'living in the age of drones - light' ∆ Hotel Amazonas

we reached a time that anybody can function as a drone. and that is a practice long exercised in some artistic disciplines throughout the centuries. but we now got sophisticated, hardware and software wise. but the practice itself did not change. to observe and be observed is a constant in art. somehow we enjoy to look upon things, places and people, to be able to transform it. but in the other hand we are afraid of being observed or investigated. wich is, today, almost impossible. it is part of the performative game of life.

by invitation of artists saori kuno, margareth kaserer and simon steinhauser i came to hotel amazonas open fields art festival & residency in the summer of 2015

in this occasion i decided to invite some friends from all over the world to come, virtually, with me

these are the ones that accepted the invitation

mikio saito - sapporo / japan 

dolores esteve - córdoba / argentina 

jonas jensen - copenhagen / denmark

bert jacobs - brussels & bergen / belgium / norway

young joo lee - seoul / south korea

jeremy turner - vancouver / canada

alfonso lopez - mexico city / mexico

alina vasilchenko - moscow / russia

This document is part of the collaborative piece  'living in the age of drones - light' facilitated by saul judd for the Hotel Amazonas - Open Fields - Festival and Residency 2015. More about the complete Festival participants and program can be found at www.ooooo.be/hotelamazonas

image #1 - resulted from the search. this image is to be displayed in the 
                   two exhibition spaces first in hotel amazonas and later in 
                   the off space in donwtown, bolzano, bozen

image #2 - made from the place that the traveller are and when they  
looked towards unterwangen, vanga di sotto, ritten, renon,  
bolzano, italy
this image is to be placed in the environments, outdoors,  
around the hotel amazonas

photo courtesy of hotel amazonas 

the actuall physical wall installation of this work consist of 3 elements 

A) image #1, B) image #2 and C) a text element - where the transcription of the exchange between the facilitator and the invited guests is exposed. the text element will be available only to be viewed on the physical wall installation. 

this project consists of 3 segments. 

'living in the age of drones - light'
'living in the age of drones - consistent'
'living in the age of drones - durable'

soon here will be posted the following segment.

© 2015 - all the images material are copyrighted by the owners in this case the participants.

Dolo - Córdoba /

imange #1

imange #2

Dolo with the little Luz, from Córdoba - Argentina, looking towards Hotel Amazonas

Young Joo Lee - Seoul /

imange #1

imange #2

young lee , from seoul - south korea, seating towards Hotel Amazonas

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.

home 1

home 2

'I'd love to go to the black market, if I only knew where it was!'

thanks to eurotopics we can read some of the views from Roger-Pol Droit on the economy. in ruff economic times like this it could be helpful to understand some of it's complex and tricky ways around us.

Les Echos - France | 26/11/2008
Roger-Pol Droit on the anchoring of the market

Philosopher Roger-Pol Droit writes in Les Echos newspaper about the concept of the market and how its significance has changed down the centuries with the emergence of financial markets: "'I'd love to go to the black market, if I only knew where it was!' a respectable woman said in France during the occupation, when barter trade was a necessity. What exactly did she mean? Apparently a market is first and foremost a location. A place people can go to. ... In short, a real location where people meet to buy and sell. ... Because the fact is that over the centuries markets became locations where demand and supply met and where prices were determined. ... The development of the stock markets in the 19th and 20th centuries did not alter this anchoring of the markets. On Wall Street or in the City of London ... securities and shares are now traded instead of calves, cattle, pigs and poultry, but people must still meet and prices must be agreed on. ... The global market seems no longer to have a physical location. ... And if no one knows where it is, it is easy to get the impression that the market, how should I put it ... has become black, for example."