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With a billiard table, cues and balls in four colors, a nod to Calder’s bold palette, Untitled 2021 (le jeu de l’araignée rouge) is a typical example of Rirkrit Tiravanija’s work. Here, the player’s successive advances with the billiard’s cue alter the mutual relationships of the balls. During the game, viewers experience the work for themselves and, at the same time, change it for spectators. Tiravanija believes that art should not just be looked at but also experienced by socially inhabiting and activating it. The artist wants to minimize the boundaries between art and life whenever possible. He turns the spectators, whether or not they realize it, into a main feature of the artwork.
Rirkrit Tiravanija and Calder
There are myriad connections between the work of Tiravanija and Calder. For instance, a number of Calder’s sculptures (…) require activation in order for the viewer to achieve the full experience. Tiravanija’s work contains the same unfinished quality that characterizes Calder’s radical oeuvre.
Sounds and noises are also common denominators in the works of both Calder and Tiravanija. Some of Calder’s mobiles are sonorous: they make noises that could never be programmable; chance determines the experience and sounds of the work. Everything depends on conditions of the space, air currents and people’s movements. The same applies to Tiravanija’s works: the sounds they make are subject to the different configurations and the collisions of the billiard balls.
For both artists, the spectator is key and elements of chance are crucial. ”To most people who look at a mobile, it’s no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may be poetry” (Alexander Calder, 1957)
Source: Interaction and Chance – text describing Rirkrit Tiravani’s work in the superb exposition Calder Now – which ran at Kunsthal Rotterdam in spring 2022.
Tourists and locals:
It can be all too easy to go from tourist to victim.
Take care, be sensible and don't advertise wealth. Not advertising wealth may seem odd to some of us, but remember there are many who can't even dream of a foreign holiday.
Organised gangs operate in some areas; so don't wear that new "Rolex" for a stroll down the "wild side of town".
At the point of life threatening conflict, just give them what they want. They assume you are covered by holiday insurance and you probably are (medical cover may be no consolation if you end up in a hospital bed for your holiday).
Minutes complètement Cirque
dans la rue Saint-Denis du Quartier latin
Montréal, Québec
Festival Complètement Cirque
I spent a beautiful day in Parc Omega observing the behaviour of native animals. The best medicine for the soul that is tired of the pandemic.
Adelaide Central Market - Le Deux Coq. Look at the range of expressions on their faces! Silver Efex Pro: Fuji Neopan ACROS 100 and 33% green filter
Things got intense in the Gadwall interactions continuing from the previous image. Here one male is leapfrogging near the female on the right, while another male below the one in the air seems to have lost its head! (In truth, it appears it is diving.) A third male brings up the rear, vocalizing to add its view about things. All this action unfolded on a May day at Reunion Pond in Airdrie, Alberta, Canada.
I went to visit the exhibition of the works of Noke Yuitza ... beautiful ... but I did not resist and I put myself as part of his work.
(exhibition at the La Maison d'Aneli land)
Work in progress - in collaboration with another artist to themes of: Abstract, Creative Source, Flow of Energies, Magic of Blue ~
monoprint and batik on habotai silk
Enjoying the evening sun and spending peaceful time after dinner, this is vixen mother red fox and one of her young kits.
I have always been fascinated by tracks in the sand.
This set was just too good to miss, with the phylosophic symbolism of complex interaction of all things and people- LITTLE AND LARGE.
Besides the rose-ringed parakeet (Psittacula krameri) this bigger but similar species of parakeets has become resident in Cologne for some years now. Their numbers seem to increase and they can be found in parks and cemetries quiet easy.