Andy Vible
Posted by Fabio 29 October 2012
American artist Andy Vible makes life-size sculptures of human bodies whose heads have been replaced by everyday objects. These objects determine the action the bodies are engaged in (sitting, eating, drinking, knitting, etc.). The object interacts with the action, making the piece a self-referencing loop. read more
IMAGO 1:1 – The largest walk-in camera in the world
Posted by Fabio 26 October 2012
A unique large-format camera, IMAGO 1:1 captures life-sized portraits on a special direct positive black-and-white paper. Just as with a gigantic photo booth, you step into the camera, face the mirror in your desired position, take the shutter release in your hand and press to take your-own self-portrait. read more
Ai Weiwei does Gangnam style
Posted by Fabio 26 October 2012
Chinese dissident activist and artist Ai Weiwei’s parody of rapper Psy’s song Gangnam Style.
Leopoldo Pomés
Posted by Fabio 25 October 2012
Born in Barcelona in 1931, Leopoldo Pomés, a self-taught photographer, had a highly successful and celebrated late career in advertising in his native Spain. As well as street photography, Pomés also made portraits of many of the important artists and writers living in Barcelona, in particular the Dau-al-Set. read more
Fiona Tan
Posted by Fabio 25 October 2012
Fiona Tan is an artist working primarily with film and video. She is best known for her skillfully crafted and intensely moving installations, in which explorations of identity, memory and history are key. Fiona Tan initially became known for a body of work that relied on the use of archival films, questioning the observer and the observed and challenging the assumptions of the colonial past. read more
Fake It So Real
Posted by Fabio 25 October 2012
FAKE IT SO REAL dives head-first into the world of independent pro wrestling. Filmed over a single week leading up to a big show, the film follows a ragtag group of wrestlers in North Carolina, exploring what happens when the over-the-top theatrics of the wrestling ring collide with the realities of the working-class South. read more
Kwa Heri Mandima
Posted by Fabio 25 October 2012
Kwa Heri Mandima (Goodbye Mandima) is a short film by the French-Dutch director Robert-Jan Lacombe. Born in 1986 in Mandima, Robert-Jan — and his family left Mandima, the village in northeast Congo (then still Zaire). The big shift from one culture to another, identity, memories and footage…
Lemn Sissay: A child of the state
Posted by Fabio 24 October 2012
Literature has long been fascinated with fostered, adopted and orphaned children, from Moses to Cinderella to Oliver Twist to Harry Potter. So why do many parentless children feel compelled to hide their pasts? Poet and playwright Lemn Sissay tells his own moving story.