John Hoppin

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Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:28:16 -0400

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The Expensive Cup of Coffee

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:27:40 -0400

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Audio

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:43:40 -0400

YOU ARE GONNA LOVE THIS ONE FLAMINGOES IS MY BAND WITH ROB AND...

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:16:20 -0500

YOU ARE GONNA LOVE THIS ONE

FLAMINGOES IS MY BAND WITH ROB AND THIS IS AN EXERCISE SONG

THIS SONG IS CALLED BODY IS A TEMPLE
WE DID IT FOR MADS LYNNERUP’S ART SHOW “HELP IS ON THE WAY” AT LORA REYNOLDS GALLERY IN AUSTIN, TX

Put An Egg On It

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:44:20 -0500

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CHRISTMAS time is here again. From the Holiday Classics Album. ...

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:49:00 -0500

CHRISTMAS time is here again. From the Holiday Classics Album. Mozzarella B**** Goodnight Furniture

MILK

From the Holiday Classics album

Drakkar Noir

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:17:16 -0500

DRAKKAR NOIR

A$$

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:44:02 -0400

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bitters

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:02:51 -0400

I’m making a grapefruit bitters recipe (here’s the original, it’s the same i am just posting to make a printable version).

1 fifth grain alcohol
3 grapefruits, peeled with a channel knife
1 lemon, peeled with a channel knife
1 tbsp. powdered gentian root
1 tbsp. minced ginger
1 tbsp. dried mint
1 tbsp whole cloves

Steep this mixture overnight, and add:

4 oz grapefruit juice
4 oz water
¼ tsp. vanilla extract
¼ tsp. almond extract
¼ tsp. coconut extract

Strain the whole mixture through cheesecloth or coffee filters until clear. In a large sauté pan, melt 6 oz (by volume) cane sugar until lightly caramelized. Add 6 oz water and stir until syrup is smooth and clear. Add to alcohol mixture (away from the heat!) and bottle.

thingsorganizedneatly: SUBMISSION: precious design process

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:55:14 -0400

thingsorganizedneatly:

SUBMISSION: precious design process

imtextingyoufromhere: I’m texting you from here, full of...

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:05:21 -0400

imtextingyoufromhere:

I’m texting you from here, full of gratitude!

Are you on it?

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:04:39 -0400

Yes

I GUESS

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:51:54 -0400

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It Can Change made an orgone box as our contribution to an...

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:04:36 -0400

It Can Change made an orgone box as our contribution to an exhibition at Deitch Projects in 2003. I made this song that played inside.

Step Into The Orgone Box, 2003

tallfreak: Never thought about it that way but I think this...

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 09:43:19 -0400

tallfreak:

Never thought about it that way but I think this refrigerator magnet has a point here. I don’t follow politics as much as I should but it does seem that democrats do more to help the poor and stop violence than the republican party. Jesus would probably be Independent come to think of it.

Obachan at the tea ceremony

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:52:00 -0400

Obachan at the tea ceremony

Last month I was contacted by Michael Lee who is a curator from...

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:06:00 -0400

Last month I was contacted by Michael Lee who is a curator from Singapore, with an invitation to be part of his submission to an exhibition in The 2^nd Asian Triennial which is taking place in Manchester, UK this October.

I would like to invite you to contribute to my new artwork, entitled Ex-Files*. It premieres in Institutions of the Future, an exhibition curated by Biljana Ciric under the auspice of The 2^nd Asian Triennial Manchester 2011, opening on 1 Oct 2011 until 31 Dec 2011 at the Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom.

Ex-Files is a curated website that compiles reflections by former artistic-collaborators on their ‘failed’ working relationship. It allows previous creative partners to reflect on the past to achieve an informed understanding of the present as a basis to conceive a better or different future. Each case study will be a valuable contribution to existing debates on failure, collaboration, biography/autobiography and memory/imagination.

He asked for an image and a 500-word statement from each of us about how we came to stop our collaboration, which had been called It Can Change.

Along with his statement, Anthony sent an image of something we made for an exhibition organized by Jarrett Mitchell called LETS BE ACTIVE: What Is It? I Don’t Know that was at Southern Exposure in San Francisco, 2003.

Here is the email that I sent:

Anthony and I went to art school together where we were first kindred spirits and then best friends. We wanted to destabilize everything so we collaborated and used It Can Change instead of our names. What we were doing was not a specific activity, instead it was a method for action. We searched for freedom.
I excused myself early from the dinner after our opening at the Kunsthalle. We had made it, I thought. The food was greasy. I lived in a garage in Oakland California at the time. I got up and went back to the hotel. The museum director had been eating with some people in suits with tails and sable coats. I felt that we had sold out and that It Can Change had changed and that I could no longer recognize it. We finished out our obligations and tied up final projects. We stopped calling ourselves It Can Change, which continued to exist regardless of our disposition.

It Can Change is an ethos, it means Positivity, Contingency, and Freedom, and also whatever else anyone thinks it means. It Can Change!

The artwork is a broken piece of plastic bucket that we found in the trash. I wrote “SOMETHING MUST BE DONE” and “IT CAN CHANGE” on it. It is hanging from the platform and stairs that are the entrance to Southern Exposure.

WHY GOD WHY WHY ME

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:10:54 -0400

#WHYGODWHYWHYME

ear fold

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:48:00 -0400

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I ADMIT EVERYTHING, 1998Dimensions variable

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:46:57 -0400

I ADMIT EVERYTHING, 1998
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