Blaise Cepis
Brooklyn-based photographer Blaise Cepis makes pictures that are all, in some way, “not-quite-right”. Sometimes this “offness” is overt – many of his images pair naked models with mirrors or printouts in a way that renders the scene abstract. And sometimes this offness is more subtle – Blaise is drawn to scenes that feel a lot like raw mistakes, the kind that yield sterility where there should be warmth, or sexlessness where you’d expect sex.
YOUNG-DEOK SEO
Meditation
우리는 마치 거대한 기계의 부속품처럼 서로 맞물려 돌아간다. 부속품이 그렇듯 우리는 자신의 인생에서 조차 주인공이 아닌 변두리의 회색인간으로 하루하루 버티며 살고 있다. 나의 작업에서 쓰이는 체인은 속박을 의미한다. 그 속박은 타의적인 인간관계와 물질에 얽매여 있는 현대인에 삶을 의미한다. 개인의삶은 무시되는 현대사회에서 눈과 귀 입을 닫고 자신의 감정을 억누르며 버티고 있는 우리 인간의 모습을 보여주고 싶었다. 우리는 어디에서도 그것에 대해 표출하고 위안을 받을 곳이 없다. 단지 묵묵히 참고 버티고 있을 뿐… 나의 작업이 그러한 사람들에게 조금이나마 위안이 되길 바란다.
STUDIO NENDO
alice climbing wall
Anne Nguyen
Autarcie
Autarcie (….) is a game of strategy, alternating between forward-facing dance moves and free digression, in which two hip-hop dance specialties, breakdance and popping, are brought into contact. For 50 minutes, four dancers, using very different performance spaces and techniques, engage in a frantic ritual. The front of stage is the rallying point where the four powerful individualities come together and devise a warrior dance directed at the audience. They are drawn towards the empty space beyond this common point of harmony, and each dancer thrusts herself into that space, in pursuit of territory, alliances and hierarchy.
PATRICK BÉRUBÉ
Demi-Mesure
ADRIEN M, CLAIRE B & MOURAD MERZOUKI
Pixel
Ein kleiner Vorgeschmack auf die einstündige Präsentation Die Verflechtung von Körperbewegungen mit Technologie ist keine leichte Aufgabe. Die Tanzshow besteht aus 11 Tänzern in einer virtuellen und lebendigen visuellen Umgebung. Es bedurfte der gemeinsamen künstlerischen Bemühungen der Künstler Adrien Mondot, Claire Bardainne von der Adrien M / Claire B Company und Mourad Merzouk von seiner Tanzkompanie Käfig, um Pixel zum Leben zu erwecken. Eine Illusionsarbeit, die Energie und Poesie, Fiktion und technische Leistung, Hip Hop und Zirkus kombiniert.
LOLA DUPRE
ЛОЛА ДЮПРЕ
ロラ·デュプレ
萝拉杜普雷
ولا دوبري
FROM WIKTOR FOR UMAG WITH PHOTOGRAPHER KRISTIINA WILSON #4
Seth a réalisé dans cette pièce, très petite, ce qui le rend d’autant plus impressionnant, l’un de ses immenses personnages, qui s’évade la tête dans un arc-en-ciel. L’effet de profondeur sur les cercles concentriques et la douce lumière qui vient de la fenêtre parachèvent cette superbe réalisation.
CARLO VAN DE ROER
The Portrait Machine Project
KIBISHIPAUL
Danse Macabre
Esta obra se inspirou em diversas fontes, mas a música do quarteto “A Morte e a Donzela”, de Franz Schubert, foi especialmente útil: “A donzela: Ah, me deixe! Prithee, me deixe! Terrível homem de osso! Pois a vida é doce, é agradável. Vá! Deixe-me agora em paz! Vá! Deixe-me já em paz! A Morte: Dê-me tua mão, oh, donzela bela ao olhar, Pois eu sou um amigo, apesar de minha aparência aflitiva. Tenha coragem agora, e muito em breve Em meus braços tu deverás repousar suavemente!”
joan backes
where the heart belongs
FREDERIK HEYMAN
فريدريك هيمان
弗雷德里克·海曼
פרדריק היימן
フレデリックヘイマン
Фредерик Хейман
Frederik bietet in seinem wunderbar seltsamen Werk fantastische handgefertigte Sets mit Requisiten auf Urinbasis sowie einige sehr, sehr knackige High-End-Modekampagnen. Frederik gibt sich nicht damit zufrieden, nur schöne Models dazu zu bringen, die visuelle Arbeit für ihn zu erledigen, sondern schiebt ihnen Zigarren in den Mund, malt Pferde darauf oder streckt die Arme in große, fleischige Röhren. Es ist erfrischend, lustig und sehr beeindruckend, einen Mann zu sehen, der so gut in dem ist, was er tut, aber mit einem großen Element von “Ich werde tun, was zum Teufel ich will”.
Grupa Sędzia Główny
Hommage à Zofia Kulik
The group Sedzia Glowny (Chief Judge)—Karolina Wiktor and Aleksandra Kubiak—has radicalized the Polish performance-art scene. Since 2001, this unusual duo has been pushing the limits of human exhaustion to the further point of serious health conditions. By treading difficult paths, and striking the most disturbing and confusing chords, they have explored the sensual and psychological phenomena with their audiences, which include perversion, cruelty and masochism. They have tested the boundaries of gender roles under extreme conditions, experimented with games and role-playing between genders, as well as with the pleasures and responsibilities that come with power. The exhibition documents, reconstructs and closes the first stage of their activities, interrupted by Karolina Wiktor’s serious illness—the stage after which, as the artists themselves admit, the group will never be the same again.
CLAIRE MORGAN
Клер Морган
كلير مورجان
克莱尔·摩根
クレア·モーガン
클레어 모건
Over My Dead Body
A primera vista, estos objetos parecen estar en movimiento. Objetos que dan la sensación de caerse como en el caso de la manta fresa. La escultura de Belfast, Claire Morgan utiliza objetos naturales como plumas, frutas y flores que deja suspendidos de hilos de nylon obteniendo sensaciones de ingravidez o de parada del tiempo.
PETRA CORTRIGHT
VICKY DEEP IN SPRING VALLEY
Петра Кортрайт использует ряд средств, как цифровых, так и аналоговых, для исследования эстетики и перформативной культуры онлайн-потребления. Она особенно интересуется сайтами обмена видео, такими как Youtube: например, в vvebcam (2007) Кортрайт записала себя на веб-камеру, пассивно прокручивая различные эффекты на записывающем устройстве, в то время как повторяющийся бит транса играл в фоновом режиме. Несмотря на то, что видео достигло международной аудитории, Youtube удалил его в 2011 году из-за чрезмерного использования «оскорбительных» формулировок; Кортрайт назвал фильм откровенно сексуальным языком, что художник считает частью своей работы. Поддерживая грубую эстетику домашнего видео, Кортрайт часто записывает, как она выполняет простые действия и жесты, например, пинает футбольный мяч, дергает за ветку дерева или танцует в спальне. Ее работы, в которых часто используются эффекты, фильтры или компьютерная графика, выделяют видеомемы и поведение, характерные для таких сайтов, как Youtube.
hito steyerl
Robots today
32ª Bienal de São Paulo
Hito Steyerl was born in Munich in 1966. She studied in Tokyo, Munich, and Vienna before she moved to Berlin, where she lives and works today. As a filmmaker, visual artist, and author in the field of essayist documentary video, Steyerl is a frequent lecturer, has published influencial writings, and participated in numerous international exhibitions and biennials. She exhibited at documenta 12 in 2007 and in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2015.
THOMAS WEINBERGER
Sunset
YCAM InterLab + Yoko Ando
Dividual Plays
While the antonym of “individual” is “collective” in general, Gilles Deleuze (1925-95), a French philosopher, came up with the notion of “dividual” since the preposition “in” disaffirms the following word. Notions of “individual” and “dividual” have been, and continue to be, discussed in various contexts such as the economy, civil society, personal identity and more.
Through her time at The Forsythe Company, Yoko Ando came to define improvisation as “being individual but with the possibility of being collective at the same time”. While each agent performs independently, he/she is synchronized with other dancers simultaneously. RAM project began by finding shapes for the ideas in Yoko’s dancer’s mind. The piece expands on the idea of “dividual” and explores new dance, new notions of the body and the new relationships between the human body and technology by pursuing deeper interaction between dancers and the notion of system.
GROUP GELITIN
big pink bunny
Apparently, a controversial Viennese art group, Gelitin, has erected a giant pink rabbit on the side of an Italian mountainside where they plan for it to stay until 2025. According to Gelitin group member Wolfgang Gantner the bunny was “knitted by dozens of grannies out of pink wool” and is “supposed to make you feel small, like a daisy.” The artists added that they “want people to scale the rabbit’s sides and fall asleep on its stomach”. Apparently the intent of the project was to make climbers smile and provide them somewhere to lay back and relax. Gelatin members insist that the bunny is not just for walking around and that they are expecting hikers to climb its 20 foot sides and relax on its belly. Livestock are apparently urged to not eat the bunny as it is constructed out of straw-stuffed fabric.
MAIA FLORE
马亚花神
sleep levitations
French artist Maia Flore in a cool series entitled “Sleep Elevations”. A very feminine, surreal, sort of romantic artwork. Her subjects are young women being levitated by objects. Flore wishes to emphasize the attraction the girls feel towards their new, boundless surrounding, and the lightness of the reality they are entering into. Their contorted movements is meant to articulate a contrast between physical limitation and the limitlessness of imagination.
