{"id":16580,"date":"2013-04-07T09:37:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T14:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=16580"},"modified":"2013-04-10T20:29:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T01:29:16","slug":"six-things-sagmeister-walsh-feel-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2013\/04\/07\/six-things-sagmeister-walsh-feel-others\/","title":{"rendered":"~SIX THINGS: SAGMEISTER & WALSH .. FEEL"},"content":{"rendered":"

SIX THINGS: SAGMEISTER & WALSH
\nMARCH 15 – AUGUST 4, 2013
\nTHE JEWISH MUSEUM<\/a> – 1109 FIFTH AVE, NYC<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nFEEL OTHERS FEEL, text & water fountain .. the water, quote: liquid .. is activated by a piped-in sound.
\nIN COLLABORATION WITH SANTIAGO CARRASQUILLA
\nSOUND DESIGN BY FRIENDLY GHOST<\/p>\n

(yes, GHOST…)<\/p>\n

the text reads:
\n“Sympathetic empathy is central to most people’s understanding of love and happiness. I feel I’m somehow not<\/strong> all that good at it.
\nEverything that happens to me is immediate, while everything that does not<\/strong> happen to me needs to be mediated: There tends to be a difference between the way I process my own<\/strong> experiences vs. those of someone else.
\nThe typography contains liquid activated by sound waves connecting each letter to the other and each word to the first.”<\/p>\n

what .. the first sign of TROUBLE ?
\nTROUBLE TROUBLE, in the BUBBLE BUBBLE ?
\nof HAPPINESS.
\nit’s also referred to as: alienation, and being an ‘outsider’. a common creative driving force – the experience of the self, vs. the experience\/struggle of the other<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

well, at least he’s honest. in his sign making.<\/p>\n

I struggle with this too. no, not being honest. being alienated
\nalways being .. the ‘outsider’.
\nthe consummate insider\/outsider, what could be worse ? <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nthe ‘fountain’ was flat on the floor, bubbles of water .. that bubbled up and went quiet, contained by bubble .. letters.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nit was quite beautiful, and serene. but it was also .. w-i-r-e-d !!
\ntrouble in the bubble ?!!
\nI don’t think that was the intention .. but, I found disquiet in spite of the harmless play of shape, movement and sound. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nI dunno. beauty really IS in the eye of the beholder, isn’t it.
\nmaybe beauty REALLY isn’t the point of these ‘signs’. maybe thought\/communication .. is ?<\/p>\n

OR: maybe it’s because I ‘talk’ to so many strangers, reach out on the web with this ‘blog’ .. go round and round .. wired, but have a hard time being engaged by single walking talking living specimens ?
\nthe text is<\/strong> important in this show.
\nthe text – is just as important as the ‘fonts’. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nyou can just .. see the how the water ripples to the sound.
\nbut the letter shape is ominous. out of context. bland. a dish. an “o”.
\nI wanted to lean over, and fall head-first right into it. do an .. Alice-in-Wonderland thing.
\ngrow big. grow small.
\nI didn’t<\/strong> want to think about others. I didn’t even want to contemplate my OWN reflection, which was impossible anyways. technically. the water did not reflect.
\nI just wanted to fall in, head-first. impossible technically, too. (too small) (too shallow)
\nthough a security guard did have to tell me .. to step back. (for real)
\nsomehow .. it made me think of .. LENA DUNHAM ?
\nin shape, and substance ?
\nok.
\nwith all due respect: the water ripples .. look just like the cellulite on your ‘gorgeous’, lumpy thighs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nI dunno, maybe it was that ‘friendly ghost’ – that spooked me.<\/p>\n

FRIENDLY GHOST, that be .. NATHAN RITHOLZ and ARY WARNAAR, did the sound.<\/p>\n

they are friends of SANTIAGO CARRASQUILLA, who did that FRIENDLY GHOST card\/logo for them .. and who works in the SAGMMEISTER & WALSH studio, and who collaborated on this piece,
\nYES !! SEE: FRIENDLY GHOST COMMENTARY\/SANTIAGO CARRASQUILLA <\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nyes !! check out: FRIENDLY GHOST<\/a> – love how that image wavers, on their website.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nthe ‘marbled’ header on the FRIENDLY GHOST website is by .. Luck You Collective<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nyep, for sure you want to check out: LUCK YOU <\/a><\/p>\n

all of a sudden .. it’s lookin’ good !!<\/p>\n

the wires connected !! <\/p>\n

the dots got connected .. a new world IS just around, the corner.<\/p>\n

the golden age of sign making – is US !! <\/p>\n

well, ok. maybe it’s the second golden age of sign making, ever since those monks illustrated & calligraphed those ancient illuminated pages, of course. how VASARI<\/a> skipped that, I don’t know.
\nI guess it was just .. folk art, back then ?<\/p>\n

PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SIX THINGS: SAGMEISTER & WALSH MARCH 15 – AUGUST 4, 2013 THE JEWISH MUSEUM – 1109 FIFTH AVE, NYC FEEL OTHERS FEEL, text & water fountain .. the water, quote: liquid .. is activated by a piped-in sound. IN COLLABORATION WITH SANTIAGO CARRASQUILLA SOUND DESIGN BY FRIENDLY GHOST (yes, GHOST…) the text reads: “Sympathetic empathy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16580"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16584,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16580\/revisions\/16584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}