Hey Folks:

Whoa nelly, I can’t believe it, but with 11 days to go on Celso’s Kickstarter project, we are just a little more than $500 from reaching our goal. We’ve also been featured as a Kickstarter staff pick (see the image at right). So, with the finish line in sight, I’m hoping that I can beg a little bit of assistance from folks who read this blog and are into public art, Peruvian history and nuclear yellow soda. (I mean, who isn’t into nuclear yellow soda?) Even the smallest donations are a boon at this stage of the game. As you may well know, Kickstarter is all or nothing — so if we don’t make our goal, we don’t get a cent.

I also wanted to thank everyone who has donated their hard-earned bucks to the project (for which I will serve as chasqui and studio assistant). It’s been incredibly moving to hear from friends, artists and lots of folks we’ve never even had the pleasure of meeting. Also, a special super gracias goes to The Street Spot and Art Fag City for doing up some super sweet blog posts.

Please consider helping us out if you already haven’t. (And if you don’t have cash, Tweets and Facebook posts are also incredibly helpful!) Thanks again for your help and assistance — and for reading C-Mon.

xox,
C.

P.S. And if we make it over the goal even better. It expands the Inca Kola budget!

Yes, I’m asking for money.

This summer, I’m going to be working as studio assistant/translator/chasqui for my partner-in-crime Celso on a series of installations that will go up at the Qorikancha  the old Inca sun temple in Cusco, Peru. For the project — which is titled La Luz — he’ll be building a series of architectural installations around the ruins grounds (and the attached Dominican monastery) using several hundred bottles of Inca Kola, the nuclear yellow Peruvian soda (see images above and below). It will be a pop paean to the gold that once covered the site. The piece will be pulled apart and re-installed in a new location every three days. At the end of each installation, the public will be allowed to take the Inca Kola home.

The museum that manages the site, the Museo Qorikancha y Convento de Santo Domingo, has commissioned the piece. But as with most arts institutions in Peru, the budgets are tiny. Which is why we’re asking for your help. This is going to be a beautiful project — unlike anything the museum has ever done. So pleasepleaseplease help us get to Peru! Any donation, no matter how small, makes a difference.

Please click through to Celso’s Kickstarter to send us your pennies. We have all kinds of goodies for rewards. And we promise that your donations will be wisely and prudently spent (on lots of Inca Kola). If you’re a regular reader, please think of this as a way to help me keep doing what I love to do — namely, writing about great-weird art I find wherever I happen to be.

Thanks so much! And thanks for reading C-Mon!!!

xox,
C.

Hey Folks:

I’ve got a feature in the February issue of ARTnews about the artsy fartsies that are happening in Bushwick.

I’m sure this will occasion some bellyaching about how articles such as these “ruin” a neighborhood. But I want you all to rest assured that I’ve done the math and no New York neighborhood is completely ruined until it is featured regularly in the New York Times real estate section (check) *AND* on the cover New York magazine (not yet). Though, if you’re wondering what said coverage would look like, check out the mag’s 1992 cover story on Williamsburg.

Anyhow, you can check out my story at ARTnews.com — or better yet, pick up the mag on the newsstand and help me pay for the wide selection of craft beers that now clutter my local C-Town. Okay, maybe not. I’m a Tecate-12-pack-at-the-Food-Dimension kind of girl…

xox,
C.

Hey Folks:

My year-end round-up of year-end round-ups is now up over at Gallerina, with trademarked Occupy Cardboard Sign ratings system.

Thanks very much for reading C-Mon in 2011. I really appreciate it. See you on the other side.

xox,
C.

Hey Folks:

I’ve got a feature in this month’s ARTnews on artists making art about the art world that often serves as a stinging critique of our little corner of human civilization. Covered in the piece are rants by William Powhida, installations by Jennifer Dalton, biennial pieces about biennials and my favorite: Joe Sola’s jump-out-the-window-during-studio-visits piece.

You can read the story online. Or, better yet, pick up the mag at your nearest newsstand.

xox,
C.