remember

A black woman clutching a pair of golden sunglasses raises her hand out of an open white dustbin bag . Her hand now, above her head, signalling. A triumphant smile, lost and found.  Street cleaners, some 20 meter back, acknowledge the gesture, then swoop their bodies down in their task and move on. I  cycle by and absorb this event on the last sunny Monday morning of the autumn of the year

lets talk and do nothing for 200 euro.

I move towards the telephone, ahh should I call?
It will be all or  nothing. In December they wanted to give me 300 Euro to buy Christmas lights to fill up the shop window. I had my own, not 300 Euros worth, but 30 tiny lights that would go on and off in various speeds. But now Christmas was gone, and my mind clear,  the thirty light off, I had a plan. The art cube project. I needed 200 Euro to buy material to make the art cube display project in the shop window.
I wrote a whole plan with illustrations and all.  I had emailed them to the  art council. Then followed up with a telephone call, enthusiastically they referred me to the  a council office. They in turn equally enthusiastic send me to the city council. By now I had spend 5 hours communicating
Its weeks later no answer, time to cut the loss. Now or never, I dial the number. busy
I put the phone down, releaved sweety hands, but no result and that was not good. I try again, its the fax, wrong number

So you see I am asking for 200 Euro to help us with the material costs, you had offered 300 for Christmas..

But there is a problem, the guys at the city council don’t like the guys at the art council and there is a stand off.

So we  are not going to pay for any art project…

A report on the 4th Beijing international art biennale

My first contact with China was in 1987. I was travelling on the Tanzania Railway. The railway was built by the Chinese in the 70ties and still runs 1800 km from Dar es Salaam into the middle of Zambia. Chinese tracks, bridges, locomotives, coaches and stations in pale mint green were constructed, build and dotted across the African landscape. “The road to freedom” enabling Tanzania and Zambia to export their goods via the ports of Dar es Salaam. Distinctly I remember the soft bronze bell chimes echoing gently in the station waiting halls, these tender chimes so remarkably Chinese I could almost catch the musky odour of China float in the air. When I boarded the train, it came to me that all the operating signs, such as opening and closing of windows, operating the fans or light or toilets, were in Chinese. So prevailing were the images and icons of China that I closed my eyes to the sounds of the wheels hitting the spaces in-between the lengths of the railway track.
cluck-clung  clunk- clung.
and  I imagined myself to be in China.

Melt Art Fair PRESS RELEASE

 

 

 

Melt Art Fair

Mile End Art Pavilion
Clinton Road (off Grove Road)
Mile End Park, E3 4QY

October 12^th -17^th Tue to Sat 11am – 6pm, Sun: 11am – 5pm
Private View: 13^th October 6pm – 8.30pm (RSVP)

Arthemisia.eu is delighted to present Melt Art Fair at the Mile End Pavilion. Offering a fresh alternative to the trad itional art fair culture, Melt is an independent venture showcasing a variety of disciplines – painting, photography, sculpture, installation and video.
Based a stone’s throw away from the Olympic Park, Melt will unite emerging artists from London’s East End artistic community with a cohort of  international artists, both promoting the art scene in the East End abroad, whilst granting international artists an introduction to the London art world.

placing a value on art and our environment

'Vegeterian dog' on the wall of the Modern Art Museum in Beijing

Before sending my work to the BIAB, there was a question from the shipping company, how much should we insure your work for?
How much? the material and time, the effort I put into the painting. How much is my emotional value? How much?
Once I had a painting caught up in an explosion, it flew up into the sky and was gone.

time capsule spare parts

Current project : Melt
12-17 October 2010
Mile End Pavilion,  London
Start date: 12-Oct-2010 End date: 17-Oct-2010
Coinciding with the well-established Art Frieze and Scope art fairs, Melt presents the work of artists working in a variety of disciplines with an emphases on concept and craftmanship.

the situation:
12 wooden objects resembling  old machine part casting patterns for sand molded casting are showcased.

nominated for the fourth Beijing International Art Biennale

Upon entering our living room I adjusted the curtains that were partly covering the left side of the window. We had all left in a hurry that morning. My son’s pyjamas, his milk bottle and ‘baby tiger’ were left sprawled at ease on the couch. I started that afternoon rearranging the house and whilst doing so also started the computer and logged into my email . The first email opened with Nice to meet you! Your art has been nominated to join BIAB in Beijing by Chinese Artists Association.

Yes you reported a case about discrimination

Yesterday I watched Boiler room and The crooked E on TV. It was a reminder of how it all happened, our financial crisis. The selling of stocks that were filled with hot air by greedy directors and even hotter air from people who desperately wanted to believe in the stocks that they had bought. They spurred each other on, filling the stocks with more and more hot air. No one questioned.

a professional artist

Sofia Kapnissi chair of Stichting Gaidaro and the brain and power of the GK has been told by Stroom (centre for arts in the Hague) that she is no longer considered to be a professional artist and have disqualified her membership. According to Stroom’s policy they are open to everyone with stimulating ideas or a need for information regarding art and the urban environment. It aims at being a hospitable and stimulating platform. But that must apply to close friends of the centre of the art’s of the Hague and not to Sofia Kapnissi.

read more on http://kapnissi.wordpress.com/

exhibition project «ILLUMINATORS»

Yekaterinburg «Koltsovo» airport presents the international exhibition project «ILLUMINATORS» which works from April, 11th to July 11th 2008 in the open spaces of the International terminal of the airport.