in the studio: Paul Villinski

June 16th, 2008 at 12:09pm Josh

I had the chance to visit Paul’s studio with MAD chief curator David McFadden a few weeks back to talk to him about his background, about his work and about his process. This video is the result:

His piece for our Second Lives exhibition is going to be really cool. I highly recommend coming to see it, if for no other reason than to see what records from his collection he chose to destroy for the sake of his art.

Unfortunately, we didn’t have time to record Paul talking about some of his other creations, like the FEMA trailer / artist studio discussed in the LA Times article, or the giant turbine behind him in this video (an installation piece – the giant fan spins on the outside of an exhibit space to power a tiny fan on the inside), or what I suspect might have been some sort of homemade jetpack which you can just make out over Paul’s left shoulder….

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