Jumping flowers

A few pretty things:- Recommended by a reader: horizon magazine, the last issue being focused on retro digital art.- Found via Infosthetics: State of the Union by Brad Borevitz, a visual analysis of all the State of the Union speeches, from George Washington to George W....

Trading Sheep

The Sheep Market, by Aaron Koblin, seems like the cutest thing in the world: a collection of 10 000 sheep drawn by people from all over the world.#1. Don't ignore it as I nearly did.#2. This is not about lots and lots of different drawings that create one cute whole.#3....

The Painted Photograph

David Bierk, Petrified Tree, California (1989) Oil on photographs on canvasAt the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.ps. David Bierk was the father of Sebastian Bach, leader of the band Skid Row. So strange...Technorati: fine art, visual art, painting, photography,...

The Autonomous Body: the pictures of Michal Macku

Gellage No. 49Gellage No. 5Michal Macku makes me think of Abakanowicz and some of Beksinski's later works. Both of them are Polish - and Macku, Czech. He is quite Central-European, I suppose. There is this heaviness about the body, the despair, but a despair that becomes...

Grinding through body: two works by Phillip Toledano

Baby Suit: The Possibilites of Thinking Out LoudC-print (2006)Legskirt: You Look Beautiful!C-print (2006)Body, fetish, play, artificial, coherent, multiple, rhythm, together, covered, surrounded, created, creation, dance, dance, you monster, you, monster, proportions, Saturn,...

The bigger prince

An entry by Ernesto Oroza from Cuba, at the designboom contest for their new logo.

Technorati: design, art, contemporary art, new art, vvoi, vvoitek, modern art, cool

404 - Virtual Cage

For the conceptually-minded: #404, by Jon Meyer, a tribute to John Cage's 4'33". I must admit I am not quite in the disposition for artsy fun and thus skipped this silence, but you might just not be me.Technorati: internet art, net art, visual art, art, contemporary art, new art, vvoi, vvoitek, modern...

Redefining the world

The Institute of Infinitely Small Things is the dream-come-true of any daydreaming student. It is "a research organization whose mission is to invent and distribute new practices of political engagement in everyday life" (associated with Boston-based iKatun). In practice,...

Zbig Rybczynski

part 1 Have just discovered some of Rybczynski's films during the MONSTRA animated film festival I am involved in.The fascinating thing about Rybczynski is his capacity to simply go for it.The short films seem like a crazy man's dream that came true. Anything can happen,...

Performative helmets

Two additional pictures of the performative helmets from the Monomads performance.

Technorati: art, contemporary art, new art, vvoi, vvoitek, modern art, cool

Do dream of flying

From Dreams of Flying, by Jan Von Holleben

How high? How far? How long ago? How happy? How come? How?
How?


Another one I like by him is The Prayers.

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Ending

Hollywood films do not need introductions. They are self-explanatory, and any necessary context is given by the film. This is facilitated by the fact that a Hollywood film aims at universality, in the most pragmatic of terms. The vast majority of the "Western world" should...

What Is an Installation

What is an installation?It's a tricky way of avoiding the concept of sculpture, of course.But that's not what I mean. What I'm interested in, this time, is: what is the status of an installation. How does it work? How does it perform? Obviously, there are rules, and obviously,...

Monomads

Wow. The show went just brilliantly well.Here is what it's all about:1. Concept. An intimate space in the middle of a busy city. Street art as a space for communication : a stage. Theater in the most unlikely place. But not quite street theater. Not in the sense of puppets...

Meanwhile

Rest Your Bum.

The cushion pieces are light and easily inflatable with a standard domestic hair dryer. They are extremly durable. They can bear weight of up to one ton.

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Technorati: design, art, contemporary art, new art, vvoi, vvoitek, modern art, cool

Sneak Preview

Two pics from a recent rehearsal:

Technorati: performance, performance art, art installation, art, contemporary art, new art, vvoi, vvoitek, modern art, cool

Close

The performance is almost on. I have been working 12+ hour days, but at this moment everything seems fairly okay.What can I tell you so far...The performance could be considered somewhere within performance art, street theater, documentary theater, installation or street art. It's called Monomads (Monómadas),...