22.9.10 1
The football smoothie maker
If you imagine yourself getting fitter through sport and drinking fruity smoothies, plus you are trying to waste less energy this may be for you.
Another great piece of madness by Dominic Wilcox.
4.8.10 0
Connie Jan
"The pieces are about construction on the body via plastic surgery. Some pieces are finished and others continue transformation as the body responds to surgery over time and addictions may develop".
Via mar de color rosa.
19.5.10 1
Amandine Pierne
Last Friday I went to Swab and one I found out about Amadine's work. I was in awe. Her ideas are simple, based on daily objects, but she reconstructs them in a new way.
Imges: marker-painted kitchen roll, puzzle hoops, classified conffetti, beaded sleeping bag.
11.5.10 0
The Good, the Good and the Ugly: the good - Cori Mercade
So, good post number two: Cori Mercade.
Guess what, yes, I met her too.
Cori is an artist that paints conceptually. Now, that is not easy because as she says, "I cannot be labelled in galleries". I find that massively stupid of the gallerists because her work is gorgerous and sometimes dark, sometimes calming, but always passionate.
She explains that her labor as an artist is very much about education as well, and she set up an amazing conceptual art school for children with a friend in a coast village close to Barcelona. The work they do is about the process, not the results and there's no right or wrong. Parents quickly adapt. They teach adults, as well, and they even have a summer camp where children make movies. Isn't that just fantastic?
29.4.10 0
Helmut Smits
I can't remember where I found his work but he is awesome!
(If you do know, please post a message so I can credit this!)
He's planted a tree in front of a billboard, and he color-mixes with colorful beverages. He has also organized "white cars only" parkings and filtered coke until water comes out. And placed logos in natural landscapes.
17.3.10 0
Herstories
This semester I'm taking Art Theory and we've started off with the sexuation of education. The professor made it very clear from the first day she was an active feminist (of the difference theory). She believes that since everything we know we learn and experience through our bodies, men and women feel, learn and live differently. I think that's a very interesting theory, maybe not so much because of the difference it declares, but because of the acknowledging of a physicality of wisdom.
Ever since I've been reading the engaging with this topic, I've felt ackward. I have felt angry at the blatant discriminations, but at the same time I've felt kind of torn when presented with "women only" activities. I've understood that females are 90 % of the student body of the faculty and that should be felt somehow. And I've wondered how often are we taught about female artists.
I don't know what I intend to say, really. I have figured out I tend to connect more deeply and more often with female creators (musicians, visual artists). It might just be that the way they put the stories is easier for me to comprehend. It might be that they say things I want to hear.
I have recently been thinking about the words we use to define all this mess. Do you know when kids are bought clothes that are a bit too big for them because they grow so fast they will eventually grow big enough for them? In Catalan and in Spanish they are called something like "growing clothes" or "growable clothes". I wonder if there's such a thing in English. Well, what if there are "growing words"? Words that are a bit too large for you right now, but that you know you will eventually get to fill up and understand completely. Words like feminism or patriarchate. I feel like an impostor using them at the moment, but that might change with time.
The one thing I'd like to put out there is, can the word feminist describe the women of my generation? Has it too much of a baggage? Too many connotations? Too worn out, maybe? Again, I might grow into the word, into its size; but then again it might be the wrong kind of cut for me altogether.
Any thoughts? Any reading recommendations?
PS: Picture via PaperTissue. Wonder where it is from...
11.3.10 0
Tallas (Sizes)
This installation by Ana Alvarez-Erracalde imitates a shop, where on can try the bodies of women in different shapes, sizes, ages or races.
I am enjoying the aesthetics of it, so very boutique-y, but somehow still very butcher's. in the end, meat is meat, however it is sold to us.
What would you buy in this shop? Do you think there would be a best-seller, or that all models would have some success?
5.3.10 0
Hand/Eye Magazine: Barbie under the needle
Thanks so much to Keith from Hand/Eye magazine for being so generous with his time.
And thanks again for publishing the article. (I hope you guys like it, I don't use this blog to publish long texts, so I am very excited to see the text in such a great place!)
If you don't know this publication, go check it out! I'm a subscriber since number one and the paper editions are BEAUTIFUL.
4.3.10 0
Lúa Coderch
Lúa and I met at "Una Escola Tropical" (A tropical school), a weekend course in Terrassa.
I just found her full portfolio, and I find her work very stimulating and poetical.
She pushes her ideas to their consequential edge.
Here are a few examples of her series "Paroxism of Reading":
"Classifying Joyce"
(picking every single word out of Ulysses and classifying them alphabetically)
18.2.10 0
ARCO
I'm off to ARCO (COntemorary ARt fair) in Madrid.
Be good...
I leave you with the goollery, a website that compiles all google-inspired projects. You'll be so busy procrastinating there, you won't even miss me :)
10.11.09 0
Lauren Kalman
Really interesting conceptual jewellery work. Fabulous growth of the idea of body, embellishment and illness.
