sophiepercival: September 2011

Saturday 24 September 2011

Holly/Bridie/Hannah/Abbie/Bradie/Lucy/Toni/Alex/Beth/Polly and Ella. /16-18yrs/

First composition of Leeds rainbow heads. All hair colour DIY. Thinking about series and what is the best way to put them together.

Will compose all of the 23 girls I shot in Leeds last week and hopefully shoot more when I return in two weeks.

Lottie and Ella2 are teaching me about the relevance of series and sent me to order The Infinite Line , Briony Fer, and look at Olga Chernysheva.

Tuesday 6 September 2011

Petra Cortright

Landscape 5-15-05

Petra Cortright is a cool internet artist. The best thing about her is how she responds to bad comments on her youtube videos:

what was the point of these video seriously? lol
Sk8tingLearner 2 years ago
syuck my dick sk8r fag
petracortright 2 years ago 8

From : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPaCCBE-K1g

Sunday 4 September 2011

Haruka Ono

British frozen food in a tabletop freezer, 2010. frozen food, water, thread, arranged in a freezer, 49 x 47 x 45cm

Sam Griffin

Make No Little Plans', 2010

27(w)x 60(h)x 30(d)cm

Aluminium composite, pebbles, aloe vera plant

Unique

Delta City', 2010

70(w) x 102(h) x 70(d) cm

Aluminium composite, pebbles, plant

Unique

Melanie Bonajo

from Modern Life of The Soul, 2007.

Extracts from Press release from Galerie Fons Welters

Melanie Bonajo & Kinga Kielczynska

In the forests of Eastern Poland, a sacred cult has formed that has withdrawn from the outside world and worships nature. Living in houses made of growing plants, its members have turned their backs on the modern world. These eco-extremists believe that the origins of humankind lie in plant life, and seek to reverse evolution by living like plants. Far from the hectic life of modern society, they celebrate the existence of the forest in a spiritual way, with special altars and mystical ceremonies.

In modern society, nature has become a subordinate product amid a wealth of other products, and people have become alienated not only from their natural surroundings but also from their own nature. In an attempt to reverse this process, Melanie Bonajo and Kinga Kielczynska explore the extent to which it is possible for us to re-insert ourselves into the holistic system. In the radical reversals of the Polish cult, a near-religious refuge has been created that denies progress. The artists adopt a documentary-like presentation, showing us a glimpse of this outlandish community, absorbed in a quest for something that may in fact never have existed. The cult members have relinquished control over their lives, hoping that a lost intuition will take over.

Steve Bishop

1. My Work Here is Done IX (2009)

Glass, lighting gels, various tapes. 248 x 159 x 40 cm | Photograph: Stefano Galli

2. 16:9 II (2011)

LCD screen, Astonish 'Jasmine & Wild Berries', glass, wood. 130 x 45 x 24 cm

3. As If You Could Only Kill Time Without Injuring Eternity II (2011)

Mercury and cloth in frame. 30 x 23 cm

4. Still Stills - with Jack Vickridge (2011)

Dichroic glass, monoprints, shelf. 210 x 40 x 10 cm

www.stevebidhop.org

São Paulo: A City Without Ads | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters

"The Clean City Law came from a necessity to combat pollution … pollution of water, sound, air, and the visual. We decided that we should start combating pollution with the most conspicuous sector – visual pollution." - Mayor Kassab

On The Media's Bob Garfield interviewed Vinicius Galvao, a reporter for Folha de São Paulo, Brazil's largest newspaper, about São Paulo's ban on visual pollution.

bg: I want to ask you about the cultural life of the city, because, like them or not, billboards and logos and bright lights create some of the vibrancy that a city has to offer. Isn't it weird walking through the streets with all of those images just absent?

vg: No. It's weird, because you get lost, so you don't have any references any more. That's what I realized as a citizen. My reference was a big Panasonic billboard. But now my reference is art deco building that was covered through this Panasonic. So you start getting new references in the city. The city's got now new language, a new identity.

Read full article here:São Paulo: A City Without Ads | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters

Saturday 3 September 2011

Aleix Plademunt - Espectadors

Espectadors, 2006.

Vanessa Billy

Conflict, 2009, collage. Fulcrum, 2009, collage. Reattachment, 2009, collage. Untitled, 2006, collage.

Jack Strange

‘Stunt Doubles’, 2007-ongoing, Digital Images Transferred onto Slides

Ongoing project where artist takes a photo of himself with any other stranger that he encounters who is wearing the same coat.

‘Tom’, 2007, DVD, 22 min

Montage of clips from movies of Tom Cruise running.

Jack Strange on Hollywood: Hollywood affects our sense of reality so strongly. It's like a mirror feeding back to us a reflection of ourselves. But it's a very superficial reflection. It's like a closed feedback loop constantly reaffirming and conditioning us with what we believe to be the ideas we want. There is no space to question, think or feel things. Generally, it's just like advertising.

Richard Mosse

From The Fall Series, 2007, Digital C-Print.

From Breach Series, Iraq, 2009. Digital C-Print.

Francesca Gavin : Is there a political motivation behind your work?

Richard Mosse: I'm very careful to keep the work open to people of all learnings, rather than preaching to the choir. The philosopher Theodor W.Adorno deliniates between commited and autonomous art. I hope to produce the latter. Art is not propoganda.