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Natalia is a Sydney based portrait ,fashion and beauty photographer based in Sydney floating between Paris,London and Los Angeles.Clients include Yen,Oyster,Russh,I.D,Milk and Catalogue Magazine
Cara Stricker Richard Prince – REAPPORIATION AND GENDER REPRESENTATION
original post from Richard Prince repost, exhibited at Gagosian.
THIS ESSAY WAS WRITTEN IN RESPONSE TO MY IMAGE AND INSTAGRAM BEING EXHIBITED AND SOLD AS BEHALF OF RICHARD PRINCE’S “NEW PORTRAITS” EXHIBITION AT THE GARGOSIAN GALLERY IN NYC.
IT WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN ALL DAY EVERY DAY
IS WHAT WE ARE CREATING TODAY A RE-APPROPRIATION OF EVERYTHING BEFORE IT?
IT’S NOT ABOUT BREAKING THE RULES OR ‘FREE THE NIPPLE’, IT’S ABOUT HOW INSTAGRAM, FACEBOOK AND OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA HAVE ENABLED OUR ADDICTION TO COMMUNICATING WHILE QUIETLY TAKING OVER THE COPYRIGHT. YOUR LATEST EXHIBITION IS PERFECTLY THIS: RE-APPROPRIATING SOCIAL MEDIA AND ITS APPROPRIATION OF OUR COPYRIGHT.
EVERY TIME WE USE INSTAGRAM OR FACEBOOK WE SIGN A WAIVER GIVING PERMISSION TO SELL OUR IMAGES, AND YOU HAVE BOTH EXPLOITED AND UNDERMINED THIS. I SUPPORT THIS COMMENTARY: NO ONE OWNS AN IDEA, AND YOUR WORKS STATE THIS IN BOLD. YOU GIVE NO EXPLANATION, ONLY AN INFRINGEMENT NOTICE:
“WHERE IN PLACE OF THE TYPICAL GALLERY EXPLANATION TO PROVIDE ANALYSIS OF THE SHOW, THERE IS ISSUED SIMPLY THE COMMENT, ‘ALL IMAGES ARE SUBJECT TO COPYRIGHT. GALLERY APPROVAL MUST BE GRANTED PRIOR TO REPRODUCTION.’”
AND THE WAY FORWARD: OUR GENERATION ACCEPTS APPROPRIATION AND BORROWING FROM ALL PASTS BECAUSE WE ACCEPT A FUTURE OF UNITY. “THE YES GENERATION”… HOW ELSE COULD WE MOVE FORWARD EXCEPT THROUGH THIS ACCEPTANCE AND THE FREEDOM IT GIVES US?
I CAN TAKE MY TOP OFF IN A NEW YORK GALLERY, IT IS LEGAL — ALTHOUGH IT’S DEFINITELY DIFFICULT TO FOCUS ON THAT AT THE SAME TIME AS TAKING A SELFIE OF A PORTRAIT OF A ‘SELFIE’ INTENDED FOR INSTAGRAM. WE WAVE OUR RIGHT TO PRIVACY, SOMETIMES WITHOUT REALIZING, SOMETIMES VOLUNTARILY, SO WHAT IS OUR IDEAL PLATFORM? THE ONLINE SPACE IS A NEW SORT OF PALETTE FOR ARTISTS TO OFFER NEW PERSPECTIVES ON VOICE AND FREEDOM. ACCEPT AND BROADEN THE PLATFORM. CELEBRATE FELLOW ARTISTS AND LIVE AGAINST THE GRAIN.
TODAY I RECEIVED AN EMAIL ABOUT RE-APPROPRIATION — THAT WORKING WITH YOUR PEERS AND RE-APPROPRIATING YOURSELF WAS SIMPLY A MARKETING TOOL. IT MADE ME WANT TO RUN OUT THE WINDOW! I SEE OUR GENERATION AND OUR FIGHT FOR EQUALITY IN ALL THINGS AS EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF THIS. WE SHOULD BE PUSHING AGAINST ALL BOUNDARIES, WHETHER INDUSTRY, GENDER, OR OTHERWISE. COLLABORATION AND STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS, USING THE WAY THE WORLD AND INDUSTRY ARE SET UP IN ORDER TO CHANGE BOTH, CAN ONLY BE FRUITFUL AND A WAY TO FIND AND GIVE FREEDOM.
I BELIEVE IN ACTIVE WOMEN WHO TAKE CHARGE TO HEAL, LISTEN TO AND LOVE ONE ANOTHER, AND MEN WHOM DO THE SAME, SUPPORTING EACH OTHER AND RESPECTING ONE ANOTHER ON AN EQUAL PLANE OF THOUGHT AND LIFE. INSTINCT SHOULD BE OUR GOAL, SO THAT THE ULTIMATE VERSION OF OURSELVES, WHOMEVER WE END UP BEING, THRIVES.
I HOPE PEOPLE CONTINUE TO USE THE TOOLS OF TODAY, TO SAY WHAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SAY AND SEE, ALLOWING THIS TO BE A PLATFORM FOR ART AND ALTERNATE VOICES, FREE OF JUDGMENT. YOU COMMENT ON A GENERATION WHO PHOTOGRAPH THEMSELVES AND FOCUS IN ON WHAT THEY WANT TO SEE. I SEE THIS BEHAVIOR AS THE ULTIMATE CONFIDENCE IN THE INDIVIDUAL, EVEN IF WE ARE SUBJECT TO COPYRIGHT, AND PERHAPS THIS IS OUR LESSON OF ACCEPTANCE. YOUR ART WRAPS THE COVER OF POP MAGAZINE, FLOWS THROUGHOUT THE GAGOSIAN AND IS CONSTANTLY BEING REWORKED, RE-APPROPRIATED, AND RE-CURATED ON INSTAGRAM. META!
THIS TYPE OF RAW, INSTINCTUAL REFLECTION OF THE WORLD’S WORKINGS ALLOWS PEOPLE TO REFLECT AND WORK TOWARDS BEING COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN GIVEN, ALLOWING THEM TO THRIVE IN WHATEVER WAY THEY WILL. TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OF NATURAL, RAW, SENSUAL IMAGERY ALLOWS US ALL TO SEE WHAT IS REAL, AND BE OK WITH THIS AS BOTH A FORM OF COMMUNICATION AND OF SEXUALITY. OUR PERCEPTIONS OF WHAT WE SHOULD LIKE AND BE LIKE ARE CONSTANTLY CHANGING. WE SHAPE OUR PERCEPTION THROUGH VOICE AND CHOICE, AND THROUGH RE-APPROPRIATION, WHICH SHOULD BE, ON ALL FRONTS, ACCEPTED.
THIS IS WHY WE LOVE YOU, RICHARD PRINCE: FOR STATING THE OBVIOUS. BUT THEN AGAIN, WE DON’T GET COMMISSION .
CARA STRICKER, 2014
AZUL Performs at FORM Arcosanti
A rare Angeleno native growing up through the nooks and crannies of the culturally diverse Los Angeles artistic basin, Azul pulls inspiration from contrasts in life experiences and nature. Rhythmic melodies juxtapose abstract tribal beats , sonic back-masks, and deep grooves while finding a magical through line awash in historical soul revival. Breakout performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, and FORM Arcosanti., lead Azul’s introduction to a larger audience imminent with an upcoming debut EP release and a bevy of unique live performances into 2016.
Form Festival is hosted annually at Arcosanti, seventy miles north of Phoenix & south of Sedona in Arizona’s high desert. An “urban laboratory” focused on innovative design, community, and environmental accountability, Arcosanti was built by 7000+ students since 1970, under the direction of the late visionary architect, Paolo Soleri.
FORM was founded by the Hundred Waters family in response to their experiences performing at music festivals around the globe. While most festivals amassed large audiences, the group found that any meaningful intimacy, time for collaboration, and connection to the festival’s environments were often left to the wayside. The founders envisioned something more personal, collaborative, lean, and lasting.
Visiting Arcosanti for the first time, they knew they had found the first home for such an experience.
Free-by-application, and made possible through patronage and in-kind support, a diverse community of creators is empowered to participate in FORM without financial barriers. Instead, participants are invited for their creativity, thoughtfulness, and intention. The program includes performances, discussions, workshops, installations, technologies and activities that:
Cara Stricker
STRICKER is an Australian multi disciplinary Director, Photographer and Music Producer currently residing in Los Angeles and New York. Growing up in Australia whilst training as a Dancer and Musician throughout her adolescence, Stricker moved into studying film and photography at UTS Sydney, graduating in 2010 with a degree in Film and Bachelor of Arts.
Cara’s works have been published internationally including Nowness, Interview Magazine, Dazed and Confused, Vogue, ID Magazine, NYT, 25 Magazine, Oyster Magazine, Fader, VS Magazine, Riot of Perfume, Russh Magazine and Rolling Stone, while collaborations include Chanel, Missoni, Mother NY, Alexander Wang, Parkwood Entertainment, See Pictures & Sol Films, Terrible Records, Debbie Harry, XL Records, Matte Projects, MiLK, GAP, Fools Gold, Vogue, EMI, Siberia Records and Modular Records.
Her work has been awarded and screened internationally including Vivid Festival Australia,Colarado Flexiff International Festival, Sydney International Animation Festival, Indie Spirit Film
Festival and Sugar Mountain Festival, including music performances as of late off her debut audio visual album produced with John Kirby self titled, DROOL, released on Terrible Records. Her most recent shows exhibited at the Hole NYC the last two consecutive years, including visual sound collaborations with Boots, Roger O’Donnell (the Cure). Throughout the past year, Stricker travelled and performed in Australia, LA and New York City.
Drool Album Film
DROOL
AUDIO VISUAL ALBUM
TERRIBLE RECORDS
DROOL introduces a new music series which offers an intimate exploration of the collaborative process between artists.
The audio-visual album created by Cara Stricker and John Kirby, LA Born keyboardist, producer and songwriter best known for his work as part of Sébastien Tellier, Blood Orange, Kindness and Rodriguez.
The 11 track Album is be available through custom cassettes and digital international release. Upon purchase of the custom cassette, an individualised love note allows access to download and view the 40-minute film and album at
www.drooling.co.
A natural progression from the previous collaboration between Cara Stricker and John Kirby, ‘ Make Love to the World’, DROOL’s music seeks to examine sex as a concept of experiential utopia, rather than the form in which it exists in humanity, isolated.
It’s a dream-like space where you can experience a very open-minded way of living without the boundaries that our logical world has placed on us, exploring the conversation of universal consciousness, beyond sexism, toward sex, equality and unity.
Stricker and Kirby have lived, created and experienced their evolving art, performing a collaborative piece at New York Fashion Week and Sugar Mountain Festival in Australia and side shows alongside artists Connan Mockasin, Ariel Pink, Swans, and Kim Gordon.
DROOL is performed by Cara with a legion of female tranquility. Stricker performs with instrumentalists Madeline O’Moore, Margot, Kate Silver and Sonja Mauro. The sound lends itself to instinct and intuition, capturing the delicate sensual nature and expression of this project coming to be.
The Album launch in New York, took place amongst an instillation and performances at The Hole, Elvis Guest House, Babies alright, and Max Fish, with select performances across LA, and Aus.
PREMIER
SUGAR MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL,
AUSTRALIA, 2015
THE MUSIC
Drool Live
DROOL is an audio-visual album created by Cara Stricker, Australian born multi-disciplinary artist in photography, direction and music, and John Kirby, LA Born keyboardist, producer and songwriter best known for his work as part of Sébastien Tellier, Blood Orange, Kindness and Rodriguez.
Terrible Records released the audio-visual Album internationally in June of 2015, through limited edition cassette tapes providing individualised access to the album scored film, coinciding with a video clip, live performances and instillations throughout New York.
The female embodiment of DROOL is performed by Cara Stricker (vocals, guitar, keys), and Madeline O’Moore (keys, electronica), Kate Levitt (Percussion). Various collaborating musicians are invited for live performances.
ENGLISH GARDEN – DROOL
DROOL is an audio-visual album created by Cara Stricker, Australian born multi- disciplinary artist in photography, direction and music, and John Kirby, LA Born keyboardist, producer and songwriter best known for his work as part of Sébastien Tellier, Blood Orange, Kindness and Rodriguez.
Terrible Records released the audio-visual Album internationally in June of 2015, through limited edition cassette tapes providing individualised access to the album scored film, coinciding with a video clip, live performances and instillations throughout New York.
The female embodiment of DROOL is performed by Cara Stricker (vocals, guitar, keys), and Madeline O’Moore (keys, electronica), Kate Levitt (Percussion). Various collaborating musicians are invited for live performances.
House of Ladosha
The utlimate gateway into the House of Ladosha’s brain, launched in tandem with our 2016 exhibition “This is UR brain” at BHQFU. It featured a livestream of the gallery, a gif wall, and a neverending stream of our ever evolving social feeds.
Born in Hong Kong, grew up in solitude in Arizona’s desert heat. Much of her daily inspirations are derived from her imagination, comic books / video games, people’s stories and the transient states of technology. Her background resides in graphic design, art direction and illustration. As of late, her work has evolved into experience design and storytelling. She currently serves as an adjunct professor at Parsons. Curious at heart and loves the unknown.
Girls Girls Girls
Girls Girls Girls is a creative collective founded by Louise Chen and Piu Piu in 2012. United by the same love for music and dance the girls started their collaboration by organising parties at Social Club in Paris where they had a 2 year residency. Believing in the idea that live music and dance music should all be celebrated under one roof, Piu Piu and Louise invited acts like Sampha, Kelela, Mykki Blanco, Kilo Kish, Eclair Fifi, Moxie, Lil Silva, Jackmaster and many more to share the club-stage with them. Their love for the young, underground up and coming acts brought them to hosting Kelela, Brooke Candy and Kilo Kish’s first parisian shows. As DJs , the duo plays a colourful mix of house, soul, disco, techno and on some occasions even R&B and Hip-Hop – today, you can hear each one’s signature blend on Rinse France, where they both have their own show.
KEVIN KLOECKER WEBSITE BY MADELINE O’MOORE
Kevin Kloecker Website by Madeline O’Moore
http://www.kevinkloecker.com/
http://www.kevinkloecker.com/