Been holding on to this one for a little while. Beat monster DEVONWHO blessed me with a mix of what he knows best; good old fashioned neck breaking beats. Surprisingly mellow actually, this is a cool ...
Marlon Rabenreither was born in Vienna but spent the most important and interesting years of his life in the sleazy streets of Hollywood. Since leaving Los Angeles two years ago for England to study Fine Art at Goldsmiths University of London he has focused mostly on Collage and Video work. Rabenreither is interested in documenting Los Angeles, Witchcraft, Teenagers and Punks . He ritually shoots 1 or 2 rolls of film a week and has done so for a little over one year but considers his photographs to be more of a personal archive as opposed to a legitimate art practice. “I have little idea of why anyone would be interested in the kids in my photographs or for that matter me”
Mika’s new body of work is a satirical collage of Pop imagery referencing everything from Hip Hop, and Horror Film, to re-interpretations of historicized works of art. She has been living and working in London since 2008 and recieved her BA from Otis College in Los Angeles in 2003. Her work has developed from environmentally based prototypes to culturally interventionist political work and maintains a constant interaction with social and cultural dialogues.Film stills from Brian De Palma’s 1976 body horror, Carrie, are compressed with elements of Marcel Duchamp’s, Large Glass; The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (1923), and suspended by industrial chain amidst an installation of debris and found objects. The “re-mixing” of these cultural objects to create a lo-fi rendition pays homage to the “ready-made” tradition while simultaneously paralleling the abjection of 80’s gore with the depiction of abstracted mechanistic sexuality. This idea of compounded historical memory carries throughout the work. Through a humorous pairing of images and objects the artist levels the hierarchy of cultural signifiers and constructs a new history of objects. Combining Robert Rauschenberg’s Combine Series with L.L.Cool J’s hit “Don’t Call it a Comeback“, Revell presents a version of Modernist assemblage compositionally accurate but now accessible to the 1990’s hip hop listener.
