Merry xmas!

Yoo-Ris cats for xmas

Tonight!

Bastugatan early morning pic

Mad vickys tea gallery

Jazz against christmas!

Gael Rakotondrabe
Sylvain Brousse
and friends

Saturday, December 20, 2008
3 rue Nicolet
Paris, France

50 questions in brooklyn

So simple and so personal and just real answeres. 

Fifty People, One Question: Brooklyn from Crush & Lovely on Vimeo.

Art Safari Maurizio Cattelan

Where is Maurizio Cattelan?

Memory Bank

DNA, New York, 2007, in collaboration with Bridgeman Packer Dance
In Memory Bank, the alchemy of living form and virtual image expands into an exploration of time and its role in intimacy, identity, and perception.  The performers enter, exit and move within the video images projected on screens created from layers tulle and satin, conjuring up an other-worldly environment of memory and the subconscious. At times, their live and virtual selves are mixing, swirling, interfering, and colliding with each other.
Grammy Award-winning composer/percussionist Glen Velez has created an evocative, polyrhythmic percussion score rich in resonant textures.

Tomasz Bednarczyk - Painting Sky Together CD Promo

Tomasz Bednarczyk - Painting Sky Together CD Promo from Awork on Vimeo.

Tomasz Bednarczyk is a young sound artist living in Wrocław, Poland. He composes melancholic impressions based on acoustic loops and surrounding, outward sound. His second CD, "Painting Sky Together" will be out in January 2009 on acclaimed experimental label Room40.

For more information please visit:
tomaszbednarczyk.com
myspace.com/tomaszbednarczyk
room40.org

Credits:
Music: Tomasz Bednarczyk
Animation, Design: Mikołaj Pasiński

Suprematism Session

Malevitz - He called his innovation Suprematism--an art of pure geometric form.

Like a fashion week by TOMISLAV OSTRMAN

I really like this work, found it on Art Review - Like a fashion week. I think this is a synaestic moment for both the artist and the viewer. This is what fashion is about. To experience someones world, colours. A thrue storyteller.

Inspiration of the day - Alexander Rodchenko and the Russian Avant-garde

Alexander Rodchenko, the Russian avant-garde artist, abandoned painting in the early 1920s in favour of photography which he believed would better express the new visual and social realities emerging at that time. His experiments in photography and photo-collage influenced artists and photographers throughout the 20th century. This film by Michael Craig of Copernicus Films is a compilation of extracts from a larger documentary film about Rodchenko's search for new visual frontiers. It is part of a series of four documentaries about the Russian avant-garde.
Source: Art Review

My (ODDsters) summer diary

Hope to see you on friday, one of our great photographer friends Mathias Sterner followed us the hole summer during our 7 ODDsters nights and this will now be published and a big release on friday, hope to see -you there.

Samuel Francois

Samuel Francois is an illustrator I really like, we almost did some work together, hopefully I will get the chance to work with him in the future. He is having an exhibition at galerie jeanroch dard called "let's get cool."

Source: ASWOF

FREE BEATS

FREE BEATS from ulteriorproductions.com on Vimeo.

Art piece of the day . A Perfect Day by Maurizio Cattelan

Maurizio Cattelan’s dealer taped to his gallery wall,

Amelia Lalala Human Steps

Amelia is a 2002 dance film by Edouard Lock and it is really amazing. The dancers are from Montreal dance company
La La La Human Steps, The music is composed of Lou Reed lyrics with music by David Lang.

Audrey Hepburn (4/4) on The Phil Donahue Show, 1990

Audrey Hepburn (3/4) on The Phil Donahue Show, 1990

Audrey Hepburn (2/4) on The Phil Donahue Show, 1990

Nr 2

Dramatiska inst graduate show

Sign in Hackney

Jean Paul Goude - Retrospective

Jean Paul Goude_Lee Cooper 1983 !

World water chandeleir - Stockholms auktionsverk

Stockholms Stadsmission har varje år en auktion till fördel för hemlösa, där ett 20-tal konstnärer bjuds in för att bidra med ett verk. Vi bjöds in med World Water Chandeleir som skapades på Djurgårdsbrunn i sommras. Igår skedde auktionen och kronan startade på 6.000 kr och slutade på 35.000 kr!! Näst högsta priset blev denna krona. 

BECKMANS DESIGNHÖGSKOLA:
Gabriel Blidö (född 1982), Lisa Granberg (född 1980), Lisa Possne (född 1982), Frida Ringström (född 1983), Daniel Svahn (född 1979), Helena Svensson (född 1983)

STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET, Internationella Curatorsutbildningen:
Tomas Rajnai (född 1979)

World Water Chandelier
Takarmatur/installation, utförd 2008.
Varierande material av bl.a. PET-flaskor (polyetylentereftalat),
fiskelina, aluminium, stål, plywood och belysning, 230 x 120 cm;
Utställd på Nordiska Kompaniet, Hamngatan, 2008.
Utrop: SEK 6 000-

Fantastiskt kul!

Forms of inquiry

Julia Born

TOP 5

Sorry for not posting so frequently lately, I´ve been super stressed about things.. Anyway I´m thinking since its a new year soon and I have had a lot of time to do research for a big exhibition I am working on. I accedently saw these absolutly amazing websites that I would like to share with you. So for now my top 5 is:

1. TATE - Have you ever wanted to go to an exhibition with M/M Paris, or listen to Tj Demos talk about the Altermodern, or tristan Manco, Faisal AbduÁllah etc etc, listen to tates absolutly amazing podcasts!!

2. Tanyo Onorato & Nico Krebs - the fantastic Art Duo also behind Bernhard Wilhelms shows

3. R D FRANKS - One of the best hidden fashion book online store.

4. FFFFOUND - It´s a service that allows users to post their best images found on the net and comment on others, really interesting and fun.

5. Tavi the new girl in Town - (Rei Kawakubo - H&MMMMM) I just found her blogspot blog as well, and she is just amazing.

Roe Ethridge

Art Photographer, participated in the 2008 Comme Des Garcons campaign for their “Bird Play” series. And I just stumbled into his pictures of the birds again. They reminded me on how these images really illustrate the breathaking beauty in this pose,. And I understand Comme how I think can see how this illustrates their world. So it´s a perfect match.

Artist of the day - Tsilli Pines

I really love these graphics by Tsilli Pines from Portland. They are simple collages, dots, lines, grids and patterns. And the names of the pieces are Bottom Line, Bad Credit, Budgeting in the economical climate we are in now sounds even more scary.

Elisabeth Moch

Berlin/Stockholm based Illustrator Elisabeth Moch just uploaded som new fantastic work here

FRONT + BACKWARDS

Don't nod
Dogma: I am God
Never odd or even
Too bad – I hid a boot
Rats live on no evil star
No trace; not one carton
Was it Eliot's toilet I saw?
Murder for a jar of red rum
May a moody baby doom a yam?
Go hang a salami; I'm a lasagna hog!
Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas!
A Toyota! Race fast... safe car: a Toyota
Straw? No, too stupid a fad; I put soot on warts
Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
Doc Note: I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod
No, it never propagates if I set a gap or prevention
Anne, I vote more cars race Rome to Vienna
Sums are not set as a test on Erasmus
Kay, a red nude, peeped under a yak
Some men interpret nine memos
Campus Motto: Bottoms up, Mac
Go deliver a dare, vile dog!
Madam, in Eden I'm Adam
Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
Ah, Satan sees Natasha
Lisa Bonet ate no basil
Do geese see God?
God saw I was dog
Dennis sinned

Behind the Scenes with Pipilotti Rist, Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters), MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art presents a new large-scale installation by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist (b. 1962), entitled Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters). A pioneer in the field of innovative multimedia installations, Rist is best known for her playfully provocative video, sound, and sculptural environments.



MoMA commissioned the artist to reinvent the space and reenvision the architecture of the Museum's Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium—a space with a volume measuring approximately 7,354 cubic meters. The resulting installation is a lush, immersive landscape shaped by images, sound, and sculptural elements.



Pipilotti Rist's lush multimedia installations playfully and provocatively merge fantasy and reality. Visitors will be able to experience the work while walking through the space or sitting upon a sculptural seating island designed by the artist. (c) 2008 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

THE HIPSTERS!

i found an interesting article about the Hipsters, they talk about the hipsterdom as the end product of all prior countercultures, and that it now have been stripped of its subversion and originality.

Check it out here

FIXED LOVE STORY

Look at this fixed love story, following two fixed gear ridert, Juliette Elliot and Super ted around the streets of London. This should really be included as a short in the ongoing filmfestival here..

JCDC versus LEGO

I totally missed that JCDC (Jean-Charles de Castelbajac) presented their Spring/Summer Collection 09 in a lego movie as well. It´s perfect, look at the light, animation and movements.

JCDC Versus LEGO from Four H on Vimeo.

REI KAWAKUBO - HHH&&&MMMM

This could be the best H&M fashion-rap ever!!

SOURCE: Y
Untitled from Tavi G on Vimeo.

YVES SAINT LAURENT: ETERNAL STYLE

The YSL exhibition is showing  De Young Museum in San francisco. And it´s created by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco who have designed and developed it, in partnership with the Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent, the first retrospective spanning the forty years of creation of the Maison de haute couture Yves Saint Laurent. Presented from November 1 to april 5, 2009, the exhibition Yves Saint Laurent focusses on this virtuoso of haute couture, whose unique style blends references to the world of art with allusions to pop culture and social revolution.

This exhibition contains nearly 130 accessorized garments and sketches illustrating the lines, colors, and fundamentals of Saint Laurent’s work.

ANGELS BIG VINTAGE CLOTHING SALE

The legendary costume shop clears its warehouse in an unprecedented sale where 30,000 items must go.

it starts on 6th of December there will be a one-of-a-kind sale, the first time Angels has ever sold anything to the public in its 160-year history.

Johanna Gustafsson Fürst. - FACEHUG

FACEHUG is announcing the launch of its second issue by the Swedish artist
Johanna Gustafsson Fürst. The edition will be presented in two consecutive, interdependent
acts, drawing the spectator into a direct contemplation upon the veils constituting our perception
of textual and phenomenal materiality.

FACEHUG is a conceptual text project initiated in 2007, inviting one individual artist each year
to interpret the medium of the art publication into an optional format and edition, originating in
the textual framework of each artist.

Artoon

Source: HERE

TOKION + OLAF BREAUNING + NADA ART FAIR

Tokion is the official media partner of the NADA Art Fair Miami 2008 Opening Night Preview on December 2nd! This event to benefit the New Museum will be held at The Ice Palace from 4-9pm and will feature a special performance by Casiotone For The Painfully Alone and a set by DJ N-RON. 

This year’s 6th annual New Art Dealers Alliance Art Fair in Miami will feature art from 88 emerging galleries and 19 countries. The fair is free and open to the public from Wednesday, December 3rd to Sunday, December 7th. 

Tokion’s upcoming coverboy–Swiss artist Olaf Breuning–has an exciting new project in the works for Art Basel 2008, the Sagamore Art Hotel in Miami Beach commissioned Olaf to create a 150-ton contemporary sand sculpture in the form of an absurdist sphinx. Not to be missed, this ephemeral piece will only be on view from December 3rd-7th, overlooking a stretch of beach behind the hotel. Can’t make it to Miami? Log on to sagamorehotel.com for a live webcast of the sculpture during its construction.

Peter Saville - cover artist and curator

Don´t miss the next issue of Arkitip #0049

cause the invited cover artist and curator for the issue is the legendary Peter Saville who is best known for creating the seminal designs of Factory Records' recording artists including Joy Division and New Order and the founder of SHOWstudio with Nick Knight. I´m pre-ordering one now.

DELA SOUL, MOS DEF, NAS, WILL I AM, KANYE WEST, DAMON ALBARN ROC THE MIC @ THE G.O.O.D. MUSIC AFTER PARTY, LONDON, UK

Some nice old hiphop gathering in London!

SEMTEX TV: DELA SOUL, MOS DEF, NAS, WILL I AM, KANYE WEST, DAMON ALBARN ROC THE MIC @ THE G.O.O.D. MUSIC AFTER PARTY, LONDON, UK from DJ SEMTEX on Vimeo.

Nicolas Bourriaud talking about - Altermodern

Altermodern is a term that describes art made in today's global context which is a reaction against standardisation and commercialism. It is defined by Nicolas Bourriaud in the title of the Tate Britain's fourth Triennial exhibition.
A series of four one-day events, or Prologues, introduce and provoke debate around the Triennial’s themes. Each Prologue comprises lectures, performances, film and a manifesto text and attempts to define the four main facets of Altermodern: the end of postmodernism; cultural hybridization; traveling as a new way to produce forms; and the expanding formats of art. The fourth prologue, Borders, is scheduled for January 2009.
In his keynote "Modern, Postmodern, Altermodern?" Nicolas Bourriaud describes:
"Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation: What matters today is to translate the cultural values of cultural groups and to connect them to the world network. This “reloading process” of modernism according to the twenty-first-century issues could be called altermodernism, a movement connected to the creolisation of cultures and the fight for autonomy, but also the possibility of producing singularities in a more and more standardized world."

ELEY KISHIMOTO - SAMPLE SALE

Leo Villareal

A very interesting video about the artist Leo Villareal. A vj´s wet dream. Remind me a lot of uva´s work.

The unfinished Swan by Ian Dallas

A really nice, simple graphics and aesthetically beautiful.
The Unfinished Swan is a first-person painting game set in an entirely white world.
Players can splatter paint to help them find their way through an unusual garden. It+s still under progress.

The Unfinished Swan - Tech Demo 9/2008 from Ian Dallas on Vimeo.

Interesting article on Art Review

The flawed thinking behind buying art as an investment

Only a month ago – well after the Crisis had kicked off – Forbes was breathlessly reporting that some billionaires had managed – inadvertently or otherwise – to 'hedge' their balance sheets by investing in fine art. Eli Broad, for example, had lost approximately $2 billion in his equities portfolio over the previous year, the magazine reported, but the 'soaring value' of his art collection (it increased by $1.9b in the same time, according to a recent appraisal) had nearly made up for it....

Well, I've got some bad news for Mr Broad and anyone else with art on the balance sheet. Based on last week's auction results (and last month's in London), collectors should be marking down the value of their holdings by roughly 40 percent – which, as it happens, parallels the year-to-date losses on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (down 37 percent since this time last year) and the S&P 500 Index (down 42 percent for the same period).

Read more on Art Review

Sickboy infront of Tate

Sickboy has placed a heart in a cage in front of Tate Modern, the same museum that recently produced a streetart @ Tate Modern, a large but as many said very boring show - sponsored by the N*ss*n Qashqai four wheel drive (city) off roader of all things. Sickboy knows where grafitti should be shown.

Rodarte wins swiss textile awards

Rodarte won the Swiss Textiles Award, a prize worth 100,000 euros, in funding to be used toward the international development of their brand.

Other finalists were Louise Goldin, Jean-Pierre Braganza, TOGA, Cathy Pill and Richard Nicoll, who all presented their spring collections in Zurich on Thursday, Rodarte is the first American brand to win the annual prize, now in its ninth session, with Doo-Ri Chung being the only other U.S. designer to have been nominated, back in 2006.

Source: Diane Pernet

Resampled Space

Here is an interesting blog covering unexpected buildings and landscape.

Fashionplay - Tensta konsthall

Echo, Tate modern

I went to UnitedVisualArtists website and noticed that they just uploaded a lot of new stuff. And one of their new projects is called Echo and it is a 8 min live performance commisioned by Vamp produced in collaboration with Mimbre for a launch in the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern in London.

It´s so beautiful, and such amazing project. I think this is on a global tour at the moment.

And what I found is really amazing is how they did this technical, they used something called steroe camera, which works a bit like our eyes.

Patternfoundry + Aplace + Jacob

Sorry for being so quit here, but been really hectic. Now finally I will post some of the pics from the party we had with Richard Rhys from Patternfoundry and Dj Secondo + Laurence + Roller Boys. It was a great party, and it really felt like everyone knew eachother form the past. I met a lot of really old friends and people that you never see som much these days, it was great.

The roller boys was great tonight!!

Måns!!
Yourhigness Rollerboys!
Kristian Rajnai, my brother and partner.
Erik the beckmans man! Is having some party next saturday at Knast, we talked about it, dont remember so much but I know I will go.
Ken ken ken, always looks great on pictures!

Mr patternfoundry himself, Richard Rhys!
David Bajt and Kristian Rajnai is talking about something really really starnge..
Our big table at Berns before the party, we celebrated Jacobs 30th birthday, and tried Berns kitchen.

Jacob, got a lot of great gifts, Alice is his girlfriend and he was in Stockholm to celebrate Jacob. We gave him a hotel night at the Berns hotel right after the party.. And my dads old red jacket..