Orgeltanz

http://orgeltanz.wo.to/

My friend is mixing the album for an indie band in Korea called Orgeltanz. They are influenced with Turkish music.. which is interesting... The lead singer is Korean but raised in turkey.... so she sings in both languages.. Their sound is accordion and violin influenced. totally interesting. It really sets the weird kooky atmosphere of my space. So i contacted the producer of Orgeltanz in which he authorised me to play their not yet released album in another country. (i am totally grateful and honoured!)

Commercial look into the Everyday...

Most Asians like things in groups or in masses...
they like following trends and looking high in society... (the LV bags and the Gucci, Burberry etc)
it makes me wonder if the internet has anything to do with this spreading disease of popular mass taste... does that even make sense?

anyway... in a way they really exceed in aesthetics.
one thing i am really interested and suprised in is the trend in photography.
There is at least 1 photo studio in every neighborhood in korea for taking family photos.

The asian studio was always a little different from the western studios.
In western studio's they would have boxes they use as chairs and cover the boxes with drapes.
In an asian studio they would have a big sturdy and pretty looking chair where the mother and father sits and the rest of the family would stand behind them... this is your typical korean family portrait hung up on every living or lounge room....

HOWEVER, things have bling bling-ed since a couple of years.
there are newer studio's with interior and exterior set designs.
If you thought that this could only happen in the movies or in commercial industry, its not any more. Normal everyday people are utalising the new studio's with pretty and aesthetic set up interiors. The aura of the location definately has aesthetic qualities and makes you feel more special... they are being used more for wedding shoots now.. but... i think this will become the norm for future photo studio's.

The change of interior, and the detail of props, the colour and texture of the walls...
they emit ultra cool waves of aesthetic aura.

this is really an interesting aspect... of finding and connecting with space and the aura of what you see from two dimension photographs to actually being emersed in the true atmosphere...

ghost2

she is becoming... nonexistent..
or maybe...
she exists but we do not allow our self to see her standing there....

ghostly idea.

I've been sick for the past 1 week... with a fever rising and falling...
in the midst of feverish dreams and late night suffocating coughs...
i wondered of an exsitance we could not see..
like ghosts.

what if they surrounded us...
and saw EVERYthing we did...
its would be surveillance but in the supernatural existance.
like little jesuses and gods surrounding us and obversing our every move and thought.
that would be scary.

so... for my grad show.
what if.. you were meant to see people walking around on the cctv monitors.
but. instead you saw the same space , but not the people...
eeeeerrrrrie? i want it to be....

a video that captures no time and space.
hmm i need to think it out better.

Anything goes - Lyotard

With regard to Damien Hirst’s recent auction success, a quote from Jean-François Lyotard: Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: you listen to reggae; you watch a western; you eat McDonald’s at midday and local cuisine at night; you wear Paris perfume in Tokyo and dress retro in Hong Kong; knowledge is the stuff of TV game shows … Together, artist, gallery owner, critic, and public indulge one another in the Anything Goes — it is time to relax. But this realism of Anything Goes is the realism of money: in the absence of aesthetic criteria it is still possible to measure the value of works of art by the profits they realise.For a happier note click here

REFERENCE
Lyotard, Jean-François. 1992. The Postmodern Explained: Correspondence 1982-1985, trans. Don Barry, Bernadette Maher, Julian Pefanis, Virginia Spate and Morgan Thomas, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Unearthed Performance.

Fierce Festival 2008 - Public Spaces

The Fierce Festival, an international arts festival, is once more giving you, the audience, the power to programme your own festival!

Impulse Response

An interactive performance installation based on an ecosystem involving live dance, video projection and electronic music, the audience is invited to move through and within the installation and see what changes they can trigger.

Step into a slightly spacey world, anything can happen, what just happened? Unearthed Performance.

www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/galleries/3159/3/

Winterzauber 2005 Videoart Installation Philipp Geist Zurich

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq6hqpXGv5k&feature=related

from thinkingaboutart.blogs.com/art/2006/07/index.html (19/07/06)

Arlington Arts Center Review - Part 3
Wrapping up the New Art Examined show at the Arlington Arts Center, below are six more images I’d like to discuss. I’ll have one more post about the “Black Factory” that I happened to see at the AAC on Saturday as well.

Daniel Busey’s (American U.) “King Me” is an interactive installation that caught my attention. When you approach the piece, you’re not quite sure what you’re in for. When I walked in front of the camera (as seen in the second image above), I found myself involved in the Rodney King beating. That wasn’t exactly what I was expecting. The question became, why am I here? Am I supposed to be a newscaster reporting on the event? If so, what should I say? Why am I reporting on it long after it occurred? On the other hand, am I “involved” in the beating? Do I have my back turned on police brutality? What am I supposed to do about it?

Though the piece has a bit of corniness to it – doesn’t it remind you of some tourist trap photo booth at a theme park – it does ask some interesting questions. My question to the artist: why use footage of an event from many years ago? Why not something current instead?

The Ring...

2D to 3D.

Imagination to Reality.

Distance to Closeness.

Sympathy to Empathy.

Slightly Touch to Dynamically Impact.

How!... How?... How!?!?

Sydney Biennale 2008...

Cockatoo Island...

Every time i attend the Sydney Biennale there seems to be mixed emotions of joy and anger... Perhaps it will be better if i were to leave all anticipation and excitement and attend it with no expectation at all... All in all... with the Biennale pros and cons fly all over the place leaving you with the complexity of questioning what 'contemporaneity' is...

But on another note... Cockatoo Island is really an amazing space... The are so many buildings and mazes of tunnels, halls and doors. I just wonder why there wasn't MORE works of art at Cockatoo Island. They were so spread out and hidden. To me i guess Cockatoo Island was more aesthetic in space than the art works provided. Other than Keith Richardson's work which was site specific, the huge blocks of old empty ghostly looking vacant spaces were so visually aesthetic. I now definitely know for a fact that i want to do an installation of some sort....

Physical and Mental Space...

Freedom is what I want...

Freedom is what I need...

Lines and the Spaces in between...

The lines create a boundary and space is formed.

To see into something in a deeper level one must go closer. Rather than looking at a large print of a space in a gallery. One must be IN the space to feel the full capacity of the vibe it creates. It would be interesting to see the print come alive as an installation.

Gorgeous?

Looks can be deceiving...

Don't let her boobies deceive you....

SHE used to be a HE. (She is the first trans-gender celeb in Korea.)

Her name: Harisu