Dec 29 2009

Interview with Chao Gan: Watching films is like dreaming

Chao Gan’s striking documentary The Red Race was the winner of Zagreb Film Festival in 2008. This year Gan was a jury member in documentary competition of the same festival. It was really a great opportunity to talk with him about his carrier, The Red Race and development of documentary genre in China.

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Nov 25 2009

Interview with Mika Fukumori: On Ototenji and IAMAS

Before I’m going to start with individual presentations from this year’s edition of Device_art 3.009, held last month in Zagreb, I owe you few wordz on the concept and origins from the organizers of the festival, Kontejner – bureau of contemporary art praxis.

mika_fukumori_ototenji.jpgMika Fukumori: Ototenji

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Nov 14 2009

E-learning: LED art

Although mostly displayed in galleries and museums, LED art has become more than fancy and expensive playing with light, diodes and wirez thanks to the DIY scene. It became also a part of street art, more precisely graffiti art…

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Jun 25 2009

E-learning: How to Perform Mime Routines

After being such good performers of mime, it’s time to end series of mime classes under the guidance of Mike Wenzel.

Today you are gonna train some Mime routines, and at the same time, you will learn how to distinguish mime from an old form of street culture, and that’s clownery. I leave gentlemen Pierrot and Harlequin for some other time…

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Jun 13 2009

E-learning: Mime Practice Exercises

Time for a new class of mime exercises by Mike Wenzel, simply to get you more into the corporal structure of this art form…

To understand truly the way body and muscles behave in mime you need several lessons of basic bodily isolation and to practice some elemental movements… this takes you to the next level of your sense of embodiment and body control…

etienne_decroux_as_Smart_Object_1.jpgEtienne Decroux as Smart Object

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