Obviously working too much is bad for your blog, today I'm sick and had to skip university so this is my pathetic attempt to keep posting, though I promise I will resume soon Spanish arch mag arq./a had a nice article though as usual I cant read it The DAMDI publishing came out with this book on furniture and all things "body"
they featured Soft Ruin which hasn't been published much, if at all PlayGround, a collaboration with Eleni Kostika, an installation that survived only 1 night before being torn to pieces... this was supposed to be a surveilled public sculpture project etc etc and a pretty extensive publication of the Blue Wave project and all it's extensions check out Bodyscape for nice projects by Juergen Mayer H, Julien De Smedt and many moreoh and here's a couple of months of my Velvet column,
It was the second round of ReMap KM openings. I got there late just in time for Amie Dickes' weird and wonderful performance at lovely Javier Perez which ended in tears and destruction and smiles
on the second floor of Javier you can see sexy Marcus Knupp paintings in the back an outdoor AVAF mural later on we went to Amateur Polish disco with Agustin Perez Rubio and Tolo (with great Konstantin Grcic studying his Polish beer in the background) "How do I look" Javier with Angelo but then everybpdy was too busy having fun to take photos
was in London this weekend, it was grey and sunny and funny and boring all at the same time, as usual.
We went to see the "Seduced" show at the great Barbican center, which, apart from the Mapplethorpe pics, was not so great
the columns outside were somehow sexier
nice oversized lounge somewhere in the huge barbican
then over at Frieze art fair they had a sculpture part with a great Marc Bijl piece courtesy of lovely Breeder and some nice Jose Pedro Croft (looks like do-it-yourself Dan Graham but cooler)
fabulous Tobias Rehberger furniture (I hate the word fabulous but how else to describe?)
great John Armleder wallpaper funny Jennifer Bronstein at the totally anarchic Gavin Brown Enterprise where you could buy original artworks for 10 pounds and eat Gavin Brownies (the other galleries were a little freaked out) great great great piece but I dont remember the name of the artist Angelo looking Red and Bluenice staircase at the ICAbye bye funny "airplane in the sky" lounge-pillow
They were having white nights allover Paris France and all the museums stayed open all night etc.
As part of that even Daniele Balit and Christophe Bruno curated an exhibition in Paris Second France and had invited me to give a lecture and also show Cloud House.
I logged in at some point but it was very busy and crashing and too much talk and too many people, so a bit like an opening where you have to type a lot. Instead I went back early sunday, the place was empty apart from a few people obviously left over from the night before, and I could see the show.
a lot of Yona Friendman Spatial City drawings, originally posted at Helfe Ihnen's big Yona Friendman project at another SL location, where I've contributed a Blue Wave building (I have to learn how to post SURL's I'm just too lazy) Etienne Joubert's "Artiste Sans Tete" a great Manetas floor always funny and interesting Claude Klosky I was trying to sit and watch this video but it kept sitting me backwards or in weird running positions? (should I run more? Is this an omen?)finally a view of the whole show, which is put together like a precarious stack of floors designed (I think) by Ignazio Mottola, with the cloud as a cherry on the top, and its funny because this is the third time I'm asked to put a version of the cloud house on top of another building and here its so much easier because in Second Life you have no gravity and no budgets.
Politics of Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Spoke at EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Thursday April 7th 2011, as part of the series "Artist meets the audience" for the exhibition "Politics of Art"
Concrete Islands, curated by Elias Redstone and featuring works by Andreas Angelidakis, Iwan Baan, Frederic Chaubin, mounir fatmi and Niklas Goldbach at Analix-Forever Paris.
I spoke at PROqm bookstore as part of the book launching of
Cognitive Architecture from Biopolitics to Noo politics, edited by Deborah Hauptmann and Warren Neidich, 010 Publishers.
The book includes contributions from Andreas Angelidakis, Lisa Blackman, Ina Blom, Felicity Callard, Suparna Choudry, Jordan Crandall, Elie During, Keller Easterling, Lukas Ebensperger, Boris Groys, Janet Harbord, Deborah Hauptmann, Patrik Healy, Maurizio Lazzarato, Daniel Marguilles, Markus Miessen, Yann Moulier Boutang, Warren Neidich, John Protevi, Steven Quartz, Andreij Radman, Philippe Rahm, John Rajchman, Patricia Reed, Gabriel Rockhill, J.A. Scott Kelso, Terrence Sejnowski, Elizabeth Sikiaridi, Jan Slaby, Paolo Virno, Frans Vogellar, Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Bruce Wexler, Charles T. Wolfe.
the Short Ideas workshop, organized by La Ville Rayee at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in paris
at the Architecture Emotionnelle Conference, organized by Barbara Polla, Paul Ardenne and the University of Geneva