Saturday, February 27, 2010

Removing Cross Country Ski Bindings

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Tamara Ferioli, Siva, Andrew Hazel, Florencia Martinez








Dansko Clogs In Medford Oregon





houses are being delivered, so I'm putting my nose in artists' studios

Monday, February 8, 2010

Charades For Wedding Shower

kathèuda bird house - the four figures dormant






Kathèuda is a performance of contemporary art to the public of passersby, which will take place Wednesday, May 26, 2010 in Milan, from 17.00 to 19.00 in Piazza Castello, Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, Piazza Fontana Piazza Sant'Eustorgio.
There are four female figures sleeping (lying down, real estate), each of which will be present in one of the four points raised in the city. The four figures represent significant moments in the life of the woman, menarche, marriage, pregnancy and bereavement.

Evolution of each individual human being is closely linked to the preparation and the elimination of steps required by the company to which he belongs. Each route is divided into goals: to achieve and Porsena other is an integral part of life for all of us, that this happens more or less consciously. And this is a phenomenon across all cultures, whether they are traditional, and still firmly tied to the sacred, or modern Western technology.
All this assumes that before reaching a goal and reached it feels after two different people. Change our social status and the perception we have of ourselves, but also that of others against us. From one moment to another we are changed, put on a new role and will have new responsibilities and new expectations. In a
Kathèuda (four photographs and performance) would like to focus on what provides the transition from one stage to another existential, or rites of passage as a universal phenomenon and necessary for all the world's cultures.
We chose to represent female figures for obvious harmony and because the woman is faced with fascinating phenomena in the course of his life, first of all pregnant women.
The rite of passage, whether it be the wedding ceremony between Khond South Indian or a Western degree, imply a gradual investment of energy to achieve this goal, which culminates at the end of the process, in a ceremony, a public recognition that guarantees the passage of state. Going to microscopically investigate the rituals that they are rigidly structured or that they are about, we can concentrate on its climax, being able to identify a hypothetical moment of the ceremony in which the subject moves from one stage to another as if suspended between a zone el 'another, without anything. In that specific fraction of time we would like to imagine the female figure interpret that "nothing" by distancing itself from sleep, and that only death can afford. In a climax, in which being themselves is the focus of of all, the figures will alienate dormant, making eternal moment in which "not" is an unexpected condition, such as evading the indispensable capital required for each individual. This opens a reflection on the essence of our being, our being apart from company to which we belong, then we could call a kind of "not being" so estranged from their cultural and social roots would be to erase our identity, reaching a depth inner and hidden primordial.

The figures chosen are four steps in the life of the woman: her first menstrual period (menarche), marriage, childbirth, mourning. Each of these figures is due to the seasons, as it is possible to "reconnect the ceremonies of the steps in the ceremonies of cosmic human passage (Arnold Van Gennep, The rites of passage. 1981, Basic Books Bollati, Torino, p.. 6). Each of the figures is closely related to the architectural environment in which it appears, choosing the city as Milan. The color of the dress they wear has a precise meaning. Menarche, dressed in red, in Piazza Castello, the rebirth of nature and sexual maturity is the background of the Castello Sforzesco, which attracts a fabulous size, still tied to childhood. Marriage, in a white dress, the woman who reaches full sexual and emotional maturity, in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, in the middle of the intersection of the two arms of the structure, as the encounter with the woman's love, a covered and protected from the elements, as well as the conjugal union is source of protection and support.
Pregnancy, green dress, in Piazza Fontana, water as a source of life. The figure compares with the mourning, black dress, nature falls asleep. The site chosen is the square Sant'Eustorgio background with the Basilica dedicated to the holy, sacred place of meditation and reflection, neglect and comfort in faith, closing the cycle of existence.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Herpes Circular Fotos

BIRD HOUSES work in progress ...









The houses are made exclusively from recovered materials, especially wood from pallets, looks rough and imperfect is determined by this choice. The structure is created by following the directions of LIPU so the birds can be found in our nests, the best conditions to raise their young

Canon 8800f Review Slide Scan

bird houses, the new draft Alchemical Laboratory

The bird houses will be 10 small artificial nests made exclusively from reclaimed wood, following the principles of Laboratory Alchemy particularly sensitive ecology, environmental and recycled. The size will be about 20 x 20 x 20 cm, with a small hole opening to the entrance of the chicken. Each of the bird houses will be assigned to an artist who will paint, selecting color ranges, which, blending with the environment, will be welcoming to small birds. Given the feedback from the City of Milan, with the support of the Supervisor of animals Gianluca Comazzi, proceed to the homes within the city and attacked the trees, from 14 April 2010, which coincides with the beginning of the International Milan Furniture Fair. Distribute in the most populated city in that period (Tortona, Bovisa public offices) promotional material will be marked with the paper on which the stations affected installations.
Among the areas selected: Piazza Fontana, Piazza della Scala, Parco Sempione, Piazzale Cadorna, Piazza Sant'Eustorgio, Brera, Giardini di Porta Venezia, Tortona, Central Station, Piazzale Cemetery. Also in agreement with the Association Onlus LIPU, we would like to enter the nests within a path of Bird Watching.
We would like to fix the bird houses at about 2.50-3 m (visible but out of reach), placing them at the junction between trunk and branch preferably with string and wire to make them safe and stable.

We designed the installation as a permanent or leave the premises at least for one year.

We have proposed to the Museum of Natural History to exhibit in the building houses the works of art from day 1 to April 10, 2010, obtaining feedback from Mauro Mariani, Coordinator of the Pole of Science Museums in Milan.


"This is the true nature of home: the place of peace;
the shelter, not only from all injury,
but from all terror, doubt and division."


from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin


Modern cities are huge welcoming places. There is room for everyone: you live, work, socialize. An ideal place for consumers of services in step with the times. But the architecture of big cities do not always coincide with the practical and aesthetic needs of those who find themselves having to use directly, or the public. So too are the spaces of daily transit aseptic and often narrow. You feel increasingly removed from their city for a common good, and even less is perceived as a good individual, personal, of which occupy because it belongs to us protecting them with small gestures and attentions. In the opinion of the Franco Cecla, actually marginal as that of the squatters living in the favelas, or allow a relationship to space more personal and spontaneous, more direct.
The one spatial dimension on which we can actually intervene again, to personalize and affect our sign, and the interior of our house. The creative self-expression is confined in small single-family apartments. The home, in the big city, it becomes a precious place of intimacy that allows you to crop a personal dimension. E 'without doubt the place of excellence for protection, where we feel more at ease. Although the house is not a good thing for granted. There are conditions not always easy, as the students forced to share apartments and rooms with strangers, immigrants locked in tiny apartments, people who are unable to afford a holiday in danger of losing their homes and living on the streets ( 4,000 homeless only in Milan). In addition to all the realities of domestic unease, as the difficult relationships within families, which too often become real cases of domestic violence. So in many cases, the house takes on negative connotations, perceived as a place of discomfort, danger, choking. It comes natural to associate the feeling of estrangement from our environment, the conditions of hardship and difficulties they face every day lying city of small birds, like us, struggling with a city always on the run that has less and less space for its inhabitants.

The project began as a reflection of the bird houses on the concept of home in its multiple meanings. What we would like to create (for small houses birds of the city painted by contemporary artists who work in Milan) refer to the idea of \u200b\u200bhome as a manifestation of individual creativity and a place of refuge from the snares of the world, urging a broad reflection on the need for a housing that takes public and private account the views of citizens / residents and a reflection on the level of protection for family members of each company, and residential housing, where too often wear uncomfortable reality that remain in the dark. Thus, by giving a home to many small birds that live in our city. Everyone deserves its place of peace, as defined by Ruskin.