I KILL YOU WITH MY KINDNESS

2003.2.1　 Text: Aya Takada

A new year has started with us aspiring to great things. Thinking greater than the last year and trying to make the possibility real, I look right up to the broad sky. My steps become powerful as I stand up to the vas...

UNITED STATES HOT ROD MONSTER JAM

2003.2.1　 Text: Mikey Richardson

Always open to new and potentially humorous opportunities, I recently accepted an invitation from Amoeba Corp. New Media Designer Neil Collyer to attend "Monster Jam" at the Sky Dome. Having just finished a grueling w...

NEW TALENT CONTEST 2002

2003.2.1　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

Four young designers were the winners of "New Talent Contest", which was organized during 4th edition of Buenos Aires Fashion Week (BAF Week). In September 2002, they showed their first collections and today, three mo...

BOGOMIR ECKER “THE STALACTITE MACHINE”

2003.2.1　 Text: Andrew Sinn

The "Galerie der Gegenwart" (Gallery of the presence) is the established place for contemporary art in Hamburg. I am long term impressed by one piece that was installed there from the very beginning. The stalactite ma...

ARCO 2003

2003.2.1　 Text: Terevision Ruiz

ARCO is the International Festival of Contemporary Art which, in mid February each year, brings together spectators, critics, collectors, amateurs, students and general art lovers for nearly a week in Madrid. This ye...

THE INTERNATIONAL FURNITURE FAIR IN COLOGNE 2003

2003.2.1　 Text: Loredana Mascheroni

Expectations weren't high. The negative halo of the crisis in the German market, now evident for a couple of years, weighed heavily before the Mobelmesse even opened. But the German furniture fair, second in importanc...

PAINTURA PITCH PROJECT 12 SCRAWLED SOCCER-BALLS EXHIBITION

2003.1.31　 Text: Satoshi Ota

Wow, this is great." These words unconsciously came out of my mouth. Why? This is because many soccer balls were spinning on the ceiling and I did not understand what was going on in this exhibition at first....

FRANCIS LAM AND YASU SANTO “CO-EXISTENCE COMMUNICATION SUITE”

2003.1.31　 Text: Mlee

Someone likes exploring the virtual world simply because it's so unreal...but somebody hates it because they want something solid. Co-existence Communication Suite allows you to experience either of them as you like. ...

BAY BEATS

2003.1.31　 Text: Fann ZJ

Touted as Singapore's first ever-biggest Alternative Music Festival, Bay Beats provided an alternative platform for local talent. Held at the Esplanade, the three-day event was performed on two outdoor stages [namely ...

HUMANFIVE “BUNNY HILL: A HOT SPOT”

2003.1.31　 Text: Aya Takada

The street on a sunny day becomes lively and lovely with drivers in their favorite cars, cyclists on a bicycle trip, and walkers with light steps. The three members of Humanfive must be also skateboarding around Vanco...

DRAWING ATTENTION

2003.1.31　 Text: Mikey Richardson

Drawing Attention is a group exhibition of drawing-based works being held at Toronto's Spin Gallery from January 10th to February 2nd. The show is curated by Juno Youn and features work by over 20 artists from Canada,...

MORAD BOUCHAKOUR “PARTY! IN THE NETHERLANDS”

2003.1.31　 Text: Bastiaan Rijkers

Every year Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad and the Rijksmuseum invite a photographer to record a specific part of Dutch culture. Huwelijksfeest, Morad Bouchakour, 2002 © Morad Bouchakour This time Morad Bouch...