6/28/15 review of zingmagazine launch party at Dikeou Collection

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Here is the link to my review of the launch party for issue 24 of zingmagazine at the Dikeou Collection.

My Twitter thread discusses the Dikeou collection and some of the art I like there. It discusses a panel talk about Dan Asher, who was the subject of, Far from the Madding Crowd, a book that was written by Brandon Johnson and came with the zingmagazine issue. There is also a quick mention of Mariachi Vasquez, who performed at the launch party.

Here is the link to zingmagazine's website.

Here is the link to the Dikeou Collection's website.

7/25/15 review of Momoyo Torimitsu presentation at the Dikeou Collection

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of a 2015 "video dialogue" based on the work of Momoyo Torimitsu at the Dikeou Collection.

The Dikeou Collection has two large, inflatable bunnies made by Momoyo Torimitsu on display. They are some of my favorite works at the Dikeou. The Dikeou's video dialogue series takes works on display at the Dikeou as starting points for an evening of videos. My thread discusses videos such as Richard Serra's and Carlota Fay Schoolman's Television Delivers People, Venus Angelic's Chubby Bunny Challenge, and Blackrose20's Watership Down -- The Fear Edit. I also give a full list of videos presented that night.

Here is the link to the Dikeou Collection's website.

Here is a video of Venus Angelic's Chubby Bunny Challenge.

Here is a video of Serra's and Schoolman's Television Delivers People.

7/19/15 review of Chad Dawkins talk at the Dikeou Collection

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of a Dikeou Collection talk with Chad Dawkins regarding his book The Role of the Artist in Contemporary Art.

Chad Dawkins is an artist and critic. He's also the curator and director of exhibitions at the Southwest School of Art in San Antonio. My Twitter thread discusses how Dawkins has explored the role of different participants in the process and experience of art, such as the subject, the curator, and the artist. It also discusses some of the conclusions Dawkins has drawn over the years by examining these different roles, as well as the possibility of the specifications of roles breaking down.

Here is the link to the Dikeou Collection's website.

Here is the link to the Amazon page for Chad Dawkins's book The Role of the Artist in Contemporary Art.

7/11/15 review of group art show Nothing Belongs to Us

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the group art exhibition Nothing Belongs to Us, which took place at Denver's RULE Gallery and was guest-curated by Hayley Richardson of the Dikeou Collection.

My Twitter thread review discusses some aspects of the show and gives some pictures of work by Caleb Hahne, Jessica Angel, and Michael Theodore.

In these days, RULE shared a building with the Hinterland gallery, run by Colorado artist Sabin Aell. So I also have some photos from a party that took place at that gallery later in the evening.

This was -- I think -- the first full review I did of a show at RULE. I thought I'd done one other previously. But I can't seem to find it anymore. From April of 2015 to April of 2017, RULE was a pretty big part of my life. I don't speak with anyone from RULE anymore. But they are still a great gallery, in my opinion.

7/3/15 review of Dikeou Collection's video dialogue about Chris Johanson

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of a 2015 video dialogue session the Dikeou Collection did on the work of Chris Johanson.

The Dikeou Collection has, over the years, done programs they call video dialogues, which are basically evenings where a number of videos, films, etc., are played that are either by or related to a certain artist, artist's themes, etc. This video dialogue discussed the work of Chris Johanson, one of the key artists in San Francisco's Mission School in the 1980s and 1990s.

Some videos included a clip from the TV series New Wave Theater. Here's a sample of that series.

Another video in the series was Antihero: Fucktards. Here's that video.

Here is a link to the Dikeou Collection's website. The Dikeou is my third-favorite art institution in Colorado.