bodies in trouble

exhibition opens at utopia art sydney tomorrow (sat) afternoon

2012-02-17T09:04:00.003+11:00

Some artists from the utopia stable in a group show at utopia art sydney my work is the large red linear portal painting

wendy saddington & peter head poster

2012-02-14T21:47:00.003+11:00

This old poster from 1989 has just surfaced on fb. I made it from a photograph i took at the blue cockato0 to promote their regular gig at the civic hotel, sydney.

sigur roos

2012-02-12T18:12:00.004+11:00

at the risk of boring them that rue the roo i made another little video with a mash of sigur ros & maria callas.

now it's overhead - 'turn & go'

2012-02-08T23:22:00.000+11:00

my birthday was in early january and i spent the day on nearby mt stromlo, looking out for wildflowers and kangaroos in the regrowth after the fires a few years ago.
now it's overhead were a band that ive loved for a long time although they havent released an album since 2006. i made this little video with their music . kangaroo turns and goes

we waz invaded by bugz

2012-02-08T16:28:00.001+11:00

BUGZ - a sci-fi buzzing action thriller video about the invasion of killer bugz by peat baloney in 1 minute 22 seconds

"hen kills teens", acrylic/paper 2012

2012-02-08T14:35:00.000+11:00

2012-02-07T12:41:00.002+11:00

this is some kind of art competition..it closes tomorrow..you can vote if you like.thanks.click the link below

ARTISTS WANTED/MALONEY

thee mark chapman experience-'housewives sold ice as chicken"

2012-02-04T13:48:00.000+11:00

free download of Experimental Post Ambient Quasi-Industrial Noise Rock from France

rabid bits of time - chad vangaalen from his SOFT AIRPLANE

2012-02-01T17:48:00.001+11:00

i made this little video

jarboe - please remember me from her 2012 INDEMNITY

2012-01-30T13:15:00.000+11:00

i made this little video from footage of nth stradbroke island swells

'out of hospital & into today' graphite & acrylic/paper

2012-01-23T15:55:00.003+11:00

a couple of new works.graphite & acrylic

2012-01-20T14:07:00.000+11:00

my monster 2012

2012-01-07T12:50:00.003+11:00

acrylic & graphite on paper, jan 2012

resist-2012

2012-01-05T16:20:00.001+11:00

ist work of 2012..photomontage and acrylic

gone again (you are what eats you)

2012-01-03T14:09:00.006+11:00

oh yes, the unter-post works are now EX works...dissolved and deceased. thats what you get with this relational aesthetics bs when the unaesthetic relations are snails in a downpour. meh!
you are what eats you.
but hey, yr never alone with yr own photocopier.

2012-01-01T20:29:00.000+11:00

I think the huge downpour we just had might have destroyed these...i'll find out in the morning

Tony Conrad, Edley ODowd, & Genesis Breyer P. Orridge live at WFMU

2011-11-28T22:26:00.000+11:00

Tony Conrad, Edley ODowd, & Genesis Breyer P. Orridge live at WFMU

a new painting on paper "double glazing"

2011-10-18T20:12:00.004+11:00

its only just over a meter high but this painting seemed to take forever. i worked on it, lived with it for 3 or 4 weeks. its acrylic on paper,its not a collage..

The absolutely mesmerising WENDY SADDINGTON

2011-10-06T21:27:00.000+11:00

2011-09-25T09:20:00.003+10:00

View of Outer Space from an Aquarium

Curated by Billy Miller

October 1 – November 6

Opening: Saturday, October 1, 6-9pm

Famous Accountants 1673 Gates Avenue, Bushwick, Between St. Nicholas and Cypress L or M train to Myrtle/Wyckoff Open Sundays, 1-6pm

Robbie Acklen • D-L Alvarez • Jonathan Berger • Matt Borruso • Elijah Burgher • Matthew Burcaw • Luke Butler Brendan Carroll • Christophe Chemin • Wayne Coe • Ryan Cummings • Pia Dehne • Peter Eide • Carl Ferrero Jonah Freeman • Janine Gordon • Tina Hejtmanek • Charles Hovland • Scott Hug • Kysa Johnson • Gregory Kaplowitz Brian Kenny • Lewis Klahr • Kristian Kozul • Patrick Lee • Scooter LaForge • Noah Lyon • Robert MacDonald Michael Magnan • Peter Maloney • Darrin Martin • Rachel Mason • Mike McLeod • Slava Mogutin • Mary Nicholson Genesis P. Orridge • Gwenaël Rattke • Jason Rodgers • Jo-ey Tang • Margaret Tedesco • Tillie • Nickolaus Typaldos Jan Wandrag • Joel Westendorf

Opening nite art demo by TILLIE: 8pm http://tillog.tumblr.com/

AFTERPARTY Video • Music Mixes • Drink Specials • Surprises @ The Bodega 24 St. Nicholas Ave (Btwn Scott & Troutman St.) Jefferson “L” stop http://thebodegawinebar.wordpress.com/ 9pm – 12am

Opened in October 2009, Famous Accountants is a Bushwick gallery that has been written about in the Art in America, New York Times, Artnet, Brooklyn Rail, L Magazine, Cura Magazine, Village Voice, New York Press, Time Out New York, BushwickBK, Hyperallergic , Bloggy, and Brooklyn Based.

Famous Accountants 1673 Gates Avenue Bushwick, Brooklyn 917-309-3540 L or M train to Myrtle-Wyckoff stop

Open Sundays from 1 to 6 PM and by appointment. For information, please email: FamousAccountants@gmail.com

Size Queens II Lyrics chapbook-Just one last kick before their new cd is released

2011-08-23T12:14:00.002+10:00

THE SIZE QUEENS III Lyrics Chapbook

sketch for 'thick as a beercan'

2011-08-21T12:38:00.003+10:00

The Animal Within screening in SF

2011-08-02T11:58:00.006+10:00

THE ANIMAL WITHIN
a selection of short films selected by
BILLY MILLER
at
ARTISTS TELEVISION ACCESS • 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA
Friday, August 5 · 8:00pm - 9:30pm

Featuring short films by: CATHERINE CHALMERS • IRA COHEN • STEVE DAVIS • JONATHAN HARRIS • PETER MALONEY • ASHLEIGH NANKIVELL • TARA SINN • JUSTIN SPRING • RANDAL WILCOX

painting

2011-08-02T11:44:00.004+10:00

'glass of mercury' july 2011. acrylic on metal paint over graphite on canvas.
61 cms x 46 cms

nuntitled

2011-07-10T18:19:00.001+10:00

nuntitled from peter maloney on Vimeo.

ENTERORDONT @ Utopia Art Sydney 2010.

2011-04-18T16:22:00.002+10:00

acrylic on paper each 100 cms x 70 cms. the anti-collages

graphite powder & acrylic medium/paper 100 cms x 70 cms 2011

2011-04-08T11:32:00.004+10:00

acrylic/paper 100 cms x 70 cms 2010-2011

2011-04-08T11:17:00.003+10:00

acrylic/paper 100 cms x 70cms 2011

2011-03-10T14:02:00.006+11:00

Wendy Saddington's mighty 45

2011-01-19T18:47:00.001+11:00

don & jeff

2010-12-12T20:49:00.002+11:00

"tenderloin hotel"the size queens....i adore this so much

2010-12-07T22:07:00.001+11:00

photomontage/drawing

2010-12-05T15:46:00.000+11:00

photomontage/drawing

2010-12-04T16:07:00.001+11:00

acrylic/paper

2010-12-04T10:51:00.005+11:00

making a post-card size work for the VisualAids' Postcards From the Edge fundraiser

2010-12-04T10:39:00.001+11:00

LOST HORIZONS/HEAD SHOP Exile Gallery Berlin

2010-12-03T12:02:00.000+11:00

Oh Bill

2010-10-15T16:37:00.004+11:00

Ever so rarely a comment refers to one of my posts (in this case to the image below) that is so welcome and positively elevating that i need to repost in a more public way..i just LOVE you William Keckler...
William Keckler said...

Love the way this manages to evoke the Beatific tradition in painting, Blavatskian photographs and the concentration camps and sickness all at once.

Sort of in the El Greco tradition of attenuation = spirituality

The body beaten fine.

The body beaten fine as light.
October 14, 2010 4:36 AM

peter maloney, an occasional portrait

2010-09-28T22:18:00.002+10:00

summercamp at exile gallery berlin

2010-08-15T16:38:00.004+10:00

Billy Miller curated these 2 exhibitions concurrently at exile gallery in berlin this summer. it was quite a curatorial (but cooperative) project...64 artists in a terrific but modest berlin gallery...with some many artists and so much work the show became a work itself.

my contribution is the 'oh god!..." work which refers to the sf quake of '88 and yoked to my general anxiety about everything post 1983...it's not a collage and not being a collage is a little part of the subject.

the shows have been demounted and it seems like the northern summer is over..good news for us southern hemis.

australia 'not there'

2010-06-19T17:43:00.000+10:00

colin herd

2010-06-11T22:54:00.001+10:00

this young scot called me a rude name on his blog so he gets a mention on mine

Summercamp in Berlin in July 2010

2010-06-05T20:48:00.003+10:00

Summercamp at Exile Gallery in Berlin consists of 2 group shows curated by Billy Miller (yes, that Billy Miller ed. STH). The 2 exhibitions consist of a large diverse bunch of international artists including myself. Theres a raft of associated events: performances and videos so keep an eye out here for more details esp if yr around berlin in july. i will be there for 3 weeks, in and around kreutzberg.

ENTERORDONT @ Utopia Art Sydney

2010-06-05T20:47:00.005+10:00

tHIS is my current solo exhibition in sydney till july 19th 2010.
the paintings recallrothko and the works on paper walk with punk: a ship i sailed but never went down with. later
~xp
see you in berlin

2010-04-08T00:09:00.000+10:00

beetle on his back

2010-04-07T23:07:00.000+10:00

how to stop

2010-04-07T14:53:00.003+10:00

fish heads

2010-03-17T09:28:00.001+11:00

monTag

2010-03-11T21:37:00.000+11:00

plans to Kill me

2010-03-11T21:35:00.001+11:00

pearls2

2010-02-20T18:02:00.000+11:00

glory hole

2010-02-20T18:01:00.000+11:00

once

2010-02-20T17:58:00.002+11:00

daddy

2010-02-20T17:39:00.003+11:00

through a cloud

2010-02-01T22:27:00.004+11:00

no i didnt die.sometimes i dont get beyond the dozen or so characters of fb.
i found this image of an old work w text i stole from denton welch's 'a voice through a cloud'. I thought to scan it to show michael stevens whose 'the road to interzone:reading william s. burroughs reading' is a must-read for any wsb aficionado.
burroughs was a huge fan of denton welch, attested by stevens' terrific book.

2009-12-20T14:02:00.003+11:00

welcome to new blog-follower luca mainini, artist and writer and blood master...check out his thoroughly sanguinated(drenched) blog
http://massacroshow.blogspot.com/
Berlusconi's battering must have been a godsend for him.thanks for taking the time luca,. i wish i could read italian
~xp

'wounded youth'

2009-12-13T18:19:00.000+11:00

'wounded youth' acrylic/paper 112cms x 77cms, 2009

'lights on'

2009-12-13T18:18:00.000+11:00

'lights on' acrylic/paper 112cms x 77cms, 2009

'ice storm'

2009-12-13T18:16:00.000+11:00

'ice storm' acrylic/paper 112cms x 77cms, 2009

'housewives sold ice as chicken'

2009-12-13T18:14:00.004+11:00

'housewives sold ice as chicken' acrylic/paper 112cms x 77cms, 2009

'good little girl'

2009-12-13T18:12:00.000+11:00

'good little girl' acrylic/paper 112cms x 77cms, 2009

'defiant PM'

2009-12-13T18:10:00.000+11:00

'defiant PM' acrylic/paper 112cms x 77cms, 2009

'child star'

2009-12-13T18:05:00.000+11:00

'child star' acrylic/paper 112cms x 77cms, 2009

'boy may be wrong man'

2009-12-13T18:03:00.001+11:00

'boy may be wrong man' acrylic/paper 112cms x 77cms, 2009

'appalling film star on holiday'

2009-12-13T17:48:00.006+11:00

'appalling film star on holiday'' acrylic/paper 112cms x 77cms, 2009

united states of influenza

2009-11-16T09:46:00.004+11:00

influenza is a beautiful word.
I had my vaccination against the american influenza.They say i fit the profile.
The shot cost me nothing but still i paid fiftyfive dollars for the doctor.
If i had seen that coming i would have requested a script for valium or something.

Amid a newwave of heatwaves,the start of a summer of heat and smoke,the end of seemingly endless assessments i have been promoted.
Heat and smoke have quickly become our new national shudder..the new funnelweb spider,the new eastern brown snake, the new six metre shark.

some bodies in trouble

2009-11-02T11:48:00.001+11:00

under the floor

2009-11-01T23:02:00.003+11:00

on the floor

2009-11-01T22:51:00.003+11:00

off the floor

2009-11-01T22:40:00.002+11:00

ballad of you and me and pooneil..and cover of after bathing at baxters

2009-09-22T20:51:00.001+10:00

bury my body to this armadillo

wee preview and taken by trees

2009-09-21T10:12:00.003+10:00

snap of a couple of bits of some new works on paper that owe their colour at least to the arrival of the magnificent book on paul thek and the arrival of spring and the poppies and irises in my beloved garden. Im thinking of the text as self-referential, pm is the ahem! i notice that because of the brevity of our current prime minister's name he actually gets namechecked more these days..fewer references to 'pm'..so can we have a candidate w a longer name please?
I'm loving the new taken by trees cd east of eden. taken by trees is the former concrete's singer victoria bergsman. she took herself to pakistan for this album and recorded it with local musicians. true enough it's transporting music and great for mixing colours to in the morning

its more like this...

2009-09-19T16:50:00.001+10:00

my morning jacket and calexico w. yim yames

2009-09-01T19:52:00.003+10:00

2 bands who cant do any wrong. my morning jacket despite working every rock cliche in the book always come up smelling like genius. calexico make me want to move to new mexico. these 2 clips have j(y)im j(y)ames from mmj fronting both bands. going to acupulco is of course from i'm not there,up there in my top list..dylan tops all my lists. then theres yim yames'my sweet lord george tribute

'The Road To Interzone-Reading William S. Burroughs Reading' by Michael Stevens

2009-08-31T07:28:00.006+10:00

Michael Stevens has published his highly anticipated work on the books that influenced William S. Burroughs. 'The Road To Interzone-Reading William S. Burroughs Reading' is available from Suicide Press or Amazon. To know everything you need to know about WSB's reading habits buy a copy and get one for a fellow traveller. I'm very proud that michael stevens included my work on the cover of this truly important book.

Review
A fascinating and richly helpful piece of literary archeology, tracing as broadly as possible the sources William Burroughs had available to him as he wrote. Both the title and the method echo the classic
Road to Xanadu, John Livingston Lowes' excavation of Coleridge s reading: Coleridge, like Burroughs, being more than a little interested in drugs. It is a work for which all Burroughs students should be grateful. --Larry McMurtry

Michael Stevens has found the right vein, circulating raw material of the mind of visionary genius in post modern literature and art. His exhaustive compendia and matrix is like the fractal's pattern bringing similarities that could reveal whole equation. He has provided the reader with the sources of allusion, influences, critiques, and the spirit of scatological obsessions of the late William S. Burroughs, the well-read innovator, inventor, and investigator in literature, art, culture and cosmology. Ezra Pound once advised readers who thought the Cantos too obscure, to just think of them as people throughout history sitting around talking. This book allows me the conversations with Uncle Bill that I unfortunately neglected in his presence. --Charles Plymell

To scan Michael Stevens' bibliography is to dream of entering into William Burroughs' head from a new angle -- not from his writings but from his readings. You can't live Burroughs' life but you can read the books he read. You can infect yourself with the same word virus he picked up in writers ranging from Abrahamson (Crime and the Human Mind) to Yeats ( 'cast a cold eye on life, a cold eye on death...' ) Will these get you any closer to the mutations Burroughs performed on the word virus? Doubtless you'll understand the man and his work better. And perhaps, with the help of the creative reading Burroughs espoused, Road to Interzone will even put you in position to subject the same viral sources to a few new mutations of your own. --RealityStudio.org

it took me a while to warm to YACHT..

2009-08-24T13:10:00.002+10:00

i never liked tequila when i first tasted it
or acid
or yoghurt
or sausages
or coriander/cilantro
or the smiths
or fassbinder
or richard larter

2 collages and an inkjet print

2009-08-24T12:34:00.001+10:00

amy macdonald .some pop for ironing to

2009-08-23T17:33:00.001+10:00

m. s. subbulakshmi bhaja govindam

2009-08-22T12:49:00.005+10:00

m. s. subbulakshmi is my favourite singer. this video of bhaja govindam is not the best vehicle for the performance but it is a recording made in her prime.

a drawing

2009-08-21T13:43:00.001+10:00

a drawing

wendy saddington and loka nunda my sweet lord

2009-08-19T18:49:00.003+10:00

yes i know.its over the top but i love the way wendy avoids underselling a song.

collage sooth and try state magazine

2009-08-10T14:42:00.007+10:00

its not often i 'm called a soothsayer but in the spirit of salem there's the odd occasion....the top image of mike was made a decade before i assisted his delivery as we used to say.

try state magazine serves a dose of maloney here

the antlers

2009-08-09T12:28:00.005+10:00

as usual my new favourite cd is the same as everybody else. This has to be the best album since funerals..its a subtle masterpiece beyond my expectations of pop

herrmann not sherman

2009-08-09T08:58:00.015+10:00

(detail) dont try this at home

do try this at home

the amazing viennese artist matthias herrmann has produced a new book of images of his stilled performances set in the tuscan landscape.
as always, herrmann's body is the site of the self-photographed enactments of operettas of his inner life.
I'm not sure what I'd say if I came across these characters in the woods...somewhere between 'dont worry..help is on it's way' or 'help..polizei!'
They are hilarious, tragic, menacing, and erotic in hilarious, tragic menacing ways and i for one instinctly know this language perfectly well.. but that's a secret i can never tell.
He commissioned drawings of himself by artists salvador cobrero alarcon, brian kenny, zachari logan and sito mujica included here in the book.
Matthias Herrmann has been perfecting this self-referential work for more than a few decades and as far as i'm concerned he totally out-shermans cindy.. always has, always will.

toscana 3 is the third in herrmann's pocket-size italy series.
you should buy the book from printed matter.

mink deville dead

2009-08-08T13:25:00.002+10:00

never put a foot wrong

winston tong

2009-08-04T21:24:00.001+10:00

genius!

2009-08-01T15:48:00.002+10:00

gary hume

2009-07-29T23:30:00.000+10:00

from red eyes & sticky fngers ACP 2005

2009-07-27T12:34:00.002+10:00

my my times fly

fall in a hole

2009-07-23T23:08:00.000+10:00

in my room

2009-07-20T20:50:00.001+10:00

first cut

2009-07-20T20:11:00.002+10:00

P.P.Arnold 'The First Cut is The Deepest'

new dead artist

2009-07-19T16:49:00.006+10:00

i do love granma's houston museum and i have just germinated the basil seeds i snaffled from a houston roadside to remind me of those texan rauschenbergs

vic chesnutt and victoria williams

2009-07-13T13:03:00.003+10:00

Night of wonders with two eccentrics

Reviewed by Bernard Zuel
July 13, 2009

VICTORIA WILLIAMS AND VIC CHESNUTT
The Factory, July 10

WHEN Vic Chesnutt, wry, sharp and foul-mouthed, and Victoria Williams, scatty, loose and smiling, are together on stage, the night comes over all Beckett-like. In their banter, their seeming aimlessness, their humour intersecting with pathos, not to mention their touches of madness, they are a transposed Vladimir and Estragon.

Williams, in loose woollen pants held up by suspenders, an old linen-like shirt buttoned to the throat and what looks like a faux-fur bonnet, is op-shop odd and Chesnutt, his damaged legs in baggy pants, a plain sweater and smart hat, is halfway between rumpled and dignified. Like a pair of old vaudeville tramps, together they fill in time, make do, don't always make sense but entertain themselves in their own way.

Opening the tragic comedy in two acts on his own, Chesnutt had sung songs of rambling narratives that blended brutal truths and pointed humour with poignant undercurrents. The set list was arbitrary, his songs simple but charged, like his guitar playing, and his asides

to the small audience progressively took on more of an edge before he wheeled himself off. He has something indefinable but potent.

When Williams arrived, accompanied by Chesnutt playing a makeshift drum kit, she forgot to plug in her guitar, wafted about with various mouth organs and engaged in circular chats with Chesnutt while scratching out parts on her guitar. It was hard not to think eccentric, if not crazy, old woman.

But when she sang she was part Tom Waits, part Nina Simone and part Granny Clampett, capable of oddball melodies and startling attractiveness as well as discursive sidetracks and on-the-edge tones. Her own songs can swing between extremes but to hear her sing Moon River is to walk a very thin line between incredibly real and too bizarre for words.

At the end you don't know if you've seen something wonderful or merely odd, or even if it matters on which side you fall. Which seems about right.

felion arrachnarrative

2009-07-09T19:54:00.000+10:00

u n d e r l i g h t s e d a t i o n

2009-07-08T19:46:00.001+10:00

sound and vision by maloney

mike_20 years

2009-07-07T20:05:00.004+10:00

yesterday today tomorrow

thanks Erik for alerting me to this mark e smith/dangermouse collaboration

2009-07-03T15:54:00.001+10:00

thanks billy

2009-07-03T15:34:00.006+10:00

1..i do ..but only to really bad artists
2..my parents are my biggest followers..they wish i would tell them more
3..i never had any success
4..i know so very little
5..what expertise?
6..lack of money dictates what i cant do
7..in this country the option now can be prison
8..my family loves my work
9..there's an option?
10..uh huh

mink deville

2009-06-30T18:59:00.002+10:00