Office Notebook

Klaus Weber at Herald St

Scritti Politti – “Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)”

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Once a week, Bryce posts an image of an artwork published on Contemporary Art Daily alongside a music video published on his personal blog. Thanks to Forrest for the assist on this one!

Joëlle Tuerlinckx at Wiels

Morrissey – “Everyday Is Like Sunday”

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Once a week, Bryce posts an image of an artwork published on Contemporary Art Daily alongside a music video published on his personal blog.

Chosen by M.R., J.R., and K.A.

Goshka Macuga in “It’s You. Not Me.” at Andrew Kreps

Lio – “Sage comme une image”

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Once a week, Bryce posts an image of an artwork published on Contemporary Art Daily alongside a music video published on his personal blog.

Image courtesy of Grazer Kunstverein, Graz

“Raivo Puusemp: I lived two miles from Rosendale [New York], and at some point bought a farm there. And that’s when I was approached for this political thing. Rosendale was just a really weird mix. I mean, it was either the hippies or the pigs at that time; there was a conflict. There was the old guard there and they couldn’t stand hippies. They saw the new generations coming in and they did everything they could to hinder it, including just harassing people. Anyway, at that point I started thinking about what could be done. I wasn’t sure, and then somebody approached me about running for mayor. I thought about that for a while because I had never been political; I had never voted even at that point. And suddenly the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it was kind of a good opportunity to see what could be done. [...]

Krist Gruijthuijsen: Did you still think of yourself as an artist?

Raivo Puusemp: It’s hard to say. I just kind of walked away from it, or from the object stuff anyway. I was thinking about things a lot. I mean, the other thing is, I started looking at this Rosendale thing more and more as a piece of art. It was a strange thing to do, like living a dual life. On the one hand, I was doing this thing, but I couldn’t tell people I was doing it because they would think I was using them or kind of manipulating the whole thing.”

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Ben Kinmont’s project On Becoming Something Else, published yesterday on Contemporary Art Daily,”deals with artists whose practices have led them from the art world out into other activities and professions.” One of these artists, Raivo Puusemp, became mayor of Rosendale, New York in 1975 and started to think of his position as a work of art. Allan Kaprow later brought attention to Puusemp and his term as mayor in his 1983 essay “The Real Experiment.”

An exhibition of Puusemp’s work is currently on view at the Grazer Kunstverein until May 19th. The Kunstverein has kindly shared an interview with the artist conducted by curator Krist Gruijthuijsen. Click here to read the full interview.

Piero Gilardi in “Che Fare?” at Kunstmuseum Leichtenstein

XTC – “Grass”

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Once a week, Bryce posts an image of an artwork published on Contemporary Art Daily alongside a music video published on his personal blog.

Chosen by M.R.

B. Wurtz at White Flag Projects

Orange Juice – “Rip it Up”

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Beginning today and continuing every Friday, Bryce will post an image of an artwork published on Contemporary Art Daily alongside a music video published on his personal blog.

Chosen by M.S.

Selected by S.H.