Ryan Trecartin, philly video artiste

Almost went to the New Museum today to check out Younger Than Jesus but instead I spent a couple hours watchin this guys videos that look like Limelight party monster kids let loose inside a Paper Rad animation / Tarnation iMovie with Chris Crocker's myspace password. Also reminds me of Peewee's Playhouse

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1FA35515604BC8AF

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/arts/design/01kenn.html

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2009/04/20/090420craw_artworld_schjeldahl

introduced to me by Guy Maddin.

a number of his films can be found here: http://www.ubu.com/film/trecartin.html .

he is awesome.

oh nice, thx for the link! those are better quality than the youtubes I linked to and not cut into ten pieces (although I think the artist posted the youtubes himself and intentionally scrambled the order)

haven't watched Tommy-Chat yet, just parts of I-Be Area and A Family Finds Entertainment. the dialogue is so ADD and fast moving that in the few parts when everyone starts chanting a phrase together or all singing the effect is really striking and mega creepy.

i've played a family finds entertainment for many, many people and the reactions are usually either "OMG WOW" or "fuck this hipster bullshit"

love this dude, can't wait to see the new museum piece

i actually got to see AFFE when it first premiered here in nyc in uh 2005 i guess and at the end of the screening trecartin and the cast bumrushed the stage to do a guerrilla musical performance, with giant balloon structures and cardboard props. it was pretty amazing

schjeldahl was raving abt the dude, saying hes the standout of the show

haven't watched Tommy-Chat yet, just parts of I-Be Area and A Family Finds Entertainment. the dialogue is so ADD and fast moving that in the few parts when everyone starts chanting a phrase together or all singing the effect is really striking and mega creepy.

lol the last two minutes of tommy-chat is basically just that

haha, joe you got me mental into this guy about a year ago when you posted AFFE somewhere, was thinking about starting a thread on this but didn't think anyone would bite. Tammy Chat is addicitive.

omg what's outside

my favorite part of i-be area

WHICH IS TOTAL CODE FOR YOU GUYS SUCK

also, is that the guy from Hey Willpower and Imperial Teen in I Be Area? probably not and you can't really see with all that shit on his face but I always think it is. haven't actually watched that one all the way through.

xp- I like the part in the Craig Ricky clip where I-Be fights with his avatar

go to wholefoods, and if you don't like what you see change it it's yours. Health is a universal concern. Health is yours, go to wholefoods and change it it's yours.

is that awful accent a philly accent then? this guy blew up really big really fast its a bit worrying cos he obviously has a lot of talent, but he's still very young for this attention. Studio work is pretty hilarious too.

he's from texas i think

ny times article says ohio

whatever that accent is horrific, but it kindof makes the stuff.

yeah I think the accent is a put-on. sounds like he's moved around a bit, that nyt thing says grew up ohio, lived in rhode island, then new orleans, now philadelphia

yeah, but its still pretty consistent ("he would live online with yaou")

by the way that girl who plays Filangina (?) is seriously wasted right?

I looooooove Ryan Trecartin!! I've shown AFFE to so many of my friends and we all adore it.

We just discovered this guy (mrs. hurting saw the show) and have been obsessively watching his videos.

"The world ended three weeks ago... starting NOW!"

"Let's put him in a room for a YEAR when he only sees yellowww ... and after that a year of only GREEN ... he'll grow up to be sooo amazing, in high school it will really give him that edge"

i need to go back a second time but what i watched of his new museum pieces looked pretty great. it's hard to hear any of the dialogue w/o the headphones, tho

sat and watched the entirety of his new pieces today. if you like him you'll love it, definitely won't win the guy converts (tho it seems he has a fairly good standing in the art world among critics, for the most part). really like the stock actors he works with and i basically love anytime he uses kids in his videos (which he does for a good 20-minute stretch in one of the parts). his own monologues tend to drag a bit - very much his playground and his rules so not surprising - but i'm still totally amazed at dude's inventiveness and way w/ language/props/makeup

you can get totally hung up on one line. The "eeny meenie mied the wall, general design OKAY?!" bit of I be Area gets me everytime

dialogue is so breakneck i had a hard time remembering anything from the new work, save one line that was something like "i love redistributing myself for people i haven't met yet!"

i like a family finds entertainment most because of how ridiculously intricate it is.

what he looks like when u clean the shit off of him:

http://theartblog.org/blog/wp-content/uploaded/ryan-trecartin.jpg

lizzie fitch really gave up her kudos for this guy huh

new video popular sky

http://ubuweb.com/film/trecartin_popular.html

went to a screening of it at a bar

i seriously love anything this guy does

My dad is a building we lit on fire

i need to feel endless in both directions
its personal

he has new pieces up at the pacific design center in LA right now! wish i could see them but i think they'll be touring out here at some point

i can't WAIT until they invent concept camo

"wtf are u watching?"

-my sister

PLA- PLA- PLA-A-A-Y THAT FREAKING RE-E-E-E-MIX AGAIN -GAIN-GAIN

He was part of a recent 4 artist show at a gallery here, and had a pretty extensive installation throughout the gallery. I remember thinking to myself that this is like a noize board thread manifest as a full fledged art project.

Aside from that, I guess I was just thoroughly nonplussed by it all. A bit too much to cognitively handle (but I guess that's part of the point?)

haha when i first saw his stuff i was like "this is SO noize board"

saw some of the new stuff in LA recently - he still unnerves and excites me like few other active artists do

count me in

have you seen the piece that's currently up at SFMoMA?

I am posting to you from December 27th and the answer is yes

What did you think of the show overall Sarahel?

this is kinda tl;dr but still interesting: his blueprints for his W magazine spread, using some of his frequent collaborators as models

http://dismagazine.com/dysmorphia/9844/ryan-trecartin-w-magazine/

1 - The Fore Head, Cheek Bones, and Jaw Line will be very Concept Vehicle, "Facial Steering": So that the Face Vaguely Feels like a Steering Wheel or a Navigational Device for Long Distance and Memory.

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A friend played me the youtube excerpts of I-Be Area a month ago, then I finally got to watch the entire film all the way through last night -- I was sort of expecting those to be the highlights but watching the bits in sequence only brought out the themes of raising adopted children as a form of rebellion against your already-incredibly-strange-parents -- it's barely random, this is all going to make 100% total sense

i love the detail in the W spread about eyeshadow influenced by the colors in financial charts

Donna are you still in LA? I believe our fair city may be in for a Ryan Trecartin treat later next year...

Also he lives here now, not Philadelphia

i am still here! i saw his MOCA show the first week i got here

curious about this treat!

Trailer for Any Ever which I guess is a 2007-10 compilation that opens at PS1 later this month

http://vimeo.com/24322738
http://ps1.org/exhibitions/view/323

Might have to go check that out since I've only seen his stuff on youtube

OMG SO GOING TO PS1 MY NEXT NYC TRIP

the one with all the child actors is amazing

...which is now apparently up!

http://vimeo.com/24631059

So Peter Schjeldahl just said he was the "most consequential artist since the 1980s"

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2011/06/27/110627craw_artworld_schjeldahl (not available to non-subscribers) unfortunately.

IDK if that's reasonable or not, but my wife has been a ridiculous stan of his for a while.

i liked that schjeldahl piece! its nice when he begrudgingly credits artists active after ~1975

he seems to answer my question of "is it worth going to see these videos at the whitney instead of just watching them on youtube" with a resounding "no"

I get more out of them watching them at home, but I'll still probably go see the PS1 show.

http://riverofthe.net/

http://mam.paris.fr/fr/expositions/ryan-trecartin-lizzie-fitch might go to this if i can get the cash, i love paris anyway so.

Re’Search Wait’S on his vimeo channel is one of my favorite things these days.

http://dismagazine.com/distaste/new-style-options/36271/telfar-ss-2013-formale-life/

center jenny is one of the greatest things i've ever seen

http://vimeo.com/75735816

YOU'RE IN COLLEGE

seeing this guy advertised on the tube is kinda mad

Are you going to the exhibition?

yeah course, someone to go with pending. saw an ica showing of his work the other week, was cool but they def didn't choose his best (affe, cj, k-corea inc) - 'tommy-chat just emailed me' was the highlight & I hadn't seen it before, made it all worthwhile

What exhibition we talking about?

I most recently saw a video of his up at Bard in their curatorial center, was pretty good, involved some kind of party bus full of women -- not a huge departure from the I Be Area stuff but good. We still quote the older videos, esp saying that someone "has an amazing area, and deserves fans"

about a half a year ago some idiot thought it would be a good idea to show four of his works back to back in a theater and it was one of the most physically excruciating things I've seen

it was more disorienting than any noise show that I've had to walk out of, although the film it started with, junior war, was actually surprisingly amazing because it truly captured a certain kind of horrible white drunken midwestern teen existence, like an episode of jackass with a trecartin filter on it

yeah the 4 back to back is what I did. not excruciating but could have been better chosen yeah