Liz Steketee’s website here.
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Experimental work and printing techniques (part II)
Caption (image above): lumen on expired 4×5” ektachrome film (by Sofia Silva) More about Lesia Maruschak‘s work here. Lesia Maruschak: “ERASURE: Memory and The Power of Politics has three points of departure: A practice entitled damnatio memoriae – a Latin phrase dating back to the 4th century BCE – resulting in the erasure of…
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São Trindade
More about São Trindade’s work Dead Inside can be seen here. More about São Trindade’s book Bad Liver and a Broken Heart can be seen here.
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┐ Irena Lagator, responsible resistance └
© Irena Lagator Pejović, Resistence Reservoir, 2012. Equation in english, montenegrin and german written on an ex Mazut (fuel oil) reservoir @ garden of the Ministry of Culture, public project for Cetinje, Montenegro © Irena Lagator Pejović, Knowledge of the Limited Responsibility Society (extended), 2012. Ongoing series of original customer receipts bound in 18 books.…
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┐ Sonja Bäumel, growing a second skin └
© Sonja Bäumel, Embroidered Tattoo, 2007 The embroidered tattoo is part of the fashion collection “Slow down…”. Latex layers have been revived, reinterpreted and transformed into a skin. A skin embroidered with local tradition. © Sonja Bäumel, Crocheted Membrane, 2008/09 “Our skin has a second layer of skin. A layer full of life, which serves…
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┐ Heath Bunting, artivist or anartist? └
© Heath Bunting, Map Of Terrorism, strategic response to state terror funded by Tate, London, United Kingdom, 2008. to properly see the map click here “It is unclear to many people exactly what terrorism is and which activities are now unsafe in the United Kingdom (UK) in terms of getting into trouble with the police.…
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┐ Julius von Bismarck, what the fuck am I doing └
© Julius von Bismarck, sketch for The Image Fulgurator machine, first version. A camera device that projects images instead of capturing them. To understand how it works watch the video bellow. © Julius von Bismarck & Santiago Sierra, as part of The No Project. more about the no projection here © Julius von Bismarck, from…
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┐ Ahmet Ögüt, Mind the System └
“image © Ahmet Ögüt,Strategic Diagram for Non-hierarchical Participatory Radical Democracy, 2011. In: Mind the System, Find the Gap “I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.” -Malcolm X © Ahmet Ögüt, from the project…
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┐ Eiffel Chong └
© Eiffel Chong, Untitled, from the series Royal Malaysia Police “I came across an abandoned police station and found identity photographs of the police personnel being scattered around. Most of them still look good, except for a layer of dust on top of the photographs. However, there were some that have been destroyed by the…
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┐ partygoers and peacemakers └
© Amirali Ghasemi, from the series Party, 2005 “In your sixth paragraph, you complain how there are no tweeted pictures, or pictures from social media sites. You do know you were coming to an art show, not a journalism conference. In art shows, one typically exhibits works by artists, not from tweeting citizens. When you…
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┐ Mark Peckmezian’s youth on “youth” └
© Mark Peckmezian, Untitled, © Mark Peckmezian, Untitled, chromogenic print >© Mark Peckmezian, Untitled, fiber gelatin silver print >© Mark Peckmezian, Untitled, @ G20, fiber gelatin silver print © Mark Peckmezian, Untitled, fiber gelatin silver print “I was thinking that the “straight” or naive approach to the theme would be to just play to popular…
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┐ Jane Hammond └
© Jane Hammond, Self-Portrait with Twin, 2011 © Jane Hammond, Face Facts, 2006 © Jane Hammond, The Touch-Up, 2009 © Jane Hammond, Chai Wan Three, 2008 all selenium toned silver gelatin prints “The photographs grew out of the scrapbooks, also. I began collecting photos to put in them, and quickly became obsessed with all the…
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┐ Deborah Bohnert └
© Deborah Bohnert, Untitled, from the series Bohnert and Bohnert, 2005 © Deborah Bohnert, Untitled, from the series Bohnert and Bohnert, 2005 © Deborah Bohnert, Untitled, from the series The Little People, 2009 “…Dada had long operated according to the principle of instability, blurring distinctions between art and mass media (in photomontage), art and mass…
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┐ Alexander Brener & Barbara Schurz └
On the night of October 15th, as I was leaving the demonstration, a guy shouted at me. As I looked back he asked me if I spoke english, I nodded, he grabbed a paper bag and gave me a book. He turned, walked away and cut the corner just in time for me to thank…
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┐ Minna Pöllänen └
© Minna Pöllänen, Hiltop, from the project Attempts, 2010 © Minna Pöllänen, Water, from the project Attempts, 2011 ©“Made on an undeveloped 0.75-hectare piece of family land, Attempts maps out a survey into the notion of landownership. Through collecting, containing and marking different pieces of the landscape the project explores the various geographical and topographical…
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© Robbie Nolan, Untitled, from Trees © Robbie Nolan, Untitled, from Trees “The poet Keats spoke of how the ‘cold philosophy’ of science would, by explaining the mechanics of the physical world “unweave a rainbow”. In a sense the aim of this series of photographs was to display the falsity of this claim when related…
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┐ Jean-Noël Pazzi └
© Jean-Noël Pazzi, figure 5 – les cadavres exquis, from the project In(ter)vention © Jean-Noël Pazzi, forêt 6 – paysage, from the project In(ter)vention © Jean-Noël Pazzi, figure 3 – les cadavres exquis, from the project In(ter)vention “Ménager les site frappés de croyance comme indispensable territoire d’errement de l’esprit. Gilles Clément Manifeste du tiers paysage…
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┐ Maya Rochat └
@ Maya Rochat, Siren (terrorist), 2010 @ Maya Rochat, Siren (III), 2010 More of Maya’s work here
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┐ Ting Cheng └
@ Ting Cheng, Icy Yoga Lesson, 2012 @ Ting Cheng, Where is my home, 2009 excerpt from an interview by Alexandra Plesner, from Dazed Digital Dazed Digital: Your images give the impression of a dreamer, trying to escape this asylum called life. Why does this concept fascinate you so much? Ting Cheng: As human beings,…
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┐ Michal Heiman └
CRITICAL IMAGE: MICHAL HEIMAN, By Dr. Ariella Azoulay Michal Heiman chose the position of the spectator looking at someone else’s photographs taken by someone else, in which someone else is photographed, which someone else collected. Heiman turns this quintessential position of spectator (in a museum, but not only) into her own, elaboration and giving it…
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N I H I L S E N T I M E N T A L G I A, 