Dream Captcha, by Jeffery Augustine:
“The Dream Catcher belongs to the Native Americans who use it to capture negative energy and evil spirits during sleep. But now instead of wickedness, the Dream Captcha is protecting spam from reaching your brain and driving you mad”.
[via The Jailbreak]
La Maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel (2009), an installation by Michel de Broin:
“The largest mirror ball ever made was suspended from a construction crane 50 meters above the ground to render the starry sky to the citizens of Paris for one night in the Jardin du Luxembourg during the Nuit Blanche event. “
I wrote a little review of Doug Aitken’s work for Public Address Blog (Nothern Light). You can read it here.
Zeger Reyers‘ rotating Kitchen will keep on spinning until february…
“Sound recordings from three glaciers in Iceland, pressed into three records, cast, and frozen with the meltwater from each of these glaciers, and played on three turntables until they completely melt. The records were played once and now exist as three dvds. The turntables begin playing together, and for the first ten minutes as the needles trace their way around, the sounds from each glacier merge in and out with the sounds the ice itself creates. The needle catches on the last loop, and the records play for nearly two hours, until completely melted.”
Langjökull, Snæfellsjökull, Solheimajökull, by Katie Paterson
[via online-mixing.com]
Sans Titre (I believe I can fly) by Camille Laurelli…
“Why is it that so many arts organizations claiming to “support the arts” never seem to have any “support” for the artists? Don Draper offers us some advice on how to negotiate with arts organizations.”
How To Negotiate With Arts Organizations, Feat. Don Draper. By Evan Roth
[via david horvitz]
Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro, Lifespan, Installation, 2009.
175, 218 VHS video cassettes are arranged to form a solid block in the deconsecrated chapel of a former nunnery. The combined running time of these cassettes, if played consecutively, would be 60.1 years, the average human life span in 1976 – the year that the VHS was released.
Pablo, by Sr.X…
“The Image Fulgurator is a device for physically manipulating photographs. It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything. The manipulation is only visible on the photo afterwards.”
[via xfuckerx]
Rome, Ara Pacis, “Disegno e Design”. Exhibition about italian design
Rome, Isola Tiberina, “Frontier”. Video Installation by Doug Aitken
London, Frieze Art Fair 2009
A brand new street installation by Laura Keeble (remember the famous Hirst’s skull prank?). Now Versace has to deal with Medusa in person…
“The installation of Medusa outside the Versace store was to discuss the ownership of Medusa by the fashion house. A relationship between the single Versace mannequin within the store shopfront and Medusa also reflected the acceptance of what is beautiful and the outcasting of what is deemed ugly, by those that consider themselves an authority. Medusa with her shopping bags turned to stone by the very horror that is herself reflected in the use and ownership of an ancient icon to sell goods.”
[via wooster collective]
Turning the Place Over is Richard Wilson’s most radical intervention into architecture to date, turning a building in Liverpool’s city centre literally inside out. The artwork was a commission for the Liverpool 2008 Biennial.
Turning the Place Over consists of an 8 metres diameter ovoid cut from the façade of a building in Liverpool city centre and made to oscillate in three dimensions. The revolving façade rests on a specially designed giant rotator, usually used in the shipping and nuclear industries, and acts as a huge opening and closing ‘window’, offering recurrent glimpses of the interior during its constant cycle during daylight hours.
[via todayandtomorrow]
Pauline Bastard‘s video Western…
“My work is about objects. By making sculptures and images, I create an extravagant dialectic that break common use of the things. I work to find what objects contain; I observe and use their functions, qualities, materials and symbolic. My work formulates things ironic or poetic that objects are nearly express them self. By this work I make them quit their utilities function and bring public in a contemplative moment.”
