tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21513996665853440962011-10-23T11:37:37.094+01:00A place to write down ideas, thoughts, insights... As Jacques Derrida said: "Write always leads to more writing"Dani Tagenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10542826888057713272noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2151399666585344096.post-15862872156187321912011-05-05T20:42:00.000+01:002011-05-05T20:42:52.848+01:00

Today,  I ended up logging into my flickr account. I don't know how I got there or why - you know...one of those things that always happen when you are on the net: you start here and end up someplace else without really knowing how. Anyway, back to Flickr. So I saw myself having a look at the old posts and on the only group I was part of. I got that sense of nostalgia and thought that maybe I

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On the 30th April, I took part in the Hamish Fulton’s Slowalk (in support of Ai Weiwei) at Tate Modern. For two hours 100 people had to walk very slowly - but very slowly indeed - in the Turbine Hall. The walk was a protest against the disappearance of Ai Weiwei... and let me tell you, it was a fantastic experience.  At first, I thought it'd be difficult to find something to think, to focus on

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The show was about examining British sculpture of the twentieth century and the clever thing about it was the inclusion of Asian, American and African sculptures right at the first room to mark the influence the British Empire had on the development of British Art in general. The intention was also not to define what British Sculpture is but to allow the viewers to visualise sculpture as an art

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I wanted to check this show out because I’m interested in how artists explore interhuman relationships in their work. I really enjoyed the first floor video - “Weak Rot Front” - showing a queue of ballet dancer performing a set of gestures that apparently they didn’t know the sequence. The sequence itself involved three people, two setting some gestures on the third person in a loop repetition

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The window piece wasn’t very inviting so I got inside feeling a bit suspicious about what would come next. To my surprise the work was amazing. It took me in such a way that I stayed there for a long long time even though the gallery and the show were quite small. Milroy uses ordinary elements, such as flowers, animals, cars, brand names… all printed on film and cut out in a way that allows him

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I’ve heard about Tunga for a long time and really wanted to go and check his work personally. The Pillar Corrias Gallery is quite big and it did displayed the work in a very fluid manner, though I think the window should have been left opened, to allow passer-bys to see what is inside the gallery too. Anyway, Tunga has his own mythical narrative and has been talking about it for a long time. I

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I went to see this show because of my interest in text based art and because the image on ArtRabbit website really caught my attention. The Woolff Gallery is quite small but I felt is was a very good place to have Annemarie Wright solo show as it’s the kind of work that asks for a certain intimacy. One should get quite close to her portraits in order to fully appreciate her skills and style. The

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It wasn’t as fabulous as I was expecting, - maybe it was just my deep desire to know every little thing about Hiller’s creative process that didn’t allow me to appreciate it fully. Not that the talk wasn’t good, it just didn’t give me any extra hint of her process. It was more an curator’s tour without the walking around the gallery. I had better curator’s tour - Achim Borchardt-Hume on Walid

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John Stezaker I almost didn't make it, the show ends tomorrow and thankfully I didn't forget to go. There were two interesting things that came to my mind: 1- Very cleaver use of photography. He subverts it in a way that's playful and eloquent. I like how he creates images/photographs without even taking one single picture. His cleverness is also achieved by a fantastic catalogue of glamour

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An amazing show! It was the private view so it was very busy but it was really good. Definitely want to go back when it's quieter as I want to really feel the Bunker a bit better.  As soon as I arrived, I was taken aback by the first installation - Suspended - with 35 red and black wooden swings showing map of cities carved into the seats. Then I went downstairs and saw Bunker - which by the time

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Yes, finally a good show to start the year. Yes, she is amazing and it would be quite hard to not put a good show, but you know sometimes it's possible. Best piece: hard to chose between Recycled Works and the sound installation Witness I'm going to her talk on the 25th March...which I'm really looking forward.

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Another show and another disappointment, though not as bad as the previous one. I was really looking forward to seeing it, I've read a lot about Gabriel Orozco's work and love his approach to the ordinary but the show lacked warmth, it felt too scattered around and the Ventilator piece is running too fast... it lost its poetry. Still worth visiting! The best part: Lintels - right before the exit

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ICA's web site say it's a high-profile annual event  but it was quite disappointing.  I was expecting to see new ideas and I was eager to 'bet' which artist would be the one to follow but no...couldn't be bothered even writing down names! There are some interesting pieces,  but nothing really that "high-profile" I'm afraid.

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Yeap!!! I'm very happy Susan Philipsz won the Prize. Pity I didn't actually put any money on it. Maybe next year.

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After a double visit to the Turner Prize 2010, my money is on Susan Philipsz. Her work is about what I believe is the new approach to contemporary art: the experience of the public. Contemporary artists are interested in inviting the public to get out of their computer screens and experience art in another way. If makes sense the prize going to her this year, specially afterlast year's winner:

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I have just received my new Nokia phone and to my surprise it doesn't have the classic Nokia ringing tones, even though it's one of the so called "Classic" models. I wonder why things there were working fine before are eventually deleted or changed. Is it just me or does anyone else agree that sometimes decision making people make things more complicated than they are! Why would someone buy a

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I had this wonderful class last evening, at Tate Britain. We were finding how Chris Ofili's work relates to our own practice when the lights in the galleries were switched off. Suddenly, we were in a different show altogether: the paintings glowed in the dark! "No Woman, No Cry" has the words "Stephen Lawrence" written on it! Things I had no idea his work could relate to mine: - He asks the

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I have spent the last 3 days reading so much about old technologies when they were new, how life changed enormously in the last century, the impact of networks - transport & communication - in our grandparents lives .... yes we are living changing times, but in a way we were waiting for these changes. I'm still glad this revolution is taking place during my life time but can't avoid thinking how

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We are creatures of communities; we are animals that have always gathered together but we are changing anthropologically as telecommunication allows us to create a different kind of society. With social networking and mobile phones we are everywhere at the same time, consenting others to know our whereabouts all the time. Telecommunication is altering what we have hitherto considered normal

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...a film written on the the wall ..."watched" via photographs laid down on a table... Unmissable.

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Is Tate trying to draw the new direction for contemporary art? Richard Wright's piece is art to be digested slowly, it asks for your time, for more time to be looked at. I's not permanent but at the same time it will be there forever, just like Doris Salcedo's Shibboleth. Two artworks that can only be fully appreciated in situ and can never be seen the same way again, ever. In online social

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