Nothing to add but love, love, love....
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10/08/2017
Lazinc presents: prints by 3D, also known as Robert Del Naja
Nothing to add but love, love, love....
"We Dream Under The Same Sky"
Extremely proud of my friend who is organising this.
See you in Paris, mid-September, Palais de Tokyo:
Le Palais de Tokyo propose une exposition autour de la question des réfugiés et de leur condition,
intitulée We Dream Under The Same Sky.
Un évènement en collaboration avec cinq associations qui se tient du 16 au 21 septembre 2017.
Quand l’art se mobilise pour venir en aide aux réfugiés… Le Palais de Tokyo accueille une exposition autour de la question des réfugiés et de leurs conditions, We Dream Under The Same Sky, initiée collectivement par Julie Boukobza, Chantal Crousel, Blanche de Lestrange, Niklas Svennung et Marine Van Schoonbeek. Un événement en collaboration avec cinq associations qui se tient du 16 au 21 septembre 2017, ouvert à tous et qui propose de contempler de nombreuses œuvres offertes par plus de 25 artistes internationaux.
Parmi eux, on compte Adel Abdessemed (le créateur de la statue de Zidane donnant un coup de boule à Materazzi, œuvre qui avait défrayé la chronique en septembre 2012), Mona Hatoum, Glenn Ligon, Latifa Echakhch, Isa Genzken, Laura Owens, Annette Messager, Sturtevant, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cindy Sherman ou encore Danh Vo, pour ne citer qu’eux.
Des œuvres qui sont ensuite vendus aux enchères grâce à la salle de vente Christie’s, partenaire de l’événement, à la galerie Azzedine Alaïa, et dont les fonds vont à cinq associations bénéficiaires œuvrant à l’accueil, au soin et à l’intégration des réfugiés : migreurop, anafe, la cimade, le centre Primo Levi et l’école Thot.
Des tables rondes, ainsi que des rencontres avec les associations, des projections ou encore d’autres performances d’artistes sont également organisées pour sensibiliser le public à la question des réfugiés, de leur statut et de leur condition.
Infos Pratiques :
We Dream Under The Same Sky
Au Palais de Tokyo
Du 16 au 21 septembre 2017
Ouvert de 14h à 22h
Adresse : 13, avenue du Président Wilson, 75016 Paris
Entrée libre
Au Palais de Tokyo
Du 16 au 21 septembre 2017
Ouvert de 14h à 22h
Adresse : 13, avenue du Président Wilson, 75016 Paris
Entrée libre
Vente aux enchères à la galerie Azzedine Alaïa
Le vendredi 27 septembre à partir de 19h
Adresse : 18, rue de la Verrerie, 75004 Paris
Accès sur invitation
Le vendredi 27 septembre à partir de 19h
Adresse : 18, rue de la Verrerie, 75004 Paris
Accès sur invitation
En savoir plus sur https://www.sortiraparis.com/arts-culture/exposition/articles/147290-we-dream-under-the-same-sky-l-expo-se-mobilise-pour-les-refugies-au-palais-de-to#msfO7eidMl3XXkLg.99
Le programme : http://wedreamunderthesamesky.com/downloads/CatalogueBenefitAuction.pdf
Best of luck, Gina Miller
I never, ever thought I'd read something like this... Never until recently.
I even had a dream, a few months ago, about some sort of "secret police" arresting people in the UK according to their skin colour. I was in Bristol in the dream and reached a building I was renting a room in... and two men in suits arrested a middle class woman on the base of her having brown skin. I could hear her complaining on the staircase that she had not prepared for this to happen now and was expected at work. But they took her anyway. And I manage to be discreet and reach the flat I was meant to stay
This hatred is getting out of control!! What happened to get so far?
This is the real side of Brexit... It is not about trade or the single market. It is about some distressed or angry or destructive people rejecting the society as it is, over an imagined representation of a perfect, imperial United Kingdom still dominating the world. It is a dangerous path!
Please wake up. And let's say no to this kind of violence...
Gina Miller afraid to leave her home after threats of acid attacks
Brexit legal challenger fears she may have to leave the UK if anxiety over her family’s security becomes too much to bear
Wednesday 9 August 2017
Gina Miller, the campaigner who won a Brexit legal challenge against the government, has revealed that she has been receiving threats of acid attacks for months and is afraid to leave her home.
The businesswoman said that if the threats continued and became too much to bear she would “seriously consider” leaving the UK.
“I have been getting threats of having acid thrown in my face for months and months now. When I see someone walk towards me on the street with a bottle of water or something, I just freak out,” she told Verdict magazine.
With the backdrop of a spate of acid attacks across the country, she said: “My life has completely changed.”
Miller spoke of her fears for her life just weeks after Rhodri Phillips, 50, the 4th Viscount St Davids, was jailed for 12 weeks for racially abusing her on social media.
Four days after she won her supreme court case against the government, Phillips offered a bounty for her to be run over. He offered “£5,000 for the first person to ‘accidentally’ run over this bloody troublesome first generation immigrant”.
He described her as a “boat jumper” adding: “If this is what we should expect from immigrants, send them back to their stinking jungles”.
In a statement to court, Miller said she felt “violated” by his remarks, which were “offensive, racist and hateful”.
But even Phillips’ three-month jail sentence has not put people off sending malicious messages and death threats, Miller said.
“I get people who send me death threats who include their name and full address on the letters. People are so bold that they just don’t hide,” she said.
She has had 24-hour security installed in her home, hired security guards and she and her family now spend their weekends at home because of the upset that leaving the house can cause.
“If it came to the point that it was just too much to bear from a security point of view, if I sat down with my police teams and we felt that it was a really serious threat, I would have to seriously consider leaving the UK,” she said.
“This would break my heart because I love this country and I am fighting for it. But we might have to.”
In January this year the Metropolitan police revealed they had issued eight “cease and desist” notices to people who had sent Miller threatening messages.
She said people were “surprised” when they received the letters, as if they thought they would never be caught.
In April she told how she was still getting abuse after launching a tactical voting initiative ahead of the general election.
At the time she said she had a choice – either to embrace it and do something with her high profile or “walk away”, which she was not minded to do.
A year after the murder of MP Jo Cox, Miller said that social media companies are still not doing enough to stop abuse being spread.
Miller was thrust into the public spotlight when she launched the campaign to force the government to give parliament a vote on triggering Article 50.
Now she says she did not realise she would be the sole focus of public attention when she brought the legal action.
“When the courts made me the lead claimant, my lawyer said to me: ‘My god Gina, do you know what this means?’ and I just sort of said ‘yes’. It was quite fatalistic of me,” she said, adding that she never expected to still be the lead claimant when it came to court.
08/08/2017
August 8, it's all about the light...
Words from artist Chris Levine, working with laser light in art shows:
Your love of sacred geometry theme really does mesh perfectly with Dark Mofo's pagan winter festival aesthetic.
We are beings of energy and are directly connected to the sun. To contemplate our position in the cosmos and our relationship to the closest star is somehow primal and innate. We are light, then for all mankind sake, let's BE LIGHT.
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Read the complete interview here:
https://creators.vice.com/en_au/article/3dm339/chris-levine-is-lighting-up-hobart-with-the-biggest-laser-show-dark-mofos-ever-seen
DARK MOFO 2017
Chris Levine is Lighting Up Hobart With the Biggest Laser Show Dark Mofo's Ever Seen
The legendary UK-based light artist has worked with the likes of Antony and the Johnsons, Grace Jones, and Sigur Ros.
You've seen light shows before, but never like this. As part of Dark Park, Dark Mofo's massive outdoor "public art playground" which features immersive and interactive works from all over the world, UK-based light artist Chris Levine is set to light up Hobart with a sprawling technicolor laser show called iy_project 136.1 Hz.
What's in store? What's in store? Three 25-metre tall towers positioned in a 50-metre circle will shoot super powered lasers 10 kilometres across Hobart's night sky, crowning the city with shimmering colour. It's all going down from 5pm-10pm from June 9 until June 11, and then June 15-17. For a sneak peak, have a look at Levine's sprawling light work hovering over the city of Hastings here!
In the lead up to our favourite winter festival, Creators caught up with Levine to talk about how his obsession with light and sacred geometry has fuelled his practice.
Creators: Chris, how did you first come to being interested in light art and sacred geometry?Chris Levine: I started exploring holograms and holographics at art school in London. I saw it as very much the domain of laboratories and not studios at the time—it was not an artform. Then increasingly over time, when striving to get closer to the source, the essence of reality, my work became informed through my practice of meditation. It has been said that numbers are the purest form of thought, then geometry is an an expression of that truth, and somehow the dots align when the mind quietens. The truth reveals itself.
We're all used to seeing light shows at concerts and festivals—how do you create something truly spectacular and memorable using light?
For me its all about the experience and taking people into the realm of inner space between thought. If the work is truly experiential it means you have to orientate yourself with in a mode that is questioning reality. I like that.
We're all used to seeing light shows at concerts and festivals—how do you create something truly spectacular and memorable using light?
For me its all about the experience and taking people into the realm of inner space between thought. If the work is truly experiential it means you have to orientate yourself with in a mode that is questioning reality. I like that.
You said when you started out, light art was undiscovered territory. How do you think the art world and general population's attitude to light shows changed over time?
Light has been hiding in plain sight and though its often cited or related to across all kinds of media, light itself as the medium still seems fresh, modern and of the age. The more we see of it, the more a language reveals itself and we become more discerning over the execution and purpose of the work. Like with anything, you have to filter out the gimmicky and frivolous as another distraction.
What do you want viewers to get out of your Dark Park installation?
Is it corny to say expect the unexpected? Truly this is an experimental project into a collective meditative space and its narrative is energy and spirit as one. Each time we do an iy_project it seems to take us further into new territory. I would always correct people when saying it's not technically a laser show, but if they come away saying its the best Mofo laser show they've ever seen and the sounds tripped us out...then I'm ok with that.
Light has been hiding in plain sight and though its often cited or related to across all kinds of media, light itself as the medium still seems fresh, modern and of the age. The more we see of it, the more a language reveals itself and we become more discerning over the execution and purpose of the work. Like with anything, you have to filter out the gimmicky and frivolous as another distraction.
What do you want viewers to get out of your Dark Park installation?
Is it corny to say expect the unexpected? Truly this is an experimental project into a collective meditative space and its narrative is energy and spirit as one. Each time we do an iy_project it seems to take us further into new territory. I would always correct people when saying it's not technically a laser show, but if they come away saying its the best Mofo laser show they've ever seen and the sounds tripped us out...then I'm ok with that.
Your works are monumental—do you have a crew of people who help you put them together? How long is the design process, and what does it involve?The scale of laser is such that those beams carry on into space expanding the geometry of the work at a rate of 186 000 miles per second. That is monumental on a cosmic scale. The development of iy_project is an ongoing work in progress where we pull it into its latest incarnation for the opportunities like Dark Mofo where we are invited to do it. There is a tight core team involved in the production, development and logistics of the work. Then on the sound different collaborators coming into the mix. We're so excited that Rob Del Naja from Massive Attack has started working with us and his flavours will become apparent in Hobart.
How does the work interact with the cityscape of Hobart?We are working with the ancient wisdom of Solfeggio frequencies of which the base note is OM, which resonates with the Energy of our planet. The outdoor installation uses a combination of high powered lasers informed and aligned with sacred geometry and visible throughout the Hobart and beyond to Bruni Island and into deep space beyond.
How does the work interact with the cityscape of Hobart?We are working with the ancient wisdom of Solfeggio frequencies of which the base note is OM, which resonates with the Energy of our planet. The outdoor installation uses a combination of high powered lasers informed and aligned with sacred geometry and visible throughout the Hobart and beyond to Bruni Island and into deep space beyond.
What made you say yes to Dark Mofo?As soon as I first heard of Dark Mofo, something rang inside me that it was the right place to do iy_project. We're introducing it at the festival, and its initial exposure is important to us. Dark Mofo felt right and the brief was really to do with tuning into the mystic power of light and sound with a high charge of positivity. Light out of darkness.
Your love of sacred geometry theme really does mesh perfectly with Dark Mofo's pagan winter festival aesthetic.We are beings of energy and are directly connected to the sun. To contemplate our position in the cosmos and our relationship to the closest star is somehow primal and innate. We are light, then for all mankind sake, let's BE LIGHT.
Dark Mofo kicks off this weekend in Hobart, and tickets are on sale now. Find out more about the festival lineup here, and more about Levine's work here.
"Le Jeune Karl Marx"
Another thing: by the end of August, I'll be able to finally see Le Jeune Karl Marx / The Young Karl Marx, the first film I ever worked on, directed by Raoul Peck.
We started working on this film in 2005, with the idea of producing a documentary. I did a lot of research on Marx' writing and on the iconography to help the filmmaker, for about a year. And he finally decided to create a feature film, on the years that led to the 1848 revolution.
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Friendship, journalism, writing about social issues and social / political change, believing in philosophy and in telling the truth... this resonates more than ever!!
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The film will be released on September 27th in France. And it is still looking for distribution in the UK. If you're interested... get in touch!
Le Jeune Karl Marx de Raoul Peck, avec August Diehl, Stefan Konarske, Vicky Krieps, Amy Wren, Olivier Gourmet & Alexander Scheer.
Sortie le 27 septembre.
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Here is the trailer, in French / English / German, with French subtitles:
With English subtitles:
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August resilience
Hello rainy August. You must know that in my head, I'm in sunny Naples so it doesn't matter that darkness fell over my windowpane at 3.45pm...
Anyway, you did steal my thunder, rainy weather. I had a lot to read and even more to write about, but you drained my energy away.
Yesterday was such a simple, lovely day of daydreams. Today had to bring back some balance, or it would seem unfair. For I'm such a lucky woman, always have been. Such a protected soul, wandering the earth with all her dreams coming through and true. Every project I accomplished, as little as it was, was always deemed "impossible" by someone before I finally mastered it. From entering the University programmes I waned to getting this or that job. But I always did. Enter or get it.
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Now, while I've realised my deepest and most important dream, publishing a book, how it is that I feel like I cannot be heard? I feel my voice is stifled. It does not go far enough... It cannot cross the walls I want to overcome...
I've been a journalist for more than 12 years and it seems that the more important a subject is, the more obstacles there are on the road of its release... Like that day when I crossed half of Kenya to talk to women who had gotten rid of the men in their village because they were so violent, but they finally didn't want to talk to us when we arrived... My biggest regret in a journalism experience.
It is hard to publish on the refugee crisis, it is hard to publish on police brutality and inequality and discrimination. And working freelance is adding hardship to the hardness.
But August is a month of rest and recuperation before the preparation. In France, September is baptized "la rentrée". New beginnings, new start.
I wanted to dedicate this month and July to finish my work on the English version of my book about Bristol and Massive Attack... but that wasn't possible. The British publishers are too busy, not concerned enough. And there is the situation in the UK... It is a disaster, really. Almost as worrying as in the United States.
So everything I wanted to organise there is on hold. And so I'm moving on...
My two other book projects have also been put on hold too... By my French publisher this time. So I'm working on two other projects!
What else shall one do? We need to be resilient! We need to fight for our rights and help show the truth.
I'll tell more about all this when it comes to fruition... A film with a brilliant filmmaker might be possible. My own documentary film that I've been trying to bring to life for two years. A biography and two other books, about Africa for one, and the relations between Africa and Europe for the second. Even a play maybe!
Then, we'll see.
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Until then, I wish to all the truth workers a great amount of strength and... well, resilience.
Courage.
I could post pictures from my holidays in Naples two years ago... But well, that was back then.
Here is a painting by Erté, my painter of the summer. I hope that'll do.
It inspires me a feeling of a feminine beauty dancing with the cosmos, dancing in tune with the planets and the stars, or dancing in the raindrops if you will, despite the heaviness and obstacles, she is still dancing and choosing joy.
And so am I.
And so we lost Martin Roth, former V&A director
Sad news... Martin Roth was one of those who made my favourite museum, the V & A, what it is today. He was the first German director to lead such a deeply British institution.
And I was looking forward to interviewing him in the autumn. He was at a centre of a radio documentary project that I wrote in the spring but that the French national radio rejected because, they say, they'd rather work with the same circle of producers... Typical french "renvoi d'ascenseur" attitude.
Rest in Peace Martin Roth...
Martin Roth, former V&A director, dies aged 62
First German to head major UK museum oversaw record visitor numbers but left V&A after disillusionment with Brexit vote
The V&A has paid tribute to its former director Martin Roth, who has died in Berlin, aged 62.
Roth was the first German to head a major British museum, leaving the V&A in 2016 shortly after it won the museum of the year award. That victory meant that Roth, after five years in charge, could leave while the museum was on a high. However it was a decision also hastened by his disillusionment over the Brexit vote.
He died from cancer, diagnosed only weeks after he left the V&A.
Nicholas Coleridge, the chairman of the V&A, said the museum was extremely saddened to hear of Roth’s death. He said: “Martin will be remembered as a man of prodigious energy, a director with a global reputation both within the museum world and beyond, a committed Europhile and cultural ambassador with a philosophical turn of mind, as well as a devoted husband and father.”
Coleridge said Roth had made it his mission to raise the international profile of the museum. Initiatives under his leadership included a presence at the Venice Biennale, the expansion of the museum to China, Dundee and east London, the founding of the V&A research unit, and the opening of restored galleries devoted to European arts and crafts of 1600-1815.
“This, combined with exhibitions such as David Bowie Is, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, Disobedient Objects and Engineering the World: Ove Arup, raised the V&A to new heights,” he said. “We will greatly miss Martin, and are profoundly grateful for his considerable contribution to the V&A.”
Roth was director general of the Dresden state art collections from 2001-11 and was succeeded by Hartwig Fischer, who last year trod a similar path when he was appointed director of the British Museum.
Fischer said he was “shocked and saddened” by the news of Roth’s death. “Martin was an energetic moderniser of museums. He was a great advocate of museums playing an active role as institutions in today’s societies, and he did much to internationalise collections. He fostered global cooperation and exercised considerable skill in cultural diplomacy. He will be missed.”
Roth’s leadership of the V&A was widely regarded as a success, with visitor numbers reaching record numbers, and it was a surprise when Roth announced his intention to leave last year. Leaving the museum on a high and in robust health was clearly a major motivation, but Roth had made no secret of his views on the UK decision to leave the EU.
He was born in Stuttgart in 1955 and the issues were personal. “For me, Europe is simply synonymous with peace,” he said in an interview with German broadcaster DW. “I didn’t want to be a German. I did not want to grow up in a country that had killed a huge part of its population.
“So for me, Europe always gave hope for a peaceful future, based on sharing, solidarity and tolerance. Dropping out always means creating cultural barriers – and that worries me.”
Roth said in interviews that he wanted to be more politically involved on returning to Germany. He was appointed honorary president of the Institute for International Relations.
The German culture minister, Monika Grütters, was among those who paid tribute. She said: “With the passing of Martin Roth, the German and international museum world has lost one of the most prominent but also polemical personalities. He took part in numerous discussions with a strong opinion and enriched these debates. His capacity for enthusiasm was contagious.”
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