PLACE
WAAGENBAU
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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HAPPENING
MONOCANAL: VIDEO WORK OF SPANISH ARTISTS BETWEEN 1996-2002
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
FRANCOIS KOLTES “GRACIA A DIOS” (THANKS GOD)
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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DON’T THINK, JUST SHOOT
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...
HAPPENING
BLIZZARD OF NEW YORK, 2003
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
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 ...
HAPPENING
JIMI TENOR SHOW
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 ...
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ALEX MACLEAN “AMERICALAND”
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...
PEOPLE
TAKESHI HAMADA
A graphic designer Takeshi Hamada made a cover design for this issue. I guess not many people knows that it is Japanese who makes this statelessness magazine "Tiger". Not only a production of "Tiger", but also he ...
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OPEN MIND
The Mori Art Museum will open in the center of Tokyo in October 2003. As a commemorative release of the CD "Open Mind" (the museum pre open plan) the "Open Mind Live Event" was performed at Roppongi Hills Information...
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THE 6TH JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL
Prize winning works of Media Arts Festival for Cultural Affairs were announced on the 19th of November. This festival had many Japanese top media arts in 2002. It hits its 6th round and has been building as one of t...
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FUGITIVES
Fugitives is a group show that brings together seven artists from diverse backgrounds whose work fuses the formal protocols of graphic design, comics and illustration with the more traditional media of painting and co...
