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jimmy
Film review : Paradise Now.
I've put this review up because this is an awsome film. It follows the lives of two young Palistinian men for roughly 48 hours. They are recruited by a close family friend to carry out suicide bomb attacks Across the Isrelie border in Tel Aviv. The films tackles the political, religious and cultural motives, pre-detonation from a very personal and local perspective. The reality of the situation in the film is outside my reach of understanding but its not fantasy. very intense gripping film will leave your heart beating a little faster.

Art Asia Pacific No.49 summer 2006 p94-95

hows it going

jimmy
Film review : Paradise Now.
I've put this review up because this is an awsome film. It follows the lives of two young Palistinian men for roughly 48 hours. They are recruited by a close family friend to carry out suicide bomb attacks Across the Isrelie border in Tel Aviv. The films tackles the political, religious and cultural motives, pre-detonation from a very personal and local perspective. The reality of the situation in the film is outside my reach of understanding but its not fantasy. very intense gripping film will leave your heart beating a little faster.

Art Asia Pacific No.49 summer 2006 p94-95

Brian Jungen and his Contemporary Interview

Benjamin:

I found contemporary this week. I liked it, i think i'll find it again. Mmmmm interviews...

But I digress.

Brian Jungen is an american artist who's work deals with ethnicities, stereotypes and pop icons. The first thing that grabbed my eye was shoes. Lots of shoes. Air Jordan shoes. Turns out these shoes are recreations of west-coast natives masks, which were shown in Harlem connecting the two cultures, old and new. Awesome. Oh, Michael Jordan tried to buy one, couldn't, so Jungen made him one. HA!

Kinda interesting in the way we connected man-made and natural, he connects new man-made and man-made that is so old it seems natural. Interesting.

After the shock of shoes, on the next page was a strange structure that was covered in carpet. Then i saw the cat. Turns out to be a structure he made out of a failed housing project to house all of the stray cats in Montreal. KITTY!
Then they didn't talk about it.

...

So, i believe the moral of the story is help kittys and sell things to rich basketball players.

thankyou for your time.

(spot the kitties, theres two)




Images:
http://www.secession.at/art/images/2003_jungen/jungen1.jpg
http://www.catrionajeffries.com/images/works/b_jungen/full/07_BJ_Habitat_04.jpg

Celeste Jose discusses Jeremy Deller yo!

artonpaper, march/april vol.10 no.4 2006

i forget whether this is included on the list, regardless i'm continuing.

it was just a couple images i like on page 64 of this journal, so i got some info for you all off the net.

"Jeremy Deller was born in London in 1966 and studied art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Collaboration and participation are central to Deller’s work. As he explains, ‘A good collaboration is like going on a long journey without a map, never knowing quite where you will end up’. He acts as curator, producer or director of a broad range of projects, including orchestrated events, films and publications, which draw attention to forms of culture on the fringes of the mainstream or reveal hidden histories. He currently lives and works in London."
-http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/2004/deller.shtm

the images were a bunch of picture discs (like ninyl lp with pictures on them) TITLED "WILLIAM ELLIOTT WHITMORE, LIVE AT MELANCHOLY RANCH". Disjointed imagery of some dude "rocking out" on his banjo. pretty cool, sets up a scene which is captured for one moment in time, but we all know it's not real. There was also an image of a sign on a picture disc "WILLIAM ELLIOTT WHITMORE, LIVE AT MELANCHOLY RANCH" CHRISTIAN DESERT CENTRE" which a sign saying 'christian desert centre' with an arrow pointing off to what we can only assume to be a church.

here's some images, i couldn't pinpoint the exact ones on the net unfortunately and the size does not do it justice...


WILLIAM ELLIOTT WHITMORE, LIVE AT MELANCHOLY RANCH


WILLIAM ELLIOTT WHITMORE, LIVE AT MELANCHOLY RANCH- DIGGIN' MY GRAVE

i guess this interested me because it is another way of presenting images, one which isn't usually associated with art but a valid one non the less.

BUT HERE'S A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT IMAGE BY HIM!


I don't know what it's called but it made me think of myself so i had to put it up.

celeste.

sylvia: out of pure intrest

if anyone is familiar with Banksy, a street artist from bristol UK...




there is a fantastic video of him spraying some of his peices up on the great wall which is dividing Israel and Palestine. He believes this wall is turning Palestine into the worlds largest open prison. His works on the this wall to me signify hope which are a contrast to the other works he creates back home...

"The segregation wall is a disgrace... The possibility I find exciting is that you could turn the worlds most invasive and degrading structure into the worlds longest gallery of free speech and bad art" - bansky.

its great stuff, if you didn't know about him, now you do, and if you do know about him, watch this cos its great.

SIM - too contraversial to be shown, NOT TRUE

By sim

Art Monthly Australia, August 2006, no 192
Lost in Translation by Ashley Crawford, pg 23 - 26

I bought the Art monthly australia journal mainly because of the pretty colours on the front with the toy army man, not realising how BORING this journal really was. The articles didnt seem to focus on any real interesting artists, or ones that i would think are interesting. So it was a waste of money, kind of, because i did find one article which caught my attention. The reason it caught my attention is because it talked about 2 Australian artists exhibiting their work overseas and it being censored/not shown.
Tony Garifalakis was meant to exhibit his work in the Venice Biennale, for a show called 'Silenzi', but at the very last moment the priests and another artist complained about its content.
Because Garifalakis was given a church to produce his work in, in Venice, he thought that the church was deconsecrated, in fact it wasnt and this is what caused the contraversy. His work in my opinion wasnt that bad, i didnt think it was nearly as contraversial as some of the work ive seen by artists like Damien Hirst with his animal halves preserved in formaldihyde. Maybe his work was a little satanic, and went against the catholic ideals, but art should be about causing a stir.


The other artist was Pat Brassington who was to exhibit in a Vietnamese Art exhibition called 'Supernatural Artificial: Australian Photography Today', but again at the last minute some of the officials agreed that her work was not to be shown. "This photo makes me feel very bad inside." One of the officials actually said this after viewing her print. I guess this really frustrates me because this one little comment caused enough grief to have the work out of the exhibition. Also the work by Brassington to me doesnt really come anywhere close to being horrible or "makes me feel very bad inside". I think its just ignorance on the officials part, because the artist may not have intended the work to be viewed in that context, but then again this does show how sometimes the artist isnt really considered much anymore, and that the statement the work purveys overpowers them. In the end it could also be a clash of cultures, because these two artists work would have no problem being shown here in Australia, but for Venice and Vietnam they obvioulsy do.


(ps i just realised someone else did the same article, but i dont think that matters, oh and logging on to this blog took me about 3 hours for it to work, no exaggeration at all there. that is my rant. thankyou. sim)

http://www.ccp.org.au/data/images/exhibit/tony_garifalakis03.jpg
http://www.threethousand.com.au/archive/2005/november/issue031/pics/goods.jpg
http://www.enfocarte.com/4.23/brassington/brassington_mini.jpg

jim as in me found something 4 the bird horror lovers,

Kader Attia, "flying Rats", 2005 instillation view
Parkett p 191-3.
The French artist Attia exhibited this instillation at the Lyon Biennial last year. The theme being "Experiencing duration". He created a huge birdcage filling it with 150 pigeons and a load of little children made from bird seed and moose. not sure if thats the product or the animal? anyway the pigeons or flying rats devour the children bird seed by bird seed creating a very disturbing spectacle. its very natural and very un natural at the same time. over the duration of the exhibition the pigeons adapted to the space, eating, sleeping, shitting and probably mating and the rest very effectively tackling the theme "experiencing duration". I think pigeons will suffer a bad rep at the fault of Attia but they say good art changes the way u look at things.

gee gives you Something oddly pretty...

Gee: So... im always finding odd and wonderous things around the internet... and todays awesome find was this. It took my breath away like nothing else has EVER... fuck piccihoweveryoufuckingspellit... she doesnt cut it anymore i recomend you go have a look. This is my new all time fave...

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/37906976/ (linking the image didnt work... so instead im giving you this link)

those are real piercings ... i wonder if the harp actually works...

the guys name is Jim Duvall... his webstie is here http://www.jimduvall.com, i havnt had much of a look at his other stuff... but im in love with the human harp. Apparently the girl in the shot didnt get that much pain from the piercings, but instead was in more pain from sitting in that same position for so long.


Also andrew asked me to post a link to that website thing i did for sculpture class (you might have seen it today) - the link is http://geewiz.awardspace.com - dont freak out if there isnt much there... its intended

Swallow artlink- the sounds of scilence

Jock Walker, before the library openen i was susin putin pictures in using some Ricky swallows work shown above, Looking in the high demand section i found an artlink magazine Vol 25 no 1 2005 With a Ricky Swallow cover therefore an article interesting article called "the sounds of scilence". The article touches on swallows interests on folk methodology- minatures collectables modelmaking hobbie shops. also talk about his the refences to music in his work like the models made from turntables. then about his studio environment and how an almost contant soundtrack co- exist with the abctivity at hand.workin extensive hours carving these wood sculptutres gives his work a relationship with passing time i think even the subject matter thet he chooses definately adds to this. Good article about Ricky im not very good at explaining it.i just love looking closely at his sculpture be unbelieveable in real life, Big picture with detail of his kiklling time work in the article the is so much to it, The time that sculpture would have spent in the studio carved right down to the final detail then it is left as a frozen moment in time.

trying to sus putting in pictures

JOCK HENRY i finally got it down now i gotta find an article to write about, we all seen em bfore but i could look at swallows sculptures all day so much detail wooowow i think the skeleton on chair is a new one that was shown at the venice bienale

Francis Alys in Artforum

jess: Bridge-Puente by Francis Alys caught my attention because of the odd look of a row of boats anchored in a single line out to see that reached the horizon with the fishermen still in them. This piece is about Alys' ongoing interest about the persuit of the horizon. He has looked at this idea in several other works but to tell u the truth this is the only one that really interested me. In this piece Alys organsed 2 groups of fishermen to row their boats out from two locations one in Havana, Cuba and one from Florida, USA. Each group of boats anchored in a row directly out from the shore so as to draw a direct line between these two locations. Altoether 150 boats were involved. People from these locations then moved out on to the boats until they reached the end and the boats then moved away again. I thought this was a really cool idea because of the idea of seeing and aerial view of the boats from the two locations and the line being attempted to join them. I also just thought the idea of seeing a long line of boats from the shore to the horizon was a really cool idea because it almost gives a feeling that the boats need to be attatched to the shore some how even though we kno they are capable of being isolated from the shore. Apart from the interesting aesthetics, Alys' intentions for this piece were about teamwork and trying to link the Cuban and American communities. Although this idea is corny i like the idea of a large group of people working together to make this piece over such a large scale is pretty cool as it is not a scale or materials you would usually think of using in an artwork. Artforum May06, page 260

Dreams and nightmares... jerry Salz on the currating of the 51st Venice Biennale

Dannii: i actually looked at this article and was shocked...it's about this lady called 'Rosa Martinez', who was the curator of one of the venice biennale shows. She was given six months or so to organise the show, which is said to be plenty of time as Harald Szeemann did a far better job in the same amount of time.The show was said to be "awful", critics saying that the show veered from "bland to bad", "sober", "sensible", "orderly" and "adult"... Jerry Saltz then goes onto say how these descriptions definately are not positive artistic traits.

This woman is nuts... where's the fun?

Flash Art, page 56, Vol XXXVIII No.240, Jan-Feb o5

P.s i wish i could get a picture of this crazy woman so we could all poke fun at her!

Art Monthly Australia August 2006 Issue 192, Page 35

By Lilianna

If you came across an article about fashion in an art magazine, someone creative such as John Galliano immediately springs to mind - who in a sense creates live installations in his haute couture catwalk shows… but unfortunately not the case in the article by Peter McNeil.

The article compares Roland Barthes’s The Language of Fashion to his original The Fashion System, 1967, where English translations are made of Barthes’s writings on fashion. In this new book translations are made of Barthes’s other fashion writings.

The review is written in a complex language and is therefore very difficult to read. After reading this review, I am not inspired to read this book. I feel that it is for fashion theorists rather than fashion lovers such as myself.

Art Monthly Australia August 2006

By Lilianna

In the August issue of “Art Monthly” I came across an interesting article by Ashley Crawford ‘Lost in translation.” It’s hard to believe that in today’s world an artist could face rejection as a result of their art being deemed offensive. But two Australian artists Tony Garifalakis and Pat Brassington showing aboard recently, found that their works were banned for this reason.

Garifalakis was taking part in the exhibition Silenzi (Silences) in Venice, Italy. There the artists were each allocated a church for use as a studio. They assumed that the churches would not be used for religious purposes during their occupation, but soon discovered otherwise. In case of Garifalakis’ work, one priest objected to the use of symbols in the works, and he was offered to exhibit only an abbreviated version of his exhibition

Brassington was taking part in the exhibition Supernatural artificial; Australian photography today, .in Hanoi, Vietnam. Brassington’s work made one of the Ministry officials “feel very bad inside”… So “bad” that her work was removed from the exhibition and the official reason given was “for the health of Vietnamese people”!

anne noble - 'ruby's room'

polly: hey guys have you heard of anne noble a new zealand based artist. i'm a fan of her work. especially 'ruby's room' a series she worked on throughout 1998-2004, which documented the childhood years of her daughter; ruby. the photos always focus on ruby's mouth, cropped to fit only below the nose and to the chin. showing the growing and discovering of ruby with different objects that come in contact with her mouth (orange peel, bubbles, hair, tape, lollies.. etc). the prints themselves are very confronting and give the viewer a sort of nostalgic pleasure, captured in a moment of a child's self discovery. i really like that we can relate with this and the relationship that is seen and unseen between noble, the photographer and her daughter, ruby. having a personal touch to a work always makes it ten times better in my eyes.

Christian Boltanski

Jessie:Found a review of a Christian Boltanski exhibition at the Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris in Sculpture May 2006, Vol 25 No 4, pages 77 - 78. Boltanski's work is about the death of childhood, memory and the universal spirit within each soul. "In his installations the living and the dead find each other in the vortex of each viewer's memory bank". It was an image of a work called 'Prendre la Paole (Take the Word)' that caught my eye. It is a crowd of dummies that are wearing long dark wool coats. Their legs are stilt like, made from pieces of wood and instead of faces they have light bulbs on long bent necks. Coats, like shoes and clothing in gereral I guess, get a personality through use, and really represent the body and the person who wears it. To see a room full of coats on such lifeless bodies, and a whole room of them, I found really haunting and sad. Apparantly as the viewer walked through the room voices from each of the pieces were activated saying things like "I am a liar. I'm fat. I am jealous. I'm unworthy. I am tired. I'm naughty. I'm brave." Another work, called 'Le Coeur (The Heart)' was in a pitch dark room, lit by a single pulsing light which was timed to simulate the heartbeat of the artist. It was also a metaphor for memory, representing the way that we recall past events, in flashes, and without order. Just thinking about it sends shivers down my spine.

Can't get an image to upload, but check it out at www.paris-art.com/photos/MG-Boltanski-03P.jpg

THERE WILL BE NO MIRACLES HERE.....

Josie: Hello there again darling artists who are all so very clever....It has been such a long, eventful week for me and I am utterly exhausted, hope you all are doing ok!! Oh is it just me or is life is getting busier and I find myself running out of time for a lot of things...but i did manage to find a good article this week that like i said last week, someone that I actually like their work!
Nathan Coley....Mount Stuart from Sculpture (july/august 06, vol.25, no.6, pg. 15). This is just a couple of short paragraphs about Mr. Nat. Coley who explores architecture, symbolism, ideology and faith in his sculptures. The picture in the journal is what appealed to me, as it is what we did this week- using text as art...so here we are guys!!
"There will be no miracles here"....just that text simply put and illuminated in an foresty environment....I think that sounds very beautiful and to me is very thoughtprovoking...don't you all think? So I looked up more about Mr. Nat Coley and found that he explores visibility and invisibility in many of his works. Do all take a look. His work I found is very subtle and not as mainsteam as the Ricky Swallows and those dudes, but beautiful none the less. His works that were created for a place named Mount Stuart also have referencing to to the world's three main religions; Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. ( I thought I'd just add those in...) Personally I am not religious....although the subject is somewhat extremly powerful and has a lot of ground in today's society- obviously hence artists such as Mr. Nat Coley incorporating such themes in his work.
Do all cheak him out, Mr. Nathan Coley is the name..( abb. to Mr. Nat Coley I think sounds a fair bit cooler...hahaha). Good luck with things this week darlings:) Btw- sorry I accidently posted mine 3 times last week, Im not good with computers, hopefully it works beta for me now...ha!
Over and Out Roger;)

Gees two cents...

Gee: SMILE CHEEK TO CHEEK BECAUSE ITS THE START OF THE WEEK OH ITS HAPPPPY MONDAYYYYY!

So happy monday to you all, its about time i posted my random findings into this blogg thinggama ya'al got going here. I havnt done this yet so bare with me, i talk heaps... i cant spell for crap and i have to do three of these. Dont say i didnt warn you...

So an artist I absolutely freaking love is Patricia Piccinini... now that is a name thats a shit to spell, so for this post im going to call her "Bob" Im sure we have all heard andrew talk about her, remember the photos of people and monkeys and stuff?

I was heaps lucky enough to be in bendigo when they had "Bobs" "We are family exhibition". Its teh only time i would say i was lucky to be in bendigo... because trust me unless you want to contract some rare bogan desiese, bendihole isnt the happening place.

So... when i stumbled apon her in a journal (Art and Australia v41 No2 P214-17 - i think???) and realised "oh shit i seen this stuff before" i thought lets add her to the blog

The journal article i saw her in was about the Venice Biennale and was pretty much a big winge about how much the binale sucked that year due to having too many curators (i think any way...) and how art in australia just doesnt get the recognition it diserves.

It also went on to chat about "Bobs" work and how it was possibly one of the better exhibitions of the whole venice thinggamajig. High five australia!

What pissed me off about this article isnt the article itself... but the fact that the photos of "Bobs" work just didnt do it justice. As far as what they wrote about her works, they spoke about "gameboy" being overshadowed by other stuff... and lets be honest i can see how.

Because im all "OMG I SEEN THIS SHIT..." im going to chat about the exhibition of her work that i got to see and try and hopefully find some good photos on google...

Basically i thought the coolest piece was "still life with stem cells" wich im pretty sure was at the venice thing. ... wait a sec i need to pee. Be back sortly

*elevator music plays*

Ok i have to say this... having your housemate making odd noises outside the toilet door while you pee is the scariest and most offputting thing in existance.

Back to "Bob"




Yeah, the coolest thing about still life with stem cells was probably the fact that you could sit next to the girl or walk around her. Shes so mugh more lifelike when your sitting next to her. There was a breeze in the gallery and so what made this piece extra awesome seeing her hair move just like a real little girls. You got the impression that any second she was going to start talking to you. The blobs of fleshy stuff was pretty intense too. Mainly because they had little hairs and skin texture and whatsoever. you could imagine them rolling along the ground or doing something... lumpylike


The article also talked about "gameboy" - I completely forgot about this one... if you can see in the background of the still life with stem cells pic there is two young boys leaning against the wall playing gameboy. You honestly do walk past it and not even realise its an art piece. It really does seem like two little boys doing what they would be doing in an art gallery... being bored. But when you walk up close and see their faces, that scared the shit through me. Dont tell a soul... but i got nightmares about it. SHUTUPP





But yeah... maybe i can see how it got overshadowed in venice... its an awesome piece, but i suppose i forgot about it... so meh

Soooo theres my first little update on stuff.

Second one im going to chat about (and i swear ill try and make this quick... i know im boring you shitless now) Wasnt found in a journal... so please dont hurt me... but a really odd little online photographer/sculpture chick i found who goes by the name of Suzi9mm. Remember the stuff with people and signs that andrew showed us? (shit i cant even remember who the hell it was) but yeah... this chick did some stuff sort of like that that i thought i would show yas...


and then there was this one... theres something creepy about the pic... that i like. Shes a makeup artist who turned sculpture. She works with fake blood heaps and although im not much for anything else she does this picture was an interesting take on "family"

her website is here... http://www.suzi9mm.com/

Ok night kids... Sorry this blog entry was so long and boring. cyas tomorrow!

Lee Boroson.

Gemma:
Lee Boroson’s work (Contemporary volume 64, p 26-29) stood out to me as I was going through art journals the other day because it has one quality that a lot of contemporary art seems to reject, beauty. I couldn’t find an image of the artwork that interested me the most but it was a image of a castle that was then almost completely covered with a mass of glass bubbles. He uses these glass bubble structures in many of his works and they are part of his exploration of the ideas of nothingness and air.


He uses and further explores these ideas in other ways using fabric and light and air in installations like this one called Windowbox.



This installation also combines aspects of perception and navigation and is also a good example of how Boroson lets his gallery space direct his installations as he uses existing air-conditioning vents to inflate the objects.

Many of his sculptures and installations resemble natural or man made landscapes in some way. Boroson approaches many different types of landscapes such as under a pond covered in lilies and in this one that I found online, a storm.

Lucky Storm (2) 2005

This final representation of a man made landscape is an example of his sharper work which is made largely from wood, however I still think it encompasses some of the whimsical qualities that many of his pieces entail.


Outer Limit 2005