Previously on Dangerous Minds: Alex Kovas: Freaky Manimal Model

 

 
Bizarre paintings of cops by artist Jansson Stegner.
 
(via Booooooom!)

 

 

 
These living installations are truly exceptional and bizarre. I definitely had to give them a second or tenth glance. From the artist Alexa Meade’s website:

Alexa Meade is an installation artist based in the Washington, DC area. Her background in the world of political communications has fueled her intellectual interest in the tensions between perception and reality.

Alexa Meade’s innovative use of paint on the three dimensional surfaces of found objects, live models, and architectural spaces has been incorporated into a series of installations that create a perceptual shift in how we experience and interpret spatial relationships.

(via Today and Tomorrow)

 
Die Tödliche Doris (The Deadly er, Doris) were a bloody-mindedly brilliant 80’s German post-punk band/ performance art concern, part of the self-styled Geniale Dilletanten movement (along with Einstürzende Neubauten and Malaria!) if you will. As a seemingly central tenet, manipulation of expectations is the rule, extending most fantastically to their 1984 release “Chöre & Soli” which consists not of conventionally playable records but rather a set of 8 miniature colored plastic discs and dedicated player. The sound content is limited to mere seconds per side, as befits the original use of the devices: the internal voice boxes of “talking” dolls. Needless to say these things are now rare as hen’s teeth. Anyone have a spare ?
 

 
I honestly don’t know what to make of this one.

This is an absurdist art piece from an ongoing project in which the artist David Livingston wears a 6’ long flaccid felt penis that he sewed and stuffed with sofa upholstery. All of his video art pieces thus far have taken place in various New York City neighborhoods.

From New York Press:

I find its childish humor appealing, and I am fascinated by my sudden transformation from anonymous pedestrian to attention-grabbing street performer. I don’t have to say a word, and it affects people in a whole host of ways. Most people either laugh or look away awkwardly. Some people are curious and want to start a conversation. Some people respond with anger. For me, the performance is about overcoming fear, but I like that it means something different to everyone who encounters me.

(via Nerdcore)

Here’s an awesome find from artist John Coulthart (who I relink quite a bit because his blog is, in my opinion, one of the great sources of interesting original content on the web. He finds the kind of stuff that you would prolapse even if you saw in a bizarro, dusty boutique used book store, you know, those things we had before the Interwebs that don’t exist anymore. His blog is kind of like finding a first edition of the Necronomicon 3-4 times a week.)

Here he writes about Jim Leon, who drew bizarre psychosexual wonderlands for Oz magazine in the 60s:

This, dear friends, is what the art of the fantastic could give us but rarely does, something which combines the metaphysical intensity of the Symbolists with a post-Freudian sensibility to create what Philip José Farmer once called “the pornography of the weird”. Jim Leon was a British artist whose work gained prominence via the underground magazines of the 1960s, especially Oz, although he was never really a psychedelic artist as such. Many of his earliest paintings show the influence of the Pop artists, it was only later in the decade that a distinctly original and surreal imagination came to the fore. Oz was always pretty scurrilous and had no qualms about challenging the authorities with bizarre sexual imagery which other magazines would never dare to print. Leon and other artists were fortunate to have such a public forum for outré work, a few years earlier or later and they might not have found an outlet at all.

(Behold this utter glory here.)

(John Coulthart: The Haunter of the Dark: And Other Grotesque Visions)

 
Short documentary about the wonderfully anachronistic art duo of McDermott & McGough from the Revel in NY website. It says in the description below that they live as if in the 19th century, but I was under the impression that they are now allowing things prior to 1930 to infiltrate their lives. I love their work, it’s just incredible.
 

For over 30 years, the art duo of Peter McGough and David McDermott have been living as though it’s the end of the 19th century. From a townhouse in the East Village they created their art by candlelight, lived without modern appliances and traveled through Manhattan on horseback complete with top hats and the finest couture from nearly a century ago.

As painters, photographers, playwrights and filmmakers, the artists came of age during the same East Village art scene that made superstars of Keith Haring (their one-time roommate) and Julian Schnabel (who’s championed their work). Notorious in their own right and exhibited locally through Chelsea’s prestigious Chime & Reid Gallery, McDermott & McGough have been the subjects of countless stories told both in print and oral legend.

They also just directed a short film titled Mean to Me with model Agyness Deyn that’s getting a lot of buzz lately.
 

 
Next week at the World Erotic Art Museum in Miami, it’s the second coming of Dangerous Minds pal Lenora Claire’s controversial—and hilariously funny—art world sensation, Golden Gals Gone Wild. This is an all new exhibit of all new sexy Golden Girls art. The first show, held at World of Wonder Gallery in Hollywood, completely sold out after being covered on TMZ, NPR, The Los Angeles Times and AOL News.

The show features art by Chris Zimmerman, Austin Young, Jason Mecier, Angus Oblong, Mironiuk, Sham, My Secret Life In Glass, Plastic God, Nouar, Darcy J. Watt, GiGi, Deluxe, Trevor Wayne and many more. All of the artwork will be on sale for under $1,000

World Erotic Art Museum, 1205 Washington Blvd., Miami. Opening night: Saturday, March 20th at 7p.m. The show runs until April 30th.

 
Edin Velez‘s “Butoh: Dance of Darkness” is a mind-altering must-see film about the modern Japanese dance form. I can’t in any way profess to understand
exactly what’s happening here, but I do know that it hits me on a visceral level like no other form of dance I’ve ever encountered. It certainly works as a wonderful antidote to the ennui caused by viewing the contrived, over-cooked bullshit spectacle of that new Lady Gaga vid (gee Brad, how do you really feel about that?). See the whole film here.
 

 
via Max Hattler

1925 (aka Hell) is one of two animation loops directed by Max Hattler, inspired by the work of French outsider artist Augustin Lesage. 1925 is based on Lesage’s painting ‘A symbolic Composition of the Spiritual World’ from 1925.
The second loop, 1923 (aka Heaven), is based on Lesage’s painting ‘A Symbolic Composition of the Spiritual World’ from 1923 and can be found here