Marianne Vitale

“Welcome to the future of Neutralism”

Vitale’s tone recalls the rhetoric of early twentieth-century avant-garde movements such as Futurism, whose members wrote breathless manifestos calling for radical change.

Link:
http://www.mariannevitale.com/

Simon Norfolk

Bullet-scarred outdoor cinema at the Palace of Culture in the Karte Char district of Kabul – Photograph by Simon Norfolk

Simon Norfolk: All of the work that I’ve been doing over the last five years is about warfare and the way war makes the world we live in. War shapes and designs our society.

Link:
http://www.simonnorfolk.com/

Incubate // Open Source

Incubate wants as many people as possible to participate in the festival. We invite everyone to exhibit their art at the Open Source Expo during Incubate.

Link:
http://www.incubate.org/expo/index_english.html

David Askevold

His artwork, often manifested on videotape, is usually the result of a non-strategy based on favorable happenstance, collaboration, and selected circumstance.

Link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Askevold

Yüksel Arslan

© Yüksel Arslan, Arture 186, 1976-77, Mixing technique, 73,5 x 108,5 cm

Arslan's oeuvre is equally informed by philosophical, literary, and musical currents that one might call the foundations of Western thought and by a keen awareness that other peoples and cultures have contributed decisively to the body of knowledge accumulated within the Western tradition.

On show from 21 April till 24 June 2012, here:
http://www.kunsthalle-duesseldorf.de/index.php?id=304

Körner Union

Lausanne – Morges, 2005 Video, DV, sound, 2 min

Link:
http://www.koernerunion.com/

Greta Alfaro

"My work addresses the lifestyles of contemporary Western society and its relationship to the image, highlighting the difference between what we want to be, what we say we are and what we are actually among the public face of life and life in the the private domain."

Link:
http://www.gretaalfaro.com/

Elspeth Diederix

Elspeth Diederix / 2008 / car / 51 x 70 cm

Elspeth Diederix travels whenever she can. On her travels she gets the ideas that become her photographs and discovers the landscapes that she uses as the backdrops in them.

Her work is part of the exhibition ‘When the night falls’ at KiK Kolderveen, show extended till 17 June, Open: friday- and sunday 13.00-17.00 p.m.
http://www.kik-site.nl/ 

Link:
http://www.elspethdiederix.com/

Suzanne Boatenreiter

JUST THIS 2:38 is an animated collage that explores the birth and pathos of the War Baby. This video seduces its viewers into a tumultuous world where eastern and western stereotypes and Hollywood driven fallacies collide and ultimately crumble via the multiplied birth of a little monster known as Fuuma.
 

Her artwork utilizes materials that arouse the senses (i.e. candy) as well as basic forms that are common symbols of seduction to stimulate ideas on hedonism.

Link:
http://www.boatenreiter.com/

David Lynch

When David Lynch began filming The Grandmother he was still a painter exploring the possibilities of film rather than a filmmaker per se. His previous shorts, Six Figures Getting Sick(1966) and The Alphabet (1968) last under five minutes in total, and the former was part of a mixed-media installation included in a gallery show. The Grandmother, then, is Lynch’s first major film in terms of length, style, and choice of material.

Read more here:
http://sensesofcinema.com/2006/cteq/the-grandmother/ 

Link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lynch

Radek Community + Dmitri Gutov

Demonstration is a movie showing a performance by the "Radek" group (a group of young left radical artists from Moscow). There were few participants, and in order to create a demonstration they chose a crowded place. They gathered at a junction where the pedestrian red light shows for a long time. When the green light finally shows, a big crowd of people crosses the street. At this moment the artists placed themselves at the head of the crowd and raised placards with absurdist and anarchist slogans. The impression made was that many people were taking part in the demonstration.

About Radek Community:
http://www.manifesta.org/manifesta4/en/projects/artist1425.html 

Link:
http://www.gutov.ru/

Olaf Metzel

Artist: Olaf Metzel, Motif: Auf Wiedersehen
Photographer: Wolfgang Günzel

Metzel’s direct montage technique creates aesthetic zones that are free from morality, and which come perilously close to reality.

Links:
http://www.galleriagentili.it/images/exhibitions/Weserburg__Olaf_Metzel.pdf

Bernadette Corporation

Bernadette Corporation has been operating as a fictional corporation since 1994. Working from behind the blank façade of its logo, core members (John Kelsey, Antek Walzcak and Bernadette van Huy) reorganize their internal structure on an ad hoc basis, frequently collaborating with others. They continually recast themselves in different guises, including a DIY underground haute couture label and the self-published magazine Made in USA (named after Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘worst film’), often working at the borders of art and fashion.

The video above; Get Rid of Yourself uses the Black Bloc's words and images to portray the fight over globalization as a fiction, a space for losing oneself on purpose. Much of its footage is what might be expected: scenes at the barricades, hooded youths surging and scattering, swarms of cops and tear gas. Other parts of the film are set in the days and weeks just after the protests, when Bernadette Corporation and friends repaired to a quiet Calabrian beach house to take stock of the violence. 

http://www.bernadettecorporation.com/getrid.htm 

Link:
http://www.bernadettecorporation.com/

Henry Moore Selder & Sara Lundén

A Necromantic Short Film Musical by Henry Moore Selder & Sara Lundén with Johan Holmberg, Sara Lundén A famous singer dies and the country is mourning.

Her biggest fan, a pathologist, comes to work and discovers her body. Unwilling to perform the autopsy, he arranges a secret funeral.

Link:
http://www.saralunden.com/
http://www.selder.se/

Andrea Lehmann

Seilbahn 2010, 260 x 450 cm

Delving into a girl’s world of fantasy and fairytale, Andrea Lehmann’s Diamant Technik presents a dream-like adventure scene broadcasting both individual and collective desire.

Link:
http://www.anna-klinkhammer.de/index.php?a_id=1&node=artist

Kenneth Anger

His films variously merge surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult, and have been described as containing "elements of erotica, documentary, psychodrama, and spectacle."

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lucifer_Rising_(film)&oldid=474356393 

Link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Anger

STRANGE CULTURE

STRANGE CULTURE by Filmmaker Lynn Hershman-Leeson

Alternately teasing and terrifying, STRANGE CULTURE molds one man¹s tragedy into an engrossing narrative. In 2004, Steve Kurtz (Thomas Jay Ryan), an associate professor of art at the State University of New York, Buffalo, was preparing an exhibition on genetically modified food for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art when his wife, Hope (Tilda Swinton), died in her sleep of heart failure. But when paramedics noticed petri dishes and other scientific paraphernalia in the home, they alerted the F.B.I.; within hours Mr. Kurtz found himself suspected of bioterrorism, his home quarantined and his wife¹s body removed for autopsy. 

Previous post on Critical Art Ensemble
http://strangemessenger.blogspot.com/2011/02/critical-art-ensemble.html 

Link:
http://www.critical-art.net/

Santu Mofokeng

Santu Mofokeng – Democracy is forever / 2004

Mofokeng consistently subverts the alleged certainties of cultural and racial histories, questioning photography’s politics of representation and its objectivity, in works dealing with a variety of issues; religious rituals, memorials or desolate landscapes.

Link:
http://www.santumofokeng.com/

Dan Perjovschi

 

Previous post:
http://strangemessenger.blogspot.com/2011/02/dan-perjovschi.html 

Link:
http://www.perjovschi.ro/

Dick Duyves

No title, Car, New Orleans, 2008

"What I like about photography is the opportunity to give space new meanings. Reality is not important, reality in the picture is important."

His work is part of the exhibition ‘When the night falls’ at KiK Kolderveen on show till 26 May, Open: friday- and sunday 13.00-17.00 p.m.
http://www.kik-site.nl/ 

Link:
http://www.duyves.com/