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Video of Ensamble Studio’s Hemeroscopium House under construction. A domestic space determinated by seven heavy and massive prefabricated pieces of concrete. All built in seven days. Twenty tons of granite in movement after the break. [MORE...]
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Roberto Lepe leaked his camera into this event and brought us an unofficial perspective on this year’s Boadrum set, with Yamantaka Eye + Boredoms performing along with 88 drummers. [MORE...]
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Video featuring The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill by the british artist Banksy at Greenwich Village, NY.
The installation [a pet store simulation] that includes McDonalds’s Chicken Mc Nuggets sipping barbeche sauce, fish sticks swimming in a fish tank, a cctv camera nurture its young or a chimpanzee watching monkeys in a hot moment [Discovery Channel style], shows the corrosive sense of humor by this artist. [MORE...]
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Exhibition of New York artist Banks Violette at Maureen Paley Gallery. It is divided in two parts: The first one is a room with two black aluminum screens, one forms a right angle with one wall and the other is violently crumpled. The second part is a video of a horse projected in vapor. [MORE...]
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Video featuring a demonstration of the Interactive visualization of the Maeve Installation at the Venice Biennal.
Maeve is a project made possible by the collaboration of MACE Project and Everyville 2008, and provides visual and tangible access to the social and intellectual networks behind architectural projects. [MORE...]
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Yung Ho Chang [1956-] was the first chinese architect to establish a private practice in his homeland, Atelier FCJZ [even before Turenscape's Dr. Yu did].
This video shows his new installation on England’s Victoria & Albert Museum [June - September 2008]. Featuring recyclable materials –quoting chinese vernacular constructions- and using traditional tea house pavilions as an inspiration [MORE...]
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Video featuring the first part of an interview to Naomi Klein on China by The Real News. Main topics were security, central planning, surveillance and global capitalism. [MORE...]
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Video featuring the installation Arbores Laetae [Joyful Trees] made by Diller Scofidio + Renfro at Liverpool Biennal 2008.
Consisting of 17 vibrant hornbeam trees formally planted in a grid pattern, at the heart of this landscape three trees will slowly rotate. In place of the familiar movement of shade according to the rotation of the earth around the sun, here shade migrates at an artificial speed, transforming the familiar patterns of the natural world into artificial creations. [MORE...]