October 20th, 2009 — Uncategorized
The I Don’t Like Cold Weather inflatable performance tour in Michigan kicked off today in Albion. At noon I took You Wear What I Wear out of the gallery and drug it out through the double doors. After hearing the clock tower bells ring, I connected the battery to the 12v blower motors inside the suit. Soon the suit puffed up and I began my trek.
The journey took me down Michigan Avenue to Superior street. Along the way elementary school children payed more attention to opening classroom windows than to what their teacher was saying. I turned right on Superior towards Austin, while many car horns either signaled approval or disapproval. One can never tell with car horns.
October 20th, 2009 — Uncategorized
Jen Khoshbin and Paul Lewis of Refarm Spectacle, a San Antonio, Texas collaboration, have an ongoing sound project called Low-fi Toll-free. The only way to hear the art is by dialing the toll free number to listen on your phone. Each month features a new theme and new artists.
The month of October has the theme of Villainy featuring Amalia Ortiz & Chris Wise, Jason Jay Stevens, Semiotech – Amy Khosbin & Mike Clemow and yours truly, Jimmy Kuehnle.
To hear the recordings dial 1-888-733-2761 or visit the Refarm Spectacle at:
http://www.refarmspectacle.blogspot.com/
October 18th, 2009 — Uncategorized
Look out Jackson, Michigan, there is an “Inflated Invasion” coming your way. Bill Chapin of the Jackson Citizen Patriot wrote a feature article in the Entertainment section of the Jackson Citizen Patriot. It covered the performances that I have planned for the I-94 corridor during my show “I Don’t Like Cold Weather” at Albion College.
During the exhibition which runs from October 17th to November 29th, I will have performances in Albion (Oct. 20), Battle Creek (Oct. 23), Jackson (Oct. 27) and Kalamazoo (Oct. 29).
Link to the article:
http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/jackson/index.ssf/2009/10/dont_be_alarmed_the_walking_ba.html
October 13th, 2009 — Uncategorized
Over the weekend I flew to Texas to attend Art Outside 2009. As I packed my inflatable suits, the weather report did not look good. Since I have no power to change the weather, I got in the car and drove to the Detroit Metro Airport. After arriving in San Antonio, I rented a car to drive to Apache Pass in Rockdale, Texas.
Rain thoroughly soaked the grounds of Apache Pass. The roads were rutted mud pits waiting to gobble up unsuspecting vehicles. After setting up camp and getting a bit to eat the sky remained dark. I decided to explore the grounds for places to go in my inflatable suits and to see the other exhibits and performers.
The next morning did not look promising with an even coat of gray clouds hanging in the sky. I performed twice with Big Red and You Wear What I Wear. The grounds gave me plenty of space to stomp around in the suits.
Unfortunately, Sunday started with rain. What would have been another fun day of performing, music and exhibits turned into a scramble to clean up in a mucky mess. In the end I had a good time and people enjoyed the suits. It is just too bad the the weather did not cooperate.
October 8th, 2009 — Uncategorized
Emily Weerts of the Austinist online magazine interviewed me about the upcoming Art Outside event that begins Friday at Apache Pass.
Link to the full interview:
http://austinist.com/2009/10/08/interview_jimmy_kuehnles_inflatable.php
October 8th, 2009 — Uncategorized
Erik Adams and Sean O’Neil of the A.V. Club Austin, a local extension of The Onion’s entertainment section, wrote an article about Art Outside. It features of photo of my Stuffed Full Installation in Kyoto, Japan.
Link to the full article:
http://www.avclub.com/austin/articles/five-types-of-crazy-at-this-years-art-outside,33747/
October 7th, 2009 — Uncategorized
Mimi Kato and I gave an artist talk at Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University in Grand Rapids. The Lunchbox Series is a part of ArtPrize that brought in daily speakers during the competition.
The lecture was streamed live on ustream.com. The video can be seen at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2300563
October 6th, 2009 — Uncategorized
The new suit will have arrows of different sizes. Here are two little red arrows still with the wrong sides of the fabric out. The seam allowances are visible.
September 24th, 2009 — Uncategorized
Emily Richett of FOX 17 News in Grand Rapids, Michigan interviewed me live on the morning news during the ArtPrize competition. If you are in Grand Rapids, register to vote and text vote24921 to 878787.
September 19th, 2009 — Uncategorized
Albion has an annual three day festival called the Festival of the Forks. I heard that the festival had a parade on Saturday morning and decided to take Big Red down to check everything out. After inflating the suit, it did not take long for me to crash my way into the parade. I slipped in between a theater group and a bunch of belly dancers.
The announcer at the judges stand did not know what to say as I approached. “Is there someone inside?” came over the loudspeakers. The crowd yelled back “Yes!” with smiles on their faces.
