The Little Weakling is looking for Daddy in Berlin

With Antie Agula and an Adoption Questionnaire we went to that marvelous city of Berlin, to find a right father for our little darling. There was quite a bunch of interested and Adequate man but our first and the last choice was tender and properly dressed up JOEL of Brazilian origin. Auntie Agula rewarded him with her Polish cake to Asimilate all of the 3 nations and tore the photo of recanted past-father up.
The performance took place in ACUD,Berlin during the Month of Performance on 11th of May; big thanks to Joern Burmester (coordinator of MPA). More pics from the whole event here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mpa-berlin/sets/72157629833852292/

Photo © Alexandra Gneissl 2012, Iwona Liegmann 2012

The MONTH OF PERFORMANCE ART (MPA-B)

Soon ... 10-11 th of MAy, and off we go to perform in Berlin again :-)
http://www.mpa-b.org/about.html

Sarah Applebaum

American artist Sarah Moli Newton Applebaum (b. 1975, California) lives and works in San Francisco, California. Internationally recognized, her work has been exhibited in La Triennale Di Milano Design Museum in Milan, Nordic House Cultural Center in Reykjavik, Iceland, the Denver Biennial of the Americas in Colorado and the San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art in California, among other spaces. She has been featured in a diversity of books and publications throughout China, North and South America and Europe. Applebaum's new-psych work has played a key part in reinvigorating installation and soft sculpture through her use of textiles in contemporary art.

http://www.sarahapplebaum.com

Sarah's blog http://sarahapplebaum.tumblr.com/

The clip http://vimeo.com/31424892

A collaboration of San Francisco-based band Seventeen Evergreen with Oakland-based directing maestros Corey Creasey and Ian Kibbey – aka Terri Timely – for Polarity Song has resulted in something remarkable and beautiful – with the crucial input of Ian and Corey’s (SF-based) artist friend Sarah Applebaum.

Applebaum’s medium of choice are textiles to make ‘soft sculptures’ – put to brilliant use in the Timely’s creation of a very woolly and colourful alternate universe within a drab, cavernous thrift store (probably somewhere in the Bay Area). Stephen Richards of Lucky Number calls it “the best video we’ve ever commissioned.”

http://www.promonews.tv/2011/11/07/seventeen-evergreen-polarity-song-by-terri-timely/

Seventeen Evergreen - Polarity Song / Włóczkowe stwory

                                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6RiZrcnLJM

Concept - A Terri Timely and Sarah Applebaum Collaboration
Direction- Terri Timely
Producer- David Lambert
Production manager- Ryan Miller
Production Coordinator- Ayesha Janmohamed
DOP- Donavan Sell
Art Director- Zoe Kim and Jona Tochet

Magda Sayeg

Ruch knit graffiti zainicjowała kilka lat temu Amerykanka Magda Sayeg w rodzinnym Houston w Teksasie. 

W 2006 r. ubrała w skarpetę przęsło mostu w Seattle i drzewa w parku. Owłóczkowała znaki drogowe w Los Angeles, latarnie i drogowskazy w Mexico City, balustrady i hydranty w Houston, parkometry i uchwyty w autobusach w Nowym Jorku. Potem rozpoczęła desant na inne kontynenty. Włóczkowe graffiti tworzyła już w Paryżu (jedna z monumentalnych rzeźb przed Palais de Chaillot na placu Trocadéro dostała wełnianą skarpetę), Wenecji, Mediolanie, Londynie, Kolonii, Sydney, a nawet w Chinach (zostawiła wełnianą vlepkę na jednym z kamieni w Wielkim Murze).

Najbardziej spektakularne dzieło przygotowywała przez tydzień w Mexico City - włóczką oplotła autobus. - Nie obchodzi mnie, że w każdej chwili mogę zostać aresztowana. Nie ma mowy, bym opuściła jakiekolwiek miasto bez pozostawienia po sobie śladu - mówiła Sayeg w wywiadach. Jak dotąd nikt jej nie aresztował.
ze strony: http://www.wysokieobcasy.pl/wysokieobcasy/1,96856,9400665,Szydelko_kontra_sprej.html

Considered to be the mother of yarn bombing, Magda's work has evolved to include the knitted/crocheted covered bus in Mexico City, as well as her first solo exhibit in Rome at La Museo des Esposizione in the summer of 2010 . She continues to lead community-based projects and works on commissions around the world with companies such as Absolut Vodka, Madewell, Insight 51, Mini Cooper, and Smart Car as well as participating in shows at Milan's Triennale Design Museum, Le M.U.R. in Paris, and the National Gallery of Australia, among others. Her installations have also been featured prominently at American monuments to contemporary culture, such as The Standard Hotel, South By Southwest, and the Austin City Limits Festival. Magda has most recently expanded her artwork to encompass new mediums and techniques as with her solo show in Rome which explored the usage of lighting with knitted material. She continues to expand her boundaries by joining integrated media company 1stAveMachine as one of their directors which will serve as a platform for new types of experimentation and collaboration. 

Recent projects include an installation covering the AC ductwork of Etsy.com’s headquarters in Brooklyn and the soon to be completed installation at the Williamsburg Bridge with the NYC Department of Transportation.

The text and photos taken from Magda's web-site and blog: 
http://www.knittaplease.com
http://knittaporfavor.wordpress.com/

Agata „Olek” Oleksiak

Agata „Olek” Oleksiak to jedna z najbardziej znanych na świecie artystek street artu - artystek niezwykłych, bo wszystkie swoje prace tworzy z kolorowej włóczki na szydełku!

W swojej karierze artystycznej dziergała już „ubranka” dla samochodów, instrumentów muzycznych, ludzi a nawet statui byka – symbolu Wall Street. Wytrwale uprawia włóczkowy street art, dziergając pokrowce na elementy architektury miejskiej – ławki, znaki drogowe, latarnie. Sama mówi, że gdy już zacznie, to ciężko ją powstrzymać i ostatnie osiem lat spędziła pokrywając przędzą wszystko.

Olek wystawia w galeriach, ale też żywo zajmuje ją sztuka uliczna - tzw. knit graffiti, ruch zainicjowany kilka lat temu przez Amerykankę Magdę Sayeg w Houston w Teksasie. Zasłynęła owłóczkowaniem przęsła mostu w Seattle, drzew w parku, znaków drogowych w Los Angeles czy parkometrów w Nowym Jorku.

Dziś knit graffiti jest rozpatrywane w kategoriach sztuki. Często nazywane jest "nową formą street artu", jego "feministyczną alternatywą".

Nazywana często "Banksy'm w spódnicy" w swojej twórczości często nawiązuje do prac takich artystów jak Banksy, Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns czy Invader. 

fot. materiały prasowe / Black and White nr 1, fot. Gina Vecchione

fot. materiały prasowe / Olek, Catch me if you can

fot. materiały prasowe / Olek, Wall Street Bull

fot. See-ming Lee  flickr.com, lic.CC

fot. materiały prasowe  www.agataolek.com

tekst i zdjęcia ze strony  http://kultura.wp.pl/gid,13990824,galeria.html?T%5Bpage%5D=1

strona Agaty Oleksiak     http://agataolek.com/home.html

 

 

Russia has been in the news lately for its government’s stance against gay rights, and Olek (who is featured in our forthcoming issue, Hi-Fructose Vol. 29) was abhorred. “The recent government decision regarding gay rights in Russia made me want to boycott the country,” she wrote on her Huffington Post blog. But after some consideration, Olek boarded a plane to St. Petersburg with God-knows-how-many pounds of camouflage crocheted fabric. Her mission was to swathe the facade of Galeria, a huge downtown shopping center, with a crochet rainbow as a pro-LGBTQ message that anyone could appreciate on an aesthetic level. Olek sent over some photos of the creation of “Russia’s Pride.”

 

http://hifructose.com/2013/09/26/oleks-russias-pride-installation-in-st-petersburg/

 

 

Pavel Schmidt in the Museum Goch, Germany

Still searching for the name of the artist....have seen his performance in 2006...blowing some dwarves up in the back garden of the Goch Museum... and glueing them back together into new beings :-)

Here he is ... Pavel Schmidt from Switzerland.

Pavel Schmidt was born in 1956 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. He started out studying chemistry at the University of Bern before training in Fine Arts in Munich, where he worked with Daniel Spoerri. From this encounter, he retained a sharpened sense of life’s drama and of his own experience as a work of art. He has shown extensively in Europe, the US, and Korea, and has produced many books as painter, illustrator and installation artist. He has organized actions in extraordinarily diverse sites, using explosives, fireworks, and smoke-bombs, destroying and rebuilding to music cultural archetypes like gods and goddesses, garden dwarves and hoses. He enjoys breaking and blowing up everything in order to apply his bandages and crutches, thereby reconstructing his own world, as a destructive and reparative nurse-artist.

http://www.ves.fas.harvard.edu/schmidt.html