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Fire in My Belly (1987): David Wojnarowicz

2009-12-02T06:00:00.003+01:00

Wojnarowicz’s work emerged directly from his life. He knew little art history, had no training past high school, and made a point of not trolling the galleries to see what everyone else was doing. Exposed to unusual hardship as a boy, as a sexually active teen, and as a street person, he didn’t see his experience reflected in the culture. Art was his antidote. Art was his way of witnessing.-- C. Carr
source: queer-arts.org

Fire in My Belly (1987): David Wojnarowicz (04:10)
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painting: Kirsten McCrea

Tucker Nichols

2009-12-01T06:05:00.005+01:00

Can art be as easy as Tucker Nichols makes it look?
Maybe, in his hands. But bear in mind when you see his enjoyable show at Gallery 16 how much he benefits by historical circumstances not made by him and not evident in the exhibition.
A long line of self-effacing, even self-abasing art gestures stretches from early Dada days through Fluxus to the contemporary prizing of the slight and ephemeral above the grand statement and heroic artistic ego. Nichols finds himself working close to the spearhead of this progression.
source: San Francisco Chronicle

The Rumpus Interview with Tucker Nichols

ziehersmith

gallery16

Elina Merenmies

2009-11-30T06:15:00.005+01:00

Elina Merenmies art in general :
The point of departure for Merenmies' art is the unconscious spiced with the nightmares and surrealist stories we encounter on a daily basis in the movies, TV and comics.
In her pictures customarily innocent cartoon characters and assorted bright toys are transformed into nightmarish monsters with fangs and blood dripping from their mouths, ripping out the heart of another strange creature.
source: ARKEN Museum of Modern Art

newarttv : Tapping the Dream Tree: Elina Merenmies at Scandinavia House.

galleri bo bjerggaard

stop for a moment
painting as narrative

Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany

2009-11-29T09:03:00.005+01:00

Documentary which looks at how a radical generation of musicians created a new German musical identity out of the cultural ruins of war.

Between 1968 and 1977 bands like Neu!, Can, Faust and Kraftwerk would look beyond western rock and roll to create some of the most original and uncompromising music ever heard.
BBC
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Serial Killers

2009-11-28T05:53:00.004+01:00

Take Our Serial Killer Quiz!
We’ve compiled a quiz for the twisted of mind. Serial Killers have been the subject of fascination for a number of years due to the severity of their crime and why they did it. Serial Killers are some of the most interesting individuals ranging from the straight psycho crazy to the conservative type. There’s even a new hype of serial killer items for sale like paintings, pictures, and actual murder evidence for sale known as "Murderbilia."

So with all the hype, do you know your serial killers? Take our Quiz!

serialkiller magazine

from: Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)(02:00)
youtube.com/user/AileenWuornos

IMDb

Martin Le Chevallier

2009-11-27T06:19:00.003+01:00

Peu avant pâques 2009, Martin Le Chevallier a retrouvé chez lui un drapeau européen modifié par une présence inattendue: le visage d'un homme barbu et endormi apparaît au centre du cercle d'étoiles.
L'artiste, qui déclare avoir vainement cherché une explication rationnelle à cette transformation, affirme que la seule réponse possible est qu'il s'agit là d'une apparition miraculeuse du visage du Christ.
« Je ne suis ni croyant ni mystique, dit-il, mais j'ai dû vaincre mon scepticisme et me rendre à l'évidence: il s'agit d'un message divin adressé à l'Europe. Ce visage, qui est comme auréolé par la constellation européenne, vient nous démontrer que l'identité de l'Europe est profondément chrétienne. »
Afin d'apporter à l'Europe ce « message d'apaisement et d'espoir », il a décidé de se rendre en procession à Bruxelles, afin de présenter aux institutions européennes le drapeau miraculé. Une châsse-reliquaire a ainsi été réalisée pour le transport de la relique à dos d'homme.
source: paris-art

The Holy Flag
miracle (parodic project 2009)(02:12)
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galerie-maisonneuve

Graham Gillmore

2009-11-26T05:46:00.004+01:00

Graham Gillmore’s paintings and works on paper employ layer upon layer of text, imagery, ideas, memories. They reveal deliberate obfuscations and willful misunderstandings. He describes his works as incorporating “multi layered texts, palmpests [sic] of memory, revisions, cancellations, second thoughts.” Dion Kliner writes “One of the things Gillmore uncovers with his erroneous juxtapositions and mischievous word play is the notion of sub-text, of some idea, some thing or some text buried within another. Look, even at his misspelling of ‘palimpsest,’ which he makes ‘palimpests’.... By pairing it with ‘memory,’ Gillmore insinuates a more accurate sense of the persistence and pestiness that memory can truly be, especially in affairs of the heart.” (Kliner, catalogue essay).
source: pierogi2000

monteclarkgallery

Clara 2.0 (the polite robot thereminist)

2009-11-25T06:03:00.004+01:00

Clara was created by Sarah Angliss, a musician, sound artist and tinkerer, to play the theremin.
In Sarah’s own words:
Named in honour of the original theremin virtuoso Clara Rockmore, Clara 2.0 is a robot doll who can play the theremin live. I call her the ‘polite robot thereminist’ as she listens to a line from another player and moves her dolly arm to bring her own theremin in perfect tune.
source: robotliving

Clara 2.0 (the polite robot thereminist)(07:07)

Hikaru Miyakawa

2009-11-24T05:49:00.005+01:00

Teilweise grenzt ihr Werk an die Definitionen von Kunst und Design, wie beispielsweise in den verfremdeten Taschen des allzu bekannten Louis Vuitton Monogramm- Designs. Typische Modefotografien arbeitet sie in mühsamer Stickerei nach, die an die traditionellen japanisch-floralen Stoffe erinnern. Neben Objekten bringt Hikaru Miyakawa ebenso Malereien hervor, die sich vor allem mit menschlichen Schicksalen beschäftigen. Ein präziser und in fotorealistischen Sequenzen ausgearbeiteter Stil zeigt beispielsweise Unfälle oder menschliche Tragödien. Auch Vögel haben als Motiv eine große Bedeutung in ihren Arbeiten. Von Federn, bis lediglich Bildausschnitte, als auch ganze Skulpturen - Anmut und Abstraktion stehen in harmonischer Beziehung zueinander Das Werk könnte als selektives Abbild der Welt aufgefasst werden und somit eine Definitionssicherheit und damit eine Benennung der Dinge über den Moment hinaus in Frage stellen. In nüchterner Präsentation greifen die Arbeiten den Beobachter auf einer sehr emotionalen Ebene.
source: Galerie Oel-Früh

Exposition "WONDER BANG!" Tokyo 2009 (03:49)
Ludovic Jecker / Rumi Kawamura / Camille Laurelli / Mario Maffei / Luc Mattenberger / Hikaru Miyakawa / Gianni Motti / Georges Rey / Yann Vanderme
Curation: Hikaru Miyakawa
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takahashi-collection

Cellulose Meeting Pods by Paul Coudamy

2009-11-23T05:58:00.004+01:00

A designer paying tribute of cardboard’s green factor is Architect Paul Coudamy from France. Coudamy’s eco-friendly design is the Cellolose, a meeting pod made of cardboard. Looking at the photos, the cellulose has the ability to hold up to 4 people or so making it a perfect venue for small meetings or casual talk.
source: igreenspot

Andrei Tarkovsky:Ivanovo detstvo (la infancia de Ivan 1962)

2009-11-22T06:15:00.004+01:00

12-year old Ivan works as a spy at the eastern front. The small Ivan can cross the German lines unnoticed to collect information. Three Soviet officers try to take care of this boy-child.

la infancia de Ivan (1:30:38) spanish subs
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nostalghia

Discusión sobre la crítica acerca de
La infancia de Iván por Jean-Paul Sartre

The Louvre invites Umberto Eco: “Mille e tre"

2009-11-21T06:56:00.005+01:00

Having extended an invitation to Umberto Eco, who chose to work on a theme described as “The Infinity of Lists”, the Louvre presents an exhibition of ancient and contemporary graphic works, as well as around 20 multidisciplinary events in the auditorium and the rooms of the museum.
The exhibition “Mille e tre” traces the evolution of the concept of a list through history and examines how its meaning changes with the passage of time: from its ancient use in funerary traditions to its present-day use in everyday life, via the creative processes of contemporary artists, the list is a vehicle for cultural codes and the bearer of different messages.
Curator(s) : Marie-Laure Bernadac, Curator in Charge, Special Advisor on Contemporary Art, Musée du Louvre

SPIEGEL Interview with Umberto Eco

Nicole Awai

2009-11-20T05:54:00.003+01:00

Nicole Awai :
I am focused primarily on two things, multiplicity of perspective (the many at once) and the elasticity of time . . . which stretches and bounces back and forth in our complex, collective human psyche. History dissolves, evaporates, and reconstitutes constantly and all at once, making the postcolonial predicament immediate and ephemeral, distant and perpetual. The shift space, the ooze, the place in between, is where meaning is elucidated and compounded all at once.
source: Artist Statement: brooklynmuseum

nicoleawai.com (no works)

pilotlondon

'Deluxe Paint' animations from the early 1990's

2009-11-19T06:13:00.003+01:00

'Deluxe Paint' (02:48)
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De Amiga 500 (ook mijn eerste PC 1990)
De Commodore liefhebbers uit de jaren 80 wilden net als heden te dage natuurlijk steeds meer computerpower. Na verloop van tijd namen zij geen genoegen meer met de 8-bits CPU’s. Helaas was de oorspronkelijke Amiga 1000 bij de introduktie erg duur en wachtten veel mensen in eerste instantie toch nog een tijdje af met een nieuwe aankoop. Gelukkig werd dit wachten beloond en introduceerde Commodore al snel daarna de Amiga 500 als gedoodverfde opvolger van de C64/128 lijn.
source: Ron van Schaik

WWF (01:27)
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Hanco Kolk & Peter de Wit - Mannetje en Mannetje - 1992 (no embed)

via:Rhizome/John Michael Boling ( more animations!!)

Simon Faithfull

2009-11-18T06:22:00.004+01:00

Since he was a child, Simon Faithfull has suffered from “a melancholy awareness that I was tethered to this mundane realm. Like many young boys I was annoyed to find out that other things could fly and I couldn’t. Flies could even walk on ceilings! That didn’t seem fair.”
source: telegraph/Helen Brown (Jul 2009)

bfi.org

Escape Vehicle No 6, Simon Faithfull (2004) youtube

The internationally renowned artist has been commissioned to create art for Reading
(youtube: Manchester news)

Nils Kasiske

2009-11-17T06:12:00.003+01:00

Warum man ihn kennen muss: Seine Fähigkeit, die Strukturen des Alltags in der modernen Großstadt herauszuarbeiten, machen ihn zu einem der ernst zu nehmenden zeitgenössischen urbanen Objektkünstler Deutschlands.

Was ihn auszeichnet: Nils Kasiske hält sich nicht mit Konsumkritik auf, sondern schafft dem Betrachter Momente für eigene Reflexionen. Dabei sind seine Kunstwerke stets ambivalent, vielschichtig und konzeptionell klug.
source: hamburg.prinz.de/stadt/report

modartTV interview 2008 (03:14)

viciousgallery

Henrik Drescher

2009-11-16T06:00:00.004+01:00

Henrik Drescher has an equally extensive career in creating unique artwork, especially painted, large-scale collages. Henrik Drescher is also a prolific creator of one-of-a-kind and limited edition books—works that tie in with his pursuit of large-scale painting and collage work.
source: universityartgallery

Lodz Kaliska

2009-11-15T06:55:00.004+01:00

The group Lodz Kaliska was established in 1979 in its namesake town, Lodz. Since its foundation, members have included Marek Janiak, Andrzej Kwietniewski, Adam Rzepecki, Andrzej Swietlik and Makary (Andrzej Wielogórski). Formed in 1979 under a cloud of scandal, it was originally a neo-vanguard art group with an aim of exploring the photo-media aspect of seeing and reception that originated within Conceptualism, in the domain of photography, experimental film and performance.
In 1980-81 the group changed its focus more on Dada-ist happenings and a message of Surrealist anarchism. This agenda sought to attack and ridicule the Polish Neo-Vanguard scene as well as depict the absurdity of life under socialism
source: artprogram.art

bread for bird (00:57) 2005
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Watch it shred.

2009-11-14T06:55:00.007+01:00

SSI is a company that has embraced Web 2.0 and social media by posting videos of it's shredders in action. Watch it shred.

The Visual Dictionary

2009-11-13T06:07:00.005+01:00

The Visual Dictionary is a collaborative project to collect as many photographs of words as possible.
We aim to do this by asking you, the user, to send us your images of words, whether they be signage, advertising, graffiti, packaging, menus, written in the sky, tatoos, or made of grass - if its a single word, we'll gladly accept it!

Matthew Knight

Abu Bakarr Mansaray

2009-11-12T06:00:00.005+01:00

Abu Bakarr Mansaray’s preparatory drawings also stand as independent artworks. These studies consist of detailed calculations, sketches, diagrams, and commentaries executed in pencil, ballpoint pen, and crayons. “I like doing strange, complicated drawings and designing intricate machines inspired by scientific ideas that are at times beyond the human imagination (for example, the machines I designed called Hell Extinguisher and Nuclear Telephone Discovered in Hell). . . . I want people to feel the power of creation.” No doubt the economic, political and social situation in Sierra Leone, a country where war has left behind nothing but ruins and charred bodies, has shaped Mansaray’s imagination and the inspiration.
source: caacart

honorfraser

de kunst van kunstoverdracht: Abu Bakarr Mansaray(06:21 edited CE)
video via: kunstprojekten

Post Punk Progression

2009-11-11T06:17:00.003+01:00

Post Punk Progression
20-11 t/m 20-12
OPENING 20-11 20.00 UUR

Kunstenaars: Attak, Charlott Markus, Yasser Ballemans en Manon van Trier
Curatoren: Iris Peters, Tessa Peters, Dennis Elbers

De grafisch ontwerpers van ATTAK (Peter Korsman & Casper Herselman) bestoken de wereld al 5 jaar met hun Powergestaltung. Deze zelf bedachte term is een verzamelnaam voor eigenzinnige portretten, provocerende leuzen en andere onverschrokken beelden. Met groteske gebaren maar zonder teveel details geven ze een visuele mening. Deze rauwe en essentiële beeldtaal heeft veel raakvlakken met punk, toevallig ook nog eens hun favoriete muziekstijl.

Het vijfjarige bestaan van ATTAK was de aanleiding voor de tentoonstelling A+ eerder dit jaar in het CBK Den Bosch. Post Punk Progression is een vervolg op deze tentoonstelling waarbij andere kunstenaars met een vergelijkbaar krachtige en een tot de essentie gestripte beeldtaal het werk van ATTAK aanvullen. Het werk draait niet om de ideologie van punk, maar de kunstenaars hebben wel een punk attitude waarbij de DIY (Do It Yourself) werkwijze van groot belang is.
source: persbericht stichtingkop

A+ vol.2 at KOP, Breda: Exhibition teaser

Ellen Driscoll

2009-11-10T06:30:00.004+01:00

I am also fascinated by cycles of decay and regeneration. For example, the strange phenomenon of a phantom limb still feeling sensation, is evidence of our brain circuitry re-wiring itself to compensate for loss. I see my work as an imaginative parallel to this biological phenomenon.. I am also interested in different forms of paradox; motion and stasis, weight and weightlessness, light and dark, wholeness and fragmentation are all held in tension in the physical act of encountering my work.
source: artist statement

BOMBLive!
Ellen Driscoll & Anita Glesta,
In Conversation
Proteus Gowanus Gallery
Brooklyn, Fall 2007
video's

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frederieketaylorgallery

Oscar Santillán

2009-11-09T06:10:00.003+01:00

Oscar Santillán :
I changed my mind a few minutes ago, I want it back.
“If there is a reason why artists and prophets look so similar, it is not because artists are able to predict the future like prophets would. It is just that they both share the same fate, they are not able to modify the upcoming events.”
The world is just a phantom of possibilities, this is why any complex fiction makes sense, and the simplest gestures have a reason to exist for.
source : dpmgallery

oscarsantillan.blogspot

minimovies IgNobel

2009-11-08T05:48:00.004+01:00

Kees Moeliker won the Ig Nobel Prize for Biology in 2003 for documenting the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck. In other words, Mr. Moeliker, who is the curator of the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, was witness of the fact that a male duck raped another male duck, which was already dead!

Homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck (06:11)

minimovies ignobel

Dying for taxes

Tumbling toast

Having sex in MRI-scan

Bottomless soup bowls

Sword swallowing and its side effects

Mr. Bahram Sadeghi (1967, Iran) works since 1998 as director and host for public TV stations in the Netherlands. In addition he is a freelance writer for various national newspapers and weeklies. Mr Sadeghi has no hobbies.

Ig Nobel Prizes