THE 27TH SARAJEVO WINTER

2007.2.28　 Text: Yurie Hatano

The International Festival Sarajevo "Sarajevo Winter" is a traditional meeting place for artists and citizens from all over the World. The first "Sarajevo Winter" Festival was held from 21 December 1984 t...

88 & FLAVORED LAYERS “X”

2007.2.28　 Text: Erin Holloway

The symbol "x" can mean many different things to many different people. It can be a letterform, a destination, a crossroads or an answer. February 24th 2007, 88 and Flavored Layers brought the nation's capital an even...

GERMANY BOOK ART FOUNDATION

2007.2.28　 Text: Gudrun Rau

The Stiftung Buchkunst (book art foundation) is awarding prices every year for the most beautiful books made in Germany. The main focus is set on books as objects of utility. Legibility and factors like size, weight, ...

ALEXANDER GELMAN “LITTLE BLACK”

2007.2.28　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

After I went down the stairs to the gallery, it, something black, suddenly appeared. It stuck out from the ceiling, and rested in the air. There were a set of plane pieces, which could be titled black over black, in t...

TRANSMEDIALE 2007

2007.2.27　 Text: Ayako Yamamoto

A poster tells the trend. Posters since 1988 were in the chronological order and were pasted to the wall of the project library. This event, which started as a video festival, has become its 20th this year since the n...

A NICE SET IN TOKYO

2007.2.27　 Text: Deirdre Corley

A Nice Set, a traveling art exhibit of one of a kind slip mats, opened with a party at Tokyo's Reed Space on Feb 2nd in funky and fashionable Aoyama area. The show is comprised of work by 34 artists from all ov...

CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS GRADUATE’S EXHIBITION 2007

2007.2.27　 Text: Sayaka Hirakawa

Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design has trier student and graduate's exhibition at Souththampton row site. This college has been known as finding well known artists and designers for over the years. Christ...

MOBILE ART COMPETITION

2007.2.5　 Text: Yurie Hatano

SHIFT holds several competitions aiming to discover fresh creators and support their activities, such as SHIFT CALENDAR COMPETITION and DOTMOV. This time, in collaboration with Crypton Future Media, we had been callin...

TAKE OFF THE HEADPHONE & TURN TO 10

2007.2.1　 Text: Becky Ip

Since 2003, Lona Records has become a mainstay in the small yet burgeoning experimental music scene in Hong Kong. While releasing full-length albums ranging from ambient to post-punk, one could argue that Lona's gems ...

YUMEJUYA EXHIBITION

2007.1.31　 Text: Yoshihiro Kanematsu

"Such a Dream was Seen". A sketch "Yume Jyuya" by Soseki Natsume is the ten talks of the dream that Soseki once looked. A story of the woman who says already dies from graceful eyes, and a story of Unkei (A famous...

SANTIAGO SIERRA “NUOVI LAVORI ITALIANI”

2007.1.31　 Text: Francesco Tenaglia

Two new projects from the Santiago Sierra: "The Anarchists" (Los Anarquistas) is based on a performance that the Spanish artist had realised in Rome with eight militant anarchists hired to listen to the traditional Ch...

KANJIKI SNOW WALK

2007.1.31　 Text: Shinichi Ishikawa

In Sapporo, cold is the severest February. I can say at the same time it is the month that is full of events. Scheduled to hold "Sapporo Snow Festival" to enjoy a image in snow, and "Toyota Big Air" which snow-borders...