Ep. 5 - Andy Warhol's "Red Disaster" (1962)

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🗓️ 5 July 2016

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Elbow-deep in trauma, Andy Warhol plays with repetition and bores us into action. See the image: http://www.thelonelypalette.com/episodes/2016/7/5/episode-5-andy-warhols-red-disaster-1962 Music used: Chris Zabriskie, “Cylinder Four” The Andrews Sisters, "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" Ketsa, “Catching Feathers” The Blue Dot Sessions, “Drifting Spade” Joe Dassin, “Les Champs-Elysees” Paolo Pavan, “Blue Night Dance”

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0:00.0	Okay, I see a big blank left red square. I see on the right side, same red square with,
0:12.4	is that 12? the same red square with 12 screens of the same image over the top of it. It looks like,
0:20.0	you can't really tell what it is. It kind of looks like a chair in the middle of a room.
0:24.4	Gosh, it's probably 10 feet wide by maybe 6 feet tall.
0:28.8	12 by 6.
0:30.8	H.
0:31.8	I come a little 6? Okay.
0:35.0	Interesting, I see, it looks like a recording studio.
0:40.0	There's a little silence sign in the image. The ones up on top are
0:45.7	seem a little bit more lightly screened or maybe they're just closer to the light.
0:55.0	Well, geez, what is that thing? Now it kind of feels sort of morbid on the red.
1:00.0	I mean, is that like an execution chamber?
1:04.3	Okay, jeez, wow.
1:05.9	All right, well that's kind of weird.
1:10.8	Wow.
1:11.8	It's kind of mind-blowing, actually.
1:15.0	Yeah.
1:17.0	That's quite a juxtaposition.
1:21.0	Wow. Thank you. This is the lonely palette.
1:37.0	This is the lonely palette.
1:40.0	I'm Tamar Vichai. Episode 5, Andy Warhol's Red Disaster from 1963.
1:45.0	Episode 5, Andy Warhol's Red Disaster from 1963. In 1968, so kiss me and say you understand.
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