ART BEEF + DEEP ELLUM WINDOWS
SHEER SPEED
2625 MAIN ST DALLAS TX
10 MAY 2014
~
8-11
PMFor this special extracurricular event, Art Beef
(the collective/proprietors of BEEFHAUS)
will employ two customized remote-controlled monster trucks in order to restage Yves Klein’s (French, 1928-1962) performance/paintings Anthropométries, for which the artist used live female participants to function as mediums for the paint. The audience will be invited to participate in the fabrication of the large abstract work, effectively controlling the entire process of creation of the work- the toy trucks functioning as surrogates for nude women. The title, Sheer Speed, refers to the 1959 exhibition of Klein’s blue monochrome paintings, for which he used his patented pigment formula. Art Beef is having International Klein Blue (IKB) specially mixed for the restaging of this collaborative one-night event. Upon the completion of the work by driving the remote-control vehicles through the enamel paint-covered micro-rally, the 12 x 15 foot painting will then be stretched on a panel and displayed at the Richland College Brazos Gallery in Dallas beginning May 24th. The entire evening will be recorded
and transmitted between rooms
via a suspend
ed
birds-eye-view GoPro™ camera
in order for the audience to witness their essential participation via remote control occurring remotely in separate spaces between audience/artist and artwork.
