Good news

Good news for performance art. When RoseLee Goldberg gets to business, it will hopefully mean a new level - of performance, of course:RoseLee Goldberg, Founding Director of PERFORMA, has announced programming plans for PERFORMA05, the first biennial of new visual art performance in New York City.It's...

Building room

Among the various projects by Oda Projesi, the art group created by three young Turkish women, the Annex presented at the 2003 Venice Bienale is one I find particularly powerful. One of Oda Projesi's main interests is the notion of room, as a part of the house and as space. The difference between space...

Better than art?

Keith Gladysz over at January Blog quotes Nietzsche about the trouble with geniuses. Basically, they're bastards. Nietzsche suggests that geniuses were not great men, because great men do not act as awefuly as most geniuses did. And he goes on to say:We have perhaps more need of great men without works...

Another couple

For your art spectator's pleasure: interviews with Bjork and Matthew Barney. I found reading them "as a couple" told me a lot about the contemporary art scene, the way artists think, work, create...(Has anyone seen the latest Matthew Barney film, Drawing Restraint 9?)Technorati: performance art, art,...

Morning exercice

Technorati: photography, art, contemporary art, vvoi

Sudden Stops

Ginny Bishton, Walking, Sudden Stops (2003)

Me

I feel tempted to turn this blog into an egocentric trip - to write just what I need to research and develop my own works. And I don't think many people would mind (or notice).The thing is - that was not my objective. The objective was to dwelve into the flesh of new art...

Lines and circles

I choose lines and circles because they do the job.
- Richard Long

Technorati: land art, landart, art installation, art, contemporary art, vvoi

Video of my performance

At last, here it is: the video document from the performance/installation I directed a couple months ago (together with Verónica Fernandes). The performance was made by the theater group of the Superior Institute of Social and Political Sciences in Lisbon (ISCSP). The video was shot by Sérgio d'Almeida.Since...

Not too deep

(via)

Technorati: design, art, contemporary art, vvoi

What's in a concept?

Damn it, labeling is a horrible thing.The above is part of any artist's standard lithurgy. Why name things? Why give them categories, stickers, definitions? Doesn't it kill the art?Of course, one answer is because we want to talk about things, and we can't talk about them...

Nude Art

Duchamp, Nude Descending a Staircase (1912)The noblest in art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets; only the dancer has forgotten it, who should most remember it, as the instrument of her art is the human body itself.-...

Your other shadow

Meet the Shadow. Get to know it. Don't be aggressive, or it will flee. Stay still, and wait for it to get closer and... "be the art, be the art!" (spoken out with a slightly, ever so slightly ironic tone). Simple and effective? Or cheap special effect?(via)Technorati: digital...

The Polish Joana Vasconcelos

Julita Wójcik, Peeling Potatoes (Zachęta Polish National Gallery, 2001)I think now is a good time in art for women, and for folklore. What is being underlined are small, intimate human gatherings. A niche culture appeared, created for a very small group of viewers, almost...

Mona Lisa revisited (yet again)

I know, I know this is too easy. But somebody had to do it. And I shouldn't be always so damn serious.

Technorati: visual art, digital art, art, contemporary art, vvoi

Visual Noise

There is something immensely attractive about chaos. Participating in it, even witnessing it, enchants, makes it difficult to resist, as if it - made sense? All the Pollocks of the art world know it - their chaos makes sense, it is no chaos, it has a structure, a fine combination...

Visual poetry war

Enjoy the game. (by Jim Andrews)

Technorati: net art, internet art, games, art, contemporary art, vvoi

Breaking the (city) rules

There once was a street artist who decided to take things to another level. And his name was not Banksy. His name was Roadsworth, or Peter Gibson, as he was later presented by the police. His art consisted in painting. It was based on the premise that a painter needs not...

VJ... Peter Greenaway

Peter Greenaway, the Welsh author of such films as Pillow Book and The Draughtman's Contract, who is also a multimedia artist, working in media from projections to complex installations/performances to sculptures to painting, has recently participated as Video Jockey in...

How difficult is beauty?

This wheelchair is made of cardboard. It was made by Chris Gilmore. When I first saw it, I thought it was brilliant, extremely powerful. The object of fragility, but which at the same time to many people signifies strength, and ability, here is useless, and (therefore?)...

Gorrilla, though not Girls

Juan de la Mora is a Chicago-born Mexican-American artist living in Madrid. His background is in architecture, but his true passion seems to be stencil art. His works are precise games of colors and forms, often introduced in "low-profile" street contexts. While it is clear...

Art world gossip

Yes, I have gotten that low. Maurizio Cattelan and Vanessa Beecroft used to be lovers. And, according to the title of the article, she accuses him of stealing her ideas. The content of the text, however, does not seem to confirm that.On the other hand, it raises the (so...

Storker

Technorati: visual art, installation, art installation, art, contemporary art, vvoi

Avant-garde children?

My workshop in Montemor took place during the Citemor theater festival. One of the plays I've seen there was Tot És Perfecte, created by Roger Bernat, called the "new enfant terrible of the Spanish stage".The production could be described in many ways. It is a medieval tale with a "making-of" included,...

I'm going away until Sunday, and am not sure if I'll have access to the internet.

Alternative takes

Fear

Marja-Leena's comment to my last post made me discover James W. Bailey's blog about art, mainly his own, with some fascinating insights of a fairly renowned modern artist (I've only just started investigating though). The most recent post is about a French stranger met...

Popularity

It's incredible: it was enough to put some naked women on the blog, and the clicks keep coming in.

Of puppies and evil

What's in a teddy?Nothing, if they remain quietly suspended on a string.Then, Rose begins writing. And the text explains that a short time ago a soldier (with an English name... US Army? British?) was abused by his colleagues for not being of the same color. He was washed,...