{"id":999,"date":"2009-09-03T12:29:50","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T19:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/09\/awed_moved_and_weirded-out\/"},"modified":"2009-09-03T12:29:50","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T19:29:50","slug":"awed_moved_and_weirded-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/09\/awed_moved_and_weirded-out.html","title":{"rendered":"Art that awes, moves and weirds-out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Talking to a student while surveying his work, Paul McCarthy<\/a> told him to “make it weirder.”<\/p>\n

It’s MacCarthy’s<\/strike> McCarthy’s version of Jasper Johns’  all-purpose art formula: “Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.”<\/p>\n

Only artists who know their way around the weird can hope to win the 2009 Metropolis Art Prize: $20,000, a dedicated artist channel on Babelguym’s Metropolis and a screening in Times Square. There are other cash prizes with a Times Square spotlight, including one for “best street art video.” (Info on Two Coats of Paint<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Jurors say they want to be “inspired, challenged, excited, awed, moved, intrigued and weirded-out.” Open to artists in all visual media, but entries have to be submitted on video. <\/p>\n

Northwest artists who should put a video together (or use one they’ve already made) include:<\/p>\n

Vanessa Renwick<\/a><\/p>\n

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Matt McCormick<\/a>, detail from The Subconscous Art of Graffiti Removal<\/i><\/p>\n

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Laura Fritz<\/a> (The cat, Laura. Put a stamp on it and slide it into a mail box.)<\/p>\n

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Tivon Rice<\/a> (Osteotmy<\/i>)<\/p>\n

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Alice Wheeler<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"alicewheelerdevil.jpg\"<\/span>Dan Webb<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Northwest has a rich vein of the strange to tap, and I’ve only just begun. I’ll end with a glass artist.<\/p>\n

Eli Hansen<\/a>, Jack Pepsi<\/i><\/p>\n

\"elihansenjpepsi.jpg\"<\/span>For the category of best street video, nobody’s going to top Jessica Jobaris<\/a> dancing as if she’d been shot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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