…Australia’s Independent Photography Festival is coming to the lovely shores of Melbourne, including the all new IPF Zine and Book Fair, where our humble selves will be presented among plenty of other tasty titles at the Motto booth. One day, and one day only. Yum.
IPF Book & Zine Fair
07 April 2012
10–16h
The Workers Club
51 – 55 [...]
POST-STUDIO TALES is a residency-as-exhibition investigating ‘contemporary art practice and the spaces of its production’. For one month, eighteen artists and the project’s three curators, Friedmann Heckel, John Beeson and Ulrike Gerhardt, will stay and work at District Kunst- und Kulturförderung in a site-specific exhibition architecture designed by the Berlin-based architectural collective Something Fantastic. The [...]
Until April 1, 2012 you still have the chance to register for the press or professional preview days of this year’s 7th Berlin Biennale, taking place on April 25 and 26 – so don’t forget!
Official Opening: April 26, 7 – 10 pm
Dates: April 27 – July 1, 2012
www.berlinbiennale.de
Rineke Dijkstra’s portraits are impossible to pull away from. While her subjects range from park-goers and dancers to French Foreign Legion officers, they are all young, and they are all totally open. Dijkstra is unparalleled in her ability to capture the emotional flux of growing up. Each face that addresses her camera (always directly) projects [...]
2011 has been a year of the worldwide social protests. North African countries have overthrown their despots, but now they are facing equally significant challenges. Is the moment of the overthrow of the dictator a right moment to end protests? Eastern European countries, such as Belarus and Russia, have not yet witnessed the mass protests [...]
Our favourite book fair Publish and Be Damned is back, and we were so excited about it that we promptly forgot about the deadline. And so, we won’t be there this time around, but plenty of other exciting titles will, so you should go anyway. And rumour has it there might even be a second [...]
The new Koi Klub happens every month on the 11th, regardless of the day of the week. If that date doesn’t ring any bells, then you just need to look up any news site today to find out why. Because, in many ways, today is the anniversary, even though for Koi Klub it isn’t, but [...]
“Llik your Idols is an intimate survey of a VERY particular time in downtown NYC – the mid 1980s – when the fallout of a decrepit city manifested itself through the psyches of young and wild artists, musicians and filmmakers banging into each other in the scum drenched streets. Sex, drugs, violence and rock’n’roll took [...]
My favourite time of the day is dusk when the sky starts to turn dark blue so I was most intrigued to hear about Steve McQueen’s current Temporary Stedelijk 3 project, Blues Before Sunrise. For two weeks (March 7 – 25) all 275 lamps in Amsterdam’s largest public park, Vondelpark will radiate blue light. Blues Before [...]
