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PCSO Watch dates from Oct 2007, when the founding member of the Office of Community Sousveillance was fined £30 by a Police Community Support Officer (PCSO), for cycling over the pavement to a cycle stand in Nottingham City Centre
The financial crisis might force the contemporary art world to find alternatives to a money-centered situation which had blown out of proportion, invent new survival strategies and readjust the way we value art
What is it that makes art famous and expensive? In his video Kunstmarkt TV Jankowski answers these questions by simulating a telemarketing show. He invited a professional TV-salesman and his attractive assistant to enact a TV-sale with art objects from contemporary stars
The exhibition at the CCCS in Florence features the work of contemporary artists which throws light on the mechanisms of the international art system. The selection explores different points of view, ranging from complete conformity to the prevailing rules of the market, to irony and sarcasm and even to an “anti-market” stance, taken by those anxious to avoid the commercial aspects of the art market entirely
The book highlights a current trend in international graphic design: more and more visual designers are staging their compositions as three-dimensional scenarios, in order to turn them into posters, magazine covers, web sites, and animated films
This new Biennial located right inside the area which Rem Koolhaas defines as the ‘hollocore’ was political, bold and intelligent if a little bit too much on the shambles side
A look back at 2008 and best wishes from me and from the (rather unwilling) Caribbean Pirate and Spaghetti Man
Jordi Colomer studies the way in which the modern city influences human behaviour and explores the ubiquity and drawbacks of modernism in the urban environment
One day, Daniel Eatock left his desk, found the car whose alarm had been interrupting his peace every five minutes, and waited for the siren to switch on. When the siren sounded, he started dancing like a madman. He made videos of several of his car alarm dances, never touching the car, only dancing to the sound pollutants
An exhibition in Paris brings together works by teachers and students of the celebrated Dusseldorf School: Bernd and Hiller Becher, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth and many others
This provocative collection of photography, essays, and maps looks at infrastructure as a way of mapping our place in the city and affecting change through architecture
An uncanny installation currently on view at LABoral uses the strategies of the Electronic Voice Phenomenon, voice and pattern recognition, and face tracking to generate voices, and images from apparently closed, silent and empty spaces and systems
There is No Road consists of a range of artists’ projects that record or evoke a series of actual or imaginary journeys, either through the local landscape of Asturias, or through a comparably remote and mountainous terrain
Recognizing that Israeli colonies and military bases are excruciating instruments of domination, the project assumes that a viable approach to the issue of their appropriation is to be found not only in the professional language of architecture and planning but rather in inaugurating an “arena of speculation” that incorporates varied cultural and political perspectives through the participation of a multiplicity of individuals and organizations. How could the architecture of Israel domination be reused, recycled or re-inhabited by Palestinians?
With his Lolita figures borrowed from manga imagery, Mr. has made a name for himself in the space separating irony from candor. In this ambiguous representation of pubescent amazement, he has combined the feigned innocence of Nabokov’s heroine with another era and another cultural register. What comes to mind are his works that seem inspired from the figure of the young Heidi in her underwear in the Alpine meadows
The Lufttransa bus arrives in Brussels to denounce the practice of deporting refugees and immigrants living illegally in Germany and examine it in the context of the process of European integration
This is the fourth section of a work of seven dedicated to the Chernobyl tragedy and it focuses on Slavutych, a model city purposefully built to host the personnel of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and their families, evacuated from the abandoned city of Pripyat
Born as a mere advertising tool to sell napkins and toilet rolls, the paper fashion craze took off in the late ’60s. The exhibition is also looking at the way paper is used in fashion of today, showing design, art and publicity objects, filmed fashion shows and recent creations by some of the most innovating fashion designers
Mudam is Luxembourg’s very own and very classy museum of modern and contemporary art. I’ve been following their always exciting and bold programme for a couple of years and was very eager to see it but then you need a rock solid motive to spend a day in Luxembourg. The other day i woke up and decided that MUDAM would be mine
Shoot an Iraqi is equally pertinent reading for those who seek insight into the current conflict in Iraq, and for those fascinated by interactive art technologies and the ever-expanding world of online gaming
Tombstones as a path to re-asses our relationship to communication
Paulistas much chagrined by the pauperism of this year’s São Paulo Biennial pointed me to its Off version. The Parlela is a selection of artists who invite us to reflect on the influence of space in their respective works. Although the selection stretches over several continents, most of the pieces are by Brazilian artists
Cinema Sim is not an exhibition about cinema, but rather about the idea and concept of cinema and how contemporary artists imbue their works with creative and aesthetic principles that hark back to the cinematic language and its means of expression
The latest issues of two of the best magazines you could get your hands on, The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest and Volume, are out and i beg you not to bypass them
Eduardo Srur dressed 16 official statue around the city with orange life jacket in order to remind passers-by of monuments they don’t even see anymore
Domesticated jungle meets contemporary art. If the Xanadu of art existed it would be this place. Or at least something disturbingly similar.
Material Beliefs takes emerging biomedical and cybernetic technology out of labs and into public spaces. Its members use design as a tool for public engagement, a mean to stimulate discussion about the value and impact of these new technologies which blur the boundaries between our bodies and materials
El Bòlit, a brand new Contemporary Art Center located in Girona (SP), is still waiting for a proper building, but that doesn’t prevent the center to have strong personality, dauntless attitude and a very promising exhibition programme
Robert Kusmirowski’s UHER.C is a classical, archaic sculpture that has gone berserk: it is both the nightmarish and joyous side of machine
The exhibition, currently running at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel, explores the little-known architecture of the post-socialist period and the result of unregulated, uncontrolled urban planning in the countries of South Eastern Europe
Call for the presentation of projects where science, technology and art converge into prototypes and installations that use software, hardware and biology
In 2008, artist Regina José Galindo organized a 36 hour performance to protest against the U.S.’ booming industry of private prisons and in particular T. Don Hutto, a ‘residential center’ authorized by the state of Texas to lodge whole families: men, pregnant women, adolescents, children, women, and even babies
Cultural Resistance, Psychological Exploration and Material Intervention are the key themes of an exhibition that the famous designer duo El Último Grito has curated at the LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
Looking beyond the form given to buildings by architects, the curators of the pavilion question the durability of edifices. Their project tries and forecasts how the passage of time, the changes in social or environmental conditions will affect and slowly modify buildings
The movie engages with the Biennale’s theme ‘Out there – architecture beyond buildings’ by trying to uncover what happens after a house that has been plastered all over the glossy magazines is left in the hands of the owners
The pavilion revolves around the idea that the motor that drives architecture is not to be exhibited, but to be built. Models, 3D renderings and plans are therefore not welcome. Instead, the pavilion displays architecture as a reality that can be experienced physically
Adrian Street was a glam rock wrestler who gained fame for dressing in flamboyant platform shoes and glitter capes, wearing extravagant make up, kissing his opponents on stage and tarting them up with make up when he had them pinned down
Lessons learned from a media art exhibition mounted inside a ‘traditional’ art museum
Xavier Ribas’s photos explore the phenomenon of entertainment, of leisure, of what people do in their ‘free’ time, showing the extent to which such activities take place in Barcelona’s residual spaces