June 23rd, 2010 - marikot -
Walking down the hill in the South Aoyama district, you will find the gallery called “PLSMIS“, a gallery with a lounge space for drinks at late night. From June 5th to 13th, an exhibition “fluctuation of life” was held at PLSMIS, showcasing a series of glass works entitled as “Life” by a glass artist Mika Aoki.
Born and raised in Hokkaido, Mika Aoki moved to Tokyo to study at Musashino Art University. After graduated from the school, she has exhibited her glass pieces made with heat-resistant glass and laboratory instruments that represent her basic theme of “life”.
Going inside the gallery, visitors find a series of fragile glass pieces put into bottles. It seems like all the work stays in the quiet laboratory. Each glass piece looks like an organ, an animated life from the future space, or an atom. And these works are well fitted to be displayed in the gallery where sun light coming inside well.
The most important thing for her is to convey her message to everyone. For her, glass is one of the ways to make her creation as freely as possible. Like drawing with a pencil, she does Esquisse with glass. She keeps it again and again, and each “life” is completed.
Mika Aoki Exhibition “fluctuation of life”
Date: June 5th – 13th, 2010
Place: PLSMIS
http://www.plsmis.com
Text: Memi Mizukami, Mariko Takei
Photo: Kozaburo Sakamoto
June 21st, 2010 - Marisa -
Coney Island – New York City’s answer to a beach, home of the infamous ’shoot the freak’ attraction, the backdrop to the classic cult film The Warriors, and for one day a year, the gathering place of hundreds of mermaids and other bizarre creatures. Founded in 1983, the annual Mermaid Parade is the largest art parade in the U.S., originally spawned as a homage to Coney Island’s Mardi Gras that endured from 1903 to 1954.
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May 26th, 2010 - Marisa -
WARNING- THIS POST FEATURES NUDITY!
23 year-old artist Ariel Brickman lives the kind of existence that out-of-towners describe with wide-eyed awe as a ‘New York lifestyle.’ Mainly this involves very large wigs, pasties, a lot of glitter, occasionally dressing in drag (and more frequently dressing with a bare midriff) and just downright fabulousness.
One person described Brickman to me as someone “with a very interesting train of thought,” which seems a very accurate statement, seeing as though there is evidence to back it. Her unique thought processes have led the Bushwick-based artist to create live installations featuring herself engaging with innovative concepts by way of colorful costumes and sets. Think a bath full of milk, or many tiny disco balls, and always boobs (a whole lot of ‘em).
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PETER BRÖTZMANN is an artist, composer, graphic designer, musician and all round Renaissance man.
Renowned for his prolific and staggeringly high-quality output, Brotzmann brings his multi-faceted talents to The Narrows gallery Melbourne this month.
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Forward thinking individuals have descended upon this fine city for the fourth-annual Melbourne jazz Festival.
Running from the first to the eighth of May, the festival crams as much dissonance, chin-stroking and socially awkward behavior into seven days as is humanly possible.
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April 12th, 2010 - jessicah -
Last weekend, I managed to escape the smells and sounds of the big smoke and found myself in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, for Tallinn Music Week. In it’s second year, Tallin Music Week sees 6000 music fans, 100 artists and 107 international delegates descend on the city for three nights of music.
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