25 January 2010
23 January 2010
20 January 2010
12 January 2010
oskar schlemmer
Das Triadische Ballett (The Triadic Ballet), 1922
link to youtube (bits to have an idea)
link to youtube (bits to have an idea)
official wesite schlemmer.org
Oskar Schlemmer and the Bauhaus Stage
watch a free preview of the film here
"Oskar Schlemmer did not confine his activities at the Bauhaus to painting and teaching sculpture. He also wanted to put his ideas about ballet into practice, and in 1922 he did so in public for the first time. He planned to free the stage from the trappings of tradition in order to give expression to the `pure idea.' The central theme of his work was the relation between humankind and space, and the mediator between these two was to be the dancer, stripped of his individual identity by the use of costumes and masks. This documentary film, made with the artistic advice of Oskar Schlemmer's widow, presents an historically faithful, precise reconstruction of some of his dances. More than any other film, it gives a sense of what Bauhaus teaching was really like, and is truly important to an understanding of the origins of contemporary dance."
Oskar Schlemmer and the Bauhaus Stage
watch a free preview of the film here
"Oskar Schlemmer did not confine his activities at the Bauhaus to painting and teaching sculpture. He also wanted to put his ideas about ballet into practice, and in 1922 he did so in public for the first time. He planned to free the stage from the trappings of tradition in order to give expression to the `pure idea.' The central theme of his work was the relation between humankind and space, and the mediator between these two was to be the dancer, stripped of his individual identity by the use of costumes and masks. This documentary film, made with the artistic advice of Oskar Schlemmer's widow, presents an historically faithful, precise reconstruction of some of his dances. More than any other film, it gives a sense of what Bauhaus teaching was really like, and is truly important to an understanding of the origins of contemporary dance."
8 January 2010
For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there
I love it!!
mess mess mess!
@ ICA
from 2 to 31 Jan 2010
"A mathematician is like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there." Attributed to Charles Darwin
The ICA is proud to present the acclaimed international group exhibition For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there, which features works by over twenty modern and contemporary artists, including still lifes by Giorgio Morandi, a celebrated film by Fischli & Weiss, and a sculptural installation by Dave Hullfish Bailey. The exhibition celebrates the speculative nature of knowledge, rejecting the common assumption that art is a code that needs cracking, and presenting works that employ nonknowledge, unlearning and productive confusion as ways to understand the world.
mess mess mess!
@ ICA
from 2 to 31 Jan 2010
"A mathematician is like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there." Attributed to Charles Darwin
The ICA is proud to present the acclaimed international group exhibition For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there, which features works by over twenty modern and contemporary artists, including still lifes by Giorgio Morandi, a celebrated film by Fischli & Weiss, and a sculptural installation by Dave Hullfish Bailey. The exhibition celebrates the speculative nature of knowledge, rejecting the common assumption that art is a code that needs cracking, and presenting works that employ nonknowledge, unlearning and productive confusion as ways to understand the world.
(...)
The exhibition takes its title from a remark attributed to Charles Darwin, who is supposed to have compared mathematical enquiry to the explorations of a blind man. However, the project also nods to The Blind Man, the journal which was co-founded by Marcel Duchamp, and a re-issue of which (by artist Sarah Crowner) is presented in the ICA's concourse. Other works here include a game by David William, which encourages visitors to engage with the idea of the fourth dimension, and a large piñata by Mariana Castillo Deball in the shape of a Klein bottle - a topological form whose outside is indistinguishable from its inside.
(...)7 January 2010
london international mime festival
http://www.mimefest.co.uk/
unmissable!!
13 to 31 January
@ ICA
Southbank
Barbican
Royal Opera House
Warwick Arts Centre
help with choosing (link to watch the videos)
unmissable!!
13 to 31 January
@ ICA
Southbank
Barbican
Royal Opera House
Warwick Arts Centre
With 15 companies from 10 countries, 13 UK premieres including the world premiere of The Mill from Britain’s Ockham’s Razor – one of the festival’s three co-commissioned works - LIMF10 promises one of the most diverse and exciting programmes in its long history. Switzerland’s Zimmermann & de Perrot open the season at The Barbican, the first of many different circus-theatre shows on offer, and there’s world-class puppetry and animation from Israel, Belgium, Russia, Italy and France. Be a guest at Circus Klezmer’s uproarious wedding, be a witness to the chilling USSR Was Here, be spellbound by sorceress-puppeteer Nicole Mossoux in Kefar Nahum and multi-talented bearded lady Jeanne Mordoj with her badgers and mountain goat. Welcome to 19 days of contemporary visual theatre performance, meet-the artist sessions, workshops, and the festival lecture to be given by Bristol Old Vic artistic director and National Theatre associate director, Tom Morris.
SHOWS USING CIRCUS SKILLS
Circus Klezmer !!
Joao Paulo dos Santos
Cie Bal/Jeanne Mordoj !!
Okidok Hahaha !!
Cie Ieto !!
Zimmermann & de Perrot !!!
Collectif Petit Travers !!
Ockham’s Razor !
Mimbre
SHOWS USING PUPPETRY/ANIMATION
Ateliers du Spectacle !!!
Cie Bal/Jeanne Mordoj !!
Etgar Theatre
Cie Mossoux-Bonté !!!
Pathosformel
BlackSkyWhite !!!
6 January 2010
paul spooner
Paul Spooner was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1948. He had mechanical interests from an early age. In 1964 he completed a preDiploma course at Lancaster College of Art where he made a clock and a steam engine from wood. At Cardiff from 1966 to 1969 he studied Art and Design, specialising in mechanical sculpture. (...) read more in cabaret.co.uk (nice link to search for other artists as well)
5 January 2010
mike cooper
myspace.com/cooparia
For the past 40 years Mike Cooper has been an international musical explorer, performing and recording, solo and in a number of inspired groupings and a variety of genres. Initially a folk-blues guitarist and singer songwriter his work has diversified to include improvised and electronic music, live music for silent films, radio art and sound installations. He is also a music journalist, writing features for magazines, particularly on Pacific music and musicians, a visual artist, film and video maker, collector of Hawaiian shirts and appears on more than 60 records to date. "Cooper was forging connections between folk and experimental musics long before America got New or Wierd.." (The Wire)
For the past 40 years Mike Cooper has been an international musical explorer, performing and recording, solo and in a number of inspired groupings and a variety of genres. Initially a folk-blues guitarist and singer songwriter his work has diversified to include improvised and electronic music, live music for silent films, radio art and sound installations. He is also a music journalist, writing features for magazines, particularly on Pacific music and musicians, a visual artist, film and video maker, collector of Hawaiian shirts and appears on more than 60 records to date. "Cooper was forging connections between folk and experimental musics long before America got New or Wierd.." (The Wire)
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