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Splashes of white against the static somber of black. Bodies of motion versus bodies of inactivity. Reality versus appearances. Classical Bach juxtaposed with the Chinese flow of Tai chi. These are just some of the co...
THINGS
Rustle-rustle, pyuuuu pyuuuuu, wshalalalala. On a fine autumn day, Windy, waking up under the tree, notices the sound of winds. Windy loves a windy day when she can fly a kite. She enjoys a blue kite flying in t...
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Since November 2002 and during the year 2003 the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA) has introduced the series 'Contemporary', which involves five leading curators and multiple emerging artists of the...
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Somehow I got an invitation to the Nordic Embassies to check out an exhibition of 23 young designers from Island. The Danish, Swedish, Norwegisch, Finnish and Islandish embassies are all packed together in style in pr...
PLACE
On February 15th, the Hamburg based music and booking agency MFOC (Music For Our Children) held a showcase at the Waagenbau, a location right in the Schanzenviertel in Hamburg. Being known in and around Hamburg for ...
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Video is an artistic medium that has become increasing relevant in Spanish art in the last few years. The number of artist-producers continues to grow and it is about time there was a good review on it. Commissioned ...
THINGS
Last night, I saw a movie in the MK2 film theater. I really appreciate "Gracias a Dios" a short film of Francois Koltes. Francois Koltes is the Bernard-Marie Koltes brother (Bernard-Marie Koltes is a very famou...
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From 15th to 23rd of February this year, the Victoria & Albert Museum in Kensington, London ran a photographic workshop, exhibition and competition under the title 'Snap Happy Days'. The event was timed to c...
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I have been writing Shift since 1999 and there have been very few times that I wrote about something not related to art, design or culture. In fact, the only time that I wrote about such news was September of 2001. An...
THINGS
Bridge Magazine is an independent journal covering just about everything - literature, visual art, music, even philosopher Charles Taylor's 'the end of mediational epistemology'. Published triannually, the quality of ...
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I'm going to speak to you about my 12th March 2003 evening. A few drinks and a quick Chinese lunch later, I assisted the Jimi Tenor Show in a famous Parisian jazz club the New Morning. Jimi Tenor is a Finnish ...
HAPPENING
Bathers in Wave Pool, Orlando, FL, 1999 © Alex MacLean I visited the venue of the photography exhibition titled "Americaland" with my friends Kantin and Mat. It was organised in the spacious office of the BET...
