SUNDAY-VISION EXHIBITION

2003.4.20　 Text: Michiko Ikeda

May is warm, with a feeling of ease and a smile on people's faces. Maybe this is how you feel when you look at the pictures that were displayed during May at Sapporo's Soso Cafe. These were the works of Shinsuke Koshi...

SEMI-PARMANENT 2003

2003.4.18　 Text: Nicola Stumpo

Last year I was invited to join a conference called OFFF in Barcelona. It was an amazing time and I met lots of people. During a break from one of the events, I was hanging on the beach with the One9ine guys, Andrew a...

CRAIG AU YEUNG “4936 COME AND MIX WITH CRAIG”

2003.3.31　 Text: Mlee

Follow the exhibition from Swiss design, IdN invited the Hong Kong local renowned artist Craig Au Yeung Ying Chai, together with SK Lam, the General Manager of IdN, to present the 2nd exhibition of IdN Gallery “...

CLOUD GATE DANCE THEATRE “MOON WATER”

2003.3.31　 Text: Fann ZJ

Splashes of white against the static somber of black. Bodies of motion versus bodies of inactivity. Reality versus appearances. Classical Bach juxtaposed with the Chinese flow of Tai chi. These are just some of the co...

CONTEMPORARY ART IN BUENOS AIRES

2003.3.31　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

Since November 2002 and during the year 2003 the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA) has introduced the series 'Contemporary', which involves five leading curators and multiple emerging artists of the...

BERLIN, FEBRUARY 2003

2003.3.31　 Text: Paul Snowden

Somehow I got an invitation to the Nordic Embassies to check out an exhibition of 23 young designers from Island. The Danish, Swedish, Norwegisch, Finnish and Islandish embassies are all packed together in style in pr...

MONOCANAL: VIDEO WORK OF SPANISH ARTISTS BETWEEN 1996-2002

2003.3.31　 Text: Terevision Ruiz

Video is an artistic medium that has become increasing relevant in Spanish art in the last few years. The number of artist-producers continues to grow and it is about time there was a good review on it. Commissioned ...

DON’T THINK, JUST SHOOT

2003.3.31　 Text: Tim Spear

From 15th to 23rd of February this year, the Victoria & Albert Museum in Kensington, London ran a photographic workshop, exhibition and competition under the title 'Snap Happy Days'. The event was timed to c...

BLIZZARD OF NEW YORK, 2003

2003.3.31　 Text: Rei Inamoto

I have been writing Shift since 1999 and there have been very few times that I wrote about something not related to art, design or culture. In fact, the only time that I wrote about such news was September of 2001. An...

JIMI TENOR SHOW

2003.3.30　 Text: Jerome Lacote

I'm going to speak to you about my 12th March 2003 evening. A few drinks and a quick Chinese lunch later, I assisted the Jimi Tenor Show in a famous Parisian jazz club the New Morning. Jimi Tenor is a Finnish ...

ALEX MACLEAN “AMERICALAND”

2003.3.30　 Text: Jerome Lacote

Bathers in Wave Pool, Orlando, FL, 1999 © Alex MacLean I visited the venue of the photography exhibition titled "Americaland" with my friends Kantin and Mat. It was organised in the spacious office of the BET...

OPEN MIND

2003.2.14　 Text: Jo Kazuhiro

The Mori Art Museum will open in the center of Tokyo in October 2003. As a commemorative release of the CD "Open Mind" (the museum pre open plan) the "Open Mind Live Event" was performed at Roppongi Hills Information...