Experiments in Advertising - The Films of Erwin Blumenfeld

Pomak7 of the highly recommended nozap blog points to the remarkable video work of Adam Mufti, a filmmaker based in London whose elegant approach and continuing working relationship with Nick Knight has enabled many film collaborations with key image-making figures, including John Galliano, Brad Pitt,Björk and Grace Jones, just to name a few. You can find a lot of brilliant clips on his homepage and it´s worth to see them all.

For now I´ll pick one of his projects, 'Experiments in Advertising - The Films of Erwin Blumenfeld'3 films recontextualising the unseen film archive of the late Erwin Blumenfeld; one of the most influential fashion photographers of all time. This, a sister project to the restoration of Guy Bourdin's unseen film archive, which was central to the 2003 Bourdin retrospective, offers a glimpse on an unseen part of Blumenfeld´s work who is mostly known for his fashion photography, working for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, and also for artistic nude photography.




stills taken from Abstraction & Distortion, one of the three films by Erwin Blumenfeld, edited by Adam Mufti, sound designer Olivier Alary which you can see after the jump

go here for more about Erwin Blumenfeld´s films (including highrez versions)
go here for the full archive of Adam Mufti

Alli Savolainen • video art from Finland

• Alli Savolainen Z Bar, Berlin Sat. May 5th, 9pm





Directors Lounge kindly invites for a personal show of video work by Alli Savolainen
curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Alli Savolainen will come from Finland to present her video work.

Alli Savolainen works with video, photography, sound and painting. She was born in Joensuu, Finland, and she graduated from Lahti Institute of Fine Arts. Since 1986, she is active as artist in Helsinki’s art and film scene. She since has compiled an impressive catalogue of video works which date back until 1989. When writing about her own work, she tells that she is interested in “time continuity and memory”. Saying that, she takes the viewer into a contemplation of the duration of visual moments.

In more recent times, Alli Savolainen looks with her camera at cities, street scenes and rural roads, still interested in the poetry of the non-spectacular, vernacular visual environment.

She lives and works in Espoo, Finland. (Metropolitan Area of Helsinki)



• Z Bar Bergstr. 2




• Berlin Mitte, U-Bahn Rosenthaler Platz

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Sydney-London-Berlin

Willi Kellers


Johannes Bauer

Sydney-London-Berlin! is the opening concert for a fresh row of concerts by the Freien Initiative Improvisation Berlin e.V. uand the Jazzkeller 69 e.V. in the reopened Culturehouse Mitte, Berlin. Sydney-London-Berlin! takes place tomorrow, Friday, 9pm featuring Johannes Bauer tb, Willi Kellers d, Jürgen Kurz p, Rudi Mahall bcl, Clayton Thomas b, Alan Tomlinson tb and Roger Turner d.

Jürgen Kurz

Expect a wild variety of soli, improvisations and clashes in changing constellations. All musicians knew each other since years and this night will most likely become a highlight for the friends of experimental music.
Click pics for details about the musicians, expand for location details.




Alan Tomlinson


Roger Turner




Kulturhaus Mitte, Auguststr. 21, 10117 Berlin
(S Hackesche Mark / S Oranienburger Str. / U Oranienburger Tor / U Weinmeisterstr. / Tram M1, M6, 12)
Fri 4th Max – 21 Uhr, Aula – Entrance 7,50 €, reduced 5 €

concrete jungle

Tiny animals invade New York.
Nifty street art by Alexis Lloyd

reminds me on the little people in London and the little fishes in the snowy streets of Russia.
















Alexis Lloyd is a new media artist and designer whose work includes interaction design, social networking software, and data-driven multimedia art.

wia

8th Sharjah Biennial

Lutz & Guggisberg

Population. 2007
About 200 charred woodbirds

The Sharjah Biennial strives to encourage collaboration between artists, art institutions and organisations locally, regionally and internationally, and to promote cross cultural exchange. This year, the Biennial will once again, offer the entire city of Sharjah to artists for the creation of new site-specific work. This year’s theme is by far not a novel one, but en vogue again. The organizers propose to view "art as a way of creating a better understanding about our relationship with nature and the environment, whilst considering its social, political and cultural dimensions in an interdisciplinary way." The 8th Sharjah Biennial aims to be both a "celebration of the natural world and a response to the countless alarms being set off as a result of human thoughtlessness." Simultaneously, one is aware of the fact that one is part of the problem – as a participant of the consumer society and of the global art jet-setting community, as well as by conducting the Biennial in a country with an enormous energy consumption.

Rirkrit Tiravanija


Less Oil More Courage. 2007
Based on a painting of 2003

Tiravanijas adopts late painter Peter Cain's sketch-book entry "More courage less oil" in his work. Whereas Cain probably referred to his own production as an artist, the restructured sentence and the Gulfstate context evoke special associations. The piece was shown on the stairway of the Sharjah Art Museum and in light boxes along the streets of the city.

Raeda Saadeh


Vacuum. 2007
Video

In the video, one can see a woman with a vacuum cleaner in the mountains.

Jesús "Bubu" Negrón

Installation. 2007
Carpet made out of cigarette stubs
Souq Al-Arsa, Heritage Area

In a photographic documentation the artist shows the street cleaners, who have collected the cigarette stubs, other helpers and the fabrication of the object.

Marjolijn Dijkmane

Wondering about the future. 2007
Chroma key intervention, 7 x 5 x 5 m
Heritage Area

more at Universes in Universe and at the official webpage




© Photos: Haupt & Binder

Battle of the Bands - The Return

Ladys and gentlemen! It's high noon! Time for the clashing BATTLE OF THE SWING BANDS!! In the left corner: LES HAFERFLOCKEN SWINGERS from X-Berg/Neukölln ... and in the right corner: DON BAD'HABONG from Friedrichshain... Two heavy weight swing bands from Berlin, ready to give everything in a syncopated fight for groove and glory! One night only!

tomorrow Friday 27th 9pm
a must if you are in Berlin


at Tante Kaethe

it´s a bit tricky to find. Go here for instructions.

iconic

Sasha Pivovarova by Miles Aldridge
click pics for full pleasure

uploaded by the enchanting Amy Prada

via corazón de látex