Arm yourself with Art

Arm yourself. With right things. With art, music, expressions, impressions, sound, ideas, though, reflection… “Disarm”, turning decommissioned weapons into music instruments is an amazing, inspiring, work by Pedro Reyes. “The purpose of art is to come up with ways to transform the most negative instincts into creative instincts.” – Pedro Reyes “Disarm is a second…

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Enchanting and whimsical: Suzanne Ciani’s Buchla Concertos, here to stay

The enchanting and whimsical “Buchla Concerts” (1975) of Suzanne Ciani – the untold story of the first woman on the proverbial moon. “… It was a manifesto and a gateway to a new world, that somehow never quite opened. If the unfamiliar, modernistic, melodic, pulses, tones and harmonics found on this 1975 live presentation/grant application/educational…

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Sounding Aurora

Six planks of wood. Six percussionist. And a trippiest of journeys. The pulse begins sharply, but soft. Steady, intricate intertwining of different pulsations are starting to build a twofold entity of sound’s invasion. The beating of the timber. Whose inner voice starts to seep into the air. The pulsating beats remind on heart beats, and…

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micro world. macro beauty.

THE DIATOMIST is a short documentary about Klaus Kemp, master of the Victorian art of diatom arrangement.  Diatoms are single cell algae that create jewel-like glass shells around themselves. Microscopists of the Victorian era would arrange them into complex patterns, invisible to the naked eye but spectacular when viewed under magnification. Klaus Kemp has devoted…

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Hands of Bresson

“The things one can express with the hands…” – Robert Bresson “A work of archival criticism that forgoes the language of rigour for that of rapture… here are hands – votive, tender, purloining, trembling – that make me want to raise my own hands in gratitude to this mysterious poet.” – Sukhdev Sandhu, Sight &…

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Triadisches Ballet

Oskar Schlemmer born September 4th, 1888 in Stuttgart, Gernany. He was a painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer. He was also a professor at the BAUHAUS School. This video dance piece of the “Tridiac Ballet” is reconstruction by Margarete Hastings in 1970. This was possible with of support of Ludwig Grote and Xanti Schawinsky (Schelemer students…

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