Items by Regine

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  Living as Form - Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011

  Posted: 25-May-2012, 11:58am CEST by Regine

  

  Over the past twenty years, an abundance of art forms have emerged that use aesthetics to affect social dynamics. These works are often produced by collectives or come out of a community context; they emphasize participation, dialogue, and action, and appear in situations ranging from theater to activism to urban planning to visual art to health care. Engaged with the texture of living, these art works often blur the line between art and life. This book offers the first global portrait of a complex and exciting mode of cultural production--one that has virtually redefined contemporary art practice continue

  
  

  

  
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  Subversion in the Arab Art world

  Posted: 22-May-2012, 8:53am CEST by Regine

  

  There's an exhibition featuring sci-fi, history, video games, homosexuality, soap operas, censorship and a powerful sense of humour at Cornerhouse in Manchester right now. The show is called Subversion and it questions and knocks around whatever assumption you might have about an homogenous 'Arab world', whatever image politicians and the media might have given you about its culture and identity continue

  
  

  

  
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  #A.I.L - artists in laboratories

  Posted: 21-May-2012, 8:26am CEST by Regine

  

  The first episode of the radio show about art & science i'm recording for Resonance FM is broadcast today Monday 21 May at 16.30 (London time.) There will be a repeat on Thursday at 22.30. You can catch it online if you don't live in London. This week i'm talking with the lovely and lively Anna Dumitriu, visual artist and respected founder and director of The Institute of Unnecessary Research continue

  
  

  

  
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  An Ant Ballet at FutureEverything

  Posted: 17-May-2012, 11:05pm CEST by Regine

  

  Ollie Palmer's Ant Ballet is a three-year research project into control systems, paranoia and dancing insects, and has culminated in the world's first ballet to exclusively feature ants. The projected insects is part of the FutureEverybody Art Exhibition at the 1830 Warehouse in Manchester continue

  
  

  

  
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  Sony World Photography Awards 2012

  Posted: 13-May-2012, 9:59am CEST by Regine

  

  object to paying £7.50 to see and exhibition which title starts with the name of a brand. I feel cheated when the show closes with a shop selling goods manufactured by the above-mentioned brand and i don't look kindly to being forbidden to take pictures (which i do purely for documenting reason) because that would mean that i won't shell more ££ to buy the booklet of the exhibition. That said, the photos selected and exhibited are so remarkable that i still feel like recommending that you go and see the World Photography Awards if you're in London continue

  
  

  

  
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  My Name Is Janez Jan?a

  Posted: 9-May-2012, 8:16pm CEST by Regine

  

  The film that inspires you to google your name again.... My name is Janez Jan?a is a documentary film about names and name changes, focusing on one particular and rather unique name change that took place 5 years ago, when three artists officially changed their names into the name of the Prime Minister of Slovenia, Janez Jan?a continue

  
  

  

  
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  American Dreamers

  Posted: 8-May-2012, 5:44pm CEST by Regine

  

  Does the American dream still exist? What is its future in an era in which the promise of happiness and economic prosperity seems to clash with an increasingly complex and difficult scenario? continue

  
  

  

  
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  The Chronocyclegraph

  Posted: 6-May-2012, 6:43pm CEST by Regine

  

  The museum of photography in Antwerp has a number of fascinating show right now. One of them is an installation by Zoe Beloff that takes as its point of departure America's longest running comic strip to explore the influence of cinema on the movement of the body and the mind. Beloff's exhibition contains a number of historical documents. Some of them show intriguing photos of sportsmen and factory workers in movement. They are called chronocyclegraphs. I had never heard of the chronocyclegraph before... continue

  
  

  

  
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  The Immortal, life-support machines keeping each other alive

  Posted: 4-May-2012, 7:48am CEST by Regine

  

  A number of life-support machines are connected to each other, circulating liquids and air in attempt to mimic a biological structure. The Immortal investigates human dependence on electronics, the desire to make machines replicate organisms and our perception of anatomy as reflected by biomedical engineering continue

  
  

  

  
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  Compulsion

  Posted: 2-May-2012, 10:48am CEST by Regine

  

  In Prager's part film noir, part fashion shoot work, heroines wear impeccable make-up, pose as if they were in a Hitchcock movie, breathe through an atmosphere worthy of David Lynch, and are submitted to ordeals inspired by the images of crime photographers Weegee and Enrique Metinides. The stories might take place in Hollywood-like settings but they promise to never end on a happy note continue