mercoledì 1 maggio 2013
mercoledì 6 febbraio 2013
lunedì 24 dicembre 2012
venerdì 21 dicembre 2012
venerdì 2 novembre 2012
lunedì 30 luglio 2012
domenica 29 luglio 2012
lunedì 19 marzo 2012
sabato 10 marzo 2012
“Untitled (Trophy)”, by Kirsten Pieroth, 2008
“Untitled (Trophy)”, 2008 by Kirsten Pieroth. Bicycle messenger delivery from Manchester to Sheffield.
lunedì 20 febbraio 2012
sabato 14 gennaio 2012
domenica 8 gennaio 2012
domenica 18 dicembre 2011
venerdì 16 dicembre 2011
domenica 11 dicembre 2011
sabato 10 dicembre 2011
venerdì 9 dicembre 2011
domenica 4 dicembre 2011
venerdì 25 novembre 2011
lunedì 21 novembre 2011
Darius Mikšys "Vilnius Cricket Club – Abdul Aziz Holliday XI" 2007
Vilnius Cricket Club was the first cricket club in Lithuania. The Club was founded in 2007 by Darius Miksys with the aim of bringing cricket into Lithuanian schools, while attracting members from many different countries living in Lithuania. The club benefits from close ties with the British Embassy, British Chamber of Commerce Lithuania, and support from the ECB.
venerdì 18 novembre 2011
Yann Serandour "Pile ou Face [Heads or Tails]" 2007
The day before the opening of the exhibition Fourteen days with Julie C. Fortier and Yann Sérandour, the director of the VF Galerie (Marseille) threw a one-euro coin up in the air in the presence of invited witness. It had been decided that the produced works would only be shown if the result were "Tails". The result was "Heads", thus nothing was exhibited except of the coin left on the floor of the empty gallery.
Yann Serandour "Helvetica as Metallica" 2006
The inversion of two radically opposed visual identities. Helvetica is a font created in 1957 by the Swiss graphic designer Max Miedinger (1910–1980) for the Haas Type Foundry in Basel. Metallica is an American heavy metal group formed in 1981 in Los Angeles.
giovedì 10 novembre 2011
Alexei Jankowski and Alexander Sokurov "We Need Happiness" 2010,
OUT OF BASIC PRACTICALITY, most festivals are content to build their programs on a “best of” format based on works submitted. This year’s DocLisboa, however, took a more ambitious curatorial approach: Any path one took through the hundred-plus films on offer guaranteed the opportunity to graduate with a new thesis on both the history and the current state of documentary film. While this will undoubtedly cement the festival’s reputation as an affair designed for fetishists of the genre, beyond merely filmic concerns, its framing by retrospectives of Harun Farocki and Jean Rouch—representing sociological and anthropological stances, respectively—allow for a probing of the great uncertainties of the present.
Where Europe is concerned, this was poetically undertaken by Ivette Löcker and Nikolaus Geyrhalter, whose films Nachtschichten (Night Shifts, 2010) and Abendland (Nightfall, 2010) perform the Joycean task of employing nightscapes to explore the problems that haunt us in daylight—whether we wish to remain blind to them or not. Löcker’s Nachtschichten follows a selection of individuals who—by choice or necessity, their activities illicit or vocational—live as nighthawks in Central Europe’s largest city, Berlin. Geyrhalter’s Abendland takes a similar approach, only widening the scenic focus onto the entire European continent over a patchwork of scenes that move gracefully from the institutional (an EU parliamentary session) to the ecclesiastical (a conference at the Vatican) to careless revelry (a stadium megarave.) Where Nachtschichten is more character-based, with its revolving cast of shadows speaking freely to the camera, Abendland adapts a metonymic approach: While no one scene is returned to, each feeds the next, forming a rich inner narrative logic.
martedì 1 novembre 2011
Hinemoa, 1890 - 1917
The four-masted steel barque Hinemoa was reputed to be the only sailing ship built with freezing-machinery for the transport of up to 20,000 carcases of mutton from New Zealand, but she carried general cargo as well. This machinery was later removed and she then carried many thousands of immigrants to that remote colony. She was reported as being a handy, well-behaved ship with a good turn of speed.
According to Basil Lubbock in his book The Last of The Wind Jammers, one of her captains went mad, another was dismissed for criminal offenses, while still another became such a hopeless drunkard that at one stage the crew took over the running of the ship. A later captain was found shot with a revolver by his side, while his successor also died a violent death, though not aboard the Hinemoa; he shot himself while on a minesweeper off Lowestoft.
martedì 25 ottobre 2011
sabato 22 ottobre 2011
Sanja Iveković "Triangle" 1979
“The action takes place on the day of the President’s visit to the city, and it develops as intercommunication between three persons: 1. a person on the roof of a tall building across the street from my apartment; 2. myself, on the balcony; 3. a policeman in the street in front of the house. Due to the cement construction of the balcony, only the person on the roof can actually see me and follow the action. My assumption is that this person has binoculars and a walkie-talkie apparatus. I notice that the policeman in the street also has a walkie-talkie. The action begins when I walk out onto the balcony and sit on a chair, I sip whiskey, read a book, and make gestures as if I perform masturbation. After a period of time, the policeman rings my doorbell and orders the ‹persons and objects are to be removed from the balcony.”
Marcello Bacci - Oltre la metafonia
Il 5 dicembre 2004, a Grosseto, Marcello Bacci condusse degli esperimenti sul fenomeno. Gli esperimenti furono condotti in presenza di 37 persone tra questi investigatori, tecnici e scienziati, italiani, inglesi e portoghesi dell'associazione di studi parapsicologici "Laboratorio Interdisciplinare di Ricerca Biopsicocibernetica" e alcune madri che avevano perso i loro bambini.
Il professore di fisica Mario Salvatore Festa dell'Università di Napoli e il radiotecnico Franco Santi rimossero tutte le valvole della radio, in assenza delle quali nessuna ricezione radio era fisicamente possibile, ma i fenomeni delle voci anomale continuarono ad essere prodotti dall'apparecchio del Bacci. Le apparecchiature sono state monitorate, smontate e scrupolosamente analizzate, prendendo tutte le precauzioni tecniche, senza trovarvi alcuna traccia di frode o inganno.
Marcello Bacci ha rifiutato la partecipazione agli esperimenti di un rappresentante del CICAP, pur trattandosi di semplice osservazione senza alcuna verifica strumentale, adducendo come motivazione il fatto che a suo avviso il Cicap fosse prevenuto nei confronti dei fenomeni.
Susan MacWilliam "Dermo Optics" 2006
'Dermo Optics' 2006 presents footage recorded in 2005 when MacWilliam travelled to Paris to meet Madame Duplessis, a senior researcher in dermo optical perception and director Centre d'Information de la Couleur. Madame Duplessis and her colleagues are observed as they demonstrate the experimental apparatus in her cellar laboratory. The installation consists a plywood wall with text and plywood and perspex seating cubes. The demo optics text is made from linoleum floor tiles. dermo optics - Dermo optical perception (also referred to as eyeless sight or fingertip vision) is the ability to ‘see’ without using the eyes. People who possess dermo optical perception often demonstrate it under test conditions while blindfolded or behind screens.
Šejla Kamerić and Anri Sala "1395 Days without Red," 2011
http://www.artangel.org.uk//projects/2011/1395_days_without_red/about_the_project/1395_days_without_red1
domenica 16 ottobre 2011
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