da babilonia a bagda / from babylon to baghdad

um bom doc sobre as sucessivas guerras pelo poder desde a antiga mesopotamia ateh o iraque moderno. a recente participacao americana eh criticada sutilmente por alguns dos entrevistados

a good doc on the successive wars for power since anciant mesopotamia to modern irak. the recent american participation is criticised subtle way by some of the interviewees



fonte:
http://bestdocumentaries.blogspot.com/2008_04_01_archive.html

incrivel / incrdible

fonte:
http://bestdocumentaries.blogspot.com/

kelley's links / links do mike kelley

Mike Kelley


INTERACTIVE: Artist’s Links

via:
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/kelley/index.html#



tb tem o otimo site oficial:


http://www.mikekelley.com/

onde dah pra comprar o novo dvd!

"It melts in your mind, not in your hand."

FINALLY!! NOW AVAILABLE!

Day is Done (Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstructions #2- #32)


Written and directed by Mike Kelley, with original music by Mike Kelley and Scott Benzel, choreography by Kate Foley
FEATURE | Video 169 minutes | 2005/2006
Coming at you on 2 mind altering DVDs!
$40.00 USD plus postage and handling


What "THEY" say about it:

satanic rituals and advertising jingles mingled with allusions to Godard, German Expressionist cinema and Stockhausen . . . toxic-comic carnival . . . an amazing feat of industry and poetics — Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times

Kelley’s Day is Done is like a variety show scripted by a regression therapist . . . an indisputable tour de force — Jerry Saltz, The Village Voice

a true epic! . . . the Mike Kelley Berlin Alexanderplatz! — John Waters, Flash Art

muaro no blog da bia / mauro @ bia's blog

Sexta-feira, Maio 09, 2008

Noite de autógrafos novo livro sobre a ayahuasca

Foi lançado ontem em São Paulo, na Livraria Cultura, o livro Religiões ayahuasqueiras: um balanço bibliográfico,
de Beatriz Caiuby Labate, Isabel Santana de Rose e Rafael
Guimarães dos Santos, publicado pela Editora Mercado de Letras
(*) com apoio da Fapesp.

O evento contou com a presença
do estimado e querido professor e amigo Mauro Almeida, entre tantos
outros companheiros nas estradas da antropologia, das pesquisas e
sessões de ayahuasca.

Bia Labate e o antropólogo acreano Mauro Almeida, em plena forma


O livro novo
http://alto-das-estrelas.blogspot.com/2008/05/noite-de-autgrafos-novo-livro-sobre.html

george condo

fonte:
http://blip.tv/file/476325

ashley bickerton @ lehmann maupin NY

fonte / source:
http://jameskalmreport.blip.tv/

art & indie games blogs

Critique: Stars Over Half Moon Bay
	by jcr13 Thursday, March 20, 2008 [11:10 am] Shall I project a world? If not project then at least flash some arrow on the dome to skitter among constellations and trace out your Dragon, Whale, Southern Cross. Anything might help. --Mrs Oedipa Mass from Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 On its face, Rod Humble's latest artgame, Stars Over Half Moon Bay, is a simple game about stargazing. This departs substantially from The Marriage, which on its face was about nothing at all, save the motions and transformations of geometric primitives. Of course, with that game, we had the title to guide us. In the case of Stars, neither the title nor the sub-title ("the gentle bite of ouroboros") helps us drill down past the surface interpretation. We must look to the artist's background statement to learn that this is a work concerning "the relationship between observation, symbolism, exactitude and the creative process." Read more...

fonte:









Joshua Smyth's Attack of the Meeplings
is a vertical shooter consisting of three levels, playable using
Java-enabled browser. Hold the Z key to shoot, and press the space key
to use a missile. Autofire can be activated with the A key.

fonte:

minhas coisas na arco / my stuff at arco

na verdade eu gosto de feiras / i enjoy art fairs actually

feira de arte de sp / sao paulo art fair

nova exposicao do liam / liam's new show

LIAM GILLICK

THE STATE ITSELF BECOMES A SUPER WHATNOT





OPENING: THURSDAY, MAY 8TH 6PM – 8PM

EXHIBITION DATES: MAY 8 – JUNE 14, 2008

GALLERY HOURS: TUESDAY – SATURDAY 10AM – 6PM





Casey Kaplan is pleased to
announce ‘The state itself becomes a super whatnot’, the fifth solo
exhibition at the gallery of artist, Liam Gillick. In a practice that
employs specific materials and multiple modes of production, Gillick
examines how the built world carries traces of social, economic, and
political systems.



Since 2004, Gillick has been presenting lectures, writings and artworks
that relate to a body of work titled “Construcción de Uno (Construction
of One)” – most notably as a central figure in the unitednationplaza
and nightschool projects in Berlin, Mexico City and the New Museum in
New York. Taking the form of a constantly reworked potential text, it
comprises a series of theoretical and fictional narratives that evolve
from Gillick’s research of past and present evaluations of the
aesthetics of social systems by focusing on modes of production rather
than consumption. The framework for the project derives from Brazilian
research into Scandinavian car production. In his notes, a group of
workers return to their abandoned workplace in order to rethink
eco-political exchange and to experiment with alternative production
methods.



‘The state itself becomes a super whatnot’, is descriptive of the next
twist in the narrative and designates the gallery space as a site for
the testing of rhetoric and potential exchange simultaneously. In the
exhibition, dual wall progressions, screens, and corrals relate to the
architectural structure of their surroundings and are potentially
regarded as a result of the communal, alternative production models
devised in the scenarios. Each work reflected in another, the Plexiglas
and painted aluminum structures produce competing color schemes:
monochromatic red, evoking many political and cultural symbolisms,
versus their multi-colored opponents. Twin wall texts that announce the
title and its reverse – ‘the whatnot itself becomes a super state’ –
mark the site of the exhibition as an extension of the complex
processes of democratic deferral and infinite sub-contracting that
underscore our current processes of exchange.



Gillick’s work engages with emergent consensus cultures, objects as
context, and time as material. It is within this theoretical framework
that Gillick’s exhibition produces a designated place for critical
interaction.





Liam Gillick is nominated for
the 2008 Vincent Award at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and will
create a major new body of work for the forthcoming Guggenheim
exhibition ‘theanyspacewhatever’ in October 2008. In January of 2008, the artist’s retrospective, ‘Three perspectives and a Short Scenario’,
opened at the Witte de With, Rotterdam and the Kunsthalle Zürich,
Zürich; it will continue to the Kunstverein München, München in
September 2008; and is scheduled to open at the Museum of Contemporary
Art Chicago, Chicago in October 2009.

o trabalho novo do nigel cooke / his new work

New Accursed Art Club, 2007
oil on canvas, 220.2 x 370.2 cm



To Work Is To Play, 2008
oil on canvas, 220 x 370.5 cm


Nigel Cooke

Nigel Cooke @ Stuart Shave/Modern Art (25/04 till 25/05)
23/25 Eastcastle Street, London W1W 8DF


via:
KultureFlash Issue no. 241

pessimas noticias / v bad news

20/4/2008 10:07:00

Guerra do Alemão tem 233 mortos

Um ano depois da operação com 41 mortos na Penha, conflito recomeça, fazendo aumentar o trauma da perda para famílias

Vânia Cunha

Rio - Os gritos de dor vindos do interior de uma pequena casa próxima à Vila Cruzeiro são aterradores. São de uma mãe que acaba de perder o filho, de 21 anos. O pranto de Neuza Vieira, mãe de Marcelo, abafa os tiros que novamente ecoam na região, no momento em que se completa um ano da maior operação policial já realizada nos complexos de favelas da Penha e do Alemão, com o trágico saldo de 170 baleados e 41 mortos em dois meses de ocupação, a partir de maio de 2007.

cont...

http://odia.terra.com.br/rio/htm/guerra_do_alemao_tem_233_mortos_165882.asp

slide show:
http://odia.terra.com.br/rio/galeria_foto/150408_vilacruzeiro/