"Architectures of Survival"

"All artists are alike. They dream of doing something that's more social, more collaborative, and more real than art." - Dan Graham.

Featuring work by Ivan Argote, Bad Beuys Entertainment, Pauline Bastard, Aline Bouvy / John Gillis, Francisco Camacho, Jean-Philippe Convert, Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost, David Evrard, Yona Friedman, Hugues Marechal, Messieurs Delmotte, NG, Michalis Pichler, Frederic Plateus, Jim Skuldt, Jaro Straub, The Centre of Attention, Jason Wallace Triefenbach, Michael Van Den Abeele, Andrea Winkler.

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Interstitial Zones

Interstitial Zones

Historical Facts, Archaeologies of the Present and Dialectics of Seeing

The media know only the here and now, that which is fleeting and carries no inner memory. They present facts over which we have no power. Interstitial Zones offers a critical space for opposition, with the work of fifteen artists and collectives that have searched inside the folds of post-war history, areas that the mass media never reveal. The politics of invisibility with which the media confront us are further expanded upon here, providing an archaeology of the present, in which the eclipse of the political and states of exception within our Western democracies are central.

Curated by Paul Willemsen with contributions from: François Bucher, Guy Debord, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Christoph Draeger, Claire Fontaine, Joan Fontcuberta, Jean-Luc Godard, Armin Linke, Gianni Motti, Melik Ohanian, Shelly Silver, Julia Meltzer and David Thorne, Aldo Tambellini, Klaus vom Bruch, et alia.

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IDENSITAT

IDENSITAT is an arts project that investigates ways to impact the public sphere through creative proposals that work with place and territory exploring their physical and social aspects.

IDENSITAT

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ARS Electronica

"January 2, 2009. 11 AM. 35 hours into Linz’s Capital of Culture year, the doors of the new Ars Electronica Center will swing open and launch OpenDays (January 2-4)."

ARS Electronica

Please be Seated

"Please Be Seated is a video installation by contemporary artist Nicole Cohen that allows you to interact with the Getty Museum's 18th-century French chairs.

The installation blends footage from decorative arts galleries in the Getty Museum and three French museums with live video captured by a surveillance camera. As you sit in reproductions of the original chairs, you become part of the installation, virtually entering historic recreations of 18th-century French spaces. With this installation Cohen compresses time and space to create a metaphorical game of musical chairs."

Please be Seated (Getty Center Exhibitions)

http://www.nicolecohen.org

YouTube - Please Be Seated - Nicole Cohen - NBC

Present

Einstein believed that there was no absolute simultaneity; he stated that the distinction between past, present and future were illusionary.
Bea McMahon explores such ideas through a visual narrative. In her current exhibition she invokes Dante’s epic poem The Divine Comedy and Nikolai Federov’s Philosophy of the Common Task.

Bea McMahon - Still image from Bond (2008)- Digital video 7 mins"

Green on Red Gallery | Present

Green on Red Gallery | Bea McMahon

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Ai Kijima

"Franklin Parrasch Gallery is pleased to announce its second solo show of new work by Brooklyn-based artist Ai Kijima http://www.aikijima.com/ . In 2006 Kijima's first solo show in New York was met with both intrigue and enthusiasm. With her processes in the acquisition of media (found fabric) and intensity of both skill and execution Kijima has effectively carved out a unique vocabulary for image making."

Franklin Parrasch Gallery - Ai Kijima - Press Release

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Kijima

PIXELSURGEON | Interviews | Art | Ai Kijima

Echando flores

Me pondré un vestido floreado para asistir al evento. A lo largo de la noche le iré cortando las flores con unas tijeras grandes que cargaré en mi bolsa. Las flores se las iré regalando a la gente con la que quiera quedar bien, o bien la colocaré en sitios que necesiten verse mejor.





Echando flores - Maria Ezcurra

Maria Ezcurra

via Fiberarts Magazine | Contemporary Textile Art and Craft