Pissoir 2000 an interactive installation
by Allan Giddy & Steven Greenwoood
What is it?
A pre-fabricated wall unit supporting a urinal is installed in an existing gallery toilet. The urinal is sensitised to allow participants (both male & female) to draw using their urine. The resulting drawings are displayed in real-time in the gallery space, then automatically uploaded onto the internet.
In Act 1 of Waiting for Godot, Estragon discards his boots because they are too tight. At the beginning of Act 2, Vladimir points triumphantly to the boots as proof that the two are in the very spot where they waited in vain for Godot the previous night:
ESTRAGON: They're not mine.
VLADIMIR: [Stupefied.] Not yours!
ESTRAGON: Mine were black. These are brown.
VLADIMIR: You're sure yours were black?
ESTRAGON: Well, they were a kind of grey.
VLADIMIR: And these are brown? Show.
ESTRAGON: [Picking up a boot.] Well, they're a kind of green.
(Beckett 1986, 60-1)
Walking as Art
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Stallen, kluizenaarshutten en bouwsels van daklozen – dat is het thema van de serie van 126 schilderijen die de Rotterdamse kunstenaar Olphaert den Otter tentoonstelt in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Vandaar de titel ‘S&KMORF’ – de ‘morfologie’ van stallen en kluizenaarshutten: ondanks al hun onderlinge verschillen hebben ze toch een soortgelijke grondstructuur. Den Otter komt dergelijke bouwsels niet alleen op straat tegen, maar ook in meesterwerken van de Europese schilderkunst in de Boijmans-collectie. Ze fascineren hem. Uit die fascinatie ontstond uiteindelijk die serie van 126 schilderijen, en tenslotte het monumentale schilderij ‘De Buitenplaats’ (2007).
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Olphaert den Otter bezoekt het project Bobby Bear, Zuid-Afrika.
Every society accumulates contradictions amidst their ideals. Dietrich Wegner uses those contradictions, putting opposites together in large-scale sculpture that feed on the friction between two things that should not make sense together. He creates images that are safe and unsettling, abject and beautiful. He shows us how a mushroom cloud can resemble a tree house, an anus a vortex, a suicide bomber a vulnerable human being.
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Nutzen steht fortan für Raumdenken, der Gedankenraum an sich ist Realität.
Das heißt, wir praktizieren das bisher nicht Vorstellbare. Der Gebrauch selbst existiert zeitlich vor der Gebrauchshülle, dem Gebäude. In unseren Projekten stellen wir das Bilden einer Gemeinschaft und deren Potenzial in Bezug auf eine zwischenmenschliche, soziale und informelle Interaktion in den Mittelpunkt. Prozesse >sprich Handlungen< sind die Grundlage mit denen wir als Architekten und Urbanisten arbeiten um zu Lösungen das heißt zur Programmfindung für bevorstehende Bauaufgaben kommen können.
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Gizmo (1 uur 19 min 55 sec)(1977)
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A documentary about some of the thousands of inventions that did things we never thought needed doing, or in ways we never considered doing them. A respectful, yet humorous tribute to the inventors whose vision, however far-reaching, was just a little off the mark
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The Heart exhibition at the Wellcome Collection explores the medical and cultural significance of the heart. Featuring exhibits from the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Leonardo da Vinci and Andy Warhol, through to live heart surgery.
Save Our Souls was founded in fall 2005, it was a year marked by the tsunami, bombings and clash of cultures. When we created our first collection it was impossible not to get affected, the result was dark, beautiful and ambitious.
Save Our Souls believe that almost every cultural worker has a dream of, if not saving the world, at least make it better or more beautiful. But it is problematic to make new products when, in fact, very little stuff is needed.
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Nicolas Lelièvre experiences images, spaces and sounds. He created this movie with dancer Jean-Baptiste André as a focus on the "overinvestment" of urban space. Characters in the movie become puppets with urban objects pseudo-animated. Music by Mils.
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Lugares (03:55)
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Louise Hopkins re-shapes the surface of things: consciously interweaving paint into and out of a pre-existing object, evolving it into something entirely new, while at the same time, retaining the resonance of what lies beneath. Whether painting across furnishing fabric, sheet music, maps, or newspapers, Hopkins creates a meticulously controlled interplay of contradictions: between erasure and exposure, beauty and ugliness, love and loss, language and meaning.
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mummery+schnelle
I am photographing myself and others performing various emotional reactions to uncertain causes. These images are inspired by my past experiences as a professional in the IT industry's public and private sectors. Within the industry I observed a lot of uncertainty about job security and the customer's whim.
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one-liners
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Simon Keenleyside’s recent paintings explore places on the fringes of his Essex home; peripheral or marginal sites, familiar to the artist from his youth. Considerable parts of this backcountry is inhabited with remnants of former times; disused water towers, banks of crates and containers abandoned by local industries that surround the towns and bleak, abandoned buildings; most recently the disused Runwell Psychiatric Hospital has interested the artist.
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long&ryle
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showcomplex
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980) (20 min 20 sec.)
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Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe is a short documentary film directed by Les Blank in 1980 which depicts director Werner Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the film Gates of Heaven.
The film features Herzog cooking his shoes (the ones he claims to have been wearing when he made the bet) at the Berkeley, California restaurant, Chez Panisse with the help of chef Alice Waters. (The shoe was boiled with garlic, herbs, and stock for 5 hours.) He is shown eating one of the shoes before an audience at the premier of Gates of Heaven at the nearby UC Theater. He did not eat the sole of the shoe, however, explaining that one does not eat the bones of the chicken.
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Genevieve Dionne lives and works in Vancouver. She spends her better days drawing, screen printing, sewing, eating vegetarian poutine, writing letters, and making art that looks like craft. Bittersweet Genevieve evolved out of a desire to combine art, craft, and the everyday.
bron: Headquarters Galerie
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Dogtroep, het bekende gezelschap voor beeldend locatietheater uit Amsterdam Noord, stopt op 31 december 2008. In het komende jaar zal de groep nog een voorstelling maken en een boek uitbrengen.
Dogtroep sluit af
Dogtroep stopt na 33 jaar. In 2008 zal de groep echter nog een aantal projecten realiseren met de jonge makers, die in de afgelopen jaren werden opgeleid. Op 31 december 2008 zetten de medewerkers en kunstenaars van Dogtroep met trots een punt achter een periode die richting gevend is geweest voor de ontwikkeling van beeldend locatietheater in Nederland.
dogtroep onno (01:51)
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Volkskrant 14-2-2008 : Doek valt voor Dogtroep
NRC Handelsblad 14-2-2008 : Toneelgezelschap Dogtroep heft zichzelf op
Through using the suburban backyard/garage as a platform, I am investigating the ideas, images, and behaviors that are culturally ascribed to masculine identity and ‘manly’ performance. The framework of the suburban backyard within this body of work provides an interesting tension that highlights the slippages within the normative ideas/constructs of labor and leisure, gendered identity and performance. My current studio practice involves modifying and tuning gas powered machines that meld impetuous activity with the concepts of labour and leisure. Through performing demonstrations of these machines, I use the byproducts of sound, smell and performance to provoke discussion and reaction.
bron: Steven Laurie - culturegrounds.org
Boom Tube (02:37)
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