Hairy

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Alice Anderson Rapunzel, 2014
‘Artist Alice Anderson creates works of art using red doll’s hair. “I’m kind of against fairy tales. The story of a prince and a princess? Ridiculous,” says Anderson. “For me, it’s nonsense. On the other hand, anything to do with childhood, I use.’

 

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Mika Rottenberg Ponytail (black), 2016
Plywood, aluminium, mechanical parts, plastic, hair

 

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Jessica Wohl Mountainaire Hotel, 2011
‘In her work Mountainaire Hotel Tennessee-based artist Jessica Wohl covered the stairs of an abandoned Arkansas hotel in synthetic hair. ‘I liked thinking that the building had actually been alive the entire time it was abandoned as if it had been growing hair for the last 20 years.’

 

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Robert Gober Untitled, 2005
‘While the cheese wedge itself is made of beeswax, viewers will not find much comfort in knowing that its “hair” is actually human hair.’

 

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Marlene Haring Because Every Hair is Different, 2005-09
357 x 252 cm

 

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Simon Schubert Untitled (Sleeping Woman), 2006
‘Schubert’s mixed-media sculptures, inspired by the writings of Samuel Beckett, play with the idea of disappearance. His hair works depict women in coffin-like bathtubs or on sterile plinths, completely engulfed by their own hair.’

 

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Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir The Braid Choir, 2018
‘The Braidchoir is a series of performance inspired by an image from the Lithuanian artist Egle Rakauskaite, where young women dressed in black stand sternly in a circle facing outwards. They are not actively touching or holding hands as one could assume, only their plaits are fastened together with hair elastics.’

 

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Hong Chun Zhang Various, 2004 – 2012
‘In her continuing series that began in the 2000s, “Long Hair,” she sketches threads of hair with charcoal – also using an eraser to create the shine – to mimic blades of grass. It’s Zhang’s way of drawing parallels between the prairie landscape around her and her personal identity in some works. She hearkened back to the traditional format of Chinese art using scrolls but made the scrolls larger than wall-size; one is 25 feet long.’

Twin Spirits #2, 2013

 

Three Graces, 2012

 

Life Strands, 2004

 

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Richard Artschwager Hair, 1999 – 2002
‘Artschwager has long specialized in the relationship between perception and deception. This exhibition focuses on a material he has used throughout his career to explore the tactility of the visual experience: rubberized horsehair. These unusual works, produced over a thirty-year period, depart from the crisp lines and sharp forms of his better-known Formica furniture works, blurring the clarity of sculptural form and throwing the object out of focus. They allow for what the artist has called a “perfect imprecision.” A material commonly found in upholstery, rubberized horsehair is typically hidden from view underneath the soft edges of a sofa. Here, Artschwager reverses the relationship between an object and its raw materials, asking the inner-body of an object to become its own surface.’

 

 

 

 

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Liz Craft Hairy Guy (with flower basket), 2005
bronze, steel and glass

 

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Unknown Untitled, 1837 – 1901
‘Hair art has its roots in the 17th and 18th century, when high infant mortality rates meant that “death was everywhere,” writes Karen Bachmann in an essay for the recent book Death: A Graveside Companion. “The keeping and saving of hair for future use in jewelry or other commemorative craft (such as wreaths) was common.” But it wasn’t until the Victorian era that “the ‘cult of the dead’ became almost a mania in Britain.” This was spurred by Queen Victoria herself, who ruled the British Empire from 1837 until her death in 1901. “In 1861, her beloved husband, Prince Consort Albert, died, upon which the Queen entered into a state of formal mourning that lasted the rest of her life,” Joanna Ebenstein, founder of New York’s Morbid Anatomy Museum and editor of Death: A Graveside Companion, told Artsy. “This encouraged a fashion for mourning in popular culture on both sides of the Atlantic that lingered until the turn of the 20th century.”’

 

 

 

 

 

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Paul Hazelton Body Hair: Existention, 2013
‘Created from geometrically woven human hair, ‘Body Hair’ is a work that continues my interest in creating three-dimensional drawing using, in this case, a geometric pattern first observed in a simpler form in 1980 during a sunset over the sea in Margate. When I drew the pattern later that evening I had inadvertently drawn the proportions of a human form.’

 

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Janine Antoni Loving Care, 1993
‘The artist soaked her hair in hair dye and mopped the floor with it.’

 

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CABULA6 HAIR, 2011
‘CABULA6 puts on HAIR – a 21st century rendition of the 1960s breakout rock musical. In a four day around-the-clock performance, the hair from hundreds of people living in Vienna will be woven into a one-of-a-kind Vienna Wig. From the 6th – 9th July, premier hair stylists from around the city will offer free haircuts and create a wig – unlike anything ever seen before – right in front of the audiences’ eyes made from the HAIR ON THEIR HEADS and transformed into a work of Art. Once made, the wig will begin to live its own life as it travels to major museums around the world. The installation begins and ends with a performance.’

 

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Enrique Marty Estoy en un momento muy delicado, 2012
Mixed media

 

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Petah Coyne Various, 1997 – 1998
Horse hair, plaster statuary figure, taxidermy, acrylic polymer emulsion, acrylic paint, CelluClay, glue, rice paper, hair dye, pigment, wire

Untitled #918 (Kawabata)

 

Untitled #921 (Hikari and Kenzaburo)

 

Untitled #929

 

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Allana Clarke Swallow, Swallow, 2021
Salon Pro 30 Sec. Super Hair Bond Glue & Carbon Black Dye

 

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Jayoung Yoon The Membrane, 2017
Artist’s hair, glue

 

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Cynthia Lahti Black Hair One, 2012
crumpled paper

 

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Nina Beier Various, 2016
Real hair wig, painted frames

 

 

 

 

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Tunga Xifópagas Capilares, 1984
black and white photograph

 

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Kayode Ojo Overdressed (Green), 2020
‘Many of his sculptures, like Overdressed (Green), feature swishy postures and flamboyant materials that might easily be read as “queer.” In turn, rather than confirm some sort of ontological essence embodied by his work — which merely waits for the logician properly attuned to its coded iconography — Ojo reveals the dialogical construction and desirous fantasy that always define these sorts of assignations.’

 

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Nick Cave Hair Brush, 1999
Wood, metal, and hair

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Mike Kelley Double Figure (Hairy), 1990
Sculpture, Found stuffed animals

 

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Annette Messager Danse du Scalp, 2009
Kinetic installation

 

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Hayden Zezula Untitled, 2016
‘Hair is incredibly hard to animate, and rendering it realistically is still relatively rare, even in Hollywood. These intensely emotional walking, crawling, and dancing characters are his first experiment with the texture, blazing the path tread by Universal Everything’s walking man animations in his signature Zolloc style. Loops like these would have represented hours of rendering with his old toys, but now he can build them with a powerful rendering software called Octane in mintues.’

 

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Ellsworth Kelly Untitled, 1973
drawing

 

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Brenda Jansone Stigma Under the Dermis – Antons and Rasa, 2021
‘(1) A neighbors fragment of leg, and a friends elbow made in silicone. His “64” and hers shell tattoo replaced with human hair in the same pattern. (2) A neighbors fragment of ribs made in silicone. His shovel tattoo replaced with human hair in the same pattern. The series consists of flesh-like silicone pieces casted from the members of living models, with tattoo ink replaced by manually implanted human hair, thereby maintaining a hyperrealist similarity with the original. Through skin, hair and tattoo this show explores a certain attitude towards the human body and the stigmas that surround it.’

 

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Nathaniel Mellors Hippy Dialectics (Ourhouse), 2010
‘A spotlighted animatronic sculpture of two robotic heads. Delivering a looped dialogue, this lifelike two-headed monster (one fleshy and one blue, with a swath of hair connecting them) is simultaneously humorous and marginally disturbing as it shakes and wobbles out a dialogue.’

 

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Nelson Loskamp The Electric Chaircut, 2013 ->
‘The Electric Chaircut is an interactive, electro-sonic, hair cut performance. Volunteers request what they would like and are taped to my chair. Their eyes and mouth are taped closed to symbolize our fetishism of appearance. I cut the hair with various implements, all amplified. Scissors and clippers wired to effects pedals, slung round my waist, are blasted through an amplifier strapped to my back. I whack at the hair in a seemingly random pattern and a cacophony of trance like sounds play to the audience. When I am finished I peel away the tape and show them the new look I have created.’

 

 

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p.s. Hey. I’m just back in Paris. And pretty jet lagged, so warning that this p.s. might have a lot of lapses. The blog will now return to functioning normally for the next two weeks. Then I’ll go back to SoCal to finish the preparations and shoot the film. I’m not yet sure how the blog will operate during that period, but I’ll let you know when we’re close to the time. The past week was very productive but, unfortunately, again not that exciting to hear about. We’re in the middle of looking for secondary locations, housing for the cast and crew, people in the area of the shoot to play the small roles and be extras, etc. Here’s a couple of photos from the meet and greet dinner we had for the main cast members a few nights go. And here’s an unadorned photo of the house where we’ll be shooting about 85% of the film. If you have any questions or anything, feel free. Okay, onwards. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, David. Indeed, and in agreement! ** Sypha, Hey, James. Thanks. It’s cold here in the big P too, but not that cold. I picked up ‘The Shards’ while I was in LA, but I didn’t have any time to read it, but I’m about to start. Excited. ** Cody Goodnight, Hi, Cody! Thanks a lot, man. ‘La Rayon Vert’ is my favorite Rohmer, and one of my favorite films period. There are a lot fantastic films by him. Um, ‘Claire’s Knee’ is great among the early ones. I really like ‘Pauline at the Beach’. ‘Perceval le Gallois’ is his weirdest film, and a lot of Rohmer aficionados don’t like it, but I’m kind of crazy about it. Awesome about the quality of the TV class. It sounds really interesting. I don’t suppose your school has a camera you can use/borrow and just go shoot whatever you want? To me, ‘The Last of Us’ and ‘Wednesday’ were only kind of okay and doable, but I have yet to see a TV series that people are raving about that doesn’t just seem maybe slightly more interesting than usual at most. They all just have this conventional, mainstream core with stylish mini-flourishes, and I’m just not interested n that kind of stuff. I like that Ottinger film a lot too. I think my fave Jarman is ‘The Last of England’. Anyway, nice viewing there. How was the rest of your week? I look forward to gradually de-jet lagging and then finding what’s around du jour. ** shadeoutMapes🍄, Hi, pal, I’m good, how are you? Oh, wait, you were in a roller coaster, but a quiet one at least? When I have a particularly great day, I try to believe it’ll have an afterglow and then imagine whatever happens next is glowing, and that kind of helps? And then there’s always philosophy, yeah. What are you reading? I do agree it’s good to have friends like that and that, yeah, they can be kind of annoying. Spaghetti-Os! I didn’t know they still put pasta in a can. Yikes. But now I want some. Well, when I was in high school the whole Vietnam War was going on, so ROTC seemed particularly egregious, particularly since I was doing everything possible not to get drafted. Basically, they just seemed like weird nerdy jocks, and most people thought they were harmless and amusing. Someone was just telling me about some film from a cat’s perspective that was really good. No, wait, it was a cat perspective video game. I can’t remember the name. I think I’m not very physically demonstrative. I mean I hug people, and I mean it, but I think I’m kind of behaviourally reserved. I think I tend to let my face and eyes do most of the hugging for me. But, yeah, being hugged is awfully nice. Cool. How are you doing now? ** CAUTIVOS, Hi. The famous saying I know of is that watching a Rohmer film is like watching paint dry. Hugs back. ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben! ‘Claire’s Knee’ is lovely. Just settle in for it as his films are (wonderfully) slow going. Has Leeds hired their new manager yet? Are you ok with the choice, if so? I am curious to see ‘M3GAN’, and I’ll see Gisele this week, and I’ll ask her. I’m sure she’ll have a strong opinion about it. ** NLK, Hey! Oh, cool, on the timing. ‘The Green Ray’ is my favorite, but I love most of this films. Passion rules. We’re currently hiring people to work on our new film, and the passion of prospective people is probably the biggest reason for them getting hired. That is a weird and kind of exciting-to-think about high school memory, for sure. There are people who write greatly without revising, but I think they’re 1 in a million. Besides, revising is the most exciting part. But I don’t know you convince someone that, by not editing, they’re really missing out. Hm. Me … I was headlong into the film stuff, and now I’m going to try to chill and enjoy Paris, although still have tons to do even here. There’s a show at the Pompidou about the 1970s No Wave scene/movement — ‘Who You Staring At?’ — that I really want to see. I’d go today but we’re having a huge transport strike today, and it’s a bit too far of a walk. I almost never remember my dreams. They vanish upon my awakening. So, no. But, when I do, they’re always about me trying to get away from someone or something who wants to kill me, so it’s probably good that they vanish. What about you? ** Meg Gluth, Hi, Meg!! I’m so sorry about all the death. Hugs from relatively death-free (knock on wood) me. A visit, sure. Well, we’ll be doing rehearsals and prep in LA starting on the 25th through early March, and then we’ll be out in Yucca Valley to shoot the film. At the moment, the film starts shooting on March 20th and runs through April 20th. You can visit whenever. Just let me know in advance, and we can either meet in LA, or I can tell you the film shoot coordinates. Take care, pal. ** Dominik, Hi!!!! I’m back for a bit, so we can actually have a non-broken up conversation again. One of the little kids, ‘Tomas’, a scared kid who goes through the haunted house, was cast. If you hit the link to the photos up there, you’ll see little him standing beside giant me. There’s a 6 year-old girl who’s perfect to play the daughter. That’s great, but it’s also problem because, like the character, she’s wild and eccentric and very moody. It would be a lot of work and time to get a performance from her, and I don’t know if we can afford that given our tight shooting schedule. I think Zac and our Assistant Director are going to see her again and make the decision. We still have positions to fill, and ideally Zac, with me on Zoom will fill them before I go back. But it was good there, very good. How are you? What’s going on? Love replacing my jet lag with a sparkling personality, G. ** alex, Howdy, alex. Wow, a very, very early happy b’day. My guess is we’ll probably need an extra day or two to finish the film, but I’ll try to remember to wolf down a Twinkie or something on the 20th on your behalf. No, I’ve never read the novelized versions. I don’t think I knew they existed? Huh. You recommend them, yes? Maybe I’ll try ‘La Collectioneuse’ and see what happens. Great that you’re writing! Did you finish the first chapter? That’s fantastic news! I envy you. Pressure can be good, for sure. I’m going to try to squeeze in some fiction writing in the next two weeks because it’ll be months before I have another chance. I wish us both luck! ** Steve Erickson, Hi. We took them out to dinner at this very old school Mexican restaurant in Silverlake called Casita Del Campo. We still need to cast the daughter among the big roles. There are some smaller roles still to cast, and we’re going to try to cast them near the location since our housing funds are limited. How did the physical therapy session go? Ultra-well, I hope. I’m so sorry about the troubled visit. It’s so hard and complicated when your parents reach that point where oldness starts to manifest. I’m glad you’re back safe and sound. ** Ian, Hey, Ian. Hugely enjoy Mexico! That sounds dreamy. Film stuff is going well. There’s just so much to do, but it’s getting done. So, what are you doing down there, or what are your particularly favorite goings-on so far? ** h now j, Thanks, buddy! When we’re shooting in the desert, we’ll have some wild animal time too, but, in our case, probably mostly with unfriendly snakes, ha ha. Enjoy your remaining nature-y time. ** T, Hi, T! Hard to tell about the jet lag. It’s not too hideous so far. Do you have any interest in going to see the No Wave show at the Pompidou? I really want to go. Want to go with? I don’t know Ephemeron Loop, but I’m almost sure I know or at least knew Guttersnipe. I’ll get my ears around that track, thanks! I hope to see you soon, maybe for the Pompidou thing? Let me know what’s good. xo, me. ** Damien Arkfeld, Hi! This woman named Tea who lives in Joshua Tree and is playing a small role in our film says there’s a really vital queer performance scene out there, but I haven’t investigated it yet. The weather out there was pretty easy and solid. We’re hoping it won’t be too hot yet when when shoot in March/April. The specific area where we’re shooting is called Flamingo Heights. Fuck knows why because it’s in the middle of waterless nowhere, and there are definitely no flamingos there. Yes, okay, I’ll do a post about Czech film or a Czech filmmaker ASAP. Lovely to see you! ** Robert, Hi, Robert. It could be argued, by me, that chugging along with writing is as exciting as it gets. But I’m an introvert. Anyway, that’s great news! And making everything everything else take a back seat to writing is my utopia spot. So, yeah, huge agreement. As I was telling someone else, we have one kid cast (see: photo link above) and a strong, maybe too strong, candidate for the other kid role. We’re close. Enjoy writing, and please pass along any pleasure or intrigue points thereof if you like. ** Nick., Hi, Nick.! I’m good, jet lagged, but good. My last week wasn’t very wild, sadly, but I guess I would say either almost stepping on a rattlesnake in the yard of the house location where well be shooting the film, or the fact that Ron and Russell Mael aka the band Sparks were sitting in First Class on my flight back and looking very, very hair-dyed. Your week wins on all fronts, I think it’s safe to say. Maybe especially the mushroom chocolate. You made it home ok, ha ha? Yay about the secret projects. Even in their vagueness, I’m excited for you. Collaborating is the best. Wildest party? Hm. I kind of hate parties because I’m kind of a wallflower type, so I tend to avoid them. I remember a long time ago being on acid at a party, and everything seeming sort of boring, and then going off into some lengthy hallucination, and then waking from that to discover that the blah party had turned into this huge, moaning, groaning orgy. That juxtaposition was pretty interesting. Yeah, I agree that peaceful feeling can be very scary, but imagining life without those situations is scarier. Did you get your stamp, split, go to the party whereupon you partied fascinatingly? Happy weekend of continuing or recovering! ** Caesar, Hi, C. My week was very full of work, but good. Big condolences on the heat. I hate hot weather more than almost anything on earth. I’m sorry about your fight. Oh, man, losing a friend sucks. I hope either that gets repaired or you end up happier moving forward without him. I forgot about Valentines Day. I’m not sure how to celebrate it, but I’ll figure something out. Mm, I honestly disliked everything about ‘TÁR’. I cant think of a single thing about it that I liked. Congrats on being back to work and getting to refill your books supply. No, I didn’t see ‘Spencer’. I’ll find it. I did see Kristin Stewart in a movie on my plane flight yesterday where she played Snow White, I can’t remember the name. Charlize Theron was in it playing playing an evil queen. It passed the time, and that was about it. Good seeing you. ** Right. In the rare downtime periods during my period in LA I made this post for you for some reason. See you on Monday.