Separated at Birth 1
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Just got the invite to Fritha Langerman's new show, The Knowledge Chambers, at Bell-Roberts (27 June), and the image used struck me as awfully familiar. Anyone remember Julia Rosa Clark's Stage Dive?
Labels: Fritha Langerman, Julia Rosa Clark, Separated at birth
posted by Robert Sloon at 12:39 PM
18 Comments:
No, other than that they are round and made up of smaller elements, there does not seem to be much similarity really.
i agree with anonymous, it also being circular is not enough for the type of journalism that you are searching for. sorry robert.
Other than that they are round, made up of smaller elements and are both about the accumulation of knowledge, there isn't that much similar at all.
well certainly Julia'a is a crapload funnier and cleverer and more penetrating. I mean, my goodness, guns and Jesus and astronauts= western knowledge. fuck me, that is so fuckin obvious I just want to lie down and die. Fritha should be culled. or get a proper job designing blingsome hubcaps
...for some hardcore gangster like the pope
Ha ha ha ha ha
just a word...firstly "Stage Diver" goes the otherway round (with the central character's head facing down, like a satanic crucifixion)
secondly, i think Fritha's pics are ACTUALLY more like my "Moodboard" pieces which are prob like her earlier pieces. oh dear. Printmaking dept= Hotel California... i think we were hypnotized by the lecturers in second year using those wheels that grind down the litho stone as they chanted "printmaker" "southern suburbs" "girl" "boxes" "little bits of things stuck together" over and over again in a wild orgiastic dance! will i ever break the cycle...
bit like the copy cat hats at Blank last night: so original....haven't i seen those somewhere before?
tell me mr.floodsky, when did you become this huge originality freak?
Sister Goniwe sobs for your forgiveness in what I say, but sister bench entreats me, with a heart so grave so to do:
When it comes to the similar, and Sister Bench has some experience thereof having proposed more than a few for beautification only to find her being ridiculed for proposing plagiarists for sainthood says: what about maggot-like van dens! bergie copying poor dead felix gonzalez torres light-bulb analogy, over and over, and over: or Carrie may weems veils being plagiarised by terrible kurgan, over and over, again? She humbly asks for help from anyone out there: when will theft be punished, and what’s more when will those true say more, reveal more?
Yours in our saviours grace, our god, in art, god bless,
Sister goniwe.
not sure that I understand the previous posting ...
But back to the gripping Langerman-Rosa debate ...
1. I am in awe at all of your abilities to form such fascinating opinions on Langerman's work before actually seeing it. It is pleasing to seeing that your Michaelis education was so successful.
2. Presumably the criticism of apparent similarity (the two images are indeed both circular and involve smaller elements) should be applied uniformly, for example, to the group of Young artists who dominate this site and who seem unable to break free from each other's intellectual shackles.
Oh come on, Fritha's work is boring and obvious and humourless. You don't need shackles to notice that, though you might need them to find it interesting.
And I'm not from Michaelis.
Whoa there. Wasn't the whole 'separated at birth' originally invented to be funny? It's not about implying who copied who or anything else, it's about similarity.
As far as I could tell there was no value judgement implied in the separated at birth thing. No criticism has been levelled. It just is funny. Like dwarves are funny. Or slipping on banana peels.
i am sick and tired of living in sister bench's shadow. to be plain i think you are all a bunch of baboons.
sister chacma.
fritha is not an artist, period, i dont care what anybody says, but everybody else should care about what i say.....being a Michaelis lecturer does not grant you shit...
here here
envious loosers. all of you.
anonymity is priceless in the world of disappointing art practitioners, Fritha you should really start using your name for this blog, G O D knows you use it for everything else....
p.s dont congradulae just hate yall!!!
ha ha. someone said period.
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