ROJAK

2005.7.4　 Text: Fann ZJ

Take ten of everything and put them together with alcohol and what do you get? Rojak! Rojak the local salad sees chunks of pineapple, cucumber, turnip, dough fritters and fried tofu infused with prawn paste, accompani...

THE 52ND SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL

2005.7.4　 Text: River Yin

The Sydney Film Festival (SFF) is back! From 10th to 25th June the SFF will showcase over 170 films from 39 countries, including the best of the latest features, documentaries and shorts. Direct from London, On...

RE-SEARCHER “WE ARE ALL LOOKING FOR SOMETHING NEW”

2005.7.4　 Text: Carlos Matias

Re-Searcher presented "We are all looking for something new" a collective exhibition of illustration, painting, drawings and video. This exhibition took place in a store called Mousse, situated in Bairro Alto, Lisbo...

TROUBLE 1: FEMALE BODY

2005.7.4　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

There is a building called Stadtbad Oderberger in Prezlauerberg, a district in northeast Berlin. It was originally a swimming pool, designed by Ludwig Hoffmann, an early 20th century architect, and used up until the l...

ANDREA VILLIANI “NO MANIFESTO”

2005.7.4　 Text: Francesco Tenaglia

The 2005 edition of the pioneering prize Premio Bonaldi per l'Arte - EnterPrize, dedicated to under 30s curators and now in it's second edition, has been awarded to Andrea Villiani's "No Manifesto". An engaging exhibi...

THE EROTIC SHOW 2005

2005.7.4　 Text: Mark Buswell

The word "erotic" is powerful. It carries with it a mixed bag of meanings and connotations including sex, lust, beauty, taboo, desire, morality and danger. It rides the fence between oh-so-good and oh-so-bad, and exci...

MARGARET KILGALLEN “IN THE SWEET BYE & BYE”

2005.7.4　 Text: Reto Caduff

It was a scene at the opening of Margaret Kilgallen grand retrospective at the Redcat Gallery in downtown L.A. The contrast couldn't have been greater: the outside of the gallery a metal object (the famous Gehry desig...

SONAR 2005

2005.7.2　 Text: Peta Jenkin

It's a clear day, promising fine, warm weather in Barcelona, as our plane taxis out across the tarmac and we're reminded of the 'brace, brace' position. There's a girl sitting next to me getting stuck into a jumbo cro...

THE ALBUM RELEASE PARTY

2005.7.2　 Text: Yasuharu Motomiya

The art book "THE ALBUM" has been released by BEAMS T. In it a relationship between vision and music is consciously enclosed. Neither is a main as "THE ALBUM" approaches the realm of art on both sides of vision and mu...

CUSTOMIZE ME EXHIBITION

2005.7.2　 Text: Patricia Gauna

This is not the first time that a brand like VANS, invite other art disciplines to act over its shoes. Last edition of the alternative fashion "CIRCUIT" by exellence in Barcelona was a good example: two young designer...

ROJO® 4TH ANIVERSARY PARTY

2005.7.2　 Text: Patricia Gauna

How to explain that when a magazine like ROJO® reaches four years it seems like a lifetime? ROJO® began focusing in grafical tendencies, becoming later a vehicle to different and multiple faces: events, music fest...

COMMUNICATE: INDEPENDENT BRITISH GRAPHIC DESIGN SINCE THE SIXTIES

2005.6.4　 Text: Wong Joon Ian

Communicate, a survey of the last 40 years of independent British graphic design that debuted at London's Barbican last year, is currently winding its way through China, with the help of - who else? - the British Coun...