as an artis provided by the public painting machine made by Niklas Roy in collaboration with Kati Hyyppäfor the Katowice Street Art Festival. All the creative paintings were auctioned off giving everyone the chance to become an instant art collector!
as life itself... A metaphor for the ephemeral legacy of the American Dream by Chad Wright
«I
was raised in Orange County—a sprawling suburb of Southern
California built by disciples of Levittown. We lived in a tract
house, a symbol of the American Dream, just like our neighbors. (...)We spent our summers in Breezy Point, New York, (...). As children, my big brother Christopher and I would
build cities in the sand, beneath the bungalow’s slatted porch
floorboards.
In
a series titled Master
Plan, I
am conflating a child’s sandcastle with architecture typifying
postwar American suburbia. This three-part series culls artifacts
from my childhood, investigating suburbia in its vision and
legacy.Phase
One focuses
on the mass-produced tract house, re-examining it as symbol for the
model American Dream.»
that's what Raffaello Rosselli gets transforming a remnant tin shed construction from an industrial time to a light-filled office and studio at Sidney, Australia.
One Million Bonesis
a large-scale social arts practice and public installations to raise awareness of
ongoing genocides and mass atrocities in places like Sudan, South
Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Burma and Syria. For
the past three years The Art of Revolution have been collecting 1,000,000 handcrafted
bones for a three-day installation event on the National Mall in
Washington, D.C., June 8-10, 2013. The bones were laid out as a striking simbol of our common humanity. Each bone represented a call to action, a story and a voice. Thousands of volunteers, dressed in white, have created a powerful and visible symbolic mass grave:
Hell is other people the anti-social experiment by Scott Garner. Using
FourSquare, this site will track your "friends" and
calculate optimally distanced locations for avoiding them.
"This is a short trailer of sorts for a walk that I did based on my Hell is Other People app, which calculates locations to help you avoid your friends. It didn't go exactly as planned, but the results are fairly funny." S.Garner.
Project
Loon is a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space,
designed to connect people in rural and remote areas, help fill
coverage gaps, and bring people back online after disasters.
Project
Loon balloons travel around 20 km above the Earth’s surface in the
stratosphere. Winds in the stratosphere are generally steady and
slow-moving at between 5 and 20 mph, and each layer of wind varies in
direction and magnitude. Project Loon uses software algorithms to
determine where its balloons need to go, then moves each one into a
layer of wind blowing in the right direction. By moving with the
wind, the balloons can be arranged to form one large communications
network.
The
Project Loon pilot test begins June 2013 on the 40th parallel south.
Thirty balloons, launched from New Zealand’s South Island, will
beam Internet to a small group of pilot testers. The experience of
these pilot testers will be used to refine the technology and shape
the next phase of Project Loon.
Pendulum
Choir is an original choral piece for 9 A Cappella voices and 18
hydraulic jacks. The choir stands on tilting platforms, constituting
a living, sonorous body. That body expresses itself through various
physical states. Its plasticity varies at the mercy of its sonority.
It varies between abstract sounds, repetitive sounds, and lyrical or
narrative sounds. The bodies of the singers and their voices play
with and against gravity. They brush and avoid each other creating
subtle vocal polyphonies. Or, supported by electronic sounds, they
break their cohesion and burst into lyrical flight or fold up into an
obsessional and dark ritual. The organ travels from life to death in
a robotic allegory where the technological complexity and the
lyricism of the moving bodies combine into a work with Promethean
accents.
Conception,
construction and musical composition: Michel Décosterd and André
Décosterd
Interpretation: Jeune Opéra Copagnie – Les
voix
Direction: Nicolas Farine
Tenors: Wolfgang Behrenz, Alain
Bertschy, Michel Mülhauser
Basses: Francesco Biamonte, Michael
Kreis, Christophe Mironneau
Technical collaboration: Jacques
Décosterd, François Bommottet
Within
the continuum of our researches, the idea of creating a moving choir
came from our intention to instigate a relation between movement and
sound that was as close fitting and natural as possible. In Pendulum
Choir, the mechanical set up engenders physical constraints on the
singers and, as a consequence, on their way of singing. This creates
new and unexpected sonorities, a plastic parameter that we decided to
incorporate in the musical writing. Similarly, we sought to include
phenomena due to gravity, gravity forces, and acceleration forces on
the singers. These phenomena are well known in mechanics but still
foreign to musical compositions. The concept of a mass of sonorous
and moving human bodies, going through a natural distortion under the
effect of physical forces brings to mind a living organ.
Choreographed
and danced by Matt Luck and Emma Portner.
Music by Ben Howard and
Yael Naim.
Filmed by Christian Beasley.
Edited by Matt Luck.
Filmed
at Live Arts studio. liveartsla.com
«When
you're in a relationship that is stuck at it's lowest point. The days
are so long. But you have no desire for it to change. You get used to
it and you accept it.»
I
get up in the evening and I ain't got nothing to say I come
home in the morning I go to bed feeling the same way I ain't
nothing but tired Man I'm just tired and bored with myself Hey
there baby, I could use just a little help
You can't start a
fire You can't start a fire without a spark This gun's for
hire even if we're just dancing in the dark
Message keeps
getting clearer radio's on and I'm moving 'round the place I
check my look in the mirror I wanna change my clothes, my hair, my
face Man I ain't getting nowhere I'm just living in a dump like
this There's something happening somewhere baby I just know
that there is
You can't start a fire you can't start a fire
without a spark This gun's for hire even if we're just dancing
in the dark
You sit around getting older there's a joke
here somewhere and it's on me I'll shake this world off my
shoulders come on baby this laugh's on me
Stay on the
streets of this town and they'll be carving you up alright They
say you gotta stay hungry hey baby I'm just about starving
tonight I'm dying for some action I'm sick of sitting 'round
here trying to write this book I need a love reaction come on
now baby give me just one look
You can't start a fire sitting
'round crying over a broken heart This gun's for hire Even if
we're just dancing in the dark You can't start a fire worrying
about your little world falling apart This gun's for hire Even
if we're just dancing in the dark Even if we're just dancing in
the dark Even if we're just dancing in the dark Even if we're
just dancing in the dark
Produced
by: Advanced Music Director:
Sergi Caballero Director
of photography: Marc Gómez del Moral Edition:
Irene Blánquez Choreography:
Cheeky Cheerky Dancers:
Cheeky Cheerky Music:
"Strings of life" -- Derrick May - Courtesy of Transmat
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