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REVOLUTIONS – FORMS THAT TURN
Thursday, 7 June 2007
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Artistic Director, today announced Revolutions - Forms That Turn as the exhibition concept for the 2008 Biennale of Sydney.
Ms Christov-Bakargiev said today: ‘I imagine the 16th Biennale of Sydney as a constellation of historical and contemporary works of art that celebrate and explore revolving, rotating, mirroring, repeating, reversing, turning upside down or inside out, and changing perspectives – both in art and life. Through installations, performances, films, texts, an evolving online venue, conversations and other events, Revolutions – Forms That Turn articulates the agency embedded in forms that express our desire for change. Such literal and formal devices will be charted for their broader aesthetic, psychological, radical and political perspectives. Piero Manzoni’s Socle du Monde (Base of the World, 1961) lies more or less on the opposite side of the world from Sydney. What happens if we turn it upside-down?’
Experience the world in a different way when you attend the Biennale of Sydney, Australia's leading contemporary art event. The 2006 Biennale of Sydney will feature 85 of the world's most dynamic and innovative artists from 44 countries, many of whom will show in Australia for the first time.
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seeker
(Australian) Leon Cmielewski and Josephine Starrs are media artists whose long term collaboration has produced a variety of screen-based installations. Their work focuses primarily on the relationship between society, the machine and the individual, often using play as a strategy for engaging with the social and political contradictions inherent in contemporary life.
They developed the Seeker Installation during residencies at the Waag Society for Old and New Media, Amsterdam and Sarai, New Delhi during 2005.
http://lx.sysx.org/?page_id=64
seeker video (documents how seeker works)
Seeker: winner of an Award of Distinction in Interactive Art from the 2007 Prix Ars Electronica, Austria
The Seeker installation uses three large projections to explore migration, territorial boundaries, conflict commodities and human displacement.
Seeker’s interactive component enables participants to map their own personal family migration history. Making a contribution allows access to a visualisation of all accumulated maps. The most recent vectors are drawn first, followed gradually by the vectors of previous participants. An alternative animated visualisation can be accessed by the viewer where elegant curves represent the distance each generation has travelled.
Another screen shows panning satellite imagery of cities overlaid with moving text of harvested news feeds. The text describes incidents where people have died attempting to seek refuge in another country.
The third screen consists of animated curves representing population migration data, and the effect conflict resources such as tantalum, diamonds and oil have had on the displacement of people. The animations are overlaid onto vast empty landscape images from Africa, Australia and India.
Over time the three screens begin a silent conversation with one another as the viewer makes connections between issues of personal migration, conflict resources and the way human displacement is represented in the global media.
a.k.a. Video Synopsis:
a.k.a. — “also known as”, an alias, a front, a smokescreen.
This short video poses the question:
how will we respond when the day of universal surveillance arrives?
The answer is simple: never be the same person twice.
http://www.transmediale.de/site/programm/filmvideo/....
Under Construction
Zhenchen Liu [fr/cn]
City planners decide to pull down parts of Shanghai’s old town in order to regenerate the city. Every year more than 100.000 families are forced to leave their homes and move into buildings at the edge of the city. Under construction is a two- and three- dimensional flight across the now destroyed living areas of Shanghai which shows how random and brutal decisions can affect people’s lives.http://www.noemalab.org
Consciousness Reframed 9
Call for papers
Deadline: 07/01/2008 - 26/06/2008
Vienna, 3–5 July 2008
NOTE: Chair, Scientific Committee/ Co-Editors
Roy Ascott, President Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth
http://www.theyesmen.org/en/movie
The Yes Men, a movie, follows a couple of anti-corporate activist-pranksters as they impersonate World Trade Organization spokesmen on TV and at business conferences around the world. (Click here for some articles about the movie, and here for the official U.S. movie site complete with trailer.)
The Yes Men UK DVD Poster
The story follows Andy and Mike from their beginnings with GWBush.com, and on to their tasteless parody of the WTO's website. Some visitors don’t notice the site is a fake, and send speaking invitations meant for the real WTO. Mike and Andy play along with the ruse and soon find themselves attending important functions as WTO representatives.
Delighted to speak for the organization they oppose, Andy and Mike don thrift-store suits and set out to shock their unwitting audiences with darkly comic satires on global free trade. Weirdly, the experts don’t notice the joke and seem to agree with every terrible idea the two can come up withThe Yes Men agree their way into the fortified compounds of commerce, ask questions, and then smuggle out the stories of their hijinks to provide a public glimpse at the behind-the-scenes world of business. In other words, the Yes Men are team players... but they play for the opposing team.
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VivoleumJune, 2007 | Imposters posing as ExxonMobil and National Petroleum Council (NPC) representatives delivered an outrageous keynote speech to 300 oilmen at GO-EXPO, Canada's largest oil conference, held at Stampede Park in Calgary, Alberta, today.
TEKS - TRONDHEIM 19-20 OCTOBER 2007
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Nature can be defined as the physical world containing all natural phenomenas and living things, including the forces and mechanisms that collectively controls and run these processes independently of human volition or intervention. Mankind has tried to master and refine these mechanisms from its very beginning.
“NATURE [of man]” presents 16 artists and researchers, from 10 countries, with projects that takes a deeper look into man´s relation to nature, and the consequences and possibilities that lies therein. The invited artists severely contributes to new artistic perspectives in general, and in particular focuses on human innovation and the challenges man faces as part of a universal coherence.
2 artists from “NATURE [of man]”:
http://www.raqsmediacollective.net/evidence.htmlRaqs Media Collective - Delhi
5 screen video and sound installation with steel armature
Five Pieces of Evidence reflects on missing persons, urban myths, transitoriness, maps and global networks. The five screens are narratively organized along the lines of a 'whodunit'. Missing persons notices, street maps, demographic statistics and images of pipelines, rail tracks, harbours and city-scapes evoke a multi-layered set of speculations on the way urban spaces stage everyday 'disappearances'.
Shown at: "The Structure of Survival", Venice Biennale 2003 , Venice Biennale, 2003
(Section curated by Carlos Basualdo)
Insurance % Investment
[Three projections, two with sound tracks, wallpaper with photographic prints]
Insurance%Investment illustrates the mental arithmetic of investment and insurance, two mechanisms designed to administer, anticipate and forestall risk, speculation and the possibility of failure.
Whirling motorcyclists in a fairground ‘well of death', giant rotating fan blades, oxygen masks, empty rooms with ornate wall paper and a soundtrack that suggests the respiration of strange machines constitute a constellation of uncanny effects that poise the visitor in a space full of riveting ambivalences. The proliferation of cautionary motifs only emphasizes the latency of danger. Everything is anticipated, yet anything is possible.
Presented at Art of the Possible , Lund Konsthall, Lund, January-March 2007
http://www.raqsmediacollective.net/CV.html
"Raqs Media Collective was formed in 1992 by independent media practitioners Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. Based in Delhi, their work engages with urban spaces and global circuits, persistently welding a sharp, edgily contemporary sense of what it means to lay claim to the world from the streets of Delhi. At the same time, Raqs articulates an intimately lived relationship with myths and histories of diverse provenances.
Donna Conlon
((U.S.A., 1966) lives and works in Panamá City, Panamá)
Dry season (2006)
2:00 minute loop (2006). Collaboration with Jonathan Harker. A shower of glass bottles shatters onto a green glass mountain.
 play video http://www.donnaconlon.com/list_en.php?gal_id=57&cat_id=11 |
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