Showing posts with label europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label europe. Show all posts

28 September 2011

Nuart Festival - Norway





In July-August 2011, five street artists were invited to NHH Norwegian School of Economics to give their comments on capitalism directly on the schools huge white walls. The project was a collaboration with the Nuart Festival, and what Escif, M-City, EINE, DOLK and Hyuro came up with can be seen from this video. For more information, visit CAPITALISM.NO


"From Ad busting critiques to political and polemical murals, “______capitalism?” aims to present for the wider public, the opportunity to engage with an institution that sits at the heart of most of our futures. Street Art is also ideally placed to question the hegemony of consensus based public art and the cooption of our public spaces, often “public” only in name, for corporate profit."

17 June 2011

Abner Preis - Superheroes



I picked Abner Preis as an upcoming talent to watch back in 2007, and his name keeps cropping up throughout Amsterdam events blogged here on Blakkbyrd.
Abner on Blakkbyrd

Now he's off to the States with his Superhero Project.

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“Trained as a painter, Abner Preis has been making waves over the past several years. In a three year period, he has been invited as a featured artist to prominent art fairs such as Art Rotterdam, Art Brussels and the Scope Art Fair (Art Basel Miami Beach) as well as to exhibit works in respected cultural institutions and museums like the MU in The Netherlands, the Marta Hereford Museum in Germany and Austria’s Kunsthalle amongst others. The Superhero Project has featured at Brussels Fashion Week, Istanbul Design Week and the Rotterdam International Film Festival, providing a body of work that successfully walks the tightrope between art as activism, fine art, fashion, design and entertainment. Compared to artists as diverse as Joseph Beuys or Charlie Chaplin, Preis builds on the history of art to challenge it, using optimism, joy and imagination as the tools of his tender assault.

“Basically this project is about me going out in the streets dressed up like a Superhero, meeting strangers and asking them; If you had three super powers what would they be? Then I turn them into Superheroes like me.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/977354012/the-hero-in-all-of-us-portrait-of-america-2011

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Interview on Warholean

Warholian had the pleasure of meeting Abner Preis and his Superhero Project at the 2010 Scope fair during Art Basel Week in Miami Florida. At Scope, Abner was asking everyday fair goers to imagine themselves as superheros. His goal: “to surprise, transform and empower people he meets as he travels the world.”

We sat down with Abner to discuss how this project came to be…

1. Tell us the history of “The Superhero Project”, how did you come to start this project?

“I was invited to do a video presentation at a class for severely handicapped people. The teacher invited me to give a talk about my work and discuss ideas about a video project that they had planned to do.

Every child was really handicapped… a class full of Stephen Hawkings, but all were super cool. Their idea for a movie was to make one of the kids a super hero who could fly… a slow motion smile settled on my face… “Fuck it! Why not? Yes, we can all be heroes!”

That’s when I realized my magical equation of “I equals S”.

I = imagination
S=superheroes

If you have Imagination, then you can be an Superhero.

(Incidentally, we still visit the Handicapp class every year, it is still a very special project)”


more
http://warholian.com/2011/06/13/abner-preis/


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If you would like to donate to “The Superhero Project” through Kickstarter.com, you may do so here:

To stay updated with Superhero Project, “Like” them on Facebook here.

08 June 2011

Pick n Play - Stockholm




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u0ij9D5S4Y


In a new approach to mobile coupon distribution, McDonalds is inviting consumers in Sweden to earn free food by interacting with a giant digital billboard using their mobile devices, in a campaign called "Pick n' Play."

Mobile phone owners passing a digital out of home sign in Stockholm are encouraged to partake in a giant game of pong, which they can control directly from their mobile devices. The campaign doesn't require a mobile app, but instead makes use of HTML5 technology to verify users' proximity to the screen, and allows them to control a virtual paddle remotely from their handhelds in real-time.

Players that manage to complete the game by sustaining a 30-second rally are rewarded with a coupon for free food from a local McDonald's restaurant, as well as directions to the location.

McDonald's created the campaign in partnership with Omnicom-owned DDB Stockholm.

source

17 May 2011

EMESS @ Candyland - Stockholm

Candyland
Gotlandsgatan 76
Stockholm, Sweden
Friday 20th at 17:00 - 05 June at 17:00

There is no doubt that street art has become part of our everyday lives. Invasive, ...poetic, destructive, provocative, illegal, political, abstract or beautiful, street art has gradually infiltrated urban areas around the globe. It continues to challenge the idea of ownership of the public space and has given itself the right to use it for expression alongside the monopoly held by corporate entities for advertising. In the past decade, street artists have gained respect from communities all over the world and have been exhibited in the most prestigious museums – with or without invitation.

Emess’ work is most often motivated by political questions. Confronting the viewer with issues that would rather be swept under the rug, for which there are perhaps no clear answers or solutions but that need to be addressed. The use of humor and his sense of aesthetics catch the viewer off guard for a moment allowing attention to be drawn to the subject. Emess sees no difference between the street or the gallery space, his work is designed to reach an audience and adapts itself to the situation. His range of media goes from sculptural objects or large scale murals to woodcuts and delicate prints.

Alvaro Campo
EMESS 1971 born in West-Germany, 1992–93 German Navy, 1994–99 Fine Arts UdK Berlin, 2000 Meisterschüler, Lives in Berlin. Exhibitions at Berlin Art Projects, 30works Galerie, Köln, Jarmuschek & Partner, Berlin, ATM Gallery Berlin, Circleculture Gallery Berlin, Galerie Zimmermann & Heitmann, Düsseldorf etc.

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City Music Berlin is a public accoustic project in urban space by Emess, 2010.


Who says Meccano is for nerds? German design puts a whole new slant on wind chimes.

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@ ATM Gallery


Graffiti Burners - Stockholm

Bokrelease för Graffiti Burners – graffitimålningarna som knäcker allt, med bildvisning och panelsamtal med graffitimålare.

Graffiti är en tävling där målningarnas stil och dekoration är två av de viktigaste delarna. Att måla en burner, en målning som överträffar alla andra är det bästa man kan uppnå, men vad är en burner? Och hur vet man när en piece är en burner? Panelen och publiken får möjlighet att diskutera vad som är en riktigt bra graffitimålning.
Hur har begreppet burner använts i Sverige och var kan man hitta burners i Sverige idag?
Medverkar gör bland annat  Jacob Kimvall, doktorand i Konstvetenskap, Malcolm Jacobsson, förlagschef på Dokument Press och graffitimålare som medverkar i boken Graffiti Burners.
I samarbete med Dokument Press.

Book Release.
Graffiti Burners from Document Press
Kulturhuset, Stockholm
May 18th 5pm - 7pm

Kulturhuset






14 May 2011

Goin - France

 

Goin, a French stencil artist with a deep-rooted punk legacy, introduces the atmosphere and values of his artistic domicile, the famous Abode of Chaos, near Lyon. He mixes graphics and typography with violent and chaotic panache to produce stunning results. According to the New York Times the Abode of Chaos is 'one of the most important and most emotional artistic adventures of the 21st Century'.

Goin describes his work as being 'a subversive bomb, an initiation into the critical spirit and the approach of a new type of abrasive and denunciatory art'. At the French location, over 3,123 works of art express the alchemical chaos of the 21st Century in a free, open air museum. The unique venue has been the subject of an on-going law suit for over a decade and is set to continue in the European Court of Human Rights.

In perpetual mutation, Goin creates militant-powered pictures seen through the prism of a possessed graphic art.





"Goin dont je découvre le travail a clôt récemment son expo solo à Genève, DON’T RUST ME! dont mon choix de la semaine est issu. / I discovered  Goin’s work a few days ago through this artwork which was on display in his solo show DON’T RUST ME!."


11 May 2011

ARYZ - Spain





http://www.aryz.es


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Video documental del viaje realizado en el mes de febrero del colectivo
MIXED MEDIA, con motivo de la exposición de prints en Gko Gallery (Tolosa)
ARYZ - GRITO - KIKX - POSEYDON - ROSTRO - RGTD.

Special thanks to:

GKo Gallery
www.gko-gallery.com
(Aritz, Gari, Gabi, Ibai, Kizkitza, Xavi ... ,)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-6DX1W31uc&feature=player_embedded

"Mixed Media"  exhibition
http://www.gko-gallery.com/en/Expositions/Current/index.html

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01 May 2011

Armsrock - Denmark










Armrock restates the qualities of artistic drawings and transfers them into urban contexts. Known for his life-sized drawings of humans at the edges of societies, he glues or projects his drawings onto buildings and walls in city environments. As observations and statements they become ephemeral part of public space and community.

cv

http://www.kunstdk.dk/kunstner/armsrock/tekster/cv


website
http://www.kunstdk.dk/kunstner/armsrock

blog
http://www.armsrock.blogspot.com/







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this video is from an earlier post on Armsrock in 2009
http://blakkbyrd.blogspot.com/2009/12/armsrock.html




a brand-new video directly from Armsrock's studio in Bremen Germany, as he prepares for his upcoming shows this month at the Black Rat Press Gallery in London and Ad Hoc Art Gallery in Brooklyn. This is part 1 of 2.




04 April 2011

Street Art Call - Italy

A street art contest on postcard, open to whoever wants to join, seeking a strong participation on national and international basis, to carry on the initial project of communication//sharing of knowledge and contamination.

The participants are required to send at least one or more postcards of any colour and shape, leaving free interpretation to the artist, with a stamp and a message on each, to our address.

The intent is to communicate and share the various cultural differences that, in spite of their diversity, are the fruit of human culture altogether.
Art that moves by sharing each own's cultures. With a simple postcard, every artist can leave his/her own message, crossing the imaginary borders that divide us.

The postcards must be sent within and not beyond the 15th of june 2011.
The expo will start at the beginning of June, the exact date will be published soon. The staff taking care of the event extends its thanks and will be waiting for confirmation on the participation.

full details in English, Italian, Spanish and Polish are here
http://streetartsouthitaly.blogspot.com/2011/03/streetart-south-italy-postcard-free.html



31 March 2011

Kamagurka - Live Stream

Kamagurka: March 31, 12 - April 1, 12
24 hrs ipad performance
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Mobile technology has changed the face of contemporary art drastically. Many artists as well as art institutions use smartphones, iPads and other mobile media to innovate their practices and explore new platforms of presentation and display.
Following the Play It! evening at The Temporary Stedelijk, that examined gaming as a new tool and strategy in contemporary art, Move It! @ TS2 takes a more general perspective and aims to discuss how pioneering technology for mobile applications change both contemporary art production and the way we perceive modern and contemporary art.


Follow Kamagurka live from March 31, 12 am - April 1, 12 am:









Video streaming by Ustream

Kamagurka: March 31, 12 - April 1, 12

The main event of Move It! is a 24-hour performance (by acclaimed artist Kamagurka, who will produce works on his iPad in situ, which will be printed and directly installed in the gallery space he occupies.

You can walk in all night, see the work already on display, look over Kamagurka’s shoulder and maybe notice that it is you he is drawing! All the works created in the 24-hour performance will be published in the tabloid format of NRC Handelsblad the following day.

more info
http://stedelijk.nl/en/now-at-the-stedelijk/public-program/do-it/do-it-ts2-31-03-2011

http://www.kamagurka.eu/NL/index.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamagurka

Images on Google

29 March 2011

STRP Festival Eindhoven 2011



STRP Festival is one of the largest art & technology (e-culture) festivals in Europe, that fuses music art and technology. The multidisciplinary program is a mix of a 360- degree experience with adventure which appeal to a wide audience. At STRP there are projects of young game designers next to major works from the international art circuit and experimental live cinema next to succesful pop artists and DJs. At STRP you find interactive art, light art, robotics, concerts, DJs, theatrical and dance performances, experimental music, interviews, discussion, live cinema, films, lectures, video art, animation and workshops.

17th - 27th November 2011

http://www.strp.nl/strp/content/page/19




plus lots more videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoUj77DL3q0&feature=player_embedded

The Witness - Interactive Film


The Witness - The first movie in the outernet

Merging reality and fiction in an interactive game!

As part of a relaunch for Germany’s Universal 13th Street (TV Channel), a revolutionary new film, The Witness, has been created in which you play an interactive, traveling roll. Using augmented reality on an iPhone, participants begin their adventure by witnessing a kidnapping by the Russian mafia. It’s then their job to track down the victim, finding clues, communicating with other participants and viewing other scenes on location around the city of Berlin. Much like the real life book series 'Choose Your Own Adventure', participants can both save the day or become the next victim themselves. Contestants can register at the site and on april 9 they can go into the city of Berlin to solve this crime!

http://www.13thstreet.de/witness

from STRP
http://www.strp.nl/strp/content/article/291


27 March 2011

Street Art Stockholm Book

Street Art Stockholm Book

For several years, Benke Carlsson has been photographing all kind of street art in the city, resulting in this fist broad documention of Stockholm´s street art. Benke is working as advisor and educator in webb journalism and communication.

view online here


http://issuu.com/benke/docs/streetartstockholm_benke

Stockholm Street Art Tours

Stockholm Street Art Tours 2007

Our guide is Tobias Barenthin Lindblad, an editor who has worked on several books on Scandinavian street art.

Because street art in Stockholm tends not to last too long, it’s in the dark caverns of the city, under bridges and underground stations, that walls become the artists’ galleries. Some, such as Hop Louie, known for his overtly political stencils, Klister Peter and Akay have built up reputations and followings.

http://www.hoplouie.com/
http://www.akayism.org/

Communications consultant Benke Carlsson recently published a book entitled “Street Art Stockholm”. He became interested as an observer rather than a participant, and sees his book more as a view from the outside. “Many people’s first reaction to street art is that it’s vandalism, but I feel that we need to have something more than advertisements decorating our streets,” he says. “Street culture is a means of expression and doesn’t necessarily have to be pretty. It’s about who has the right to public space.”

full article
http://www.sweden.se/eng/Home/Lifestyle/Art-architecture/Reading/Street-art-in-all-corners/


Stockholm City Museum is apparently no longer running these tours.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pap7hZOgb0g

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The Girls in Sweden
http://streetart.twoday.net/

Dokument Press

Dokument Press is a Swedish publisher that provides information on subcultures through the publication and distribution of books, magazines and films. The company is run by enthusiasts with great knowledge of art, music, fashion and alternative culture.

http://www.dokument.org/default.asp?p=info




publications (lots of street art books)
http://www.dokument.org/renderUtgivning.asp?p=utgivning

30works - Cologne

30works

30works GmbH
Antwerpener Str. 42
50672 Köln




Artists
http://www.30works.de/cms/front_content.php?idcat=8


15 March 2011

Nuart - Norway




On september 26. 2010 200 people lay there sundaywalk through Østre Bydel in Stavanger on the grand tour of Nuart 2010 "Landmarks".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vARfE-dEJM&feature=player_embedded



Nuart is an annual international contemporary street and urban art festival established in 2001. The Festival is based in Stavanger on the West Coast of Norway.
From the first week of September an invited international team of street artists start to leave their mark on the city's walls, both indoor and out, creating one of Europe's most dynamic and constantly evolving public art events.

This page is a constantly updated source of information on the event, artworks and the artists featured at Nuart. In addition the Nuart crew brings you the latest news from the world of streetart, post-grafitti and urban culture.

http://www.nuart.no/


Nuart 11 on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nuart/with/5181000135/