we make money not art (10 unread)

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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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  Posted: 23-May-2012, 9:00am CEST

  • 'Gay' penguin couple given egg of their own
    Every spring for six years Gentoo penguins Inca and Rayas have lovingly built a nest together, only to find that no eggs arrive to fill it. It doesn't seem to have dawned on the couple that both of them are male.

  
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  Posted: 22-May-2012, 9:00am CEST

  • The Dwarf Zoo is a growing collection of insularly dwarfed animals
    Often when a species gets stuck on an island their size changes. Sometimes they grow larger like the giant turtles on the Galapagos. In Dwarf Zoo however we are interested in insular dwarfs; island animals that have evolved to a strikingly diminuitive size. Perhaps these evolutionary precursors have something to teach us.

  
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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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  Posted: 16-May-2012, 9:00am CEST

  • Portrait of the artist: Bill Viola, video artist | Culture | The Guardian
    'I fell into a lake aged six and saw the most beautiful world. My work is about getting back there'

  
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  Posted: 14-May-2012, 9:00am CEST

  • London 2012: army to use 'sonic weapon' on Thames during Olympics
    American-built 'long-range acoustic device', used by US military in Iraq, can produce deafening 150db levels at one metre

  
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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