Have you ever stood in the middle of the air? Starting from the ground, and being elevated. Higher and higher. Feeling as if the air is getting thinner. And while rushes of grasps for air are occupying your thought and body, you realise that yo are not flying after all. But rather being elevated by…
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Arm yourself with Art
Arm yourself. With right things. With art, music, expressions, impressions, sound, ideas, though, reflection… “Disarm”, turning decommissioned weapons into music instruments is an amazing, inspiring, work by Pedro Reyes. “The purpose of art is to come up with ways to transform the most negative instincts into creative instincts.” – Pedro Reyes “Disarm is a second…
Enchanting and whimsical: Suzanne Ciani’s Buchla Concertos, here to stay
The enchanting and whimsical “Buchla Concerts” (1975) of Suzanne Ciani – the untold story of the first woman on the proverbial moon. “… It was a manifesto and a gateway to a new world, that somehow never quite opened. If the unfamiliar, modernistic, melodic, pulses, tones and harmonics found on this 1975 live presentation/grant application/educational…
Sounding Aurora
Six planks of wood. Six percussionist. And a trippiest of journeys. The pulse begins sharply, but soft. Steady, intricate intertwining of different pulsations are starting to build a twofold entity of sound’s invasion. The beating of the timber. Whose inner voice starts to seep into the air. The pulsating beats remind on heart beats, and…
Capturing the very essence of natural movements
“capturing the very essence of natural movements. In the movements of each piece, every part is necessary. In that respect, the form follows the function. My work is the manifestation of ideas that come to me from the natural world. The grace and form of all living things, and the way they interact, leaves me…
micro world. macro beauty.
THE DIATOMIST is a short documentary about Klaus Kemp, master of the Victorian art of diatom arrangement. Diatoms are single cell algae that create jewel-like glass shells around themselves. Microscopists of the Victorian era would arrange them into complex patterns, invisible to the naked eye but spectacular when viewed under magnification. Klaus Kemp has devoted…
Hands of Bresson
“The things one can express with the hands…” – Robert Bresson “A work of archival criticism that forgoes the language of rigour for that of rapture… here are hands – votive, tender, purloining, trembling – that make me want to raise my own hands in gratitude to this mysterious poet.” – Sukhdev Sandhu, Sight &…
Triadisches Ballet
Oskar Schlemmer born September 4th, 1888 in Stuttgart, Gernany. He was a painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer. He was also a professor at the BAUHAUS School. This video dance piece of the “Tridiac Ballet” is reconstruction by Margarete Hastings in 1970. This was possible with of support of Ludwig Grote and Xanti Schawinsky (Schelemer students…
Light: a viable paint pigment
“Light is the brush and the environment is the canvas.” – Jeremy Jackson aka Tackyshack
the look of sound. the sound of movement.
A chorus of women are borne from the movements of a single dancer in this dreamlike “pas de trente-deux” in this short directed by Michael Langan and Terah Maher, with the music by Steve Reich.