One of the most impressive elements of the last Underworld show I reviewed was the images beamed behind Darren Emerson, Karl Hyde and Rick Smith. When most of the time is spent staring at your shoes or watching men twist knobs, the art was the most riveting visual aspect of the concert.
In the weeks preceding and following the All Points West Music and Arts Festival, the ArtJam of Underworld; A Multi Media Exhibition will be on display at New York's Jacobson Howard Gallery (33. E. 68th St.)
Running Aug. 1-15, the Jacobson Howard Gallery installation will be a multi-media installation of video, sound, sculpture,drawing, painting, photography and text/writing. The space will be in constant flux with work being created on site, positioned, repositioned, altered, removed and then replaced and reconfigured once more. Forages into the city to gather material will also be made, brought back to the space and reconfigured.
Artist Robert Morris calls artjam "a continuous project altered daily" that has been an ongoing conversation between Smith, Hyde and John Warwicker of tomato.
The most recent installation at the Makuhari Messe in Tokyo formed part of the space for an Underworld concert, the Oblivion Ball. The ArtJam took the form of a live painting performance on a 130-foot long wall that was 30 feet high.