Bloopers Mixtape #3
by Michael Bell-Smith, Sara Magenheimer & Ben Vida
On November 21, 2013, Michael Bell-Smith, Sara Magenheimer, and Ben Vida performed in New York City as a band called BLOOPERS. The performance was presented by Triple Canopy as part of Performa 13, and advertised as “a multilayered dance party with distractions.” The performance both incorporated and produced media in a variety of forms: text, voice, video, music, flyers, merchandise. Some emerged before the performance, some during the performance, some afterwards, and some long afterwards.
Our Man:
You can hear
You can hear
You can
Woo Whoo Whoo Woo
Woo Whoo Whoo Woo
Jazz:
The sphinx said:
I wanted no hurt
And I wanted no pain ever again
Woo Whoo Whoo Woo
Woo Whoo Whoo Woo
“Industrials” were bigger -- they glorified the work of the people who go out in the field
New Pakistani Taliban Leader Plotted Attack
New Music: … Feat: …
Magazines are over.
- WHAT DOES THE 6-POINT STAR MEAN?
LOVE, LIFE, LOYALTY, KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM, AND UNDERSTANDING-LLL, MONEY, MACK, MURDER
- WHAT DOES THE PITCHFORK MEAN?
MIND, BODY, AND SOUL
- WHAT DO YOU KEEP UNDER YOUR BED?
GLASS OF WATER
- WHO’S IN IT?
DEVIL AND FOLK
- WHO’S GOING TO WIN?
FOLK
So nice to see you!!
Sara:
Thank you for the goodies!
Demolish my house; bring in some rich people; forget I ever existed—that’s the best of all possible worlds?
Has it become to expensive to be?
Seattle techno mainstay gives away one of the sophisticated
Finding: Bisexual British teenagers
Our man, talking…
The 5 Best Songs Of The Week
(Beer indicates that this is not your typical gathering.)
Some Kraft mac & cheese is losing artificial dyes.
But why do we make cheese anyway?
Stars die screaming. 1000 kilometer per second winds.
A Professional Car Thief Makes the Smoothest of Getaways
Check out Kitty’s sparkling new Second Life
In a relationship in? We want $50
Helpful map shows which NYC neighborhoods are getting the most:
really digging the new
really digging the new
really digging the new
NOW
Just as excitingly:
Lovely post about what we can learn from chickens
We updated our mega party
The Coach Who Exploded
What’s up
Great comments on our live God
Turns out there are a lot of events happening all around the country
“If Not Now, Then When?”:
Presidential Apologies: Regrets,
Ask A Native: Will My Tiny Apartment Become My Lonely Coffin?
condos, hip hop monikers map,
Saturday in Washington DC, Lisa
working hard and playing
CHALK it up
Psychedelic Cumbias From Peru
Social media can either be
“Fix You.” Yes, he sings
I thought, “How cool”
And of course: “Thanks”
Waking up in Atlanta...
Bloopers #0 is the debut of a new performance-based collaboration by Michael Bell-Smith, Sara Magenheimer, and Ben Vida. As the band Bloopers, they use dance-pop music as a platform to explore the ways in which sound and music operate socially. Their work incorporates videos, props, set pieces, and promotional materials, playfully testing the boundaries of different areas of contemporary culture. Invoking Nam June Paik’s “Global Groove” and Robert Ashley’s “Perfect Lives” through the lens of Internet radio, Bloopers #0 is a multilayered dance party with distractions.
“The wild beauty, cultural richness, spiritual vacancy and ferocious violence of America are explored to compelling effect in virtually every aspect of Bloopers #0—in the title and the cover art, the blues and country borrowings evident in the music,” raves Rolling Stone. “Indeed, Bloopers says that ‘dismantling the mythology of America’ is an important part of Bloopers #0’s artistic objective.”
Bloopers #0 was commissioned and is presented by Triple Canopy as part of Performa 13, and is hosted at Four81 Broadway by Jack Chiles and Mila Giesler.
- Michael Bell-Smith is an artist and musician based in Brooklyn. His work has been exhibited and screened internationally, at venues including MoMA PS1, the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, and the Museum of the Moving Image, New York City; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the 2008 Liverpool Biennial; the 5th Seoul International Media Biennale; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; and Tate Liverpool. His work has been featured in Artforum, Art in America, and the New York Times. As a member of the punk band Professor Murder, Bell-Smith performed throughout the US and Europe.
- Sara Magenheimer lives and works in Brooklyn. Language, music/sound, and objects comprise a large part of her video-based art practice. From 2004 to 2010 Magenheimer formed two bands, Flying and WOOM, which toured across the US and internationally and released five records. Magenheimer received an MFA from Bard College and has screened video work and performed at Berkeley Art Museum, Canada Gallery, MoMA PS1, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Issue Project Room.
- Ben Vida is a Brooklyn-based artist and composer. He has been an active member of the international experimental music community for the past seventeen years. In the mid-1990s he co-founded the group Town and Country and has worked as a solo artist under his own name and as Bird Show, releasing records on such labels as PAN, Alku, Thrill Jockey, Drag City, Hapna, and Kranky. Vida has recently performed at the Kitchen with David Behrman; at the Sacrum Profamun festival in Krakow, which debuted the Tyondai Braxton/Ben Vida Duo; at Electrónica en Abril festival in Madrid; and at Akousma Festival in Montreal. Ben’s exhibition, “Slipping Control,” was presented at Audio Visual Arts in New York City this past spring. He is a 2013 Artist in Residency at ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn and at the Clocktower in Manhattan.