this is the voice of re:mote induction.Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Artist:Chen Ke
Ke's work was included as part of the "China: Facing Reality" exhibition in Vienna's MUMOK museum when I was there in January. A mix of sculpture and paintings.
Artist:Liu Ye
Ye's work was included as part of the "China: Facing Reality" exhibition in Vienna's MUMOK museum when I was there in January. A series of paintings.
Artist:Li Hui
Hui's work was included as part of the "China: Facing Reality" exhibition in Vienna's MUMOK museum when I was there in January. Shown is Hui's Amber, a futuristic neon sculpture, with a dinosaur skeleton embedded in its heart.
Artist:Yang Zhenzhong
Zhenzhong's work was included as part of the "China: Facing Reality" exhibition in Vienna's MUMOK museum when I was there in January. Zhenzhong presented video installations, the clips above from "Let's Puff" don't entirely capture how much fun this particular piece was.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Artist:Tamen
Tamen's work was included as part of the "China: Facing Reality" exhibition in Vienna's MUMOK museum when I was there in January. Tamen, an art group which translates as "They", who presented a series of thematic paintings.
Artist:Tang Maohong
Maohong's work was included as part of the "China: Facing Reality" exhibition in Vienna's MUMOK museum when I was there in January. A looping bizarre animation sequence.
Artist:Liu Qinghe
Qinghe's work was included as part of the "China: Facing Reality" exhibition in Vienna's MUMOK museum when I was there in January. Traditional water colours, depicting city people and bathers.
http://galleries.absolutearts.com/cgi-bin/galleries/show?what=artists&id=304&login=redgategallery
Artist:Chen Wenling
Wenling's work was included as part of the "China: Facing Reality" exhibition in Vienna's MUMOK museum when I was there in January. His pieces were particular vivid/grotesque sculptures, his mutant pig outside the museum being one of the first things the visitor sees.
http://www.chinaartnetworks.com/feature/wen16.shtml
Artist:Zhang Xiaogang
Jinsong's work was included as part of the "China: Facing Reality" exhibition in Vienna's MUMOK museum when I was there in January. Paintings using traditional techniques to depict the decay of an urban society.
http://www.yangjinsong.com
Artist:Zhang Xiaogang
Jianhua's work was included as part of the "China: Facing Reality" exhibition in Vienna's MUMOK museum when I was there in January. An installation piece of a cargo container, spilling out tonnes of "made in China" products.
Artist:Zhang Xiaogang
Xiaogang's work was included as part of the "China: Facing Reality" exhibition in Vienna's MUMOK museum when I was there in January. A series of paintings based on old photographs.
http://www.mbergerart.com/xzg/index.htm
Artist:Yue Minjan
Minjan's work was included as part of the "China: Facing Reality" exhibition in Vienna's MUMOK museum when I was there in January. A combination of paintings and sculpture, with all of his work containing an intensely grinning version of himself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yue_Minjun
Artist:Wang Jianwei
Jianwei's work was included as part of the "China: Facing Reality" exhibition in Vienna's MUMOK museum when I was there in January. Polyurethane figures up the outside of the distintive building. http://www.wangjianwei.com/
Glasgow, Easter Sunday, coming up for midnight, a walk down a side street back to the car. You can find the strangest things, a bucket in a recess, empty and abandoned, with those two words taped to it "PIG FEED". Why?
Friday, March 21, 2008
Twitter: There is a giant spider in the lobby of the pompidou. How did it get passed security? Scuttle in one night while no one watched?
Twitter: Fuck Girl wears a zip up orange Adidas top. White stripes up sleeves, white cuffs. White flowers crawl across the orange, Japanese style.
Twitter: Short haried girls, with big chunky headphones. Sexy! Am I the only one with that particular fetish? Judging by the pictures on Flickr, no.
Exhibit:Louise Bourgeois @ Pompidou in Paris
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Video:Adjagas - Norwegian folk band, live in Glasgow, just found on my hard drive
Monday, March 10, 2008
yesterday.
decided to go and see iain m banks and ken macleod as part of the aye write festival, where i took some blurry pictures
a book shop set up for the festival inside the library
where they signed after the talk
banks dominated the talk, he is so laid back and couldn't give a fuck. he quickly derailed all conversations. apparently they both went to the same school, greenock high, banks moving there to do highers. macleod was editor of school paper, and member of school writing group, which banks also joined.
banks considers walking the hills whistling, sitting in the pub drinking, and the like, being when he does his real work. the real thinking about writing. the sitting in front of the computer is just typing. which is related to why he doesn't blog, seems like a waste of ideas. macleod feels its a more difficult process, the blank page syndrome, like he said before reminds him of being a programmer. though, if banks could convince his wife about the drinking and hill walking technique he might give that a go.
banks used to use macleod as a sounding board for his novels. told story of how he turned up at macleod's parents house while he was helping his dad build a porch, told him entire plot of one of his science fiction novels, twists and all, then wandered off. but is willing to give macleod space, now that he has his own career. banks still credits macleod with making use of weapons work, which he also mentioned at the algebraist reading.
banks asked macleod whether he had ever considered writing a main stream novel. he said he would if he could come up with one. but everything he tried the SF always seemed to end up creeping in.
someone asked them about their favourite writers. banks listed off a list of classic SF writers, particularly praising aldiss, before raving about dan symmons. macleod did similar with neal stephenson, though, as he let slip, he hasn't read anything since cryptonomicon. then just as he was finished with that he remembered greg egan, and described egan as the single most scary writer out there. he said that science fiction writers read journals, he reads new scientist. hard core SF writers read the journals things like new scientist use as reference. but he suspects that egan actually sneaks into labs at night and steals the notes as they happen.
decided to go and see iain m banks and ken macleod as part of the aye write festival, where i took some blurry pictures
a book shop set up for the festival inside the library
where they signed after the talk
banks dominated the talk, he is so laid back and couldn't give a fuck. he quickly derailed all conversations. apparently they both went to the same school, greenock high, banks moving there to do highers. macleod was editor of school paper, and member of school writing group, which banks also joined.
banks considers walking the hills whistling, sitting in the pub drinking, and the like, being when he does his real work. the real thinking about writing. the sitting in front of the computer is just typing. which is related to why he doesn't blog, seems like a waste of ideas. macleod feels its a more difficult process, the blank page syndrome, like he said before reminds him of being a programmer. though, if banks could convince his wife about the drinking and hill walking technique he might give that a go.
banks used to use macleod as a sounding board for his novels. told story of how he turned up at macleod's parents house while he was helping his dad build a porch, told him entire plot of one of his science fiction novels, twists and all, then wandered off. but is willing to give macleod space, now that he has his own career. banks still credits macleod with making use of weapons work, which he also mentioned at the algebraist reading.
banks asked macleod whether he had ever considered writing a main stream novel. he said he would if he could come up with one. but everything he tried the SF always seemed to end up creeping in.
someone asked them about their favourite writers. banks listed off a list of classic SF writers, particularly praising aldiss, before raving about dan symmons. macleod did similar with neal stephenson, though, as he let slip, he hasn't read anything since cryptonomicon. then just as he was finished with that he remembered greg egan, and described egan as the single most scary writer out there. he said that science fiction writers read journals, he reads new scientist. hard core SF writers read the journals things like new scientist use as reference. but he suspects that egan actually sneaks into labs at night and steals the notes as they happen.
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Video:Tilda Swinton reads from the Raw Shark Texts
Thursday, March 06, 2008
Make your own Stunt Kid doll with Jane Doe clothes. Always fun.
http://www.stuntkid.com/janedoe/
First Draft Events.
I am so behind. So out of touch. I really need to get back into the habit of posting with some kind of frequency. Any kind of frequency. I have a handful of thing half written, and loads of trips I should talk about or post pictures from. Lets see, the quick summary. August 2007 - London Gibson signings. September 2007 - London Neil Gaiman interviews Susanna Clarke. December 2007 - brought in the new year in Paris. January 2008 - from Paris I went to Vienna for a few days. February 2008 - The Glasgow Film Festival, where I saw more films than any of the previous years, I think 15 in the end. Going back to Paris, in um a week today. I changed work office again, which should give me a lot more writing time and event time and all that. We will see. Hello world!
Kristin Hersh 25th March
Breeders 8th April
8th April Start of theatre fest in Arches
19th end of theatre fest in Arches
Nick Cave 4th May
Hawk and Hacksaw 13th May
Tinariwen 18th May Arches
Stars of the Lid 22nd May
Ministry 30th may Carling Academy
I am so behind. So out of touch. I really need to get back into the habit of posting with some kind of frequency. Any kind of frequency. I have a handful of thing half written, and loads of trips I should talk about or post pictures from. Lets see, the quick summary. August 2007 - London Gibson signings. September 2007 - London Neil Gaiman interviews Susanna Clarke. December 2007 - brought in the new year in Paris. January 2008 - from Paris I went to Vienna for a few days. February 2008 - The Glasgow Film Festival, where I saw more films than any of the previous years, I think 15 in the end. Going back to Paris, in um a week today. I changed work office again, which should give me a lot more writing time and event time and all that. We will see. Hello world!
Kristin Hersh 25th March
Breeders 8th April
8th April Start of theatre fest in Arches
19th end of theatre fest in Arches
Nick Cave 4th May
Hawk and Hacksaw 13th May
Tinariwen 18th May Arches
Stars of the Lid 22nd May
Ministry 30th may Carling Academy
