DOMINIQUE GONZALEZ-FOERSTER
AND ARI BENJAMIN MEYERS: K.62
November 18 & 19, 2009

Last Wednesday Night I found myself standing on the main stage at the Abrons Art Center, blinded by stage lights, looking at a gently playing string quartet, dimly aware of a full house halfheartedly applauding my arrival . . . and wondering what exactly I was expected to do next. As I circled toward the strings, I noticed a woman standing downstage, frantically beckoning me forward. “Are you K11?” she asked. “Yes, I’m K11!” To my relief, she led me into the auditorium, where I was gratefully given a seat in . . . row K.
— CLAIRE BISHOP, ARTFORUM.COM  [READ FULL ARTICLE]

PERFORMANCE 5: MARK LECKEY IN THE LONG TAIL
October 15, 2009

Screening a video of the affect of sound on liquid, for example, he waxed lyrical about "a self-organizing yogurt, a voluptuous living custard" that somehow mimicked the behavior of the stock market. Finally, postulating a fusion of his own consciousness with the collective mind of the Web, he roared, "I am the swarm, and the swarm is me!" A furry mechanical "tail" thrashed around center stage, a smoke machine did its thing, and a giant Felix ("a radiant messenger, an angel hesitating near") rose to assume dominion.
— MICHAEL WILSON, ARTFORUM.COM  [READ FULL ARTICLE]

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