Yto Barrada

Interesting images by Yto Barrada

Oded Hirsch

Interesting videos by Oded Hirsch

Kerry Tribe

A chance for Canadians and New Zealanders (but not me) to see Kerry Tribe's latest piece There Will Be ________ (in New Zealand) or here for Canadians.

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Adam Curtis

All watched over by machines of loving grace from mayo11 on Vimeo.

This is really just another excuse to make you watch this series... but also E-flux are giving us the opportunity to see Adam Curtis' work in an art context.

Aernout Mik

Aernout Mik from peter burchett on Vimeo.

The exhibition 'Communitas' finished at the end of January but he is currently exhibiting here.

Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art

Marina Abramovic: Performance from Smart Museum of Art on Vimeo.

This looks like a really interesting overview of food and hospitality in art.

Cy Twombly Polaroids

I would love to be able to go to this exhibition

The Humping Pact

The Humping Pact: Residing at PACT Zollverein from Dmitry Paranyushkin on Vimeo.

Pareidolia

Last chance to see Saskia Olde Wolbers at Maureen Paley. I have not been yet but am a big fan (and not just because of her excellent name). Also love the word Pareidolia (the imagined perception of a pattern or meaning where it does not actually exist, as in considering the moon to have human features).

Laura Horelli

This looks interesting.

No One Will Ever Love You Until You Love Yourself – After Anderson, Myowa-Yamakoshi and Matsuzawa

Watch my latest piece on Vimeo...

Klaus Pichler

Liking this a lot.

Oliver Michaels - A Journey Between Two Fixed Points

This looks interesting (as it is no longer their current exhibition you need to click on exhibitions/past/2011 to see Oliver Michaels' work). More information and images from the project here.

Anna Di Prospero

Katya Ford

Love Me - Zed Nelson

It's always nice to be able to plug a very talented friend! Beautiful photography from Zed Nelson. I particularly enjoyed the beauty contest in the Brazilian jail.

Useful Photography

I really like this magazine.

Laurence and Angela St.Leger

My wonderful in-laws make exquisite miniature automata. I recently started taking photos of their vast (ever growing) collection, which I am currently uploading to their blog, so I thought it would just about fit in with the theme of this blog. Their blog is here.

Lars Laumann

I keep thinking about Lars Laumann's work, specifically 'Shut up child, this ain't Bingo' (2009).
Sadly I can't find any snippets of his work online, but here is a review of the show at Maureen Paley in 2009.

Metropolis

This is the dance, from Fritz Lang's Metropolis, that i was referring to in my previous post:

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

I recently revisited the 'wicked' dance in Metropolis and was reminded of the dance at the end of this clip in F.W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. Both films were released in 1927.

Yang Fudong & Prada

I am conflicted about this. It looks and sounds like one of his art pieces but it's an advert for Prada. Does it being an advert preclude it from being a piece of art? Does the shallowness of its intention mean it is without depth? Is this a hollow simile of his art films and if so how would one intellectually differentiate between them?

Yang Fudong - One Half Of August

Another show I enjoyed this week was Yang Fudong at Parasol Unit, although happily this one is on for another month or so.
The film that I was most struck by was Fifth Night. Fifth Night is a seven screen video-installation filmed in an interpretation of Shanghai's old town and shot in mesmerising 35mm B&W film (I am always suspicious when the medium is so seductive, yet on this occasion it seemed well-suited to the content) and accompanied by a  bold and nostalgic film score, reminiscent of golden-age composers like Bernard Herrmann. In the square a stage has been erected and the central characters walk around as if in a daze while other characters are thrown out of a car with their suitcases; fix a tram; work as a blacksmith; sit static on a chair or sofa. The piece is enigmatic and intriguing. Several cameras film the characters from different angles, often seeming to be filming the same action simultaneously but on closer inspection the scenery or the supporting cast may be subtly different, creating a feeling of the uncanny.

Last Chance to See Chritstian Janlowski's 'Casting Jesus'

Hurry and go see the Christian Janlowski exhibition at Lisson Gallery because it closes on Saturday.
I enjoyed the film immensely (although I'm not sure about the need for the accompanying captioned photos). The film depicts a day of auditions overseen by a jury of Vatican members to select an actor (from a possible 13 - the significance of which is the only thing about the piece that seems laboured) who best interprets the role of Jesus - the piece was also watched live via a video stream by an audience of 300.  It is a dense exploration of the power of images and the relationship between art, religion and pop culture. The talent show format is not over-stated, but does give rise to some particularly fine moments, like the pettiness of the jurors towards the potential Jesus' and the weirdly sordid moment when the jurors, alone with the victorious Jesus, ask him to do private poses for them.

Laurel Nakadate

I had the good fortune to discover Laurel Nakadate this Spring at PS1. I have extremely mixed feelings about her. She  can come across as smug and pseudo, but occasionally she seems to cut through to something genuinely interesting. In any case I am definitely going to go and see her upcoming show at Zabludowicz Collection 29th Sept - 11 Dec 2011

Kris Verdonck, MOUSE (2010)

 

'MOUSE shows - enormously magnified and in extreme slow-motion - a mouse walking into a trap.

The trap closes, the iron breaks the small body. A camera with super slow motion (10,000 images/sec) was used to unravel the mechanics of a movement, just like Muybridge did. The technique makes us experience an extremely upsetting emergency situation in the slowest possible way.' 

Below is a link to the piece on You Tube.

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Que le Cheval Vive en Moi

Que le cheval vive en moi by The French duo Art Orienté objet (Marion Laval-Jeantet & Benoît Mangin). I am intrigued by this. Not so much by the communication ritual, but definitely engaged by the 'transi-stasis'.

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More Yawning Chimps

Such a good yawn! Another example of contagious yawning in chimps from Campbell & de Waal (2011) - Chimpanzee Contagious Yawning.

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Catherine Hakim is Soundly (and deservedly) Whipped by Zoe Williams

Only just saw this, but it has put a smile on my face. Zoe Williams, I salute you!

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Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism

Another excellent book debunking the sexist myths of evolutionary psychology (along with all sorts of other illuminating subjects regarding the resurgence of sexism and its apologists). Thank you Natasha Walter.

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Love Other Cinema

The Other Cinema website gives you advice on alternative ways to buy films from the independent film distributors who lost their DVD stocks in the Sony warehouse fire during the riots.

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Saskia Takens-Milne, 2007

 

 

 

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China Girl

Restored by Karin Segal and Julie Buck.

From a time before racism and sexism existed. So many things wrong with this!

Battle in Heaven (2005) - Directed by Carlos Reygadas

I highly recommend this film. I think that the last scene undoes much of the 'magic' by seeking to explain things, but otherwise it is a remarkable film. I also highly recommend Silent Light (directed by Carlos Reygadas).

Jokulsaron - The largest glacier lagoon in Iceland - LIVE

Amazing

Saskia Takens-Milne, 2006

 

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Nan Goldin

Looking forward to going to see Fireleap at Sprovieri Gallery

Julijonas Urbonas

Domestic Earthquake Generator

Bas Princen

 

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Folly For a Flyover

Lovely pop-up cinema
Sadly, I am not entirely convinced by the programme. Last night's secret screening turned out to be Jurassic Park!

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Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber

 

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