Showing posts with label expat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label expat. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Isaac Julien's Ten Thousand Waves
Isaac Julien, link to 2010 Guardian review
Just saw Isaac Julien's Ten Thousand Waves at the ICA Boston. Amazing. Attacking a topic like victims of globalization in a nuanced way that resonates and invites dialog.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The Searchers II
Sasha Bezzubov & Jessica Sucher
American Sikh with portrait of Guru
Gobind Singh, at an international Sikh
boarding school (Amritsar, India)
2006
40 x 50"
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Friday, October 14, 2011
Tomás Saraceno's Cloud Cities
BERLIN ARCH LINK : Cloud Cities at Hamburger Bahnhof
Tomás Saraceno's Cloud Cities (2011) at Hamburger Bahnhof, my favorite art space in Berlin. Reminds me of some of my early expat drawings. Beautiful.
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
How To Create a Job | This American Life
How To Create a Job | This American Life
Attracted to jobs overseas, my muse, the female expatriate, is constantly chasing a rainbow. Although more on domestic job creation, this episode from This American Life spells out how jobs get shuffled from state to state. Fascinating overview of how priorities warp through carefully crafted lenses like reduced regulation and people are encouraged to move away from traditional support structures.
Attracted to jobs overseas, my muse, the female expatriate, is constantly chasing a rainbow. Although more on domestic job creation, this episode from This American Life spells out how jobs get shuffled from state to state. Fascinating overview of how priorities warp through carefully crafted lenses like reduced regulation and people are encouraged to move away from traditional support structures.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Horst Ademeit at Hamburger Bahnhof
Hamburger Bahnhof - Berlin: "HORST ADEMEIT"
I'm still haunted by this exhibition last week. I'm currently working on an exhibition called The Excess of Memory that goes hand and hand with an expat's tendency to live many lives and mix those memories. My occasional obsession with journal writing attempts to sort out people and places from past lives. Horst's incessant journals and photo-taking (8500 polaroids in the exhibition!) reminded me of this tendency...
Friday, May 06, 2011
New Book from ExpatWomen.com
For all the ladies interested in living overseas, ExpatWomen.com just put their first book. Having been impressed by their website, I'm curious...
Link to the book on Amazon.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Thoreau, Castles in the Air
If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them
—Henry David Thoreau, Walden
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them
—Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Friday, March 11, 2011
Lebbeus Woods
Leave it to bldgblog to always take me where I need to go.
As I'm wandering around Berlin, taking photos of architecture to take The Sherwin Series to the next stage, I learn about Lebbeus Wood's film treatment for Underground Berlin. Then I stumble on this quote from Woods which is exactly aligned with the behavior of the forms in my 2010 prints.
As I'm wandering around Berlin, taking photos of architecture to take The Sherwin Series to the next stage, I learn about Lebbeus Wood's film treatment for Underground Berlin. Then I stumble on this quote from Woods which is exactly aligned with the behavior of the forms in my 2010 prints.
Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms. I am one of millions who do not fit in, who have no home, no family, no doctrine, no firm place to call my own, no known beginning or end, no "sacred and primordial site." I declare war on all icons and finalities, on all histories that would chain me with my own falseness, my own pitiful fears. I know only moments, and lifetimes that are as moments, and forms that appear with infinite strength, then "melt into air." I am an architect, a constructor of worlds, a sensualist who worships the flesh, the melody, a silhouette against the darkening sky. I cannot know your name. Nor you can know mine. Tomorrow, we begin together the construction of a city.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Der Traum vom Fliegen - The Art of Flying
Der Traum vom Fliegen - The Art of Flying
4 March–8 May 2011
Opening:
3 March, 7 p.m
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin, Germany
Monday, October 25, 2010
Left Behind - Slide Show - NYTimes.com
Left Behind - Slide Show - NYTimes.com
Since desire for the right home (expat quest) in these tough economic times translates to the desire for any home at all, my research in foreclosed homes continues. Excellent related article about the US Housing crisis: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/picturing-the-crisis/
Image above by Ellen Brownlee
BLDGBLOG: The Migration of Mel and Judith
BLDGBLOG: The Migration of Mel and Judith
Looks my tangled home fragments in a lamp. Brilliant.
Excerpt from bldgblog.blogspot.com. Always a good read:
Like the spaceships in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001, the walls of their representational frame simply turn and turn, bringing us over and over again back through the same space, as if unwilling to let go of what's come before...retired into this deliberately over-nostalgic world of their own making, constantly cycling back in memory through their shared past. They have built a frame to fit themselves within, as if to give their lives narrative completion.
Sometimes nest-building feels like this. It's fascinating to me when expats do this, even in temporary homes as Bachelard described the home—the I that separates from the non-I.
For this reason, I'm currently collecting photos of expat domestic spaces. If you have a moment, please email a photo of any part of your home overseas, particularly an interior room, to jdietrick@gmail.com Thanks!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Glenn Kaino
Nice quote from Glenn Kiano's 2010 LAXART show, In a world that is truly upside down, the true is a moment of the false.
Not at Home
Yesterday I made my first visit to the library Bauhaus Archive Berlin. Below is a list of expat related books encountered during my research into the importance of color in the manufacturing of consumer desire and political ideology in Cold War Berlin. I’m still fascinated by expatriates’ inclination towards nomadism. The following quote from Christopher Reed’s 1996 book Not at Home helps to clarify related history.
The notion of domesticity itself an invention of the modern age—the home, the family, privacy as comfort as opposed to the workplace—has been challenged and ridiculed by modern artists, architects and designers. From 1859, when Charles Baudelaire’s The Painter of Modern Life casts the modern painter as a man of the crowd who curses the hours he must spend indoors asleep when he could be out recording ‘the landscapes of the great city,’ domesticity became the anti-thesis to modernity.
Thursday, September 09, 2010
House in Berlin
A friend asked me to post this call, related to expats in Berlin. Please contact Michelle James if you are interested.
If you are currently looking for or have recently bought a home in Berlin, House Hunters International would like to put your story on TV!
The hit show is looking for energetic individuals, couples and families to share their story about moving abroad. Participating in our show is a lot of fun and a great way to document your exciting search for a home and new life abroad. Contributors should be fluent in English.
If you are interested in participating with the show or learning more, please send an email to househunterscasting@leopardfilms.com. Please include your contact information, the locations you are moving from and to, and a picture of your family and your property.
Looking forward to speaking witth you soon,
Michelle
Michelle James
Associate Producer
LEOPARD FILMS USA
127 East 26th Street, New York, NY 10010.
+1 212 843 2821
michelle.james@leopardfilms.com
www.leopardfilms.com
If you are currently looking for or have recently bought a home in Berlin, House Hunters International would like to put your story on TV!
The hit show is looking for energetic individuals, couples and families to share their story about moving abroad. Participating in our show is a lot of fun and a great way to document your exciting search for a home and new life abroad. Contributors should be fluent in English.
If you are interested in participating with the show or learning more, please send an email to househunterscasting@leopardfilms.com. Please include your contact information, the locations you are moving from and to, and a picture of your family and your property.
Looking forward to speaking witth you soon,
Michelle
Michelle James
Associate Producer
LEOPARD FILMS USA
127 East 26th Street, New York, NY 10010.
+1 212 843 2821
michelle.james@leopardfilms.com
www.leopardfilms.com
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Kavi Gupta's Adult Contemporary - Dirty Black Summer
Kelly Sears. The Body Besieged (2009, 4:30)
Last night we went to Kavi Gupta's screening of film and video works. Biking over to a new neighborhood felt divine. Lots of exercise and fresh air after a day stuck in front of the computer. A nice size crowd gathered and felt approachable. Slowly getting to know this art scene, full of Americans. We are the what?...5th or 6th major wave of American expat artists to flock to this affordable city? And we're ok with that. Others worked hard, building a foundation, and we benefit from that labor. It's comforting to know everyone is so approachable.
Highlights from the films like here.
Lindsay Lawson. Das Ding (2010, 3:39)
Deanna Erdmann. Donut (2008)
John Kilduff. Let's Exercise, Make Smoothies, and Paint a Supermodel (2007)