Archivio mensile:Giugno 2009

CAN ART BE TAUGHT TO THE FACEBOOK GENERATION?


The Saatchi Gallery / Sunday Telegraph Art Prize for Schools debate, presented by Intelligence Squared


Speakers:

Camila Batmanghelidjh Advocate for vulnerable children and founder of two children’s charities, The Place 2 Be and Kids Company where she currently works with some of the most traumatised young people.

Stephen Bayley Broadcaster and consultant. Founding director of London’s Design Museum and outspoken commentator on all matters concerning art in everyday life.

Alain de Botton Writer of a number of bestselling essays including most recently ‘The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work’. Co-founder of The School of Life, ‘a new social enterprise offering good ideas for everyday living’.

Antony Gormley Artist best known for his large-scale works such as ‘Angel of the North’ and ‘Event Horizon’ which explore the collective body and the relationship between self and other. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1994 and has been a Royal Academician since 2003.

Grayson Perry Winner in 2003 of the Turner Prize which he accepted wearing a purple satin party frock. Best known for his elaborate ceramic vases which at a distance seem classically decorative but on closer inspection are covered with narratives and commentaries dealing with aesthetic, cultural, social and political subjects.

Chair: Joan Bakewell Journalist and broadcaster.

Event Information: The discussion will take place on 1 July 2009 at The Saatchi Gallery

Doors open at 6:15 pm. The discussion starts at 7:00 pm and finishes at 8:15 pm.

Tickets £15 from  Intelligence Squared

nelle acque fredde di un fiume per salvare un cane che sta per affogare

combatti l’ansia, salva la balena, sono i cosacchi, abbatti la balena, salva l’ansia, velcra i giustamente venne inghiottito, sii, hai certo imparato come, calafatare i buoi se peccano, come pennellare le afte, mister magoo, con un piede nel giappone e uno in europa, come combattere questa attività, metà drago subacqueo, lo rinchiusero per sapienza di combattimento, idiota, pénsaci una buona volta, ragiona, cazzo, i cani non affogano, i cani sono le esche degli alieni per catturare i deboli, una volta che ti sei tuffato sei nella cache del programma, vieni risucchiato e ti iscrivi a comunione e liberazione, potrai combattere a mani nude, sconfiggerai lo scorpione e sei abile, complimenti, sei a bisanzio, l’imperatore ti nomina, ti nomina duca, ti dà la coppa, la contaminazione, i bugatti, ti dà in sposa un animale abbandonato in autostrada, dissetarsi per combattere, non ci cascare, non scendere dalla cabina, sei coperto di fosforo, di amianto, sei coperto di ridicolo, hai vinto, coloro che non amano non capiranno, sei come fidel castro, hai vinto con il risparmio, la moneta è salva, la conoscenza dell’essere è la base di tutto, il raggio è azzurro intenso e non tornerai mai più, stai salendo alla velocità della luce, hai vinto, hanno vinto, addio, cremina pasteur

Matina L. Stamatakis : Grapyrus

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Xerolage 43—Matina L. Stamatakis

Grapyrus

Matina Stamatakis has “arrived” even if the rest of the world has been too slow to realize it. Her newest “art/non” textscape is a veritable plum pudding of ruthless extravagance, a cryptological scherzo written in “sanscript”, so to speak. Teasing out texture from text, this most recent offering from the Xerolage series has a haunting aspect that unites papyri and the phantom after-effects of words in constant stochastic exile. In essence, Stamatakis “writes” perpetually double, the reflection upon a surface of “lin/geist” that judders with an ekphrastic motion of the cinematic or photographic double-take.

—Kane X. Faucher

Tombstones and footprints, prehistoric imperial Chinese silk distressed and preserved in airtight tombs, Sapphic papyrus scrolls used as winding sheets for the human dead: languaged shapes (letters, glyphs, cuneiform, runes) layer each other on multidimensional, neonic, poly-textural surfaces that glow through the eras, aeons and ages. Evocative of sound, syntax and melismatic intution, these works are endlessly resonant through time, space, and mind, expanding them all.

—Maria Damon

In Matina Stamatakis’ Grapyrus, an utterly fresh light unveils antiquities. Under the cold glare of the photocopier’s bulb new thoughts are seared onto the richly textured venerability of the page. Here is a vibrantly dark art that does not merely mimic or ape antediluvian roots, but consciously honors and revises them, relentlessly refreshing deep-seeded threads of thought. Flourishing gestures of contemporary graffiti no longer deface or elide, but honor; the visually brutalizing process of Xeroxing accentuates, antiques. Xerolage 43-Matina StamatakisHere papyrus and spray paint conspire to create a Rosetta stone for the hermetic communiqués scribbled on bathroom walls. The “reader” wanders through a nonexistent city, inexplicably entranced by the tattered posters pasted to crumbling edifices, and couldn’t be happier to be so utterly lost.

—John Moore Williams

more at:

http://xexoxial.org/is/xerolage43/by/matina-l-stamatakis

The primary investigation of Xerolage is how collage technique of 20th century art, typography, computer graphics, visual & concrete poetry movements & the art of the copier have been combined. Each issue is devoted to the work of one artist.

24 pages, 8.5 x 11, $6 includes postage
Subscriptions: 4 issues/$20

XEXOXIAL EDITIONS
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The reading at Th!nk Art: Graffi, Attanasio, Giovenale, Frene, hosted by Scappettone

this is the Italian Poetry reading and conversation at Chicago’s Th!nkArt Salon, broadcast on Chicago Public Radio

http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=34790

(Press “pop-out” and then the “play” button)

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Friday, May 29, 7:30pm

Bilingual reading and discussion/salon featuring Maria Attanasio, Giovanna Frene, Marco Giovenale & Milli Graffi

Moderators: Jennifer Scappettone, Francesco Levato (Poetry Center) & Chris Glomski (UIC)

1530 N. Paulina, Suite F.
Chicago, IL

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!! Thanks to Litmus Press !!

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A Catalogue of Rare Movements by Monica McFawn & Curtis A. Rhodes

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A Catalogue of Rare Movements by Monica McFawn & Curtis A. Rhodes

from the introduction:

Making art is hard. The empty page or canvas seems limitless and glorious, one of the few places where anything can happen. But the moment a word is written or a mark made, what can happen is suddenly—violently—limited.

A line is a barrier, and words silence all other words that could have been said. To commit to a course of action in art is, paradoxically, to commit to not-doing the infinite anything else. Making art is the bold relinquishing of possibility.

In the larger world of art, every art movement is a theory of how to get free—how to get free of the influence of earlier artists, how to get free of public expectation, and how to get free of the limitations of what one has already done. In the insular world of this Catalogue, each of our art movements likewise describes how a drawing tried to transcend itself. The following work is an example of what can happen within, or as a result of, narrow constraints. Each drawing was created using a strict set of rules: they were collaboratively drawn with the same pens, using a postcard-sized rectangle as a starting point. The box is the first limitation, the other person’s contribution another.

Within this insular process, the subtitles, deviations, and variations took on particular import. A Catalogue of Rare Movements depicts twenty-four art movements that flourished and flared out in this tight space of possibility. Xerolage 42- Monica McFawn & Curtis A. RhodesEach drawing itself became a theory of art, rising up and burning out within the course of its creation. But by the time each art movement was identified, it was already obsolete, and only another drawing could get us free of it.

more at:

http://xexoxial.org/is/xerolage42/by/monica_mcfawn_and_curtis-a-rhodes

The primary investigation of Xerolage is how collage technique of 20th century art, typography, computer graphics, visual & concrete poetry movements & the art of the copier have been combined. Each issue is devoted to the work of one artist.

24 pages, 8.5 x 11, $6 includes postage
Subscriptions: 4 issues/$20

XEXOXIAL EDITIONS
10375 Cty Hway Alphabet
La Farge WI 54639