done on certain magazines and they’re really cool, you’re a great conversationalist, if that’s even a compliment. Do you have a favorite memory or a funny anecdote from those times? Love you.