Japan - Takahiro Iwasaki - Turned Upside Down It's a Forest - Venice Biennale 2017

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Japanese Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Art Biennale

Viva Arte Viva Turned Upside Down It's a Forest Artist: Takahiro Iwasaki Curator: Meruro Washida Commissioner: The Japan Foundation From issues of nuclear energy and the development of resources, to chemical plants that despite supporting the high growth of the postwar economy had been a serious cause for pollution, Iwasaki’s works shed light on the various challenges and situations confronted by Japan’s rural regions, and through them present an image of Japan from a different and distinguished perspective....his work is made expertly and delicately with thread and wood. Filmed and Edited By: Mickey Mayer Extra photos from Instagram uploaders (onscreen credit given to uploaders) #venicebiennale​ #takahiroiwasaki​ #turnedupsidedownitsaforest​

Joep van Lieshout: SlaveCity at Zuecca Project Space, Venice (Italy)

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On the occasion of the Venice Architecture Biennial 2016, Zuecca Project Space presents Joep van Lieshout’s SlaveCity. Curated by Natalie Kovacs, the exhibition features models and sculptures of SlaveCity. In this video we have a look the show, and the director of Zuecca Project Space, Alessandro Possati, talks about the exhibition as well as the Zuecca Project Space.

“Conceived and built for a brave new world, SlaveCity is a functional city state populated by workers whose every function is calculated to maximize profits and minimize waste. Inspired by our increasingly technocratic society designed by bureaucrats with malevolent accounting software, van Lieshout has proffered this sardonic ultimate solution for neoliberal states and corporations looking to colonize our eco-future.” Natalie Kovacs, Curator Joep van Lieshout: SlaveCity curated by Natalie Kovacs at Zuecca Project Space, Venice (Italy). Interview with Alessandro Possati (Director, Zuecca Project Space). Venice (Italy), June 29, 2016. More videos on contemporary art, design, architecture

Tom Sachs "How to Succeed as an Artist in Spite of Your Own Creativity"

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Tom delivers an honest, vulnerable Talk on how to succeed as an artist in spite of your own creativity. He explains how to define your own internal standards of excellence by sharing his concept of sympathetic magic - how to make things real, like a Chanel Guillotine. By being honest and transparent with your methods and intentions, success will follow. He shares three core maxims that define his life: authenticity, intuition and transparency. With special thanks to core the TEDxPortland organizing team, 70+ volunteers and cherished partners - without you this experience would not be possible. Our event history can be found TEDxPortland.com In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.

This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxPortland, an independent event.

Bombing/Rain of Poems- Warsaw - casagrande

 

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Bombing of Poems is an art project in which cities that have experienced aerial bombing in the past are now bombed with poems. Bombing of Poems over Warsaw consisted of dropping one hundred thousand poems printed in bookmarks from a helicopter over a symbolic location in the city. The poems were printed in two languages and they are by Chilean and Polish contemporary poets more info www.loscasagrande.org

MIL M2

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2020 has changed our ways of being together and of being part of a community. It has forced the performing arts to reinvent its relationship with its audiences, adapting them to protective restrictions. As part of this reinvention, the 25th version of Homo Novus, one of the main theater festivals in the Baltic region, conceived its program using the city as a stage.

WHO HAS THE POWER TO CHANGE THINGS? The Question Project moves through Riga, a city in the middle of elections, where citizens’ voting participation increases, while orbiting between frustrations and organizations.

HOW DO WE LEARN TO LIVE TOGETHER? Because of its mobility, the project develops in neighborhoods which seem contradicting, confusing and beautiful; The image of a city with a challenging past that manifests in different scales of public space. With a population divided between Latvians and Russians, the tensions between the Eastern and Western Blocs still affect the lives of their inhabitants.

WHY DO YOU ALWAYS START SINGING AT MIDNIGHT? By working alongside a population that perceives itself as calm and timid, the project was developed in a manner that emphasized empathy. To gather discarded materials instead of buying them, to ask for favors and help, became a practical exercise which explored sustainable ways of consuming and working as a community.

Working together with local collaborators was a crucial aspect for the project. They allowed us to open up dialogues, identifying relevant points of view, and to accelerate connection in order to propose a series of interventions throughout the city, or directly on their bodies, and in spaces of commercial exchange.

The project generated interventions in the Central Market (the largest in Europe), the Civic Center, the Āgenskalns Market (located at an old neighborhood in the process of gentrification), and Bolderaja neighborhood (one of the last districts to be included as part of Riga, and one which possesses a majority of Russian speaking inhabitants). The project surfaced in these neighborhoods and produced different visual and poetic messages, dealing with language and aesthetic challenges, in specific political and affective circumstances.

Dan Perjovschi, WHAT HAPPENED TO US?, at Museum of Modern Art

 

Dan Perjovschi, WHAT HAPPENED TO US?, at MoMA video here and here

In his first solo museum show in the United States, contemporary artist Dan Perjovschi creates site-specific wall drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Perjovschi, who lives and works in Bucharest, Romania, makes witty and incisive social and political images in response to current events. His work has been featured in Biennials from Venice to Istanbul to Moscow. Projects 85: Dan Perjovschi, WHAT HAPPENED TO US?, is on view at The Museum of Modern Art from May 2 through August 27, 2007.

Glenn Ligon National Gallery of Art

 

Glenn Ligon speaks with the National Gallery of Art about his work here

On March 15, 2013, Glenn Ligon discussed the layers of history, meaning, and physical material of three of his works in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Art. The painting Untitled (I Am a Man), acquired in 2012 through the Patrons' Permanent Fund and as a gift of the artist, and a pair of prints given by the artist entitled Condition Report (2000) served as the backdrop for this interview. The painted neon sculpture Double America (2012), gift of Agnes Gund, is also featured. The interview followed Ligon’s presentation of the 20th annual Elson Lecture, A Conversation with Glenn Ligon.