Diner in Princes' Garden

Had a great diner last night, at a place called Princes' garden or something like that. It is just the most amazing Chinese restaurant, in a vast garden with private rooms for dining,
ponds and caves and paths with outdoor patios and blue plants and Chinese Geishas (or whatever they are called in Chinese).
The garden is so complex that once I lost my group it took me at least 20 minutes in day-glo-neon lilly pond heaven to relocate them.
Then we proceeded to the flower salads...

Teleport Fargfabriken

Just back from Sweden, and the inauguration of FF Norr, in Ostersund. Teleport Fargfabriken, the first show is a massive 80-artist exhibition cataloguing the past and perhaps future of Fargfabriken, curated by Jan Aman and CM von Hauswolf. Instead of choosing the best of, Jan poured everything in the mix, weird project next to weirder project, a random history that suddenly becomes crystal clear. Back in January when he asked me to design the show, I proposed a system for Fargfabriken instead: A set of identical, universal exhibition wall modules, cast randomly about the space as a curators toy; making a labyrinth that is also minimal and a ruin or maybe austere and always whatever. Daniel Daboczy, Fia Palmgren, Matti Molin and Karin Englund spent weeks carefully putting everything together. The opening was a blast, and by the end of the weekend I saw a thick pile of that weeks' newspaper clippings, which is quite a bit for a small town up in the frozen north. Here's my highlightsthe legendary "dog" performance by Oleg Kulig (Interpol, Fargfabriken 1996), during which he attacked members of the audience, sending some of them to the hospital with real bites.

And they thought it was just art.

This piece generated one of the first mass email protests...
everybody was against it, though it looks just amazing today.Annika Larsson POLIISI
great wall drawing by Jesper Waldersten
Francois Roche R&Sie ArchitectsTobias Bernstrup and Mai Ueda performed
view of the space
explosive tube fire by Carsten Nicolai

parallel to the exhibition, the was the New World Bank conference, which brought to Ostersund Malcolm MacLaren, Noreena Hertz, Daniel Birnbaum, Bill Liao, Veronica Valk, yours truly, and many more
opening crowds
great Natalie Djurberg
Angelo Plessas

great sketch furniture by FRONT
I wanted the the place to be like a bombed out ruin, but thats not so possible when you have to inlcude more than a 100 works..
we included a model of the design in the show, and I'm hoping for future ruinations
and the super cool catalogue

The Party

before





and after


for more party pics check out the great photoset by l'oeil ailleurs

(I wish I took more photos at the opening of) In Present Tense

In present tense, National Museum of contemporary Art, curated by Daphne Vitali, Stamatis Schizakis, Tina Pandi
It started with a cool performance by Yorgos Sapountzis

Angelo Foundation great Dionisis Kavalieratos A visitor consumed by DeAnna Maganias
Christodoulos Panayotou "GuysGoCrazy"
and a lot more later
(and I didnt even take a photo of my piece, but I'll be back with that, obviously)

If you're in New York today

You should totally attend

About Houses and Other Topics

Maria Inès Rodriguez lecture and discussion at Apexart

Wednesday, December 12, 6:30 pm

apexart
291 Church Street, NYC, 10013
t. 212 431 5270
www.apexart.org

Last night in Exarcheia

Last night we went to the launch of WE NEED, presented by BETTINA,
at a semi abandoned club that I seen a million times from the outside
but never went in.

there were dark ponds on empty floors

grotto lamps with upside-down forest couches

manequinns

musical chairs + clothes

Dimitris was red

Selana was chatting

Aurora We Need

Meletis and the Bettina Boys

and later on Voltnoi played some great 90's techno,
perfect Faz revival

Last Night in Athens

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