MICHAEL ANASTASSIADES
mobile chandeliers
Rachael Champion
Primary Producers
Rachael Champion’s site-specific sculptures and installations are engaged in a discourse surrounding the dependant yet unclear relationship between industry, technology and nature. Her works consist of large scale constructions and dramatic architectural interventions that question the shifting interactions humanity has with the natural world and considers their boundaries, separations and progressive implications.
BRANDON VICKERD
CHAMPIONS OF ENTROPY
As a sculptor, I am interested in objects that act as catalyst for an anti-environment – a mindset or space that is not defined, and therefore, infinite in possibilities.The human tendency towards ordering has become an extension of ownership – to understand opens up the possibility of manipulation.Sculpture works in opposition to this.Sculpture is a demonstration of entropy – entropy being the measurable amount of disorder within any system. The system, in this case, is all order. Sculpture is potentially anarchy. The sculptural object is a celebration of wavering logic and structure, exposing the eminent disorder within all systems.
ZOE WALKER + NEIL BROMWICH
the encampment of eternal hope
Mark Napier
Mark Napier has been creating artwork exclusively for the Web since 1995. He combines his training as a painter with his expertise as a software developer to create “art interfaces,” software that addresses issues of authority, ownership, and territory in the virtual world.
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smoke
“A symbol of the human desire to monumentalize ideas in physical form, the Empire State Building is a subject of Mark Napier’s artwork in the past four years. This icon of American hegemony is key to exploring shifting structures of power, specifically the transition from steel to software as the medium of power in our time.”Mark Napier
MICHAEL JOHANSSON
マイケル·ヨハンソン
Майкл Йоханссон
The Move Overseas
Created by contemporary Swedish artist Michael Johansson, these “real life Tetris” installations see other people’s unwanted objects methodically and painstakingly packed together into neat, colour co-ordinated blocks. Inspired by real life coincidences, such as two people passing each other dressed in the same outfits, Johansson has been constructing the sculptures since 2007, installing them in public areas like tight alleyways and strangely shaped doorways as well as showing them at group and solo exhibitions all over the world. Speaking to PINCH magazine, Johansson said:
“These irregularities, or coincidences, are a great source of inspiration for me. I have also as long as I can remember been fascinated by flea markets. And in specific a fascination by walking around to find doubles of seemingly unique, though often useless objects I have already purchased at another flea market. There is something irresistible in the knowledge that if you don’t buy that particular object right away, the opportunity might never come back. I think the same rules compelling me to select things at flea markets are also central to my art practice, that you need to combine something very familiar with something very unique to create an interesting art experience.”
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ARNE SVENSON
I vicini
Arne Svenson è un fotografo autodidatta, ma la sua sensibilità è stata in gran parte formata dai suoi primi lavori come terapeuta/educatore che lavorava con bambini gravemente disabili. La sua visione abbraccia l’insolita e bizzarra individualità di persone e luoghi e li rappresenta con bellezza, chiarezza e riverenza. Crea la maggior parte del suo lavoro all’interno dell’ambiente controllato dello studio, e anche quando si avventura a registrare il mondo, la sua visione è informata dalla qualità degli interni del suo studio. Svenson lavora in modo seriale e ossessivo su progetti discreti che variano notevolmente, ma condividono queste qualità. Il senso dell’umorismo e il fatalismo consentono a Svenson di passare liberamente da un’ossessione all’altra, manifestandosi sempre con estrema abilità, diligenza e amore.
Actual Objects
Vicky
Vicky is an interactive film that tells the non-linear story of a future hurricane on the southern border of the United States in 2028. The narrative, which is augmented by sound design from Theo Karon, is spread across multiple screens, each of which houses a different character reflecting on the situation in different ways.
Clara Denidet
port de tête
Jason Yi
terraform 01
“A sense of location within one’s physical space, culture and history plays a crucial role in the creation of my work. While images and ideas often begin with the landscape, I am also drawn to the incorporation of non-art materials (e.g., foam, packing peanuts, bubble wrap and PVC tubes) and the juxtaposition of ambiguous imagery, deliberately subverting viewer’s visual expectations. My work invokes the paradoxical notion of “harmonious conflict” where compositional/conceptual relationship of materials and images are questioned and yet valued.”
Sal Vanilla
Light Painting Experiment
パトリック・ロションによるライトペインティング
舞踏ダンスグループのサルバニラのメンバーとつながりました。舞踏は60年代に生まれたコンテンポラリーダンスです。最初はライトペインティング、次にビデオ、そしてライブパフォーマンスという一連のコラボレーションを開始しました。サルバニラと私のコラボレーションは、純粋な共生でした。私たちは一つの創造的な生物のようでした。撮影ではほとんど言葉を使わず、ほとんど話さなかったので、これまでに見たことのない一連の画像を作成しました。これは新しいことです。彼らはそのような独特の方法で動き、1つの集合的な脳を持っているかのように彼らの体で形を成しました。それはまるで異なる体でできた一つの生き物のようでした。そのようなテーマで、私から出てきた光は、これまで私がしたことを超えていました。ちょうどいいタッチ、ちょうどいい色、ちょうどいいタイミング、ちょうどいい露出。いつもそうとは限りません。いくつかの写真撮影は奇妙で時々期待外れの結果を生み出しましたが、サルバニラでは非常に多くの画像がうまくいきました。 36のロールで、私は少なくとも12の強力でユニークな画像を手に入れました…
kristen morgin
Cello
Guy Broadhurst
We Sat Drinking Quietly
Bildstein | Glatz
Schnitzelprinz
via highlike submit
Bildstein | Glatz Schnitzelprinz, 2010 wood, screws 340 x 540 x 255 cm BANALES, ABSURDES, DUMMES, ÜBERSEHENES, UNRELEVANTES, VERBORGENES, FALSCHES UND UNSINNIGES ODER: LASSEN WIR UNS WENDEN! (…) Der Schnitzelprinz (2010), den sie für die Ausstellung “Der Blitz schlägt nie zweimal am selben Ort” ein entwickelt haben, fungiert als Perspektivenwender. Holzfaserplatten und Latten fügen sich zu einer skulpturalen Apparatur zusammen: Zwei halbrund gebogene Platten formen eine Art Rutsche. Wer sich oben hineinstürzt kommt unten gewendet heraus, erlebt die Temporary Gallery neu. Indem er den Rutschtenden um die eigene Achse vom Bauch auf den Rücken oder umgekehrt wendet, erzeugt der Schnitzelprinz einen „Rundumblick“: plötzlich steht die Welt Kopf! Auch wenn die „Rutsche“ offiziell nicht zur Benutzung freigegeben wird, implizieren Bewegung und Form die Möglichkeit des „Wendens“. Dem Schnitzelprinzen liegt die empiristische Überlegung zu Grunde, dass Bedeutung maßgeblich durch sinnliche Wahrnehmung bestimmt ist. Verändert sich ein Sinneseindruck, reguliert er unser Weltkonstrukt – kurz: was wir wahrnehmen erzeugt Ideen. Im Gedankenexperiment werden wir aufgefordert, Grundvoraussetzungen bildnerischen Sehens und Wahrnehmens zu reflektieren. Bisherige Annahmen über unsere Umwelt erweisen sich als falsch, der zufälligen Anatomie des menschlichen Körpers geschuldet. Wir müssen uns davon lösen, zufällig Wahrgenommenes als Wirklichkeit zu begreifen. Die Werke setzen ihre eigene Unabgeschlossenheit voraus. Denn um Fragen aufzuwerfen, ist es nicht nötig, Antworten zu liefern: Wir sollen weiterdenken! Deshalb legen die Künstler Spuren für den Rezipienten, der dem Experiment mit Raum, Körper und Apparatur selbst auf die Schliche kommen soll: Was wäre wenn…? Sie erforschen die Wahrnehmung des Raumes und der umliegenden Kunstwerke, die sich in der Temporary Gallery befinden: Nina K. Doeges pinke Schläuche etwa fallen nicht mehr in einer Kaskade von oben herab, sondern wachsen wie Ranken der Decke entgegen. (…) Andrea Günther, 2010.
FRANZ FALCKENHAUS
Франц Фалкенхаус
Alan Warburton
Psychometrics
Late capitalist networked culture is obsessed with improving performance. TED speakers are cult idols, sharing their commandments for success and productivity. On social networks our friends become brands, and brands become our friends. Self-help books are interchangeable with business philosophies. In the conference room – and the weekend supplements – we learn how to shape ourselves, how to be consistent, how to operate. Reduce entropy. Maximise consistency. Become an industry of one. You are an engine. One day you’ll fly away.
ISAAC CORDAL
Айзек Кордел
이삭 코달
Le belge Isaac Cordal est un artiste aux multiples facettes. Dans son projet « Bleak » il crée des sculptures en silhouette avec de petites passoires qu’il expose à la lumière pour faire apparaitre des portraits. Isaac Cordal est originaire d’espgane, il vit et travail à Bruxelles. Son dernier projet « Bleak » fait apparaitre sur le sol londonien de magnifiques visages en ombre avec la lumière des lampadaires sur des petites passoires à thé sculptées méticuleusement.
HELEN CHADWICK
海伦查德威克
ヘレン·チャドウィック
헬렌 채드윅
Хелен Чедвик
Vanitas II
In this self-portrait, Chadwick uses her own body to examine the politics and associations surrounding female portraiture and the nude. There is a direct reference to the long tradition in art of female Vanitas figures, contemplating their own image in a mirror. They illustrate the fragility of physical beauty and all human creation.
Here, the artist gazes into a mirror, which reflects one of her works, the Oval Court installation, her own ‘Garden of Delights’. It is a defiant image, confronting the inevitable process of change but not as a de-personalised or idealised nude. Rather she portrays herself as a creator in control of her own image.
michael hansmeyer
Muqarna
Baron Lanteigne
BR\CHE 3
b r \ c h e (inbreuk) is een lopend project waarbij wordt geëxperimenteerd met immersieve video. Elke iteratie verkent verschillende manieren om toegang te krijgen tot virtuele werelden via video. Deze werelden worden gesuperponeerd door rechte geometrische sneden die breuken openen in verschillende universums. Deze vervormingen verstoren het landschap om de kijker te confronteren met het medium zelf. Deze inspanning toont onze relatie met vloeibaar kristal dat nu dienst doet als een portaal naar het virtuele rijk.
