Vitro Nasu

Nam Jun Paik

Happy Mother’s day is over, now we are back to unhappy earthday.
Here and here.

Another day, another world (Something wonderful, I can’t remember how I found this site)

Beirut links
Love and War
Beirut and Rawi Hage

Good video about a Chinese city
City on Steroids (via Peking Duck)

Happy Mother’s Day!

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and Stanley Ann Dunham (Obama’s Mom was a free spirit.)

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Spike and Daisy are taking a moment off from their job of patrolling the border or going around garage sales in their bike-limo.

Myanmar Burma Cyclone and Aung San Suu Kyii’s Biographer

Chantal Akerman:Moving Through Time and Space at MIT List Visual Art Center -
May 2 - July 6, 2008

Chantal Akerman retraces a journey from the end of summer to deepest winter, from East Germany, across Poland and the Baltics, to Moscow. (via)

D’est on youtube

From the Other Side is an unsentimental look at the plight of illegal Mexican immigrants as they attempt the dangerous crossing from Agua Prieta in Sonora, Mexico, to Douglas, Ariz. (Via)

Last month Marian Goodman gallery (New York) exhibited Chantal Akerman’s photographs. (Chantal’s main audience is from museums, galleries and film societies.)

The first time I was introduced to Chantal Akerman’a work was her documenatary film on Pina Bausch.
(An Italian version of this film is cut awkwardly in 6 parts, now provided on youtube).

Part Five

Other samples of film clips from youtube
The Buzzcocks: Boredom - from “Jeanne Dielmain”

Hotel Monterey (1972) Akerman - passage (Glenn Gould Bach aria is added to the silent film footage on Youtube)

A Couch in New York - trailer (Chantal’s most accessible film starring Juliet Binoche and William Hurt)

A week ago I decided to see “La Captive” starring my favorite actress Sylvie Testud.
Here was a review by Hoberman (scroll down)

Chantal Akerman’s La Captive is another sort of psycho-epistemological inquiry that asks: How can we know another?

Visual as La Captive is in its rigorously formal compositions, the filmmaker is straightforwardly concerned with language. She filters her Proust through the old nouveau roman of Duras or Robbe-Grillet to fixate on recurring phrases: “au contraire,” “if you like,” “you think so?” Similarly, Akerman takes situations from Proust and elaborately defamiliarizes them.

More films by Chantal Akerman by Acquarello

Perpetuum Mobile is an international exhibition curated by Paul Malone, Nicola Rae and Mickey Dell.

Georgio Tentolini Italy

Paul Malone <> UK

Andy Parsons Ireland

You can view videos, “Father’s Tongue” by Chia-En Jao and Paul Malone’s “Footfall Railroad” here.

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More previous int’l exhibits organized by Paul Malone, here and here, and view Paul Malone sculptures 2005.

Location : Art in Perpetuity Gallery, 6 Creekside, London SE8 4SA
Dates and times : Thursday 8th to 25th May 2008. Thursday to Sunday 12 noon to 5 pm
Private View : *Friday 9th May. 6 - 9 pm. Finissage : Saturday 24th May 6 - 7 pm

Chistopher DeLaurenti and four protesting turtles. (These turtles are not afraid)

Congrats to Chris!

In honor of May Day, ubuweb is featuring my “Four Protest Symphonies.” (via email)

Go listen here at Ubu

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