As I looked at one of my paintings this morning, I started to think about Gunther von Hagens (the interesting man who makes human sculptures). I fisrt heard about him in 2003. We were watching this documentary about him and his work. I looked it up today, and I noticed that my reaction to him and his sculptures has changed. I’m accepting it in an other way then I did at that moment. So I wonder why..
There is loads on youtube about it:
November 12, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SPECIAL TIMES EDITION BLANKETS U.S. CITIES, PROCLAIMS END TO WAR
* PDF: http://www.nytimes-se.com/pdf
* For video updates: http://www.nytimes-se.com/video
* Contact: mailto:writers@nytimes-se.com
(these links weren’t responding when I tried them - FF)
Early this morning, commuters nationwide were delighted to find out
that while they were sleeping, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had
come to an end.
If, that is, they happened to read a “special edition” of today’s New
York Times.
In an elaborate operation six months in the planning, 1.2 million
papers were printed at six different presses and driven to prearranged
pickup locations, where thousands of volunteers stood ready to pass
them out on the street.
Articles in the paper announce dozens of new initiatives including the
establishment of national health care, the abolition of corporate
lobbying, a maximum wage for C.E.O.s, and, of course, the end of the
war.
The paper, an exact replica of The New York Times, includes
International, National, New York, and Business sections, as well as
editorials, corrections, and a number of advertisements, including a
recall notice for all cars that run on gasoline. There is also a
timeline describing the gains brought about by eight months of
progressive support and pressure, culminating in President Obama’s “Yes
we REALLY can” speech. (The paper is post-dated July 4, 2009.)
“It’s all about how at this point, we need to push harder than ever,”
said Bertha Suttner, one of the newspaper’s writers. “We’ve got to make
sure Obama and all the other Democrats do what we elected them to do.
After eight, or maybe twenty-eight years of hell, we need to start
imagining heaven.”
Not all readers reacted favorably. “The thing I disagree with is how
they did it,” said Stuart Carlyle, who received a paper in Grand
Central Station while commuting to his Wall Street brokerage. “I’m all
for freedom of speech, but they should have started their own paper.”
Maybe some of you saw this (real) photograph from the last debate with Mr O and Mr M.
Well, one of our local radio stations decided to have a photoshop competition.
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/10/photoshop-conte.html
Wish I had known about it, I would have entered one of my own . . .
Ellen!
Kunne du linket opp den siden (var det bibsys/ nasjonalbiblioteket?) hvor man kan danne sitt eget forlag på 123, samt få ISBN-nr på egenproduserte bøker, etc…? Var litt vanskelig å finne frem der. Sikkert noe som kan være kjekt for flere å kjenne til.
Førebels takk! Knud
I would like to thank Anja, Trine and Ellen for a very nice groupmeeting yesterday.
We concluded the session by confirming that:
I would definitely recommend visiting Swane´s site, you might just stumble across jewels like ”Halvsugd kylling” (sorry, best in Norwegian):
![](http://ballroom.halvekongeriket.org/wp-content/uploads/k_swane_2.jpg "\\"Halvsugd kylling\\"")
”Halvsugd kylling”
70 x 60 cm
Oil on hard board
(overmalt)
Oh what a great show that seemed to be. And thank you for blogging it ! What are these art students up to?
Anyway - the picture is for those of you who missed amanda and me doing the Piksel Noodle Soup last year, right in the middle of all those sexy cables (couldnt resist either..) and here is a link for those of yoy who missed Michelles great workshop last 2 weeks, a complete treasure with pdfs of all her lectures, links to a bunch of artists exploring space, and not to mention, loads of pictures from the underground, from above, from inside.
For those who bother reading this, group meeting will be wednesday at 17 pm in the meeting room 4th floor.
I used the guide from pátrick to make a link smaler -it works for me -but here is the long link for the program if you want to see it:
I am taking two very interesting courses in our “Center of Theory” here at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts. One is called “Love Discourse”, dealing with the concepts of Philia, Eros and Agape in our lives today and of course in the production of art. Think Picasso, think the Surrealists’ talks about desire, etc etc. Should be quite interesting.
The other course, and in a way the bridge to today’s entry, is called “Remake”, which will focus on movies remade by the the original director years later, with a different cast or different technical equipment, a practice common in the fine arts since time immemorial.
And because things are always interconnected, this ties in nicely with Ivan and me revisiting the Quarantine Gallery for another session of augmented cooking. Ivan said he was inspired by my initial “Electric Cooking” experiments, which were in turn of course somewhat influenced by trying to imagine how Fast Forward’s “Feeding Frenzy” must have worked.
(Electric Cooking, 2007)
The cooking equipment in the original “Electric Cooking” was augmented to create sounds as a side-effect to the manual labour necessary to prepare the dish. To translate the action of cooking into a notation, in a way. However, I felt that this still left me too much in control on one hand, while on the other hand I was a bit unsatisfied by the rather meager scope of actual patterns emerging. This was partly due to the makeshift acoustic equipment..
So for the 2008 version, I’ve called in friend and die hard Kronos Quartet fan Heiko Wommelsdorf. He’ll be playing on all kinds of modified electronic devices, while my modified cooking equipment is added to that repertoire, all feeding into his master mixer. I’m positive that this way some of the rather subtle things the pots and pans create will, by the magic of amplification, not get lost.
(Electric Cooking, 2008)
Where I am going with this work - I am unsure about that, but the will to make a remake is strong. At the same time, I want the whole setup to work as a sculpture as well. Maybe I want too much at the same time - but I’ve tried reduction on both sides (concentrating either on sound only, or on sculpture only) and felt that the minimalism did not necessarily lead to a more concentrated impact.
Anyway, I’ve been in the studio for 15hrs today, head hurts, should probably go home and get some sleep. Will be back tomorrow. The Quarantine Gallery website is up and running, so go there and look, little bunny, go go go. We’ll try to stream live, but will most probably have bandwith problems anyway, so do not count on it. Still, Friday 22:00h (GMT+1), the Quarantine Gallery is the place to be.
The Anti-Christ of Sillicon Valley, english Andrew Keen is visiting Mads Brügger in the danish tv show “den 11. time” to talk about his book: The Cult of the Amateur. How Todays Internet is Killing Our Culture. A new youth revolution is going on at the internet. The kids of 68 are doing the new headlines with Wikipedia, Youtube etc.
In this show they speak english! danish subtitles.
ENJOY ;)
Patrick’s post of thequarantinegallery and the Bassai Dai Egg Eye Dog reminded me of Helicocranchia Pfefferi, more commonly referred to as the Piglet Squid.
URBANA, Ohio (AP) – A defendant had a hard time facing the music.
Andrew Vactor was facing a $150 fine for playing rap music too loudly on his car stereo in July. But a judge offered to reduce that to $35 if Vactor spent 20 hours listening to classical music by the likes of Bach, Beethoven and Chopin.
Vactor, 24, lasted only about 15 minutes, a probation officer said.
It wasn’t the music, Vactor said, he just needed to be at practice with the rest of the Urbana University basketball team.
“I didn’t have the time to deal with that,” he said. “I just decided to pay the fine.”
Champaign County Municipal Court Judge Susan Fornof-Lippencott says the idea was to force Vactor to listen to something he might not prefer, just as other people had no choice but to listen to his loud rap music.
“I think a lot of people don’t like to be forced to listen to music,” she said.