PORTRAIT

Justin B @ Adam models

Adam NYC

HADOPIRE

S'il existait un prix de la campagne publicitaire la plus contre productive, il serait gagné haut la main par l'Agence H qui a signé pour l'Hadopi, 3 clips télés d'une "créativité" rare et d'un humour " corrézien" au 94eme degré… Avec pour label le terme PUR pour Promotion des Usages Responsables. 

Si l'ion comprend bien le net devrait donc être épuré?

L'un des clips commence comme un extrait d'un pur navet que même une chaîne de la TNT n'oserait pas programmer.

On apprend à la fin, que ce chef d'oeuvre de décérébration risque de ne jamais voir le jour si les méchants pirates du net empêchent le petit Nathan Molina de réaliser ce sommet de niaiserie, mais heureusement la bonne fée Hadopi veille sur le futur du jeune nigaud.

Face a une telle insulte au cinéma on ressent monter en soi une bouffée de désir de salubrité publique et l'on court télécharger la filmographie complète de Christian Clavier pour que le jeune  Molina devienne éboueur, plombier zingueur ou député de la majorité mais surtout, oui surtout qu'il ne touche jamais à une caméra.

Dans un autre spot, au bord d'une piscine autour de laquelle quelques baigneurs égarés remuent le popotin, une adolescente post pubère tente tant bien que mal de montrer ses seins tout en les cachant. 

Elle susurre d'un air aussi inspiré qu'une tanche au bord de l'asphyxie, use scie innommable que même XFactor aurait éjecté des auditions pour choix musical inapproprié. 

Cette future star des bassines a pour nom Emma Leprince et la pauvre bécassine qui s'égosille devant un micro en plastique, risque  de ne jamais graver sa voix en apnée sur le moindre Ipod si les méchants pirates etc.etc… 

Mais super Nanny Hadopi est heureusement tapie dans l'ombre avec ses Emails menaçants qui vont régler leur compte aux horribles pirates qui viennent manger par anticipation le pain des génies en herbe.

Rebelote pour la bouffée de désir de salubrité publique et l'on se précipite cette fois pour télécharger l'intégrale de la chanteuse neurasthénique Myléne Farmer, en risquant le suicide à chaque morceau, pour faire en sorte que l'Emma en question devienne caissière dans une grande surface, femme de chambre dans un Sofitel ou assistante parlementaire de Nadine Morano mais surtout, oui surtout qu'elle ne mette jamais les pieds dans un studio d'enregistrement.

La présidente d'Hadopi, Marie-Françoise Marais, est par contre très heureuse et assure «très bien vivre cette campagne». « Nous l'avons lancée pour le grand public, avec un sens particulier et sur un mode décalé», précise-t-elle au figaro.fr.

En fait de décalage c'est plutôt une sortie de route, car le Canard enchaîné nous apprend que les internautes qui ont eu la bienveillante idée de se bidonner sur leur blogs devant de telles âneries ont reçu des bordées de messages  d'insultes.  

Le blogueur Bluetouff, expert en sécurité informatique, qui comptait parmi les victimes, aurait identifié la source de ces messages qui ne serait autre, selon lui, qu'un ordinateur du réseau informatique de l'agence de pub… 

Tout ceci ne démonte en rien Marie-Françoise Marais, qui ajoute dans son interview au figaro.fr: « Ces publicités ont été mal comprises par une partie des internautes qui, je crois, les ont volontairement prises au premier degré»

Un premier degré et une plaisanterie de préau de maternelle, qui ont quand même couté la bagatelle de 3,2 million d'euros d'argent public…

Merci qui ?

Hadopiiiiiiiiiiiiii !!!!!!!!!!!!

PORTRAIT

Roni Mazon @ François models

SALE !

Dirt révèle le monde fascinant de la saleté qui reste l'un des dernier tabous.

Cette nouvelle exposition se penche sur quelque chose qui nous entoure mais à laquelle nous sommes souvent réticents à faire face. Dirt se déplace à travers les siècles et les continents pour explorer notre relation ambivalente avec la saleté.

Réunissant près de 200 objets qui couvrent les arts visuels, la photographie documentaire, les éphémères culturels, les objets scientifiques, le cinéma et la littérature. 

L'exposition révèle une histoire riche de dégoût et de plaisir dans les vrais sales petits secrets de notre passé, et pointe  l'avenir incertain de la saleté, qui présente un risque important pour notre santé, mais qui est également essentielle à notre existence.

Selon l'anthropologue Mary Douglas, la saleté est « hors de propos ». 

Dirt est depuis longtemps une puissante marque de déviance, appliquée à des personnes et des groupes sociaux qui osent transgresser les limites de la société. 

Le physique devient métaphorique, et est associé aux déchets, aux ordures et aux maladies qui sont liées à la contamination dans un sens plus moral. 

Souvent, cette stigmatisation a des conséquences extrêmes pour la santé et le bien-être des soi-disant gens «sales». Mais d'où ce stigmate si puissant vient-il ? 

Et qu'est ce que cela fait d'être considéré par le monde comme moralement contaminé ?

L'exposition présente six endroits très différents comme points de départ pour explorer les attitudes envers la saleté et la propreté: une maison du 17ème siècle à Delft en Hollande,  une rue du Londres victorien, un hôpital de Glasgow dans les années 1860, un musée à Dresde dans le début du 20e siècle, une communauté d'aujourd'hui a New Delhi et une décharge à New York en 2030.

On retrouve dans cette exposition des peintures de Pieter de Hooch, les premières esquisses de bactéries, le «plan fantôme» du choléra de John Snow, des faïences de belle facture, des accessoires scientifiques de Joseph Lister et un large éventail d'oeuvres d'art contemporain, du tapis de poussière d'Igor Eskinja, le balai à joyaux de Susan Collis et  la Fenêtre de sale de James Croak, des pièces vidéo de Bruce Nauman et Ukeles Mierle et une œuvre spécialement commandée à Serena Korda.

La Wellcome Collection est une destination touristique pour les incurables curieux. 

Située 183 Euston Road, à Londres, elle explore les liens entre la médecine, la vie et l'art dans le passé, le présent et le futur. Le site offre aux visiteurs des expositions contemporaines et historiques et de ses collections, des événements publics, de renommée mondiale, la Wellcome Library, un café, un librairie et de conférence.

DIRT du 24 Mars au 31 Août 2011

Dirt reveals the fascinating world of filth that remains one of the very last taboos.

Our major new exhibition takes a closer look at something that surrounds us but that we are often reluctant to confront. Dirt travels across centuries and continents to explore our ambivalent relationship with dirt.

Bringing together around 200 artefacts spanning visual art, documentary photography, cultural ephemera, scientific artefacts, film and literature, the exhibition uncovers a rich history of disgust and delight in the grimy truths and dirty secrets of our past, and points to the uncertain future of filth, which poses a significant risk to our health but is also vital to our existence.

Following anthropologist Mary Douglas's observation that dirt is matter out of place.

The exhibition introduces six very different places as a starting point for exploring attitudes towards dirt and cleanliness: a home in 17th-century Delft in Holland, a street in Victorian London, a hospital in Glasgow in the 1860s, a museum in Dresden in the early 20th century, a community in present day New Delhi and a New York landfill site in 2030.

The Home: Delft, 1683
Visitors to the Netherlands during the 17th century frequently expressed surprise at the amount of energy the Dutch devoted to cleaning their homes. Contemporary art shows housewives and their maidservants maintaining a strict regime of sweeping, scouring and polishing interiors that already appear spotless. In 1683, while painters were depicting this fastidious approach to cleanliness, the Delft-born scientist (and draper by trade) Antonie van Leeuwenhoek became the first person to see bacteria, using lenses he had ground to examine the quality of cloth.

The Street: Soho, 1854
In September 1854, London was hit by a devastating cholera outbreak. Over the course of ten days, 500 people died in the vicinity of Broad Street, Soho, and the neighbourhood was soon deserted by those who were able to leave. The epidemic's intensity drove the officials of St James's parish to order an investigation into the horrifying sickness, which struck so rapidly that victims often died in a matter of hours. In a city notorious for its stinking river, gigantic dust heaps and underclass of scavengers, most Victorians believed that disease was caused by bad air or 'miasma'.

The Hospital: Glasgow, 1867
When Joseph Lister arrived at Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1861, he would certainly have noticed the stench. The hospital was a filthy place, and rates of infection were so high that patients presenting with broken limbs or compound fractures had a 90 per cent chance of amputation. Those who underwent procedures successfully were at great risk of dying from postoperative 'ward fever'. Six years later, Lister undertook the first successful operation using carbolic as an antiseptic, an event that would have a revolutionary impact on the future of surgery.

The Museum: Dresden, 1930
Between May and October 1911, more than five million people flocked to Dresden, Germany, to visit the First International Hygiene Exhibition. Its many pavilions combined new technologies and lifelike displays to educate the public about healthcare and human anatomy. Its success led to the founding of the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, which in 1930 opened its own purpose-built home - an architectural monument to rationality and transparency in modern medical science.

The Community: New Delhi and Kolkata, 2011
In many parts of India, inadequate sewage systems mean that much of the population use dry latrines, which require continuous cleaning. Despite government attempts to outlaw 'manual scavenging', recent figures indicate that more than one million people still scrape an existence by clearing human waste from these facilities, often by hand. Conventionally, these 'scavengers' are Dalits (the 'broken people', formerly known as 'untouchables'). Paid a pittance and treated with contempt, their predicament is a symptom of the legacy of the Hindu caste system.

The Land: Fresh Kills, 2030
Until 2001 when it closed, Fresh Kills on Staten Island was the world's largest municipal landfill site. Reputedly visible from space, it was almost three times the size of New York's Central Park, with a peak taller than the Statue of Liberty.  At the height of operations in the 1980s, the site was receiving around 29 000 tonnes of rubbish a day - yet many of the city's inhabitants barely knew of its existence. At present, the site is undergoing a transformation: by 2030, Fresh Kills will open to the public, its landscapes redesigned for hikers, cyclists and ball-players, its native plants and wildlife restored.

Highlights include paintings by Pieter de Hooch, the earliest sketches of bacteria, John Snow's 'ghost map' of cholera, beautifully crafted delftware, Joseph Lister's scientific paraphernalia and a wide range of contemporary art, from Igor Eskinja's dust carpet, Susan Collis's bejewelled broom and James Croak's dirt window, to video pieces by Bruce Nauman and Mierle Ukeles and a specially commissioned work by Serena Korda.

Wellcome Collection is a free visitor destination for the incurably curious. Located at 183 Euston Road, London, it explores the connections between medicine, life and art in the past, present and future. The venue offers visitors contemporary and historic exhibitions and collections, lively public events, the world-renowned Wellcome Library, a café, a bookshop and conference facilities.

Sir Henry Wellcome

Learn about the Wellcome Trust's founder, whose passion for medicine led him to collect more than a million objects. More about the man

Wellcome Trust

Established under Sir Henry's will in 1936, the Wellcome Trust is now the world's largest independent charitable foundation funding research into human and animal health. More about the Trust

Wellcome Library

Part of Wellcome Collection, the Library has more than 750 000 books and journals and an extensive range of manuscripts, archives and films. The Library also includes Wellcome Images, a major visual collection.

Through its collections and services, the Wellcome Library provides insight and information to anyone seeking to understand medicine and its role in society, past and present. More than 30 000 readers visit each year, including historians, academics, students, health professionals and members of the general public. More about the Library

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Part of the Dirt Season from the Wellcome Trust.

EVENTS

Unclean Beings

Friday 15 July, 19.00-21.00, & Saturday 16 July, 10.30-17.30

EXHIBITION

Welcome collection London 

DIRT exhibition : 24 March-31 August

Home - Wellcome Collection

PORTRAIT

Gabriel Castro @ Elian Gallardo models

VISIONAIRE SIXTY RELIGION

VISIONAIRE SIXTY RELIGION

GUEST EDITED BY RICARDO TISCI

IN COLLABORATION WITH GIVENCHY

For Visionaire’s sixtieth issue, the editors collaborate with Riccardo Tisci, the Artistic Director of Givenchy, to guest edit RELIGION.

« Visionaire Sixty Religion, was a truly important moment of reflection for me. Made, in my mind, by some of the most important creativ forces of our moment and some of the people I love the most, this collection of work celebrates religion, inner truths, inner dialogues moments which words cannot quantify. » Ricardo Tisci

RELIGION is Tiscis meditation on the theme of “religion ” as depicted by

photos and art commissioned and curated by Tisci specially for this issue. Images are featured in black and white with gold pages.

Independent of any divination, the issue’s theme draws inspiration from “religion” as a synonym for obsession, ritual, workhip, apparition and the celebration of humanity.

Visionaire 60 RELIGION comes ae a leather-wrapped 228-page hard-bound book. Inspired by a church altar piece, the case’s split doors open to reveal the black-on-black stamped book cover inside black plexiglass lined interior.

Fo the issue Marina Abramovic collaborates with Riccardo Tisci to depict her view of art’s relationship with fashion; Mert Alas  & Marcus Piggott photograph Lara Stone; Paolo Canevari envisions Franca Sozzani as a saint; Kar Lagerfeld photographs Carine Roitfeld; Berlinde de Bruyckere collaborates with Mario Testino on a series of nudes; Jefferson Hack curates Polaroids by Patti Smith; Inez van Lamswerde & Vinoodh Matadin re-envision “Lucy Fer” Nick Knight

and Katy England render a winged Kate Moss crucifix; Givaudan perfumer Yann Vasnier creates the smell of RELIGION; an much more.

Lea T by Giovanna Battaglia & Pierpaolo Ferrari

Danko Steiner and Ana Steiner and Jared Buckhiester

Visionaire is a limited edition multi-format fashion an art publication started in 1991.

It has featured the world’s leading artists, fashion photographers, designers,

filmmakers, musicians and cultural icons.

Limited edition 3000 numbered copies

Release date: June 2011

Price: US$ 425

Issues wil be distributed to select bookstore worldwide and will be available at Givenchy flagship stores.

www.visionaireworld.com

"Fra Upphafi ... Til Enda"

"Fra Upphafi ... Til Enda"

("From the beginning ... Until the end")

A short film by Antwerp photographer + filmmaker Yves De Brabander. 

Shot on location in stunning Iceland.

Yves De Brabander & the fashion designer Cédric Jacquemyn make the journey back to Iceland, one year after shooting "The Last Glacier" collection during the infamous Eyjafjallajökull eruption.



The Last Glacier © Yves de Brabander

HELP AN ARTIST

***UPDATE: As a way of giving something back to the LGBT community who have supported my work thus far, if the exhibition goes ahead, I'll donate $500 from pledges to Visual AIDS, a New York based charity which utilises art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy. I'll also donate another $500 from sales of work once the exhibition is complete.***

WHO?

Hi, my name is Stuart Sandford and I'm an artist from the UK currently based in Brooklyn, New York. I mostly work with photography and video and you can see some of my work and what I've been up to lately on my website here.

WHAT?

I want to present an exhibition of my photographic work since 2004 here in New York.

Back in 2004, whilst living and studying in the UK, and inspired by photographers and artists such as Wolfgang Tillmans, Nan Goldin, Terry Richardson, and Ryan McGinley, I began photographing my friends and lovers. I wanted to document that period in our lives and took my little 35mm Yashica T5 camera with me almost everywhere I went. As a young gay man who grew up in a small town constantly exposed to the negative stereotypes of gay life, I wanted to make the photographs a celebration of being young and gay and didn't shy away from positive images of sex and relationships.

I've exhibited some of the photographs in group exhibitions in the UK, Europe and Australia and received a great response to them. However, one thing I've wanted to do for a while now is show them in New York.

With that in mind, what I'm aiming to do is present an exhibition of all the photographs I took between 2004-2007 in late summer 2011 in New York and exhibit them altogether for the first time in one space. Along with some newer works, including my Cumfaces series and a a number of recent video works, I want to present the photographs in their entirety (and there are approximately 70 images in total, ranging in size from 12 x 18 inches to 30 x 40 inches) in a fun, provocative manner in an alternative space outside the usual white cube gallery.

The photographs in the video above are mostly "safe for the office", however, you can see more of my work by visiting the following link which is NOT safe for the office ;)

HOW?

The funds raised for this project will be used to print, mount and frame the works, as well as to hire the space. The remainder will be used to cover publicity and the fulfillment of pledge rewards. My target goal is to raise a minimum of $15,000, but the more I raise then the better the show will be. It doesn't have to stop there either as, once all the works are printed and the New York exhibition is complete, they can then be exhibited in other spaces, in other cities (LA) and in other countries (UK, Germany), further expanding their exposure and the audience for them

WHY (KICKSTARTER)?

To mount an exhibition of this type and this quality costs more money than I could possibly invest on my own and that's why I'm using Kickstarter. I'm not represented by a gallery and have always worked independently, so the exhibition will only go ahead with your support.

A NOTE ON FUNDING

Kickstarter works on an all or nothing pledge basis. If the $15,000 goal (or more) is reached on June 27th, your card will be charged on that date for the amount of pledge you specified. If it doesn't reach the goal, you pay nothing at all.

www.stuartsandford.com

www.stuartsandfordsblog.com

www.facebook.com/pages/Stuart-Sandford/198187337246

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stuartsandford/a-solo-exhibition-by-stuart-sandford

PORTRAIT

Eddie Tucker

BÊEEEÊ !

Est ce une file d'attente devant une boite à la mode? L'entrée d'une grande exposition à succès? La première d'un spectacle exceptionnel? La journée du patrimoine?

Pas du tout, ce n'est que le dernier concept marketing inventé par une enseigne américaine qui vient d'ouvrir sur les champs Élysées à Paris : laisser les clients faire la queue et entrer au compte goutte pour avoir le faux privilège de dépenser leur argent en morceaux de tissus.

Les morceaux de tissus en question doivent alors certainement être des pièces uniques ? ou tout au moins faites de matières rares? 

Pas le moins du monde, c'est majoritairement du simple coton façonné en Chine ou en Inde par des pauvres bougres payés au lance pierre.

Nos braves consommateurs bêlants attendent donc sagement, comme des moutons dans leur enclos, qu'on les laisse entrer par paquets dans le saint des saint pour se faire facturer 38€, 150 grammes de Tshirt par un vendeur, dit-on, à moitié nu… Une façon comme une autre de se rincer l'oeil à l'eau lourde devant des pectoraux saillants, viande apprêtée et intouchable destinée à faire saliver le chaland et l'inciter à acheter des sous vêtements auxquels ces apollons de bazar semblent eux mêmes réfractaires puisqu'ils s'évertuent à laisser deviner qu'ils ne portent rien sous leur jean ultra taille basse    …

Lorsque la société de consommation atteint un tel degré de crétinisme et d'exhibition mercantile, on ne peut que rester effaré devant les facultés de soumission de nos contemporains.

À vous inciter à abandonner à jamais le slip.