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EAT YOUR HEART OUT

Jason Farrer — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:49:17 +0000

One morning during last season’s London Fashion Week I woke up and stumbled down the stairs from my Hackney attic bedroom only to come face to face with Lily Jones hard at work on a multi purpose kitchen mixer straight out of Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory. Over the days following I was treated to taste tests during various stages of an other worldly red devil recipe. Lily Vanilli’s cookbook/graphic novel “A Zombie Ate My Cupcake” has just been released and I can attest that her beauty has been matched by her baked goods. Like her crackcakes Lily is drop dead gorgeous inside and out and her, until now, secret creations are sure to satisfy the most ravenous cannibal cravings.

Recipes include lifelike Marzipan Beetles (originally designed for Alexander McQueen’s film project), Meringue Bones, with raspberry blood sauce. Black cherry Dracula’s Bitered velvet cupcakes, with bloody bite marks in the cream cheese frosting, a Honey, Almond and Sesame Fallen Angel Cake and a dark chocolate Devil’s Food cake with chocolate devil horns. From Crackney to Crooklawn, it’s all good in the hood.

www.lilyvanilli.com.

www.cicobooks.co.uk

Haider Ackermann at Pitti

Jason Farrer — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:14:45 +0000

Small Images: Klaus Stockhausen

Large Image: Katou

Thank You to Both.

We look forward to seeing you both in Paris very soon.

from our brother, Marcelo

Jason Farrer — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:07:36 +0000

SUNDEK by NEIL BARRETT from Marcelo Burlon on Vimeo.

Dogtooth

Ben Perdue — Sat, 08 May 2010 18:03:50 +0000

Yorgos Lanthimos’s Dogtooth – well worth £8.50 down the Rio

Logos – Lovos

Ben Perdue — Thu, 06 May 2010 17:57:59 +0000

Evan Gruzis, AIDS 3D and Duncan Malashock show at DUVE Berlin

Sedlec Ossuary according to Jan Svankmajer

Jeanne-Salome Rochat — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:42:43 +0000

The Sedlec Ossuary (Czech: kostnice Sedlec) is a small Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints (Czech: Hřbitovní kostel Všech Svatých) in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic. The ossuary is estimated to contain the skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people, many of whom have had their bones artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings for the chapel.

Jan Svankmajer is married to the surrealist painter Eva Svankmajerova.

Check out his website where books, VHS and even (!) DVD goods can be purchased.

Jiří Kylián’s “Petite Mort”, 1991

Jeanne-Salome Rochat — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 19:39:21 +0000

If that does not satifiy our primordial wish for pleasurable looking, I don’t know what it does:

Petite Mort, 1991 (part 1)

Petite Mort, 1991 (part 2)

Linder (“NEOLITHIC PORNS”)

Jeanne-Salome Rochat — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:54:17 +0000

Linder is the nom d’art for Linder Sterling, a British artist, musician and performer who was born Linda Mulvey in Liverpool in 1954.

Those images are titled “collages with found negatives” and were shown in 2007 in the framework of “NEOLITHIC PORNS“, at ISABELLA BORTOLOZZI, Berlin.

Do click to enlarge the images!

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O.K. Festival: 16 – 17 – 18 April (Arnhem, NL)

Jeanne-Salome Rochat — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:56:11 +0000

O.K. Festival is the first event in the Netherlands that offers a survey of independent magazines from all over the world. Under the title ‘Welcome Magazines’ O.K. Festival presents the energy and the visual explosion of strange, beautiful and original magazines.

We won’t be there in person but Sang Bleu 5 will…

Villa Sonsbeek
Tellegenlaan 3
 6814 BT Arnhem

Erik Tidemann

Ben Perdue — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:08:06 +0000

Erik Tidemann is a 28-yr-old artist from Trondheim, Norway. His white trash-influenced work ranges from sleazy paintings, to taxidermy-based sculpture; a unique aesthetic reflected in his rapidly expanding tattoo collection. This is just a short interview via email but I’d love to pull together a full-length feature on the up-and-coming Slade graduate in the near future. More work to come.

“I am mostly inspired by subcultures from neo-Nazis, KKK and extreme black metal to black people’s movements, Somalian immigrant gangs and gangster rap. But the redneck white trash hillbilly culture has been the one I have been studying the most. I often mixed those scenarios with mythic, demonic and often religious imagery. So often the work with its own context show the mythic picture of the undepicted artist as some alter ego of myself. Like I was some weirdo loner living in my mom’s basement never learnt to make art or think in concepts but just being there as some Daniel Johnston dude making his imaginary world.

“My Latest project or the one I am working on now is to make two black Canadian bears standing on two legs. They are gonna have their torsos completely shaved and tattooed while the skin is still soft. Instead of the bear faces I am gonna replace the face area of the head with a human skull on each one. My dentist who is also one of my collectors is helping me out getting the real human skulls and doing the paperwork which is cool of him. In the eyes I will have some sort of light. The two bears are gonna be for this club in Trondheim standing on each side of the DJ table holding it up with their hands. So they look as some sort of guardians up on the stage.

“Except from that I am showing my five headed wolf called ‘Nazi super science’ at Trondheim Art Museum in May and me and the American street sculptor Brad Downey is making a piece this summer together for this outside sculpture park in Norway. We want to make two trees standing in the ground as ground to air missiles so we want to hollow out the inside of the trees and replace them with a rocket fuelled core so they can be shot up in the air. Like the forest is going nuts decaring war or something. In October I have a solo show in Trondheim too.

“Tattoos? Yes. Did a one last Friday under my arm. It was a woman lying on her back with her big tits pointing up and wearing stockings. She cant walk since she has cocks instead of feet like wooden legs but they are flesh. Instead of a cunt she has the SS logo from the Nazis standing for sleazy sluts. Above her head she has green drunken letters saying Øoohboh.

“That was my last one. Except from that one I have most of my neck, troat, right arm, chest and stumack and feet covered. And some bits and bubs elsewere. But I guess I will have a full body suit someday. Its easy since my friends are all tattooists here in Trondheim so we trade back and forward our favours.”

Portraits by Linn Heidi Stokkedal

http://www.myspace.com/eriktidemann

Lamija Suljevic

Ben Perdue — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:32:22 +0000

Beautifully handcrafted womenswear from Stockholm-based designer Lamija Suljevic. Eastern European costume aesthetics with a couture focus on luxurious embroidery, lace and braiding. Stunning.

HOW TO DO THINGS BY THEORY

Jeanne-Salome Rochat — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:50:49 +0000

TkH (Walking Theory or Teorija koja Hoda in Serbian) is an opening collective lecture and discussion about the Walking Theory platform practice in last 10 years. Theory is still considered as something practiced in cabinets, in research institutes, as well as something that castrates the art practice. With the name, TkH – Walking Theory, we emphasize that theory is always also a (social) practice, that it is a relevant, potent and socially intervening agency, which cannot be separated from the art practice, let alone be its adversary. In order to stress its performative function we explore the potentialities of performance as a new scientific/theoretical paradigm but also promote the idea of performing arts as a critical concept that characterizes spectacle-based society in which we live. In this light, the main question is: How to perform theoretical practice on paper (TkH Journal); in a more traditional performance geography (stage, gallery, classroom) but also in electronic and digital media and institutional contexts from university to sport? And how can theory-as-practice – through collective work, self-organisation and self-education as well as in many resistance tactics – critically transform a given context?

An intervention by TkH will take place on Friday 5th, 7.30pm at the Laboratoires D’Aubervilliers: BE THERE!

More about TkH & interesting links on their website.

painted knees of a Moulin Rouge dancer

Jeanne-Salome Rochat — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:53:53 +0000

press photograph dated 1926
Collection Jim Linderman

‘malice, envy, apathy and brutality’

Ben Perdue — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:48:18 +0000

But also beauty too in this Palme d’Or winner from Michael Haneke

The White Ribbon showing throughout December at the BFI Southbank

Diamanda Galas will be performing in Europe soon

Jeanne-Salome Rochat — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:02:45 +0000

Check out SB contributor Diamanda Galas’ tour dates in Europe!

November 24:

Pallas Theater, Athens (Greece)
Ta Filia Sou Einai Fotia

November 27:
Archa Theatre, Prague (Czech Republic)

December 15:
Aula Magna, Rome University La Sapienza, Rome (Italy)