IMAGES FESTIVAL 2003

2003.5.31　 Text: Neil Collyer

April 10th marked the first of ten days for the Images Festival, an annual film festival focusing on Independent film and video. The Images Festival was kicked off with an opening gala party, which featured scr...

THE 5TH BUENOS AIRES FASHION WEEK

2003.5.31　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

The fifth Edition of Buenos Aires Fashion Week was held from 7th to 10th April in the Rural Society. This time, the themes and motivations of designers looked very much alike, but rather unique in their special way. C...

PRIMAVERA SOUND 2003

2003.5.31　 Text: Terevision Ruiz

This is the third year running that this spring festival has been held, and it is fast becoming one of the most important music festivals in Spain. What began in 2001 as a small one day experiment has this year becom...

RON MUECK “MAKING SCULPTURE”

2003.5.31　 Text: Tim Spear

The National Gallery in the heart of London's Trafalgar square has been running an 'associate artist' scheme since 1990, whereby a respected artist is invited to work in the gallery itself and produce work in response...

MATTHEW BARNEY “THE CREMASTER CYCLE”

2003.5.31　 Text: Rei Inamoto

I have to admit, as someone who lives in New York, that I don't go to museums that often. Just to name art and design museums, there are a handful of them that I can think of: Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of...

SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA (S.W.O.)

2003.5.21　 Text: Jo Kazuhiro

The Sine Wave Orchestra (S.W.O.) which make the sea of sine waves, under the rule -one sine wave for one participant-, was held at Design Gallery, Hachioji Campus of Tama Art University in 4/18 with 40 or more sine wa...

DAMIEN HIRST EXHIBITION

2003.5.21　 Text: Sari Uchida

A major retrospective of Damien Hirst is currently showing at the new Saatchi Gallery, which opened its doors to the public on 17th April 2003. The gallery is situated on the first floor of County Hall, (renovated by ...

OFFF FESTIVAL 2003

2003.5.18　 Text: Maria Paz Pedreros

We have Interviewed some of the artists that have participated in this 3rd edition of the OFFF Festival in Barcelona, specially for the readers of Shift Magazine. It hasn't beeing an easy work to do, we had three days...

THE 16TH SINGAPORE FILM FESTIVAL

2003.4.30　 Text: Fann ZJ

The highly anticipated yearly cinematic affair of the year is here once again. This year's Singapore International Film Festival, in it's sixteenth year running proves to entertain all with it's adverse range of films...

MARCH21 “THE THEME FOR TONIGHT”

2003.4.30　 Text: Aya Takada

Every March 21st, my calendar proclaims, "Today is the first day of spring!" but I find it difficult to suddenly switch my seasonal sense. However, this year spending the day of the Vernal Equinox with artist MA...

PIXEL GALLERY

2003.4.30　 Text: Mikey Richardson

ESC was held in the Allen Lambert Galleria at Toronto's BCE Place from March 10th to 21st. It was Pixel Gallery/TDAA's first major exhibition and featured works by Toronto-based and international digital artists...

JEFF WALL “MODERN LIFE THROUGH THE LENS”

2003.4.30　 Text: Christina Merl

In the late 1970s, Canadian born Jeff Wall started to make carefully composed, backlit Cibachrome transparencies. Since 1991 he has used digital technology to produce panoramic photographs, often making reference to w...