{"title":"Tony Oursler","description":"\u003cp\u003eTony Oursler (b. 1957) is an American artist whose practice centres on video, installation, and performance. A close collaborator of Mike Kelley from their time together at CalArts in the late 1970s, Oursler has produced a body of work that engages with psychology, media, surveillance, and the projection of identity onto objects and surfaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis early collaborative performances with Kelley — including works presented at Artists Space, New York — are among the most significant documents of the CalArts-adjacent performance and video art scene of the 1980s. He is credited as an assistant on the 1986 Artists Space performance of \u003cem\u003ePlato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublications gathered here include exhibition catalogues and printed matter documenting Oursler's practice. Original period items.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mike-kelley-platos-cave-rothkos-chapel-lincolns-profile-sonic-youth-peristaltic-airwaves-2012","title":"Mike Kelley — Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile (with Sonic Youth) \/ The Peristaltic Airwaves, Compound Annex, 2012","description":"\u003cp\u003e2-CD set in jewel case with booklet. 14 × 12 cm. Published by Compound Annex Records, Los Angeles, 2012. Compound #38, #39.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: New old stock. Factory sealed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn increasingly uncommon document of Mike Kelley's sound and performance practice, issued shortly after the artist's death in January 2012. While not rare in the strict bibliographic sense, copies appear only intermittently on the secondary market and are collected by those interested in the intersections of contemporary art, performance, experimental music, and Sonic Youth-related material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDisc One: Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile [55:36]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded live at Artists Space, New York, December 5, 1986. With Sonic Youth (Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Kim Gordon, Steve Shelley), Molly Cleator, and Adam Rudolph on didgeridoo. Assisted by Tony Oursler, Mary Jones, and Jennifer Bolande. Recorded by Carole Parkinson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDisc Two: The Peristaltic Airwaves [38:19]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerformed live on KPFK Radio, September 30, 1986. With Jack Skelley and Nic Greene, guitars; Dave Childs, drums; Nancy Evans, voice and horn. Co-produced by High Performance Magazine and Jacki Apple for Soundings on KPFK Pacifica Radio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth works were previously available only in limited cassette form before being digitally remastered and reissued by Compound Annex in 2012. The title connects several recurring concerns in Kelley's practice — philosophy, psychology, popular culture, mythology, and institutional critique — while the involvement of Sonic Youth places the recording within the fertile overlap between the downtown New York art and experimental music scenes of the mid-1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin The New Rare object-register, the set operates as both artwork and record. Not merely a music release, it functions as retained evidence of a performance that otherwise survives only in fragments. The performance is gone; the recording remains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price. Carefully packed and shipped boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Compound Annex Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53624873025874,"sku":"KELLEY-COMPOUNDANNEX-PC-2012","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Kelley_Mike._Plato_s_Cave_Rothko_s_Chapel_Lincoln_s_Profile_with_Sonic_Youth_The_Peristaltic_Airwaves._2012.jpg?v=1780377005"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/tony-oursler.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}