Kategorie: art
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Yesterday’s Future.
The film ‘Gagarin’ by Fanny Liatards and Jérémy Trouilh tells the story of the last days of a French social housing estate. One resident refuses to give up, which is why he dreams himself into his own utopia
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Images du Cornillon.
Marc Pataut is a french artist and photographer. One of his well-known photographic projects is Images du Cornillon sur le terrain, which was exhibited at documenta X in 1997. Pataut documented the transformation of the 25-hectare Cornillon gasworks industrial wasteland near Saint Denis, north of Paris, over an extended period of time. Announced in 1993,…
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Wasteland to dancefloor.
»Movement: From wasteland to dancefloor, 1984-1989«. Through the sublime period shots of Yoshi Omori and the words of Marc Boudet and Jay One Ramier, Mouvement is a poignant testimony of the first hours of glory of Parisian Hip-Hop and an exceptional archive of the graffiti scene of the early 80s. read more»»
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Making something.
In »Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing«, 1997, Francis Alÿs pushed a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City for 9 hours until it completely melted.
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Ausfegen.
Après le passage du cortège place Karl-Marx, Joseph Beuys et deux de ses étudiants entament le balayage de la place. Les déchets sont réunis dans des sacs de son groupe politique, l’Organisation pour la Démocratie Directe, avant d’être répandus dans la galerie René Block. L’artiste, qui souhaite l’avènement d’un « socialisme démocratique libre » par…
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Olympic Rings, 1985
Basquiat & Warhol, Olympic Rings, 1985 Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 81 ⅛ × 183 ½ inches (206 × 466 cm) The Collaboration Paintings were a physical conversation happening in paint instead of words between Basquiat and Warhol between 1984 and 1985. Warhol’s contribution to the collaborations can be seen in his distinctive technique of…
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Dérive.
For the Situationists, the dérive was a revolutionary technique to combat the malaise and boredom of the society of the spectacle. Dérives are necessary, according to Situationist theory, because of the increasingly predictable and monotonous experience of everyday life in advanced capitalism.
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Du sale.
The director Marion Siéfert created in collaboration with the dancer Janice Bieleu and the rapper Laëtitia Kerfa a. k. a. Original Laeti the theatrical work DU SALE ! (Real Shit!) and provides a stage for their complex biographies. The concentrated staging tells the story of harsh realities and gentle dreams, of beauty, hope and a…
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The Great Wall Walk.
The Lovers, The Great Wall Walk marks the end of the intimate and artistic relationship between two pioneers of performance art, Marina Abramović and Ulay. In 1988 the duo was granted permission to walk the Great Wall of China. They started at opposite ends of the famous wall and walked towards each other. After a…
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Mapping.
One of the most inspring artists for painting art-related timelines and mappings about music, art, cities or history for us is the American artist Ward Shelly »»
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Universal Tongue.
Twerking, vogue, Fortnite, flash mobs, a Sufi or musical chairs. Visual artist Anouk Kruithof is fascinated by dance as a form of self-expression and empowerment, which has led her to research dance styles from all over the world. The dance-conclave and video installation Universal Tongue leads us through the jungle of the internet. It explores…
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Les indes galantes.
Clément Cogitore adapte une courte partie de ballet des »Indes galantes« de Jean-Philippe Rameau, avec le concours d’un groupe de danseurs de Krump, et de trois chorégraphes : Bintou Dembele, Grichka et Brahim Rachiki. Le Krump est une danse née dans les ghettos de Los Angeles dans les années 90. Sa naissance résulte des émeutes…
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لا شيء يزعجني مع دنغل
Video by Middle Eastern Rapper The Synaptik. With Dancer & Choreographer Amina Abuelghar. more about The Synaptic»» more about Amina Abuelghar »»
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Time.
Klaus Rinke is a German artist who used the movement of the body, captured through performance and photographs, as a means to express the passing of time.
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Dancing in Peckham.
Dancing in Peckham shows Wearing dancing for 25 minutes without music in a London shopping centre. She had seen a woman dancing by herself, completely unselfconsciously, at the Royal Festival Hall and, unable to capture the moment, decided to recreate it. The film explores the idea of acting as if in private while in a…
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Freeze the Move.
For 100 years, historians considered these photographs by Eadweard Muybridge to be scientific studies of the body in motion. The exhibition Freeze Frame: Eadweard Muybridge’s Photography of Motion provides an introduction to the Smithsonian’s Muybridge collection. more »»
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Go Home Polish.
Michał Iwanowski came across some graffiti in Cardiff that said: ‘Go home, Polish.’ So he did. The 105-day slog almost broke him – but it restored his faith in a volatile, fractured Europe. read more »»
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Transformation and magic.
An artist who is anti-art, an activist who is also an aesthete, Yvonne Rainer is a combative, contrarian and confounding figure whose work has crossed from choreography to cinema and back again. She has never been popular but she has, for a very long time, been influential. read more »»
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Bande de filles.
This film focusses on the life of Marieme a teenage girl who lives in a rough neighbourhood on the outskirts of Paris. The film discusses and challenges conceptions of race, gender and class.
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Dance a Painting.
French artist Louis-Kantigui (kanti) Dembélé »avait parfois le sentiment que la danse breaking, avait une place à part dans le monde de la culture.« more »»
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No Walk No Art.
Since the early 1970s Hamish Fulton (born 1946) has been labelled as a sculptor, photographer, Conceptual artist and Land artist. Fulton, however, characterises himself as a ‚walking artist‘. read more »»
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Versammlung.
From the catalogue: Hamburger Kunsthalle, Das schwarze Quadrat, 2007Franz Erhard Walther, Versammlung No. 20, 1. Werksatz 1966
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BIEST — Kimono.
Not only since their intensive working stays in Japan, BIEST have been concerned with the structure, the understanding of self and world, the processing and the thinking that is condensed in and with a piece of fabric like the kimono. With the series Kimono 2.0 they have made an adaptation and an update in linking…
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Walking — Moving.
In 1977 Japanese artist Norio Imai, former member of the Gutai group, walked through his neighborhood Sumiyoshi in Osaka. (Walking Event/Scene at the Corner ウォーキング･イヴェント/曲り角の風景, 1977) Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber followed his walk in 2019.
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Mythical places of Hip Hop.
The exhibition »Terrains les lieux mythiques du Hip Hop à Paris“ took place Médiathèque Marguerite Duras in 2016, looking back in photos, videos and music at the beginnings of Hip Hop culture in France. read more»»
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80*81
»80*81« is a retro visionary research by Christopher Roth and Georg Diez. Roth and Diez explore in this year-long quest with the collaboration of artists, philosophers, writers, movie directors, actors, astrologists the central question: What happened? Each month one volume will be published, each with a distinct timeline of the events of 1980 and 1981,…
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Street, Art, Life.
In a group exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the arts in 2007, guest curator Lydia Yee historicizes the street as subject and stage, a space onto which artists project their shifting visions of public life. read»»
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Drawing Lines.
Yanase Anri, Drawing Lines (Practices for encountering complex and ambiguous worlds, 2015-16. more »»