“Senza paura, poesia gettata all’onde.“
Ivan (www.i-v-a-n.net) presenta la mostra Scala Mercalli (www.scalamercalli.it) a Roma, lanciando migliaia di barchette di carta con le poesie nel Tevere.
“Without fear, poems thrown on the waves“
Ivan (www.i-v-a-n.net) presents the exhibition Mercalli Scale (www.scalamercalli.it) in Rome, launching thousands of boats of paper with poems on the river Tevere.
video: Ivan street performance [...]
Australia at Venice Biennale 2009
Dock man to pilot Irish Republic to Venice
German Pavilion 2009 - The future always acts differently
An honor, a joy and a challenge (Israel pavilion)
New Zealand at the Venice Biennale 2009
Bruce Nauman Representing the United States at the 2009 Venice Biennale
Ragnar Kjartansson to represent Iceland at the Venice Biennale in 2009
The Danish [...]
txt: The Divine Comedy - Inferno: Canto XXVI
Ulysses and Diomed. Ulysses’ Last Voyage.
“O frati”, dissi “che per cento milia
perigli siete giunti a l’occidente,
a questa tanto picciola vigilia
d’i nostri sensi ch’è del rimanente
non vogliate negar l’esperïenza,
di retro al sol, del mondo sanza gente.
Considerate la vostra semenza:
fatti non foste a viver come bruti,
ma per seguir virtute [...]
txt: What is Check-in Architecture
What is Check-In Architecture?
Check-In Architecture is 300 documentaries.
Check-in Architecture is a free-press and a blog.
Check-in Architecture is 2 exhibitions.
Check-in Architecture is hundreds of student-produced, online and offlinedistributed
videos.
Check-in Architecture is 600 students and researchers from all over Europe
traveling across the continent to investigate folds in urban space.
Check-in Architecture is a generation living [...]
txt: Andy Warhol - Wikipedia
Warhol’s work from this period revolves around American Pop (Popular) culture. He painted dollar bills, celebrities, brand name products and images from newspaper clippings - many of the latter were iconic images from headline stories of the decade (e.g. photographs of mushroom clouds, and police dogs attacking civil rights protesters). His [...]
txt: Mixed media - Wikipedia.org
Mixed media, in visual art, refers to an artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed.
There is an important distinction between “mixed media” artworks and “multimedia art”. Mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct visual art media. [...]
link: iGoogle - Introducing artist themes for iGoogle
Introducing artist themes for iGoogle: Now you can put the work of world-class artists and innovators on your personalized Google homepage.
txt: Google: art - www.artworldsalon.com
Most of the custom themes are from the hands and keypads of web designers and animators whose names few gallery-goers would recognize. Many are [...]
txt: Sol LeWitt - Paragraphs on Conceptual Art, Artforum, 1967
In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes [...]
txt: Biennale Arte 53. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte
Si svolgerà dal 7 giugno al 22 novembre 2009, nelle tradizionali sedi dei Giardini e dell’Arsenale, nonché in vari luoghi della città, la 53. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Biennale di Venezia. Le date sono state fissate dal Cda della Biennale, presieduto da Paolo Baratta. Direttore del Settore Arti [...]
txt: re:public - www.ibrida.org
Re:public. “Re” as reply and “public” as public. The reply of the public. More than 100 artists, that were not admitted to the last Colletiva Bevilacqua La Masa, will face the public’s judgement in a open, clear and clean, confrontation. The public will be invited to leave a comment about the expositions [...]
txt: Can You Become a Creature of New Habits?
By JANET RAE-DUPREE on www.nytimes.com
Published: May 4, 2008
Brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel synaptic paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can encourage a way to innovation.
“Getting into the stretch zone is good for you,” Ms. Ryan says [...]
link: www.sale-docks.org
txt: MULTIVERSITY, or the Art of Subversion
16, 17 and 18 May 2008
S.a.L.E. DOCKS
VENICE
www.sale-docks.org
multiversity.sale@gmail.com
The event “Multiversity, or the Art of Subversion” is the fruit of a joint effort between Uni.Nomade and S.a.L.E. (Signs and Lyrics Emporium), between a trans-territorial network of militants and researchers carrying out a critical analysis of the themes of contemporaneity and [...]
