Archive for the ‘ BLOGGING ’ Category
In Mona Hatoum’s installation BUNKER, war aftermath -like distressed metal blocks are organised into shapes reminiscent of a city. It’s downscaled and you are allowed to walk through it – a significant fact as that makes you feel like a giant and the metal blocks/city more vulnerable than its material should allow. Walking through a destroyed city in your [ READ MORE ]
Google’s mission to map the world has produced an unsurpassed amount of unstaged street view photographs, something that has fascinated many hunters for unusual images. Exhibited recently at Free, New Museum, NY Read the essay by Jon Rafman HERE. More images: http://9-eyes.com/ [ READ MORE ]
This Saturday in London is Future Shorts ONE – The Monthly Global Event, connecting audiences around the world in live simultaneous events, showcasing the best short films, live music and cutting edge design. 12 Counties. 50 Cities. ONE Night: 06.11.10. http://www.futureshorts.com/one [ READ MORE ]
This is a great video by Run Wrake. I’d love to show it in the future at Last Friday Shorts, but see the film on BBC site in the meantime: http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p004r2jj [ READ MORE ]
Two artists are showing their work together for the first time at CoExist Galleries. What connects Phyllida Barlow & Fiona MacDonald is a painterly approach to sculpture. [ READ MORE ]
By total conincidence, I’ve just found a link to a project I helped with in 1997 – Julie Myers’ Weekend. Julie Myers’ split the script of her short film into 7 parts, each being filmed in a different country by different person. I filmed my part in Prague. http://www.julie9.org/juliesweekend/ Check her profile on AXIS – http://www.axisweb.org/ofSARF.aspx?SELECTIONID=18371 [ READ MORE ]
Naheed Raza has recently shown a commissioned film about the strange power of the desert at Bloomberg Space and when looking at his website, I came across this beautiful but kind of strange (cruel?) video. I am sure it looks quite beautiful as a large projection – it’s a 16mm film – but that pinned [ READ MORE ]
