Please don’t deceive me when I hurt you; It just ain’t the way it seems…

Dancing on the Ceiling: Art & Zero Gravity, is a major group exhibition in which contemporary artists explore—and on occasion recreate—the condition of weightlessness on earth. The exhibition will present the work of multiple national and international artists, including three newly commissioned pieces for the exhibition. Distributed throughout the public spaces in the building the exhibition is itself un-tethered from the confines of the traditional gallery exhibition paradigm.

Arts Catalyst • Benjamin Bergmann • Denis Darzacq • Edith Dekyndt • Chris Doyle • William Forsythe • Julia Fullerton-Batten • Thom Kubli • Tomás Saraceno • Jane & Louise Wilson • Xu Zhen

Dancing on the Ceiling will bring together artworks that use the metaphor of floating or weightlessness as an expression of the relationship of the individual to social, political or personal contexts. In addition, several of the pieces relate to lightness as akin to an agility of mind, freed of entrenched perspectives.

Curated by Kathleen Forde, Curator of Time-Based Arts, the exhibition will be accompanied by an exhibition catalog including essays by Italo Calvino as well as interviews with commissioned artists Chris Doyle and Thom Kubli.

The exhibition is also contextualized by a series of related performances, talks, films, and events; see the schedule for complete information.

Robert Longo, “Men in the Cities”, 1980s

NB: Don’t miss Aaron Schuster’s essay on levitation, love, and space sex in SB5!

Overcoming gravity, in your films that also means destroying the barriers between fact and fiction. You have often used spoken of ecstatic truth.

That is nothing but a bare concept. But in both feature and documentary films it is possible to have moments when you turn your back on the purely factual. Because fact does not constitute truth per se. Generally facts have nothing lighting them up inside. I always say that truth, a certain deeper layer of truth, can only be reached by stylisation and staging and invention.

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A recent interview with the president of the jury at this year’s Berlinale Mr Werner Herzog himself.

http://www.signandsight.com/features/1993.html

You know how sometimes, during late-night wanderings around the internets, you stumble upon lost favorites and new classics to treasure? Something about fashion week put me in mind of these fuh-IERCE catwalk bitches. First up, Dramatics queen Alloura (RIP), followed by a little taste of that departed genius Willie Ninja of the House of Ninja. Divas, to the runway, please!

Here’s 1 of 2 large scale works  at Wilkinson 50-58 Vyner Street E2 9DQ that are well worth a look if you’re in London before 28 February. To be honest I have no idea what they mean but they look great and that’s good enough for me.  A K Dolven ‘the day the sky became my ground’ is the name of the show. www.wilkinsongallery.com

anyone seen it yet? thinking about going tomorrow night…

Can’t get enough of these Nicolas Provost stills. Modern day Paradise Lost

Haunch of Venison, Berlin 12 Feb – 3 Apr 2010