I have the pleasure to announce my participation in the collective exhibition WE EAT MEAT! with three of my video installations.
The exhibition will take place at the new EAT MEAT RAW GALLERY located at C/ Alzina, 20 (Gràcia) Barcelona on Saturday, December 19th, 2009 at 19h.
The inauguration of this exhibition also represents the first activity of the cultural association EAT MEAT! of which I am one of the founding members.
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I am happy to announce the brandnew demoreel of my creative collective Tigrelab, grrrr!
This year I have been working in several proyects with Javier Pinto, Mathieu Felix and Pelayo Méndez, therefore the decision to form a loose creative collective was not a difficult one! Here a short description on Tigrelab:
“Tigrelab is a multidisciplinary collective dedicated to the development of audiovisual and interactive projects. A laboratory that experiments combining ideas, motion graphics, programming, design, 3D graphics and illustration to seek new approaches for multimedial communication.”
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En esta sesión de propuestas cruzadas, Fritz
Gnad, Bruno
Bresani y Riot Über Alles
nos proponen en sus vídeos una lúcida mirada a la ciudad, sus
habitantes (de vez en cuando surreales) y las relaciones entre ellos. Los lugares
que habitamos se convierten a partir de sus imágenes en algo otro. Fantasmagoría
de luces de neón donde los cuerpos se convierten en presencias espectrales
que deambulan por espacios urbanos y oscuros, sus piezas nos invitan a interrogarnos
sobre cuestiones como la disolución de la frontera entre lo público
y lo privado, la proliferación de lo que Marc Augé denomina no-lugares
o la omnipresencia de la publicidad que se instituye en paisaje. Una invitación
a reflexionar sobre ciertos espacios que de tan cotidianos que se han vuelto
parecen inocentes pero en cuyas superficies están escritos algunos de
los síntomas de nuestro tiempo.
También contaremos con un ameno recital de polipoesía hostil a
cargo de vuestro antihéroe favorito,
Riot Über Alles.
Todo esto GRATIS en MAUMAU
UNDERGROUND (c/ Fontrodona 36, metro L3/L2 Paral.lel), Barcelona
A las 22:00
h., el próximo viernes 9 de octubre 2009.
“Keep yourself as an other
Keep perfection as a crime
Keep illusion for the end
Keep on line for the while”
Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories III, p. 152
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We all know the problem: You just made up a brilliant image for your city (for example Barcelona) that attracts tourists, trade shows and the global community’s attention. But suddenly, with all this attention you realize that the image you have developed with so much hard work does not reflect the actual reality. So you start modifying it.
As one tiny detail of this plan, you have to make sure that the public space is clean, nice and free of possible negative influences to the idealized tourists and foreign visitors. Basically, you have to get rid of some of the most annoying inhabitants of public spaces. How to do this? Well, I propose an easy to follow three step approach:
Identify: First you need to detect the place where the unwanted public activity takes place.
Design: Think about an effective way of imposing the citizen’s behavior.
Install: Now you can apply the measure to the problematic space and transform its function.
Voilà, you are done!
Now let’s all go out there and destroy another public space!
Just for your information: I have taken these pictures at carrer San Pau, Barcelona (check the Google Street View)
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“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: ‘It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to.’”
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