10/09/2015

The Pop Group @ Banksy's Dismaland




Full line up for Friday 18th September (SOLD OUT):

SAVAGESTHE POP GROUP (noise set)SLEAFORD 
MODSDJs Geoff Barrow + Fat Paul

Admission from 7pm, park closes 1am.





&HighStrungLoner: One great reason to visit Dismaland: Savages The Pop Group and Sleaford Mods with DJ Geoff Barrow on September 18. Wow.




09/09/2015

"The Blanket Of Night"







"The Blanket Of Night"

by Elbow


Paper cup of the boat
Heaving chest of the sea
Carry both of us
Carry her, carry me

From the place we were born
To the land of the free
Carry both of us
Carry her, carry me

The ocean
That bears us from our home
Could save us
Or take us for its own
The danger
That life should lead us here
My angel
Could I have steered us clear?

Gone, the light from her eyes
With the lives that we made
Just the two of us
In the night on the waves

Moving silent her lips
By the moon's only light
Sowing silver prayers
In the blanket of night

The ocean
That bears us from our home
Could save us
Or take us for its own
The danger
That life should lead us here
My angel
Could I have steered us clear?

Paper cup of the boat
Heaving chest of the sea
Carry both of us
Or, swallow her, swallow me


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Banksy on Syria



This video was made for March 15, 2014, the third anniversary of the conflict in Syria.
This date was 18 months ago.




"On the third anniversary of conflict, let us stand #WithSyria", says the message: www.withsyria.com

The video is an animation which plays on one of famous street artist from Bristol Banksy's famous pieces of art.
The music is from the song "The Blanket of Night" by Elbow.


Read more: http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Watch-Idris-Elba-Elbow-help-Banksy-s-Syria/story-27756173-detail/story.html#ixzz3lFM6A6do 






Nitin Sawhney's come back




Nitin-Sawhney-new-album-and-sream


Nitin Sawhney new album 

added: 2 Sep 2015 // by: Music-News.com Newsdesk


Nitin Sawhney has today announced the release of his new album Dystopian Dream through Postiv-ID on November 6. 

His first new studio album in four years and also his tenth, Dystopian Dream brings together the full breadth of Sawhney's 360 degree global panorama in his strongest and most refreshing affirmation to date. Led by new single, When I'm Gone featuring Stealth, the album is set to become a fully choreographed show with the innovative and hugely talented Wang-Ramirez Company. A raft of UK dates has also been announced in support of the album, including London's Heaven on Tuesday, November 17.

A distinct departure from Sawhney's previous 9 studio albums, Dystopian Dream focuses on Sawhney's familiar motifs of personal identity and swooping world-views, but this time driven by more cathartic themes of loss, isolation, surrender and perseverance. 

Featuring a bluesier, darker, more contemporary influence, the album is a modern homage to Massive Attack's classic 'Protection' album in its eclecticism and production values. Besides the customary virtuosic instrumentals, this is a true singer's album, featuring- alongside Stealth- a hypnotically husky performance from teenage newcomer J'Danna, 'BBC Introducing' graduate, Eva Stone, and a drum 'n' bass turn from Joss Stone. Virtually all of Sawhney's acclaimed band and singers also feature, fresh from this year's televised performance at Latitude Festival, and last year's sell out show at The Royal Albert Hall.

A gut-wrenching bird's eye perspective on world events distilled into a personal epiphany, Dystopian Dream origins lie in the loss of Sawhney's father in 2013 and the deaths of several friends and mentors. 

Says Sawhney, 'I became increasingly disillusioned with the hypocritical world of politics, with immigrants (like my parents) once more being scapegoated and austerity measures being used to bludgeon the poorest and most vulnerable sections of society. I found these feelings of despair about political and social injustices being blamed on immigrants were being amplified constantly in the news.' As Sawhney's life dramatically darkened, this album emerged - convoluting global events with an inescapable sense of frustration and personal turmoil.



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08/09/2015

Banksy as Prime Minister?



If you were prime minister what would be the first things you would do?


Abolish inheritance.


Banksy in his interview with a 'Sunday newpaper'.






Sur l'expo "Barbès Méditerranée"


¦ VERNISSAGE ¦
La très belle série de photographies de Bruno Lemesle, "Barbès - Méditerranée", est exposée à CONFLUENCES à partir de mercredi : ne manquez pas le ‪#‎vernissage‬ à 18h en présence de l'artiste ! Bar et restauration sur place 🍸
Avec le projet « Barbès - Méditerranée », le photographe met en résonance la Goutte d’Or avec d’autres territoires cosmopolites où se jouent de profondes mutations urbaines : Noailles, Belzunce, la Belle de Mai à Marseille. Et de cette rive de la mer méditerranée, Bruno Lemesle pousse son regard vers l’autre rive, en Algérie, en Tunisie, là où des travailleurs furent autrefois invités à migrer vers une Europe dévastée, en reconstruction.

Confluences
190 Bvd de Charonne, Paris 11ème

Exposition du 09.09.2015 au 08.10.2015
La galerie est en accès libre du lundi au vendredi de 10h à 18h.


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Lien: http://www.confluences.net/



07/09/2015

About ATHI-PATRA RUGA, South African artist






ATHI-PATRA

RUGA

A LAND WITHOUT A PEOPLE... FOR A PEOPLE WITHOUT A LAND




Athi-Patra Ruga
Performance view - Public Intimacy, (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts), SF MOMA, 2014


Né à Umtata (Afrique du Sud) en 1984, Athi-Patra Ruga vit et travaille à Johannesburg et
Cape Town. En Septembre 2015, la Galerie In Situ lui consacre sa première exposition personnelle en

France.



Azania est un pays sans frontière, sans géographie. Un pays sans peuple, pour un peuple sans pays

Azania est un espace utopique nourri de fantasme, de résistance, d’affirmation et de bagatelle. Un royaume où celles et ceux qui ne trouvent pas leur place peuvent y trouver un refuge ou bien une scène pour s’exprimer. Une région aux couleurs tropicales, qui est peuplée de personnages dont les identités sont en état de transformation. Au moyen d’une écriture protéiforme, Athi Patra-Ruga architecture un univers où les traditions sud-africaines rencontrent l’esthétique queer, où les mythologies ancestrales s’allient aux artefacts de la fête, aux accessoires bon marché et à une insouciance irrésistible. Azania est peuplé de personnages baroques et sexy, le plus souvent incarnés par l’artiste lui-même, qui affirment une identité, un corps, un positionnement dans le monde et dans l’histoire. 

Un territoire qui réunit tous ceux qui ne souhaitent pas appartenir à une communauté spécifique, mais plutôt au genre humain dans son ensemble. Une zone utopique où tout ce qui est traditionnellement séparé vient à s’hybrider et à cohabiter : savant-populaire, art-artisanat, corps-esprit, homme-femme, profane-sacré. Les signes constitutifs d’un royaume (blasons, chevaliers, reines et rois) sont associés au folklore, à la religion ou encore à la mode. Pour cela, différents médiums sont mis en œuvre : la performance, la vidéo, le son, la sculpture et la tapisserie. Chacune des œuvres se réfère à des textes anciens (issus des cultures occidentales et orientales), ainsi qu’à différentes périodes de l’histoire humaine (ante et postcoloniale). Les habitants d’Azania sont des exilés, des figures marginales, qui au fur à mesure de leur épanouissement, s’approprient un nouvel espace d’expression et constituent un véritable panthéon multiculturel. 

Azania est une terre promise, une réaction poétique et politique aux manifestations de la survivance de l’Apartheid. L’artiste, né en 1984, a grandi dans une société où les races étaient séparées d’une manière radicale et violente. Un système binaire qu’il combat par l’invention d’un pays imaginaire où toutes les unions sont permises. Parce que ses personnages incarnent des identités mouvantes, l’artiste met à mal une assignation à l’appartenance culturelle, raciale ou sexuelle. A l’image d’une figure vêtue de collants roses, de chaussures à talons hauts et de ballons de baudruches remplis de peinture, de paillettes ou de confettis. Les œuvres troublent les repères et les codes afin de dénormer les corps et d’ouvrir le champ des possibles. Athi Patra-Ruga performe, sculpte et tisse un pays où les notions de frontière, de limite et de séparation se sont évanouies au profit de celles de la liberté, de la fierté et de la frivolité. En mixant les traumatismes de l’histoire humaine dans son ensemble, l’artiste écrit l’histoire d’un pays hors du temps où le personnel croise en permanence le collectif.

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Né à Umtata (Afrique du Sud) en 1984, Athi-Patra Ruga vit et travaille à Johannesburg et
Cape Town.

Explorant les frontières entre la mode, la performance et l’art contemporain, Athi-Patra
Ruga expose et subvertit le corps confronté aux structures, aux idéologies et à la politique.
Débordant de références multiculturelles éclectiques, d’une sensualité charnelle soustendue
d’humour, ses performances, vidéos, costumes et images photographiques
créent un monde où l’identité culturelle n’est plus déterminée par l’origine géographique,
l’ascendance ou l’aliénation biologique, mais bien plus par une construction hybride.
Contre-proposition utopique du triste dogme de la division entre l’esprit et le corps, la
sensualité et l’intelligence, la culture pop, l’artisanat et l’art concourent dans ses œuvres
à exprimer l’érotisme de la connaissance et le rapprochement entre le rêve et l’expérience.

Parmi ses récentes expositions on peut citer « Under Tinsel Sun » , exposition principale
à la IIIe Biennale internationale de Moscou pour les jeunes artistes ; « Making Way », en
collaboration avec Mikhael Subotzky au National Arts Festival of Grahamstown (Afrique du
Sud) ; « Ilulwane », performance solo à PERFORMA11 (NY) ; « Imaginary fact », pavillon sudafricain
à la 55e Biennale de Venise (Italie); « Beauty and Pleasure in Contemporary south
African Art » au Musée Stenersen à Oslo (Norvège); Triennale de Guangzhou (Chine); «
Ampersand » à la collection Daimler (Berlin); « A life less ordinary – Performance and Display
in South African Art (Royaume-Uni) ; « For those who live in it – Pop culture Politics and
Strong Voices », MU (Pays-Bas); « The Elder of Azania », YBCA / SFMOMA (San Francisco) et
Dak’Art - Biennale d’Art Contemporain Africain(Dakar).

A la fin de l’année 2014 il remporte le Standard Bank Young Artist Award for performance.

En Septembre 2015, la Galerie In Situ lui consacre sa première exposition personnelle en
France.

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Born Umtata, South Africa in 1984 and lives and works in both Johannesburg and Cape Town.

Exploring the border-zones between fashion, performance and contemporary art, Athi-Patra Ruga makes work that exposes and subverts the body in relation to structure, ideology and politics. Bursting with eclectic multicultural references, carnal sensuality and a dislocated undercurrent of humor, his performances, videos, costumes and photographic images create a world where cultural identity is no longer determined by geographical origins, ancestry or biological disposition, but is increasingly becoming a hybrid construct. A Utopian counter-proposal to the sad dogma of the division between mind and body, sensuality and intelligence, pop culture, craft and fine art, his works expresses the eroticism of knowledge and reconciles the dream with experience.
Recent exhibitions include: Under a Tinsel Sun the main exhibition of the III Moscow International Biennale For Young Art; Making Way, in collaboration with Mikhael Subotzky at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa; Ilulwane, a solo performance at PERFORMA11 (NY) ;Imaginary Fact, 55th La Biennale di Venezia,South African Pavillion Venice [ Italy ] ; Beauty and Pleasure in Contemporary South African Art at the Stenersen Museum in Oslo, Norway; the Guangzhou Triennale in China; Ampersand at the Daimler Collection (Berlin); A Life Less Ordinary - Performance and Display in South African Art, (UK); For Those Who Live in It - Pop culture Politics and Strong Voices, MU (Holland); The Elder of Azania , YBCA/SFMOMA [San Francisco] and Dak?Art - Biennale of African Contemporary Art (Dakar).

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@AthiPatra @ Galerie In Situ for the @154artfair presentation. In ‪#‎London‬Oct. 15-18.




‪#‎SouthAfrican‬ artist Athi-Patra Ruga in Paris @GalerieInItu @154artfair

"In September, when the sun sets soon now"...




Damon Albarn - 'You and Me' (ft. Brian Eno)




Today's mood...
September's my month.
Westbourne Grove is my London hood.
Under the West way...
Love the softness of the tune and the vocals.




"You And Me" 

(Lyrics)


I met Moko Jumbi
He walks on stilts through All Saints Road
Looking over the brew now, for a possession loss
People sound, no days off
In September, when the sun sets soon now


In you, it radiates on you
Seven high they're rising
Over on the other side
Of September when the sun sets soon now

Jab jab, digging out a hole in Westbourne Grove
Tin foil and a lighter, the ship across
Five days on, two days off, in September
When the sun sets soon now


In you, it radiates on you
Seven high they're rising
Over on the other side
Of September when the sun sets soon now

In you, it radiates on you
Seven high they're rising
Over on the other side
Of September when the sun sets soon now


You can blame me
Blame me
Blame me
Blame me
When the twilight comes
All goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again

You can blame me
Blame me
Blame me
Blame me
When the twilight comes
All goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again

Some days I look at the morning trying to work out how I got here
Cause the distance between us is the glamour’s cost
Late night on the shop floor what language was i speaking
Not sure I remember the thrill and fall
Always in me
Let it go
You can blame me
Blame me
Blame me
Blame me
When the twilight comes
All goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again

You can blame me
Blame me
Blame me
Blame me
When the twilight comes
All goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again
All goes round again






Damon Albarn - You And Me - Live at BBC Radio 6 Music Festival



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More on this song:



Damon Albarn on Blur and drug addiction: ‘Heroin made me incredibly productive’



Speaking openly about his past drug addiction in a rare interview moment, he actually described the period in his life as "incredibly productive", and detailed how he would regulate his heroin intake to "five days on and two days off" to maximise on creativity.

Albarn, who has long since been clean of drugs, began his relationship with heroin "at the height of Britpop" after he came home from tour one evening and casually found it in his front room.

"I just thought, 'Why not?' I never imagined it would become a problem."
He then recites a line from the track "You And Me" to the reporter, which is a song on his forthcoming solo album, Everyday Robots.

"Tin foil and a lighter, the ship across," he sung. "Five days on, two days off."
"I'm happy I found that poetry," Albarn went on to say. "I can move forward now without all the nudge nudge, wink wink innuendo I've had in the background for years."

Albarn has expressed a similar sentiment about his drug use in the past. However, despite the impact heroin had on his creative career, he is also extremely vocal about the dangers of addiction.


"It's a cruel, cruel thing," he said. "[Heroin] does turn you into a very isolated person and ultimately anything that you are truly dependent on is not good."



The EU finally plan to accept an extra 120,000 refugee


At last, some improvements and some decisions in Europe.



Guardian Live updates:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/sep/07/refugee-crisis-pushes-un-agencies-towards-bankcruptcy-live-updates?CMP=twt_gu


Refugee crisis: EU quota plan to accept an extra 120,000 people


  • France and Germany to take 55,000 extra refugees under quotas
  • 10,000 more refugees expected in Munich on Monday
  • UK to use aid budget to house thousands more Syrian refugees
  • UN agencies ‘broke’ due to scale of the crisis


France and Germany reported to take extra 55,000 refugees

France and Germany are reported to be prepared to take an extra 55,000 refugees over the next two years, according to reports in the French press.
The European Commission has asked France to accept 24,000 refugees and Germany 31,000 refugees under a new plan, according to the English language French news site The Local.


EU quota plan to accept an extra 120,000 people

More details are emerging about the EU’s quota plan.
The EU executive has drawn up a new set of national quotas under which Germany will take in more than 40,000 and France 30,000 of a total of 160,000 asylum-seekers it says should be relocated from Italy, Greece and Hungary, an EU source told Reuters.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is due to unveil new proposals on Wednesday. EU officials have said he will propose adding 120,000 people to be relocated on top of a group of 40,000 the Commission previously proposed relocating.
Germany would, if EU leaders agree to the scheme, be asked to take in 31,443 and France 24,031. Earlier on Monday, French President Francois Hollande said France would take 24,000 of the additional 120,000 people seeking refuge.
Confirming figures published by Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, the source said the Commission also planned to put Turkey and all the non-EU states of the Western Balkans on a new list of “safe” countries, whose citizens would face accelerated reviews of asylum claims to speed deportation for most of them.

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And meanwhile in Bristol:


City of Sanctuary: Bristol rallies to help refugees as aid network swells

Organisation says 200 new people a day offering help as charities help refugees such as Ashraf, 17, who walked for eight months to reach UK with his brother



The Bristol Refugee Rights welcome centre inside the Malcolm X community centre in St Pauls, Bristol, is buzzing with activity beneath the imposing mural of the radical civil rights activist. A group of young men play a raucous game of pool; others are huddled around a game of Scrabble. In one corner, volunteers provide aid and advocacy, while a couple of helpful Bristolians run a “free shop”, kitting people out in donated clothes and shoes.
The welcome centre is part of the City of Sanctuary network, a growing network of local organisations trying to establish a welcoming culture for refugees fleeing war and persecution.
In recent weeks, as news bulletins have been dominated by heartbreaking images and stories of desperate people seeking safety in Europe, the number of people looking to volunteer has shot through the roof, said Forward Maisokwadzo, a development worker in Bristol.

More here: 



06/09/2015

Etranges étrangers - Poème de Jacques Prévert


Déjà, encore...


Etranges étrangers, de Jacques Prévert


Kabyles de la Chapelle et des quais de Javel
hommes de pays loin
cobayes des colonies
doux petits musiciens
soleils adolescents de la porte d'Italie
Boumians de la porte de Saint-Ouen
Apatrides d'Aubervilliers
brûleurs des grandes ordures de la ville de Paris
ébouillanteurs des bêtes trouvées mortes sur pied
au beau milieu des rues
Tunisiens de Grenelle
embauchés débauchés
manoeuvres désoeuvrés
Polaks du Marais du Temple des Rosiers

Cordonniers de Cordoue soutiers de Barcelone
pêcheurs des Baléares ou du cap Finistère
rescapés de Franco
et déportés de France et de Navarre
pour avoir défendu en souvenir de la vôtre
la liberté des autres

Esclaves noirs de Fréjus
tiraillés et parqués
au bord d'une petite mer
où peu vous vous baignez
Esclaves noirs de Fréjus
qui évoquez chaque soir
dans les locaux disciplinaires
avec une vieille boîte à cigares
et quelques bouts de fil de fer
tous les échos de vos villages
tous les oiseaux de vos forêts
et ne venez dans la capitale
que pour fêter au pas cadencé
la prise de la Bastille le quatorze juillet

Enfants du Sénégal
départriés expatriés et naturalisés

Enfants indochinois
jongleurs aux innocents couteaux
qui vendiez autrefois aux terrasses des cafés
de jolis dragons d'or faits de papier plié
Enfants trop tôt grandis et si vite en allés
qui dormez aujourd'hui de retour au pays
le visage dans la terre
et des bombes incendiaires labourant vos rizières
On vous a renvoyé
la monnaie de vos papiers dorés
on vous a retourné
vos petits couteaux dans le dos

Étranges étrangers

Vous êtes de la ville
vous êtes de sa vie
même si mal en vivez, même si vous en mourez .


Jacques Prévert. 1951.  «Etranges étrangers» - 1951 -  «Grand bal de printemps»