Defenestration Now

[Joe Allonby]

My favorite moments of Defenestration - The Movie are at 2:47 and 3:11.



On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>wrote:

> The premise behind Joe Sola’s 2005 video piece Studio Visit is simple.
> Over a period of two years, he invited collectors, curators, and
> critics to his Los Angeles studio to talk about his art. He would turn
> on the video camera, chat amiably for a few minutes, and then take a
> flying leap out the closed window in an explosion of shattered glass.
> His guests would dash to the window, only to find Sola chortling on
> top of a pile of strategically arranged cardboard boxes eight feet
> below. “People would scream with fear and pleasure at the same time,”
> he recalls. He repeated this act 22 times.
>
> Studio Visit brings together Sola’s interest in performance art and in
> Hollywood filmmaking. (He trained with a stuntman to prepare for the
> piece, and the window glass was the breakaway kind used in action
> movies.)  ...
>
> http://www.artnews.com/2011/12/06/biting-the-hand-that-feeds-them/
>
> Defenestration Now
>
> http://www.everythingisterrible.com/2010/11/defenestration-now.html
>
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