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When movement becomes dance

by on May 17, 2010 in Film, New Art, performing



11 min, 16 mm film, B/W, no soundCamera: Bill RowleyEdit: Elaine SummersDir: Elaine SummersProd: Hans Breder, Iowa UniversityThere are two things about this short fragment I love.The first is the choreography of joy. The slow-motion allows us to bett…

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by on April 27, 2010 in New Art



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The Pleasure of Absence

by on April 5, 2010 in New Art, performing, theory, Uncategorized

It is the pleasure of imagining a performance – or rather, of imagining a universe. A narrative, an aesthetics, an experience, a unity.It is the pleasure of imagining a liveness, a directness, a presence.The pleasure of experiencing the echo, the recor…

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The Way Things Go and Pass

by on March 4, 2010 in Film, funny, New Art, sculpture

Fischli and Weiss, Der Lauf Der Dinge (The Way Things Go), video, 30′, 1987Honda Ad, 2003OK Go – This Too Shall Pass, 2009I remember the choreographer João Fiadeiro once showing Fischli & Weiss’s work during some seminar or workshop and talking ab…

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The afterthought experience

by on February 26, 2010 in New Art, performing

Do you know Tino Sehgal? You know, the artist that doesn’t allow any pictures taken of his works? And doesn’t write any introduction, or artist statement? Or make written agreements with museums? That wants no material artifacts in his works?Does it ma…

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The End Is Never Nigh (A few sentences that never made it elsewhere)

by on February 23, 2010 in New Art, painting/photo

Bloodshedding pieces of black-and-white happiness.The unfair balance of the picture.The wider picture. The bloody wider picture always giving it the color that wasn’t there in the first place.Notice: the wider picture is never the first place. It comes…

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More Gentle Uncertainty

by on February 22, 2010 in Film, music, New Art

Video directed by Takafumi Tsuchiya (TAKCOM).

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Another childish question inspired by a beautiful project

by on February 18, 2010 in Film, music, New Art

What is it that we like about simplicity? Is it not that it’s close to us? It is attainable, like something that is nearly us. Or, to put it differently – an it that almost makes it into me. Thus, an imaginary community. Yes, if I dared, I would say si…

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Visit

by on February 18, 2010 in New Art, painting/photo, Poland

Two pictures from the Visit series (2007/8) by Filip Berendt.The idea is so simple and to the point that it is irritating. Berendt put an ad in a newspaper saying he wants to make installations in people’s homes out of the things he finds there and tak…

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The Landscape Is You

by on February 17, 2010 in funny, New Art, painting/photo, performing, Uncategorized

Two gorgeous 2009 Szpilman Award candidates:The runner-up, Alexander Thieme with his Embedded… and this year’s winner, Hank Schmidt in der Beek, with In den Zillertaler AlpenCan you spot me?What am I, within this overwhelming sight?Am I a humble crea…

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