Joshua Petherick

Joshua Petherick at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Mirka Tolarno, Melbourne, 2010. Petherick has created a body of work that throws objects and images into orbit around the position Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur – translated from Latin to mean ‘The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived.’ See more;

Photography, John Brash - Curator, Liv Barret.

Le Point du Jour art centre

Le Point du Jour art center by Éric Lapierre Architecture_
"Le Point du Jour art center, fully dedicated to photography, is an attempt to build cultural amenities without money. It is a kind of look into the architecture of a future Europe that would have gained a new sobriety and meaning through the loss of the economic leadership. A primitive hut for the 21st century.

A new building has to express the quality of its surroundings, whatever they are, on one hand, and to renew them by its presence, on the other hand : to transform a situation by giving it a new meaning. To achieve this goal the building is built in concrete with outer insulation and wrapped in a poor and cheap material, which is normally used to make waterproof out of sight flat roofs : sheets of asphalt protected by a thin layer of aluminum."  See more;

"Through this architectonic identity, the building gets a direct link with surrounding ones – amongst them a Mac Donald’s restaurant and other commercial boxes typical of along-the-road architecture – all built in non permanent materials. This materiality allows the building to find naturally its proper place in these outskirts, and makes it visible with its shinny look that reflects the ever changing color of this sea side city. At the same time abstract and very concrete, the art center gets a strong and discrete presence.

The inner space is made of rooms that divide it without any corridor. All materials are raw, without any transformation : tar on the ground floor to make it perceptible that exhibitions are free, because it is a public building that gets the same floor material as the pavement in front of it, plywood, concrete. It is plasterboard free construction, as plasterboard has been created to be used by badly payed workers without « savoir faire » and not allow beautiful, simple and solid detailing. Perceived from the road, the building is a kind of small warehouse ; from the art school garden in which it is settled it looks like a big house : it addresses different contexts with a single and unitarian form.

Its main materials – waterproof on facade, tar on ground floor – are decontextualised in order to be perceived in a different way, with the strange feeling to discover things that one already knows, in an analogous way to the photographer that creates an image by taking it out of its context, to make the perception of reality stronger."- Éric Lapierre Architecture.

Photography by Hélène Binet and Paola Salerno.

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Aquarium by Tobias Zehntner

Love this short film called Aquarium (2008) by Tobias Zehntner. I really like these kind of powerful and simple concepts. In this case the perspective changes absolutely the space, creating a bizarre and curious environment. See more;

I highly recommend to watch the short film here, on his site.

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Melanie Authier

Melanie Authier, 1980, Montreal_ 

"Melanie Authier's paintings bring together visual contradictions into one imaginary space. By drawing upon the histories of abstraction and the strategies of representation, she presents improbable environments. A sense of disorientation comes about through the way in which colour, texture, line and shape compete for room within the canvas. Each work presents a brimming jostle of oppositions that the viewer is invited to bring into a certain order." See more;

All the following pieces are from the series 2010. Acrylic on canvas. To see them on huge size, check her site.

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INTERNET_EROSION by ART OF FAILURE

INTERNET_EROSION is a sculpture created by ART OF FAILURE,  Nicolas Maigret  and Nicolas Montgermont. The piece was made from 24h OF THE "INFINITE STREAM LOOP" activity engraved on labelite.

INFINITE STREAM LOOP is a permanent audio stream that travels around the web since a year. This originaly silent loopped flux has been started the 1 july 2010 and since this date, it keeps developing and remodeling according to the errors of transmission produced at every nodes passed through the network. This process draws up a temporal portrait of the digital space.

INTERNET_EROSION is a sculpture produced from 24 hours audio analysis of the Infinite Stream Loop's recordings. That recordings have been performed 1 year after this stream loop started. It has been translated into reliefs using spectral analysis technics. This object embodies the Infinite Stream Loop's sonic structure mutations throughout one day. See more;

24 hours of infinite stream loop (~6 seconds records every 10 minutes, all linked together)




See a previous great post about ART OF FAILURE, here.

THIS PAPAYA TASTES PERFECT by Ian Cheng

The last month Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club presented THIS PAPAYA TASTES PERFECT, a solo exhibition by Ian Cheng. A new digitized performance that sets a sequence of encounters between physical human behavior and the virtual environment. 

"Motion Capture is a recording process that registers the physical movements of the performer absent the image of the performer. The recorded movements are then translated onto a digital body. Working with a choreographer, a performer, and a small team of motion capture technicians, Cheng has configured the motion capture process into a format for recording a visceral, incomplete memory. Placing the performer under a matrix of contradictory choreographies, a debased narrative, whiskey, and technical bondage, an ancient horrifying physicality is registered in the virtual environment as a sequence of legible movements punctuated by impossible gestures and gross deformations. In this space, motion becomes a new material." See more;

Ian Cheng, 1984, Los Angeles, is an artist based in New York. He studied Cognitive Science at UC Berkeley before working at Industrial Light & Magic. He received an MFA from Columbia University in 2009.

Like you can see the stills from the video are vertically, that's why the video/piece works vertically. Ian recommend to tilt the laptop sideways or watch it on the cellphone. I don't know exactly why the video is horizontally on Vimeo, I think that's for fitting all the screen with the video. (see on full screen). Project page here.

Credits:  Direction & production: Ian Cheng - Memory: Christian de Vietri & Ian Cheng - Choreography: Madeline Hollander - Physical performance: Jonny Mandabach - Vocal performance: Sean Manning - Motion capture services: Steve Day, Motion Capture NYC

Grant Miller

Grant Miller
"My work is, at its core, the depiction of a contemporary dialogue. The process of constructing these paintings mirrors the construction of history. Furthermore, it depicts the hectic pace in which we gather and edit information in present society. I start with architectural interiors, symbols, and marks that represent accumulated forms of information, interaction, and memories. Once these marks are laid, there is a continuous reaction to the previous information. I use a combination of structures, and an illustrative and expressive vocabulary that is inherent to painting, as elements to formally define space and express the intersections of a complicated society. Much, if not all of the early information is completely covered, and the viewer is left with a painting that has been continually built upon the previous action or mark, as well as an image that reflects the nuances and complexity of the contemporary society in which we live. The paintings are a reconstruction of a physical history which plays out the layers of the work. In society as in these paintings you can see through to some of the early influences, while some are completely invisible but necessary to the finality of each piece." See more;