http://www.vimeo.com/1760710

By the way, the underwear party Stephen speaks of was called “Tighty Whitey Party” and was held at White Flag Projects this past June.

On the night of the opening, I met Andrea,  Jason’s friend who came from New York a week prior and ended up helping to finish Untitled. 

Amy will be posting some videos she took of visitor feedback during the opening, and interviews with the installation crew for Jason’s work.  Stay tuned!

Last night, Sebastian and Rainer took photos of Jason Peter’s Untitled.

Anyway- all the talk yesterday was about density. We discussed the number of remaining buckets to work which lead to some talk about how densely the buckets we’re going to occupy the grid. I think Jason and I agreed that the bucket component was going to need to have as significant a visual weight as possible to deemphasize the support structure- but I could tell he has significant interest in the matrix of the scaffold itself and it wouldn’t surprise me if it became more prominent in his thinking as the piece becomes more fully realized toward the opening. I’m not sure that’s a great idea, I think the bucket form should be primary, but I got that feeling I get when I see an artist whose methodology is pretty well established discovering a new bit of vocabulary…we’ll see.

Seeing the thing on site and lit at last quelled some of my reservations about the role of the ambient light in the neighborhood. When you first approach Untitled it doesn’t seem quite bright enough due to the incredibly bright street lamps you need to cross to get into the field, but once your eyes adjust it really takes on some life.

Needless to say JP is putting in some long hours- not just on the Light Project but on the various social opportunities an art gig in good ol’ St. Louis provides. I wasn’t a bit surprised to find him out late Saturday night amongst 200 or so cool kids at the rock n’ roll/roller skating/fashion show that had been organized by the Contemporary Art Museum’s registrar Cole Root. It was a good scene (Sebastian and Rainer had made their way there as well)- and Jason was in full effect: pulling off all kinds of funky one-legged skate moves. I didn’t skate but I did notice a weird convergence: Looking at the PFA’s Flavin show I kind of wondered again for the 50^th time why and for what any of these light bulb companies make any of these colored fluorescent tubes - I never really notice them anywhere but in Flavins- Anyway, it turns out they use them in busted skating rinks, as I captured so precisely on my phone…