Zen Garden "Dream Made Teller" manifesto

The official videoclip of the song "Dream Made Teller manifesto" by Zen Garden, from the new E.P album "Discover". Out at 13 dec. by Cosmileaf records

Video & production by Mise- en- Zen

www.myspace.com/feelinginprocess
www.myspace.com/zengardenofficial
www.cosmicleaf.com

Peter Greenaway - Intervals (1969)

Bachianas Brasileiras - No. 5 for voice and 8 cellos (1938 and 1945) - I. Aria (Cantilena) Sissel

The Empty Show

Australian artists enter an empty building and make it beautiful. Welcome to the Empty Show where subversion through art breeds change.

Acropolis kebab

Souvenirs from the barricades

Athens, 6 December, 2010

Utopian Technologies

Cat and bird

Street Rhyme - Mike Stern

Sleeping dogs

Antoine D'Agata

At the Athens School of Fine Arts

Kidnappers Lane

Cheltenham

New York Street Advertising Takeover

Excerpt from a great post at The 23 Apples of Eris:

..."NPA City Outdoor operates over 500 illegal street level billboards in the 5 boroughs of NYC. Despite this the city has been either unable or unwilling to deal with this problem directly. As engaged citizens the participants in this project have taken it upon themselves to remedy this problem. In doing so they have realized their potential as public citizens by taking it upon themselves to create an environment that is a direct result of their actions.

In an effort to illuminate the illegal advertising issue in New York, over 100 participants from as far as Toronto and France, took it upon themselves to reclaim these spaces for public communications and realize their potential as public citizens concerned for our shared public environment. In an action coordinated by PublicAdCampaign, participants eliminated the illegal content by whitewashing over all the NPA ad locations below 23rd street, then returning to the newly liberated locations to create public works of art and commentary.

The first non violent civil disobedience project happened on April 25th 2009, and resulted in the whitewashing of over 120 illegal ads and the creation of countless public works. There were 4 arrests in the first action. The second project on October 25th whitewashed 116 illegal billboards and was poised to release over 114 public artworks on the city when NPA responded by reposting their illegal content and patrolling the streets for our participants. The second project resulted in the arrest of 5 individuals. All of the arrested have had their cases dismissed and locked because NPA failed to sign the depositions, preferring to sweep the controversy under the rug as quickly as possible."

If I could just repeat myself a little bit:

Public spaces are public property. We all modify our environment by living in it. The sounds and smells and rhythms of the neighborhood are an organic reflection of its occupants. Putting up posters is just like trimming the hedges or mowing the lawn.

~ more... ~

http://www.publicadcampaign.com/nysat/

Painting With Camera [2]

Painting With Camera

Light Art Performance Photography (LAPP) Compilation

http://www.lapp-pro.de

Artist Spotlight: Hannah Höch

Hannah Höch (November 1, 1889 May 31, 1978) was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage. She was born Johanne Höch in Gotha, Germany. From 1912 to 1914 she studied at the College of Arts and Crafts in Berlin under the guidance of Harold Bergen. She studied glass design and graphic arts, rather than fine arts, to please her father. She worked for the Red Cross in 1914, at the start of World War I. In 1915 she entered the graph class of the National Institute of the Museum of Arts and Crafts. Also in 1915, Höch began an influential friendship with Raoul Hausmann, a member of the Berlin Dada movement. Höch's involvement with the Berlin Dadists began in earnest in 1919. After her schooling, she worked in the handicrafts department for Ullstein Verlang. The influence of this early work and training can clearly be seen in her later work involving references to dress patterns and textiles. From 1926 to 1929 she lived and worked in the Netherlands. Höch made more influential friendships over the years, with Kurt Schwitters and Piet Mondrian among others. Hausmann, along with Höch, was one of the first pioneers of the artform that would come to be known as photomontage.
(Wikipedia)

4th Lunch Street Party 10-10-10 (2)

4th Lunch Street Party 10-10-10

Mood

Survivor

17th Ecofest at Tritsi Park (II)

Workshop: Wind powered generator construction

Workshop: Cob construction

17th Ecofest at Tritsi Park

Artist Spotlight: Sophie Calle

He loves me not

When a boyfriend dumped her by email, French artist Sophie Calle asked 100 women to read it - and became the star of the Venice Biennale, reports Angelique Chrisafis, The Guardian

Picture this. You're one of France's best-known living conceptual artists. You're 51 and visiting Berlin. Your mobile beeps, it's an email from your boyfriend. In a hideously self-absorbed message about human emotion, he dumps you electronically, saying it hurts him more than you. He signs off: "Take care of yourself." You're heartbroken. Then you think of its potential as art.

Sophie Calle has filled the French pavilion of the Venice Biennale with a praised exhibition about her emailed dumping letter. Over two years later, she distributed the missive to 107 women professionals, photographed them reading it and invited them to analyse it, according to their job. The ex's grammar and syntax have been torn apart by a copy editor, his manners rubbished by an etiquette consultant and his lines pored over by Talmudic scholars. He has been re-ordered by a crossword-setter, evaluated by a judge, shot up by a markswoman, second-guessed by a chess player and performed by actress Jeanne Moreau. A forensic psychiatrist decided he was a "twisted manipulator". The temple to a woman scorned is entitled "Take care of yourself" (Prenez soin de vois), immortalising lines that Calle, if she hadn't had recourse to the international art world, might have read again and again in tears.

"The idea came to me very quickly, two days after he sent it," she said. "I showed the email to a close friend asking her how to reply, and she said she'd do this or that. The idea came to me to develop an investigation through various women's professional vocabulary."

At first it was therapy; then art took over. ...

Sweet-n-sour too

Sweet-n-sour

Future past

Definitely better by night

Reverse Graffiti : Ossario - Street Art by Alexandre Orion

For more info visit http://ossario.net

Pandora's Box