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Back to Queer Festival and an interesting performance by duo of dancers / choreographers Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud… an airing experience entitled ‘Les Sylphides‘.

Because this performance explores micro-passages of human existence in conditions that limit vital functions as breathing, the force that drives it is very similar to Raimund Hoghe’s dramaturgy, but it results with completely different end and, of course, completely different poetics.

Photo: Alain Monot (c)

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Fancy Homes is a web project by artists Nikolina Ivezic and Nenad Laktasic where they’re exploring how far can we go when treating pets and making from them also a sort of a branded product perfectly suitable for branded owner in his/hers branded clothes while having a significant public (branded, too) appearance…

Ivezic and Laktasic created architecture for animals by using the same patterns and construction techniques as if they would built a house for humans with elements of camp art.

Doggy House by Nikolina Ivezic & Nenad Laktasic (c)

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Here’s very cool documentary ‘Flat Earth’ by Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead from 2007. It’s a sort of a visual tribute to the global use of internet, blogs and digital intimate thoughts shared by millions ‘anonymous’ users through digital waves…

Thomson & Craighead, duo that explores the concept of our comprehension and perception of the media, specifically the internet, are well known for their sound and video workz. So far, they exhibited their artworkz in Zentrum Kunst Media ZKM, Tate Gallery, Laboral Art Centre, The New Museum, etc…

Poster Flat Earth by Thomson & Craighead taken from Rhizome

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Being constantly at the intersections of those three arts Olja Stipanovic creates new permutated meanings, new crafted thoughts on social coding of the artist.

Her work ‘Stitches’, created from 2004 to 2008, is an artwork that explores the concept of social etiquette.

Olja Stipanovic: Stitches (c)

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Mime is essentially one of the oldest expression technique in human history, and if I would have to start now explaining all aspects of mime… (in Europe we call it Pantomine! Mr. Marcel Marceau would probably yell at us… while Mr. Ladislav Fialka would smile out loud… just kiddin’) … well, I could write for weeks only about it…

Therefore, in order to learn something new from free viral tools, I decided to post here the school of mime (pantomime)  by artist Mark Wenzel from San Diego… He’s respectable street performer and Stanford Research Institute collaborator…

Marcel Marceau

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This year’s edition of Queer Zagreb Festival was enriched for different concepts and poetics… the performative aspect of the programme re-marked the position of second and third generation in queer subculture, like Raimund Hoghe, then Ivo Dimcev, Alain Buffard, new forces as Dominic Johnson,  Andre Masseno, Francois Haignaud & Cecilia Bangolea, etc.

In the year of 2009, I’m still enjoying watching video material of early artworkz by Pina Bausch. If there is a theater, besides Butoh, that yet makes me speechless, than we are talking on Bauch’s theatre…

Photo: E. Eggermont and R. Hoghe by Rosa Frank (c)

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