Cool Hunting
| 13 September 2005view entries from: this week | this month | view previous day | view next day |
Toytakeova
by Carol T Chung
Toytakeova is an exhibition featuring 10 of Australia's top emerging artists. Presented as a toy store, the artists explore societal values, behavior, and relationships through toys and play. Each artist was invited to create or modify their own selection of childhood toys by drawing from memory and interpretation. The about page states that:
...The work seeks to reverse the current trend of the art toy market – instead of mass-producing a toy, the aim is to individualize the mass-produced... The toys act as little mascots to our dysfunctions...
Currently, the exhibit will only be showing in Australia. (September 10th to 24th in Melbourne and November 25th to December 8th in Brisbane). According to Laura Krikke, exhibition curator as well as artist, an application has been sent to the Lower Manhattan Council, but she has yet to hear back from them. She is also looking into the possibility of having the exhibition shown in London as well. Hopefully the sponsorship and funding gods will smile down upon her, so that some of us non-Australians can take a peek. The 10 artists are: Laura Krikke, Micheal Swifte, Kirsty Boyle, Alicia King, Karina Averlon-Thomas, Alice Laing, Anita Fontaine, Troy Emery Goodwin, Van Sowerwine, and Simon Scheurle. Featured here is one of Laura Krikke's Kewpie Dolls.
Be@rbrick World Tour Opens in New York
by Ami Kealoha
After five days of painting, the walls of Chelsea gallery GBE at Passerby were transformed into a dizzying optical illusion based on Dutch artist Delta's bold graphic design. His black and off-white pattern was one customization of 53 unique Be@rbrick 1000%s, each designed by different artists from all over the globe for The Be@rbrick Worldwide Tour. The tour kicked-off last year in Japan and, thanks to Nike sponsorship, made its U.S. premiere last night at an invite-only opening. Our team was there, following up on last week's post and capturing some of the more subtle details.
Semi-Permanent Recap
by Ami Kealoha
After two days in a darkened hall watching a near-constant stream of images and a diverse speaker lineup, my brain started confusing music videos with dreams and vainly tried to come up with the common thread in Semi-Permanent. Tying it all together (props to the planners for the choice), the over-caffeinated concluding speaker, Joshua Davis took the stage. His talk, centered around the concept of what he calls "dynamic abstraction," neatly summed up themes of analog vs. digital, addressed the ways that technologies shape aesthetics, and demonstrated how the Internet has changed the industry.
(pictured: Liz Diller, all images courtesy of m ss ng p eces)
Yummy Industries' 2nd Series
by Carol T Chung
Back in February, Josh Spear clued us all in on Yummy Industries. Well, I'm just here to let you all know that they have some new belts available at their online store. The 1st and 2nd series are listed together in alphabetical order all clumped together. 2nd series belts: bird in pussy, death before disco, double dragon, elephant foot, first night out, lycelacie, mandelbrot, mob, n°1, pattern overload, pink hands, rockets, and study of behaviour. Featured here is n°1
