"overclean is dirty" by sissel tolaas

smell tell a lot about you, us and the world. sissel tolaas says everything we have not heard about perfume or what we wish to hear about smell!!! cliches and other realities about smells. how is possible indetify reality for the sake of communication though the act of smelling. we almost can smell it when she talks. she should make a film with john wathers.

listen her talking here at showstudio or watch the short version show°°°

street art everywhere online

cool idea to put street art in one portal ekosystem.org
street arty as istudio or atelier in another streetfiles.org
another cool thing is that blu and swoon were collaborating recently in barcelona.
see image above.

the real web_art

artist are producing loads of projects on the web, some more successful then others. but publishing on the net seems to be one of the most successful ones.

the real web_art is, actually, the transportation of art material in the web, through the web, with the web. most of the so called internet art or web art are not that solid enough in their contents and can become a very boring nonsense and a wast of time with lots of visual rubbish on the top of it. because the web changes so fast web art or net art can become just irrelevant for the art discourse that we are having now, which is the act of "negotiation" in and with the means of production of art.

to proove my point here is a successful web-based project xym that is a magazine_like platform which gives artists the opportunity to showcase some of their works online becoming this way part of this web_magzine. for a period of time anybody can download the material and choose to print or not. using images and texts. it is a old practice in a new package! cheers to the makers of xym.com marlie mul and yngve hole.

“the happy end of franz kafka’s ‘Amerika,’and dan graham: beyond

in his “Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective” first american retrospective at moma shows a lot of the genius he was in working with found material and constructed ones and with this mix of medias reconstructed realities. his own reality and the ones around him. somethimes his intallations could look pretty chaotic but they were all very precise and thoughtfully constructed. but in the end, i am sure, he always left some space for "chance" as well, given to his assemblage the right energy. i never forget his big show in geneve in 1997 where i saw for the first time a series of installations in the „Respektive 1997-1976“, Museé d’Art Moderne et Contemporain. what is brillant in the work of martin is that he just blended live and art perfectly. like when he wen to new york to be a guest professor. coming around 11 am to give a class, he would take the students to have a drink in the next pub to start the day. something which was not a very american thing to do. he did, indeed, redefine art!!!

it is so funny that dan grahem also a very genious type of guy has not died yet. what is very interesting is the similarities that can be found in this two artists. the intelligence and playfulness and the energy that they gave and still given to the art discourse. formally they may be quite distinct and different. but the modus operandi is the same. when you go around the glass structure from dan graham and when you look at the installation and paintings that martin kippenberg did, which always have formal reference to painting you will find out that they are generate from a truthful perception of life with help of some kind of addiction. we will enjoy this two great fellows for years to come and probebly find some secrets still hiden in they works.
graham just opened beyond at the moca in los angeles.

about realestate and artestate

art and social situations. right here in a very expensive place on the planet there is a house that was empty for some many years after serving as community center for youth in one of the central areas of frankfurt. some artist and creative individuals took over the place since last august. they call their group
"faites votre jeu" a place for art and culture. but they got from the city a notice to get out by the 15 of january.

RheinMainTV aktuell - 05.08.2008 from faites votre_media
today is the 19 of january and they just did a demonstration walk and still there. they have at the moment one exhibition called "the real estate show" done by the "free calss fmm" with really good works from taslima ahmed, timothy furey, marty kirchner, jackie tarquinio, dan starling, martin stiehl, jeronimo voss. show goes till the end of janury.


Untitled from faites votre_media

hexibition dates 10.01.2009 bis 31.01.2009, tue. 19:00 bis 22:00, wed. 19:00 bis 22:00 and sat. 17:00 bis 21:00 or by appointment as well. just call 0160-95656439

sound from the caribics

we had such a great evening at the caribic residency when
a line up of sound artists started to rave _

here the performance of mark schreiber

human existenciallity - we are more funny and similar then we think

if somebody is spelling the beans of human existence and the awkwardness of living through it, this someone is called olav breuning. just watch this two videos and you have a clue about how we still to go a long way to discover ourselves as weird humans that we are. exposing the tribal-like similarities between the swisses japaneses and papua-new-guinea locals and tourists everywhere he hits on the globe as a tiny little dot-like-village.we are trhough imagery bewn showel in out brains, every second, just to small to not be aware of our congeniality. and believe me he and brian had so much fun on doing it.

all my regards to brain kerstetter what a great performer he is.

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