oddtag's posterous http://oddtag.posterous.com Most recent posts at oddtag's posterous posterous.com Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:07:21 -0700 Venice as a large workshop of the contemporary http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-as-a-large-workshop-of-the-contemporar http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-as-a-large-workshop-of-the-contemporar Best wishes and good luck on your new job, Mr. Orsoni txt: Inaugural address of the Venice Mayor Giorgio Orsoni - Venezia, 26 aprile 2010
The water town and the land town will be one big metropolis, with different characteristics that complete and reinforce each other, but should increasingly be linked especially in the common objectives. The city can be a large workshop of the contemporary culture production and of the green and immaterial economy, and may be the capital of the new era that awaits us: a paradigm city, a landmark of the world where the future is announced or builded. [it] Città d’acqua e città di terra saranno un'unica grande metropoli, con caratteristiche diverse che si completano e rafforzano, ma devono essere sempre più collegate e unite soprattutto negli obiettivi comuni. La città che può essere allo stesso tempo grande officina della contemporaneità, della produzione culturale e dell’economia verde e immateriale, proprio per questo può essere capitale della nuova era che ci aspetta: una città paradigma uno dei luoghi simbolo del mondo in cui si annuncia o si costruisce il futuro.

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Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:27:47 -0700 Venice Biennale - 7th International Festival of Contemporary Dance: Capturing Emotions http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-7th-international-festival-of http://oddtag.posterous.com/venice-biennale-7th-international-festival-of txt: Venice Biennale: 7th International Festival of Contemporary Dance: Capturing Emotions 26th May > 12th June 2010
Capturing Emotions is the title the director, Ismael Ivo, has chosen for this Festival, because dance, he writes, “is a workshop of human emotions and shared visions”. The Festival, organised in collaboration with the Fondazione Teatro La Fenice and with the expected support of the Veneto Region, focuses above all on two geographic and cultural macro-areas: Quebec and Canada on the one side, and Australia and New Zealand on the other, placing consolidated names such as those of Marie Chouinard and the Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal alongside young names – from Europe – that include the young and dynamic companies of the Kidd Pivot and Chunky Move. Alongside the active presence of artists from or working in these areas, the spaces of the Arsenale in Venice (Teatro alle Tese, Teatro Piccolo Arsenale, Tese delle Vergini), of the Teatro Malibran and of the Sale Apollinee in the Fenice, of the Teatro Fondamenta Nuove and of the Teatro Toniolo in Mestre will host choreographers from Italy, the United States and Sweden with original works presented as world premieres for the Biennale. A new feature for the Festival will be the opening of a separate space dedicated to the most experimental experiences in the field of dance, revealing pieces that would otherwise be little visible. Marathon of the Unexpected will be a space concentrated in a single day (12 June, from 3 to 10 p.m.) and comprising very short performances –not more than 15 minutes– to be chosen and presented on the basis of a call for entries (deadline 10th April 2010)

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Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:00:00 -0800 Artist as a special effect http://oddtag.posterous.com/artist-as-a-special-effect http://oddtag.posterous.com/artist-as-a-special-effect

txt: Anish Kapoor: portrait of the artist as a special effect - timesonline.co.uk

Here is an artist who plays games with perceptions. Can emptiness become an object? Can the monumental be immaterial? Can the ethereal take solid form? At what point does something come into being and at what point does it vanish back into complete non-existence?

video: ANISH KAPOOR Shooting into the Corner | MAK Vienna - youtube.com

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Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:08:15 -0700 So Contemporary! http://oddtag.posterous.com/so-contemporary http://oddtag.posterous.com/so-contemporary From: "Ceci n'est pas le vide" - An encounter with the artist of transience Tino Sehgal. By Sebastian Frenzel - 09/06/2005 - www.signandsight.com
"Generally our society defines itself through technical progress – development means technology's transformation of natural resources into ever more refined things. But we already have far more than we need, and the mode of production is not sustainable and on top of that, a bit boring. For me the question was how to oppose this without lapsing into asceticism."
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Tino Sehgal
Tino Sehgal, born 1976, is an artist. After studying political economy in Berlin and dance in Essen, Sehgal began his work in the context of the visual arts in 2000. He has since exhibited at a number of important venues including the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Tate gallery and the Venice Biennale.
I agree (especially being able to stuff the plate on the table, when evening comes..). It was nice the Biennale performance: a group of fake stewards receiving the visitors with a surprising "It's so contemporary!"

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