OFFF FESTIVAL 2002

2002.4.29　 Text: Maria Paz Pedreros

On this second version, OFFF has clearly shown that has been growing while it's not on stage. Location, the Pompeu Fabra University, pretty close to the beach was even better than last year's and all the proffesional ...

1ST NEW COMIC FESTIVAL

2002.4.29　 Text: Jeremie Cortial

Comics in France are part of popular culture. However the habits in comic consumption are rather rigid as classic color hardback albums still rule on the French bookshops shelves. In the 90s, the manga tsunami and US ...

HAVANA ARCHITECTURE BIENNIAL

2002.4.27　 Text: Elisa Ale

The first Architecture Biennial in Havana, Cuba has recently been concluded, following a week of conferences and around twenty exhibitions. In a historic city centre momentarily immune from foolish speculation (thanks...

“GENEROSITY PROJECTS: STRATEGIES FOR EXCHANGE IN CONTEMPORARY ART” CASE OF MICHAEL SWAINE

2002.4.27　 Text: Amy Franceschini

The CCAC Wattis Institute presents Generosity Projects: Strategies for Exchange in Contemporary Art. Increasingly over the last ten years, artists have explored the idea of generosity as a medium. A two-day symposi...

THE 26TH HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

2002.4.27　 Text: Mlee

Movie going is probably the favourite pastime among Hong Kong's population. We are lucky to have been offered an incredible exposure to the world cinema - from local features, Hollywood blockbusters, mainland Ch...

HOSSEIN VALAMANESH “TRACING THE SHADOW”

2002.4.27　 Text: Luca Ionescu

Hossein Valamanesh, Untitled, 1999, Lavander bush & oil burner, 82 x 80 x 58 cm Tracing the Shadow: Hossein Valamanesh Recent Works presents a collection of key works spanning the past decade by Iranian-born, Aus...

“WOMENS’S ART” EXHIBITION

2002.4.27　 Text: Natalia Volodina

Is art made by women different than the one made by men? An interesting question that the State Tretyakov Gallery examines in their recent exhibition. In the building dedicated to modern art on the Krymskij Val, overl...

RAYMOND PETTIBO EXHIBITION

2002.4.27　 Text: Terevision Ruiz

The MACBA (Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona) is next to the CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemparania de Barcelona), the grounds where a good part of the Sonar activities take place, the electronic music and art festi...

KELLY NIPPER: PHOTOGRAPHING TIME

2002.4.27　 Text: Ilaria Ventriglia

This could be the story of a rarefied and cerebral journey which involves a number of expressive languages in order to arrive at an objective view of things. Kelly Nipper, a young American born in 1971, uses photograp...

RINGLING BROTHERS AND BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS

2002.4.27　 Text: Michael Foronda

It began with an email containing the subject line "THE NYC ELEPHANT WALK IS COMING!" I would learn that the occasion was for the annual parade of pachyderms that make their way across Manhattan over the Queens Midto...

MILIA 2002

2002.3.29　 Text: Jerome Lacote

Cannes, February 2001 Each year, Milia takes place in Cannes. This world's interactive content market is an event where professionals can do buisness in online entertainment for Internet, wireless and interactive TV. ...

JAM: TOKYO/LONDON

2002.3.27　 Text: Satoshi Ota

It was the beginning of February when "JAM: Tokyo/London" exhibition has started. I had been really in hustle and bustle days and could not find a chance to visit this. However, I finally could make it in last week....