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Ukrainian Flower Crowns

Ukrainian Flower Crowns

Contemporary traditional Ukrainian flower crowns worn at weddings and created by the bridesmaids. DAGANDANA

Hidden Rooms 1

Hidden Rooms 1

Hidden Rooms 1 (2001) Loretta Lux. German Photographer She takes staged photographs of her friends children then inserts them into stark landscapes or spaces. children / contemporary surrealism / photography / subverted portrait / subverting commercial photography

The Social Life of Small Urban Space

The Social Life of Small Urban Space

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces Documentary (1988) William H. Whyte Study on urban spaces and how people interact in and with them. dynamics / grid work / public space and performance / performance of everyday / pedestrian movement / video aesthetics / narration

Soasig Chamaillard

Soasig Chamaillard

"My Little Marie" (2010) Statue 26cm Chamaillard is a French artist who re-appropriates Virgin Mary statues as a commentary on contemporary mainstream images of women. archetype/ kitsch / women / the female body / virgin mary / virgin de guadalupe

The Magician (2016)

The Magician (2016)

Music Video. Directed by Winston Hacking, Canadian collage and stopmotion animation artist. Music: Andy Shauf layering / bobbing / construction - deconstructing / stillness and motion / composition

I New Then

I New Then

Dance. Choreographed by Johan Inger (2011) Performed by Nederlands Dans Theater. Van Morrison / pedestrian movement with strong technique / arc / scenes

The Institute for Aesthletics

The Institute for Aesthletics

An Institute created to expand the idea of "sport as art" It organizes sporting events, participates in art events and festivals, collaborates with artists and art centers, and develops workshops and educational curricula.

The Enclave (2013)

The Enclave (2013)

Richard Mosse (Documentary Film / Video Installation) Political abstraction / realities / imagery / aesthetics / subversion / film medium

Navel and A-Bomb

Navel and A-Bomb

Conceptual dance film (1960) Directed by Eikoh Hosoe, choreography by Tatsumi Hijikata form/ framing/ contrast / sharp movements / minimalist / strong imagery / static paired with movement / shortform

HEXEN 2.0

HEXEN 2.0

Suzanne Treister Tarot deck, photo-text works. "Since at least the second half of the twentieth century, the West has witnessed power and agency slip away from tangible, accountable structures of governance toward intangible, quasi-mystical forces whose goals and interests rely on programmatic techno-utilitarianism." mysticism/ politics / new age sneaky poking / poking sneakily / prints

The Prophets (2013)

The Prophets (2013)

Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens « En tant que personnes qui abordent le destin et le caractère moral d’une nation, les économistes sont les prophètes des temps modernes, et les graphiques et les diagrammes qu’ils produisent sont leurs prophéties. » prophecies / economics and conceptual art/ household objects / contemporary absurdity

Reines d'un jour

Reines d'un jour

Reines d'un jour (1997) Dance film directed by Pascal Magnin. Intimacy / physicality / organic movement / outdoors / tension in the everyday / magical realism

Tadeusz Kantor - Balladyna

Tadeusz Kantor - Balladyna

Balladyna (1943) Theatre piece directed by Polish avant-garde theatre director and set designer, Tadeusz Kantor. Shapes / physical object /characters objects - with voices / dramatic object theatre / builts

The Visitors

The Visitors

The Visitors (2012) Ragnar Kjartansson. Nine channel video installation. He who "walks a thin line between mysticism and parody" (dreamy). dreamy/ sublime / playful / heart wrenching / we all woke up here its sunday and we're going back to the city tonight / tech persons / unaffected airs / sound and affect / space

Adam's Passion

Adam's Passion

Adam's Passion (2015) Concert collaboration between Robert Wilson and Avro Pärt. vertical dimension / slowness / bells / imagery / striking / make up design

Dramaturgy of Sound

Dramaturgy of Sound

Dramaturgy of Sound in the Avant-Garde and Postdramatic Theatre Mladen Ovadija (Book / 2013) orality/aurality immersive sound dispelling text sound hierarchy

Moonrise Kingdom

Moonrise Kingdom

Wes Anderson (2012 USA) composition colour pallet magical realism deadpan 1960s church costumes

Goats

Goats

Technique Big Dance Theater Elizabeth DeMent, Aaron Mattocks and Sonja Kostich in “Goats” in 2010. (Julieta Cervantes/Julieta Cervantes) use of large microphones. displaying technology. highlighting distortion or addition.

The Sound of Music (1965)

The Sound of Music (1965)

Film. Directed by Robert Wise. (1965) nostalgia film perception/subjectivity subtext

Bodies #7

Bodies #7

Isabella Leone January 2015 Pencil

"Yesterday's Sandwich"

"Yesterday's Sandwich"

Boris Mikhailov photograph From the series ‘Yesterday’s Sandwich' late 1960s - 1970s c-print from DIA 30.3 x 45.7 cm collage photography transparency juxtaposition everyday objects grain baba

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