CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE KQED SPARK SPECIAL ON SLIV & DULET!
About The Summer Line 2003
For five weeks during the summer of 2003, artists Jon Brumit and Marc Horowitz took over the San Francisco gallery New Langton Arts, and reinvented themselves as the business team of Sliv & Dulet, the fictional enterprise behind 2001’s much-publicized one-minute art show. In the Spark episode “The Bleeding Edge … is this really art?” meet these unusual art entrepreneurs as they collaborate with 25 other artists to “develop new products and services” for The Summer Line 2003, an experiential installation that comments with great humor on the conventions of office life and the art world.
Brumit and Horowitz, who met through the Artist-in-Residence Program at San Francisco Recycling & Disposal, create interactive performance works that predominately focus on social exchanges and the creative potential of ordinary objects. Incorporating elements of absurdity and the mundane, Brumit and Horowitz have collaborated on numerous Bay Area events that push the boundaries of public/performance art including: The One-Minute Show (2001), a 30-person group exhibition that took place in 60 seconds; Bring Your Own Big Wheel Race (2002), an annual public big wheel race down historic Lombard street; and the first annual Duct Tape Festival (2002) in Oakland.
Brumit is an interdisciplinary artist who experiments with competitive events and interactive performance. He is the creator of projects such as the Mobile Backyard (a fastidiously maintained lawn in the bed of his truck) and a recording project at the SF Recycling & Disposal center that uses salvaged objects as instruments. Brumit holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and lives and works in Oakland.
Horowitz communicates through the highly personal and often ironic language of material objects in his installations and sculptures, which have been described as “encounters.” He often uses photography as a way of presenting visual and conceptual discordance and harmonies. In 2001 he founded Your Local Gallery in Oakland, and has curated and performed in numerous exhibitions including Think Again, Pictures, Photos, Sculptures, Sounds & Installation, and Stuffed Animal Golf over the Great Highway, a collaborative public performance. Horowitz holds a degree in marketing from Indiana University and lives and works in San Francisco.
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Sliv & Dulet Enterprises! That’s the infamous Jon Brumit on the left; we’re at our Folsom Street, San Francisco office here.
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CLICK HERE TO WATCH FREE IDEAS
I did this project in 2001. I made two white sandwich boards and put them up at the corner of Powell & Market in San Francisco. I then began to hand out blank pieces of paper, yelling “Free Ideas,” there were several takers and several who wanted nothing to do with it.
Overall, it was a successful mission.
There is no ambient sound in the video cause I forgot to check the sound levels on the camera – sorry. But as a bonus, I added The Blue Oyster Cult Don’t Fear the Reaper!
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Filed under 001 Imagination, 035 Free Ideas, 037 Video, Events, intss blog by on Aug 19th, 2001. Comment.
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VIDEO OF THIS HISTORIC EVENT
THE ONE MINUTE SHOW
Your Local Gallery, Oakland
August 11, 2001
9:30 pm (sharp)
On the evening of August 11 at 9:30pm, an art event of unparalleled brevity will take place. Prepare to find yourself engulfed by 60 seconds of pure, frenetic energy as over twenty Bay Area artists hang their works, step aside to let the audience view them, and whisk them away again after offering no more than a tantalizing taste.
Though each of the works in the show is significant in its own right, the format of this exhibition is designed to pose some larger questions regarding the nature of art itself—the role played by the audience in the reception of an artwork, the commodification of art implicit in the gallery environment, and above all, the social dynamics of our most cherished art world tradition: the wine-and-cheese opening.
This spectacular (in every sense of the word) event is brought to you by Your Local Gallery in Oakland, dedicated to boldly presenting art as the lively, active experiment it has always wanted to be. Your Local Gallery knows no bounds in its pursuit of the fresh, the local, and the slightly absurd. We invite you to join us on August 11th for a totally unique art experience. Come prepared to throw away everything you think you know about art, and pay close attention…or you might miss it.
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I posted an ad on craigslist asking people to join me for a burrito at my favorite travelling taco truck in Oakland. We met up at a specified time and ordered together. After ordering, I took a picture of the person. We ate together, discussing whatever was to come about. When we finished, I took a snap of their “burrito sculpture,” (a.k.a their trash).
Pete – Collage Artist and Graphic Designer
Bruce – Web Designer, Activist, and Sculptor
Joe – Photographer
Randy and Yvette – Students
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Notes is an exhibition that gives the viewer a rare glimpse into the intimate realms of both interpersonal communications via written language, as well as artist interpretation. People were asked to submit works based around their “multiform ideas on notes”. How the folks chose to express their ideas on this intentionally broad concept offers a voyeuristic exploration into the most revealing regions of the human psyche.
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This is my first press. My mom thought I may turn out to be a gay off-braodway dancer after seeing this picture.
I quit dancing and began taking copious amounts of karate. Yes – I was the world’s most dangerous fighter.
Grew up fast and went to Indiana University for a degree in Business Marketing and a minor in microeconomics.
Got a job in silicon valley after school, hated it. Went to the Art Institute and started making some bad drawings.
and bad sculptures…
Did my first public performance whilst there – free ideas!! Yeah!
Got an artist in residence at the San Francisco Sanitary Landfill. Started making sculptures with all of the stuff I found out there.
How About a Burrito at My Favorite Place?
I posted an ad on craigslist.org asking people to join me for a burrito at my favorite taco truck in Oakland, CA. We met up at a specified time and ordered together. After ordering, I took a picture of my meal date with their food.
We then ate together, discussing whatever. When we finished, I took a photo of their “burrito sculpture,” (a.k.a their trash).
It’s nice to see the person, take into account what they do and who they are, and then see how they fidget with thier leftover food and trash eventually completing their sculpture.
Pete – Collage Artist and Graphic Designer
Bruce – Activist
Joe Guzman- Photographer
Rene & Chris – Students
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