Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Michelangelo Pistoletto

"Art is the most sensitive and synthetic expression of thought: the time has come for the artist to assume his responsibility and create bonds between human activities, from economics to politics, from science to religion, from education to behaviour, in a nutshell, all the territories of the social fabric."
—Michelangelo Pistoletto, Manifesto Progetto Arte.


http://e-flux.com/shows/view/10145

LIVING AS A FORM

http://www.creativetime.org/programs/archive/2011/livingasform/curator_statement.htm

Friday, 9 September 2011

AC/DC - Sink the Pink

the czars - little pink house

Pink Eye (On My Leg)

Adrian Belew and David Bowie - Pretty Pink Rose

The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink

Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pink Noise Waltz

[DIBU] Pink Panther 095 - Pink Lemonade - EN English Ingles

The Young Knives - In The Pink (Oxford Zodiac Live)

aerosmith - pink

Dixie Chicks - Pink Toenails

Pink Cadillac - Natalie Cole

XTC Pink Thing

Sunday, 21 August 2011

PINK is one of those colours that clearly influences our behaviour

Qualities associated with PINK...
sensitive, tender, youthful, artificial, unreal, eccentric, sweet, vulnerable & pleasurable
often perceived as unpleasant, even embarrassing
appealing and enjoyable
but quite simply the idea of beauty

Freud... ' our behavior is ruled not by reason but by emotion'
PINK is more closely associated with emotions than any other colour. It appears to be a colour that addresses us with such intensity that is poses a genuine challenge to our emotions.
If this is true, then PINK is one of those colours that clearly influences our behavior.

PINK addresses our senses more than other colours - through taste, touch, smell.

Social attitudes towards PINK run extreme. People know where PINK belongs and where it doesn't. Genders respond differently to PINK


PINK is fleeting, alluding to our earthbound existence and mortality.


PINK embodies suspense, longing, promise, and the hope of fulfillment. It represents the spiritual and emotion realm of love. PINK is erotic.


PINK has long been a colour that demonstrates difference


Through rose tinted glasses the world seems more pleasant

PINK is the colour of fantastic

PINK is simply too beautiful to be true

This colour which is so closely connected to feeling, is uncanny. Its radiance undermines the barriers of reason.  PINK is subversive and revealing

The ambivalence of the colour pink results from the desire to establish harmony between the contradictory factors of social norms and personal feelings

PINK - Barbara Namitz

Wednesday, 17 August 2011

INCONGRUOUS

Not in keeping
Incompatible
Not Conforming
Not Matching
Does not fit in

Thesaurus definition

Main Entry:incongruous
Part of Speech:adjective
Definition:out of place; absurd
Synonyms:alienbizarreconflictingcontradictory,
disconsonant, discordantdisparatedistorted,
divergentextraneousfantasticfitful, foreign,
illogicalimproperinappropriateinapropos,inapt, 
incoherentincompatibleincongruent,inconsistent,
 irreconcilable, irregularjumbled,lopsided,
 mismatched, out of keeping, rambling,shifting, 
twistedunavailing, unbalanced,unbecoming, unconnected, 
uncoordinated,unevenunintelligible, unpredictable,
 unrelated,unsuitableunsuited



Tuesday, 16 August 2011

INDIVIDUATION

It is the name given to processes whereby the undifferentiated tends to become individual.


In developmental psychology - particularly analytical psychology - individuation is the process through which a person becomes his/her 'true self'. Hence it is the process whereby the innate elements of personality; the different experiences of a person's life and the different aspects and components of the immature psyche become integrated over time into a well-functioning whole. Individuation might thus be summarised as the stabilizing of the personality.


JUNG



Individuation is a process of transformation whereby the personal and collective unconscious is brought into consciousness (by means of dreams, active imagination or free association to take some examples) to be assimilated into the whole personality. It is a completely natural process necessary for the integration of the psyche to take place.[5] Individuation has a holistic healing effect on the person, both mentally and physically.[5]
Besides achieving physical and mental health,[5] people who have advanced towards individuation tend to be harmonious, mature and responsible. They embody humane values such as freedom and justice and have a good understanding about the workings of human nature and the universe.[6]

Tuesday, 9 August 2011

NEWS FROM TONY IN LONDON

The news is full of the sporadic violence, arson and looting that has broken out , but I am afraid I agree with the comment that it seems like recreational violence. It is mostly youths, and it is the school summer holidays. Mass stupidity, boredom, frustration and teenage angst.
         On Saturday I went in my pink gingham outfit and blonde
wig to dance at a free dance at the Royal Festival Hall.
         On Sunday I baked, for the first time in my life, a banana cake. I combined ideas from Edmonds Cook book, Delia Smith
and Southern (US) cook books, plus a few of my own variations. The result is delicious.

Thursday, 4 August 2011

NON COMPLIANT

Katarzyna Kozyra



zdjecie

appearances as Lou Salome,
June 2005, Vienna


An image of artists' friend and femme fatale Lou Salome driving a buggy drawn by Nietzsche and Ree inspired Kozyra to create a video performance and photo series for which Vienna's Schwarzenberg Palace and Gardens served as the backdrop. As rendered by Kozyra, Nietzsche and Rilke (another of Lou Salome's acquaintances) — or more precisely actor-dancers masked as dogs strongly resembling the philosopher and poet — are subjected to animal training. Kozyra devised her Lou Salome project while working on In Art Dreams Come True, and an interweaving of these projects is clearly perceptible. With In Art... Kozyra became a material/doll/toy in the hands of Gloria Viagra and the Maestro, who shaped her. In Appearances..., on the other hand, she is a dominatrix who completely controls her men-dogs. The closing credits scroll by with Kozyra gently humming the aria of the Queen of the Night from The Magic Flute.


ART 21 Transformations Yinka Shonibare, Cindy Sherman, Paul Mcarthy

http://video.pbs.org/video/1281770054

Gulsun Karamustafa

http://youtu.be/qtMJ0oXzxPs

The City and The Secret Panther Fashion

Foundation 3,14 is featuring the "grande dame" of Turkish contemporary art, Gülsün Karamustafa with her video work “The City and the Secret Panther Fashion.” It is a fictive and humorous film about women who goes to a great length to achieve a moment of personal freedom. They have created a sanctuary away from the Islamists who systematically undermines the very societies of which they are part of, with much of their savage venom seem focused on the female citizenry.
The film starts slowly, reaches a climax and slows down again just like a ritual. There is no dialog in the film and it is shot in a silent cinematic pattern, with informative written text in between. The musical composition strengthens the impact of the images. The viewer gets a glimpse inside the secretly blooming Panther fashion in Istanbul. The plot starts with the meeting of 3 women who wish to catch up with the “secret panther fashion” whose users keeps growing rapidly. They are all anxious that somebody may spy on them while they are going towards their destinations. Their wish is to reach safely to a house where they can taste the joy of wearing freely the “panther design” clothing and spend a time of their own away from scrutiny. Only those who know the secret codes can enter this house decorated elaborately in “panther fashion.” In the house waits Panterella, the fearless housekeeper and her colleague who would offer the ladies endless freedom. At the end of the day the women leave the house in secret, again with the fear of being caught and return to their colorless lives.
The connecting elements through Gülsün Karamustafa artistic production through the decades are the issue of cultural identity.


Claude Cohun 1929

Without a doubt, it is her self-portraits that have aroused the greatest interest among theoreticians of contemporary culture. Here the artist uses her own image to expose, one by one, the clichés of feminine and masculine identity. Claude Cahun (née Lucy Renée Mathilde Schwob) reinvented herself through photography (just as she did in her writing), posing for the lens with an acute sense of “performance,” whether dressed as a woman or as a man, with her hair short, long or shaven (which was extremely incongruous for women at this time). However, to speak of identity is also to speak, indirectly, of the body, and by the same token of the self-image that one projects and that becomes social as soon as it is shared. Unlike other artists – mainly men – who made portraits but never or very rarely exposed their own person to the lens (Man Ray, Hans Bellmer, André Kertész), Claude Cahun was at once the object and the subject of her artistic experiments. This is borne out by the care with which she chose her poses and expressions, the backgrounds she used (fabric, bedspreads, sheets, hangings), and her use of specific props (masks, capes, overgarments, glass balls, etc.) – even if the real focus of the image was still the face.

MIchelle Handelman

Michelle Handelman

Working in the tradition of feminist body artist who use their bodies not just as makers of the work, but as agents of the work, Handelman states, "My work can be described by theorist, Helene Cixous' ideas of Visceral Feminism: aggressively traversing the corporeal landscape in it's various forms of excess and undress, while simultaneously giving it up for the viewer in an overflow of visual and psychological sensations."

Cross Dressing and the New media Avant-Garde


HAYDEN, REFERENCE, BAKALAR GALLERIES

Virtuoso Illusion: Cross-Dressing and the New Media Avant-Garde

SHOWING:

February 5, 2010 - April 4, 2010

OPENING RECEPTION:

February 4, 6-8pm

5:30PM - Pre-reception conversation with exhibiting artists Charles Atlas, Michelle Handelman, and John Kelly - moderated by curator Michael Rush

 Virtuoso Illusion: Cross-Dressing and the New Media Avant-Garde
Virtuoso Illusion: Cross Dressing and the New Media Avant-Gardeexplores what has traditionally been called gender crossing or cross-dressing (drag) as a tactic for media artists that has been central to the development of the current avant-garde. The show explores how experimental art has been invigorated and advanced by artists who cross dress for many different reasons as part of their conceptual process. It is not intended as an exploration of identity issues specifically, but more as an in depth look at current and historical strategies of cross dressing as an art of the irrational, the unexpected. This exhibition is organized by guest curator Michael Rush, former director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University.

For several artists working today, cross dressing is not even an apt term. For video artist Ryan Trecartin, for example, gender appearances are just that, appearances. In his dizzyingly fast-paced videos, sexual leaps are one part of a multitasking language system that communicates multiple perspectives on his characters’ lives. For performance artist John Kelly, drag (a term he does use) is a theatrical tool applied to a character, like any other tool he might use in a non-drag performance. In Michelle Handelman’s work, lesbians, drag queens, women playing men playing women create a post-gender scenario not so different from many second-life experiments on the web.

Cross dressing has a storied history in the development of post Dada art. For Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, the transgressive act of dressing as a woman was a strategy intended to both shock the bourgeoisie as well as to inflate the sexually intense agendas of the Surrealists whose mostly male cohort felt some threat from an emerging feminism in 1920’s Paris. Less attended to until recently were the artfully ambiguous photos of Claude Cahun whose multiply-gendered self portraits were surely as subversive as anything concocted by Duchamp and Ray. In mid century, Pierre Molinier advanced the wildly varied sexual identities of the Surrealists with his photomontages and selfportraits.

As sexual representations became increasingly liberated in the 1960’s with artists like Jack Smith, Kenneth Anger, Andy Warhol and a host of others, cross dressing became a hallmark of both gay liberation and the subversive intentions of the avant-garde. In each major historical advancement of experimental art, cross dressing has been present as a strategy that has expanded the possibilities of the perception-bending intentions of artists (as opposed to merely gender-bending).

In the same way that Bruce Nauman’s Spinning Spheres, 1970, Peter Campus’s aen, 1977, or Michael Snow’sWavelength, 1977, upended viewers’ visual perceptions and re-defined relationships between the moving image and the body, so, too, do videos such as Ryan Trecartin’s K-Corea INC. K (Section A), 2009, Kalup Linzy’sConversations Wit de Churen III: Da Young & Da Mess, 2005, and Katarzyna Kozyra’s Summertale, 2008, subvert viewers’ expectations of narrative through the wonder and estrangement of the creators’ use of cross dressing. In their virtuosic performances (and, in Trecartin’s case, digital manipulations), these artists train the eye anew, exposing viewers to radical information that can shock, exhilarate, and transform.

The exhibition will feature videos, installations, photographs, and performances.  Artists include Charles Atlas, Matthew Barney, Claude Cahun, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Marcel Duchamp, Michelle Handelman, John Kelly, Katarzyna Kozyra, Kalup Linzy, Ma Liuming, Manon, Pierre Molinier, Yasumasa Morimura, Brian O’Doherty, Ryan Trecartin, and Andy Warhol



Support for Virtuoso Illusion: Cross-Dressing and the New Media Avant-Garde has been provided by the Council for the Arts at MIT, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Martin E. Zimmerman. Media sponsor: Phoenix Media/Communications Group

Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Christos & jean Claude

Pink Gender

In Western culture, the practice of assigning pink to an individual gender began in the 1920s[12] or earlier.[13] An article in the trade publication Earnshaw's Infants' Department in June 1918 said: "The generally accepted rule is pink for the boys, and blue for the girls. The reason is that pink, being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy, while blue, which is more delicate and dainty, is prettier for the girl."[14] From then until the 1940s, pink was considered appropriate for boys because being related to red it was the more masculine and decided color, while blue was considered appropriate for girls because it was the more delicate and dainty color
Wikipedia - PINK

Pink thoughts

The colour of love
Can Pink be serious
Why is military hardware not pink

Can practical things be made in pink

Animals - Flamingo, Cockatoo, Pig, Mole

Pink associated with weakness
Vunerability

Hands - soft part of body
Pink - has very bodily feel - flesh

Natural world - Flowers = cherry blossom (vaginas)

Would you wear pink?

Visibility - too obvious, attracts attention
Would stand out in wild, Open to predatory attack..... which is probably why its not used
 in military hardware

Feminist movements reclaiming pink
Code Pink Woman for Pink

Pink for girls, blue for boys

Pink dollar

Men In The Pink

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8401742.stm

Why real macho men are proud to wear pink

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1204392/Why-real-macho-men-proud-wear-pink.html

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Pink Ideas



There is something alluring about pink. Maybe that’s because psychologically it is known to have a calming effect. Or maybe it’s because pink is complimentary to most skin tones, unless you already have a lot of pink tone in your skin (like me). Or maybe it’s because a man who wears pink exudes confidence, yet is sensitive. It could be as simple as the fact that pink is easy to coordinate with almost every color in your wardrobe--it goes amazingly well with greys, tans, black, navys and other blues tones. And lastly, if you're still not convinced how great pink is, women love pink and are more likely to give you a second glance. So give pink a try if you haven’t already. I have outlined four ways you can incorporate this magical color into your wardrobe. Daniel Billet - Mens Grooming Guide

DAY 3 Double lives

Why do some people dress up? Why do we want to be someone else. What are we concealing and what are we exposing. Some may be afraid, whilst others may be exuberant, the costume aids in the quest to play in another scene from life's rich theatre. Some may be making a strong socio-political statement whilst others choose to dress to escape and some simply love to play. Whatever our reasons its part of my life and others.

Wednesday, 13 July 2011

Richard Phillips

Interesting take on the burning bush

The Burning Bush


2011.....And I am left wondering how does one make art out of the essence of this violent reality?  Its all same same but different... the time and place is irrelevant as the reality is always the same.
Therefore if the bush were to burn - the manifested light light that does not consume, then perhaps I AM WHO I AM may come and shed clarity on these turbulent times and with miraculous energy light a new path