RIFRAZIONI

our new italian PLATOON.members are creating a buzz on the seaside just few miles outside Rome. art collective CERCLE is in fact organizing the third edition of RIFRAZIONI – an international festival of performative, visual and musical arts.




protagonists of this edition will be London based collective „Leibniz“, represented by Ernst Fisher and Helen Spackman and by Chilean collective „Deformes“, masterminded by Gonzalo Rabanal, one of Chile´s most innovative exponents of performing arts. Berlin collective „Invasor“ will also take part in the initiative along with members of the Brazilian group "Teatro Oficina" and several other Swiss and Italian artists.









the locations of the festival (a mediaeval castle overlooking the beach and the ruins of the ancient Nero Villa) will be a source of inspiration for the many creatives involved; their engagement with the local reality will bring new works into life wich somehow will have as result an elaboration and re-interpretation of the local identity.


interventions in theatre, dance, cinema, photography and visual arts will follow contemporary social topics such as: politics of the body, migration and social exclusion.





RIFRAZIONI wants to diversify the cultural offer in the area, aiming at interdisciplinary cross-overs in a sort of contamination between the arts and global cultures. the festival, in fact, presents itself as a „free zone„ for the interaction of several disciplines, genres and contemporary forms of communication.


...if you happen to be in the area during the end of august you should definitely go and check it out!

RIFRAZIONI
running from the 22 - 31 august 2008
in different locations around Anzio-Nettuno (RM)

HELD

another contemporary dance performance definitely worth seeing…choreographer and performer Morgan Belenguer, (RIDDLE) invites you to his and Melanie Lane´s latest work: HELD

HELD is a documentation made of faded memories: wandering in the corners of rooms, through silent walls and on worn-out carpets. looking for traces and leads belonging to whom left them behind.

the story of these memories will be told through the observation of an environment rather then through persons. It will feel like a room awakening… a landscape of sound, video and random materials being built and taken apart again, a continuously changing architecture made of space and ambiance in which the performance turns in circle.

Premiere: July 31st, 20.30Uhr Further Perfromances: 1st-3rd August, 20.30Uhr. Dock 11, Kastanianallee 79.

etoy at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing

toys leave China in containers, etoy enters China with a container: the SARCOPHAGUS opens its gates this monday, June 9 at the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) in Beijing. the community of the living and the dead woos for the Chinese and unpacks Timothy Leary only steps from the Forbidden City. after weeks of construction, the NAMOC opens SYNTHETIC TIMES, a global media art group show curated by Zhang Ga in collaboration with TATE London, MOMA New York, Eyebeam, and Pro Helvetia.

to adapt MISSION ETERNITY to the Chinese market and build on a corporate tradition (etoy.FIZZLE), etoy trades intangible assets for a new currency: the etoy.AFTERLIFE-CERTIFICATE is designed to light up the boundary between life and death. inspired by an old Chinese tradition of using fire to transfer assets to the dead (hell bank notes), etoy collaborated with young graphic design talent 阮千瑞
(Ruan Qianrui) to create the first note (beta v.01) equivalent to 1/1000 of an etoy.SHARE. with each certificate, a part of the etoy.BRAND goes up in smoke.

Opening: June 9, 5 p.m.
Exhibition: National Art Museum of China (NAMOC)
No. 1 Wusi Street Dongcheng District, Beijing 100010 P.R.China
Jun 10, 2008 -July 3, 2008

share with the living and burn for the dead
中国团队 /your agents in Beijing

marc brinkmeier

our friend, marc brinkmeier called fosten, has get a price -in the rubric reportage-, of the big publisher gruner+jahr who edit the magazine stern and other known magazines . they attached importance for good photographers. marc´s series was titled "pictures lest we forget".










othertimes he shoots for PLATOON the exhibition-photos poor in spide of work

all of PLATOON would like to congratulate him.
Yipee fosten!!!!!

koreans eat dogs..

.. but here yeunsu and udo eat octopus.. a baby octopus.. the strange thing is you don't know if you should call it alive or not. in fact it should be dead because it is chopped.. but it does not look like.. but have a look:

etoy wins VIDA AWARD 2007

president Francisco Serrano, announced on 29.11.07 at Barcelona Contemporary Art Museum (MACBA): etoy wins the first prize of the VIDA AWARDS created by Fundación Telefónica to foster artistic creation based on new technologies and artificial life.
congratulations to our friends and members of etoy. its fantastic.
here you can read the excerpt from the jury statement:
etoy launched the Mission Eternity Project in 2005, foregrounding on the one hand respect for the human longing to survive in some way after death, and on the other a sense of irony about dated sci-fi fantasies we contrive to satisfy that desire. The Sarcophagus is one materialization of this project. It is a mobile sepulcher that holds and displays portraits of those who wish to have their informational remains cross over into a digital afterlife. The size of a standard cargo container that can travel to any location in the world, the Sarcophagus has an immersive LED screen covering its walls, ceiling and floor. There, interactive digital portraits can be summoned via mobile phone or web browser from virtual capsules that are stored in the shared memory of thousands of networked electronic devices of Mission Eternity Angels (people who contribute a small part of their personal storage capacity to the mission, currently 765 of them; to date, 2 volunteers have been accepted for encapsulation). The data spectres that populate this tenuous memorial space are composed of details of lives lived, in visual, audio and text fragments. But when they are summoned in lo-res pixellated form in the Sarcophagus, they resemble one merged personality. The massing of details that we find in archives and records that keep the dead with us has a similar compositing effect, yet the Sarcophagus is also very unlike those. It gives us access to a novel social world generated among networked computer users who have a common goal of keeping something alive, which can invoke intense feelings such as care and wonder.

so PLATOON wish the mission a long life and good luck.

schuppenclub

da geht doch was!!! macht lust auf auf mehr.
dank an den handyreporter IM Klonk für die spitzen aufnahme. lecker abend. euer fosten

Invitation to the GRAFTWORLD opening

GRAFTWORLD
Scenographic Architecture

transcending mental and formal boundaries is the response of Lars Krückeberg (whom we met in Beijing), Wolfram Putz,Thomas Willemeit and Gregor Hoheisel to constant change in a contemporary dynamic society.

founded in 1998 in Los Angeles as the label GRAFT for ‘architecture,design, music and the pursuit of happiness‘ ,their exhibition installation is a visualization of an exemplary design and communication process that transforms all traditional categories of furniture, architecture and urban environment into one continuous landscape. the working methods of GRAFT unite semantic, syntactic and phenomenological aspects; their buildings are distinguished by scenographic elements of film with space-time references, a farreaching constructional research in cooperation with diverse companies as well as an intense dialog with clients. the interactive exhibition lounge GRAFTWORLD integrates projects that were created in the GRAFT studios in Berlin, Beijing and Los Angeles and range between hotels in Tiflis and Vancouver, resorts in the caribbean, villas in Berlin and Mallorca and not to mention Brad Pitt´s guesthouse&studios in LA.




saturday 20.01.2006 18.30 Aedes am Pfefferberg Berlin

welcome:
Kristin Feireiss, Berlin
Klaus Wowereit, Regierender Bürgermeister von Berlin
Andreas Ruby, Architekturtheoretiker


exhibition/ 20.01. - 01.03. 2007

opening hours
Tue - Fri 11 - 18.30 / Sat - Sun 13 -17

Aedes am Pfefferberg
Christinenstraße 18 – 19 / 10119 Berlin

*a catalogue will be published.





einladung zur eröffnung von GRAFTWORLD

mit der entgrenzung im kopf und in der form reagieren Lars Krückeberg (dem wir in Beijing getroffen haben), Wolfram Putz, Thomas Willemeit und Gregor Hoheisel auf den wandel einer gegenwärtigen dynamisierten gesellschaft. die ausstellungsinstallation des 1998 in Los Angeles gegründeten labels GRAFT für ‘architektur, design, musik und the pursuit of happiness’ ist die visualisierung eines beispielhaften gestaltungs- und kommunikationsprozesses, in dem alle maßstäbe von mobiliar über architektur bis hin zur städtebaulichen dimension miteinander verbunden werden in der arbeitsweise von GRAFT verschmelzen semantische, syntaktische und phänomenologische aspekte, ihre bauten sind geprägt durch raum-zeitliche szenografische elemente des films, eine weit reichende bautechnische forschung mit unterschiedlichen unternehmen
sowie durch einen intensiven dialog mit den bauherren. In der interaktiven ausstellungs-lounge GRAFTWORLD sind die projekte, die in den GRAFT - studios in Berlin, Beijing und Los Angeles entstanden sind, integriert und reichen von hotels in Tiflis und Vancouver, über resorts in der Karibik bis hin zu villen in Berlin und Mallorca.