K2NTTEG7F367 AMSTERDAM, 18 May – I Rez’ intrepid cheerleader & dancing queen Liz Bowman puts her pleated cotton skirt & pom-poms aside for a moment to try on the greatest catsuits in cyberspace, and then bring them all back to Trilby Minotaur’s Opium Den installation at Gallery Xue / Amsterdam to model them for your [...]
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The Curious Case of the ArcelorMittal Orbit
LONDON, 11 May – 26 months after being awarded the landmark 2012 Olympic commission, sculptor Anish Kapoor and structural designer Cecil Balmond have today opened their monumental steel tower, the ArcelorMittal Orbit. A surprisingly abject work the tower opulently celebrates its refusal to be a triumphal tower. The structure feels like Kapoor, it feels [...]
How to Create a Press Release for your Art Exhibition
Reblogged from The Practical Art World: You have an art exhibition coming up. Great! Depending on the venue, the staff might take care of the press release for you. Excellent! But, if you find yourself in an exhibition with no promotional machine at work already, you need to make sure that your show gets the [...]
Building Communities with Strangers
THE BLACK SUN, 12 May – In the physical world, you help the old neighbor carry their groceries in, you play with the other kids down the street, you carpool to school or work. You attend the school down the street. You worship at the church down the street. you gossip with your neighbors. You [...]
My Vagina in the 21st Century
LOS ANGELES, 3 May – 18 years after Eve Ensler’s groundbreaking The Vagina Monologues, Funny or Die today released a plea by Andrea Savage, Kate Beckinsale and Judy Greer: Republicans, Get In My Vagina! Ensler’s pivotal work explored many ideas of gender, identity, and empowerment, among them, simply taking the word “vagina” out of [...]
Cousin Hannah
NASHVILLE, 12 June – formed in 2006 and releasing their Big Machine Records debut single Amen in 2011, today American country band Eden’s Edge releases their debut album Eden’s Edge, also on Big Machine Records. Eden’s Edge is Hannah Blaylock (lead vocals), Dean Berner (vocals, guitar, Dobro) and Cherrill Green (vocals, mandolin, banjo, guitar). I [...]
Diary #6
KASSEL, 2007 – My sister Fiona and her boyfriend Karl at documenta XII. With documenta XIII opening in a month, on 9 June, I was thinking about the legendary event and found this snap of Fiona & Karl at the last documenta 5 years ago. I Rez’ intrepid bookbinder and fashionista Trilby Minotaur is heading [...]
New Blog URL!
CYBERSPACE, 10 May – When this blog first launched it was a place to document VBCO (Vaneeesa Blaylock / Company) performance artworks. Over time I have come to write on more diverse topics, and over time I’ve been joined on this I Rez, Therefore I Am blog by the wonderful co-contributors Aero Elizabeth Bowman, Agnes [...]
Diary #5
NEW YORK CITY, 2010 – After my marriage to Mark had ended, my mother was ridiculously excited to have me date this rich, conservative, business tycoon Charles Rosenthal. She was positively giddy at the thought of having him as a son-in-law. THE HAGUE, 2012 – It’s funny how unimpressed my parents were with some of [...]
Diary #4
PALO ALTO, 2003 – Floating in Mark’s pool. He was making so much money back then. He was a star in the valley and I was his young wife. Everything seemed so easy and wonderful and exciting. THE HAGUE, 2012 – Everything did seem so easy and wonderful and exciting then. Everything is better now. [...]
What If Rod Was One Of Us (Parody song & Video)
If Rod had an alt who spent a lot of time
Inside of Second Life just hanging out
In clubs and chatting with his friends
Would he still think the same or see things different
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Reblogged from I Stack Rocks: visited the reservation today, went by bike. wanted to make something with more ordered faces, ended up making the top hollow; wanted to build a fire in it, but low and behold, I had forgotten my lighter! oh well. perhaps if it remains standing I will visit it in a [...]
Playing 20 Questions with Meandr@vatar
EVERYWHERE AND NOWHERE, 5 May – Meandra has asked VR residents to answer 20 questions, about life in virtual worlds, so here goes mine… MEANDRA: 1. Since when and how did you become a SL member? VANEEESA: I was invited by Esparanza Freese to create a performance work for a VR art exhibition her graduate [...]
Headstands for Peace (80 - for Geoff Hendricks)
Reblogged from Patrick Lichty's Art, Research, and Polemics: After a couple nights iwth my Second Front partner Bibbe Hansen, we had talked about all manner of things liek the Occupy NYC events, the Fluxus anniversaries, and Geoff Hendricks’ 80th birthday. From that, she mused about his signature handstand in Second Life, but 80 times. Well, [...]
Maybe I Should: Part 1
Reblogged from Whiskey Shots: I’ve worn the same skin in Second Life for years. Not just the same brand, but the same skin. Maybe I should buy a new skin. I like my avatar to look like me. I know, color me weird. My shape is based on my real world shape and I looked [...]
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