HAPPENING
"Performance art is anything but bookish which could explain the lack of written history which has contributed to many misconceptions. The Academy's misrepresentation and misunderstanding have left performance art as ...
HAPPENING
I recently took the time to visit the Tokyo Doll Show at the DX here in Toronto on the advice of my friend Derrick Hodgson (MDRL, Hoboyard). I was aware of some of the interesting new things happening such as the caps...
PEOPLE
First impressions can be deceiving and nowhere is this more evident than in the work of Aico Dinkla. He creates beautiful clothes but to call him just a fashion designer would be a disservice. To call him an artist is...
PLACE
It was a sunny Sunday morning when I took a ride to La Boca, one of the most ancient and popular neighborhoods of Buenos Aires. I didn't really know what to expect, because I used to go there as a child and it wasn't ...
HAPPENING
Color Space e-basis, Bertl Mutter, composer, Vienna, 2003 "Colour is visible light. This light becomes space - Colour Space. In the Colour Space your body turns into light, Into immaterial colour - on the move....
PLACE
This summer Wibke, a good friend of mine, was working at the art-association "Springhornhof" in Neuenkirchen, a small village out in the country. As I visited her, I had my first contact with landscape-art. I think...
HAPPENING
Lavapies is one of the most mixed neighbourhoods of Madrid. Just one metro stop from the city centre, The Puerta del Sol, its streets and houses bring together a large percentage of the immigrants who have arrived in...
HAPPENING
A digital film festival DOTMOV FESTIVAL will be held under the auspices of Hokkaido Foundation For Cultural Activities with the aim of discovering talented creators and providing an opportunity to show their works. We...
HAPPENING
Artist Dave White has given running shoe aficionados an opportunity to immortalise their favourite sneakers once they have worn away. In a recent London exhibition named "Clash of the Titans: An exhibition of Nik...
PEOPLE
On one Friday night, I get a phone call from a friend asking me if I want to stop by a gallery opening. I ask him what the show was and he tells me, "Oh, some drawings and illustrations." Nothing particular to do that...
THINGS
"VAS: An Opera in Flatland" is an experimental novel by author Steve Tomasula and the Chicago-based graphic artist and typographer Stephen Farrell. The story attempts to imagine the future of a family' th...
HAPPENING
For the last 10 years the 111 Minna Gallery in the SOMA District of San Francisco has been a center for art, music, film and nighttime leisure (read drinking and dancing). This is where the tragically hip and just pla...
