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October 2012
Ether 2012
There will be dance-video-laser performances and advanced electronics, symphonic adaptations and Internet electronic memes, feline choreographies and quite a few exclusive premieres. This and that and many more of the always evolutionary and sometimes overwhelming transdisciplinary festival Ether, one of the UK's most forward-thinking festivals that kicks off next October 5th for a new edition... In its 11th edition Ether proposes its eclectic programme featuring some unique UK and London premieres with a mix of electronics, classical music, visual arts, dance and…
Find out more »Why does Gregor never rings?
Laure Prouvost's The Wanderer is back to MOT International in its 5th sequence, bringing the viewer into an underground bunker,
Find out more »Shoot! Existential Photography @ The Photographers Gallery – London
"Shoot! Existential photography" takes us back to WWI, when photo-shooting galleries became extremely popular in most fun fairs and amusement parks.
Find out more »For the LOL of cats @ The Photographers Gallery – London
Not only from cats lives the Internet, also talking dogs and a few other unimportant cute creatures, but much to our regret we have to agree with Internet activist Ethan Zuckerman when he says "Web 1.0 was invented to allow physicists to share research papers. Web 2.0 was created to allow people to share pictures of cute cats." Maru, courtesy mugumogu (Image courtesy of The Photographers Gallery) I personally prefer canine cute creatures to feline cute creatures, but I have…
Find out more »Le Sourire de Condo @ Catherine Houard – Paris
George Condo has always been an art "populist", very influenced by the European and specially the Spanish masters, but very American above all. Ambitious and voracious in its subjects and forms, grotesque, perturbing and sometimes even repulsive, but he always (contrary to many of the American artist of his generation) had an intimate link with art history, there was no "spontaneous" relationship between him and the canvas, no testing, no fiddling. George Condo, The Nun, 2007 (image via Catherine Houard…
Find out more »Slick Art Fair @ Le Garage – Paris
This month is hot as hell for contemporary art across Europe, next week starts London's Frieze art fair, and the week after that gallerists will take the Eurostar down to Paris for Fiac, but just one day before the Forum @ Grand Palais opens its doors Slick is invading central Paris for some alternative art showcasing. from Galerie Claire Gastaud (image via Slick) In its 7th edition the fair brings once again some of the latest talents across Europe to…
Find out more »Exhibition #1.1 @ Chalet Society – Paris
Everything, all over again. After transforming London in a big white & red circus arena showcasing all sorts of "unusual" amateur art and many many bizarreness the MOE (which we've been following since its Primrose Hill edition) comes to Paris after its summer Russian tour... MOE Paris edition And what can we expect in this "Exhibition 1.1"? Something Parisians will love as this sort of "spontaneous" act of uniqueness showcasing is not very common in the French capital, usually not…
Find out more »Meat Me @ Space – London
This weekend opened Terese Schulmeister 's first debut solo show in a UK institution: Meat Me, a small but aggressively concentrated exhibition of some of Schulmeister's key artworks from her post-Viennese Actionism period in the late 80s. Still from Terese Schulmeister's Andy's Cake 1993 (via Space) Central to the exhibition are three feature-length narrative videos made between 1984 and 1991 while Schulmeister was an active member of the far-left commune established by Otto Muehl at Friedrichshof, just outside Vienna. Schulmeister’s…
Find out more »Festival Mal au Pixel #7 @ La Gaîté lyrique – Paris
Knowing when you're going to die it's somehow scary, so when you enter the dark room with Timo Toot's "Memopol II" machine installed @La Gaîté Lyrique and ask it to scan your ID for "public" information about yourself you may get the nasty surprise of learning when your government (or some other dark international institution) expects you to die. For me... in 2057, something I'm not looking forward too. Memopol II is one of the 5 installations proposed at the…
Find out more »November 2012
Profits are a distraction @ Jeune Création – Paris
Within the "OFF" (you may as well call it "versus") part of this Parisian "Month of Photography" there's a good list of highly recommended exhibitions. Starting this next Monday with the official vernissage "Profits are a distraction" will occupy Jeune Création's gallery for a group exhibition of 3 top photographers (2 Frenchies, 1 German). Camille Bessard - Escape (Syntagma square – Athens – 2011, Image via PhotoOff) 3 photographic approaches, Camille Bessard, Magret Hoppe & Romaric Hardy willing to explore the seams…
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