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      30 Aug 2008

      These considerations aside, however

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      txt: Manifesta 7 - Frieze Magazine
      When Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, was first instituted in 1993, it was in the spirit of cultural exchange, globalization and European integration that followed the end of the Cold War. In being an itinerant entity, Manifesta had a double remit: first, to present a picture of a pan-European cultural field; and second, to reflect specifically on the often troubled border zones in which the biennial was sited. [...] The slightly uncertain focus of this year’s Manifesta reflects perhaps as much biennial fatigue as this more widespread move away from such key biennial assumptions. Indeed, spread out across four sites (in three cities and one abandoned fortress) in the affluent Italian region of Trentino–South Tyrol, the four shows that comprised Manifesta all faltered – and, interestingly, in different ways – in responding to the notion of the continent at large, or even the specific history of the locale. These considerations aside, however, Manifesta brought together some very good work.
      video: Extreme Mountain Bike Crash with 170 kph - kutlesch on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNwmpLPhoHw]
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      29 Aug 2008

      Architecture is not building

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      txt: OUT THERE - Venice Biennale Architecture 11th International Architecture Exhibition The 11th International Architecture Exhibition entitled Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, directed by Aaron Betsky and organised by La Biennale di Venezia presided over by Paolo Baratta, will take place in Venice from Sunday, September 14th to Sunday, November 23rd 2008. The preview will be on September 11th, 12th and 13th.
      Betsky goes on to point out “what should be an obvious fact: architecture is not building. Buildings are objects and the act of building leads to such objects, but architecture is something else. It is the way we think and talk about buildings, how we represent them, how we build them. This is architecture. More generally, architecture is a way of representing, shaping and perhaps even offering critical alternatives to the human-made environment. In fact, buildings are not enough. They are the tombs of architecture, the residue of the desire to make another world, a better world, and a world open to possibilities beyond the everyday. In a concrete sense, architecture is that which allows us to be at home in the world”. “The challenge of the 11th – underlines Betsky - is to collect and encourage experimentation in architecture. Such experimentation can take the form of momentary constructions, visions of other worlds, or the building blocks of a better world. This Biennale does not want to present buildings that are already in existence and can be enjoyed in real life. It does not want to propose abstract solutions to social problems, but wants to see if architecture, by experimenting in and on the real world, can offer some concrete forms or seductive images”.
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      26 Aug 2008

      In Venice, everybody is always lost so you don't feel bad

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      via: The Blitheness of the Art World by Felix Salmon www.portfolio.com txt: Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton - www.amazon.com
      A couple of tables away, amid a scruffier entourage, sat John Baldessari. The sage L.A. artist was drinking a no-nonsense vodka on the rocks with his long legs stretched out in front of him. This year he was staying at the five-star Danieli... "Now I receive a lot of invitations, but I usually say no," he said with some satisfaction... Although he despairs of the social hierarchies and the "visual overload," Baldessari has come to like Venice, in part because he has a bad sense of direction. "I'll turn the wrong way coming out of the elevator every morning," he said. "In Venice, everybody is always lost, so you don't feel bad when you pass someone you know sitting at a café for the third time in ten minutes."
      video: get lost - webglia on blip.tv [blip.tv ?posts_id=365176&dest=-1]
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      10 Aug 2008

      Venice Biennale 2009: UK, Swiss

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      link: - L'OFC envoie Silvia Bächli et Fabrice Gygi à la 53e Biennale artistique internationale de Venise (en) The OFC sends Silvia Bächli and Fabrice Gygi at the 53rd Biennale in Venice - Steve Mcqueen to represent Britain at the 2009 Venice Biennale video: Happy Tree Friends: Just Desert - MondoMedia on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr3e50OyDSo]
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      3 Aug 2008

      The artist today is no longer a simple producer of metaphors

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      txt: L'arte di reti e relazioni, la net art e la condivisione ("Network art and relations, net art and sharing") - Punto Informatico
      [en] The artist today is no longer a simple producer of metaphors. His is not a mere symbolic function in society. It is vice versa an active partecipatore involved "directly" in production processes and social problems around them. It is this sensitivity to work cooperatively, to be able to perceive and interact with the processes social and anthropological, as well as technological, keeping firmly in front of where the beacon of ethical values-oriented common good, instead of profit, this is the sensitivity and the priority that the school must be able to convey to their students. The keywords of the School are terms like report, cooperation, interdisciplinareità, interaction, intercreatività or communication. --------------- [it] L'artista oggi non è più un semplice produttore di metafore. La sua non è una mera funzione simbolica all'interno della società. È viceversa un partecipatore attivo che interviene "direttamente" nei processi produttivi e sociali che lo circondano. È questa sensibilità al lavoro cooperativo, al saper intuire ed interagire con i processi sociali ed antropologici, oltre che tecnologici, mantenendo ben saldo di fronte a se il faro dei valori etici orientati al bene comune, anziché al profitto individuale, è questa la sensibilità e la priorità che la Scuola deve saper trasmettere ai propri studenti. Le parole chiave della Scuola sono termini come relazione, cooperazione, interdisciplinareità, interazione, intercreatività, oppure comunicazione.
      video: "Face Gear" by Giuseppe Ragazzini [vimeo=http://www.vimeo.com/1045435]
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      20 Jul 2008

      Venice Biennale 2009: Canada

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      see also: Venice Biennale 2009 first entries txt: Artist Mark Lewis will represent Canada at the 2009 Venice Biennale of Visual Art
      It is critical that Canadian contemporary artists travel and exhibit their works internationally, said Robert Sirman, Director of the Canada Council for the Arts, and there is no more prestigious international venue in the visual arts than the Venice Biennale. The Council is proud to play a major role in the Canadian representation in Venice. We are deeply proud and thrilled to be able to present Mark Lewis’ new project at the Venice Biennale, says Barbara Fischer. Often focusing on singular moments in the contemporary urban or rural environment, his quietly majestic works offer a cinematic experience of time while remarking on the ruptures of history. They combine, in a new way, pictorial traditions with the genres and techniques of film to analyze both, and thereby offer poignant perspectives on the displacements that characterize modern life.
      video: Copa Cabana- by Liza Manelli (Muppet Show Segment) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eek-XeZvHn0]
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      20 Jun 2008

      A Manifesto for street poetry

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      "Senza paura, poesia gettata all'onde." Ivan (www.i-v-a-n.net) presenta la mostra Scala Mercalli (www.scalamercalli.it) a Roma, lanciando migliaia di barchette di carta con le poesie nel Tevere. "Without fear, poems thrown on the waves" Ivan (www.i-v-a-n.net) presents the exhibition Mercalli Scale (www.scalamercalli.it) in Rome, launching thousands of boats of paper with poems on the river Tevere. video: Ivan street performance in Rome by xister on vimeo.com [vimeo 1149083]
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      15 Jun 2008

      Venice Biennale 2009 first entries

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      Australia at Venice Biennale 2009 Dock man to pilot Irish Republic to Venice German Pavilion 2009 - The future always acts differently An honor, a joy and a challenge (Israel pavilion) New Zealand at the Venice Biennale 2009 Bruce Nauman Representing the United States at the 2009 Venice Biennale Ragnar Kjartansson to represent Iceland at the Venice Biennale in 2009 The Danish Pavilion and The Nordic Pavilion In the 2009 Edition of the Venice Biennale video: the muppets show intro [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh_aG5MzPVM]
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      13 Jun 2008

      Virtue and knowledge

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      txt: The Divine Comedy - Inferno: Canto XXVI Ulysses and Diomed. Ulysses' Last Voyage.
      "O frati", dissi "che per cento milia perigli siete giunti a l’occidente, a questa tanto picciola vigilia d’i nostri sensi ch’è del rimanente non vogliate negar l’esperïenza, di retro al sol, del mondo sanza gente. Considerate la vostra semenza: fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza".
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      'O brothers, who amid a hundred thousand Perils,' I said, 'have come unto the West, To this so inconsiderable vigil Which is remaining of your senses still Be ye unwilling to deny the knowledge, Following the sun, of the unpeopled world. Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang; Ye were not made to live like unto brutes, But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge.'
      img: Good Morning Lemmings - alecmuffett on flickr.com
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      12 Jun 2008

      Check-in Architecture

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      txt: What is Check-in Architecture
      What is Check-In Architecture? Check-In Architecture is 300 documentaries. Check-in Architecture is a free-press and a blog. Check-in Architecture is 2 exhibitions. Check-in Architecture is hundreds of student-produced, online and offlinedistributed videos. Check-in Architecture is 600 students and researchers from all over Europe traveling across the continent to investigate folds in urban space. Check-in Architecture is a generation living low-cost, travelling low-cost, aware of communication dynamics and their roles in it. Check-in Architecture: the project Check-in Architecture is a participatory research project, supported by the International Union of Architects (UIA), the Venice Biennale of Architecture, and the 2008 World Design Capital, Turin. We invite art, architecture, design and creativity students from the best universities in Europe (you can find the complete list under the heading universities) to film spaces and people all over the continent. You will have the opportunity to travel for free, with logistical support from the Check-in Architecture office. In every city, you will accomplish a mission, producing a short documentary based on a script and a set of instructions
      video: Tutorial: the explanation of the project - checkinarchitecture on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afEo5bAD2uI]
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