New project from LoveLab Projects, LoveLab Initiative, a collaborative project-initiative organized temporarily in various locations, in order to create epic and ephemeral works for the love of art's sake of love. Works should deal with dualities such as creation/destruction, life/death, serious/amusing, etc.
Thus, works will deal with the notion of ambition with irony, by means of questioning the intrinsic reality of art to be honoured and to honour (whether it's life and/or art) knowing that nothing really matters: what is important, and will remains, is the love, the experience.
August 27, 2009
Projects for (con)temporary initiatives
LoveLab Projects aims to create a temporary structure and platform that will present exhibitions around New Zealand and through phases, for discourse surrounding ways in which we might consider our contemporary conditions. From focusing on emerging practices and ideas that are still in the process of being formulated, to profile different ways of thinking and doing, questions will be posed in the form of programming and address relevant and pressing issues pertaining to the changing landscape of (con)temporary art.
LoveLab Projects will feature artist interventions, site-specific projects, one-night performances and events, as well as exhibitions. The programme will emphasize cross-disciplinary approaches, forms of artistic research, projects that are situated in the public realm, and collaborations on many levels. The initiative will cross traditional boundaries to form a consortium interested in responding quickly to the major philosophical and economic shifts impacting culture, and more specifically within a New Zealand context.
LoveLab Projects will also develop LoveLab Initiative to provide innovative artists, working in the media, visual, literary and performing arts, with exhibition and performance opportunities to create and present new work that do not fit into the commercial market place.
LoveLab Projects will feature artist interventions, site-specific projects, one-night performances and events, as well as exhibitions. The programme will emphasize cross-disciplinary approaches, forms of artistic research, projects that are situated in the public realm, and collaborations on many levels. The initiative will cross traditional boundaries to form a consortium interested in responding quickly to the major philosophical and economic shifts impacting culture, and more specifically within a New Zealand context.
LoveLab Projects will also develop LoveLab Initiative to provide innovative artists, working in the media, visual, literary and performing arts, with exhibition and performance opportunities to create and present new work that do not fit into the commercial market place.
August 23, 2009
So beautiful that it hurts (Polly Morgan)
"Within beauty and tradition so as to integrate all types of violence and the most extreme eroticism" (Salvador Dali)
Courtsesy of the artist
August 21, 2009
August 16, 2009
Artism
The birth of a new utilitarian ideology: Artism.
-Principle of democratization, extending the principles of meritocarcy to an artocracy, in favor of creative ability and initiative talent, based on collaboration and collectives, and beyond commercial endeavours
-Collapse of divisions (i.e: low and high art or culture, art and life, public and private, viewer and artwork, original and manufactured...), as well as historical determinants such as content, form, aesthetic, structure, but also market, institutions,
-Platform for debates and open propositions, within a wide ranging conditions of participation
-Highly concerned by political and social intentions and/or subjects, and presented as a social, political and economic alternatives to the current governances
-Principle of democratization, extending the principles of meritocarcy to an artocracy, in favor of creative ability and initiative talent, based on collaboration and collectives, and beyond commercial endeavours
-Collapse of divisions (i.e: low and high art or culture, art and life, public and private, viewer and artwork, original and manufactured...), as well as historical determinants such as content, form, aesthetic, structure, but also market, institutions,
-Platform for debates and open propositions, within a wide ranging conditions of participation
-Highly concerned by political and social intentions and/or subjects, and presented as a social, political and economic alternatives to the current governances
August 12, 2009
Exhibition of the week
Second Life @ Pataka Museum, with Eve Armstrong, Judy Darragh, Niki Hastings-McFall, Joanna Langford and Peter Madden.
August 2, 2009
A Dazzling Little Death (project)
La petite mort, French for "the little death", is a reference for the refractory period following sexual orgasm. The term has generally been interpreted to describe the post-orgasmic fainting spells or unconsciousness some lovers experience. More widely, it can refer to the spiritual release that comes with orgasm, or a short period of melancholy or transcendence, as a result of the expenditure of the "life force".
The show is about the certain flamboyance, daring and fetishisation of glitter or shiny material as a mean of life. Idea of shining (the self and the support), and dazzle. In a sense, if you do put some sparkles in your life then incrementally your life is sparkling... It's about the idea of carnival, as a celebration of life, of being alive. But also the notions of covering, hiding something or hidden, of make-up. Fetishism/ hybridization. It's also about appearances used as a mechanism to maybe cope with the idea of death.
VANITAS
The idea for the show is also based on Roland Barthes who spoke of la petite mort as the chief objective of reading literature: he metaphorically used the concept to describe the feeling one should get when experiencing any great literature. By extension, the show is about feeling ans sensuality when experiencing art (also refers to Susan Sontag idea of sensuality in art, of a direct relationship against analytical interpretation).
The show is about the certain flamboyance, daring and fetishisation of glitter or shiny material as a mean of life. Idea of shining (the self and the support), and dazzle. In a sense, if you do put some sparkles in your life then incrementally your life is sparkling... It's about the idea of carnival, as a celebration of life, of being alive. But also the notions of covering, hiding something or hidden, of make-up. Fetishism/ hybridization. It's also about appearances used as a mechanism to maybe cope with the idea of death.
VANITAS
The idea for the show is also based on Roland Barthes who spoke of la petite mort as the chief objective of reading literature: he metaphorically used the concept to describe the feeling one should get when experiencing any great literature. By extension, the show is about feeling ans sensuality when experiencing art (also refers to Susan Sontag idea of sensuality in art, of a direct relationship against analytical interpretation).
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