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Pixelgarten is adrian nießler and catrin altenbrandt, designers from Germany. I love these photographs, particularly the sweatshirt. [though the crafty, yarn head is pretty funny too] And Iheartphotograph is my new favorite blog. Check it out HERE.
I love this...
"It is possible that we are in the process of experiencing a new relationship between art and practice. Alarm clocks ring sixty seconds every minute, works of art follow reality, again calling for a hundred flowers to appear, things fall apart. The arts are entering the space outside themselves, looking hard to the future. It is an all-out search. Many see a state of emergency. What now is the role of the artist?"
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One of the most interesting artists working today, Catherine's work is intellectually rigorous, aesthetically lush, and often more than a little perplexing. Expect nothing less from the sound of this new, multi-channel piece set to premiere the end of this month. Get there any way you can! I will...
Congratulations Catherine!
From the press release:
August 23-November 18
Triangle of Need Examines Wealth and Evolution
What do the Neanderthals have in common with an early 20th-century American industrialist? What are the connections between Nigerian cinema and a sprawling mansion comprising four centuries of architectural styles? These are some of the elements—physical and conceptual—that make up Catherine Sullivan’s new film project making its world premiere August 23 (beginning at 5 pm) through November 18 in the Walker Art Center exhibition Catherine Sullivan: Triangle of Need. In the multichannel video installation Triangle of Need, Sullivan orchestrates complex sets of ideas and participants to weave a nuanced story about evolution, class, wealth and poverty, and the inequalities and injustices in our global economy. The project is co-commissioned by the Walker, A Foundation (Liverpool), and Vizcaya Museum and Gardens (Miami), and will be presented in Liverpool (October 2007) and Miami (December 2007). The Minneapolis presentation is organized by Walker visual arts curator Doryun Chong...
This one seems to be generating a bit of buzz over at Inhabitat; Zigloo Domestique is another 'pre-fab' house that uses shipping containers. Aesthetics aside [opinions are like 'noses'; everyone has one, right?] the sticking point seems to be the $180/sq. ft. price tag.
Personally, I think he's done a fantastic job of incorporating DIY/Green concepts in a real-world situation--and by this I mean not simply a concept or 'project' house, but an actual home in an established neighborhood which conforms to the myriad building codes, permits and other hurdles that always accompany such a project.
Nice work!
From Inhabitat:
The home is located in Fernwood, one of Victoria’s oldest and funkiest areas, and proves that shipping containers are more than just modules for cargo transport or emergency housing. The designer has done a wonderful job of documenting the entire design process, from initial plans to delivery of the containers and final construction and furnishing. The project spans almost two years, and the final residence consists of 8 containers, 1800 square feet, and 3 stories of homey prefab space. Keith’s family home design is a great example of shipping containers and prefab techniques as a viable and accessible building approach for just about anyone.
via Inhabitat
We just missed this one as the opening was on Sat. but we could not resist posting the release--proving once again that the west coast rocks, this great new project from Craig Leonard, in addition to being conceptually intruiging and visually stunning piece, is generous to a fault. Great work!
LOS ANGELES, CA.- Raid Projects presents Craig Leonard -- Gift For The Screamers, on view August 4 - 25, 2007. Multidisciplinary artist Craig Leonard has given himself the task of finding the former members of the legendary Los Angeles punk band the Screamers in order to give them handmade records of their archival recordings.
In a continuation of his research-based practice, Leonard's "Gift for the Screamers" draws on the multifarious categories of sculptural installation, archival research, performance, audio experimentation, and community activism.
In the archives of the Centre for Experimental Art and Communication (1973-80), Leonard uncovered what he thinks could be punk's Holy Grail. For four months in 1977, the Centre housed the first punk club in Toronto under the title "Crash & Burn". One of the artifacts in the Crash & Burn collection is a rare demo tape from the Los Angeles synth-punk band the Screamers. During their active years (1977-81) the Screamers played several electrifying live shows but in the end never released an official record.
In true DIY fashion, Leonard has used the original recordings to create playable records, which he fabricated in the gallery space, simply using a rubber mold and liquid plastic. The finished records will be given to the former members of the Screamers as a symbol of the record the band never ended up making. Along with the multiple handmade records, the centerpiece of Leonard's installation is his rudimentary "laboratory" displaying the remnants of the record-making process. 
Craig Leonard's recent projects have relied on research and community partnerships including: an examination of Cuba's underground libraries; a compilation of obsolete concepts from the Oxford English Dictionary; and a proposal for an anti-canon of Canadian literature. Leonard teaches Intermedia at NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Raid Projects is dedicated to promoting the understanding and engagement with contemporary art via exhibitions that reach diverse audiences in Los Angeles, and internationally, and offer the opportunity to establish a dialogue with significant developments of our time in contemporary art practices globally. By an ongoing program of collaborations with a wide range of artists and curators we aim to present and document challenging new work in all mediums by younger, as well as more established artists, from Los Angeles, across the United States and abroad.
Since its founding in 1999, Raid has created over 100 exhibitions, both at the Los Angeles gallery and at museums, institutions, universities and alternative spaces worldwide, that have included the work of more than 500 artists from around the world. Previous projects have been manifested in London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Istanbul, Mexico City, Sydney and other cities.
via ArtNewsDaily
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We know that we probably post too much about Daniel Mendel-Black's new paintings, but we think he's on to something.
Particularly entertaining was this recent review of his work shown this month at Modernism, Inc. From ArtBusiness.com, "Daniel Mendel-Black tops his electric plaid abstracts with abrupt unsettling oblong impasto globs, the brown and black versions of which remind me of poo."
We think he probably will like this...
So much bad news lately. Dark times. Lately we've been feeling, well, like this:
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