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Synagogue car bomb 2007-03-19 10:49:29
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Mitt verk, ”Exhaust” i tidigare inlägg ”Car bomb” har ju vissa kopplingar till Santiago Sierras verk där bilavgaser pumpas in i en före detta synagoga. Efter andra världskriget slutades denna synagoga användas för religiöst bruk. Orsaken var att utrotningen varit så omfattande att den religiösa befolkningen blivit för liten för att ha den kvar.
Mitt verk ska ses som en parafras till Sierras verk fast före tiden den kan effektivt beröra känslor. Verket är i sig en bidragande faktor till koldioxidutsläppen utan att orsaka större uppror.
My work in previous entry “Car bomb” is in ways connected with Santiago Sierra’s piece where exhaust from six cars were pumped in to a former synagogue. After the second world war it was no longer used for religious purposes. The extermination had been so vast that the religious population in the area didn’t justify it’s use.
My piece, “Exhaust” should be seen as a paraphrase to Sierra’s work, however, b
Car bomb 2007-03-17 14:46:41 Igår kom polisen med sina varningar och böter. De hade på något sätt listat ut att det var jag som lämnade en låda på stan med en bilmotor i. Jag fick böta 600 kr för tomgångskörning men det var varningen som de ville lägga emfas på. “Exhaust” stod på i ungefär en timme innnan den stängdes av och fördes bort av polis. Någon hade ringt in och sagt att det kunde röra sig om en bomb, men de hade inte läst texten på ovansidan av lådan. Det stod att detta inte var en bomb, utan en bilmotor.
Police came by yesterday with a fine and strict warnings. They had somehow figured out that it was I who had left a box in town with a car engine in it. I was fined for ideling (aprox. 55 euro) but they wanted to emphasise the seriousness of the event. “Exhaust” stood ideling for about an hour before it was shut off and taken away by police. Someone had called in saying that it might be a bomb but they had not read the text on the box. It said that this is
Censure Block 2007-03-15 20:22:34 Kom just hem från ett möte med Tate Modern Director, Vicente Todolí och Chief Curator, Sheena Wagstaff samt Curator (Contemporary Art & Performance), Catherine Wood. Vi diskuterade ”Censure block”, en utställning där jag blir ett dödligt verk som personifierar västvärldens syn på vad väst tycker är sjukt med öst. Det första som presenteras är mina nya tatueringar. De föreställer censurerade kroppsdelar som funna i en västerländsk tidskrift i Iran.
Just got back from a meeting with Tate Modern Director, Vicente Todolí, Chief Curator, Sheena Wagstaff and Curator (Contemporary Art & Performance), Catherine Wood. We discussed the up coming “Censure block” show. At the exhibition I will be presenting myself as a mortal work which personofies what west finds irreverent about east. The first of which will be to present my new tattoos. They represent censured bodyparts as found in a western magazine in Iran.
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Ja, jag är man, men det är inte u
Real superheroes 2007-03-11 11:35:49
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Kanske lite väl rakt på sak. Riktiga superhjältar. Det ger i alla fall näring till delar av drömmen om en annan verklighet. Dagdrömmer du så vet du vad jag menar. De där drömmarna som feel good får oss att glömma att vi inte blir räddare, underhållningen som upprätthåller underhållet av vår passivitet.
A bit too obvoious, however, it takes me away from letting myself be entertained to apathy with good in the world provided by entertainment.
Charity, our excremt 2007-03-11 11:06:50 Att se vår tillväxt som en tillgång till fattiga länder är ju intressant.
Vi tror att blommor växer på oljefält. Nu parafraserar jag, Förmodligen räcker det med att tatuera en sol på ett anus för att kunna skita ut pärlhalsband. En oskyldigt dömd kryper genom kloaker till sin frihet och något vackert växer fram ur skiten.
To see economic growth as an asset to poor countries is interesting. We think flowers grow on oil fields. I’m paraphrasing, apparently it’s sufficient to tatto a sun on your anus if you want to shit pearl necklaces.
Bistånd, tillväxtens avföring, är den farligt överviktiges tarmproduktion satt i mekanisk produktion.
Charity
is the excrement of economic growth.
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Belgiske konstnär Wim Delvoye har skapat Cloaca som imiterar den mänskliga matsmältningssystemet. Den matas med vanlig mat och skit kommer ut i andra ändan. Slutprodukten förpackas och säljs.
Wim Delvoy has created Cloaca. It imitates the human digestive system, give
Mannen utan egenskaper 2007-03-11 10:59:52 Jag bads blogga åt Umeå kommuns kulturhuvudstadssatsning. Det här är några utdrag från det. Det är helt klart underhållande att se ett ställe hävda sig som bäst på det ena och andra mitt i förvirringen om huruvida vi ska ha kvar jantelagen eller inte.
Parallellaktionen.
Österrike har länge haft mindervärdeskomplex gentemot det större och modernare Tyskland, och man bestämmer sig för att hitta på något som för en gångs skull ska rikta världens uppmärksamhet mot Österrike. Man måste göra något stort, något som ska bräcka tyskarna. Men vad? Vi upptäcker i hemlighet att det nästan inte finns några storslagna idéer kvar, men de måste hittas. Vi behöver en stor och räddande idé som förbättrar kulturen. De gamla idéerna håller inte längre, de har blivit ihåliga. Men hur ska vi veta när en ny idé är bra? Kanske kan vi gjuta nytt liv i dem gamla idéerna, vilket vissa hoppas.
Ett beslut togs att kandidera till kulturhuvudstad. Först ett beslut
If you don’t love your garbage you don’t love your country 2007-03-09 08:33:02 “A toilet which flushes to the sound of Italy’s national anthem has been impounded by police in northern Italy, sparking great patriotic debate”
Maybe you think this is stupid. I don’t know where you live but in Sweden the national anthem is hardly sacred, however, believe me, that is not for a lack of nationalism. Living in Sweden I’m sure that the notion of a “great patriotic debate” would have to include the desecration of the reputation of benevolence. We have come so far that we compare ourselves with other affluent nations proclaiming this altruism to be nested in the identity of what it is to be swedish.
Again this entry is a prelude to my own work. This blog is a process that builds context for coming works. Keep an eye out for works combining altruistic nationalism with projected self imaging that won’t flush.
nov 2006
Bolzano Museum of Modern Art. Prosecutors say the Fratelli d’Italia anthem is a national emblem which sho
Foot balls 2007-03-07 15:13:09 Police in Berlin arrested two men on suspicion of placing cement-filled soccer balls around the city and inviting people to kick them. At least two people injured themselves by kicking the balls, which were chained to lampposts and trees alongside the spray-painted message: “Can you kick it?”
Hood missle 2007-03-05 15:11:26 Andres Serrano hits it right at times. I post this because of the process of public art. It has so little to do with what artists do, rather those who decide what can and can’t be accepted in public.
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Pamflet 2007-03-05 13:21:06 Write a message, send it. It will print and fall from the 10th story of a building. Helmut Smits has done the incredible drinking water from Coca Cola which I will mention in an upcoming entry. It sure feels like a waste of paper. For that reason I like it, not for the obvious public art quality. A message seems such a waist, just like this.
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Detecting airborne viruses at the art museum. 2007-03-25 14:38:27 Surrounding knowledge
Detecting airborne viruses at the art museum.
This is my latest project. A device, to be shown at The Museum of Modern art, shows the occurrence of two types of viruses present at the museum at the point of your visit.
The work uses advanced sensors capable of detecting airborne viruses. The device operates a miniature “cantilever,” a diving board-like beam of silicon that naturally vibrates at a specific frequency. It is extremely sensitive to added mass, such as the addition of even a single virus particle. When a virus particle weighing about one-trillionth as much as a grain of rice lands on the cantilever, it vibrates at a different frequency.
Before you enter an exhibition you will know the risks you are facing, in this case, Influenza and the Rhinovirus. The flu and the common cold.
The image shows the movement and concentration of a Influenzavirus in a room over a period of one hour. In this case the carrier remained in the room, moving aroun
What is Department? The launching of Department. 2007-04-01 12:16:52 Department is an organization that sets up apartments for refugees that are getting sent home. Families live in the apartments free of charge until their departure. In exchange the families open up their home to you. Projects are financed by local efforts. You can collect money, renovate or furnish the apartments or you can bring food. See other culturs up close. See how they live, and make a difference. Please visit our site.
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Ensuing increased popularity in travel options such as Township Tours and Favela Tours where you can experience real poverty, see the real people and colorful cultures in poor neighbourhoods. Travel packages such as i-to-i Meaningful Tours where you get off the beaten tourist track and combine adventure travel with helping the needy - “You’ll have time to appreciate the majestic scenery as you’re whisked away to exotic locations and world-renowned attractions. But that’s not all. You’ll also be working at a selection of worthwhile projects, h Read more:Department
will the artists urine make you sick 2007-04-06 14:23:05 Since Itziar Okariz will be urinating on a stage at an exhibition where I will be installing my virus detection system, (”Detecting airborne viruses at the opera”, see future entry at the end of the month) some questions have come in asking if I will be detecting viruses that are passed on via body fluids. The answer to that question is simply no. I will only be registering the airborne Rhinovirus (the common cold) and although the Rhinovirus can be passed on through body fluids it is much more likely that you catch it from the person standing next to you watching the same performance.
The reactions to Okariz’s work are astonishing and some people are trying to use my work to prove that it is not only disgusting but also dangerous. Some politicians are calling for a total boycott of the MADE festival and are getting strong consensus from the local population (in Umeå, Sweden).
Eftersom Itziar Okariz ska kissa på scen i samma byggnad där jag ska installera mitt vir
Education is killing the planet and art is just standing there 2007-04-08 11:41:00 If art is supposed to teach us something I have to quit.
Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla,
RETURNING A SOUND, 2004, DVD, 5:42 min
Sharjahbiennalen i Förenade Arabemiratet april 2007
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The correlation between education and sustainable living is unambiguous. Take a look at these maps. The first is the amount of emissions per country, the second is children who don’t go to school per country.
Är det meningen att konst ska lära oss någonting? Om det är fallet måste jag sluta. Sambandet mellan utbildning och hållbart levande är ofrånkomligt. Titta på dessa kartor. Den första visar på utsläpp per land, den andra visar på barn utanför skola.
This map shows the amount of carbindioxide emissions per country.
This map shows the amount of children out-of-school. Countries are represented proportional to their absolute value.
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, planet
Ofcourse this will seem perverted 2007-04-12 11:10:26 “We are so used to this world that we cannot see its perversion anymore.
Ofcourse this will seem perverted…”
Just a really nice quote taken from Laura Cinti’s The Cactus Project, a transgenic cactus plant growing human hair.
Perversion needs to be subtle, not quite right - staying so close to right that we feel the restrictions of our own convictions closing in on us.
Interview with Laura Cinti and Howard Boland posted here today
Changing the world one pixel at a time. 2007-04-15 22:33:42 “Black Spot”, 2005 a Satellite image of an area - Hyde Park, London. a single pixel was replaced with a black square of Polythene. By Phil Coy.
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“Black Spot”, 2005 En pixel från en sattelitbild i Hyde Park, London, ersattes med en svart plastskiva. Sen tog man en till sattelitbild av den förändrade pixeln. Av Phil Coy Hämtad från vvork.com
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2007-04-14 16:14:06
Graham Hudson. When its windy this sculpture falls over, 2006
It was shown indoors.
Frogs can fly 2007-04-16 16:00:40
“K’ung-fu-tzu” (Confucius) 2003 by artist duo Mila Kalnitskaya and Micha Maslennikov, Moscow.
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Recently said about my work 2007-04-16 13:06:25
Re: Detecting airborne viruses in the art world. For more information on this see previous post
I tend to focus on the involuntary contribution by the audience who, potentially, become the object of their own fears. But I like this take on it by critic Bill Gusky.
Ang: Att spåra luftburna virus i konstvärlden. För mer information se tidigare inlägg
Jag tenderar att fokusera på hur publiken som ser detta verk själva blir orsaken till sin egen rädsla eftersom det kan vara de som bär in viruset. Man jag gillar följande tolkning av kritiker Bill Gusky.
“I haven’t had time to digest this all, but my initial reaction is that this is one interesting agent. I’ll be getting back to it later, but maybe you’ll have some thoughts or reactions, or maybe you’re totally familiar with Mr. Cuzner’s work and will fill me in on the details.
The idea of detecting viruses in an art museum comes off as pretty funny to me, not having read any further int
Surveillance through the Rhinovirus 2007-04-18 23:02:51 In my piece, “Detecting airborne viruses at the opera”, it is the presence of the Rhinovirus in a room that is detected. I am working on the final touches and will soon be posting a link where you can see the virus activity in real-time during the MADE festival at Norrlandsoperan in Umeå, Sweden, May 9 - 12 2007 You may not be aware that you are a carrier but this device will.
I mitt verk, “Detecting airborne viruses at the opera”, är det förekomsten av Rhinoviruset i ett rum som spåras. Jag lägger just nu till de sista detaljerna och kommer snart att lägga in en länk där du kan se virusaktiviteten i realtid under MADE-festivalen på Norrlandsoperan i Umeå 9 - 12 maj 2007 Du kanske inte är medveten om att du är en smittobärare men denna apparat upptäcker det.
The Paradox of Power 2007-04-24 17:49:09 If you happen to be in Montreal go to the Art Mur Gallery and see David Spriggs recent work. I shared a studio at school with this guy so I figure a little help with promo is in order. He has developed quite a nice series with layers of drawings on mylar. I particularly like his airport x-ray piece. So go check him out.
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David Spriggs
The Paradox
of Power/ Le paradoxe du pouvoir
102 x 122 x 36 inches
Painted and layered sheets of transparent plastic film
April 26th to May 26th, 2007
Opening reception/ Vernissage:
Thursday, April 26th, 5pm to 8pm/ Le jeudi 26 Avril 17h à 20h
Pneumatic Anatomica 2007-04-24 17:47:22 I am working too much on “Detecting airborne viruses at the opera” to post entries. What I can give you kind visitor is this:
I sure don’t like everything Iv’e seen from this guy, and his own description doesn’t really hit my humor, but what the hell, the image is damn fine.
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“After months of observations, dissections and a 25 minute intro to clown school, I have finally successfully mapped the inter workings of the domestic balloon dog.”
JASON FREENY
Operavirus 2007-05-09 08:40:00 It is now possible to see the Rhinovirus in action at the opera house in northern Sweden
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NOTE: You will need Flash Player and some firewall setting may prevent your computer from updating sensor activity from server.
Detecting airborne viruses at the opera
I don’t contribute with anything to this piece. It is the public who carries it with them. It’s about an involuntary participation where the reaction to the piece is much more important than the piece itself.
A piece where the spectator is potentially the subject of their own fears. it is that fear that is on display.
Most of our colds are caused by Rhinoviruses. The common conception has been that the main transmitter of Rhinoviruses was through touch, but clinical studies show that the primary culprit for contamination is extended exposure to indoor concentrations to airborne particles. They spread through invisible droplets in the air you breath. When you sneeze you send out between 3000 and 5000 droplets at up to 120 k
May 9-12 2007-05-14 10:56:01 Installation images of Detecting airborne viruses at the opera.
Revisiting old projects; Gastrology 2007-05-25 12:33:40 I am revisiting some of my older projects that may be relevant in the forming of new ones.
This is from 2000, in Vancouver, Canada.
In this mockumentary our guide, Dr. Lars Cuzner PhD, takes us through the making of Gastrology; a more worldly relevant horoscope. By connecting dots of chewing gum stains on the ground a new way to read the human condition is created. The human energy and DNA that is found in the gum reveals a zodiac that is much more in tune with the way we live today. A constellation to replace star signs.
Dr. Lars Cuzner PhD skapar nya stjärnbilder på marken genom prick-till-prick teckningar mellan tuggummifläckar.
More later on how this relates to Detecting airborne viruses in the art world.
Exhibition, Symbiosis, IAO Gallery, Oklahoma City 2007-08-07 02:40:33 ARTWORLDVIRUS.COM
showing at IAO Gallery
, Oklahoma
city Aug 3-24.
Symbiosis, Opening Aug 3, 6-10pm
Cure for art scene between the will to influence society and its impotence in politics.
Exposure to bacteria helps us fight bacterial disease, social fobia is beat by intentionally exposing ourselves to social situations and the fear of bioterrorism and pandemic viruses is overcome by intentionally exposing ourselves to art.
Site for Detecting airborne viruses in the art world
www.artworldvirus.com
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Fresh out of Ideas 2008-04-15 04:17:50 Lars Cuzner is working on a project that uses genetic algorithms to breed new grants from a database of rejected proposals. ()
This project needs exhibitions/events for collecting rejected and failed proposals.
A first exhibition to test a prototype is planned for September 2008 at Vita Kuben, Norrlandsoperan, Umea, Sweden. An invitation and call for rejected proposals [...]
Fake names and freedom of information 2008-04-28 11:05:42 Since I find it hard finding time to write in this blog I have started another one.
This follows the development of my latest project FRESH OUT OF IDEAS, now awaiting news from a commission in New York and two exhibitions, one in China and One in Canada (one exhibition is set, Sweden).
The main point is, [...] Read more:information
Vote - New media awards 2008-05-01 23:44:34 Create an account (free). Login. Vote. I’m going for the do-gooder award
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Common control 2008-05-04 04:30:06 I have been waiting to restart the virus detection project. It was always seen as a prototype and now the development must start. Here is the current proposal:
Embedded in the Flash interface that visualizes clouds of virus particles in the air, are several streamed videos, one, slightly delayed, shows you entering the exhibit, others visualize [...] Read more:Common
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