Teresita Fernández is a conceptual artist best known for her prominent public sculptures and unconventional use of materials. Fernández’s work is characterized by an interest in perception and the psychology of looking. Her experiential, large-scale works are often inspired by landscape and natural phenomena as well as diverse historical and cultural references. She is a 2005 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and has received many prestigious awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award, an American Academy in Rome Affiliated Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Artist’s Grant. (source)
"The red desert had an incredible feeling of energy; ideas seemed to radiate from it along with the heat. The field of light installation was one idea that landed in Bruce’s sketch book and refused to dislodge from his mind." Homepage Field of Light
“BEAST is the only true inspiration in the worldwide boring web. Beast is the fusion between print and web. BEAST is a magazine, a book, a lifestyle, an insult, a religion. BEAST is overrated and undervalued. BEAST is good, bad and ugly. BEAST is the bible of inspiration. BEAST is the end of the web. BEAST is for frustrated and bored web/print designers out there who work in small, dark offices and limit their life in totally overrated advertising / media agencies. Beast is against boring design, against everyday design that penetrates our precious life. Of course. BEAST is also a good read for uncreative creative directors.”
Tomás Saraceno w(b. 1973 Argentina) resides in Germany. He did postgraduate work in Art & Architecture at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (2001-2003).
“Entering the work is also entering the world of the dream of the red mansion transposed to the 21st century” --Serge Salat
Note the video is in FRENCH, but you can see Françoise Labbé and Serge Salat's art
Françoise Labbé is an artist, architect and art historian.
Serge Salat is Polytechnique, technocrat, architect, artist and writer.
Film by Vittorio E. Pisu
Jimi Hendrix 07-30-1970
Raibow Bridge Concert
Maui, Hawaii, USA
Rainbow Bridge is a 1972 film directed by Chuck Wein that features footage from a Jimi Hendrix concert, and a short piece of conversation between Pat Hartley, Wein and Hendrix.
Born in Shantou, Guangdong Province, China, Lives and works in Hong Kong.
What are TRUTH and REALITY? Do they exist? Can people perceive or find them out? And how?
Generally, those concepts and ideas accepted and believed by the majority would be considered as “Truth” or “Reality”, but is it really the case or they are just relatively “true” and “real”? We can say that the so-called “Truth” and “Reality” are subjective, temporal and regional.
The appearance of things does not necessarily reflect the inner ‘Truth'. Beautiful things could be either beautiful or ugly inside and the same case also applies to ugly or vulgar objects. The linkage between the surface and the inside, the outer and the inner is rather fragile and is relied on how people perceive or interpret things and whether they would carry out these processes under the existed norms, believes or from different points of view.
The so-called “Art”, for some artists, has its own realm that exists for its own sake and does not or even should not reflect or interact with the things and objects outside. However, as we are living in the world and are surrounded by different things and objects, the ways we think, live and behave are inevitably affected by and linked with the outside world. In fact, we are embedded in a close and inseparable relationship with our surroundings. For me, art is not emancipated from the world but rather reflect or link with it. By posing different kind of questions and thinking about what we are familiar with, what happens around us and the legitimacy of pre-existing things, ideas, believes, etc., showing altered compositions which is different from the existing, and combining and juxtaposing the classic, elegant form with vulgar, secular content, viewer would be lead to rethink about the legitimacy, authority and authenticity of the existing views and ideas from a different angle. (source)
Every Being That Opposes Progress Should Be Food For You (Second Seal from The Seven Seals series)
(you need to give it some time before things start to move)
LINK to homepage (click on video and you can download his videos from the Seven Seals)
This is a dedication for NYPD officer Anthony Bologna, who took it upon himself to walk up to a group of peaceful demonstrators that were cattled (caged) behind an orange fence by the NYPD. Officer Bolognia maze them with pepper spray, then turn around and walk away as if nothing happened. Thank you for showing so openly what the NYPD stands for: "if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” Abraham Lincoln said that.
Let's hope they don't give this cat a gun and won't let him run with scissors either!
Lyrics to the song:
Mama! Mama!
Someone said they made some noise
The cops have shot some girls & boys
You'll sit home & drink all night
They looked too weird . . . it served them right
Mama! Mama!
Someone said they made some noise
The cops have shot some girls & boys
You'll sit home & drink all night
They looked too weird . . . it served them right
Ever take a minute just to show a real emotion
In between the moisture cream & velvet facial lotion?
Ever tell your kids you're glad that they can think?
Ever say you loved 'em?
Ever let 'em watch you drink?
Ever wonder why your daughter looked so sad?
It's such a drag to have to love a plastic Mom & Dad
Mama! Mama!
Your child was killed in the park today
Shot by the cops as she quietly lay
By the side of the creeps she knew . . .
They killed her too.
Born in Mainz, Germany, Nik Nowak's work is in electronic music installations. A series of different ‘Mobile Booster’ carry flexible sound-systems/ The latest is called "Panzer" (tank):
LINK to homepage
Johan Rijpma (1984) studied at the Utrecht School of the Arts (Faculty of Art, Media and Technology) in Hilversum. By making short films, music videos and animations, he studies his unpredictable environment. (source Vimeo)
"People want you to think in a certain way, and this sport actually allows you to push your horizons further, its just, its not boxing you in, and saying that’s what you are, its like, your moving past it all..." Sebastian Vanderwerf
JR’s career as a photographer began when he found a camera in the Paris subway. In his first major project, in 2001 and 2002, JR toured and photographed street art around Europe, tracking the people who communicate their messages to the world on walls. His first large-format postings began appearing on walls in Paris and Rome in 2003. His first book, Carnet de rue par JR, about street artists, appeared in 2005.
In 2006, he launched “Portrait of a Generation,” huge-format portraits of suburban “thugs” from Paris’ notorious banlieues, posted on the walls of the bourgeois districts of Paris. This illegal project became official when Paris City Hall wrapped its own building in JR’s photos.
(more in source-link below)
As he is anonymous and doesn’t explain his huge full-frame portraits of people making faces, JR leaves the space empty for an encounter between the subject/protagonist and the passerby/ interpreter.(source TED)
LINK to his homepage. Check it out: lots of images and projects.
Kant's thesis was that music and laughter bypass thought processes while eliciting instant physiological effects. And that, not because "they don't mean anything" but because, due to the nature of the aesthetic ideas they embody, music and laughter don't need to be first analyzed in order to have an effect.
Here is what Kant actually said: "But as the play of chance is not one that is beautiful, we will here lay it aside. Music, on the contrary, and what provokes laughter are two kinds of play with aesthetic ideas, or even with representations of the understanding, by which, all said and done, nothing is thought. By mere force of change they yet are able to afford lively gratification. This furnishes pretty clear evidence that the quickening effect of both is physical, despite its being excited by ideas of the mind." (source)
Rabbi Akiva says: “Silence is a fence to wisdom”. What more astonishing definition is able to grasp the meaning of Bruno Walpoth’s sculptures, if not this very one? There’s peace in his silence; it’s precisely this rarefied and surreal dimension that is inhabited by the creatures to whom he gives shape, and whom he models peremptorily and with perfection, after having carefully observed and studied reality. He uses candid and resistant lime wood or lead leaf foils which he lays out on the wood and hammers as in an embossed work, like in “Walking alone”. Here it’s as if for a very brief moment flesh has turned into metal, a deaf and bleak metal that devours all thoughts and releases the weight of solitude and introspection; the skinny and bony face is moulded on the hollow spaces where the sculptor reveals himself. And when the eyes send deep desolate gleams or when they express astonishment and amazement, or, furthermore, when they are closed, it’s always the silent torment of doubt that we grasp from the artist’s soul. Danila Serafini (from walpoth.com)
Gil Scott-Heron, a poet and singer whose best known work is perhaps "The Revolution Will Not be Televised," died May 27, 2011 at the age of 62. He had collaborated with musician Brian Jackson, created musical fusion of jazz, blues and soul music, and used rapping and melismatic vocal styles. His lyrics exposed social and political issues (see below the 4 documentary videos).
BBC Four: Part 1
BBC Four: Part 2
BBC Four: Part 3
BBC Four: Part 4
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
You will not be able to stay home, brother. You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out. You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip, Skip out for beer during commercials, Because the revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be televised. The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox In 4 parts without commercial interruptions. The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary. The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by the Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia. The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal. The revolution will not get rid of the nubs. The revolution will not make you look five pounds thinner, because the revolution will not be televised, Brother.
There will be no pictures of you and Willie May pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run, or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance. NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32 or report from 29 districts. The revolution will not be televised.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers in the instant replay. There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers in the instant replay. There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process. There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving For just the proper occasion.
Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and women will not care if Dick finally gets down with Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people will be in the street looking for a brighter day. The revolution will not be televised.
There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock news and no pictures of hairy armed women liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose. The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb, Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth. The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be right back after a message bbout a white tornado, white lightning, or white people. You will not have to worry about a dove in your bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl. The revolution will not go better with Coke. The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath. The revolution will put you in the driver's seat.
The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised, will not be televised, will not be televised. The revolution will be no re-run brothers; The revolution will be live.
Below is an image collage with Gil Scott-Heron's The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
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