Australian new media artist Linda Wallace has contributed to a YouTube curatorial project for Pulse art fair in New York. She joins a group of artists invited by curator Marina Fokidis to create playlists from YouTube videos. Linda Wallace has selected 10 videos of people singing 'I Touch Myself' by the Australian band the Divinyls from 1991.
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PULSE PLAY>Random Rules: A Chanel of Artists’ selections from YouTube
Curated by Marina Fokidis
Many believe that since the launch of YouTube in 2005, the history of the moving image has diverted from its canonical route. The website, which makes it possible for anyone who can use a computer to post a video, reaches millions of people daily. Like no other time before, it is now possible for amateur videos, music videos, film footage, commercials and news segments as well as (in some cases) artists’ videos to be mingled together in a random way, free of any preconceived hierarchy or system. According to Fokidis, the active use of YouTube is a form of curating and "Different people’s 'playlists' are transformed into exhibitions and 'tagging' becomes a process of random archiving."
For PULSE PLAY>Random Rules, Fokidis has invited several emerging and established artists to create their very own playlists thereby presenting these artists not only as artists, but as curators and as collectors as well. Artists include Andrea Angelidakis, Aids 3D, AVAF, Pablo Leon de la Barra, Erick Beltran, Keren Cyter, Jeremy Deller, Cerith Wyn Evans, Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Dora Garcia, Rodney Graham, Annika Larsson, Matthieu Laurette, Ingo Niermann, Miltos Manetas, Ahmet Ogut, Angelo Plessas, Lisi Raskin, Linda Wallace. The selections will be available simultaneously in the video lounge at the fair and online as a YouTube Channel.
it was a strange thing, how i happened upon this playlist
ReplyDeleteyou know how youtube sends you links to clips you might be interested
in based on what you've put on in yr favourites etc well I had a
laughing clowns clip from 1984 added to favourites, and the day i
decided to do the playlist i had a myriad of ideas of where to go with
it, sheets of paper with bits and pieces of directions and instead i
checked out the pel mel ‘no word from china’ clip youtube had sent me,
and then got looking at 80s music from australia, then the divinyls and
then noticed all these covers of i touch myself. there are so many!
mainly people miming but enough people singing to get a playlist out of
it. i like the devotional aspect of the song, or at least what i read
into it, and also the voice – all those voices.