Sang Bleu was very happy to  recently have been featured as a part of Facing Pages. Facing Pages is Europe’s biggest event on independent magazines which was held from the 20th until the 22nd of April in Arnhem, the Netherlands. The weekend explored unique magazines and featured renowned magazine makers giving lectures.

The event itself takes on the form of a magazine, and shows which part the independent magazine currently plays in the development of our visual culture. The organizer of this event is the Arnhem-based O.K. Lab, which over the last few years has developed itself into a center of the independent magazine world.

For a list of some of the other excellent magazines exhibited look here

Facing Pages are in the process of touring the exhibition around other areas of Europe so check out their website here:

http://www.facingpages.org/

Artists Space, in partnership with the queer film series Dirty Looks, presents a new translation overseen by Bruce Benderson of the 1979 experimental documentary Race d’Ep! (previously screened in New York in the early 1980s as The Homosexual Century).

Made by the “father of queer theory” Guy Hocquenghem, in collaboration with radical filmmaker Lionel Soukaz, Race d’Ep! traces the confluence between the development of photography in the 19th Century, and subsequent representations of homosexual desire. The film was originally accompanied by the publication Race d’Ep!: Un Siecle D’Images de l’Homosexualite by Hocquenghem, and moves from the nudes of Baron von Gloeden and early sexology, to gay sexual liberation and cruising on the streets of Paris in the 1970s. Influenced by the writings of Michel Foucault on the history of sexuality, and reflecting the revolutionary queer activism of the Parisian movement Front Homosexuel D’Action Révolutionnaire, Race d’Ep! explicitly charts the visibility and representation of gay culture.

The screening will be introduced by a conversation between filmmaker Lionel Soukaz, and author and essayist Bruce Benderson.

More information about this very exciting event is here

$5 Entrance Donation
Members Free
Limited capacity, entrance on a first come, first served basis

is being shown in the Quinsy Gario – Bart Groenendaal – Stefan Ruitenbeek exhibition form April 15 to June 3 at Stedelijk Museum Bureau in Amsterdam.

Independently of each other the three approaches all scrutinize aspects of Dutch culture and confront cultural classifications and their seeming certainties.

TRAILER HERE

Yesterday, Publish and Be Damned presented a new edition of their fairs, displaying an impressing declension of artist-led and self-published magazines, journals, periodicals and other printed format experimentations… Mountains and mountains of them. Too much. So much, I suspect ICA went way beyond their maximum visitors allowances during the afternoon as between 3 and 6, waves of people were coming in and only very few coming out, not to mention the fact that this is a sunny Spring saturday in London we’re talking about.

Paper hustle and paper chaos, fingers looking for change (only cash in that market place, of course) in addition to the frenetic insecurity of most of the artists, publishers, writers, etc. on spot, us, our usual mad scramble for status, position, affirmation, and attention. On top of it all, add in the tekila shots drinking that started at 6pm…

What are some tropes we’re tired of as publishers? Things we wish we’d see more often as editors? Things we wish our readers would see more often? Are conceptual poems and flash political manifestos scrutinized differently when submitted? Yesterday was an intense attempt to (briefly, of course) characterize the landscape of contemporary independent publishing and share advice.

More details here.

Elvira Belafonte usually stands outside a Juice Bar. As part of her research on communicational defectives (aphasics, stutterers, spitters, etc.), her works most usually turn into step-by-step problem solving, when each constellation of words/sounds conditions the possibilities for the next idea.


“Philosophy,” she says, “is some crazy shit.”

In the framework of this year’s Cambridge Science Festival – the UK’s biggest free science festival – Professor John Barrow will cast a mathematical eye over a wide range of Olympic sporting events. What is going on mathematically in a range of running, swimming, jumping, throwing, paddling, lifting, swinging and wheelchair racing events? Barrow will also examine some of the strange scoring systems that sports employ.

Festival runs from March 12-25 at venues across the University and City.
Barrow will speak on Monday, 12 March (6:00PM – 7:00PM).

“Today on TV, we see so many TV shows dedicated to the stories behind tattoos. In the three years that I have been coming to the Tibetan community of Dharamsala in India, I’ve been quietly observing the tattoos of the people here.

Here are stories I’ve captured during this trip. “

watch the complete series here:

http://builtonrespect.com/?p=1306