Looks intriguing!
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/dance-performance/tickets/the-builders-association-52707?utm_campaign=email_dance&utm_source=email_dance100430&utm_content=email_dance100430_the-builders-association
Builders Association Website
Friday, April 30, 2010
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Quartier Latin News!
While living corner St-Denis and Ontario a few years back, I would often walk in front of the Bibliothèque Saint-Sulpice. Elegant building with no real use, pedestrians would just simply walk without noticing it...
Apparently, it is going to become... a concert hall!
Read Cyberpresse for more details.
Apparently, it is going to become... a concert hall!
Read Cyberpresse for more details.
The Artist is Present
Interesting work at the Moma
"This performance retrospective traces the prolific career of Marina Abramović (Yugoslav, b. 1946) with approximately fifty works spanning over four decades of her early interventions and sound pieces, video works, installations, photographs, solo performances, and collaborative performances made with Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen). In an endeavor to transmit the presence of the artist and make her historical performances accessible to a larger audience, the exhibition includes the first live re-performances of Abramović’s works by other people ever to be undertaken in a museum setting. In addition, a new, original work performed by Abramović will mark the longest duration of time that she has performed a single solo piece. (Please note: Abramović will not perform during MoMA Nights.) All performances, one of which involves viewer participation, will take place throughout the entire duration of the exhibition, starting before the Museum opens each day and continuing until after it closes, to allow visitors to experience the timelessness of the works"
watch LIVE
check out some of her previous work. facinating and disturbing.
"This performance retrospective traces the prolific career of Marina Abramović (Yugoslav, b. 1946) with approximately fifty works spanning over four decades of her early interventions and sound pieces, video works, installations, photographs, solo performances, and collaborative performances made with Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen). In an endeavor to transmit the presence of the artist and make her historical performances accessible to a larger audience, the exhibition includes the first live re-performances of Abramović’s works by other people ever to be undertaken in a museum setting. In addition, a new, original work performed by Abramović will mark the longest duration of time that she has performed a single solo piece. (Please note: Abramović will not perform during MoMA Nights.) All performances, one of which involves viewer participation, will take place throughout the entire duration of the exhibition, starting before the Museum opens each day and continuing until after it closes, to allow visitors to experience the timelessness of the works"
watch LIVE
check out some of her previous work. facinating and disturbing.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Volcano Magazine - Open Call
via Kottke
"Stranded by volcano, magazine
Attention designers, writers, photographers, illustrators, art directors: are you stranded in Europe or elsewhere by the volcanic ashcloud? Join Andrew Losowsky in producing a magazine.
If you'd like to be a part of the core creative team who will put together this impromptu publication, let me know as well. The only criterion for any contributor is that, like me, you have to be stuck somewhere unintentionally. If all goes well, the results will be published, probably via MagCloud and/or the Newspaper Club, and any proceeds sent to a charity that helps mitigate the effects of climate change on human populations. After all, we have to repent somehow.
Publication name to consider: The Eyjafjallajokull End-Times."
"Stranded by volcano, magazine
Attention designers, writers, photographers, illustrators, art directors: are you stranded in Europe or elsewhere by the volcanic ashcloud? Join Andrew Losowsky in producing a magazine.
If you'd like to be a part of the core creative team who will put together this impromptu publication, let me know as well. The only criterion for any contributor is that, like me, you have to be stuck somewhere unintentionally. If all goes well, the results will be published, probably via MagCloud and/or the Newspaper Club, and any proceeds sent to a charity that helps mitigate the effects of climate change on human populations. After all, we have to repent somehow.
Publication name to consider: The Eyjafjallajokull End-Times."
Monday, April 19, 2010
Dance Atlas
From Southbank Centre...
"Dance Atlas. The World's Dance Map.
Dance Atlas is a brand new user-generated website to create a world map of dance. To make your mark and help us fill it, we want you to create your own signature dance move, video it, upload your vid and pinpoint where you're from on our world map for everyone else to see.
Famous choreographer and Artistic Director of Protein Dance, Luca Silvestrini, will select your best moves from the map and create five new and unique routines which will be performed by thousands of people at the huge Big World Dance event in London on July 10th."
"Dance Atlas. The World's Dance Map.
Dance Atlas is a brand new user-generated website to create a world map of dance. To make your mark and help us fill it, we want you to create your own signature dance move, video it, upload your vid and pinpoint where you're from on our world map for everyone else to see.
Famous choreographer and Artistic Director of Protein Dance, Luca Silvestrini, will select your best moves from the map and create five new and unique routines which will be performed by thousands of people at the huge Big World Dance event in London on July 10th."
Portes Ouvertes Design Montréal on May 1 & 2!
From the website:
"GET INSIDE OUR DESIGNER'S HEADS
100 free activities. All over the city.
Once again, Montréal designers and architects open their doors to the public. May 1 and 2, 2010, from noon to 5 p.m.
Design and designers—in the fields of architecture as well as interior, industrial, graphic or fashion design—are a dynamic force in Montréal’s cultural and economic life. In June 2006, Montréal was named a UNESCO City of Design, and became part of the Creative Cities Network of the Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity, instituted by UNESCO in 2004. Today, both in terms of the city’s assets and its development potential in architecture and design, Montrealers are called upon to understand this designation awarded by UNESCO and make it their own."
"GET INSIDE OUR DESIGNER'S HEADS
100 free activities. All over the city.
Once again, Montréal designers and architects open their doors to the public. May 1 and 2, 2010, from noon to 5 p.m.
Design and designers—in the fields of architecture as well as interior, industrial, graphic or fashion design—are a dynamic force in Montréal’s cultural and economic life. In June 2006, Montréal was named a UNESCO City of Design, and became part of the Creative Cities Network of the Global Alliance for Cultural Diversity, instituted by UNESCO in 2004. Today, both in terms of the city’s assets and its development potential in architecture and design, Montrealers are called upon to understand this designation awarded by UNESCO and make it their own."
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
Sand Art
Part tableau part performance, quite interesting to watch.
"This video shows the winner of " Ukraine’s Got Talent", Kseniya Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II. Her talent, which admittedly is a strange one, is mesmeric to watch.
The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the audience to tears and she won the top prize of about £75,000.
She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated.
It is replaced by a woman’s face crying, but then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again. Once again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into chaos from which a young woman’s face appears.
She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier.
This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house.
In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye.
The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine , resulted in one in four of the population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of a population of 42 million.
Kseniya Simonova says:
"I find it difficult enough to create art using paper and pencils or paintbrushes, but using sand and fingers is beyond me. The art, especially when the war is used as the subject matter, even brings some audience members to tears. And there’s surely no bigger compliment.""
"This video shows the winner of " Ukraine’s Got Talent", Kseniya Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II. Her talent, which admittedly is a strange one, is mesmeric to watch.
The images, projected onto a large screen, moved many in the audience to tears and she won the top prize of about £75,000.
She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated.
It is replaced by a woman’s face crying, but then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again. Once again war returns and Miss Simonova throws the sand into chaos from which a young woman’s face appears.
She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier.
This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house.
In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye.
The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine , resulted in one in four of the population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of a population of 42 million.
Kseniya Simonova says:
"I find it difficult enough to create art using paper and pencils or paintbrushes, but using sand and fingers is beyond me. The art, especially when the war is used as the subject matter, even brings some audience members to tears. And there’s surely no bigger compliment.""
Men in Skirts
Comme des Garçons and Vivienne Westwood are making skirts for men a fashionable hit in Japan.
For more info, read article in Cyberpresse
For more info, read article in Cyberpresse
Toronto...
From the website
"Over the past 20 years, there has been a resurgence of city building in Toronto that has not been seen since the buoyant optimism of the 1960s. The cultural renaissance has increased awareness of design and of the market for cultural tourism in Toronto.
A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Toronto provides a perspective on this process of cultural and architectural transformation, and the selected projects reflect contemporary tendencies, aspirations and attitudes towards city building.
Following the same format as the other two guidebooks in the series, each project is featured on a two-page spread with a concise, descriptive text, project information, photographs and drawings. The projects are organized by neighbourhood and allow the reader to take a self-guided tour. Maps at the introduction of each neighbourhood provide context, and an index provides easy referencing of projects throughout.
The guidebook provides a comprehensive look at contemporary architecture in Toronto."
"Over the past 20 years, there has been a resurgence of city building in Toronto that has not been seen since the buoyant optimism of the 1960s. The cultural renaissance has increased awareness of design and of the market for cultural tourism in Toronto.
A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Toronto provides a perspective on this process of cultural and architectural transformation, and the selected projects reflect contemporary tendencies, aspirations and attitudes towards city building.
Following the same format as the other two guidebooks in the series, each project is featured on a two-page spread with a concise, descriptive text, project information, photographs and drawings. The projects are organized by neighbourhood and allow the reader to take a self-guided tour. Maps at the introduction of each neighbourhood provide context, and an index provides easy referencing of projects throughout.
The guidebook provides a comprehensive look at contemporary architecture in Toronto."
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