Mia/impressions
notes about places, artworks, exhibitions,events
October 2018
TENT (Rotterdam)
Pilar Mata Dupont: Only weeds emerge - Undesirable Bodies, Shuffle, The Ague, Credits
MIMA (Brussels)
Get up, stand up! an exhibition of protest and activist posters
Design Museum Gent
Opening of an exhibition Fibre-Fixed: Composites in design
Museum Voorlinden (Den Haag)
Rhapsody in Blue: Anish Kapoor, Ellsworth Kelly, A.R. Penck, Alain Biltereyst (small paintings w. geometrical compositions), Zoro Feigl (Night - rotating strip with bubbles)
Stage of Being: Thomas Struth, Anthony Gormley, Daniel Spoerri
Dave Meijer – Nulpunt the whole room with many small paintings, unfinished work, continuous, sketchbooks on display
Nederlandse Fotomuseum (Rotterdam)
Dit is Cas (exhibition of Cas Oorthuys), concentrated on photo books, 'vintage prints' (first prints, made by an artist himself), quantity brings quality, organized system of storing pictures
Kunsthal Rotterdam
November 2018
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Metahaven: Earth I like the aesthetics (fragments from everyday life and digital culture, recognisable popular signs and symbols such as 'YouTube' in combination with more documentary-like shots), enjoyed watching videos, the way they approach the viewer is not aggressive but rather calm, concentrated; 3 channel video with people walking on an abandoned airstrip reminded me of my home village with similar nature (pine trees, yellowish grass) and the remains of military infrastructure
EYE Museum (Amsterdam)
January 2019
IFFR 2019 - notes
February 2019
Kunsthal
Kunsthal: Blackout (exhibition within IFFR) The exhibition of works presented with slide projectors, intensive sound and warmth in the space, sounds like being in a bee swarm. Many works address the concepts of memory, history, past and present. Images seem to have a velvet-like feel, sharp and soft at the same time. Very tactile. Title has layered meanings, which I like. Few works I like the most:
Floris Vanhoof: Fossil Locomotion: interesting way of animating still images with rather slow projector - use more of them! (4 projectors). At the same time the artist animates fossils that have been still for millennia ... flickering, moth-like movements.
Nguyen Trinh Thi: Landscape Series #1
http://vimeo.com/67903807 Open to interpretation - human pursuit of something unreachable or something not yet discovered, the need for something you cannot get, or urge to see something that is already gone or has not yet happened. Mysteriousness. humour (repetition of scene of people pointing at something that was supposed to be there in the lanscape). With repetition, usual journalist picture reveals people's behaviour as absurd, funny and pointless.
Raha Raissnia: Mneme
http://vimeo.com/234588123 An intriguing way to present paintings and drawings. Layering within the pictures' composition is echoed by the way of how they're projected: they appear on a thin membrane that works as a screen, but is stretched on a frame with some distance from the wall. Behind this membrane is a black surface that reminds me of fish scales or wet stone texture. Thus the images gain another layer - a play of projections and reflections, based on artist's paintings. The latter being relevant directly for my practice.
Aura Satz: Her Luminous Distance
Interactive - the viewer is invited to spin the disc that causes flickering and overlapping of the images that come from 2 projectors placed one on top of another. Still-image projection thus becomes a moving image, depending on the rhythm the viewer chooses. A hands-on presentation of distant worlds such as deep space ...
Kristina Benjocki: Sedimentation of Memory
White drawings on deep black background (wall, that looks like velvet), you notice that they are inverted (were probably pencil drawings and then she inverts black and white so that you have white shadows). Thus the motives they depict seem slightly unusual. They are scenes from war times, soldiers, generals, weapons, prison cells, but also remains of far history such as animal skeletons, marks and maps of the territories etc. Beautiful drawings that are sometimes constructed by tracing over the photographs and thus seem very flat, and other times they are very lively, more expressive. She projected them on the walls and cubes of limestone. Like a personal and historian's topography at the same time.
EYE Museum Amsterdam
Jan Švankmajer: The Alchemical Wedding
Animation S&T 20.2.2019
>>Another great evening of conversation, thank you all for coming and contributing your knowledge, energy and opinions! Thank you especially to Dominick van der Hoff, Max Kowalski and Sophia Twigt for starting us down the rabbit holes. We talked about rotoscoping in anime and in general, different ways to do it and the motivation behind the choice. We talked about Xavier Renegade Angel and other intentionally 'ugly' or poorly animated, boundary-pushing comedy shows and we talked about animated shorts that span the spectrum from illustrated journalism to Animated Documentary Film – the one more literal and audio-dependent, and the other where the visuals and audio wouldn't work without each other. Our next event will be Tuesday, April 16th, get in touch to volunteer! Here is every LINK we looked at yesterday:<<
Dominick van der Hoff:
Music video for song Airy Me by band Cuushe, video by Yoko Kuno: https://vimeo.com/70463623
behind-the-scenes roto: https://vimeo.com/174170170
Interview about her career (French): https://youtu.be/ywAuaa7jeM8 Blog post about her career: https://blog.sakugabooru.com/…/…/30/animes-future-yoko-kuno/
Hana and Alice (2015): https://youtu.be/6nlnRKofvC0?t=28
Aku no Hana (Flowers of Evil - 2013) trailer (German): https://youtu.be/r_1tx1FT95Q Controversial rotoscoping
Neil Clingerman on Aku no Hana (Flowers of Evil): https://youtu.be/RVr0tmlnRyI?t=210
Ya-Ne-Sen a Go Go: https://youtu.be/tN_62MmQBqQ Waking Life (2001): https://youtu.be/4fS0JLKONzw A Scanner Darkly (2006): https://youtu.be/hkjDUERgCQw Lord of the Rings (1978): https://youtu.be/wZpmZyTK2dI
Peeping Life (2013) comedy show? https://youtu.be/dkzqa0l0mw8
Max Kowalski:
Xavier Renegade Angel (Adult Swim, 2007-2009, 20 episodes by PFFR - Vernon Chatman and John Lee): https://youtu.be/binN-lTcmyU
The Heart, She Holler (2011-2014, Adult Swim): https://youtu.be/p5fbVyQn8W8
Tim and Eric Awesome Show (Adult Swim, 2007-2010): https://youtu.be/dlHWb6U2s2U
Xavier argues with himself (episode 10): https://youtu.be/woPG3z5vkew
Kung Fu (1972-1975): https://youtu.be/Rvu5YcmYhSQ
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C_HReR_McQ
Tigtone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7oPSkiAm0A
Dream Corp LLC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bJwHYZnaiQ
Robot Chicken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2-APnJcnDM Space Ghost C2C: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnvBeg96NlM
Animal Collective ForiDada music video by PFFR (2016): https://youtu.be/cuoIvNFUY7I
Cool 3D World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDE1AxvOeAE
TomoNews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHUrZGP_p9w
AV article - too awkward? https://tv.avclub.com/xavier-renegade-angel-the-breaking-po…
Interview with creators: https://tv.avclub.com/vernon-chatman-and-john-lee-of-xavier…
Sophia Twigt:
California Inspires Me: Mike Mills: https://vimeo.com/127084206 by Brian Rea and Pablo Delcan.
California Sunday online article with GIFs: https://stories.californiasunday.com/2014-10-05/googleplay/
Draw My Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAPRC_Js9AU
Is there a difference between illustrated journalism and Animated Documentary Film?
Jonas Odell, I Was A Winner (2015): https://vimeo.com/305804024
Wreck It Ralph therapy session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyeI8Eoe62s
Creature Comforts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmNymPocKro
An Eyeful of Sound by Samantha Moore (2010): https://vimeo.com/11649675
Isaac Arthur: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GusIC3RMhbI
The Last Job on Earth, short film for Guardian article: https://vimeo.com/155534602
The Danish Poet: https://vimeo.com/59917070
Places Other People Have Lived: https://vimeo.com/31943880