sexta-feira, 30 de outubro de 2009

Arctic Perspective Initiative announces the winners of its open architecture competition

Giuseppe Mecca, 2009

Catherine Rannou, 2009

Richard Carbonnier, 2009

'Three architects – Richard Carbonnier (Canada), Giuseppe Mecca (Italy), and Catherine Rannou (France) – have been selected as the joint winners of the Arctic Perspective Initiative open architecture competition. The challenge of this international competition was to design a zero-footprint mobile research unit for use by local populations in the Arctic. The unit is intended to facilitate a diverse range of technological research opportunities, such as remote sensing, environmental monitoring, video editing and streaming, and communications systems. […] The Arctic Perspective Initiative (API) is a transnational art, science, and culture work group composed of HMKV (Germany), The Arts Catalyst (UK), Projekt Atol (Slovenia), Lorna (Iceland) and C-TASC (Canada), API is the brainchild of Marko Peljhan and Matthew Biederman, who met and worked together for the first time as crewmembers of the Makrolab in Blair Atholl, Scotland in 2002, a project produced by The Arts Catalyst.'

Disponível em:

http://artscatalyst.typepad.com/the_arts_catalyst/2009/10/arctic-perspective.html
Ainda:
http://arcticperspective.org/architecture/architecture

[] Matthew Day Jackson

Matthew Day Jackson

The Lower 48

2006
48 c-prints
34.3 x 50.8 cm each

'Matthew Day Jackson’s Hungry Ghosts pictures the spirits of the American Civil War foraging for food; their barren field now lush parkland emblazoned with an environmental bumper sticker. Highlighting the discrepancy between the pioneering lore of America and the state of its current affairs, Jackson’s photograph conveys cultural critique, reuniting national allegiance with moral responsibility.'

Disponível em:
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/matthew_day_jackson.htm

[] Dennis Feddersen

parasite # 17 / Installationsansicht Kunstverein Neuenkirchen / 4,5 x 3,5 x 4m / Biegesperrholz, Schrauben / 2009

Disponível em:
http://www.dennis-feddersen.de/images.php?image_id=258

[] Ryan Trecartin . World Wall . 2006

Ryan Trecartin

World Wall

2006
Mixed Media

111 x 295 x 59 ins

Disponível em:

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/artpages/ryan_trecartin_world_back.htm'

'Structuring his art practice in the same way as a director approaches film making, Ryan Trecartin’s sculptural and installation work incorporates a cast of dozens. Conceiving each show as an experiment in theatrical production, Trecartin conceives loose plots as a basis for collaborative endeavour. Working with a posse of his close mates, Trecartin delegates responsibility: inviting his friends to participate in the creative process, respond to his ideas, and contribute their own input and artwork. Through this unorthodox way of working, Trecartin’s work becomes an uncanny reflection of youth culture, presenting a Gen Y zeitgeist of commodity anxiety, spiritual nihilism, and community value.

Trecartin is currently living in LA as a hurricane Katrina refugee; World Wall was conceived as a form of disaster therapy. Working with fellow artist Lizzie Fitch, the project was begun as a simple wooden fence. Enhanced through a series of Mardi Gras float making techniques, this work evolved into a diaristic tribute to New Orleans, a means of engaging with dislocation and loss. Conceived as both a location and living organism, World Wall sprawls with animistic fervour, a seething monument of chaos, festivity, rebirth, and beauty. Through the window, a picture can be seen of the ruins of Trecartin’s old house.'

Ainda:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/arts/design/01kenn.html