Aug 16 2010

Interview with Ivana Jozic, part 2: Opening the channels of nonconformity…

This is the second part of the interview with Ivana Jozic. Read the first part titled Opening the channels of expressiveness…

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Photo: Theatre Troubleyn (c)

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Aug 11 2010

Body cinema: Agata Olek’s actions and performances

She will crochet us all, my dear friendz… her finger army has no mercy… Agata Olek‘s designs, actions and performances recorded by Andreas Troeger aka TechonologyArtist…

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Agata Olek: Crocheted Bike, photo by Christopher Stribley (c)

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Jul 26 2010

Judy Chicago – When Women Rule the World

Last summer Textile Museum of Canada presented Judy Chicago’s When Women Ruled the World, an exhibition covering 40 years of her art practice. Judy Chicago is shown as pioneer in many senses, resolving the stereotypes of female art, textile art, community art…., assaulting century-long models of aesthetics, patriarchal society and men-assigned monumentality.

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Would God be Female? by  Judy Chicago

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Jul 22 2010

Ernesto Neto – the art of dream, the art of life

It’s been a while since I was writing about textile art – but recently Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto took me to some new horizons of art that simultaneously goes for aesthetic and engaged. His latest exhibition ‘The Edges of the World’ has just been opened in Hayward Gallery in Southbank Centre in London, and created specifically for this occasion.

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Ernesto Neto, Horizon of events III, detail

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Jul 1 2010

Body cinema: Merce Cunningham’s solo dance in Good Morning Mr. Orwell

Here is an excerpt from Nam June Paik’s TV program called ‘Good Morning Mr. Orwell’ (1984) featuring choreographer and dancer Merce Cunningham. Cunningham dances with satellite-delayed images of himself, overlaid with crawling text about George Orwell’s time in Spain.

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Video still from Good Morning Mr. Orwell by Nam June Paik (c)

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