Komar & Melamid: C or D?

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Also, where are they now?

― dave q, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I wuvved em, tho I guess their shtick kind of required Actually Existing Stalinism still to to be a sinister and potentially revenant threat, at least to work at peak flow. J.Hoberman wrote great stuff on them — and lots else — in The Red Atlantis, which I hugely recommend to all...

― mark s, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Are they the folks who commissioned a survey of what people actually want in a painting - eg. nothing too abstract, nice colours, etc. - and then produced said painting? Or was that somebody else?

― Andrew L, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The very same. They also did the same thing with pop songs, then had Dave Soldier write them, with VERY funny results.

I believe the last time I saw them they were introducing an exhibition of art done by elephants in Thailand who had been trained to use paintbrushes.

― Douglas, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I actually bought the Komar and Melamid CD with the world's most and least wanted pop songs on it. I actually haven't listened to it, perhaps terrified that the A side would sound like Britney and the B side like me.

― Momus, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Momus, you will love it. A-side is a slow jam that mentions Wittgenstein. B-side involves operatic country-western singing, a children's choir doing holiday-themed Wal-Mart jingles, hip-hop featuring tubas and accordions, etc., and includes the lyric "Out on the range just me and my mind/Took me a break to read some Wittgenstein."

― Douglas, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

the most unwanted music:

http://www.artsjournal.com/quickstudy/2008/04/yo_yo.html

― gff, Thursday, 17 April 2008 17:48 (seventeen years ago)

seriously everybody needs to hear this. amazing, hilarious, and... not that bad, at times!

― gff, Thursday, 17 April 2008 17:56 (seventeen years ago)

Weird, I *just* listened to this, on a friend's recommendation. Was it linked from somewhere?

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 April 2008 18:03 (seventeen years ago)

You can hear more about the whole project here.

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 April 2008 18:04 (seventeen years ago)

well i'm embarrassed to admit i saw it on sullivan, meaning it's already well made the rounds

― gff, Thursday, 17 April 2008 18:07 (seventeen years ago)

You can tell the survey was taken in 1996, Mariah Carey/Michael Bolton rock infused Stevie B styled love-theme? ... I'm so happy I recorded over all my parents' HORRIBLE cassettes over the course of the 1990s.

The most popular these days would probably incorporate some of the elements from the most unpopular, namely the hip hop and synthesiser element... they should update it!

― JTS, Thursday, 17 April 2008 21:36 (seventeen years ago)

The paintings still make me laugh:
http://www.diacenter.org/km/

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 17 April 2008 21:39 (seventeen years ago)

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