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David Byrne - Playing the Building
Byrne continues to inspire by sound-scaping a building in New York... interpretive interactive art & sound installation. Fun.
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Waterfalls in New York
Danish Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has unveiled his latest project in NYC. With all spigots finally a-go, this $15 million dollar environmental installation project is cascading water on the banks of NYC’s East River and NY Harbor.
The four waterfalls are located on Governor's Island, under the Brooklyn Bridge, and on two piers. They are visible by day through October 13 from both the Manhattan and Brooklyn sides of the East River. Danish Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has unveiled his latest project in NYC. With all spigots finally a-go, this $15 million dolla... more -
Mr. Brainwash Bombs LA - Life Is Beautiful
A DIY art spectacle. . . Wednesday, June 18, 2008 -- 7pm
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Tampon Chandelier and more feminist art (??)
Just because Domino Magazine co-sponsored The AFF this weekend in NYC you should not assume that only “decorator" art was on display. Past AFF participants have been snapped up by museums including Amy Stein whose work can know be seen at MoCP.
At this year's event we became infatuated with an exhibit called The Vanity Room by Vadis Turner. The room is composed of objects that represent the tension and complexity between traditional and contemporary gender roles for women. The sexy lingerie on display is made from wax paper normally used for baking. The pill necklace is made with birth control. The false eyelashes and nails were made from Turner’s BFA and MFA diplomas. Turner sees both beauty and intelligence as a cultural measure of worth. She adds, “I hope that the work visualizes the mixed message of wanting to be sexually desired and also perceived as a potential "wife" figure”
click on the link to see more pictures of Vadis's work Just because Domino Magazine co-sponsored The AFF this weekend in NYC you should not assume that only “decorator" art was on disp... more -
Artist J A Nicholls, London
These paintings look like collage but are made entirely of paint on a single canvas surface.
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Contemporary Art Projects (Exhibitor) in London (United Kingdom) from Re-title.com
An energetic curiosity about the world of things unites the work of Craig Fisher, J.A. Nicholls and Debra Swann. Cutting it up, shunting it around and shoving it down in a different way is what they each do with a confidence that runs a road through the familiar. These works transgress referential and material boundaries with a desire at times plainly wanton and at others with the tentative steps of a torchless, night-time adventure. What drives these practices is an appetite for a different kind of sense, new associations offering the possibility of new stories.
Fisher renders the accessories of tough urban life in fabric offering a new take on traditional representations of aggression and hostility. Soft and sensuous collisions of technique, of high and low culture and of pictorial and sculptural space cause slippages in meaning through which new territories can be glimpsed.
Gesturing from the far side, Nicholls’ faux collage paintings concern themselves with the pleasures of referentiality. These works pursue a dynamic dialogue with the remains of meaning, a range of faded visual histories, feeling what the curves and lines of familiar marks might contribute to the making of a new story.
As with Fisher and Nicholls, there is an almost fetishistic fascination with the physicality of materials in Swann’s delicately made and deceitful artefacts. A compulsive authorial shadow asserts its presence in the transformation of resources providing a fantastical gateway to the world of nature.
Inhabiting a point of view both within and at a distance from what’s agreed, the work of these three artists makes the assertion that odd associations have a rightful place, which strays from the requirement that they be competent, able to provide answers in known terms. An energetic curiosity about the world of things unites the work of Craig Fisher, J.A. Nicholls and Debra Swann. Cutting it up, shunti... more -
Debra Swann (Artist) in London (United Kingdom) from Re-title.com
Debra Swann (Artist) in London (United Kingdom) from Re-title.com
DEBRA'S STATEMENT
My work is informed by the physicality of being human and yet the most visible trait comes from a collision between the worlds of reality and fantasy. Taking materials from the everyday and transforming them into fantastical objects or attire, I attempt to investigate my own imagination and explore the boundaries between the everyday and the subconscious or metaphysical worlds of fantasy. I am interested in how science tries to explain or make sense of the world and the way in which we place our trust in what we consider to be fact. Debra Swann (Artist) in London (United Kingdom) from Re-title.com DEBRA'S STATEMENT ... more -
Artist Craig Fisher: Kill Bill meets South Park
Born 1976, lives and works in Nottingham and London.
Craig's statement: "Currently I am making large scale sculptural installations using various fabrics that question representations of violence, disaster and macho stereotypes. I reference and make work from cloth (including my recent wallpaintings) due to its rich wealth of associations. I employ textiles/craft, which are traditionally perceived as being associated to women to question people’s assumptions about what I’m allowed to be as a man and how masculinity is defined.
I am particularly interested in playing with boundaries - mixing techniques of art and craft I reference both high and low culture and compose narratives that sit between reality and fantasy. I make work that operates in a space in between disciplines/boundaries ... the work is not identifiable as any one thing, be it image or object, craft/fashion or art, furniture or sculpture, high or low, masculine or feminine, functional or dysfunctional.
I explore these boundaries as potential spaces of slippage, of accidents, which allow for discoveries beyond confined and referenced fields of art production. The audience will hopefully perceive this ‘state-in-between’ as a challenge to their habits of looking. While the individual details of the installations I make may reference the latest in avant garde design, the overall impression is that you are being transported by your TV to the latest media disaster: or is it a film set – Kill Bill meets South Park, The Shining via The Wizard of Oz and then back again through Bowling for Columbine! I am trying to create an aftermath of multiple popular references, which need to be unpicked. Familiarity, confused by representational play recedes leaving a nightmarish playground of soft-edged things to consider." Born 1976, lives and works in Nottingham and London. ... more -
Coachella Art - installation art (2007 and before)
Here is a video that sums up the festival grounds, the people, the music and especially the installation art of the Coachella Festival .... Here is a video that sums up the festival grounds, the people, the music and especially the installation art of the Coachella Festival... more
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Song of the Earth: A composer takes inspiration from the Arctic
Fairbanks-based musician John Luther Adams is profiled in Alex Ross' recent contribution to the New Yorker ("Song of the Earth: A composer takes inspiration from the Arctic", 12 May 2008). John Luther Adams -- not to be confused with John Adams who scored the modern opera "Nixon in China" -- has produced an installation for the Museum of the North at the University of Fairbanks in Alaska that culls geologic, seismic, and meteorologic data into a computer and processing the feed as light and sound. Adams' work “The Place Where You Go to Listen” is not merely an ambient work, but a piece that processes information organically and in real-time. And the title refers to Naalagiagvik, a coastal sliver on the Arctic Ocean, cited in an Inupiaq legend. Check out Ross' profile of John Luther Adams, his music, and projects.
Image credit: John Luther Adams says, “My music is going inexorably from being about place to becoming place.” Photograph by Evan Hurd. Courtesy of the New Yorker. Fairbanks-based musician John Luther Adams is profiled in Alex Ross' recent contribution to the New Yorker ("Song of the Ear... more -
Walls and Windows
Pictures taken in East Berlin a day before the U.S. elections of 2004 are edited and scored into a cacophonic rampage in indication of generational and ideological clashes worldwide.
concept and edit¦ Ryan B. Wylie
sound¦ Mitchell T. Hill
photography¦ Emily Hemeyer Pictures taken in East Berlin a day before the U.S. elections of 2004 are edited and scored into a cacophonic rampage in indication of... more -
Burning Man Awakening
With the Burning Man festival right around the corner, teams of artists begin to create the giant art installations destined for the desert. In Oakland, California we get a sneak peak at one such team of determined artists and the piece that they are creating. With the Burning Man festival right around the corner, teams of artists begin to create the giant art installations destined for the d... more
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Daddy Long Legs Hotel
Sergio Dreyer shows us around the Daddy Long Legs boutique hotel, located in Cape Town, South Africa. The thirty rooms at the hotel are all custom designed by various artists giving each guest a truly unique experience. The blend of experimental art and comfortable living spaces make this hotel a destination of its own. Sergio Dreyer shows us around the Daddy Long Legs boutique hotel, located in Cape Town, South Africa. The thirty rooms at the hotel ar... more
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