February 28, 2013 by collabcubed - 0 comments

PAS House: Pierre-André Senizergues

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Imagine a home in which you could skateboard to the dining room table, or, for that matter, on it. That’s just what ex world champion pro-skater Pierre-André Senizergues (PAS) turned Sole Technology founder envisioned when he came up with PAS House or Casa PAS. Senizergues created the concept, but Gil Le Bon Delapointe is responsible for the cool design of the full-scale 753 sq. foot version that includes a sofa, bed, and even kitchen appliances. The skateboard ramp-style structure allows the inhabitants to skate or bike on virtually every surfaces. The prototype was made with a Malibu location in mind, overlooking the ocean, with three separate living areas connected by a continuous ribbon-like skateable surface. The execution of the actual house will be overseen by architect François Perrin.

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February 27, 2013 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Aram Bartholl: DVD Dead Drop & More

I am so disappointed that I didn’t know about this when we were at the Museum of Moving Image last August. It seems that Berlin artist Aram Bartholl, who combines technology and art to create participatory works, was commissioned by the museum last summer to create a permanent installation on the side of the museum. DVD Dead Drop consists of an embedded slot-loading DVD burner on an exterior wall of the building, available to the public 24 hours a day. Visitors can insert a blank DVD-R and receive a digital art exhibition, a collection of media, or other monthly curated content, burned onto their disc. DVD Dead Drop is a continuation of Bartholl’s series of offline file-sharing networks in public spaces. Other Dead Drops consisted of USB flash drives cemented into walls and curbs encouraging a ‘read-write’ information ecosystem while the DVD version is ‘read-only’. You can follow the different content offerings over here, and see the video below for a demonstration of the process by the charming Bartholl himself.

More recently, Bartholl organized an event titled Vertical Cinema in Berlin, where hilarious vertical YouTube clips were projected full screen in smartphone style, but huge. Sounds like a fun idea that I hope the Museum of Moving Image will consider screening one night here in NYC. In the meantime, I’m due for another visit to the museum in Astoria, and will be sure to come armed with a blank dvd.

February 27, 2013 by collabcubed - 1 Comment

No Limits: Alexandre Arrechea

Alexandre Arrechea (previously here and here) has been on our radar since Em became aware of his work a couple of years back. Now, starting Friday, March 1st, the Cuban-born artist will be exhibiting 10 massive sculptures along Park Avenue here in NYC. This outdoor exhibit, titled No Limits, embodies some of New York City’s most iconic landmarks in a playfully twisted way. These architecturally elastic works include: the Chrysler Building, Citicorp Center, Empire State, the Flatiron, Helmsley Building, MetLife, Metropolitan Life Tower, Seagram’s, Sherry Netherland and US Courthouse. The rolling, winding and spinning 20-ft tall sculptures will be placed along the Park Avenue mall from 53rd to 67th Streets. Plus, you can join the artist for a walking tour on Saturday, March 2nd, from 4 to 5:30, meeting at the corner of 54th St. But even if you can’t make the tour, fear not, No Limits will be up through June 9th.

Photos courtesy MagnanMetz Gallery; Alexandre Arrechea’s facebook; and Wallpaper.

February 26, 2013 by collabcubed - 2 Comments

Eddi Prabandono

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Indonesian artist Eddi Prabandono is probably most known for his giant sculpture made with 25 tons of special clay of his daughter Luz’s head for the 2011 edition of the art exhibition Jog Art, known as the “Luz Series”. However, other works include smaller scale sculptures often made with shovels, bicycles, skateboards, and more recently a multi-looped vespa at Art Stage Singapore.

If you like Prabandono’s cycle sculptures you might also enjoy Patricia Piccinini’s Vespa art, and Sergio Garcia’s trikes.

Photos courtesy ArtAsiaPacific; Reuters/Dwl Oblo; and Eddi Prabandono’s facebook page.

February 25, 2013 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Sakir Gökçebag: Mundane Object Installations

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Hamburg-based Turkish-born artist Sakir Gökçebag creates fun installations using everyday objects. His toilet paper roll installations are part of two series: Trans-Layers I and II. The abstract shapes and movement that Gökçebag is able to get with these rolls are at once playful and elegant, not to mention completely surprising. And it doesn’t stop at toilet paper, no siree. Gökeçebag’s other works utilize everything from shoes, belts, umbrellas, brooms, measuring tapes, levels and other household tools, extending to his series of photographs of uniquely cut fruit s & vegetables.

There’s much more to see on his site here.

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February 22, 2013 by collabcubed - 0 comments

NYC Culture on the Cheap: Weekend 2/22

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This weekend’s picks for Free & Cheap things to do in NYC (2/15 to 2/17) in art, music, theater, performance, dance, architecture and general fun.

1. THEATER/PERFORMANCE: All weekend & through 3/3– Frigid Festival – Fringy theater and performances. $12 to $15.

2. ART/TECH: Fri 2/22 & Sat 2/23 & through 3/2: Gimme More: Is Augmented Reality the Next Medium? Visitors explore the link between the physical and digital worlds via augmented reality-based immersive installations. 12 to 6pm FREE

3. ART/TECH/DESIGN: Sat 2/23 & Sat 2/24 – (though the poster & website say differently, we have been told by one of the panelist that the event is actually Sat & Sun) PlayThings a 2-day symposium and workshop exploring the concept of play in the fields of art, media, and technology. 11am to 5pm. FREE

4. PHOTOGRAPHY: Fri 2/22 and through 5/5 Roman Vishniac Rediscovered most widely recognized and reproduced photographic record of Jewish life in Eastern Europe between the two World Wars. FREE Fridays 5 to 8pm. All other times $14

5. ART: Fri 2/22 through 3/22 – Gathering Place: Selected artists fill the formerly-vacant 8th St. storefront with site-specific works exploring the street and neighborhood’s unique history of commerce and culture. Opening 7pm.

6. TALK/TECH: Fri 2/22 – Part of Social Media Week: Art Exploring Image Sharing Platforms: #selfieaffirmation Panel of internet energy healers and pioneers discuss the relevance of self portraiture and online avatars. 5 to 8pm. FREE

7. ART: All Weekend – Moustache Man (aka Patrick Waldo) who penned his signature cursive “moustache” tag on thousands of subway ads has a solo gallery debut only through Sunday. FREE

8. MUSIC: Fri 2/22 – David Lynch presents Chrysta Bell w/ She Keeps Bees. 7:30pm $15 to $17.

9. ART/TECH: All weekend: The Public Private exhibit that explores the impact of social media and new technologies on the relationship between the public and private realm. FREE

10. ART/TALK: Sat 2/23 – Do It: Hans Ulrich Obrist and Massimiliano Gioni in conversation. 3pm $8

11. PERFORMANCE/ART/HAPPENING: Sat 2/23 – E.S.P. Live From the Control Room repurposes the museum’s Open Studios into E.S.P. TV LAB hosting a variety of artists and performers. A happening-like environment: 7pm $5 to $7

12. ARCHITECTURE/FUN: Sat 2/23 – Secrets of Grand Central Scavenger Hunt. Discover little-known passageways, gourmet foods and much more in the terminal and its environs. 2pm $24.50

13. THEATER/PARTICIPATORY: Fri 2/22 & Sat 2/23 Shakespeare Shakedown presents: A Midsummer Night’s Dream at a secret loft location. Immerse yourself as actors spin wildly through the party blending Shakepeare with improv. 7pm Use code G&SFRIENDS for $15 tkts.

14. FILM: Sat 2/23 – Premiere of Mostly Awake a micro-budget independent comedy filmed in Bushwick. 8pm FREE

15. THEATER: All weekend: Hit the Wall by Ike Holter previews. Ltd amount of $35 tkts remain: Use code HTWBST35

16. MUSIC/OPERA: Sun 2/24 & through 3/2 – The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten based on Henry James’ ghost story and conducted by Jayce Ogren. $25 and up. Use code 19286 for 20% off through 2/26.

17. PARTY/FILM: Sun 2/24 – OscarViewing Party at SideBar 6:30pm $10 general admission

18. MUSIC/DANCE/CIRCUS: Sun 2/24 – The Super Hot Cheap Fun Variety Show: an evening of Circus/Dance/Music and indescribable wonderment. Part of the Hot Cheap Living Festival. 7pm. $10

More…
>>Film –Fri 2/22 – The Throwaways Sneak Preview – Documentary about filmmaker and ex-felon Ira McKinley who struggles to turn his life around in inner-city Albany. 7:30pm $10.
>>Theater – All Weekend – Big Flower Eater $12
>>Art – All weekend & through 4/28 – Marcel Proust and “Swann’s Way” at Morgan Library FREE Fridays 7 to 9pm.
>>Film – All Weekend – Red Flag a new film by Alex Karpovsky (of Girls) $8 to $10
>>Theater – Fri 2/22 & Sat 2/23 –Collected Stories by Donald Margulies performed in the Strand’s Rare Books Room. 7:30pm $20 or $15 with code bookworm.
>>Food/Fun – Sat 2/23 – Iron Chef Flux. Come watch our most talented Flux chefs compete head to head in an intense culinary battle. 6 to 8pm. FREE to watch; $5 to sample food.
>>Fun/Oscars: Sun 2/24 – Oscar Viewing Party at Eventi’s Big Screen Plaza. Kick off at 6pm. FREE. Drinks $3 to $6.
>>Fun/Oscars: Sun 2/24 – The Big Oscars Quiz Thing. 5 rounds of multi-media Trivia Quiz. Doors 5:30pm Quiz 6pm, with Awards Broadcast following. $15.
>>Fun/Oscars: Sun 2/24 – Alt. Oscars Awards Event – outlandish Awards Event & Dance Party with ongoing performances, interactive red carpet & dedicated Hollywood Oscar viewing area. 6pm. $5 presale. $10 at door

February 20, 2013 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Cotton Candy Works: Erno-Erik Raitanen

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If I liked cotton candy this would make me especially happy but, even without being a fan of the sugary substance, this zany interactive art installation by Finnish artist Erno-Erik Raitanen made me smile. Cotton Candy Works are a series of site-specific ephemeral cotton candy installations that engage all the senses. Each sculpture only lasts a few hours before the sugar reverts to its original crystal form. Not sure if the bag at the bottom is an opening night party favor or the way the artwork is packaged and sold. Either way it’s a fun idea.

You might also want to check out Raitanen’s Bacteriograms as well, where the artist cultivates bacteria samples on photographic film resulting in amazingly colorful results.

You can see Raitanen creating one of his Cotton Candy Works in the video below.

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February 15, 2013 by collabcubed - 0 comments

NYC Culture on the Cheap: Weekend 2/15

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This weekend’s picks for Free & Cheap things to do in NYC (2/15 to 2/17) in art, music, theater, performance, dance, architecture and general fun.

1. ART: Fri 2/15 & Sat 2/16 and through 3/30 – Articulate, an eclectic new show of photography and drawing where images articulate the subject in a crystalline manner at Janet Borden Gallery. FREE
2. ART/DANCE: All weekend & through 2/17 – Faile’s installation at NYC Ballet. Les Ballets de Faile. Check schedule for times. FREE
3. ART: Fri 2/15 & Sat 2/16 through 4/6 – Jean-Michel Basquiat at Gagosian Gallery 10am to 6pm. FREE
4. ART/DANCE PARTY: Fri 2/15 Beat Nite Bushwick art walkabout with dance party. 6 to 10pm. FREE
5. TALK/LECTURE: Fri 2/15 –German Author, Singer, and DJ Thomas Meinecke in Conversation on His Novels Tomboy and Pale Blue with His First Critic Christoph Bartmann at 6:30 pm FREE with RSVP
6. MUSIC/OPERA: Fri 2/15 & Sun 2/17 – New York City Opera’s Powder Her Face: inspired by the real-life sex scandal in Britain in the early 60s. A modern opera that integrates technology and physicality. Some balcony seats available at $25
7. MUSIC/DANCING/DRINKS: Fri 2/15 – One Step Beyond DJ’s, Dancing & Drinks in the Rose Center with Foster the People. 9pm $25
8. ARCHITECTURE/TALK: Sat 2/16 – Definition Series: Museum [Culture Sheds and Shoulds] 5 to 7pm a conversation among architects, critics and scholars that include Liz Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, Keller Easterling and others. FREE
9. MUSIC: Sat 2/16 at Noon tickets go on sale for a newly added 2nd Postal Service show on June 16th. $35 and up.
10. ART/SEX: All Weekend – $3 off entry to Mosex exhibit at Museum of Sex. $14.50 with discount
11. PERFORMANCE/PUPPETRY: All Weekend– Don Cristóbal, Billy-Club Man. Check schedule for times. $20
12. ART/PERFORMANCE: Sat 2/16 – Artist Christopher Knowles performs at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise. 4 to 6pm. FREE
13. ART/PANEL DISCUSSION: Sun 2/17 – The Legacy of the 1913 Armory Show & Perception and Art in the Digital Age. 4 to 6pm FREE followed by opening reception of Decenter exhibit
14. ART/MUSIC/COMEDY: Sun 2/17 – The Andy Kaufman Effect: Comedy in the Expanded Field and postponed Lunar Fest too! 12 to 6pm $10
15. FUN/FESTIVAL: Sun 2/17 – 14th Chinatown Lunar New Year Parade & Festival 1pm. FREE

More and evolving…
Fri 2/15 – The Tiki Tiki Club, men and women pay each other $2 to dance, music and drinks: 7 to 10pm Free to enter.
Fri 2/15 – The Main Squeeze All-Female Accordion Orchestra perform at 6:30pm. $15.
Fri 2/15 – Supercoda Variety Night Experiment No.4 with the Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players. $15 donation
All Weekend & through 2/23: The Avant Garde Film Festival $12
Sat 2/16 – Tom Stathes Cartoon Carnival: So Love Me Maybe. 8 to 11pm. $10

February 13, 2013 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Refraction: Acrylicize

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London-based Acrylicize is a boutique creative agency that combines art and design to create engaging interior experiences from one-off installations to entire interior graphics and large scale architectural features. Last spring Acrylicize (originally their work was exclusively made with acrylic) was approached by PokerStars (the world’s largest poker site) to create a custom installation for the reception area of one of their London offices. Acrylicize came up with the idea of using materials from the poker world and ultimately decided to use playing cards. Cutting and assembling a large quantity of cards around acrylic cubes, the team placed the cubes into a spiraling sphere resulting in Refraction: a refined piece of abstract art, as well as a nod to the world of Poker playing.

Check out more of Acrylicize’s fun work on their site, from a map sculpture made with Monopoly houses to type installations and much more.

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February 8, 2013 by collabcubed - 0 comments

NYC Culture on the Cheap: Weekend 2/8

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This weekend’s picks for Free & Cheap things to do in NYC (2/8 to 2/10) in art, music, theater, film, performance, dance, architecture and general fun.

1. ART: All Weekend & through 2/16 – Pratt Senior design student Stephie Miller (and our good friend!) has her Chelsea debut as part of Sweet N Low along with Hannah Antalek & Kelly McNutt at Studio 7D. Thurs through Sundays; noon to 6pm. FREE
2. TALK/FILM: Fri 2/8 – A Conversation with Jessica Chastain at 3pm Tkts FREE at the box office 1 hour before, first-come first-served basis.
3. FILM: All Weekend – Athena Film Festival: highlights the diversity of women’s leadership in real life and fictional world. FREE to $12 see schedule
4. CONFERENCE: Fri 2/8 and Sat 2/9 – Get Ready for the Marvelous: Black Surrealism in Dakar, Fort-de-France, Havana, Johannesburg, NYC, Paris, Port-au-Prince, 1932-2013 1 to 5:30pm FREE with RSVP
5. ART/ARCHITECTURE/ENGINEERING: All weekend & through 2/11 – Canstruction amazing structures created with cans that are donated to City Harvest. 10am to 6pm. FREE though a donation of a can of food per person is suggested.
6. MUSIC: Fri 2/8 – BadBadNotGood: jazzy electronic trio with hip hop breaks. 8:30pm $12.
7. FOOD: All weekend & through 2/28 – 21st Annual Hot Chocolate Festival
8. MUSIC: Fri 2/8 – Joseph Arthur and Martha Wainwright 6pm doors, 8pm show. $15 to $25
9. DESIGN/FASHION: All weekend & through 4/13 – Shoe Obsession: contemporary footwear designs. FREE
10. CONFERENCE/ARCHITECTURE: Sat 2/9 – Waterproofing New York 9am to 5pm all day confrence
11. ART/FOOD/MUSIC/FUN: Sat 2/9 – Lunar New Year Celebration: food, mahjong and music with Confettisystem & Gather. 3 to 6pm $10
12. FILM: All weekend & through 3/14 – Film series Amos Vogel and his text Film as Subversive Art $10
13. ARCHITECTURE/DESIGN: Sat 2/9 – Modern Architecture & Design Scavenger Hunt 11am to 7pm $30 (Postponed due to storm till 3/9)
14. ART PRESENTATION/RECEPTION: Sat 2/9 & Sun 2/10 – Aliya Bonar: PowerSuit Camp – What would your most courageous self would do, say, and wear? Public Presentation and Reception Sat 6 to 9pm Open house; Discussion Sunday 2 to 5pm. FREE
15. MUSIC: Sat 2/9 – The Rolling Tones deliver a rocking performance of songs from the Rolling Stones. 11pm $10 to $12
16. ART/ARCHITECTURE/TOUR: Sun 2/10 – Art and Architecture of the Subway Tour; 2pm $20
17. THEATER/INTERACTIVE: Sat 2/9 & Sun 2/10 – Trade Practices an interactive live art event drops audiences into a living market in the trade of short serialized performances. 8:30pm $10 to $15.
18. MUSIC: Sun 2/10 – Truth or Truffles Concert. Music by Strauss and Hartmann’s different approaches to the devastation of WWI & WWII. Concert at 2pm, Conductor’s Notes Q&A at 1pm. $25 to $50; half price tkts through 2/9 available here.

Also:
Sun 2/10: 14th New Year Firecracker Ceremony & Cultural Festival. 11am FREE
Fri 2/8 and all weekend – Blues for Smoke at the Whitney FREE Friday evenings 6 to 9pm. $18 adults all other times
All weekend & through 2/17: Materializing ‘Six Years’: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual art. Pay what you wish
All weekend: CoolNY Dance Festival
Sat 2/9: High Line Snow Sculpt Off – Registration 2:30, Judging 4pm. FREE
Sun 2/10: Slow Food NYC – Foodopoly. Author Wenonah Hauter reads & discusses her book. 4 to 6pm. FREE
Sun 2/10: Grammy Awards Screened with full concert sound. Doors 6pm/Show 8pm. FREE

Check our previous Culture on the Cheap posts for ongoing events and check back over the weekend for possible updates. Enjoy!

February 6, 2013 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Alexander Lervik: Lumìere au Chocolat

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Alexander Lervik (previously here) has just come out with a very unique lamp: The Poetry of Light chocolate lamp. Wanting to explore darkness in contrast with light, Lervik set out to play with the idea of melting solid chocolate with a light source to reveal the light. Originally cube-shaped, the designer realized that the way chocolate melts worked better with a pyramid. The lamp begins in complete darkness and as the light source heats the dark chocolate it begins to melt, at first revealing a tiny ray of light and after roughly a 15-minute period the bulb is completely exposed and the melted chocolate ends up in a sectioned tray and can be taken out and consumed like a chocolate bar. Very fun.

February 5, 2013 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Lara Favaretto: Car Wash Brushes & More

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I saw Lara Favaretto’s exhibit Just Knocked Out at PS1 last summer and was recently reminded of it while going through a car wash. I enjoyed the whole show of her seemingly fun installations with their underlying theme of decay and obsolescence, but the piece that gave me a little thrill was one made of car wash brushes that alternated between spinning and stopping.

From PS1’s site:
Favaretto represents the eventuality of loss through a recuperative memorialization, often recycling elements from previous installations as new works, reusing discarded industrial materials, and encasing found paintings in loose tapestries of wool yarn.

The reuse of the car wash brushes is evident in all the related sculptures/installations that she has exhibited around the world. Other works that stood out include confetti-blowing fans and 60 compressed air tanks that switched on and off at different moments, blowing out their attached party favors.

You can see more of Lara Favaretto’s work here.

Photos: Matthew Septimus/MoMA PS1; Alan Dimmick; Galeria Franco Noero; and Universes in Universe.

February 4, 2013 by collabcubed - 1 Comment

Ed Young: Irreverent Edginess

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South African conceptual artist Ed Young enjoys challenging the art world and its methodologies working in various mediums ranging from sculpture and painted type murals to videos and more. And his work does not go unnoticed. Last year at the Jo’burg Art Fair, Young created an exact-to-scale silicone replica of his naked self at two-thirds his actual size, titled My Gallerist Made Me Do It, fascinating most of the 8,500 attendees of the fair. His piece titled Arch (short for Archbishop Desmond Tutu) swings from a working chandelier in the conference room of the IDASA headquarters, and apparently brought huge smiles to the Archbishop himself upon setting eyes on it.

Young’s murals are equally provocative in their bold type. Unknowingly, we ourselves came across one of Young’s murals a few years back in Miami…that’s Em in the bottom right photo!

Young doesn’t say a heck of a lot about his work when interviewed as you can see in the video below.

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January 28, 2013 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Styn Flipper: Sam van Doorn

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For his senior project, Dutch designer and typographer Sam van Doorn designed Styn. a deconstructed pinball machine reconstructed as a design tool. The idea behind the installation is that by creating new tools one is able to break free from standards in design. By playing the machine the balls create an unpredictable pattern, and the better the player the better the print. Somehow, the grid used relates to the signs of the alphabet, tying it into typography but, in all honesty, I couldn’t figure out what that means exactly. In any case, the concept is pretty unique and fun.

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January 25, 2013 by collabcubed - 0 comments

NYC Culture on the Cheap: Weekend 1/25

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This weekend’s picks for Free & Cheap things to do in NYC (1/25 to 1/27) in art, music, theater, film, performance, dance, architecture and general fun.

1. ART/FILM: 1/25 & 1/26 and through 2/9 – Francis Alÿs: Reel-Unreel. 20-minute film and new paintings FREE
2. CLASS: 1/25 – Intro to the NYC Startup Community. 5:30 to 6:30pm. FREE
3. ART: All Weekend – Drawing Surrealism: 60 works on paper by such iconic artists as Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Leonora Carrington, and Joan Miró. Free Fri 7 to 9pm. Rest of times $15
4. DANCE: 1/25 and 1/26 – FlicFest of Dance $25
5. MUSIC: 1/25 – Ecstatic Music Festival Kick-off – Shara Worden & Brooklyn Youth Chorus 7pm $15
6. GOOFY FUN: 1/26 – Idiotarod 2013: Annual Shopping cart race 12pm FREE
7. MUSIC: 1/26 – Zammuto w/Miracles of Modern Science doors 6:30; show 7:30pm. $13 to $15
8. ARCHITECTURE/DESIGN: All Weekend & through 9/15 – Making Room: New Models for Housing New Yorkers $6 to $10
9. MUSIC: 1/26 – Les Nuits de Montreal showcasing musical talent from Montreal. 10pm $25
10. TALK/LECTURE: 1/27 – Paul Krugman speaks about his Economy Fixes. 8pm $29
11. ART/PHOTOGRAPHY: All Weekend – Fire Escapes, Waterfronts & Rooftops as Urban Landscapes: Eugene Hyon Photography: 12 to 5pm FREE
12. THEATER: All weekend & through 2/10 – 20at20 $20 Off-Broadway Show tickets
13. ART/LIGHT: All Weekend – Light Cycles at World Financial Center light installation by artist Anne Militello of twinkling LED lights and mirrored discs in the Winter Garden FREE
14. THEATER/MUSIC: All weekend & through 2/2 – Can Themba’s The Suit directed by Peter Brook $25 and Up
15. FILM/PERFORMANCE: 1/27 – A Full Moon Afternoon: Bidoun Magazine’s afternoon of screenings & performance 4 to 6pm. $10.
16. WALKING TOUR: 1/27 – Walk: SoHo Then and Now: Recent Developments. 11am $20
17. ART INSTALLATION: All weekend Aude Moreau Sugar Carpet Installation through 2/24 FREE
18. PERFORMANCE/ART: 1/27 – Performance Heart: Mixed Potatoes Performance Art Show 7pm FREE

Check our previous Culture on the Cheap posts for ongoing events and check back over the weekend for possible updates. Enjoy!

January 23, 2013 by collabcubed - 0 comments

Thomas Mailaender: L’Union Fait la Farce

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Thomas Mailaenderis Paris-based multimedia artist who started out doing documentation work. These comical food-related photos, sculptures, and installation are all included under the name L’Union Fait la Farce (The Union is a Farce) which is a play on words with the motto L’Union Fait la Force (Unity is Strength.) The zaniness in these really appeals to me, from the unique coffee-serving technique up top, down to the yakitori-grilling iron and the sock fan at the bottom. All of it cracks me up.

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January 21, 2013 by collabcubed - 1 Comment

X-Times People Chair: Angie Hiesl

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German artist/director/choreographer Angie Hiesl has been presenting her performance art piece x-times people chair in various cities and festivals throughout Europe and South America since 1995. Senior citizens (both from the original ensemble and locals) are perched on white chairs bolted to the façades of buildings, 20 feet or so up from the ground. They perform uneventful tasks such as reading the paper, knitting, and folding laundry, unfazed by the surprised passers-by staring up at them. Most recently, x-times people chair was performed in Montreal as part of the Festival Transmeriques last May, where two fire trucks showed up at one of the fixed chair locations not aware of the performance and thinking the actor a little nuts. Very goofy and fun.

Photos by Roland Kaiser and bottom photo by Michal Selinger

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January 18, 2013 by collabcubed - 0 comments

NYC Culture on the Cheap: Weekend 1/18

This weekend’s picks for Free & Cheap things to do in NYC (1/18 to 1/20) in art, music, theater, film, performance, comedy, architecture and general fun. Click through on the images above for their event page and more details, or use the links in corresponding numbered list below.

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, TOP TO BOTTOM
1. SPORTY FUN: All Weekend – J.P. Morgan Squash Tournament in Grand Central $5 and up.
2. MUSIC: 1/18 & 1/19 – Paris 1919 John Cale accompanied by the Wordless Music Orchestra to perform his 1973 pop-art landmark. 8pm $20 and up. Limited seats available
3. MUSIC: 1/18 – Rumours Live – A Fleetwood Mac Tribute with .357 Lover, Balthrop Alabama & Awkward Book Club. Doors 7pm Show 8pm $10.
4. MUSIC/MULTIMEDIA: 1/18 – The Naura Elegies w/ DJ Spooky performance/multimedia event 7pm
5. THEATER: 1/18 – Radiohole’s Inflatable Frankenstein, avant garde theater about the tragic life of Mary Shelley. Waitlist left. $20
6. ART/PRESENTATION: 1/18 – The Birth of a Scent: Viktor&Rolf Spicebomb; fully interactive presentation explaining the process behind the creation of this work by olfactory artist Carlos Benaim. 7:30pm. $15.
7. ART/THEATER: 1/18 & 1/19 through 2/3 – Flint and Tinder presents: Loss Machine by Kyle Loven. Part installation, part image-driven theater, intimate in scale, this wistful one-man show combines puppets, objects, sound, and original music, in a visual exploration of loss and discovery. 7pm $15
8. ART: 1/19 – Frozen Lakes Exhibit Opening at Artist Space 6 to 8pm. FREE
9. ART/TECH: 1/19 – Eyebeam Chats: Artists in Conversation 12 to 6pm FREE
10. ART/FUN: 1/19 – Ice Festival at Belvedere Castle 12 to 3pm FREE
11. MUSIC: 1/19 – Elysian Fields w/Marissa Nadler & Ramona Lisa. Doors 6:30pm Show 7pm $15
12. COMEDY: 1/19 – Greg Proops The Smartest Man in the World: 8:30pm $15
13. ART/FILM: 1/18 & 1/19 through 2/9 – Marilyn Monroe: The Lost Film of Peter Mangone FREE
14. ART/PERFORMANCE: 1/20 – Aki Sasamoto: Talking in Circles in Talking 7pm at Soloway FREE
15. THEATER: All weekend & through 2/17 – The Vandal by Hamish Linklater $45 Sat Mat. All other perfs: $50
16. ART/PRESENTATION: 1/20 – Taisha Paggett Hands On Blindfold Challenge 2 to 4pm (create art blindfolded) FREE
17. READINGS/DISCUSSION: 1/20 – A. Peter Bailey’s play “Malcolm, Martin and Medgar,” an imagined reunion of the slain civil rights icons, with WNYC’s Brian Lehrer & journalist Farai Chidaya. 3 to 5pm. FREE with reservation.
18. FILM: 1/20 – This is Not a Film: Documentary smuggled out of Iran in a flash drive in a cake. 3 to 5pm $12

MORE EVENTS & LAST CALLS
Last weekend to see Christian Marclay’s The Clock at MoMA. Also check out The Caravan Project “a museum by delivery” installation & performance by Eiko & Koma. Both FREE on Friday from 4 to 8pm
Last weekend to see Picasso Black and White at Guggenheim. Pay-what-you-wish Sat 5:45 to 7:45pm.
1/18 Discussion: Artist Judith Bernstein and Paul McCarthy New Museum 7pm $8
1/20 Architecture Workshop: Environmental Resiliency Workshop – Urban Ecology in the Face of Natural Disasters 1 to 3pm. FREE
All weekend in Dance: American Realness Festival at Abrons Arts Center. Various performances and showtimes. $20

Check our previous Culture on the Cheap posts for ongoing events and check back over the weekend for possible updates. Enjoy!

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Photos courtesy MagnanMetz Gallery; Alexandre Arrechea’s facebook; and Wallpaper.

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Photos courtesy ArtAsiaPacific; Reuters/Dwl Oblo; and Eddi Prabandono’s facebook page.

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1. THEATER/PERFORMANCE: All weekend & through 3/3– Frigid Festival – Fringy theater and performances. $12 to $15.

2. ART/TECH: Fri 2/22 & Sat 2/23 & through 3/2: Gimme More: Is Augmented Reality the Next Medium? Visitors explore the link between the physical and digital worlds via augmented reality-based immersive installations. 12 to 6pm FREE

4. PHOTOGRAPHY: Fri 2/22 and through 5/5 Roman Vishniac Rediscovered most widely recognized and reproduced photographic record of Jewish life in Eastern Europe between the two World Wars. FREE Fridays 5 to 8pm. All other times $14

5. ART: Fri 2/22 through 3/22 – Gathering Place: Selected artists fill the formerly-vacant 8th St. storefront with site-specific works exploring the street and neighborhood’s unique history of commerce and culture. Opening 7pm.

6. TALK/TECH: Fri 2/22 – Part of Social Media Week: Art Exploring Image Sharing Platforms: #selfieaffirmation Panel of internet energy healers and pioneers discuss the relevance of self portraiture and online avatars. 5 to 8pm. FREE

7. ART: All Weekend – Moustache Man (aka Patrick Waldo) who penned his signature cursive “moustache” tag on thousands of subway ads has a solo gallery debut only through Sunday. FREE

8. MUSIC: Fri 2/22 – David Lynch presents Chrysta Bell w/ She Keeps Bees. 7:30pm $15 to $17.

9. ART/TECH: All weekend: The Public Private exhibit that explores the impact of social media and new technologies on the relationship between the public and private realm. FREE

10. ART/TALK: Sat 2/23 – Do It: Hans Ulrich Obrist and Massimiliano Gioni in conversation. 3pm $8

11. PERFORMANCE/ART/HAPPENING: Sat 2/23 – E.S.P. Live From the Control Room repurposes the museum’s Open Studios into E.S.P. TV LAB hosting a variety of artists and performers. A happening-like environment: 7pm $5 to $7

12. ARCHITECTURE/FUN: Sat 2/23 – Secrets of Grand Central Scavenger Hunt. Discover little-known passageways, gourmet foods and much more in the terminal and its environs. 2pm $24.50

13. THEATER/PARTICIPATORY: Fri 2/22 & Sat 2/23 Shakespeare Shakedown presents: A Midsummer Night’s Dream at a secret loft location. Immerse yourself as actors spin wildly through the party blending Shakepeare with improv. 7pm Use code G&SFRIENDS for $15 tkts.

14. FILM: Sat 2/23 – Premiere of Mostly Awake a micro-budget independent comedy filmed in Bushwick. 8pm FREE

15. THEATER: All weekend: Hit the Wall by Ike Holter previews. Ltd amount of $35 tkts remain: Use code HTWBST35

16. MUSIC/OPERA: Sun 2/24 & through 3/2 – The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten based on Henry James’ ghost story and conducted by Jayce Ogren. $25 and up. Use code 19286 for 20% off through 2/26.

17. PARTY/FILM: Sun 2/24 – OscarViewing Party at SideBar 6:30pm $10 general admission

18. MUSIC/DANCE/CIRCUS: Sun 2/24 – The Super Hot Cheap Fun Variety Show: an evening of Circus/Dance/Music and indescribable wonderment. Part of the Hot Cheap Living Festival. 7pm. $10

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From PS1’s site: Favaretto represents the eventuality of loss through a recuperative memorialization, often recycling elements from previous installations as new works, reusing discarded industrial materials, and encasing found paintings in loose tapestries of wool yarn.

Photos: Matthew Septimus/MoMA PS1; Alan Dimmick; Galeria Franco Noero; and Universes in Universe.

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Photos by Roland Kaiser and bottom photo by Michal Selinger

From PS1’s site:
Favaretto represents the eventuality of loss through a recuperative memorialization, often recycling elements from previous installations as new works, reusing discarded industrial materials, and encasing found paintings in loose tapestries of wool yarn.