its....chloe!

Last night i had to go out to dinner and miss the final episode of Project Runway. I anxiously set up my VCR to tape it, crossing my fingers that I did it all correctly, and today after coming home from teaching sat myself down with a big glass of sulphite-free organic wine and WATCHED IT. I had to avoid reading all the blogs for a whole 24 hours to avoid possibly running into finding out who won!



And the winner is....Chloe! Yeah, the girl who was one of the Vietnamese boat people, picked up a Texas accent along the way, and grew up with EIGHT sisters (good lord!). You go, girl! Actually, the truth is that all three of the finalists--Santino, Chloe, and Daniel--I thought showed pretty basic collections that lacked the oomph I thought they could have had. I mean, I appreciate the level of finish, but it was so....safe! Daniel's especially. And Chloe, god, some of her dresses looked like big gold taffeta curtains, they were so SHINY and heavy looking. Santino, you went way safe too, i dunno what happened dude. Anyhow, I am giving a shout out to my asian immigrant sister (yo!) Ms. Dao, so good for her!


i like the outfit on the left, am not sold on the outfit on the right...

On another note, I missed going to the Marina Abramovic lecture tonight at Stanford. She's a guest of some division of the university having to do with public performance and politics (NOT the art department, funnily enough). I wish I could have seen her re-enactments at the Guggenheim last year (check out either the january or february issue of artforum to read about it) of seminal 60s/70s performance art pieces. Talk about "covers"--she's totally inserted herself permanently into the dialogue of these works now.

Tomorrow night Thomas Hirschhorn (he of the handmade crazy critique of globalization and consumerism) is speaking at the Wattis Center at CCA (California College of the Arts) here in SF and I shall be in attendance. Next Monday Matthew Barney is at my alma mater SFAI in conversation with someone (question/answer sessions). Like, "yo, Matthew, how's Bjork?". I can just hear it now...There is a plethora of art talk this week, fer sure...

Semester/quarter update: My Stanford class is almost finished! These short 10-week quarters are amazingly crammed--it's so hard to get involved in several different projects during such a small amount of time. I'm actually very proud of my students and what they've accomplished. The funny thing is that the more time you give them on projects, the more they overthink things and worry and wait until the last minute to execute them. Last week I gave an assignment of a "public intervention" in which they had only five days to figure out and execute, and overall it was great and totally fresh. I'm learning that less time equals faster editing and just DOING it instead of agonizing over it, and the work can come out cleaner and better. Two more weeks until the quarter is over and so it looks like I won't be commuting 2 hours every tuesday and thursday after that! I always miss my students when it's over, though...fly, my little pretties, fly out into the world and MAKE SOME DAMN GOOD ART, y'hear???

==> hey sabrina, if you're reading this, put down your math book every now and then to make art, ok? ok!