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Mike Shinoda Art Exhibit
Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park gives us an exclusive look at his art exhibit, Glorious Excess, and describes his personal experiences in the spotlight with pop commentary and classical vanitas influences. Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park gives us an exclusive look at his art exhibit, Glorious Excess, and describes his personal experiences in ... more
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One Percent Water exhibition
1%= percentage of drinkable water in the world. A wonderful display of concepts and utilitarian art and design that brings attention and awareness of a vital element, water.
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One Percent Water is an exhibition curated by Ilse Crawford and Jane Withers that explores the social and environmental impact of water.
The exhibition features work from artists and designers including Brandon Ballangéem, Lucy Orta (top image), Fulgaro, Ideo and Doshi Levien (above).
And yet - largely through the way we use and abuse this precious resource - we face a water crisis and many of the ways we use water today are no longer appropriate to our future. 1%= percentage of drinkable water in the world. A wonderful display of concepts and utilitarian art and design that brings attention a... more -
Artistic Chaos - The Tokyo Design Festa blog
As I entered the futuristic-looking Tokyo Big Site building on Odaiba Island, I was greeted by a person with the head of fish. Beyond him/her/it and all about the place wandered a colorful assortment of strange characters which appeared to have been born in fertile imaginations bred on Japanese Anime, Gothic Horror, and Salvador Dali. It was then that I knew I had reached my destination: the Tokyo Design Festa.
Design Festa is a chaotic showcase of artists, musicians, craftsmen, designers, dancers, and performers - the sublime mixed with the avant garde. The Design Festa takes place twice a year in Tokyo and has been going on for 14 years.
Artists come from all over the world to participate. Booths are set up to showcase their creations and crafts. Visitors can look at, handle, and purchase their favorite pieces. In addition they have the chance to talk with the artist to learn more about them and their artwork.
For artists, the Design Festa gives them the opportunity to get their work noticed and possibly sold. The event is a breeding ground for future art as a lot of networking goes on between artists which can lead to potential collabrations.
There is so much to see, do, and absorb in a weekend at Design Festa. The place is literally a beehive of activity. There are performances to see, workshops to attend, bands to hear, painters to watch, and oddity to puzzle over.
Some of the booths offer short workshops to teach visitors a bit their craft. I tried my hand at the ancient art of Japanese calligraphy. Calligraphy in old Japan was considered an all important skill. In the far off days of the Heian Period (794-1192), a person’s calligraphy was believed to be a mirror of their character. I would have been laughed out of the Heian Court with my paltry attempt at the turtle kanji character. My turtle looked a bit more like a sickly chicken strung up by clumsy anti-poultry vigilantes. My teacher, a ten year old girl, was patient with me and guided me as best as she could.
At a makeup special effects booth, visitors were able to get horrific body scars which didn’t hurt a bit. I got myself a nice deep scar running down my arm which later fooled a few drunks at my local bar.
There were several fantasical creations from this booth wandering around surprising the unwary and small children. One was tall elegant alien creature frighteningly realistic but fortunately sweetenly demure.
Another creation was a ghastly sculpture of a half-tree half-woman monster with the severed head of a man in her/its hand. Her/Its roots were nourished with the blood and gore of other men. It was a macarbe cocktail of environmentalism and feminism blended horrifically together.
Along with the countless booths, there are a variety of showings throughout the day in different sections of the event area. Bands, short films, musicians, eclectic performers can be seen outside, upstairs, and in the main hall. I was able to see rock bands, taiko drum groups, naughty nurses, a gyrating eyeball man, and a dancing ninja troupe.
One of the popular returning performance groups is Mr. Eyeball Love Globe from Taiwan. The group is headed by man with an enormous eyeball as his head. His outfit is covered with a similar pattern. His story from his flyer is that he is an alien here to spread love. The Eyeball group was one of the most out-there groups and attracted a lot of attention. They have been to Design Festa several times before.
Design Festa takes place twice a year in May and November. For more information please check:
http://www.designfesta.com/index.html As I entered the futuristic-looking Tokyo Big Site building on Odaiba Island, I was greeted by a person with the head of fish. Beyond ... more -
Artistic Chaos!!! - The Tokyo Design Festa
The Tokyo Design Festa is a semi-annual event where artists, craftsmen, performers, musicians, film-makers, and what-not gather from all over the world to exhibit their creations.
It's a weekend of artistic chaos! The Tokyo Design Festa is a semi-annual event where artists, craftsmen, performers, musicians, film-makers, and what-not gather from a... more -
A Sonic Youth Exhibit and Two Shows
We have a double dose of Sonic Youth news...
LiFE, International Space for Emerging Arts in partnership with LES ESCALES FESTIVAL is hosting an exhibit titled, Sonic Youth Etc. Sensational Fix. Show opens June 18th and closes September 7th. Special concert by Sonic Youth on Saturday August 9th. Stefano Giovannini, one of our favorite photographers has work included in the show. Unfortunately you need to cross the Atlantic to attend. For more info go to: Lelife.org
For those of us who plan to be here in NYC 4th of July weekend, you may be able to score FREE tickets to see Sonic Youth. Tickets are available by reservation on The River to River Festival website starting at noon on Thursday, June 12. There is a strict limit of 2 per person. For more info click here. We have a double dose of Sonic Youth news... ... more -
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 -
Arty smartie candy
Food artist Emma Staite's newest collection mixes sweets with art to pretty impressive results.
She has recreated some of the world's most famous artworks using colourful chocolate Smarties, including Banksy's 'Clean Streets Maid,' Warhol's 'Marilyn Monroe' as well as a host of UK city skylines, which all look, ahem, sweet.
Check the link to see the pieces which are being entered into a nationwide exhibition which is celebrating the much loved candy, Smarties. Food artist Emma Staite's newest collection mixes sweets with art to pretty impressive results. ... more -
Is there art on Mars?
The Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art exhibition at London's Barbican Gallery 'presents contemporary art works under the fictional guise of a museum collection conceived by and designed for extraterrestrials. The Museum’s curators deploy an eccentric classification system, treating artworks as artifacts. The Martian perspective opens up contemporary art to fresh interpretations as well as humorous misunderstandings. In presuming to understand an unfamiliar culture, the Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art parodies the way that Western anthropologists historically viewed non-Western cultures through alien eyes.
Playful and irreverent, the collection features works by over 100 artists, including Joseph Beuys, Cai Guo-Qiang, Maurizio Cattelan, Jimmie Durham, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ryan Gander, Mona Hatoum, Susan Hiller, Damien Hirst, Brian Jungen, Dr. Lakra, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, John McCracken, Bruce Nauman, Mike Nelson, Cornelia Parker, Sigmar Pdka, Ugo Rondinone, Daniel Spoerri, Haim Steinbach, Francis Upritchard, Jeffrey Vallance, Andy Warhol and Rebecca Warren'.
If you're around the London area, check out the exhibition from 6th March to 18th May. The Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art exhibition at London's Barbican Gallery 'presents contemporary art works under the fic... more
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