curtis stage

POP BASTARD at Fringe Exhibitions in Los Angeles 2006
here is some info and links:

my site for the show here

http://www.fringeexhibitions.com/
http://www.fringexhibitions.com/perrycurtis.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/curtis_stage/
http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=23268&page=1

Pop Bastard by Curtis Stage is an installation that is
an exploration of sound and vision, which collides the
worlds of contemporary music and art. Stage's work
addresses the possibility that video/sound can be a
seemingly endless archive of cultural and personal
associations to be layered, re-mixed, and ripped apart
by the viewer to create new “narratives”. Stage's
interest in communication, especially between the
sexes, and the base level that “Pop” music has at it's
core with the desire to connect people and reassure
their lives (or not), underscores much of Pop Bastard.
Derived from the Bastard Pop music movement, which
takes one song, removes all vocal tracking, and
replaces it with song lyrics from a completely
different genre. This reinterpretation, plundering and
rearranging to create a hybrid of sorts, is what
interests Stage. In Pop Bastard, Stage creates a
frenzy of imagery and sound that is at once alluring
and dizzying.

Curtis Stage is an artist living and working in Los
Angeles. Much of his work has revolved around
relationships to the self and how we connect with each
other in a culture of technological experience.

Fringe Exhibitions is a new exhibition space dedicated
to showing cutting edge and experimental art projects
that focus on installation, video, sound, new media
and art that engages with technology.
For more information, contact Fringe Exhibitions at 213-613-0160.