Our friend Dylan helped to shoot this… …

Artist Tom Sachs takes his SPACE PROGRAM to the next level with a four week mission to Mars that recasts the 55,000 square foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall as an immersive space odyssey with an installation of dynamic and meticulously …

We thought that the creator of this short animation, Mike Please, would’ve been a great fit for the TVCC TVC concept, but Mr. Please wasn’t too pleased with that idea… but anyways, here’s the long-awaited award-winning full animated short. …

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Galerie Quynh is pleased to present The Propeller Group’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Entitled ‘Static Friction’, the exhibition will consist entirely of new works including sculpture, drawing, video, and mixed media collages revolving around motorbike culture.

‘Static Friction’ …

If you are in Ho Chi Minh City this month, check out The Propeller Group’s latest show entitled Static Friction: Burning Rubber, located at San Art, 3 Me Linh street, district Binh Thanh, HCMC, Vietnam. March 30 – April 20, 2012.

“In this sculptural video installation, we witness a rider pushing the technological system beneath him to create a series of gestural marks in rubber on the ground. By refusing the ‘stop’ of a brake, by pushing its engine to its limit, we witness a mechanical system producing a mark, a ‘burn-out’ that is permanent — not dissimilar to the way social systems of control are being tested to new limits, to produce new forms of expression across the world that leave lasting effect.”

For installation images and more information, check out The Propeller Group’s project page here: Burning Rubber

The Propeller Group’s video installation in New York City’s New Museum is deceptively approachable. The five televisions, arranged in a circle and all facing inward, show a five-channel video, and viewers almost instinctively move to stand in the middle of the circle. On the screens, five different perspectives of an office meeting are displayed. Cameras arranged around the conference table capture every expression and exchange. The meeting attendees sometimes laugh, sometimes argue. But mostly they look bored.

This looks like any other office scene — which is remarkable only if you think about it, because what’s being discussed around that table is how to rebrand communism. Click to read more…

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