Mia/impressions

notes about places, artworks, exhibitions,events

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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

Wayne Thiebaud

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

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)

Ryoji Ikeda

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