I almost forgot to post the last wall of my exhibition at Findhorn!

So here they are.

I took my daughter over to see them today. We had such a great time. We went strawberry picking before seeing my exhibition and having lunch, then we went to the beach and even had a swim in the sea.

we hadn't taken our bathing suits so we had to swim as nature intended! we felt like a couple of mermaids!

Untitled 33x23cm

embroidered painting

Bear and bird 19x21cm

embroidered painting

Making friends 1 16x14cm

embroidered painting

Making friends 2 17.5x15cm

embroidered painting

Making friends 3 15.5x15.5cm

embroidered painting

That's all folks!

CX

Internal barriers
Emotional difficulties are known to put our internal unity asunder. The effects range over
many shades from discomfort, non-productivity to aggression, which are further reflected
to our environment in the form of fear, shame or violence. Another common internal
barrier, of which the causes and courses are as well multiple, is a personality conflict.
This not only leads to a swanking of humours… from melancholic, sanguine, choleric to
phlegmatic but expresses itself further as frustration and intimidation, and thus a
personality complex of the napoleonic order as viewed by Alfred Adler or of the
narcissistic order as defined by Erich Fromm or Sigmund Freud. These all culminate to
confrontations within this faculty that distinguishes whether our actions are right or wrong
(conscience) and thus to other grave consequences that might build a bridge to external
barriers like wars or segregation issues.

External barriers
Apart from building boundaries between countries, tribes and races, we misuse the
internal difficulties and complexes of our conscience as masks to justify our prejudices
and misconceptions. As much as Iuvenalis’ “Mens sana in corpore sano” is of validity, so
too is “an unhealthy esprit in an unhealthy body” valid and this resonates in the
immediate environment as frontiers of all kinds. For example: Ideological debates about
Turkish women wearing headscarves or not, if Africans rob Germans of their jobs and
women, if all Arabs are sympathisers of Al-Qaida or if Poles rob Germans of their cars
and jobs are just a few of these external barriers that arise from our deep-rooted inner
disruption.

Exhibition
This exhibition concepted for the Alte Post in Neukölln toils on the reality in this part of
Berlin. Neukölln`s 300,000 inhabitants from 160 countries, with around 33.7% foreigners,
38.6% long-term unemployed (source: Bezirksamt Neukölln), have to deal every day with
issues of conscience and barriers. The exhibition challenges artists to articulate on
issues concerning the yawning gap between our conscience and our frontiers.
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (curator).

Curated by Bonaventure S. B. Ndikung + Simone Kraft
Exhibition: 06.10.08 – 26.10.08
Vernissage: 10.10.08 at 20.00h
Finissage: 25.10.08 at 20.00h

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Fritz Bergler: Grosses Rasenstück 3

Öl auf Hartfaserplatte, 24-teilig, je 50 x 40 cm

Fritz Bergler         Wegrand 1    Öl auf Karton, 12 tlg               je 50 x 40 cm, 2005

kunstmonatBERGLER

On June 1, 2007 Barbara Hashimoto, Artist-in-Residence at the Chicago-based architecture firm BauerLatoza Studio, asked the sixteen staff members to set aside junk mail they received at the office address. For an entire year Hashimoto incorporated the daily hand-shredding of this unsolicited material into her studio practice. At the end of twelve months she had amassed more than 3,000 cubic feet of shredded material, constituting the amount of junk mail delivered by the U.S. Postal Service to this one small business.

The genesis of this project was inspired by a number of mind-boggling statistics: AMERICANS RECEIVE 77 BILLION PIECES OF JUNK MAIL ANNUALLY and THE AVERAGE AMERICAN WILL SPEND EIGHT MONTHS OF HIS/HER LIFE HANDLING JUNK MAIL.  Statistics like these have taken hold of the artist both visually and physically.

Hashimoto’s labor-intensive yet intimate process has inspired a series of sculptures, installations, performances, and collaborations presented in Los Angeles and Chicago. Now under the sponsorship of the Chicago Arts District and Podmarjersky, Inc., BARBARA HASHIMOTO: White Trash & Junk Mail is envisioned as an evolving presentation with the year-long shredded collection changing, sometimes on a weekly basis. The public is encouraged to view this process anytime through the 45-foot floor-to-ceiling storefront windows. In the evenings the exhibition will be lit for viewing.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE:

JUNK MAIL LANDSCAPES
July 11 – September 13
Guest Artist | Michael Kozien | sound and video

JUNK MAIL INTERIORS
September 26 – October 25
38th Annual Pilsen East Artist’s Open House | September 26 – 28

JUNK MAIL 101
November 1 – 31
Guest Artist | R. O’Donnell | performance

JUNK MAIL CHRISTMAS
December 1 – 31
Reception | Friday, 6 – 10 PM | December 12

Barbara Hashimoto’s sculpture, installation, and performance work has been presented throughout the United States, Japan, Europe, and the Middle East.  It is in more than 250 public and private collections including The Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American Art, The Museum of Arts and Design, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, and The Art Institute of Chicago (Joan Flasch Collection). 

Previously based in Tokyo and Los Angeles, Hashimoto relocated to Chicago in 2006 where she is Artist-in-Residence at BauerLatoza Studio, a multi-disciplinary architectural design firm. Educated at Yale, she was also apprentice to Junko Yamada (Saitama, Japan), and artist-in-residence under “Intangible Cultural Asset”, Minoru Fujimori (Shikoku, Japan) and at Umdang Ceramics (Dan Kwain, Thailand). She studied dance in New York with Merc Cunningham and Meredith Monk, and butoh with Iwani Masaki inTokyo.

Her most recent exhibitions include a seventeen years retrospective at Dubhe Carreño Gallery (reviewed by Alan Artner, Chicago Tribune, February 2008), and Reverse Trash Streams: The Junk Mail project at LA Contemporary (reviewed by Kirsten Swenson in Art in America, April 2008). Currently her work is on view at the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Itami, Japan in Your Documents Please, an exhibition which will later travel to Yokohama, Berlin, Budapest, Bratislava, and Guadalajara.

www.barbarahashimoto.com

http://r-productions.com/?s=barbara+hashimoto

contact@r-productions.com

* Photo: Archie FlorCruz, www.whateverland.com

On June 1, 2007 Barbara Hashimoto, Artist-in-Residence at the Chicago-based architecture firm BauerLatoza Studio, asked the sixteen staff members to set aside junk mail they received at the office address. For an entire year Hashimoto incorporated the daily hand-shredding of this unsolicited material into her studio practice. At the end of twelve months she had amassed more than 3,000 cubic feet of shredded material, constituting the amount of junk mail delivered by the U.S. Postal Service to this one small business.

The genesis of this project was inspired by a number of mind-boggling statistics: AMERICANS RECEIVE 77 BILLION PIECES OF JUNK MAIL ANNUALLY and THE AVERAGE AMERICAN WILL SPEND EIGHT MONTHS OF HIS/HER LIFE HANDLING JUNK MAIL.  Statistics like these have taken hold of the artist both visually and physically.

Hashimoto’s labor-intensive yet intimate process has inspired a series of sculptures, installations, performances, and collaborations presented in Los Angeles and Chicago. Now under the sponsorship of the Chicago Arts District and Podmarjersky, Inc., BARBARA HASHIMOTO: White Trash & Junk Mail is envisioned as an evolving presentation with the year-long shredded collection changing, sometimes on a weekly basis. The public is encouraged to view this process anytime through the 45-foot floor-to-ceiling storefront windows. In the evenings the exhibition will be lit for viewing.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE:

JUNK MAIL LANDSCAPES
July 11 – September 13
Guest Artist | Michael Kozien | sound and video

JUNK MAIL INTERIORS
September 26 – October 25
38th Annual Pilsen East Artist’s Open House | September 26 – 28

JUNK MAIL 101
November 1 – 31
Guest Artist | R. O’Donnell | performance

JUNK MAIL CHRISTMAS
December 1 – 31
Reception | Friday, 6 – 10 PM | December 12

Barbara Hashimoto’s sculpture, installation, and performance work has been presented throughout the United States, Japan, Europe, and the Middle East.  It is in more than 250 public and private collections including The Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American Art, The Museum of Arts and Design, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, and The Art Institute of Chicago (Joan Flasch Collection). 

Previously based in Tokyo and Los Angeles, Hashimoto relocated to Chicago in 2006 where she is Artist-in-Residence at BauerLatoza Studio, a multi-disciplinary architectural design firm. Educated at Yale, she was also apprentice to Junko Yamada (Saitama, Japan), and artist-in-residence under “Intangible Cultural Asset”, Minoru Fujimori (Shikoku, Japan) and at Umdang Ceramics (Dan Kwain, Thailand). She studied dance in New York with Merc Cunningham and Meredith Monk, and butoh with Iwani Masaki inTokyo.

Her most recent exhibitions include a seventeen years retrospective at Dubhe Carreño Gallery (reviewed by Alan Artner, Chicago Tribune, February 2008), and Reverse Trash Streams: The Junk Mail project at LA Contemporary (reviewed by Kirsten Swenson in Art in America, April 2008). Currently her work is on view at the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Itami, Japan in Your Documents Please, an exhibition which will later travel to Yokohama, Berlin, Budapest, Bratislava, and Guadalajara.

www.barbarahashimoto.com

http://r-productions.com/?s=barbara+hashimoto

contact@r-productions.com

* Photo: Archie FlorCruz, www.whateverland.com

On June 1, 2007 Barbara Hashimoto, Artist-in-Residence at the Chicago-based architecture firm BauerLatoza Studio, asked the sixteen staff members to set aside junk mail they received at the office address. For an entire year Hashimoto incorporated the daily hand-shredding of this unsolicited material into her studio practice. At the end of twelve months she had amassed more than 3,000 cubic feet of shredded material, constituting the amount of junk mail delivered by the U.S. Postal Service to this one small business.

The genesis of this project was inspired by a number of mind-boggling statistics: AMERICANS RECEIVE 77 BILLION PIECES OF JUNK MAIL ANNUALLY and THE AVERAGE AMERICAN WILL SPEND EIGHT MONTHS OF HIS/HER LIFE HANDLING JUNK MAIL.  Statistics like these have taken hold of the artist both visually and physically.

Hashimoto’s labor-intensive yet intimate process has inspired a series of sculptures, installations, performances, and collaborations presented in Los Angeles and Chicago. Now under the sponsorship of the Chicago Arts District and Podmarjersky, Inc., BARBARA HASHIMOTO: White Trash & Junk Mail is envisioned as an evolving presentation with the year-long shredded collection changing, sometimes on a weekly basis. The public is encouraged to view this process anytime through the 45-foot floor-to-ceiling storefront windows. In the evenings the exhibition will be lit for viewing.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE:

JUNK MAIL LANDSCAPES
July 11 – September 13
Guest Artist | Michael Kozien | sound and video

JUNK MAIL INTERIORS
September 26 – October 25
38th Annual Pilsen East Artist’s Open House | September 26 – 28

JUNK MAIL 101
November 1 – 31
Guest Artist | R. O’Donnell | performance

JUNK MAIL CHRISTMAS
December 1 – 31
Reception | Friday, 6 – 10 PM | December 12

Barbara Hashimoto’s sculpture, installation, and performance work has been presented throughout the United States, Japan, Europe, and the Middle East.  It is in more than 250 public and private collections including The Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American Art, The Museum of Arts and Design, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, and The Art Institute of Chicago (Joan Flasch Collection). 

Previously based in Tokyo and Los Angeles, Hashimoto relocated to Chicago in 2006 where she is Artist-in-Residence at BauerLatoza Studio, a multi-disciplinary architectural design firm. Educated at Yale, she was also apprentice to Junko Yamada (Saitama, Japan), and artist-in-residence under “Intangible Cultural Asset”, Minoru Fujimori (Shikoku, Japan) and at Umdang Ceramics (Dan Kwain, Thailand). She studied dance in New York with Merc Cunningham and Meredith Monk, and butoh with Iwani Masaki inTokyo.

Her most recent exhibitions include a seventeen years retrospective at Dubhe Carreño Gallery (reviewed by Alan Artner, Chicago Tribune, February 2008), and Reverse Trash Streams: The Junk Mail project at LA Contemporary (reviewed by Kirsten Swenson in Art in America, April 2008). Currently her work is on view at the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Itami, Japan in Your Documents Please, an exhibition which will later travel to Yokohama, Berlin, Budapest, Bratislava, and Guadalajara.

www.barbarahashimoto.com

http://r-productions.com/?s=barbara+hashimoto

contact@r-productions.com

* Photo: Archie FlorCruz, www.whateverland.com

On June 1, 2007 Barbara Hashimoto, Artist-in-Residence at the Chicago-based architecture firm BauerLatoza Studio, asked the sixteen staff members to set aside junk mail they received at the office address. For an entire year Hashimoto incorporated the daily hand-shredding of this unsolicited material into her studio practice. At the end of twelve months she had amassed more than 3,000 cubic feet of shredded material, constituting the amount of junk mail delivered by the U.S. Postal Service to this one small business.

The genesis of this project was inspired by a number of mind-boggling statistics: AMERICANS RECEIVE 77 BILLION PIECES OF JUNK MAIL ANNUALLY and THE AVERAGE AMERICAN WILL SPEND EIGHT MONTHS OF HIS/HER LIFE HANDLING JUNK MAIL.  Statistics like these have taken hold of the artist both visually and physically.

Hashimoto’s labor-intensive yet intimate process has inspired a series of sculptures, installations, performances, and collaborations presented in Los Angeles and Chicago. Now under the sponsorship of the Chicago Arts District and Podmarjersky, Inc., BARBARA HASHIMOTO: White Trash & Junk Mail is envisioned as an evolving presentation with the year-long shredded collection changing, sometimes on a weekly basis. The public is encouraged to view this process anytime through the 45-foot floor-to-ceiling storefront windows. In the evenings the exhibition will be lit for viewing.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE:

JUNK MAIL LANDSCAPES
July 11 – September 13
Guest Artist | Michael Kozien | sound and video

JUNK MAIL INTERIORS
September 26 – October 25
38th Annual Pilsen East Artist’s Open House | September 26 – 28

JUNK MAIL 101
November 1 – 31
Guest Artist | R. O’Donnell | performance

JUNK MAIL CHRISTMAS
December 1 – 31
Reception | Friday, 6 – 10 PM | December 12

Barbara Hashimoto’s sculpture, installation, and performance work has been presented throughout the United States, Japan, Europe, and the Middle East.  It is in more than 250 public and private collections including The Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American Art, The Museum of Arts and Design, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, and The Art Institute of Chicago (Joan Flasch Collection). 

Previously based in Tokyo and Los Angeles, Hashimoto relocated to Chicago in 2006 where she is Artist-in-Residence at BauerLatoza Studio, a multi-disciplinary architectural design firm. Educated at Yale, she was also apprentice to Junko Yamada (Saitama, Japan), and artist-in-residence under “Intangible Cultural Asset”, Minoru Fujimori (Shikoku, Japan) and at Umdang Ceramics (Dan Kwain, Thailand). She studied dance in New York with Merc Cunningham and Meredith Monk, and butoh with Iwani Masaki inTokyo.

Her most recent exhibitions include a seventeen years retrospective at Dubhe Carreño Gallery (reviewed by Alan Artner, Chicago Tribune, February 2008), and Reverse Trash Streams: The Junk Mail project at LA Contemporary (reviewed by Kirsten Swenson in Art in America, April 2008). Currently her work is on view at the Museum of Arts and Crafts, Itami, Japan in Your Documents Please, an exhibition which will later travel to Yokohama, Berlin, Budapest, Bratislava, and Guadalajara.

www.barbarahashimoto.com

http://r-productions.com/?s=barbara+hashimoto

contact@r-productions.com

* Photo: Archie FlorCruz, www.whateverland.com

We zijn halfweg het parcours als we even de tijd nemen om het één en ander op een rijtje te zetten. Wat betreft het fotofestival in Arles en het moet gezegd, tot nu toe was het geen grote klepper van formaat. Geen fotografie waar men 1000 km verder speciaal voor moet rijden. We hebben het vooral over de binnenstad waar Christian Lacroix, de bekende mode fotograaf zijn "invités" mocht presenteren. Daar zijn natuurlijk enkele bekende namen tussen zoals Peter Lindbergh, Paolo Roversi, Richard Avedon, Catherina Jebb, Jerome Puch, Henri Roger ...

Onze opmerkingen zijn wellicht niet verassend als we verklaren dat het officiële en ook betalende parcours geen nieuwe fotografie of verassingen kon brengen. Oude knarren kunnen hun werk wel tonen en gebruik maken van prachtige locaties zoals kapellen en kerken die hier overal te vinden zijn, maar missen verfrissende en vernieuwende fotografie. Het zijn prachtige modefoto's die niet zullen misstaan in een heruitgave van Vogue, Elle of Vanityfair, maar waar een gemiddelde fotografie bezoeker weinig boodschap aan heeft. Oké, het is waar, enkele modellen worden in hun beste pose gefotografeerd, maar oude krokodillen zoals wij worden er niet warm van.

Het is niet al negatief sinds we deze ochtend aan de fotoqueeste begonnen, integendeel, we vonden in de gratis toegankelijke exposities jonge fotografen terug die niet zouden misstaan in ons fotofestival. Ondergebracht onder "SFR Jeunes Talents Révélateurs d'artistes" zagen we volwassen en intrigerende fotografie met een verbluffende conceptuele inbreng. Op te volgen dus en hun gegevens te noteren: Delphine Manjard, Julot, J.C. Delalande, Didier Illouz, Benjamin Roi, Lise Grosperrin, Claire Bertin en Michel Rajkovic. Ook de talenten van het ENSP (école nationale supérieur de photographie) waar vooral Sung Hee Lee opviel met zijn landschaps-conceptfotografie.

Arles is ook meer dan alleen fotografie. De organisatie brengt ook muziek. De eerste twee weken van het festival zijn wellicht het meest interessant maar daar zijn wij jammer genoeg te laat voor. Hoewel, gisteren mochten we op een terras meegenieten van Massive Attack en kropen we in een rookvrije club tussen jonge mensen van alle slag die wild werden van een DJ-duo dat zich "China Man" noemde. Maar ze zagen er niet echt Chinees uit en Chhovy kan het weten!

We kijken uit naar het vervolg. Onze huurwagen staat al klaar. We hopen dat de investering meer loont dan vandaag.

Chhovy en Thomas uit vanuit Arles.

Meer info over het fotofestival Arles kan je hier vinden.

all photos (exept portrait by Johannes Kozmann): Traute Svoboda

performances: Reinhard Mikel

link to:  wood feels good

Victoria and Albert Museum´s current exhibition is a display of performance costumes worn by The Supremes. The display shows the changing image of The Supremes from the early days when they were known as The Primettes to the glamorous Hollywood designs they wore at the height of their fame, and looks at their continuing stylistic influence on performers such as Beyoncé.

3 Artists Exhibition at Black Earth Art Musuem

Lee Choon Kee, Chong Ah Tong, Goh Chiew Lye Painting Exhibition

03 August to 02 September 2008

12pm to 9:30pm, Monday is closed.

I have finally given in and ordered some business cards! Not sure what that means but I suppose it means that I am gaining a little self belief. I also feel excited that I may in the future be able to generate enough income from the work to be a full time artist!

Now the challenge is to stay focused and juggle all of the exciting opportunities that are presenting themselves!

Workshops in August and November! Collaborations and commissions, and potential exhibitions in September and November!!

don't loose your head!

We are aiming to create the largest piece of collective art that the world has seen.

There isn't a lot of monies involved, but there will be prizes, rewards, goodtimes, mucho appreciation and credit given, we promise!

There is no specified criteria for entry.
ANY AND ALL ART WILL BE GRACIOUSLY ACCEPTED.
(Poetry, writings, sketches, drawings, paintings, photoshops, videos, dances, music, sculptures, crafts, sewings and so on...)

the revolution will be televised

Kanye West @ Paris Men Fashion Shows

www.veroniquebranquinho.com

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Euskal Encounter barnean blogari euskaldunen mahaingurua
Eguna: Ostirala 25
Lekua: Bilbao Exhibition Centre
Ordua: 19:00
Sarrera: doan eta izen ematerik gabe

Eztabaidagai: Euskararen ikusgaitasuna mundu globalizatuan

Hizlari eta moderatzaileak (30 min)
Gorka eta Haritz moderatzaile eta sarrera lanetan egongo dira baina denon parte hartzea beharrezkoa izango da

• Gorka Julio (Teketen)
• Haritz Roriguez (Gutenberg galaxia)
• ...
• ...

10min Hero (2/3 x 10)
Nahi duenak 10min izango ditu bere proiektu, ideiak edo bloga azaldu ahal izateko. Hemen zure izena jarri edo bertan jarri gurekin harremanetan.

Asanblada interaktiboa 1 ordu
Backchannel baten bidez bertako zein kanpoko ekarpenak jasoko ditugu eta horretaz gain bertan ere eztabaida era berezi batean dinamizaten saiatuko gara.

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Animatu zaitezte eta mezua zabaldu!!

Warren Spahn and Johnny Sain were the 1-2 punch on the Boston Braves during the pennant race of 1948, in which a combination of rain-outs and days off allowed Spahn and Sain to pitch in a two-man rotation and win eight consecutive games in 12 days. Hern, a sports editor at the Boston Globe, wrote this on Sept. 14, 1948:

First we’ll use Spahn
then we’ll use Sain
Then an off day
followed by rain
Back will come Spahn
followed by Sain
And followed
we hope
by two days of rain.

The Braves, predecessors of the Milwaukee Braves, predecessors of the Atlanta Braves, ended up losing the World Series to the Cleveland Indians. 

* Last year, there was imminent threat of snow at Mile High Stadium during the NLCS and World Series. The Rockies will not be back in the playoffs, but there is a chance there would be inclement weather should the Brewers face Chicago or New York or possibly Philadelphia or St. Louis in the playoffs. There would be no chance of snow in Milwaukee. Retractable roof, bitches!

Note: This was published in Expresso, the city supplement of The New Indian Express on July 24