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2010 2 Figueras musée Dali. Hall d'entrée.

Call me Snake offers an optimistic provocation – ‘imagine what could be here’ by Judy Millar. On a walk into the city October 3, 2015 Christchurch New Zealand.

 

The work is comprised of vibrant graphics of Millar’s looped paintings, which are adhered to five intersecting flat planes, and draws inspiration from the forms found in pop-up books. The colourful piece will add a dramatic and rhythmic counterpoint to the city’s current urban landscape — a mix of flattened sites, construction zones and defiant buildings that have stood through the quakes. The work employs theatricality, playfulness and visual trickery, whereby the viewer is unsure about the work’s flatness or three-dimensionality; and it has been designed to offer a different perspective from each angle. The bright colours interrupt the grey of the work’s surrounds, and as buildings pop up around it,

SCAPE 8, New Intimacies curated by Rob Garrett was a contemporary art event which mixed new artworks with existing legacy pieces, an education programme, and a public programme of events. The SCAPE 8 artworks were located around central Christchurch and linked via a public art walkway. All aspects of SCAPE 8 were free-to-view.

 

The title for the 2015 Biennial – New Intimacies – came from the idea that visually striking and emotionally engaging public art works can create new connections between people and places. Under the main theme of New Intimacies there are three other themes that artists responded to: Sight-Lines, Inner Depths and Shared Strengths.

For more Info: www.scapepublicart.org.nz/scape-8-judy-millar

View of "Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio" at the Cooper-Hewitt (June 24, 2015 - January 3, 2016).

Sun Sentinel February 29, 1996 by Melissa Ruggieri

WKAT, WNWS, WINZ, WZTA, WIOD, Glen Hill, Dave Caprita, Mike Disney, Bob Green, Steve Kane, Al Rantel, Steve Nicholl

Part 2 of 2

Kevin Bales at TED2010, Session 5, "Provocation," Thursday, February 11, 2010, in Long Beach, California. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson

2010 2 Figueras musée Dali. Le cheval joyeux. Détail.

Why yes, Mischief IS my middle name!

Manao is an innovative provocation to the Canarian music idea. This band makes a vibrating trip through the folk sound from the islands with a strong jazz sap. The identity of the different and deeply-rooted rhythm (tanganillos, aires de lima, polkas) is projected with a young ambition which has as a result the post-modernity of the tradition. All this with accurate arrangements and combined with personal compositions with a marked character that finds its main point on the opening of their improvisations. This international quintet settled in Holland comprises the Canarian musicians Jose Ángel Vera Bello (liderman, saxos and flute) and Pedro Díaz (Spanish guitar and timple), the Italian Francesco de Rubeis (drums), the dutch Daniel Van Huffelen (bass) and the Portugués Rui Silva (electric guitar).

 

Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?fb_source=message&gl=US&v=T...

  

***Julie Scott and Roeland Drost (cancelled because of illness)

 

Singer-songwriter with a voice that is intimate, fragile with the capability to excite. Julie is a former member (singer/songwriter/guitarist) of can_of_be, Mizpah (Lowlands, Paradiso, SXSW Texas) and she was vocalist in jazz ensemble Dash!

Tonight she plays together with Roeland Drost, also former member of can_of_be.

 

Listen: www.myspace.com/juliescottsongs

 

Website: www.scottdrost.nl/biography_scott___drost

Public Provocations IV.

expo collective / group show

 

June 2012 – October 2012

Vernissage: 09.06.2012 / 19:00 h

 

www.carhartt-gallery.com

 

A vibrant and unique exhibition that can be experienced from June till October 2012 in the Carhartt Gallery.

 

Artists in exhibition :

A1one / IR

Bezt / PL

Czarnobyl / PL

Dave the Chimp / GB

EME / ES

Honet / FR

Jef Aérosol / FR

Klaas Van der Linden / BE

Maoma / NL

Marco Zamora / US

SatOne / D

Tasso / D

The London Police / NL

  

‘Happenings’ founder Grootveld dies Thursday 26 February 2009

 

Robert Jasper Grootveld, one of the most emblematic figures of the 60s provo (provocation) movement, has died in a nursing home at the age of 76.

 

Grootveld was famous for the ‘happenings’ he organised on the Spui, then Amsterdam’s ‘magic centre’. The anti-smoking guru would dance around in a cloud of his own cigarette smoke chanting ugh, ugh, ugh - which became one of his mantras.

 

Grootveld started out as a window cleaner, then turned to journalism and finally found his feet as an artist in the creative atmosphere of the 1960s. He came up with the famous white bicycle plan which has since been adopted by many cities around the world.

 

His lifelong devotion to the figure of Sinterklaas may go some way towards explaining his childlike pleasure in inventing such institutions as the Exotic Kitch Museum and the Expertological Laboratory, with fellow-artists and poets. In 2000, he made a present of the floating gardens he created to the city of Amsterdam.

 

Source: bintphotobooks.blogspot.com/2009/02/provo-happenings-foun...

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b<1ckd rop of <1 huge bilnncr bearing the On the situ<1tion in the state, there-the state. It expressed anger and griefl0,1Iit10n government at the ccntn: nnd.

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Public Provocations IV.

expo collective / group show

 

June 2012 – October 2012

Vernissage: 09.06.2012 / 19:00 h

 

www.carhartt-gallery.com

 

A vibrant and unique exhibition that can be experienced from June till October 2012 in the Carhartt Gallery.

 

Artists in exhibition :

A1one / IR

Bezt / PL

Czarnobyl / PL

Dave the Chimp / GB

EME / ES

Honet / FR

Jef Aérosol / FR

Klaas Van der Linden / BE

Maoma / NL

Marco Zamora / US

SatOne / D

Tasso / D

The London Police / NL

  

amorphica.com/networked.html

 

Group 2_

Julio Salinas, Diego Colinas, Noemi Hirata, Fernando Navarro, German Parma,

 

Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.

Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization

Computational architecture and design course

 

Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.

 

Instructors:

Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]

Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]

Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]

MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]

Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]

Couverture du magazine HARA-KIRI. Journal satyrique se réclamant bête et méchant et usant sans modération de la provocation.

View of "Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio" at the Cooper-Hewitt (June 24, 2015 - January 3, 2016).

View of "Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio" at the Cooper-Hewitt (June 24, 2015 - January 3, 2016).

Couverture du magazine HARA-KIRI. Journal satyrique se réclamant bête et méchant et usant sans modération de la provocation.

amorphica.com/networked.html

 

Group 1_

Cynthia Castillo, Moises Talavera, Amir Hanna, Guillermo Perez, Osvaldo Andrade

 

Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.

Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization

Computational architecture and design course

 

Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.

 

Instructors:

Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]

Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]

Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]

MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]

Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]

View of "Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio" at the Cooper-Hewitt (June 24, 2015 - January 3, 2016).

Knight and the Commons

Provocation: Looking Up and Out

Global leaders in the public space arena share their ideas and questions for the future of public spaces

Christopher Hawthorne, Chief Design Officer, City of Los Angeles

Day 2

Loews Philadelphia Hotel

June 20, 2019

Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.

Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization

Computational architecture and design course

 

amorphica.com/networked.html

 

www.facebook.com/amorphica

 

Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.

 

Instructors:

Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]

Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]

Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]

MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]

Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]

Heterotopia Provocation, Dalston, June 2010.

Public Provocations IV.

expo collective / group show

 

June 2012 – October 2012

Vernissage: 09.06.2012 / 19:00 h

 

www.carhartt-gallery.com

 

A vibrant and unique exhibition that can be experienced from June till October 2012 in the Carhartt Gallery.

 

Artists in exhibition :

A1one / IR

Bezt / PL

Czarnobyl / PL

Dave the Chimp / GB

EME / ES

Honet / FR

Jef Aérosol / FR

Klaas Van der Linden / BE

Maoma / NL

Marco Zamora / US

SatOne / D

Tasso / D

The London Police / NL

  

Idiom: Be like a red rag to a bull

 

To be a willfully infuriating or aggravating provocation.

View of "Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio" at the Cooper-Hewitt (June 24, 2015 - January 3, 2016).

View of "Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio" at the Cooper-Hewitt (June 24, 2015 - January 3, 2016).

Art Hack Day intervention by Julian Oliver suddenly starts spewing provocations onto everybody's cellphones.

 

Networked Fabrication for Urban Provocations.

Shifting Paradigms from Mass Production to Mass Customization

Computational architecture and design course

 

amorphica.com/networked.html

 

www.facebook.com/amorphica

 

Conventional construction methods all depart from the basic premises of mass production: standardization, modulation and a production line. What these systems developed during the last two centuries fail to take into account are the evolutionary leaps and bounds the manufacturing industry has taken over the last decades. With the introduction of CNC technologies and rapid prototyping machines have altered the paradigms of fabrication forever. It is due to these new tools that it is now possible to create (n) amount of completely unique and different pieces with the same amount of energy and material that is required to create (n) identical pieces. The possibilities for implementation of new forms, textures, materials and languages are infinite due to the versatility that these new tools offer a growing network of architects, designers, fabricators that are integrating them into their professional practices to generate unique and precise objects that respond to countless data and real-life conditions.

 

Instructors:

Monika Wittig [ LaN, IaaC ]

Shane Salisbury [ LaN, IaaC ]

Filippo Moroni [ SOLIDO, Politecnico di Milano ]

MS Josh Updyke [ Advanced Manufacturing Institute, KSU, Protei ]

Aaron Gutiérrez Cortes [ Amorphica ]

Public Provocations IV.

expo collective / group show

 

June 2012 – October 2012

Vernissage: 09.06.2012 / 19:00 h

 

www.carhartt-gallery.com

 

A vibrant and unique exhibition that can be experienced from June till October 2012 in the Carhartt Gallery.

 

Artists in exhibition :

A1one / IR

Bezt / PL

Czarnobyl / PL

Dave the Chimp / GB

EME / ES

Honet / FR

Jef Aérosol / FR

Klaas Van der Linden / BE

Maoma / NL

Marco Zamora / US

SatOne / D

Tasso / D

The London Police / NL

  

View of "Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio" at the Cooper-Hewitt (June 24, 2015 - January 3, 2016).

She's not smiling, though. Roman women never smile much. Roman women don't have to encourage male enthusiasm. There's some "Raoe of the Sabine Women" cultural understanding there. Women are a resource; they get picked up bodily and hauled over the threshold.

Harjun nuorisotalo spring music festival. plenty of nice people and hippies in sornainen

Place de L'Hôtel de Ville - SÈTE - FR

‘Happenings’ founder Grootveld dies Thursday 26 February 2009

 

Robert Jasper Grootveld, one of the most emblematic figures of the 60s provo (provocation) movement, has died in a nursing home at the age of 76.

 

Grootveld was famous for the ‘happenings’ he organised on the Spui, then Amsterdam’s ‘magic centre’. The anti-smoking guru would dance around in a cloud of his own cigarette smoke chanting ugh, ugh, ugh - which became one of his mantras.

 

Grootveld started out as a window cleaner, then turned to journalism and finally found his feet as an artist in the creative atmosphere of the 1960s. He came up with the famous white bicycle plan which has since been adopted by many cities around the world.

 

His lifelong devotion to the figure of Sinterklaas may go some way towards explaining his childlike pleasure in inventing such institutions as the Exotic Kitch Museum and the Expertological Laboratory, with fellow-artists and poets. In 2000, he made a present of the floating gardens he created to the city of Amsterdam.

 

Source: bintphotobooks.blogspot.com/2009/02/provo-happenings-foun...

2010 2 Figueras musée Dali. La main de Dali retirant une toison d'or pour montrer à Gala l'aurore toute nue très très loin derrière le soleil. Hommage à Claude Lorrain. Oeuvre stéréoscopique.

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