KUNSTVLAAI 6

2006.6.5　 Text: Ania Markham

Amsterdam has a long tradition of supporting contemporary artists in all shapes and sizes, and no-where is this more evident than at the annual Kunstvlaai, held in the Westerpark. This year's Kunstvlaai 6 ran between ...

CSI OTTAKRING: SUPER SPECIAL AGENT UZGUR AND HIS TWO ASSISTANTS

2006.6.5　 Text: Christina Merl

When Super Special Agent Uzgur, a dutiful civil servant whose ambitious goal in life is to fight against racism, sex and crime in Vienna's district of Ottakring and whose grim day-to-day adventures include broken coff...

JOHN BOCK “LüTTE WITH OTHERS”

2006.6.5　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

"If there is a goddess, there is a prostitute" when I started being interested in contemporary art, someone told me so. It is one way of thinking, which has influenced my thoughts. A very impressive phrase that symbo...

RINKO KAWAUCHI EXHIBITION

2006.6.5　 Text: Sayaka Hirakawa

The photographers' gallery, one of the most well known UK's public gallery, exhibit first Japanese photographer, Rinko Kawauchi, who is known as her books "Hanako", "Utatane". The exhibition starts with the viv...

CCA MFA EXHIBITION 2006

2006.6.5　 Text: Ammon Haggerty

California College of the Arts (CCA), has a long standing reputation for turning out some of the San Francisco Bay Area's finest talent. The annual MFA exhibition is a showcase for the graduating class. The show featu...

RES 10 RELEASE PARTY

2006.6.5　 Text: Christopher Lenz

For the ninth time RES presents its annual selection of 10 international creators to watch out for in 2006 and beyond. Anyone familiar with the RES Magazine will take their 'advice' dearly and check out these visual a...

PETER VOGEL EXHIBITION

2006.6.5　 Text: Carlos J. Gomez

Bitforms gallery just had an excellent show presenting Peter Vogel's first New York solo exhibition in over 20 years. Peter Vogel (b. 1937, Germany) is a pioneer in the field of interactive electronic sculpture. He wa...

SLEEPOVER PSYCHEDELIA

2006.5.5　 Text: Kat Lo

As I was talking with Arnault Castel, the man behind Kapok, a shop-cum-gallery nestled in a quiet history-laden district of Hong Kong, an adrenaline-fuelled twentysomething lugging a large backpack, portfolio, and sle...

GO GAGA VOL.2

2006.5.5　 Text: Emanuelis Ryklys

Go Gaga stands for migrating audiovisual event series in Lithuania. It tries to organize modern visual & sound journeys in uncommon city spaces. Go Gaga is initiated and organized by Partyzanai DJs and RUT RUT col...

QUEENSDAY 2006

2006.5.5　 Text: Ania Markham

Every year the Netherlands winds itself up, ready for the last day of April. Queensday (or Koninginnedag) is not to be underestimated. A public holiday on a scale rarely seen in other countries, it's a day when the Du...

HOMELESS FOOTBALL WORLD CUP

2006.5.5　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

"In October 2003, while I was having a cup of coffee in a bar and reading Hecho en Buenos Aires, I found a small article about the last championship. I immediately circled it and wrote Documentary. I wanted to tell th...

TREASURES

2006.5.5　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

Up-and-coming Berlin-based artists have joined this group exhibition, curated by internationally acclaimed artists - Janet Cardiff, Rebecca Horn and Robert Wilson parallel to the Berlin Biennial. The location is a for...