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September 2012
Aalterations @ Le Cube – Paris
A first for Christobal de Oliveira who just presented his debut personal exhibition @ Le Cube a week ago built around his film Aalterate which draws us into exploring the psyche of a woman plunged into a coma, seeking the reason for her unconscious state. Christobal de Oliveira - Aalterate (image via Le Cube) "Aalterations" immerses the visitor in a landscape of the mind, created using constant changes and disintegrating beauty, somewhere between pure lines and crumpled sheet metal, between…
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Why does Gregor never rings?
Laure Prouvost's The Wanderer is back to MOT International in its 5th sequence, bringing the viewer into an underground bunker,
Find out more »Meat Me @ Space – London
This weekend opened Terese Schulmeister 's first debut solo show in a UK institution: Meat Me, a small but aggressively concentrated exhibition of some of Schulmeister's key artworks from her post-Viennese Actionism period in the late 80s. Still from Terese Schulmeister's Andy's Cake 1993 (via Space) Central to the exhibition are three feature-length narrative videos made between 1984 and 1991 while Schulmeister was an active member of the far-left commune established by Otto Muehl at Friedrichshof, just outside Vienna. Schulmeister’s…
Find out more »November 2012
Rencontres internationales Paris 2012
Starting next Friday and for just over a week Rencontres Internationales will be taking over Paris once again for some audiovisual and contemporary art exchange like they've been doing for the past 15 years. In this occasion Palais de Tokyo & La Gaité Lyrique (which seem to hog most cultural events in Paris lately) will become the discovery spaces for all those screenings, round tables and exhibitions R.I. proposes each year. Documentaries, experimental fiction, net art and loads of cross-media projects are…
Find out more »January 2013
Orange between orange and Orange @ Carroll/Fletcher – London
It's been a while since Michael Joaquin Grey last exhibited in London with a solo expo... 20 years is quite a long time actually, and the inventor and toy designer has had a lot of time to come up with new works that keep defying categorisation. Michael Joaquin Grey - So What 2012 - Computational cinema (image via Carron-Fletcher) For his new exhibition @ Carroll/Fletcher Grey has produced a group of new works that playfully transform the narratives and forms associated with…
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Soleil Froid @ Palais de Tokyo – Paris
The new expo cicle @ Palais de Tokyo begins next Wednesday under a frozen sun umbrella. Titled "Soleil Froid", PDT invite us for the next 3 months to explore the surface of a strange world where nothing real must enter as French writer Raymond Roussel used to say. A sun which enlightens everything and everyone equidistant to all human beings and which provides with a generous number of works displayed at the numerous spaces @ PDT. One of the first…
Find out more »March 2013
Prix Cube 2013 @ ESS – Paris
Next Tuesday we'll get to know the winner of this year's Prix Cube who will be receiving a grant of €10,000. With a first international expo, Prix Cube rewards the best digital art installation created by an artist under the age of 35. The purpose of this Prize is to uncover, highlight and support work by an emerging artist in the international digital art scene by awarding a digital artwork in the following areas: interactivity, generativity, network, internet and mobility.…
Find out more »May 2013
Open studio 2013
Second edition of the Madrilian "Open studio" initiative which started last autumn with the simultaneous opening of 38 important artistic studios during 4 days filled with talks, workshops and a good number of expo presentations & concerts. This new edition aims to be more ambitions while willing to promote local artists at the same time. 6 routes that go from the "young artists' studios" proposal to district-by-district routes... the whole lot in Spanish, a good way to practice if you're…
Find out more »June 2013
Say Watt? @ La Gaîté Lyrique
The Gaîté Lyrique´s summery expo this year gravitates around sound... sound systems to be more precise. "Say Whatt?" pays tribute to the sound system, portable audio systems, mobile discos... The invention of this form of musical expression came from the streets. From raves in Europe to demonstrations from Kingston to Belem, from France to Columbia by way of Kenya and the huge K7 sound players favored by rappers, the amplified sound of sound systems has been the common ground among…
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