Future Past Perfect
Carsten Nicolai: »Future Past Perfect«. An artist’s HD vision of life above the clouds. Read the full story on Nowness.com.
Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest
Sonne bleibt Sonne und Mond Mond. Boards of Canada passt immer, eine Frage des Prinzips.
Sitzmuster der Todes
Sitzmuster des Todes, which typically means »seat patterns of death«, offers an incredible collection of horror designs, that brings you fear, anger and procrastination. It seems to be a global epidemic. Here in germany, there is barely any bus without these weird and horrible looking multi-colored print patterns. You can also visit The Great Pattern Collection, a similar page, but the pictures there do not show the real ugliness.
Die ausgesaugte Klasse
Die Diskussion über die Abschaffung der Künstlersozialkasse ist so alt wie die über die unappetitliche Wahrheit von McDonalds. Wir sollten sie dennoch nicht außer Acht lassen. Denn die Abschaffung von Sozialleistungen war nie einfacher als heute. Die deutsche Wirtschaft sehnt einmal mehr das Ende der KSK herbei, trotzdem sie seit Jahren von »ihren« Künstlern profitiert. Andreas Zielcke hat sich für die Süddeutsche mit dem Thema auseinandergesetzt (kein Link mehr wg. LSR – Edit Roland).
The Art of Punk
In this excellent debut episode of their »The Art of Punk« series, MOCAtv* dissects the art of the legendary Black Flag, from their iconic four bars symbols, to their coveted and now collectable gig flyers, singles, and band t-shirts, all depicting the distinctive Indian ink drawn image and text by artist Raymond Pettibon.
»The Art Of Punk« traces the roots of the punk movement and the artists behind the iconic logos of punk bands such as Black Flag (Raymond Pettibon), The Dead Kennedys (Winston Smith) and Crass (Dave King). The stories behind the art of the Dead Kennedys will debut on June 18, and June 25 will see the release of the Crass episode, all of which will be available at: www.youtube.com/MOCAtv. Filmmaker Bryan Ray Turcotte also posted the following Black Flag flyers and many more of his remarkable collection on Noisey.
*MOCAtv is a contemporary art video channel, developed as a digital extension of the education and exhibition programming of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Somos Luz
I love these guys… Remember this work? The spanish urban art group Boa Mistura participated recently in an urban art revitalization project in Panama City. The city became a great artistic showcase, dressed up with sculptures, murals, paintings, films and photographs as part of the »Primera Bienal del Sur en Panamá 2013«. They describe their work and their reasoning as follows: »Somos Luz („We are light“) is the message we painted, with the neighbors help, on 50 houses at the building Begonia I in the community of El Chorrillo (Panama City). The concept is based on the color grid generated when every neighbor paints his own home. The intervention covers corridors and stairways, converted now into abstract color compositions that come to life with daily scenes like hanging clothes or people looking out the balcony.« All Images courtesy of Boa Mistura.
I ride to the edge of the atmosphere…
His body of work includes both the legendary »Echtzeit« music clip by Sensorama (with Oliver Husain, MuVi Award for the best German Music Video at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival in 1999) and his award-winning animation »3.48 €/min.«. Last year, Michel Klöfkorn’s newest film »I ride to the edge of the atmosphere in a half hour on my bicycle« won the German Short Film Award 2012. Hovering between psychoanalysis, economics, astronomy and bicycle rides this film bridged the scientific with the imaginary in a very strong and powerful way. It’s time to start a big retrospective show at your favourite cinema.