10/2/10 - Installation at KIM, Berlin

See my first Berlin installation (Marine Biology 2, paper, polyester mesh) at KIM tomorrow. Next to the Rosenthaler Ubahn exit. Come out on Brunnenstrasse, turn left, it's there.

It's up for two days:
Friday 30th of April and Saturday 1st of May

The exhibition is curated by the 10/2/10 collective

Regarding the show

Come Get Your Stars Aligned With 10/2/10

Travel and relationships with people in countries other than your own will be very fortunate for you now. This is a very expansive, growth-inducing vibration that will help you introduce some new elements into your life - friends and business opportunities, not to mention new sights, sounds, and concepts. Import-export of ideas, goods, and services will bring bright opportunity, as will any project involving publishing, broadcasting, and university instruction and study. If you are creative, a major artistic project will come to a glorious conclusion at month's end, within four days of April 28. Your career is about to bring big, exciting developments next month, but you'll need to be ready. Venus' tour of your reputation sector indicates the word about your performance is quite spectacular, and has filtered to executives at the very top. In love, finally, your prospects are looking up! Venus will tour your true love sector from April 25 to May 19. If you are single and not dating, you may have a memorable meeting - be sure to be out. Look your best! This will be an enchanting period for love, and perhaps one of the best of the year. But when in doubt, the answer is more velvet. More velvet in your wardrobe, more velvet in your paintings, more velvet in your cheese, more velvet in your approach to life.

See the 10/2/10 site for list of other artists and more info.

Happy Birthday B-galleria

"So all the artists are your friends?"
"... and you say it like it's a bad thing?"

B-galleria is a non-profit art gallery located in Turku, Finland (population 176 242). It's run by a group of young local volunteers: artists, designers, art and art history students and other people who are interested in being involved in creating happenings, art shows, music shows - instead of just whining and pining for a better, richer "cultural life". I've been involved in B activities since the second show held in February 2005 and today is the celebration of the gallery's 5th birthday.

Miércoles, originally uploaded by Suunnitelma B.

These guys in the pic are Irana Douer and Hernan Paganini, from Argentina, who put up a show in the back room of B-galleria this week as they were touring Europe and passing through Finland. I couldn't attend in person but I hope to meet them soon as they are visiting Berlin.

I've known Irana and her work through the internet since the early 2000s. Now she came all the way from Argentina and was in my home town! Maybe that's normal now, sure, but I can't help feeling amused. A bit unsettled too, to realize how I'm pleased with internetassisted globalization for bringing all these cool people into my life. My best memories of B have to do with putting up small happenings and shows with friends, like the Plastic Bag Happening last summer with Jason Rosenberg and Emily Ryan. The ability to share time and make something happen, in the privacy of your own home town, but extending towards other corners of the world via the internet. Of course running a gallery is a lot of work and the way we run it at B is often bordering on chaotic and disorganized, but I feel it's all worth it. This wave of _____ when you are turning the key to the gallery to step in. That there is this space. And we've held a show here every month for the last 5 years. It's amazing.

Some people -quite often middle aged men-, had a hard time understanding why I spent so much time with the gallery and I've had some confused and ultimately tiring conversations over the issue.

- So let me get this straight.. you don't get any money from it?

-No, I just do it because I like it.

- So like... a hobby?

- Yeah you could say it's a hobby.

- (pause) Well, I play basketball and I know why I play basketball- I play basketball because it keeps me fit. But what do you gain from having these shows, I have no idea.

Well. Sometimes it's hard to give answers for other people straight away.

I'd want to put up all the names of the cool people who I've met through B / who have helped in creating things there / driven a screw to the wall etcetera but too many to mention and forget.

So happy birthday B-family! Stay small, expand!

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Ida Lehtonen & Elina Minn

Rotor 2 galleri, Gothenburg

1.-9.8.2009

There exists there does not exist

Both from Flower Delivery New York City.

Crazy ass internet art

Dennis Kopf has edited bootyshaking videos on Youtube and created his own ones. Basically bootyshaking sans the booty and the shaking. I love the tension created by the domestic rooms and the music.

Some of my favorite ghost booties:



MI CAMA



Dancing wit no music!!!!!



indian booty dance



YES

See all Bootyclipse videos here.

I usually try to avoid reading youtube comments but there were some amazing ones, like:

"What kind of program are you using to take the people out of the clip, where can I get it, and how much does it cost?"
bblack1213

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Read more about Bootyclipse here (scroll down on the page) on internet art curator Olivia Lialina's website.

How to speak in complete sentences?

"It became notes on how I felt about aging, but the important thing is not that my hair and my hands tell me I'm about to die. The next image is more important. You have to finish with a total image of life."

- Agnes Varda on filming her hand with her other hand in Les glaneurs et la glaneuse

On artistic work

1. Stills from Milos Forman's film Černý Petr (1964)

"Just following doesn't solve anything. It makes no sense"
"I thought he might somehow reveal himself."
"And what did you accomplish?"
"Nothing. I followed him all day."
"So you weren't working?"
"I was.""



2. A story by Elina Minn 7 years old

"niilo is a bear who loves farming he always plants carrots and parsley on his yard he really loves farming and that's not all niilo didn't control his farm because he poured milk and lemonade on the plants oh how stupid he is thought his parents he really is sighed his relatives niilo was confused but carried on farming niilo's mom questioned him are you still going on with that farm of course i am laughed niilo mom shook her head and sighed father banged his head on the wall so that mom had to fetch water to calm him down"

On artistic work

1. Stills from Milos Forman's film Černý Petr (1964)

"Just following something doesn't solve anything. It makes no sense"
"I thought he might somehow reveal himself."
"And what did you accomplish?"
"Nothing. I followed him all day."
"So you weren't working?"
"I was.""



2. A story by Elina Minn 7 years old

"niilo is a bear who loves farming he always plants carrots and parsley on his yard he really loves farming and that's not all niilo didn't control his farm because he poured milk and lemonade on the plants oh how stupid he is thought his parents he really is sighed his relatives niilo was confused but carried on farming niilo's mom questioned him are you still going on with that farm of course i am laughed niilo mom shook her head and sighed father banged his head on the wall so that mom had to fetch water to calm him down"

Advice

LOSE WHAT YOU HAVE,
USE WHAT YOU HAVE

(in this order)

This goes a long way in my humble opinion. If you need more (specific) advice Jessica Williams started giving it for free in her blog. You can send her questions concerning cats, love and art. If she doesn't know the answer she has generously promised to google it for you. I advice you to try.