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May 21, 2010

Head in holes

We are scare to not satisfy to not be of height

Other's Have Their Heads - Subterranean Intervention Limerick Number 1


“Others Have Their Heads -Limerick 1” Is one of the works shown as a Film Screening on Catherine Street, Limerick. At the invitation of CATDIG, organised by the SpiritStore, EVA 2010. Performers are Amy Taylor, Brid O’Donovan, Orlaith Treacy, Luke Howlin, Mathilde Herve, Paula Bourke-Girgis, Elena Bezberodova, from the Sculpture & Combined Media Degree Course, LSAD, LIT, Limerick, Ireland
More video Here!

May 20, 2010

Willi Dorner

I just discover the artist Willi Dorner...Hi is one of the guests of the Festival Art Rock in Saint Brieuc in France.
Him work is about Bodies in urban spaces.






body trail from Michael Palm on Vimeo.



May 5, 2010

Walead Beshty


     Born 1976 in London, England; lives in Los Angeles, California
Walead Beshty has long used photography as a tool to explore the social and political conditions of our material culture. More recently, the material conditions of photography itself have spurred his continuing investigations of the gap between the physical world and the image world, and the way this rupture is instrumentalized by ideologies that seek to infiltrate the processes through which we produce meaning.
      From his early projects, like those in The Phenomenology of Shopping and Dead Malls, a 2004 exhibition of the artist’s work at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, New York, Beshty has frequently experimented with photography’s deadpan recording ability, using the mechanics of its preservation of information about objects and places in specific moments of time—especially subjects with limited native content, like the forlorn precincts of derelict shopping centers— to expose the kinds of projection and fictionalization that effect even the most superficially stable types of “factual” images.
                                         "The phenomenology of shopping+dead malls"
                                          P.S.1 contemporary Art center,long Island 
                                                                                           city,NY



         In his more recent projects, the artist has explored other, more politically complex kinds of ruins, most notably in a series of works flowing from a string of visits he made between 2001 and 2006 to the defunct Iraqi Diplomatic Mission in the former East Berlin. The abandoned building—a piece of a sovereign nation then undergoing radical social and political deconstruction, unmoored within the territory of another nation that had ceased to exist—was, Beshty later wrote, “a relic of two bygone regimes, unclaimable by any nation; a physical location marooned between symbolic shifts in global politics and a displaced representation of the turmoil of the nation to which it is abstractly linked.” During his trips to and from Berlin, Beshty found echoes of this zone of radical indeterminacy in the transitional spaces of modern travel—the airport, the customs station, the security checkpoint. It was an unexpected encounter with the last of these that provided the proximate inspiration for the newest phase in Beshty’s ever-evolving practice. Using a batch of film damaged by the airport security X-ray machine, the artist literally added a whole new set of traces of form and meaning to his already layered images, initiating another step in his ongoing examination of what he has called a “core dialectic of his work,” namely, the operative tension between the material and the optical in the photographic artifact. JEFFREY KASTNER

© 2008 Whitney Museum of American Art