SHELLEY HIRSCH + CHRISTIAN MARCLAY

FRI 19 JUN ’09, 8PM, £10

Café Oto, 18 – 22 Ashwin Street, London, E8 3DL http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/

Vocalist Shelley Hirsch and turntablist Christian Marclay, two long time collaborators from New York, in their first duo appearance. (Full Details Bellow)

Buy Tickets – http://www.wegottickets.com/event/50761

This is the first retrospective of a major European artist whose fusion of photography, paint, architecture and found objects into the realm of sculpture has influenced generations of younger artists. The show commences with early floor works from the 1970s and continues with a sequence of windows, rooms and buildings cast from plaster and concrete in the 1980s.

I have to say i was impressed by the early works and the way she manage to combine different media and expressive forms, being at the same time very intimate and formally rigorous.
I am less compatible with the latest stuff, but I recommend you to go and have a look!

This is where I go when my  bike needs to be fixed and I can’t do it all by myself.
The shop is underground, in a basement 10 min. walk from Broadway Mkt in Hackney. Paul, the guy who runs it is a nice guy, he knows the job very well, is serious and professional  and repairs are reasonably priced.

He also builds and sells fixed gears bikes.

www.kiwicycles.com/

The Southampton Row shop (formerly Falkiner Fine Papers) continues to sell a comprehensive range of papers, stationery and bookbinding materials.
They also sell materials and bookbinding equipment through the on-line shop.

www.bookbinding.co.uk/

Twitter DJ is the latest brainwave from Richie Hawtin, who’s already spent much of his career pioneering new technologies as a DJ, producer and label owner, from the development of Midi enabled DJ mixers such as Allen & Heath’s Xone92 & 3D mixers, to Final Scratch DJ technology.

The Minus developed application utilizes feeds from an updated version of Traktor’s standard broadcasting technology to send 30 second updates during Hawtin’s set of what’s currently playing to a designated Twitter account. Anyone following the Twitter group can obtain a unique insight into how a DJ builds the atmosphere and dynamics of a set, track by track, all in real time.

more info at m-nus.com

15 May 2009  Roundhouse, London

The line-up of A Taste of Sónar provides a preview of some of the artists who will be present at Sónar 2009 in Barcelona, such as Erol Alkan (with his Disco 3000 project), the robotic performance Soundclusters, devised by Roland Olbeter (with Tim Exile and Jon Hopkins as composers and co-performers) and the German audiovisual project Moderat
(Modeselektor + Apparat + Pfadfinderei).

Other highlights include a special set by Jeff Mills, “The Trip”, in which he will perform a live mix of hundreds of images; Mary Anne Hobbs, who will be introducing four of the interesting representatives of today’s urban beats; and several Spanish artists, such as Internet2 or Angel Molina.

The set of Herzog’s latest movie, the Oscar-nominated documentary Encounters at the End of the World, was one of the most inhospitable locations he has worked on. Previously, he has scaled volcanoes, suffered calamities in jungles on three continents and filmed in war zones; even so, there was something elementally terrifying about the reality of a working day in Antarctica.

He was invited to film on the southern icecap by the US agency the National Science Foundation, which offers a limited number of grants to artists. Herzog proposed using a two-man crew – a cinematographer, plus himself as soundman – which meant he saw off a rival proposal from Titanic director James Cameron, who wanted to take a crew of 36. “You have to understand that to maintain one person for one single day in Antarctica costs roughly $10,000,” Herzog says. “Every drop of water requires desalination. One leaf of salad has to be flown eight hours from New Zealand. Cameron would have absorbed so many resources that he was not invited.”

Herzog’s Encounters is an alternately mordant and ecstatic portrait of a harsh environment and the people who live there; not oddballs, Herzog insists, but research scientists, philosophers and vulcanologists, who we see peering into viciously active lava fields. There are the expert divers who drill 30ft vertical holes through the icecap to access its frigid, sci-fi underside, and then dive below to film. “These people only seem odd because when you look at the media and magazines, there is this kind of uniformity of people. Down there, you have characters who do not fit into magazines.”

Full article @
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/apr/16/werner-herzog-antarctica-encounters

The exhibition charts how Le Corbusier’s work changed dramatically over the years; from his early houses inspired by the regional vernacular of his native Switzerland, the iconic Purist architecture and interiors for which he is best known, his master plan for Paris in the 1920s, the shift to organic forms in the 1930s, and the dynamic synthesis achieved between his art and architecture.

By the final whistle, the lead was four goals and seven points. It could have been 10.

The Liga title is Barcelona’s; the Champions League awaits.

Chelsea, though, will be a different proposition.

They were promoting their second studio album
A Woman A Man Walked By