VENUS PROJECT

2003.6.1　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

Buenos Aires is a cosmopolitan city, and a very contradictory one. Last Monday, on May 12th, the Latin American Museum was the scene for the presentation of Venus Project, one of our latest local ways of surviving the...

ZAHA HADID EXHIBITION

2003.6.1　 Text: Christina Merl

Much has been written about Zaha Hadid, the Baghdad-born architect with her reputation for being fierce, uncompromising and abrasive. I am told some architects will decide after only ten minutes that they could never ...

DESIGNMAI 2003

2003.6.1　 Text: Paul Snowden

Berlin was host to the first Designmay. A two week design orientated congress where over 100 participants contributed with products, project, ideas. I myself was very wound up in our own activities, so that I w...

MIND SPACE

2003.5.31　 Text: Chris Lee

Samsung Museum of Modern Art's first exhibition of 2003, Mind Space addresses the issue of spirituality long overlooked in contemporary art. Traditionally the refuge of religious sentiment or the secular manifestation...

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...