http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/4837-emily-katrencik-consuming-1956-inches-each-day-for-41-days-2005//
Emily Katrencik, “Consuming 1.956 Inches Each Day For 41 Days” ( 2005)
Documentation of a performance where 1.956 cubic inches of a wall in an art gallery in Brooklyn, New York is consumed each day for 41 days until a space in the gallery wall, large enough to fit ones head through, is opened up between the gallery and the gallerist’s adjacent bedroom. Visitors to the space are offered fresh bread which contains bits of the gypsum–to help take an active position in the consumption of architecture.
SFC Shoah Film Collection 2010
On occasion of the 65th anniversary of the Liberation of the Concenctration Camp of Auschwitz – 27 January 1945-2010, VideoChannel & A Virtual Memorial Foundation launched the “SHOAH Film Collection” (SFC) – an ongoing collection of art films and videos reflecting the topic of SHOAH, which is planned to become the basis of the future exhibition project “Draft Title: SHOAH” – http://dts.engad.org – at a later stage.
Thanks to Bojana Romic (Serbia) for being curator in SFC.
XING # 07 Remembrance – Absence
HEFT 07 – 329km ERINNERUNG – ABSENZ (vergriffen / digital download http://xing.curbs.at/07/07-XING.pdf)
with contributions by: Michaela Lehner, Aleida Assmann, Matthias Osiecki, Thomas Hellmuth, Robert Schindel, Christian Angerer, Heidemarie Uhl und Franz Vranitzky
SUBVERSIVE EXCERPTS, January 29 – February 28, 2010
http://www.trafo.hu/programs/1866
The Center for Culture and Communication Foundation in Budapest, partner of the exhibition “Subversive Practices”, which was on view at Württembergischer Kunstverein in summer 2009, presents an excerpt from this project in collaboration with Trafo Gallery.
The exhibition includes work by the artists and artist groups Carlos ALTAMIRANO; Collective Actions; Taller E.P.S. Huayco; Ion GRIGORESCU; Claus HÄNSEL; Indigo Group; Letícia PARENTE; Luis PAZOS; Dan PERJOVSCHI;
Pere PORTABELLA; Ruth Wolf- REHFELDT; Herbert RODRIGUEZ und Horacio ZABALA.
The exhibition devotes itself to experimental and conceptual art practices that had established between the nineteen-sixties and eighties in Europe and South America under the influence of military dictatorships and communist regimes. The focus is on artistic practices that not only radically question the conventional concept of art, the institutions, and the relationship between art and public, but that have, at the same time, subversively thwarted structures of censorship and opposed the existing systems of power.
Award-winning editor killed in Rx robbery getaway
An award-winning film editor was tragically killed by a bunch of thugs who slammed their car into her after robbing an Upper West Side drug store last night.
Karen Schmeer, 39, of Boston, was crossing Broadway between West 90th and 91st streets when she was struck by the getaway car, a 2010 rented Dodge Avenger, and pinned her against a double-parked car, her grocery bags strewn across the street.
Schmeer, who worked on the Academy Award-winning documentary film “The Fog of War” about former Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara with acclaimed director Errol Morris, was in town editing a new film, friends said.
Transient Spaces – The Tourist Syndrome
Lecture by Magdalena Taube and Krystian Woznicki
26.01.2010, 20:30 h
Where exactly is paradise? Where is home? Who are the explorers? Who gets discovered? In today’s world, there are no clear answers to these questions.
In modernity the world was defined by way of a geographical outside, paradisal lands located beyond the networks of European expansion. The outside functioned as a counterpart that gave structure to the inside and helped shape its boundaries. In the early 21st Century this classical outside is disappearing and the world, at least in its previous form, is imploding and reforming.
The journey has already begun.
Magdalena Taube (Berlin, literary scholar) and Krystian Woznicki (Berlin, cultural critic) have published the digital mini-feuilleton, berlinergazette.de, since 1999.
\BOOK\ byproducts: On the Excess of Embedded Art Practices
byproduct examines artist’s projects whose artfulness lies in building micro-worlds within other non- artworld systems. While parasitically reliant on the socioeconomic structure and symbolic order of other dominant systems, these artworks or “byproducts” — exploit loopholes, surpluses, and exceptions in order to affirm individual agency and complicate the mechanisms of their dominant “host.” As pivots or turning points between art and other sectors, these works function as carriers for meaning across disciplines.
While responding to 20th century precedents that investigate the relationship between artists and industry, ‘Byproducts’ suggests these outlines and vocabulary for evaluating relevant analytic criteria such as the outcome, duration, retention of a critical voice, assimilation or reconciliation, etc. As a book responding to the emergent genre of ‘interventionism’ in contemporary artists’ practices, byproducts shifts focus away from the artist’s singular, anarchic gesture and instead towards the integration of art into everyday life.
read more:
http://www.rev-it.org/projects/byproducts.htm
Could be truthful: Moscow cameras streamed false pictures
Police have learned that CCTV cameras all across Moscow streamed prerecorded pictures, while the company servicing them received more than a million dollars in payments.
The company, StroyMontageService, has been accused of security fraud. Police have detained its director, Dmitry Kudryavtsev, who denies all charges saying the scandal is an attempt by his rivals to squeeze him out of the market.
The alleged fraud was uncovered during a routine check of Moscow CCTV cameras.
“From May to September 2009 CCTV cameras in several districts of Moscow streamed pre-recorded pictures instead of real-time video,” police spokeswoman Olga Dumalkina stated on Tuesday.
http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-01-13/cctv-cameras-fraud-moscow.html
Ernst Schering Foundation: Cloud Core Scanner – In the Troposphere Lab
Cloud Core Scanner – IN THE TROPOSPHERE LAB of Agnes Meyer-Brandis
info [at] scheringstiftung [dot] de
January 15, 2009 – February 27, 2010
Opening Hours: Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Free Admission
Clouds, their formation and their substance, have long been a much-discussed topic in art and science. For artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis (Cologne, studies of mineralogy and sculpture), it was thus a unique opportunity to be invited by the German Aerospace Center to participate in one of its zero-g flights, which are primarily reserved for scientific purposes, and to work under conditions of temporary weightlessness on her art project ‘Cloud Core Scanner.’
Her current installation IN THE TROPOSPHERE LAB provides insights into the material produced under conditions distant from earth. The exhibition tells of the formation of clouds and shows conditions and combinations of art and science during zero gravity.
LECTURE PROGRAM
By supporting projects in frontier areas and at the interfaces of traditional disciplines, the Ernst Schering Foundation wants to pave the way for new ideas and thoughts. To this end, the foundation has organized a lecture program in conjunction with the ‘Cloud Core Scanner’ project and invites to use the discussion as a background for discussions with scientists working in aerosol (cloud) research. For topics & dates please have a look at: www.scheringstiftung.de
CONTEMPORARY TRAVELING MOVIE SHOW
During the exhibition, the Sophiensaele in Berlin-Mitte present Agnes Meyer-Brandis’ ‘MAKING CLOUDS, or ON THE ABSENCE OF WEIGHT – A Contemporary Traveling Movie Show’ on February 5 and 6, 2010. A combination of film, performance and lecture, the traveling movie show unites contemporary art with quite surreal forms of science. More information: www.sophiensaele.com