Sunday, October 27, 2013
Friday, October 04, 2013
Geographies of Collaboration, Berlin
After Year Zero - Geographies of Collaboration I Conference
Exhibition - Conference
Haus der Kulturen der Welt / Berlin
http://hkw.de
Exhibition / 19.09-24.11
The realignment of the world after the Second World War is not recounted
here with regard to the confrontation between the Cold War blocs, but with
a focus on the interweaving of European and African history in the process
of decolonization.
In installations, videos and films , artists such as John Akomfrah and
Jihan El-Tahri examine the attempts to transform the basic conditions of a
Western-dominated modern era. A conference takes up "Geographies of
Collaboration" with a view to the first Asian-African conference, which was
held in Bandung, Indonesia in 1955 and gave rise to the Non-Aligned
Movement.
Conference / 03-05.10.2013
The panel discussions take as their point of departure the Western,
ideologically dressed-up concept of freedom, of which the Congress Hall,
today the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, itself is a symbol. The building,
conceived as an architectural signal in the Cold War, exemplifies the
humanistic universalism of the "free West" that reordered itself after the
Second World War.
Exhibition - Conference
Haus der Kulturen der Welt / Berlin
http://hkw.de
Exhibition / 19.09-24.11
The realignment of the world after the Second World War is not recounted
here with regard to the confrontation between the Cold War blocs, but with
a focus on the interweaving of European and African history in the process
of decolonization.
In installations, videos and films , artists such as John Akomfrah and
Jihan El-Tahri examine the attempts to transform the basic conditions of a
Western-dominated modern era. A conference takes up "Geographies of
Collaboration" with a view to the first Asian-African conference, which was
held in Bandung, Indonesia in 1955 and gave rise to the Non-Aligned
Movement.
Conference / 03-05.10.2013
The panel discussions take as their point of departure the Western,
ideologically dressed-up concept of freedom, of which the Congress Hall,
today the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, itself is a symbol. The building,
conceived as an architectural signal in the Cold War, exemplifies the
humanistic universalism of the "free West" that reordered itself after the
Second World War.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Meg Cranston and John Baldessari in Berlin
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Real Painting (red farm house), 2013
Acrylic and oil on canvas
106,7 x 91,4 cm / 42 x 36 in.
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
12 Things Successful Women Do Differently
12 Things Successful Women Do Differently
on the Huffington Post
on the Huffington Post
Monday, August 26, 2013
Monday, July 22, 2013
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Sunday, July 07, 2013
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Artist interview, Walid Raad: a mediator between worlds - The Art Newspaper
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| Artistic interventions: Walid Raad, Appendix XVIII: Plates 160-237, 2012 |
Artist interview, Walid Raad: a mediator between worlds - The Art Newspaper
"...when these objects travel overseas, they will change...In the final reckoning, Raad is committed to expressing his political, historical and theoretical concerns in a medium that is emphatically visual. “I’m working with line, colour, shape and form,” he says. “Whether it’s a war or this massive infrastructure, you confront an event like this emotionally, aesthetically, historically, conceptually, and you see an opening for a new form, a gesture that must do justice to the complexity of this experience. Physical universes are being built all the time. How do you build one that doesn’t collapse in a few seconds? That’s a challenge."
Friday, May 24, 2013
The Good Glitch
Doing research into glitch art for upcoming project and most amused by recent news.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/the-good-glitch/
And interpreted by Colbert
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/the-good-glitch/
And interpreted by Colbert
Monday, May 20, 2013
Monday, May 13, 2013
Expat House Hunters
Hello, expats, just in case anyone is interested and has just bought a home overseas, contact Michelle James to tell your story on House Hunters International.
House Hunters International examples:
- LA to Vienna: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOiump3__Mo
- Boston to Berlin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug3NnEGtwc
Hello everyone,
I thought I would reach out to let you know about the exciting new spin-off show that we have in production here at HHI towers. The new show is called House Hunters International: Renovation and we are looking for expats who have recently bought fabulous properties and are about to embark on some imminent renovations. Ideally they should be outgoing and fun, aged under 45 and have bought a property within the last few years.
We are looking to film this Summer and for the renovation projects to take up to four months so perhaps a new kitchen, a small extension etc. We have some budget that would go towards finishing the project which makes it a little more interesting!
Please do get in touch if you have any contacts for people who may be interested in the show. It would also be lovely to hear your news!
Best wishes,
Michelle
Michelle James
CASTING PRODUCER LEOPARD FILMS
1-3 St Peter's Street, London N1 8JD - +44 20 7704 3300
michelle.james@leopardfilms.
www.leopardfilms.com
House Hunters International examples:
- LA to Vienna: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOiump3__Mo
- Boston to Berlin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pug3NnEGtwc
Hello everyone,
I thought I would reach out to let you know about the exciting new spin-off show that we have in production here at HHI towers. The new show is called House Hunters International: Renovation and we are looking for expats who have recently bought fabulous properties and are about to embark on some imminent renovations. Ideally they should be outgoing and fun, aged under 45 and have bought a property within the last few years.
We are looking to film this Summer and for the renovation projects to take up to four months so perhaps a new kitchen, a small extension etc. We have some budget that would go towards finishing the project which makes it a little more interesting!
Please do get in touch if you have any contacts for people who may be interested in the show. It would also be lovely to hear your news!
Best wishes,
Michelle
Michelle James
CASTING PRODUCER LEOPARD FILMS
1-3 St Peter's Street, London N1 8JD - +44 20 7704 3300
michelle.james@leopardfilms.
www.leopardfilms.com
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Friday, March 29, 2013
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Architecture on Spiegel
Architecture in Berlin: An Urban Planning Disaster - SPIEGEL ONLINE
Fascinating, albeit brutal review of Berlin's last decade of building.
Fascinating, albeit brutal review of Berlin's last decade of building.
Monday, March 04, 2013
Monday, February 18, 2013
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Monday, February 11, 2013
Mat Collishaw's Paintings
‘You can’t just paint – you have to address the whole history of painting and then make some sort of paradigm shift,’ he says. ‘I’ve been trying to find a way to do this, and this is my solution.’
Friday, February 08, 2013
Friday, February 01, 2013
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Ken Weathersby
Friday, January 25, 2013
Friday, January 11, 2013
Bank Deal Ends Flawed Reviews of Foreclosures - NYTimes.com
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| A bank reversed the foreclosure of Christine Lucier, and her home, while empty, was vandalized. |
Bank Deal Ends Flawed Reviews of Foreclosures - NYTimes.com
Saturday, January 05, 2013
DC Installation at Flashpoint, Opening Tonight 6-8!
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| Joelle Dietrick + Owen Mundy. Grid, Sequence Me. 2013. Two-channel video installation. Dimensions variable. |
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
QR Codes for Digital Nomads
QR Codes for Digital Nomads - Interactive Art by Golan Levin and Collaborators
2011 | Golan Levin and Asa Foster III, for F.A.T. Lab
Thursday, November 01, 2012
Modular Abstraction: A Q&A with Judy Rushin
Modular Abstraction: A Q&A with Judy Rushin on the New American Paintings/Blog
Art for the female expat: "site-specific works that can travel well"...[and]..."reflect our own untethered geographies."
World's Narrowest House
Keret House
World's Narrowest House by Jakub Szczesny
"The house is located between two buildings from two historical epochs. “The first is a brick building on Zelazna Street – a fragment of the pre-world war II city, almost no longer existing. The second – a cooperative concrete apartment building, an element of an “imposed structure”, which was aimed at negating the previous city landscape."
Sunday, October 28, 2012
John Yau on Wade Guyton
http://hyperallergic.com/59288/hidden-in-plain-sight-wade-guytons-dirty-pictures/
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Wade Guyton, “Untitled” (2006). Epson UltraChrome inkjet on linen; 90 × 53 in. (228.6 × 134.6 cm). Collection of Mark Grotjahn and Jennifer Guidi. ©Wade Guyton. Photograph by Lamay Photo.
Reverence, citation, mimicry, the absence of the hand, and a destructive impulse — all familiar postmodern positions — coexist in Guyton’s inkjet paintings...his incredibly productive lack of creativity fits right into the by now familiar and even petrified art historical narrative that claims that de-skilling, appropriation, and post-Duchampian/post-studio practice are the only games in town, that everything else is a failure not worth considering.
Monday, October 15, 2012
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Friday, September 21, 2012
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Documenta 13 Review
Some photos from our excursion at Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany
Top 5
1. Cardiff / Miller at the train station
2. Theaster Gates at the Hugenot House
3. William Kentridge (not pictured below)
4. Michael Rakowitz
5. Geoffrey Farmer
Oh and our project at Temporary home. More at http://joelledietrick.com/site/packet_switching
Cardiff / Miller iPod tour at the main train station...
Listen to the narrator guide you around the station, while strange performances happen on the screen
Other people with their tours
Theaster Gates, 12 Ballads for the Hugenot House
http://kavigupta.com/artist/theastergates
http://d13.documenta.de/#/programs/the-kassel-programs/some-artworks-and-programs-initiated-by-documenta-13-participants/12-ballads-for-the-hugenot-house/
http://d13.documenta.de/#/programs/the-kassel-programs/some-artworks-and-programs-initiated-by-documenta-13-participants/12-ballads-for-the-hugenot-house/
Michael Rakowitz installation containing fragments of structures demolished by efforts on the part of fundamentalist religions.
Geoffrey Farmer’s hallway long piece Leaves of Grass cut from five decades of Life Magazine
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Rita Ackermann, Expat But Not
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| Rita Ackermann, We Mastered the Art of Doing Nothing, 1994 |
From Gean Moreno on Rita Ackermann in the July / August 2012 issue of Art Papers, regarding nuanced variations on expat artists...
A few people who have written about Ackermann have pointed out, mostly in passing or in attempting a clever turn, that she is Hungarian and works in exile. I have never understood what they mean by this. When I read this, I imagine working in one place—although not being there at all—while thinking of another. It has to do with investing energy in territory one has been banished from. I think it was Mary McCarthy who proposed that exiles are people whose entire being is spent in waiting—waiting for something to change back home, for news from family and other dissidents, for attacks from hostile quarters, for opportunities to explain things to the world. I don't see this in Ackermann. I wouldn't even call her an expat. She embodies a different condition, something closer to being a runaway. It's a different kind of subjectivity, shaped by other investments and anxieties. It has little to do with being concerned with what is happening back home and much more to do with figuring out how to make one's inevitably accented work and foreign body whittle a slot—its own slot—in the homogenous field of local expression. A field that, by the very impulse to reproduce that underscores it, is inherently hostile to anything that comes in from the outside. Ackermann's work has to do with arriving. And it concerns itself with this because it's only after arriving, and right before adaptation or acclimation begin their stultifying processes, that one can take flight again, exercising continuous displacement as a way of developing a body of heterogenous but coherent work.
Monday, August 20, 2012
Friday, August 17, 2012
Commercial Products as Found Object
Same ideas I was considering while using commercial paint as found object.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Alighiero Boetti Retrospective at Museum of Modern Art
Most pleasant surprises:
'For me the work of the embroidered Mappa is the ultimate in beauty. For that work I did nothing, chose nothing, in the sense that: the world is made as it is, not as I designed it, the flags are those that exist, and I did not design them; in short, I did absolutely nothing; when the basic idea, the concept, emerges everything else requires no choosing' (A. Boetti quoted in Alberto Boatto, Alighiero & Boetti, Ravenna 1984, p. 122).
Link to NYTimes Review
And in Chelsea
1) Leo Koenig, Julika Rudelius, http://www.rudelius.org/
2) "Everyday Abstract--Abstract Everyday," James Cohan, Gabriel Pionkowski is amazing
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Saturday, July 07, 2012
RCA Architecture
New Royal College of Art dean of architecture Alex de Rijke will steer students away from proposing unrealisable “paper architecture” and instead focus on how their ideas could be built.
In an interview with Dezeen at the RCA Show 2012 last month, de Rijke said: “Historically [at the RCA] there’s always been a very strong agenda on paper architecture – the speculative, the work that is provocative but not necessarily make-able.”
In future, “Students will be encouraged to speculate not just about future uses or programmes or places, but actually speculate about how they will be built,” de Rijke says. “Material experiment will very much become part of the course.”
Monday, July 02, 2012
Friday, June 15, 2012
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Nate Page - House Beautiful
Suburban Reflecting Pool, 2012
Exhibition in a 1956 ranch style home on a cul-de-sac in the San Gabriel Valley. Above Nate Page's intervention with a mirror.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
DODGE Gallery: Twisted Sisters
Looks promising. Good roster. Hopefully will make it to NYC before it ends.
Twisted Sister at DODGE gallery, May 19–June 23, 2012.
Twisted Sister at DODGE gallery, May 19–June 23, 2012.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Friday, May 11, 2012
Sophie Erlund at Art Cologne 2012 - YouTube
Our friend Sophie talking about personified architectural structures. Love them.
Sophie Erlund at Art Cologne 2012 - YouTube
