Wholphin

FAILURE WONDERFUL TERRIBLE RIDICULOUS

A presentation of video and performance-based artwork by:

My Barbarian
Sam Green
Julie Lequin
Emily Roysdon
Wholphin (Brent Hoff)

Organized by Nicole Antebi, Robby Herbst, and Irene Tsatsos

Opening March 10, 6-10pm, UCLA

Park Projects is pleased to present a group exhibition that explores the positive aspects of failure. “Failure Ridiculous Terrible Wonderful” features works that can be characterized as privileging a heartfelt appreciation of the effort expended to realize a goal, even if the goal itself remains elusive or even unattainable, rather than the goal itself.

Like the 1970s New Games phenomenon, it celebrates effort over effect, engagement over outcome.

“Failure Ridiculous Terrible Wonderful” is being mounted in conjunction with the book Failure! Experiments in Aesthetic and Social Practices published by the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press.

www.joaap.org

Please forgive the late notice, but if you live near our nation’s capital and can tear yourself away from _INSERT LATEST D.C. SEX SCANDAL INVOLVING DICK MORRIS HERE_ , we will be screening fresh politically-infused Wholphin shorts at The Center For American Progress this Wednesday. Please come!

The details:

Wednesday, March 14,

Center for American Progress
1333 H St. NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

Program: 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Admission is free.
Light refreshments will be served.

The screening will start at 7:00 pm sharp.
SPACE IS EXTREMELY LIMITED
RSVP Required. First come, first served.

RSVP to pfitzgerald@americanprogress.org with the subject line: WHOLPHIN RSVP - Brent sent me

Please let us know in advance if you have accessibility-related needs so that we can be sure to accommodate you.

Nearest Metro: Blue/Orange Line to McPherson Square or Red Line to Metro Center
For more information, please call 202.741.6246.

Hallo there-

I attach some photos from the opening night gala & party for the site.
Blurb can read: !f Istanbul, the city’s pioneering independent film festival, celebrated its 6th edition this year, Feb 15-25. Ticket sales were at a record high, with some 50,000 independent film lovers attending the festival’s screenings, held in three theaters across İstanbul. For a second year running, !f screened a Wholphin selection of films.

Cheers!

Pelin Turgut
!f International

[Sevinmek, we say! Sevinmek!]

Wholphin Screening at the !F Festival in Instanbul:

Captivating footage or inadvertent birth of a new fetish? We honestly don’t know, but some of the comments are worrying. Anyway. These are the winners of the Wholphin Raspberry Competition. For those who are interested, here’s how we determined the victors: Filming at a constant frame rate of 400 fps, we calculated the number of frames it took a contestant’s tongue to complete a full cycle to determine the speed. These are the winners by our admittedly clumsy calculations.
Enjoy.

Lisa Q:

Rosemary, of NoisePop:

Our own, Eli:

Allison B:

And the reigning champion Emily, again:

Dirty Dog,

Right now I am fighting a flu and trying to finish up a super short film for Mike Plante’s Lunchfilm. Lunchfilm is this deal where Mike (who is affiliated with several festivals such as Sundance and Cinevegas) buys you lunch and you are responsible for giving him a movie that you don’t spend more on than the price of the lunch. Then he tours the fests with these shorts and shows them to an audience while they eat a free lunch. My short is only 48 seconds long, no words, and really gory.

Carson M.