gtv images
Morten Rockford Ravn takes photos of the situations and scenery he sees on the screen while he plays GTA V. His photos make you uneasy and also invite you to reflect on the relationship between digital fiction and reality.
expogrow 2015
This year’s programme is complete. And, like every year, there won’t be any chance of getting bored during the three days it lasts. As well as the cannabis fair and activities, there are going to be many different sports and cultural activities: Jamaica’s Third World reggae ambassadors, Collectif 13, Flavia Coelho, Accion Sanchez & Zatu, Marina P & Stepart, LMK and Don Camilo are playing this year.
getxophoto
Our favourite annual cultural event has chosen travel as its theme for this year. To put it into pictures, they’re chosen work by photographers from all over the world and taken them out onto the street. This year, too, we have the luxury of being able to say “I spy…” and having things to see out there. Throughout September.
zinemaldia
For many people, September’s the dull month they go back to work. For others, it’s when they get the streets back from the waves of tourists. For us, it’s when we pass out in front of the big screen. For a few days Donostia becomes the epicentre of world cinema and some of us will try to get as high as possible on the Richter Scale.
freeing the knot
Artists Janiana Mello and Daniel Landini’s project is called Cliclotrama. And their idea is so simple that we can’t imagine anything more beautiful could be made with a rope. Well, we can, but let’s not go into that here. Mello and Landini chose a rope, freed the fibres it was made of, took them back to nature and made them into a tree. Astonishing.
basquiat + koons
Damn! We have to admit that we don’t really like mentioning anything organised by the Guggenheim. They’ve never advertised with us, they swallow up a large part of the public budget for culture and are all too often extremely elitist in the way they do things. But we just had to tell you that you’ll be able to see an exhibition by Jeff Koons and another by Jean Michel Basquiat at the same time… Sometimes we just have to bend over and take the punishment.
passolini
Aritz Galarraga told us about this exhibition in number 71 of the balde back in 2013. There’s no need for us to travel now, at least not abroad, because they’ve brought it to San Telmo Museum. It’s a chance to see the exhibition and, thanks to new publications, a great opportunity to read his writing. Passolini, Roma, vita e morte.
specola anatomy collection
We’ve already said th at we’ve seen Jean Michel Basquiat’s exhibition. We found out there that the US artist’s obsession with the anatomy goes back to a car accident he had as a child. And, all of a sudden, we remembered the bodies made of photos in Florence’s Specola Anatomy Museum. It’s one of Florence’s leastknown treasures. We’ve told you: now it’s up to you…
for sick climbers
The 165-metre tall wall which holds the water back at Luzzone Lake, in Switzerland, keeps back more than 650 artificial reservoirs. The 37-metre tall Excalibur Tower at Groningen, in the Low Countries, is quite something too. If you go anywhere near them in your cool camper vans, have a go at them.
circumcision kit
Nowadays, thanks to the Net, we’re increas ingly autonomous. We use the internet for getting information and, as well, for buying things, getting off, finding diagnoses for our illnesses and getting healthier. So it’s no surprise that there are parents who encourage their sons to circumcise themselves. That’s what the Circumcision Kit has been made for. Two versions: for children and for adults. Let’s hope they’re skilful when they get down to it. As Barbra Streisand might put it, it’s kosher…
