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dimanche 10 juillet 2011
dimanche 3 juillet 2011
Grazulis: monkeyironbuddha Tea and buddism
exposition océanique, galerie didier devillez
Optical Sound: another circle complete
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Poster 60X80
Offset + Sérigraphie
expédié en rouleau, uniquement en France
Edité dans le cadre de l'exposition Musique Plastique
Galerie du jour - Agnès B
Quelques nouvelles de l'éclat
Savez-vous qu’aux heures chaudes de l’été, on trouve de l’ombre (quelquefois “blanche”), des “vents” de fraîcheur et même de la “compagnie”, dans les quelques milliers de librairies qui essaiment sur le territoire? Cherchez bien! Elles se cachent de plus en plus entre les “Gap” et les “Séphora”, mais elles sont là et vous attendent...
Là, sommeillant entre Sade et Salluste, vous trouverez Jean-Pierre Salgas et son “Gombrowicz, un structuraliste de la rue”, paru ce printemps et salué par quelques lecteurs attentifs <http://www.lyber-eclat.net/nouveautes.html#salgas1>, ou encore sur les tables de l’actualité” le volume dirigé par Michelle Irène Brudny et Jean Marie Winkler, “Destins de la banalité du mal”, puisqu’on commémore cette année le procès Eichmann...
Stéphane Mosès, disparu en 2007, resurgit aussi sur les tables avec 3 et même 4 parutions: Rêves de Freud (Gallimard), Figures philosophiques de la modernité juive (Cerf) et ce ou ces “Temps de la Bible” que nous venons de faire paraître et dont a si bien parlé Ronald Klapka sans sa lettre de la magdelaine <http://www.lettre-de-la-magdelaine.net/spip.php?article230> plus un volume d’hommage publié par le collège des Bernardins.
Sans parler des “intemporels”: Rosenzweig (pour les parutions récentes) mais aussi Giorgio Colli, Carlo Michestaedter, Imre Toth, Marshall Salhins ou Daniel Caux (j’en cite 5 et en oublie 255 qui me pardonneront)!
Cet été, lisez l’éclat ! Et sans forcément vous plonger dans les trois tomes de la Sagesse grecque, découvrez la littérature de Luigi Meneghello, Aldo Zargani, Patricia Farazzi, Hélène Bezençon <http://www.lyber-eclat.net/collections/paraboles.html>...
Les nouveautés sont toujours sur <http://www.lyber-eclat.net/nouveautes.html>
Le catalogue général à partir de <http://www.lyber-eclat.net/>
Et les livres en librairie!
Nous reviendrons à l’automne avec un programme à la “mesure de nos moyens”, et continuons de vous remercier de votre fidélité
“Bel été”
Michel Valensi
Editions de l’éclat
samedi 25 juin 2011
mardi 21 juin 2011
jeudi 16 juin 2011
Centre Ethique: Forum "L'une des mille et une nuits"
dans le cadre du Forum "L'une des mille et une nuits"
Fanny Abadi a l'honneur de vous inviter au partage et à la discussion sur le thème :
"Au bord du temps et des frontières,
la Méditerranée et l'écologie humaine"
à Montpellier, le vendredi 24 juin 2011 à 20h
à l'Université Montpellier 1 - UFR AES
Espace Richter, avenue Raymond Dugrand
Forum animé par Abderrahim Hafidi,
avec Mustapha Daidj, Joseph Francis, Florian Mantione,
Samia Rihaoui, Laurence Meslin et Anne Pariente.
Un espace cocktail prolongera les échanges et la discussion.
tarifs d’entrée : 8 et 13 €, étudiant : 5 €
Vente des billets d'entrée sur place
Renseignement auprès du secrétariat du Centre Ethique
Centre Ethique International
Quartier Ste Anne - 5 rue Terral
34000 MONTPELLIER - France
http://www.centreethique.com/
centreethique@centreethique.com
Tel : + 33 467 926 934
Permanence du secrétariat :
Lundi, Mardi, Jeudi, Vendredi
8h30-13h / 14h-17h30
Samedi : 8h30-12h30
Galerie Ecritures: vernissage de l'exposition YO MARCHAND
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mercredi 15 juin 2011
KATE VIDUJE: Lithuanian translation of "The Cat Inside" by Vasha Dadaja
jeudi 9 juin 2011
The tome of poems of «The Time of the Naguals » on line
"Research" http://www.inter-zone.org/thetimeofthenaguals/TN2research.pdf
The French tome, "Autour de Burroughs et Gysin" is at http://www.inter-zone.org/thetimeofthenaguals/TNFR.pdf and available in printed version at http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/naguals.aspx
mardi 7 juin 2011
J-14 [ NEWSLETTER ] LIZIERES : PIQUE-NIQUE #01 : Dimanche 19 juin 2011 / Les réservations sont ouvertes !
Les Amis de LIZIERES sont heureux de vous convier au Château d’Epaux pour un PIQUE-NIQUE « Japonais » le dimanche 19 juin 2011.
☞ ATTENTION les places sont limitées à 30 personnes ! ☜
Au programme :
• La Radio Taisô ラジオ体操
Une gymnastique de santé créée en 1928 par le bureau central des assurances vie de la poste japonaise. Diffusée tout les matins par la NHK (radio et télévision) encore aujourd’hui, elle est pratiquée largement dans les associations de quartier, entreprises, écoles …Une manière de débuter la journée à l’heure japonaise
• Un pique-nique nippon.
Découverte culinaire de « Bento » mets typiques de pique-niques japonais
• Une sieste emmenée par la musique instrumentale de Hiroko Komiya et Kazuya Nagaya
Deux artistes japonais exceptionnellement en France et à LIZIERES pour l’enregistrement de leur prochain album.
• La projection du film « Sound of Tokyo »
Réalisé par Eko et Vinci Sato. Une ballade tokyoite, des images qui invitent à découvrir les sons du quotidien des japonais.
• Une exposition de sérigraphies d’Ado
• Le Bon-odori 盆踊り
Initiation à cette danse traditionnelle pratiquée lors de fêtes d’été au Japon
INFOS PRATIQUES :
TARIFS :
Tarif plein : 30 euros + la cotisation aux Amis de LIZIERES pour les non adhérents
Tarif réduit pour les habitants de l’Aisne : 10 euros + la cotisation aux Amis de LIZIERES pour les non adhérents (à l’occasion de cette première année d’ouverture, le prix de l’adhésion à l’association des amis de LIZIERES, pour les habitants de l’Aisne est fixé à 5 euros )
POUR SE RENDRE A LIZIERES :
en voiture :
depuis Paris, prendre l’autoroute de l’est vers METZ / NANCY > continuer sur l’A4 > prendre la sortie 20 CHATEAU-THIERRY > prendre la D1, direction SOISSONS (passer BEZUET) puis emprunter la D87 jusqu’à EPAUX-BEZU (86 km)
Prévoir une arrivée au Château d’Epaux vers 11h et un départ vers 16h.
en train :
Départ de Paris Gare de l’Est à 10h35 arrivée à Château-Thierry à 11h21
Départ de Château-Thierry à 17h00 retour à Paris à 17h52
Depuis Château-Thierry, taxi ou navette peuvent être mis en place pour votre arrivée, n’oubliez pas de nous le préciser lors de votre réservation.
LIZIERES, au coeur du village d’EPAUX-BEZU, se trouve sur la route de BUIRE dans l’ancien domaine du Château d’Epaux (11 allée du comte de Lostange – 02400 EPAUX-BEZU)
CONTACTS :
☞ Réservez dès à présent vos places à cette adresse : reservation@lizieres.org
Nous vous adresserons un formulaire d’inscription ainsi que les modalités de règlements en retour.
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Pour LIZIERES,
Pedro Serra, président de l'association des amis de LIZIERES
Ramuntcho Matta, directeur du Centre de cultures et de ressources LIZIERES
Les amis de LIZIERES
association à but non lucratif créé le 18 septembre 2009 pour permettre au projet LIZIERES de voir le jour.
11 allée du comte de Lostanges _ 02400 EPAUX-BEZU / +33 (0)9 51 07 13 74
pour plus de renseignements : www.lizieres.org / amis@lizieres.org
William Brandon : APB - I have finished the novel, now I need an agent/publisher..
(or at least one out of three?)
In the past five months I have finally had the free-time to complete my latest novel, The Exile, The Matriarch and The Flood(working title). I am actively seeking representation. I would prefer to work with an agent before approaching a publishing house, however, given the opportunity, I would not balk at direct discussions w/ a publisher.
This is where I need help...
My last novel was under contract for seven years. Although copies of the book were available at all times, the publisher did nothing in the way of promotion or sales. (Not to mention completely confrontational regarding royalties) It was a very disappointing experience. I am seeking to be involved in a full-fledged promotional campaign and I am willing to travel extensively to do so.
If any of you know, or know of, agents and/or publishers seeking novels and/or short fiction please send me their information. I will begin the query process in the next few weeks and any additional leads are greatly appreciated!
Additionally, I am seeking active representation for my first and second novels as well as a collection of short stories. If the agent/publisher you have in mind is interested in seeing more material, the following is a list of available work for publication:
The Exile, The Matriarch and The Flood (novel) - 2011
(approx. 100,000 words)
Humanity has outlived it's archaic myths, the old stories no longer bring catharsis and have evolved into intellectual institutions of control. Victor Loingsech, the Exile, is facing unemployment for the first time in over a decade. He takes his severance pay to Dublin, Ireland in search of inspiration and to quell his terminal ennui. He returns to Los Angeles defeated; he has realized that his unhappiness is not location-based. Victor begins working on a novel about "rain" before disappearing forever and leaving the unfinished manuscript to be found by his confidant Ian McNeel.
Erlyst Rae Atropos, the Matrirch, wakes from a long sleep paralyzed. She is the viscious, heartless matriarch of the Atropos Empire. Her husband, a very abusive philanderer, dies mysteriously and Erlyst is forced to fight off corporate hyenas unable to trust a single person she knows. The re-lived and fresh pain and suffering prove too much and Erlyst decides to exert her the control over the life she forfeited for wealth. While trying to throw herself in front of a subway train, Erlyst is interrupted by a man who saves her life and then wanders off into obscurity. When she wakens, she plots her revenge; her family, her Empire and the strange man from the subway must be imprisoned as she has been. Erlyst hires a shady B-movie producer to create a reality-tv program about the Atropos Empire in order to shine bright lights on the shadowy lives surrounding her.
Il Diluvio is a raistorm that submerges Los Angeles and creates a massive refugee crisis that sparks talk between states of seccession from the Union. Led by the psychotic Mayor Alaman of Los Angeles, rebel states begin to wage a civil war against the Federal Government. The United States is drained and defeated by internal warfare and becomes an isolated micro-power again. The RTVS is a brilliant plan to turn the majority of American society into a series of tailor-made Reality Programs using product placement for foreign advertisers to create a "consumer paradise" in which Americans become an enormous commercial. A shadowy character moves through the events leading to and following America's second civil war and eventually emerges as the creator of the RTVS (Reality-TV Society). As the smoke clears in the war between RTVS sympathizers and its opponents, the US is nearly destroyed. The shadowy man introduces the myths of The Exile and The Matriarch to a future generation thus giving American society a new myth and a new purpose, and a new reason to carry on.
Unsent Letters to Crystal (Triptych novella) - 2011
(4009 words)
Erotic love letters in the form of narratives written from Dublin, Ireland, London, England and Los Angeles, Ca.
A Selfish Man (novel) - 2003
(111,264 words)
Uncertain about their future, Ian McNeel and his two companions forsake California. Embarking on a roadtrip across the country, they land deep in the unfamiliar world of the American South. Even there he fails to find his place. Instead, his emptiness spins out of control, leading him on an orgy of drinking, drugs and sexual obsession.
*Published by Publish America in 2003. This manuscript is no longer under contract.
Silence (novella) - 2000
(approx. 20,000 words)
A terse tale following Dean O'Leary on his dark journey from a life of professional bank robbery to a silent and deadly decline in the warm, unforgiving sands of Las Vegas, Nv.
*Published by Transplant Press in 2000, 100 copy limited pressing. This manuscript is no longer under contract.
Untitled Collection of Short Stories (fiction) - 1998-2006
(approx. 30,000 words)
- Forecasting (2006): Ever wonder why the rich elite continue to build marvelous, decadent mansions in the dry, fire-prone hills of Malibu, Ca? Because that's the point of the game...forecasting...
- A Treatise of Faith (2003): Patrick picks a man up from Los Angeles International Airport at the request of a dear friend. When Nic arrives he and Patrick slip into a pub for a pint and Nic explains why he is in LA. Nic's newest novel A Treatise of Faith promises to dispel unreasonable religious furvor by finally, and completely arguing against proselytization. Rumors of his work were leaked by his publisher and Nic flees to LA to escape death threats and violence from true-believers.
- Fraternization...Finally (2011 - erotic): A library employee finally realizes a long-lived fantasy with her shy, quiet co-worker.
- Lebensgefährte - Soulmate (2003): A modern re-telling of Rapunzel with a feminist tilt.
- You Make My Skin Crawl (2000): A man on a leisurely walk in North Georgia falls into a pool of stagnant water. He rushes home, his mind races uncontrollably until he can wash away the potential bacteria and filth. Once cleansed, body and mind, the man's worst fears come to life as his body begins to shudder and move...inside.
- I Was Watching You (2011 - erotic): A woman, bored by the party she's attending, accidentally sees a man pleasuring himself and drifts into a fantasy of knocking on his door and humbly offering assistance.
- Wed in a Desert Avalon (2003): A Hunter Thompson-esque drug-addled, whirlwind race to Las Vegas for a stranger's wedding.
- Torture Scene Los Angeles (2003): A long, torturous and unnecessary interrogation in an abandoned downtown warehouse.
- Mrs. Riley (2005 - erotic): Mrs. Riley finally decides to approach the stranger she sees daily at lunch. Has she mustered the strength to take the chance, or will she walk away again with only a side-glance and an unremitted desire?
- Brooks Bros. Suit Circa 1999 (2000): A noir look into the details of an alien intelligence using Y2K as cover for invasion.
The Misadventures of Joan and Bill (non-fiction) - 2000
(6104 words)
The tale of the trauma drenched, short and volatile marriage between Beat author William S. Burroughs and Joan Vollmer.
Thank you ALL in advance for your help, slainté!
-William
mercredi 25 mai 2011
Last few place for Master Musicians of Joujouka Festival 10-12 June in Joujouka Morocco
Brian Jones Joujouka Festival Blog
See Brian Jones Joujouka Festival Blog
lundi 23 mai 2011
exposition océanique & varia à la galerie didier devillez
Grading the Lebanese Constitution
'Grading the Lebanese Constitution' is a web based project by Ricardo Mbarkho where people can give a grade for any and every article of the actual Lebanese Constitution. An Overall Average Grade is constantly displayed and updated. This grading centered project with its mass evaluation process implies different ways of reading the numbers and graphs of all the statistical results. It's a work that deals with data interpretation to offer multiple analysis levels relative to our emotional and rational attitude toward the constitution.
Ricardo Mbarkho
Beirut - Lebanon
Mobile: +961 3 717 703
Web: http://www.ricardombarkho.com
> On facebook : http://www.facebook.com/ricardombarkho
> On Skype : ricardombarkho
jeudi 12 mai 2011
Invitation lancement du livre QUI EST ANA MENDIETA ? (Caro Caron & Christine Redfern)
caro caron <mongoline@hotmail.com>
mercredi 11 mai 2011
expo mino est génial pour l'anniversaire du trompe souris café le 28mai
samedi 7 mai 2011
Sylvère Lotringer à Marseille
Samedi 14 mai 17h à LA Galerie de la Friche Belle de Mai (41 Rue Jobin - 13003 Marseille // 04 91 11 45 63)
jeudi 28 avril 2011
Ramuntcho Matta: LIZIERES : invitation pour ce JEUDI 5 MAI à partir de 18h au Comptoir Général à Paris
La réhabilitation du château d’Epaux (1000m2) en cours d’achèvement permettra à LIZIERES
samedi 23 avril 2011
Galerie Ecritures : exposition de photographies
EXPOSITION de PHOTOGRAPHIES
De Philippe BUSSER et Francisco FORMISANO
Du 26 avril au 10 juin 2011
VERNISSAGE le 6 mai 2011 à 18 h 30
WILDNIS ?
La nature peut vivre sans que l'homme n'intervienne, c'est le concept de "naturalité" (wildnis en allemand) adopté
par le Parc naturel national de Bavière en Allemagne pour protéger la plus grande étendue forestière d'Europe. Des espaces en libre évolution, où l'homme côtoie le sauvage et peut librement, lui aussi, en tirer du bien-être.
Cette singulière et minimaliste intervention humaine dans l'environnement est devenue l'idéologie de base d’une collaboration entre deux photographes : Francesco Formisano et Philippe Busser.
Les images proposées par la galerie ECRITURES ne sont que quelques fenêtres à travers lesquelles chacun d'entre nous peut y plonger son regard quelques instants et y découvrir un monde encore vif et sauvage.
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mercredi 20 avril 2011
Château d'Oiron in Interzone Galleries
Patricia Elliott: Poetry rules
I think if you have friends in California you should do them a favor and tell them about this lovely chance. Tweet, fbook and just telephone em.
Poetry Reading with beat poet Charles Plymell
5/22/2011 - 1 PM
Details
Join us for the return of the "Outlaw Poet" Charles Plymell as he reads from over a half century of hard riding poetry at the Readers Cafe & Bookstore.
After a long absence, poet, publisher and artist Charles Plymell is returning to San Francisco to read his poetry in the town he once called home.
http://www.friendssfpl.org/?Event&id=373
patricia
NOVACRIMINAL w/ The Black Shamrocks April 20th at BORDELLO!
James Addiction : Collaboration with Master Musicians of Joujouka
You can download the track FREE by signing up http://janesaddiction.com/splash/
JANE’S ADDICTION
COLLABORATE WITH THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF JOUJOUKA
FOR THE BAND’S NEW TRACK “END TO THE LIES”
Photo: The Master Musicians of Joujouka
As always, JANE’S ADDICTION—singer Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro and drummer Stephen Perkins--keeps things interesting.
The exotic sounds on “End To The Lies”—the band’s newly issued (April 7) free downloadable track from the band’s upcoming first studio album in eight years on Capitol Records, THE GREAT ESCAPE ARTIST—are the unique contribution of the legendary The Master Musicians of Joujouka.
Hailing from the village of Jajouka near Ksar-el-Kebir in the Ahl Srif mountain range of the southern Rif Mountains in northern Morocco, they are Sufi trance musicians who use reed, pipe and percussion to create drones and complex rhythms unique to Joujouka. The musicians are known for their connections with the Beat Generation and Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones, who recorded them in 1968 for an album that was released in 1971, Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka.
"We wanted to add a sense of ancient ritual and some depth beyond normal instrumentation, getting off the typical path that rock bands use, etc,” says Perry Farrell. “And we wanted the music to cast a spell on the ‘lies.’”
For THE GREAT ESCAPE ARTIST, JANE'S ADDICTION have been working in Los Angeles with producer Rich Costey (Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol), with TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek on the team. Costey says that The Master Musicians of Joujouka’s parts actually weren’t recorded with the band or in a studio. “It was all recorded in the Master Musicians Madrassa (school house) which is out in the village of Joujouka in Morocco where they live. The drums were recorded in the kitchen and the rhiatas in the main room of the house."
Farrell adds: "Lots of sounds were recorded with them so you may hear more of them on the record. You'll have to wait and see."
Info on the Master Musicians of Joujouka recording with Jane’s Addiction:
Master Musicians of Joujouka recorded in Joujouka, Morocco by Frank Rynne.
Arranged by Frank Rynne and Ahmed Attar
6 musicians playing the Tibel:
Ahmed El Attar
Mustapha El Attar
El Khalil Radi
Jamal El Bakar
Abdeslam Boukhzar
Ahmed Talha
8 musicians played Rhiata:
Abdeslam RRtoubi
Abdellah Ziyat
El Mahi Elmojahed
Abdelkhalak Talhi
Ali Ezouglali
El Touhami Talha
Mohamed El Attar
Mohamed Mokhchan
Mohamed El Hatmi who danced Boujeloud
Background links:
Master Musicians of Joujouka website http://www.joujouka.net/
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jeudi 7 avril 2011
exposition "couleur - lumière : vibrations" à la galerie didier devillez
http://www.galeriedidierdevillez.be
NOVACRIMINAL - New Website & EP
mercredi 30 mars 2011
ARTINFO: Bahrain and Lebanon Withdraw From the Venice Biennale Due to Mideast Turmoil, While Egypt's Participation Is Uncertain
Courtesy Wikimedia Commons
It is no surprise that the popular uprisings sweeping the Middle East should have an impact on the Venice Biennale, the international showcase of art, culture, and political soft power, and now the first embattled countries have begun to withdraw from participation. Bahrain, the tiny Gulf nation that was to make its first appearance at the Biennale this year, has backed out amid violent crackdowns at home, and Lebanon has likewise called off its sophomore pavilion. Meanwhile, Egypt's participation remains something of a question mark.
Bahrain's inability to send an artist to Venice is especially unfortunate since last year the country had its first appearance at the Venice Architecture Biennale and walked away with the Golden Lion for best pavilion. Curated by architects Noura Al-Sayeh and Fuad Al-Ansari, the national display focused on plans to develop areas along its shores where water has receded and included three traditional fisherman's huts. The jury was impressed with its "lucid and forceful self-analysis of the nation's relationship with its rapidly changing coastline." It is unclear whether Bahrain had already chosen a curator and artist for its appearance in the Venice Biennale this June.
As for Lebanon, it skipped the 2009 Biennale but had its own national pavilion for the first time in 2007, curated by Saleh Barakat and Sandra Daghe with the participation of artists Fouad Elkoury, Lamia Joreige, Walid Sadek, Mounira Al Solh, and Akram Zaatari. The exhibit had the official support of Lebanon, but was funded by private donations from the Lebanese community. The 2007 curators' statement said that Lebanon was joining the Biennale "at a time of grave political crisis in the country — when the concept of the nation has once again been called rather roughly, even violently into question."
This time around political instability has led the country to withdraw from the event entirely. The curator was to have been Georges Rabbath, who had titled the pavilion "Lebanon As a State of Mind." Ten artists were to have been featured: Annabel Daou, Etel Adnan, Marya Kazoun, Cornelia Krafft, Ricardo Mbarkho, Samer Mohdad, Jacko Restikian, Shawki Youssef, Camille Zakharia, and CPS (Chamber of Public Secrets). Daou, who grew up in Lebanon and moved to the United States at age 18, told ARTINFO that she received a letter from the culture minister about 10 days ago stating that Lebanon would not participate in the Biennale. Daou said that "I thought possibly there might be issues... obviously these things are difficult," but that she didn't expect the pavilion to be canceled after plans were so advanced. Lebanon's coalition government fell apart in January, and so far the country has been unable to form a new one.As for the status of Egypt's participation, despite Biennale president Paolo Baratta's announcement at a Friday press conference that the country would not participate in the exhibition this year, it seems the country does in fact plan to proceed. According to Fatenn Mostafa of the Cairo Arts Initiative, newly-appointed culture minister Emad Abou Ghazi has confirmed Egypt's participation in the Biennale and has chosen Ahmed Bassiouny to represent the country. A Biennale representative, however, told ARTINFO that the organizers are awaiting "confirmation or any communication from Egypt."
Bassiouny died on the fourth day of Egypt's uprising, and Mostafa told ARTINFO that the pavilion will showcase the late artist's "work as well as his January 25 revolution videos." Already an icon of the revolution, Bassiouny was depicted by Cairo artist Ganzeer in his portrait series of martyred activists. In 2009, the Egyptian pavilion showed the work of artists Adel el Siwi and Ahmed Askalany, which the Independent's Michael Glover called "the tenderest and most haunting work in the Giardini."
In another positive piece of Biennale news from the region, Iraq, dealing with its own postwar turmoil, will nevertheless present its first pavilion in Venice since 1976, under the curatorship of Mary Angela Schroth and with support from Iraq's ministry of culture, the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, and the Iraq embassy in Italy. Two generations of Iraqi artists will be presented, starting with Ali Assaf, Azad Nanakli, and Walid Siti, who were born in the 1950s. Abel Abidin, Halim Al Karim, and Ahmed Alsoudani represent a later generation that grew up during the Iran-Iraq War and the invasion of Kuwait.
Galerie Ecritures: expo Guerrero
Guerrero sera présent à la galerie ECRITURES Samedi 2 Avril. Vous pouvez venir le rencontrer
Galerie ECRITURES 1 rue Pierre Petit 03 100 MONTLUCON http://www.koifaire.com/auvergne/galerie,ecritures-15609.html
exposition anne de bodt à la galerie didier devillez
Retrouvez Anne Debodt sur http://www.galeriedidierdevillez.be/expo.php
http://www.galeriedidierdevillez.be
GALERIE DIDIER DEVILLEZ
53, rue Emmanuel Van Driessche / 1050 Bruxelles (Belgique) / +32(0)475
931 935
devillez@skynet.be / <http://www.galeriedidierdevillez.be>
http://www.galeriedidierdevillez.be
lundi 14 mars 2011
Ricardo Mbarkho: Grading the Lebanese Constitution
(c) Ricardo Mbarkho, 2011. All rights reserved. 'Grading the Lebanese Constitution' is a web based project (www.lebanononweb.net) where people can give a grade for any and every article of the actual Lebanese Constitution. An Overall Average Grade is constantly displayed and updated. This grading centered project with its mass evaluation process implies different ways of reading the numbers and graphs of all the statistical results. Mbarkho's work deals with data interpretation to offer multiple analysis levels relative to our role as citizens; this project tackles with the way how judgment criteria operate behind each one of the grades in order to question the utopian model of a country, an ongoing concern in Lebanon, and a renewed one in the region. |
The Lazarus Corporation - Art, Writing, & Culture
The Lazarus Corporation News & Updates |
alternative visual art, music & writing
At the beginning of 2011 the Lazarus Corporation was relaunched with a completely new visual design. We'd like to know what you think of it - please have a browse and let us know!
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New artwork by Françoise Duvivier We're delighted to have loads of new artwork by Françoise Duvivier on the website, including digital collages, handmade dolls, and masks. Below are just 3 of many new pieces by Françoise - click one or view her galleries.
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The Advanced Seed | Stol | Oniric |
More Artists & Writers We’ve added some new artists & writers to the Lazarus Corporation website. Go to the artists & writers page to check them out or use one of the links below: | ||
Find us on Facebook and Twitter And just a reminder that you can also find us on Facebook and on Twitter.
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the lazarus corporation
http://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk
dimanche 13 mars 2011
"Dharma guns" : voyage dans une 'interzone'
La rareté sied bien à F. J Ossang. Trois ans après son dernier court-métrage, Ciel éteint, quatorze ans après son dernier long, Docteur Chance, le réalisateur français revient au cinéma avec un bel oxymore en guise de titre (littéralement : "Les Fusils de l'enseignement du Bouddha"), et un style qui n'a rien perdu de sa puissance d'évocation : compositions plastiques d'une beauté entêtante, associations énigmatiques de textes, d'images, de sons, ancrage dans une mythologie personnelle du cinéma qui tire des cordes entre l'expressionnisme muet et la nouvelle vague sans s'interdire des incursions chez Guy Debord ou David Lynch, entre autres. Dharma Guns s'ouvre sur un premier plan étonnant, un lac filmé à la lisière de l'eau, laquelle vient trancher l'espace en son milieu comme le faisait le rasoir sur l'oeil dans Un chien andalou. Baignés dans la lumière chaude d'un après-midi d'été, deux espaces symétriques se répondent : le haut et le bas, le gazeux et le liquide, le sonore et le silencieux.... Le film qui s'annonce est un voyage dans une "interzone" - les limbes où flottent les âmes suspendues entre la vie et la mort.
Mais d'abord, la vie, consumée par les deux bouts sur un hors-bord poussé à plein régime. Piloté par une femme fatale semblant tout droit issue de l'âge d'or d'Hollywood, le bateau glisse sur la surface du lac, tirant un homme en ski nautique. Reflets du soleil sur l'eau, griserie de la vitesse. Et puis c'est le choc fracassant, silence. Passage au noir et blanc.
Le skieur se réveille, censément après un long coma, et nous embarque avec lui dans un polar mental rétro-futuriste où résonnent, parmi d'autres, les échos d'Alphaville. Stan van Der Decken est son nom, assène-t-il face à l'objectif, dans un français teinté d'un fort accent. Scénariste de profession et aventurier romantique dans l'âme, il se découvre légataire testamentaire d'un certain Starkov, et embringué à partir de là dans une aventure politico-existentielle déployée selon une temporalité hallucinée. Compressions et dilatations, bonds en avant et retours en arrière, articulation entre temps vécu temps rêvé, temps imaginé, entre sensations et projections mentales... Est-ce ainsi qu'un homme se débattant entre la vie et la mort perçoit le temps ? L'intuition plastique d'Ossang est si fertile, qu'elle engage à le suivre.
Pour mettre en scène le voyage intérieur de son personnage, il joue avec les registres musicaux (du folk à l'électro industrielle), exacerbe les contrastes entre le noir et la lumière en puisant dans les formes du cinéma muet, fait résonner celles-ci avec des structures architecturales obsédantes.
De la part d'un artiste qui a créé son nom à partir d'un verset de la Bible ("Je solidifierai mon sang, j'en ferai de l'os"), il faut s'attendre à des énigmes à tous les étages. Emprunté au capitaine du Hollandais volant, ce bateau de légende condamné à hanter indéfiniment les océans, le nom Van der Decken ouvre la voie à une trame qui s'enroule dans les méandres de l'enfer, sur laquelle viennent se greffer des références au mythe d'Orphée, à Lovecraft, le look de parfait nazi d'un des personnages secondaires, une collection de codes-barres géants qui s'invite dans la danse... Le film n'exige pas de tout décrypter, au contraire. Il invite plutôt à se frayer son chemin dans la foisonnante forêt de signes qu'il organise, voire à s'y perdre.
Film français de F. J. Ossang. avec Elvire, Guy McKnight, Lionel Tua. (1 h 33.)
Isabelle Regniersamedi 5 mars 2011
March 26th NOVACRIMINAL ep RELEASE SHOW!
Come out and celebrate the release of our first EP, The Beltway of Boomtown, at San Pedro Brew Co. on March 26th!
San Pedro Brew Co.
331 W. 6th St. San Pedro, Ca 90731
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BomBon
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bomb%C3%B3n/142447085804892?sk=app_2405167945
NOVACRIMINAL
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/novacriminal.music
The Slighted
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Slighted/129068960815?v=photos&ref=ts#!/pages/The-Slighted/129068960815?v=wall
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21+
jeudi 3 mars 2011
Brion Gysin exhibition "Alarme" at Galerie de France, Paris, from www.briongysin.com
and http://briongysin.com/?p=600
Frank Rynne talks the viewer through the latest Brion Gysin show in Paris.