Mabuse

Last thursday was the premiere of Bock & Vincenzi's performance "The infinte pleasure of the great unknown" introducing Troupe Mabuse at Toynbee Studios (Arts Admin).
"THE INFINITE PLEASURES OF THE GREAT UNKNOWN is a stage show presented within the form of a film. Behind a black cinema screen Troupe Mabuse play a cast of thousands, in a never-ending state of emergency; a storm in which the fear of the unknown conceals its own controlling force. Into this play of possession, King Lear also appears. Having missed his cue to die he wanders eternally in a landscape of his own making, searching for meaning within a scrambled version of Shakespeare’s original storm scene."

The performance is well thought and the attention to details in order to create such a peculiar Lynch-esque atmosphere was brilliant. Maybe a little long if you ask me but the experment was definitely worth it.

Link Here.

SDL

Nice notebook design by SDL - Stockholm Design Lab -

URTD

I'm liking the work of slovak designer Ondrej Job.
Link here.

Kiwi

Some nice piece of design at kiwi studio InHouse design.
Link Here.

Opt

While i was in Paris, i took the opportunity to go and see Bridget Riley's retrospective show at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris.
As i'm usually pretty keen on the Opt art aesthetics, i got absolutely amazed by Riley's work that i only knew in surface. The show presents her work in a chronological order and following each step of her art through various explanations about her choices is a real bliss. Even though my favorite bit would be the early black and white period, the entire path through her graphic and intelectual research is remarkable.

Link here.

Back

Finally back in town after a short break in Paris.
Some catching up to do blog wise.
Here we go.
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The night before i left for France, i went to see an amazing show
at the Sadler's Well.The performance was Akram Kahn's latest
show in collaboration with the National Ballet of china called Bahok.

Here's the pitch:
"Bahok, named after a Bengali word meaning ‘carrier’ explores the ways
in which the body carries national identity and a sense of belonging.
Khan’s dancers come from diverse cultures, traditions and dance backgrounds –
Chinese, Korean, Indian, South-African and Spanish – and this rich mix of both
spoken and dance language pushes the boundaries of movement vocabulary."

As usual, Khan managed to create an incredibly intimist and moving performance
filled with a mixture of humour, poetry and philosophy. A must see.

Synth Eastwood

Here's my submission for Synth Eastwood exhibition on friday 13th June!
The theme is Flags and anthems. You can't really see it on a saved for
web lowres jpg but basically the poster (A2) is made of 126 anthems.
A globalised flag in a way :)
Check the event details here.

Boom Chack!

Very cool installation by David Byrne in NYC (liking the website design too).
Here's the pitch: " Playing the building is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument."

Via today and tomorrow.