Category: The Illusion Beyond Art
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Introduction to Polona Tratnik, by Anja Wiesinger
In a biological sense, being part of the human skin, hair regulates the body temperature. It is home to millions of bacteria that interchange with the environment and help build the body’s resistance to harmful organisms. Hair is not able to grow or continue to live when departed from the human body and cut off…
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From The Technological Herbarium, by Gianna Maria Gatti: Artworks of Nicola Toffolini (translated by Alan N. Shapiro)
Nicola Toffolini works on the nature-technology marriage by elaborating singular ecosystems enclosed in glass and aluminium cases of marked formal elegance. Inside plants have been placed which, in order to live, depend on sophisticated electronic mechanisms, which visitors operate from the outside interactively.
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Impressionist Paintings by Florence Morrison, Installment 3
My mother was a realist and slightly impressionist painter of natural and nautical scenes who paradoxically studied with the abstract master Mark Rothko.
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The Jig She Saw: Reflections on Creating Relational Encounters in Participatory Theatre, by Regan O’Brien
I will be reflecting on the theories and practice of creating and performing The Jig She Saw: Reflections on You, a small scale immersive, interactive performance installation. The project is rooted in Relational Aesthetics as discussed by Erin Manning in Relationscapes, and in social choreography in relation to William Forsythe’s research on the ‘choreographic object’.
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Pietro Mussini: A habitat of an interlocked nature, by Franco Torriani
Pietro Mussini: A habitat of an interlocked nature, by Franco Torriani (published in book form by Edizioni Diabasis, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2010) (English translation by Julian Delens) How far can an artistic practice really produce, and place in a given space and time, place-unrelated objects (in respect to a given place), it’s an underlaying matter…
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Eduardo Kac: Living Works, by Claudio Cravero
The first exhibition in Italy dedicated to the controversial figure of Eduardo Kac (Rio de Janeiro, 1962; he lives in Chicago). His research explores the frontiers between man, animal and robot, culminating in Transgenic Art, through which living beings become a single entity with the technological.