FoAM - levitation

Final Call Supercrew

maja — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:08:25 +0000

Start: 2007-07-21 00:00 GMT-7

Screening of In Human Format DVD by Bent Object and FoAM at the Portland Art Center.

Vlaamse Overheid

maja — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:24:36 +0000

Maki Ueda: Scentology

maja — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:49:50 +0000

I research scents and the sense of smell. My challenge is to use them as a medium in art. In the exhibition context I create a spatial expressions with the scents, I give workshops pm extracting the scents (I extract the scents literary from anything: from food to the cloth, flowers to the ink), and I develop unique 'perfumes' with my extracts, not for to be worn, but to be smelled. I use basic chemistry and cooking techniques in my mini-laboratory for extracting the scents.

More information: http://scent-lab.blogspot.com/

Cocky Eek: Pneumatology

maja — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:04:22 +0000

When confronted with contemporary environmental questions, one thing became very clear to me: out of fear, or guilt, we can’t create anything. Therefore, as a topic of my research residency, I chose the quality of lightness. Italo Calvino underlines this quality as one of his ‘Six Memos for the Next Millennium’, where he describes a scene from Cernavantes’ novel, in which Don Quixote drives his lance through the sail of a windmill and is hoisted up into the air. I wonder whether we could begin to construct our worlds from this lightness. I'd like to imagine a life that is lighter, more mobile, flexible, portable, organic, closely related to the natural surroundings and the elements. My dream is to be able to create our homes and shelters wherever our heart is, with no fixed form, no clear beginnings or ends, neither spatially, nor temporally. The question guiding my research is: how can we construct our worlds from air, the lightest element around us?

In progress: http://libarynth.org/research_report_cocky_eek

In human format

maja — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:28:32 +0000

levitating

nik — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:25:37 +0000

Off the ground & out of this world
The relationship between creativity and everyday life needs new reinforcements. Injecting imagination into daily routines. Bathing problems in solutions of humour and play. Finding magic in every moment and amplifying it. Designing uplifting concoctions and experiences. Reintroducing thrill and excitement, moving from extreme sports for selected few to extreme arts for all, (sometimes) defying the laws of physics. Making chores and errands into meaningful experiences. Unmaking things. Doing nothing at all. Has everything already been experienced? Why don't we try to experience it again, and again? How do we lift the everyday out of the heavy mud of habits and homogeneity, to become light and pliant? Remembering that we can change the way we live our lives, when we begin with the smallest and simplest of actions.