Ever Clouds Domino @ DLD11

Here's a short talk on the Cloud House which seems to be getting attention anew. In the talk, I attempt to connect the idea of the domino frame as a template which people "fill up with their lives" as similar situation to todays "cloud computing lifestyle where we constantly upload our "life" onto templates such as facebook, flickr, twitter and tumblr. Finally the way that the Dom-ino frame was used in the south mediterranean, as an ephemeral structure to be completed at will, and to be constantly updated as a building, related to the current internet constant customization of cloud pages (google themes, gmail themes, facebook setting etc). And of course how it is all put together into a single memorable object.

Watch live streaming video from dldconference at livestream.com

and here's the entire Ever Clouds panel, as moderated by Hans Urlich Obrist, featuring among others the great Hubert Damisch (Philosopher), Elizabeth Diller (Diller Scofidio + Renfro)
Hans Magnus Enzenberger (Poet) and Mr Tomas Saraceno (Artist)

The most beautiful Kunsthalle in the world

 (Green Grotto)

Just came back from Como and the Ratti Foundation, where director Marco de Michelis has been running the "Most Beautiful Kunsthalle in the World" series of talks, presentations and discussions.

Saturday, 23 October 2010, from 5 to 8pm

I. The centres for contemporary art and the European cities

Keynote Speaker: Nikolaus Hirsch (Städelschule/Portikus, Frankfurt)
Marta Kuzma (Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo)
Philippe Pirotte (Kunsthalle Bern)
Beatrix Ruf (Kunsthalle Zürich)
Angela Vettese (Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia)
Coordinator: Filipa Ramos

Tuesday, 16 November 2010, from 5 to 8pm

II. Art Spaces

Keynote Speaker: Dieter Bogner (Wien)
Andreas Angelidakis (Athens)
Paul Robbrecht, Hilda Daem (Robbrecht en Daem, Gent)
Simona Malvezzi, Wilfried Kuehn (KUEHN MALVEZZI, Berlin)
Frank Boehm (Milano)
Adolf Krischanitz (Wien)
Coordinator: Francesco Garutti

 

(secret passage to lake)

 Dieter Bogner spoke about Frederick Kiesler's exhibition design, 

and Sanaa's transparent museums

(another lake, far away)

I talked about leaning walls and selling furniture, showing scemes for the 2nd Athens Biennial, MUSAC, Hangar Bicocca and the Pavilion for Postcontemporary Curating

 (another passage, to the street)

Paul Robbrect spoke about the white wagon-like spaces for Documenta IX 

and the Whitechapel extension

 (white lamp)

Wilfred Kuehn and Simon Malvezzi spoke about their spaces for Documenta 11

as well as the extension at Hamburger Banhof

 (clay X)








and Frank Boehm spoke about gallery spaces that offer unexpected options to artists,
as well as curating and it's relation to architecture

(the lake)

Saturday, 27 November 2010, 6pm
III. The most beautiful Kunsthalle in the world 1.

Marco De Michelis interviews Hans Ulrich Obrist

Friday, 17 December 2010, 6pm
IV. P.S.1 and beyond
Alanna Heiss (AIR Air International Radio, NYC)
Coordinator: Paola Nicolin

Wednesday, 12 January 2011, from 5 to 8pm
V. An Ecology of art (in collaboration with Università Bocconi, Milano)

Keynote Speaker: Stefano Baia Curioni (Università Bocconi)
Walter Santagata (Università di Torino)
Pierluigi Sacco (IULM, Milano)
Guido Guerzoni (Università Bocconi)
Angela Vettese (IUAV, Venezia)
Alberto Abruzzese (IULM, Milano)
Coordinator: Luca Martinazzoli

Fondazione Antonio Ratti
Villa Sucota, Via per Cernobbio, 19
22100 Como - Italy
Info: +39031233211 ufficiostampa@fondazioneratti.org
http://www.fondazioneratti.org

Adbusted

Recently, I can't help noticing

all the blank billboards on my morning walk

maybe they ran out of things to advertise?

maybe we just consumed too many ads and we dont see them anymore?

maybe the whole country is bust

and not even the creepy cheap advertisement companies want to sell us anything

because they know we are junk customers

naturally, the only ad that is never missing is for the ubiquitous online crap-sino

the next day I find myself in front of this sign, 

and what do you know, 

it looks just like a fucking tombstone:

Here Lies the Greek Economy.

Starry Night balanced on Triangular Trouble (last week in London)

I think maybe I had never been to the Barbican during daytime eversuddenly everything seemed interesting
I was really there to see Radical Nature

and everything natural seemed radical

inside, great as always Rsie

Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty
Hans Haacke
with photos from his series of real time systems
all great





at the Tate , great BaldessariStarry Night balanced on Triangular Trouble
and Miroslaw Balka's great cave of darkness

At Serpentine, the Sanaa pavilion was very cute

and Hans Urlich Obrists' Poetry Marathon just amazing, here Mr Pablo Leon de la Barra and lovely Cibelle recite part of Mr Kenneth Bostocks' piece
I often looked to the ceiling for clues


Jimmy Durham


Christodoulos Panayiotou

and amazing Dominique Gonzales Foerster reading from Jacques Roubauds' The form of a city changes faster, alas, than the human heart

Angelo Plessas' Monument to Internet HookUps

This is Angelo Plessas' Monument to Internet HookUps

the monument is the physical component of a work
that joins performance, sculpture and the internet,
mixing public event and private history.
the work was conceived as part of Cay Sophie Rabinowitz' "Splendid Isolation: Athens" exhibition for the 2nd Athens Biennial HEAVEN. The opening of HEAVEN was scheduled at the same day as the Athens Pride Festival, and Plessas' work chose to join the two events

first acting as a float on the Pride parade in downtown Athens
(Joe, Pablo)

where lots of old friends came together
(Angelo, Cay, Mark, Tobias, Rebecca)

mixing real and fictional characters
(Vilma, Roland)

at the end of the parade everybody boarded the float
(Stuart, Christian, Roy, Willem, Leo, Sotiris, Andrea, Adrian, Jane,Pablo, Oliver, Carla, Eleanna)

for a crazy truck ride down Syggrou Ave.
and the installation at a secluded location on the grounds of the biennial,
a pyramid amongst dead palm trees
a dry field by the sea
yesterday we visited the monumentto add some personal history