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SETH — Fish Oil


Styled by: Haley Wollens

Peep the latest work from SETH, the new experimental duo synergistically composed of artists Gobby and Jamie Krasner. Their audiovisual trip, “Fish Oil,” looks and sounds like it teleported from a futuristic space-pop-time continuum right into our screens, destined to nestle deep within our psyche. The narrative glows with telepathic vibes and unfolds under a paranormal conception of time, all while the dream-drenched beat resonates with stacked layers of vocals and extrasensory perceptions. Earthliness and divinity are conjoined with eccentric ecstasy and graceful grit. As our pupils dilate and our cosmic contours expand, the music takes decisively surprising turns, in which decelerated tape reversals meet reversions of linearity that progress along quasi-conventional lines. We may have been caught off guard by the mystical, feline pilgrimage into which we were suddenly inducted in “Fish Oil” — but that is all the more reason why we look forward to hearing, seeing, and experiencing more from SETH!

H E A D L O C K Album Release Party w/ $HAYNE + TELFAR + SPECIAL GUESTS

Sci-Fi & Fantasy proudly presents the self-titled debut by Headlock. The first LP on Lamin Fofana’s Sci-Fi & Fantasy label, Headlock inaugurates NYC-based artist Lou DiBenedetto’s latest project of the same name. Recorded with a small array of hardware synths in loose, improvisational sessions, the album’s ambient drones are stubbornly pure in form–no beats, vocals or samples to be found. The result has an intimacy that complements solitude and shared rapture alike. Headlock Release Party… [read more »]

DIS week: I Think You Misunderstood Me…

The Graduate: Instead of emailing her class the answers to a homework assignment, a TA at the University of Iowa accidentally sent private, pornographic pictures from a ‘vid chat sext sesh’ with her boyfriend. Obviously, this sucks, but my most pressing question is… who uses Google Hangout?? I still don’t even know how to navigate this new Gmail layout ughhh. CAKE CAKE CAKE: Nothing merits a ‘you shouldn’t have’ more than a vagina cake. Especially when… [read more »]

DIScuss | Katy Perry “I Don’t Twerk”

When asked at the VMAs what she thought about the trending twerking phenomenon, Katy Perry quickly responded, “I don’t twerk, I only waltz.” Entering the red carpet just minutes behind Miley, the aggressive resistance to a popular trend not popularized by Perry herself gives credo to her ability to leg-up her contemporaries. With listicle after listicle comparing pop female vocalists to one another (who will come out on top? Are you a little monster or… [read more »]

Physical Therapy — I Did

Video edit: Steven Grisé Physical Therapy returns with a twisted demonic vendetta against the mysterious murders of our artistic idols. Hovering over the stomping hypnosis of the beat, we hear a hauntingly detuned vocal — presumably the producer’s own — moaning the names of the deceased, as if to conjure up their ghosts at the very center of the dance floor. The scary cracks and pingpong pops play with our sanity as the club increasingly… [read more »]

Frieze London | Interview with Ilja Karilampi

October’s Very Own, 2013Courtesy of Ilja Karilampi and Sandy Brown, Berlin Ilja Karilampi is a Swedish visual artist who resides and works in Gothenburg, New York and Berlin. Through his (literal) multimedia art he investigates the contemporary urban individual and its relationship with mass- and pop-cultural memory. The world he documents is understood socio-digitally at a level that is as personal as it is representational. Karilampi is a productive fellow: In 2013 alone he has… [read more »]

Frieze London | Interview with Petra Cortright

It’s the second day of Frieze Art Fair London, and the first-rate art market professionals have somewhat been replaced by mortal art tourists and undergrad students who roam the bright-lit gallery booths in search for this season’s creative stimuli. A primary school field trip getting a bit too excited running around the huge, highly secured Jeff Koons pieces at Gagosian was undoubtedly one of the dramatic highlights of the day. Video artist Petra Cortright and… [read more »]

Self Interruption | Book Launch and Exhibition

Self Interruption opens tomorrow, Sunday, October 20th. The self-interrupting body, the image of a stalled system or device. Though distinct in their methods, these artists mesh industrial practices into an artistic tradition, specifically the mechanism of photography.

DIS week: High School Never Ends

Moop GOOP: Vanity Fair is DETERMINED to ruin Gwyneth Paltrow. The magazine is running an exposé on our favorite GOOP mama that is rumored to expose a number of affairs the actress/singer/foodie/mother of Apple and Moses has had while married to Coldplay’s Chris Martin. While this classic he-said-she-said couldn’t be more high school,  all I can say is keep ya head up girl. In the words of 50 cent, “and if they hate then let… [read more »]

Frieze London | Interview with Ian Cheng

The annual Frieze London brings together the international heavyweights in the art world and collectors, with 152 galleries showing and selling artwork. At the end of the fair, all pieces should be safely assigned to the many art collectors who come to town to get a (pricey) piece of the cake. The fair takes form as a four-day event in a massive sci-fi tent in Regents Park. As a DIS representative, I meet up with… [read more »]