LUFTSCHLOSS

Anna Borgman and Candy Lenk realized the installation LUFTSCHLOSS on Alice-Salomon-Square in Berlin during the spring of 2012. This project is the result of the examination of the fragmentation and incompletion of the space and the disappointed hopes for permanence and wholeness. The installation is 2300 m3 in size and is divided into four phases; showing different stages of transformation. See more;

LUFTSCHLOSS_

"Using the imagery of a construction site, the object receives a dynamic form and becomes a transitional work whose presence already contains its own absence. Materials normally used to conceal the construction process become building materials. The installation oscillates between permanence and volatility, the grounded tectonics of a construction site and the placeless hovering of a cloud. Using common place construction scaffolding and protective netting the installation mimics a construction site and thereby blends into the urban landscape. It reveals its artistic intention only through its structural discrepancies. The staged construction site links back to the never completed plans of the large scale housing development Hellersdorf. Ever since the political system change and the bankruptcy of the development agency, incomplete building projects have shaped the fragmented image of this area.The three-dimensional forms within the scaffolding are changed periodically so that the object is continuously in an in- between state. The observer is left with the growing realization that the transitional form is the final gestalt of the object. The project becomes cloud and castle at the same time. "

The installation is a price winner of the competition for temporary urban interventions "Helle Mitte" and is supported by the german joined federal and state program “Stadtumbau Ost”

Propulsion Painting by Evan Roth

Today 14th March opens a new solo exhibition by Evan Roth called "Welcome to Detroit" at Eastern Michigan University.Is Detroit where Evan has been living and working for this exhibition along six weeks, preparing new works like the Propulsion Painting series, (see the videos into the post). In this exhibition Evan is going to show some of his latest projects made over the last and current year such as Skymall Liberation, Personal Internet Cache Archive, One GIF composition among other experimental and also funny works. See more;

"Evan Roth's exhibition, Welcome to Detroit, will feature nearly all-new work, much of it made during his residency. The work follows his core conceptual framework of appropriating popular culture and combining it with a hacker's philosophy to highlight how small shifts in visualization can allow us to see our environment with new eyes, whether online, at home, in the city or at the airport. His work acts as both a mirror and vault to contemporary society, creating work that reflects and withstands a world of rapid advancements in computing power, changing screen resolution and repainted city walls.

For Welcome to Detroit, Evan mines everything from the spray paint can, to hip-hop music, to airplane shopping magazines and flight safety cards, resulting in a show that moves freely across media, but always with a sense of pop cultural pranksterism. From individual art objects to video pieces to documentation, the work is designed to simultaneously serve as a record of activity and creative output, while also underscoring important issues concerning copyright, public space, and our offline and online identities." Curated by Gregory Tom.

Welcome To Detroit by Evan Roth 

March 14 to April 2, 2012

Eastern Michigan University's University Gallery - map.

via | today and tomorrow

Radioactive Control by Luzinterruptus

“Radioactive Control” is the latest intervention by spanish light performance collective Luzinterruptus. It was created for the Dockville Festival in Hamburg which tried to demonstrate, in a humorous tone, the paranoia that we are suffering from since the escape of radioactive material in Japan, has brought into question the safety systems at the nuclear power plants.

"With our mysterious army of 100 illuminated radioactive figures, which advanced threateningly on the natural environment of the festival, we wanted to invite reflection regarding the use and abuse of nuclear energy, cheap in economic terms, but which can cause grave secondary effects for the environment and health, forever irreversible." - Luzinterruptus. See more;