She talks in a youtube  to a bunch of students at the European Graduate School about how after 7 years travel – she returned to Paris – and not knowing what to do and having lost her older friends, she decide to follow one person everyday and take phtos and notes. tpo be ruled by the route this person took. Liberating. A way to do something and to meet again her city.. Becoming more professional and following this man and losing him then meeting him again that night… and decided that was sign to stay with him and realised he was going to this place in Venice – she followed him there and followed him for a few weeks. These notes and photos became a book that was exhibited. The photos were secondary.

Then she met with a girlfriend who was working late – she invited her to stay – in her bed. her friend expressed how warm the bed was. Sophie decided for something to do, to invite strangers to sleep in her bed for 8 hrs – the baker etc – in exchange she took a photo every hour and a questionnaire – to keep it formal – not to be friends – a professional distance yest to maintain a a convesation on their habits. These people woiuld meet briefly the next bed occupant and talk. this lasted  1 week.

This project uses the denial of the depth of projection, which is what makes cinema exist, and the fundamental principals of the medium do not seem to be available for creative operation. Yet when the invisible parts of the cinema are occupied, “cinema shows itself expanded”.
Check  the site ….In the exposed interface proposed for the editing of the movie  – with the sprocket  – there is a will to bring out the inner workings of the cinema machine.
The mystery of montage is revealed, a profanity witnessed by the audience. The place where cinema happens is put away from the screen (along the z axis), closer to the dimensions lost in the process. Benjamin notes that the mechanization of the medium reproduction in film causes a waste of theaura. In this project, the aura is somewhat restored, by the unicity of the performance (bringing in the risks of the theater performance) and by the presence of the author, whose presence, in film, is usually detached from the reception of the audience.
It’s a new hybrid form: it doesn’t fit in the cinema festivals (too non-linear) nor in the contemporary art world (too narrative). Yet, it’s the most compelling experience for the audience I could proportionate in my filmmaking career. The reception seems to be enhanced by the risks. The mistakes I make trying to create a new narrative end up creating unimagined meanings. Then my own reception enters the scene as a new player, influenced by the reactions of the public, feedbacking into the montage.

tara mateik: installations.

Margaret & Augusto

Thatcher hosted Pinochet whenever the ‘statesman’ visited London. She supported his neo-liberal market privatisation agenda .. Remember him? Kill tally directly after military coup d’état 1973: At least 3,197. Up to 250,000 people detained in the first months following the coup. Stadiums, military bases and naval vessels used as short-term prisons. At least five new prison camps established for political prisoners. National Intelligence Directorate – DINA created  reign of terror in the country and organise the assassinations of opponents in exile abroad. Civilian courts supplanted by military tribunals. Innumerable Chileans are kiled and dumped in the ocean by helicopter. The list of atrocities is endless.

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vogue art

Vogue tells them to “lighten up”.
Vogue India ran a fashion layout in its latest edition that its editor said aimed to illustrate the power of fashion. It sought to do that by dressing up toothless, barefoot rural Indians with $10,000 Hermes handbags and $200 Burberry umbrellas.
Hmmm

Rant/ Rant Back/ Back Rant. What a deluded street person rant he gets. It is quite seductive.

Another rant on smart money

Another rant on smart money

During the two years before the change in policy, 47,000 people sought asylum in Italy. It seems enormous by Australian standards, but 580,000 sought refuge in Germany and about 300,000 in Britain.

But of course Belusconi has changed this.

According to the United Nations, they no longer flee hunger, war and persecution because Silvio Berlusconi’s Government has enacted its anti-immigration manifesto. Italy no longer shepherds stricken refugee boats to safety but sends them back to Tripoli, where hundreds of thousands had boarded smugglers’ rickety boats for the final, terrible leg from sub-Saharan Africa.

Just weeks ago, 80 boat people found distressed and floating near Lampedusa by the Italian military were transferred to a Libyan cargo ship and returned to Tripoli. They were not asked why they fled or where they came from. Libya is not a signatory to the Refugee Convention and has no functioning national asylum system. (SMH)

Faculty for Radical Aesthetics | eipcp.net. ::: art is ever/never political? Lets stop this duality of positioning…