Archives for the Month of May, 2012

Haroon Mirza

Haroon Mirza Work from “\|\|\|\| \|\|\” at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen. “Using high-end stereo systems from second-hand shops, coloured chains of LED lights, DIY-store water hoses, fragments of film documents and references from popular culture, Haroon Mirza (*1977) creates installations which produce musical compositions in spaces. The English artist of Pakistani origin uses the widest […]

Samara Scott

Samara Scott Work from her oeuvre. ” I think about it as a sort of liquidy making, where naive absent-minded processes direct material – leftovers, scum, scraps that I surround myself with – and trickle it through all sorts of ranges. This might be anything from an interiors range, a fashion range or a range […]

Laurie Kang

Laurie Kang Work from Empty Vessels Make the Most Noise. “Sitting at the intersection between photography, sculpture, collage and installation, Laurie Kang’s practice investigates the space between image and object. Examining the process of abstracting the everyday, her work disrupts the borders of the photograph to occupy three-dimensional space. This exhibition uses the vehicle of […]

Peter Puklus

Peter Puklus Work from Handbook to the Stars. Visit the site or buy the book, the experience is vastly different than presented here. “This project is the continuation of an artistic process defined by the series Budapest Eden, started in 2009. Dreamlike symbols, mock-ups, installations, readymades. This series is the photo-documentation of a sculpting experiment, […]

Mishka Henner

Mishka Henner Work from Dutch Landscapes. Visit Henner’s site, there are a wealth of really interesting projects also see the article on Granta. “When Google introduced its free satellite imagery service to the world in 2005, views of our planet only previously accessible to astronauts and surveyors were suddenly available to anyone with an internet […]

Evan Roth

Evan Roth Work from Propulsion Paintings. “…His approach and work process takes inspiration from the free software movement and hacker ethos. The “hack”, a term stemming from early computing culture, describes a clever (often playful) intervention into an existing system that alters the intended purposes or meaning. Like the judo fighter using his opponent’s weight […]

Alice Channer

Alice Channer Work from her current exhibition at South London Gallery. “For her South London Gallery exhibition, British artist Alice Channer has created an installation of entirely new works which extend her exploration of the relationship between the human body, personal adornment, materials and sculpture. In these figurative works, Channer questions established hierarchies within the […]

Salvador Orara

Salvador Orara Work from Affection Research Lab “(ARL) Affection Research Lab: Affection Stations is a thesis project by Salvador Orara searching for ways to reconnect to our devices to facilitate revelations. They are designed as immersive installations which listen, and transcode a device’s unique incidental sound, exposing them to be more than just tools, toys, or […]

K-Hole

K-Hole Images from “K-Hole #2- Prolasticity“. “After releasing their mobile shopping app in 2011, Company A noticed a gradual decline in the sales of their signature California camping gear.They realized that the flood of mobile shopping options had the unintended result of exhausting consumer enthusiasm. The pressure to purchase, promoted by all-points checkout,left consumers with […]

Agnes Meyer-Brandis

Agnes Meyer-Brandis Work from Moon Goose Colony. “Agnes Meyer-Brandis’s poetic-scientific investigations weave fact, imagination, storytelling and myth, past, present and future. In Moon Goose Analogue: Lunar Migration Bird Facility, a major commission, the artist develops an ongoing narrative based on the book The Man in the Moone, written by the English bishop Francis Godwin in […]