SONAR 2010

2010.7.5　 Text: Julio Cesar Palacio

17th International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art This was the last Sonar edition underage, next year Sonar become 18 years old. The happy teenager left the youth with a A+ in school. Difficul...

THE LIGHT IN WINTER

2010.6.22　 Text: Joanna Kawecki

When the sun goes down and the stars come out, what does light mean to us mortals? Pop over to Federation Square and discover the meaning of light through the event 'The Light in Winter' curated by Robyn Archer, artis...

HOKKAIDO THREE-DIMENSIONAL ART EXHIBITION ’10

2010.6.21　 Text: Tamami Kadowaki

Feel the power and strength of artists from the North. Organized by Hokkaido-based artists, the 'Hokkaido Three-Dimensional Art Exhibition' is a collaborative effort by three of Sapporo's museums and specially ...

MIKA AOKI EXHIBITION “FLUCTUATION OF LIFE”

2010.6.21　 Text: Memi Mizukami

As easily as drawing with a pencil, Mika Aoki creates an esquisse with glass. Walking down the hill in the South Aoyama district, you will find the gallery "PLSMIS", which seems like a cafe space with a Karimoku ch...

DISTORTION 2010

2010.6.18　 Text: Victor Moreno

Copenhagen has a very characteristic mixed vibe. It has a central European wild style that definitely looses its Scandinavian flava due to a massive outdoor nightlife that crashes in the dawn. As the first days in Jun...

SUSPENDING TIME: LIFE―PHOTOGRAPHY―DEATH

2010.6.18　 Text: mina

"IZU PHOTO MUSEUM" at Clematis no Oka currently welcomes a photo historian, Geoffrey Batchen, as a guest curator for the show entitled "Suspending Time: Life―Photography―Death". The show focuses on the relationship ...

WANG NINGDE “LET THERE BE LIGHT”

2010.6.13　 Text: Ralph Yuu

Light - It’s always there for us: over many generations, with many different things. People, actually, never leave this world. Perhaps, they are afraid of an answer. Perhaps, love is running through the wind qui...

PRIMAVERA SOUND 2010

2010.6.8　 Text: Julio Cesar Palacio

With the fact that Primavera celebrares their 10th Aniversary everyone was aware that this year the Festival can be one of the greatest ever in Primavera history. This Edition with brand new sponsor and being the only...

ZHU YU – FROM ‘FOOD REMAINS’ TO ‘TEA STAINS’

2010.6.4　 Text: Ralph Yuu

A tale of how the flow of water drains away with it the flow of time. The long and distant journey is packed with yesterday’s dreams and the sound of far-off laughter How many paths have we crossed in order to ...

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL “ZED™”

2010.5.29　 Text: Memi Mizukami

It is an unbelievably fantastic action performed with a lot of beautiful costumes, gorgeous make-ups, and illusional opera music. Cirque Du Soleil always makes you feel seeing a fabulous dream from their performance. ...

CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI – NO MAN’S LAND

2010.5.28　 Text: Carlos J. Gómez

I decided it was time for my three-month-old son to experience his first monumental art installation. The occasion was Christian Boltanski’s No Man’s Land, which fills the massive drill hall of the Park Avenue Armory ...

ROXY PAINE “MACHINATIONS”

2010.5.27　 Text: Ralph Yuu

Roxy Paine, his first solo exhibition in China. Nature has been repeating her creation and propagation for thousands of years. She has become a living space for human beings and watched and seen daily slight ev...