Emily Haines - Dr.Blind
Excellent video!
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
ExperimentaDesign Lisbon
http://www.experimentadesign.pt The first main exhibition of the emblematic Swiss architect Peter Zumthor comes to Portugal. Stretching over almost 2000 m2 in LX Factory, an emerging cultural space in Lisbon, it takes place from September 7 to November 2, 2008. Unique in its breadth and depth, it represents a milestone in the author's career and the study of contemporary architecture. The largest and most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to Peter Zumthor's work, it features 29 projects, 6 large-scale models, an impressive document collection and a life-size video installation of 12 buildings by the artists Nicole Six and Paul Petritsch. In this installation 6 screens show 6 perspectives of a building for 40 minutes, recreating the experience of Zumthor's architecture in an intense and enveloping atmosphere. |
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
VIDEONALE 12
MONITORING THE FUTURE
"We are looking for video art which, today, is already part of tomorrow's breeding ground," says Georg Elben, curator of the VIDEONALE 12. Quo vadis video art ? this is the question the VIDEONALE at the Bonn Kunstmuseum has addressed every two years since 1984. As of now all artists are invited to apply for the VIDEONALE 12 with a video work created in the past two years.
"We are looking for video art which, today, is already part of tomorrow's breeding ground," says Georg Elben, curator of the VIDEONALE 12. Quo vadis video art ? this is the question the VIDEONALE at the Bonn Kunstmuseum has addressed every two years since 1984. As of now all artists are invited to apply for the VIDEONALE 12 with a video work created in the past two years.
The Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney
Australian video art at the MCA
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney presents a new exhibition entitled Video Logic, focusing on six contemporary Australian artists who work with video and screen-based practices.
Featured artists are Denis Beaubois, Philip Brophy, John Conomos, Adam Geczy, John Gillies and Eugenia Raskopoulos. Each has contributed substantially to the development of the medium in Australia and their work has been influential for a subsequent generation of Australian video artists.
Curated by Russell Storer, Video Logic explores a medium that has reached great prominence in recent years. Each artist works with video as part of a wider practice that may include installation, performance, sound, and writing. They take a range of formal, conceptual and presentational approaches to the medium, drawing upon its unique ability to combine multiple disciplines.
The works of John Gillies and Denis Beaubois form connections between video and performance. Gillies' new work draws upon the film genre of the road movie and cinematic techniques of montage and narrative to create an evocative video performance. Beaubois' works consider the video camera itself as an 'actor', producing its own electronically-generated point of view. Language and cultural history are important elements in the work of Eugenia Raskopoulos and John Conomos. Conomos' work Autumn Song Take Two takes the form of a video essay, using a collage of images and words to investigate his personal history, within a neon-lit installation created for the exhibition. Raskopoulos' videos employ performance and animation to consider communication and the shifting nature of meaning in different contexts.
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney presents a new exhibition entitled Video Logic, focusing on six contemporary Australian artists who work with video and screen-based practices.
Featured artists are Denis Beaubois, Philip Brophy, John Conomos, Adam Geczy, John Gillies and Eugenia Raskopoulos. Each has contributed substantially to the development of the medium in Australia and their work has been influential for a subsequent generation of Australian video artists.
Curated by Russell Storer, Video Logic explores a medium that has reached great prominence in recent years. Each artist works with video as part of a wider practice that may include installation, performance, sound, and writing. They take a range of formal, conceptual and presentational approaches to the medium, drawing upon its unique ability to combine multiple disciplines.
The works of John Gillies and Denis Beaubois form connections between video and performance. Gillies' new work draws upon the film genre of the road movie and cinematic techniques of montage and narrative to create an evocative video performance. Beaubois' works consider the video camera itself as an 'actor', producing its own electronically-generated point of view. Language and cultural history are important elements in the work of Eugenia Raskopoulos and John Conomos. Conomos' work Autumn Song Take Two takes the form of a video essay, using a collage of images and words to investigate his personal history, within a neon-lit installation created for the exhibition. Raskopoulos' videos employ performance and animation to consider communication and the shifting nature of meaning in different contexts.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Atelier Van Lieshout Furniture
The London creative scene is keeping us on our toes. No sooner than we recovered from the excitements of the 2007 London Design Festival, it was time to get revved up for the London art fairs. We experienced Pulse London and the enormity of Frieze (more to come on that), but we started out at Design Art London, the organizers of which had clearly made a strategic decision to exclude themselves from the Design Festival and jump in with the art crowd.
There have been indicators of the ever-growing appetite for "design art," as we saw with the popularity of Established + Sons show and the Size + Matter Installation, but there is no surer sign of this trend than when the bold Dutch art collective Atelier Van Lieshout roll into town. Having enjoyed great popularity around Europe over the past few years London is finally catching up with AVL's radical work.
MEGASTRUCTURE RELOADED
Architects and artists:
Archigram, Archizoom, Alan Boutwell, Guenther Domenig & Eilfried Huth, Constant, Yona Friedman / Groupe d'Etudes d'Architecture Mobile, Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz, Superstudio
José Dávila, Simon Dybbroe Moeller, Ryan Gander, Erik Goengrich, Franka Hoernschemeyer, Gordon Matta-Clark, Victor Nieuwenhuijs & Maartje Seyferth, Tobias Putrih, Tomás Saraceno, Katrin Sigurdardóttir, Tilman Wendland
curated by Sabrina van der Ley and Markus Richter / European Art Projects
In the early 1960s, the London-based Archigram group around Peter Cook designed Plug-In City, a megastructure in the form of a both roomy and gigantic framework into which mobile units (Plug-Ins) for all sorts of purposes and needs could be slotted, moved, and removed. Nothing was predetermined; everything was to change according to the changing needs of its users. Around the same time, Constant Nieuwenhuys in Amsterdam was working on New Babylon, an urban landscape branching out like a rhizome covering existing cities, resting on columns and pillars. The "sectors" of New Babylon form one endless, convoluted spatial continuum, a tangle of levels and passages, joined by struts and braces. The interiors are neither fixed nor defined. Rather, space is redefined over and over again by "homo ludens," drifting through the labyrinthine passages, determined solely by creativity and the power of his imagination.
Archigram, Archizoom, Alan Boutwell, Guenther Domenig & Eilfried Huth, Constant, Yona Friedman / Groupe d'Etudes d'Architecture Mobile, Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz, Superstudio
José Dávila, Simon Dybbroe Moeller, Ryan Gander, Erik Goengrich, Franka Hoernschemeyer, Gordon Matta-Clark, Victor Nieuwenhuijs & Maartje Seyferth, Tobias Putrih, Tomás Saraceno, Katrin Sigurdardóttir, Tilman Wendland
curated by Sabrina van der Ley and Markus Richter / European Art Projects
In the early 1960s, the London-based Archigram group around Peter Cook designed Plug-In City, a megastructure in the form of a both roomy and gigantic framework into which mobile units (Plug-Ins) for all sorts of purposes and needs could be slotted, moved, and removed. Nothing was predetermined; everything was to change according to the changing needs of its users. Around the same time, Constant Nieuwenhuys in Amsterdam was working on New Babylon, an urban landscape branching out like a rhizome covering existing cities, resting on columns and pillars. The "sectors" of New Babylon form one endless, convoluted spatial continuum, a tangle of levels and passages, joined by struts and braces. The interiors are neither fixed nor defined. Rather, space is redefined over and over again by "homo ludens," drifting through the labyrinthine passages, determined solely by creativity and the power of his imagination.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
From September 13 to November 9, 2008, the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart is presenting the exhibition "Wild Signals. Artistic Positions between Symptom and Analysis." The exhibition comprises works by eleven international artists who have appropriated scientific methods in different ways. Historical documents are subjected to a shifted reading. The instruments and discourses of criminology, psychoanalysis, ethnology, natural and parasciences are borrowed as much as questioned. With an attitude that is as critical as it is ironical, the artists confront that production of truth that seeks to master the unknown and the incomprehensible and that rests on the denial of its own fallacies.
Speculation and staging, as techniques intrinsic to scientific thought, its experiments and reasonings, receive special attention – not least because this is the point at which aesthetic and scientific practices intersect. For example, stage, photography and film have long been described as instruments of knowledge, that serve not to prove but rather to actually produce and stage knowledge.
Speculation and staging, as techniques intrinsic to scientific thought, its experiments and reasonings, receive special attention – not least because this is the point at which aesthetic and scientific practices intersect. For example, stage, photography and film have long been described as instruments of knowledge, that serve not to prove but rather to actually produce and stage knowledge.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Huma Bhabha: 2008 Emerging Artist Award Exhibition
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to announce the selection of Huma Bhabha as the recipient of the Museum's 2008 Emerging Artist Award.
Bhabha will debut an exhibition of new work at the Museum on Sunday, September 14, 2008, from 3 to 5 pm. The exhibition will run through February 8, 2009.
For this exhibition, Bhabha has created Bumps in the Road, a major figurative sculpture that measures 60 1/2 x 66 1/4 x 80 1/4 inches and is made of clay, wood, wire, Styrofoam, metal studs, acrylic paint, cast iron, burlap, newsprint, sand, and ash. The sculpture will be installed in the center of the gallery, offering visitors a holistic three-hundred-and-sixty-degree view of the piece. The exhibition will also include six works on paper.
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to announce the selection of Huma Bhabha as the recipient of the Museum's 2008 Emerging Artist Award.
Bhabha will debut an exhibition of new work at the Museum on Sunday, September 14, 2008, from 3 to 5 pm. The exhibition will run through February 8, 2009.
For this exhibition, Bhabha has created Bumps in the Road, a major figurative sculpture that measures 60 1/2 x 66 1/4 x 80 1/4 inches and is made of clay, wood, wire, Styrofoam, metal studs, acrylic paint, cast iron, burlap, newsprint, sand, and ash. The sculpture will be installed in the center of the gallery, offering visitors a holistic three-hundred-and-sixty-degree view of the piece. The exhibition will also include six works on paper.
U-TURN
The first international quadrennial for contemporary art in Denmark.
65 artists
Participating artists
A-kassen, Nevin Aladag, Laylah Ali, Lucas Ajemian, Fredrik Auster, Nina Beier & Marie Lund, Michael Beutler, Bik van der Pol, Manon de Boer, Bosch & Fjord, Irina Botea, Jota Castro, Henning Christansen, Chto Delat / What is to be done?, Lilibeth Cuenca, Olafur Eliasson, Michael Elmgren & Ingar Dragset, Köken Ergun, Jakup Ferri, Flucht Kunst, FOS, Dora García, Jens Haaning, Mona Hatoum, Romuald Hazoumé, Husk Mit Navn, Hannah Höch, Jesper Just, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen and Tellervo Kalleinen, Daniel Knorr, Joachim Koester, Július Koller, Irina Korina, John Kørner, Ann Lislegaard, Mads Lynnerup, Ján Mančuška, Jette Hye Jin Mortensen, Aydan Murtezaoglu, Wangechi Mutu, Deimantas Narkevičius, Ioana Nemes, Melik Ohanian, Hélio Oiticia, Paulina Olowska, Roman Ondak, Parfyme, Pavel Pepperstein, Dan Perjovschi, Tanja Nellemann Poulsen, Walid Raad, Rimini Protokoll, Kirstine Roepstorff, Pia Rönicke / Zeynel Abidin Kızılyaprak, Xabier Salaberria, Tomás Saraceno, Zineb Sedir a, Roman Signer, Nedko Solakov, Hito Steyerl, Mladen Stilinović, Tove Storck, Daniel Svarre, Danh Vo, Roi Vaara
65 artists
Participating artists
A-kassen, Nevin Aladag, Laylah Ali, Lucas Ajemian, Fredrik Auster, Nina Beier & Marie Lund, Michael Beutler, Bik van der Pol, Manon de Boer, Bosch & Fjord, Irina Botea, Jota Castro, Henning Christansen, Chto Delat / What is to be done?, Lilibeth Cuenca, Olafur Eliasson, Michael Elmgren & Ingar Dragset, Köken Ergun, Jakup Ferri, Flucht Kunst, FOS, Dora García, Jens Haaning, Mona Hatoum, Romuald Hazoumé, Husk Mit Navn, Hannah Höch, Jesper Just, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen and Tellervo Kalleinen, Daniel Knorr, Joachim Koester, Július Koller, Irina Korina, John Kørner, Ann Lislegaard, Mads Lynnerup, Ján Mančuška, Jette Hye Jin Mortensen, Aydan Murtezaoglu, Wangechi Mutu, Deimantas Narkevičius, Ioana Nemes, Melik Ohanian, Hélio Oiticia, Paulina Olowska, Roman Ondak, Parfyme, Pavel Pepperstein, Dan Perjovschi, Tanja Nellemann Poulsen, Walid Raad, Rimini Protokoll, Kirstine Roepstorff, Pia Rönicke / Zeynel Abidin Kızılyaprak, Xabier Salaberria, Tomás Saraceno, Zineb Sedir a, Roman Signer, Nedko Solakov, Hito Steyerl, Mladen Stilinović, Tove Storck, Daniel Svarre, Danh Vo, Roi Vaara
Australian Centre of The Moving Image
This major Len Lye retrospective, organised by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Plymouth, New Zealand), is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of the artist's work to date.
Drawing from the Len Lye Foundation Collection and Archives and featuring materials never exhibited before the exhibition follows the technical processes and conceptual threads that run through Len Lye's artistic career, from his earliest sketches, paintings and batiks of the 1920s, through to his photographic work, experimental and documentary films, and astounding motorised steel sculptures from the 1960s and 1970s. Also featured is a wide range of the artist's notebooks and working materials.
Drawing from the Len Lye Foundation Collection and Archives and featuring materials never exhibited before the exhibition follows the technical processes and conceptual threads that run through Len Lye's artistic career, from his earliest sketches, paintings and batiks of the 1920s, through to his photographic work, experimental and documentary films, and astounding motorised steel sculptures from the 1960s and 1970s. Also featured is a wide range of the artist's notebooks and working materials.
Ersta Konsthall
Divine Light will be communicated and experienced through this announcement and in its own luminous presence when it fills the cosmos.
In collaboration with St Jacobs Church, Ersta Konsthall presents Divine Light, an exhibition, the nature of which is pure faith. It strikes you blind to make you see.
Curator Linus Elmes
Ersta Konsthall is invited to take part in the St. Jacob art projects during the church year 2008. Tomorrow, at 2 pm, there will be a talk at the church between Linus Elmes and Bo Larsson, diocesan curate, who later will hold a sermon on the theme "Freedom in Christ" with reference to the work presented above. Curator at St. Jacob is Eva Asp.
In collaboration with St Jacobs Church, Ersta Konsthall presents Divine Light, an exhibition, the nature of which is pure faith. It strikes you blind to make you see.
Curator Linus Elmes
Ersta Konsthall is invited to take part in the St. Jacob art projects during the church year 2008. Tomorrow, at 2 pm, there will be a talk at the church between Linus Elmes and Bo Larsson, diocesan curate, who later will hold a sermon on the theme "Freedom in Christ" with reference to the work presented above. Curator at St. Jacob is Eva Asp.
Artangel
British artist Roger Hiorns makes works with detergent, disinfectant, perfume, fire and copper sulphate crystals. He uses these materials to effect surprising, physical and aesthetic transformations on found objects.
In SEIZURE - Hiorns' most ambitious large-scale work to date - he precipitates an unexpected sculptural form within the fabric of a late-modernist social housing estate near London Bridge.
Hiorns uses crystallisation as an unpredictable process informed by the way that the crystals grow under specific circumstances. He has applied this process to objects reminiscent of the rational structures of human knowledge, creative control and industrial power transforming steel poles, car engines and cardboard architectural models into crystalline forms.
In SEIZURE - Hiorns' most ambitious large-scale work to date - he precipitates an unexpected sculptural form within the fabric of a late-modernist social housing estate near London Bridge.
Hiorns uses crystallisation as an unpredictable process informed by the way that the crystals grow under specific circumstances. He has applied this process to objects reminiscent of the rational structures of human knowledge, creative control and industrial power transforming steel poles, car engines and cardboard architectural models into crystalline forms.
Castellón County Council
We have reasons to congratulate again. The announcement of another edition of the International Painting Prize of the Castellón County Council, in which this is the fifth edition, has to fulfilll with pride and satisfaction all the citizens of the County.
First, because it implies the consolidation of a unique painting sample in our country and, second, because it has already become a referent which shows the name of our province all over the world.
It is not said by us. It is said by the amount of participation and the statistics, which grow each year and overcome their own registers. It is enough to remember the 450 artists who participated last year, representing a total of 30 different countries from the five continents.
First, because it implies the consolidation of a unique painting sample in our country and, second, because it has already become a referent which shows the name of our province all over the world.
It is not said by us. It is said by the amount of participation and the statistics, which grow each year and overcome their own registers. It is enough to remember the 450 artists who participated last year, representing a total of 30 different countries from the five continents.
Kunsthallen Brandts
Tim Eitel's medium is figurative painting, of which he is an exceptionally gifted master. His motifs include people in everyday situations, abandoned buildings and garbage containers in seemingly completely empty spaces. A common feature of these paintings is that they center on people and human activity, but Eitel achieves this so undramatically that the viewer merely has a sense of something intangible going on between the brushstrokes. A silent dynamism.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
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