December 2011
31 posts
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That's Not A Trash Can. Now It Is!
Andrew Jeffrey Wright thatsnotatrashcannowitis.blogspot.com
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Laure Prouvost - Monolog, 2009
Laure Prouvost.
A door slams, the film begins. »Thank you for coming.« The artist’s tone is laconic. For a fraction of a second, we see the image of a fresh lung. The voice emanates from the torso filling the screen, and the hand belonging to it suddenly points to the right and into the audience: »I am talking to you, there«. The viewers feel caught out. The artist is...
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Yuri Leiderman
Yuri Leiderman is a zealot. A kind of unorthodox, conceptual manic. Where the majority of his peers might be happy to establish their modes of conceptual logic and lucidly state their business, Leiderman drives his to its breaking point, and then some. Indeed, in his highly subjective and idiosyncratic universe, allegories go way beyond the call of allegorical...
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Liam Crockard
Citing the countless examples of jury-rigged constructions and “making-do” he witnessed growing up in his hometown as a main driving force behind his sculptural practice,
Liam Crockard uses materially driven gestures to explore the collision of industry-driven hometown nostalgia and modern art fetishism. Wandering the old neighborhood and flipping...
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Reassemblage: Trinh T. Minh-ha (1983)
Trinh Minh-ha, Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen, captures the oral foundations of African aesthetics. Ethnically derived and culturally instituted, the aural voices discussed in the essay exude a counterhegemonic ethos, where fragmentation and plurality constitute the valuable markers and sites of difference. The disjointed structure of the film, in tandem with its...
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Marius Bercea
Rebecca Wright interviews Transylvanian painter
Marius Bercea about the Cluj School of painting.
Bercea notes: “the painting from Cluj is associated with the term Figurative Painting, which has regained more than a fashionable status in the art world, and the ‘old masters’ have become key reference points for many contemporary painters....
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Rino Stefano Tagliafierro
Art director, video artist, vj and graphic designer, if you should tell what you do in a few lines, how would you describe it?
Rino Stefano Tagliafierro: Everything I do is designed to respond to the inducements i receive from the outside. I absorb and metabolize anything that catches my attention and, after reworked the fact, I propose it again in a completely new often...
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Muir Vidler
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland 1975, Muir Vidler previously worked as a chef, street entertainer and cruise ship photographer. In 2000 he moved to London to complete a post graduate diploma in photojournalism at the London College of Printing. In 2001 the Sunday Times Magazine published his portrait series of aging British rebels and mavericks, Rebels Without a...
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Taeyoon Choi
You are inspired by Jacques Derrida and his essay Politics of Friendship. Why? Taeyoon Choi: “Derrida claims that friendship is impossible without presence of an enemy. And enemy is impossible without a friendship. The dichotomous division between friend and enemy is often an illusion created for the specter of friends, ghosts of one’s desire for...
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Jordan Lord - Driving on stewart ave. (2011)
Jordan Lord: On Friday July 15th, at 2:30 a.m., there was a car parked on my street, Stewart Ave. between Ingraham St. & Harrison Pl. It had ostensibly exploded. On Sunday July 17th, the car was still there. I assumed that the car had been destroyed to dispose of evidence. As the sun was setting, I waited until I became a part of the investigation.
Driving on...
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Ground Zero 1945: Pictures by Atomic Bomb...
About the
Project
This website provides the who, what, and why of UCLA’s involvement with the development of the atomic bomb and nuclear issue for over six decades.
The consequences of the nuclear age — and nuclear weapons — on human beings and their environment is perhaps the greatest single threat to all of us today.
The nuclear threat affects...
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Mark Lewis - Willesden Laundrette (2010)
Mark Lewis ’ background in photography translates well to the moving image – his selection and framing of locations is impeccably classical. His use of steady tracking shots takes a strategy of mainstream filmmakers – it was first used in Giovanni Pastone’s Cabiria (1914) and reached its zenith in Alexander Sokurov’s Russian Ark (2002), an entire film comprising a single tracking...
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Jockum Nordström
Enthusiastically bizarre,
Jockum Nordström has emerged as the latest in a long line of deadpan Absurdists, here marrying Dadaist peculiarities with northern European folk art. In intricately worked pencil drawings and rough-hewn, child-like collages Nordström reiterates his favourite subjects: guitars and pianos, horses and owls, three-masted tall ships,...
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Edwin Stanton Porter: Dream of a Rarebit Fiend ,...
Adapted from
Winsor McCay’s films and comics of the period, this film follows the established theme: the “Rarebit Fiend” gorges himself on rarebit and thus suffers spectacular hallucinatory dreams.
Edwin Stanton Porter IMDb
Dream Of A Rarebit Fiend (1906)(05:14) push play or go to youtube (different music score!!)
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David Rathman
David Rathman is no cowboy, though he was a good high school wrestler. However, his subjects, seen in multiple prints and paintings, are the events of what might be called “the manly life” - riding the range, tackling an opponent, delivering a knockout in the boxing ring, driving a tank or a demolition derby car.
“I’m … interested in...
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Pigeon Lady
Up until the 80’s pigeon racing was primarily a “made man’s” sport and a relatively common site around New York, but as the size of the Italian Mafia began to dwindle so did the amount of pigeon fanciers and the amount of pigeon wars. There’s still a notable amount of flocks in the East Village but most of today’s culture thrives in the outer boroughs...
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John Bankston
The visual and narrative language of coloring books fuels much of the fantastical sensibilities of
John Bankston’s oil, acrylic, ceramic, watercolor and sculpture works. As Daniell Cornell of the Queer Culture Center explains, Bankston juggles the art of painting and drawing, representation and abstraction to transport viewers in a world of childlike reveries....
Mia Makela - Kaamos Trilogy 2007-09
Kaamos Trilogy is a total artwork, which condenses its potential narrative thread within the few images constantly repeated and permutated within an expanded, hovering, time frame. IN a meditative, almost trancelike state, Mia Makela juxtaposes the narrative abstraction typical of music videos with digital pictorial practices, thereby developing a new poetic dimension of the...
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Ray Fenwick
book-by-its-cover:
I’ve noticed you’ve been doing a lot of self-driven projects – how does doing books, comics, and sketchbooks compare to commissioned work?
Ray Fenwick:
Oh gosh, well I’m always going to prefer self-initiated work, for the freedom to explore ideas and move your work forward. If I relied on commissioned work alone, I think I’d stagnate pretty...
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Adbusters - The Production of Meaning (2006)
Adbusters
Ads are all meant to market and sell items, it’s all about money and getting a product out in the open for consumers to see, want, and buy. Everything is a product in the eyes of an executive working on an ad, their job is to grasp peoples attention in new and clever ways to get them to buy whatever it is they are trying to sell. This video depicts just how...
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Tomasz Gudzowaty
Tomasz Gudzowaty is a multi-talented photographer who has received acclaim as a photojournalist through repeated World Press Photo Awards. His humanitarian approach has included projects documenting isolated cultures and their traditions and he has also breathed new life into the genre of nature photography.
source:
bulgergallery
Nada Kusti...
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DALeast
DALeast landed on this planet in 1984 in China, he then decided to live as an artist in this life. He studied sculpture at the Institute of Fine Arts and began doing street art at 2004 under the alias DAL. He is inspired by the way the material world revolves, how the spiritual world unfolds, life’s emotions and the infinite space around us. He uses...
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Conductor by Alexander Chen (2011)
At www.mta.me, Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument. Using the MTA’s actual subway schedule, the piece begins in realtime by spawning trains which departed in the last minute, then continues accelerating through a 24 hour loop. The visuals are based on Massimo Vignelli’s 1972 diagram.
Subway Details
The piece follows some rules....
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San and Escif
about:“See you in Croatan” – A
San & Escif road show.
From Escif:
I’ve spent a few days thinking about the project, and about the way we are approaching it. The idea of generating a third language seems like it’s not working very well, at least not in a practical way. Certainly it is a path that should become stronger during the journey, but so far it has...
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Thomas Köner
Born in Germany, in 1965, Thomas Köner is considered one of the most influential media artists in Europe. He studied at the music college in Dortmund and then moved to the Arnhem-based CEM Studio where he developed an interest in electronic music. Up to 1994, he worked as a sound engineer, with a strong preference for cinematographic sound design. In the 90s, he...
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Mika Rottenberg & Jon Kessler - Seven
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Mika Rottenberg makes videos that involve women performing mysterious, product-oriented rituals in close quarters, usually with hilarious feminist overtones and not a little body heat. Jon Kessler specializes in kinetic sculptures that clank and gyrate in a mad-scientist sort of way, often with political implications. Apparently they had...
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Operation Crossroads: Bikini Atoll
Operation Crossroads was an atmospheric nuclear weapon test series conducted in the summer of 1946 at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The series consisted of two detonations, a low altitude test and a shallow water test. The devices, each with a yield of 21 kilotons, were named shots ABLE and BAKER. A planned third test, a deep underwater detonation, was...
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The Art Of Dancing by Lewis And Luke
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”There’s a time and a place for dancing… all the time & everywhere.”
The Art Of Dancing by Lewis And Luke
2nd December - ‘Jailhouse Rock’ by Elvis Presley (02:24)
push play or go to vimeo
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el arte e$ ba$ura aka Francisco de Pájaro
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El arte realizado con objetos de desecho no es nada nuevo; muchos artistas encuentran en la basura materiales y soportes con los que trabajar en nuevas piezas que al final, terminan en alguna casa, galería,...
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55 Burned
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55 Burned:
“I started with the collages and the truth is that I didn’t really know what I was looking for, I just felt that I wanted to fill pages and pages with different things. Just get it out of...
November 2011
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Railroad Turnbridge - Richard Serra 1976
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Richard Serra (1976, 19 mins, Silent, B&W, 16mm): “…Railroad Turnbridge is about the meeting of machine and machine [camera and bridge] and how they and their movements, sometimes parallel, sometimes in opposition, frame the landscape which surrounds them. It is also a study of a functional steel structure by a sculptor...