Luis Galán García & Daniel Fernández Pascual, ‘Road Trip through Madrid’s Bubble Challenge’ (2010)
After a decade of unprecedented real estate development, Madrid starts to deal with its contemporary ruins: on one hand, more than 47,000 empty apartments wait for a first buyer (Asprima report/Dec.2009), and on the other, hundreds of kilometres of perfectly paved streets run between eerie blocks, waiting for a first construction on their sides.
‘Road Trip through Madrid’s Bubble Challenge’ is an on-going photo-reportage of these frozen in time areas of development. Can they become the natural protected areas of the future?
By dd
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Posted in Abstraction, Composition
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Tagged abandoned, architecture, archive, collection, Daniel Fernández Pascual, expand, failed estate development, frozen in time, fuckem, local attraction, Luis Galán García, madrid, nature, photo-reportage, photograph, prop, public space, romance, ruins, scam, sky, spain, street view, the wild, trash, unfinished, unknown, unused
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By mh
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Posted in Abstraction
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Tagged accident, action, background, blocks, blood, cut, cyprien gaillard, diving, found, fuckem, horizon, housing, lake, modernist, nose, performance, public space, romance, the wild, trash, unknown, video, water, wound
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Thomson & Craighead, ‘Several Interruptions’ (2009)
Watch the video here
By dd
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Posted in Composition
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Tagged amateur, collection, DIY, found, fuckem, fun, hold your breath, home video, internet, interruption, romance, sky, the wild, thomson & craighead, trash, uk, underwater, video, youtube
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‘Belgian Flag’ by Justin Morin
By mh
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Posted in Abstraction
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Tagged belgian, colors, country, DIY, dye, flag, found, fuckem, fun, hair, joke, justin morin, l'oreal, light, long, national, packaging, preference, sculpture, unknown, women
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Stills from Mika Rottenberg‘s ‘Cheese’ (2008)
By mh
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Posted in Abstraction
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Tagged cheese, fetish, fun, group, hair, installation, mika rottenberg, performance, romance, share, texture, unknown, video, women
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Olaf Nicolai, ‘The Blondes’ (2003)
The photographs were taken during the month that Olaf Nicolai ran a beauty parlor in the center of Tilburg in the Netherlands. He offered to bleach visitors’ hair free of charge, in exchange for the permission to use images of them in his work.
By dd
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Posted in Abstraction
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Tagged abusing, action, berlin, bleach, blond, change, DIY, fuckem, fun, glamour, hair color, ideals of beauty, olaf nicolai, perfect human, relational aesthetics, star, Tilburg, using, what's in a name
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The on-going project “Vo Rocasco Rasmussen” that began in 2003, was one of Danh Võ’s first forays in the systematic subversion of hegemonic cultural structures. Legally marrying and adopting the names of one close friend after another, this on-going work could be seen as a tribute to loyalty and love, but his subsequent accumulation of names over time calls into question the role a name plays in our understanding of identity. His passport, for example, does not read the same as his bank-card, and the name on his driver’s license is different from his door bell.
By mh
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Posted in Composition
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Tagged action, adopting, danh vo, DIY, found, friends, identity, legally, love, loyalty, marrying, names, ode, passport, play, rasmussen, rocasco, romance, text, tribute, unknown
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Nasan Tur, ‘Passport’ (2000)
Applying for a German passport, Nasan Tur let his mustache grow over several months, fitting the cliche of the Turk in Germany.
This small alteration in his appearance led to a complete change in perception of and reaction to him from the outside world in his daily life. In the circles in which he normally moved he was suddenly no longer welcome, and from a female point of view unsexy, whereas he was greeted with “Salem Aleykum” when walking past Turkish cafés and reaped enthusiastic compliments from aunts and uncles.
By mh
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Posted in Composition
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Tagged action, appearance, cliché, discrimination, DIY, document, fuckem, germany, looks, mustache, nasan tur, passport, performance, photograph, picture, public art, racial, romance, selfportrait, standard, the wild, trash, turk, unsexy
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Gillian Wearing, ‘Self-Portrait as my Father, Brian Wearing’ (2003)
By dd
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Posted in Composition
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Tagged becoming, black and white, bow tie, eerie, family, family album, father, freud, gillian wearing, imperfect, impersonating, memory, photograph, posing, relationship, sculpture, self-portrait, studio, uk, weird
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