Managed by Illustrative e.V., a non-profit organisation based in Berlin, the Direktorenhaus will be opened on May 28, as a new art space in Berlin, an experimental laboratory for Gesamtkunstwerk, the synthesis of the arts. Traditional crafts will be combined with analogue techniques and digital media, and will not be limited to their own aesthetics but also seen as experimental formations with both social and asocial connotations.
It is party-time in Copenhagen. Loosely orchestrated street and club festival Distortion takes over the city next June 2nd-6th. 80 parties in 4 days, 88 dancefloors, 16 street parties, 4 block parties, ClubClash, raverbus, dinners and final party. Simian Mobile Disco, the locals Who made Who, Madlib, Gus Gus, Kompakt showcase and many other artists experimental-music-orientated.
Sarah Anne Johnson Morning Meeting (from Tree Planting), 2003 Chromogenic print, 73.7 x 79.7 cm, edition 1/2 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Purchased with funds contributed by Pamela and Arthur Sanders; the Harriett Ames Charitable Trust; Henry Buhl; the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Shelley Harrison; and the Photography Committee, 2005.43.29
Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by ghostly apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive media, as well as in live performance and the virtual world. “Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance” held at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York examines myriad ways photographic imagery is incorporated into recent practice and in the process underscores the unique power of reproductive media while documenting a widespread contemporary obsession, both collective and individual, with accessing the past.
Edge Gallery in Hong Kong is holding a solo exhibition of Au Hoi Lam, a local painter who graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Master of Fine Arts 2004 ; M.Phil. in Philosophy 2009). Her works are labour of love and craftsmanship, infused with her unique sensibilities and passions, and integrating minute details into a unified whole.
'I have lost the instruction.../ Stratil som návod...' 2009 / 20 x10x 9 m/ ©CETRIS boards, wood, video pojection work was exhibited at Jindřich Chalupecký award at DOX, Prague / Photo: Radek Jandera
Artist Tomáš Džadoň (Slovakia, 1981) will give a talk on Tuesday, May 25th
at 6pm, in SOA Simplemente Obras de Arte Gallery-Cafe in Montevideo, Uruguay. Džadoň lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic and will speak about his current works, which reference the present Central Europe, former Czechoslovakia and former eastern block. These geo-political surroundings have a complicated past, an instable present and a very ambiguous future; they are marked by many conflicts and contradictions, which Tomas reflects with a distanced perspective. Contradiction between traditional values and modern ones are key parts to Džadoň’s work.
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