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Two weeks, at Balse.
At LAX airport lounge, Balse is headed to Venezia Biennale Arte 2024. Last minute purchase Mozart Don Giovanni performance next week alle Tetro Felice di Venezia. Grazie Tea.
First, we would like to congratulate Alex Andre for his first feature film release. Now available to watch on Video on Demand through various platforms.
PRATFALL (2024) HD TRAILER | ALEX ANDRE
Excited to see what is coming next.
J’aime Claudel, still obsessed with Camille Claudel.
To record the times that we live in - MAGNUM PHOTOS. Some quotes in random - “Personal documentary - serious work, making a statement about the world, but with a very personal point of view. - Magnum, from a large bottle of Champagne. Photo journalism in the traditional sense is very dead. To question. A fresh look at why certain subjects get photographed and why certain things don’t. “
researching Wolfgang Tillmans, a truly inspiring photographer, artist. - ‘a constant negotiation of trance and control’
let’s do music
Wahnstimmung by Riccardo De Polo
Kerrie - Ode To The D Tresor Berlin
Tresor Studio Session: Kerrie Tresor Berlin
Judeline - la pestaña que soplé
loving the West African pop Ibibio Sound Machine
Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Official Music Video)
Ibibio Sound Machine - Protection From Evil (Official Video)
Ibibio Sound Machine - Got to Be Who U Are (Official Video)
Touch the Ceiling Ibibio Sound Machine
more musica
salute - 'saving flowers (with Rina Sawayama)
FKA twigs - Together All (Unreleased)
Arctic Lake - How Do You Make It Look So Easy?
Arctic Lake - Fireflies (Live From London)
FKA twigs - Protect Myself (Unreleased)
DJ mix
WARNING - Laylla Dane | HÖR - May 3 / 2024
Photographer Hrair Sarkissian: Through These Traumas | Louisiana Channel
Revisiting Yukio Mishima. ‘obviously, he’s not for everyone…’ and I agree, but fascinating to say the least.
and Fashion - LEMAIRE, very elegant, natural. respect.
addesso
なう
now
VENEZIA, 20.04 - 24.11 2024
BIENNALE ARTE 2024
60. ESPOSIZIONE INTERNAZIONALE D’ARTE
till next time.
Charles A. Balse
Words of Wisdom
[[akademie-X]], [[Christopher Williams]]
Lesson 35 - No Plexiglas, No Electricity, No Humour; or Love is Colder Than Death, page 36
PAYING ATTENTION TO OTHERS - Pay attention to what other artists are doing. It gets harder and harder as the amount of art being produced keeps growing, but it’s super important to know what your colleagues are up to. To be able to think about the present historically, you have to look at as much as you can right now. There’s a more social aspect to it as well, which is that, if you expect people to pay attention to your work, you need to pay attention to theirs… artists such as John Baldessari and Ed Ruscha continue to go to galleries every month, getting to know younger artists and constantly looking at other people’s work.
It’s important to absorb as much information as possible but then to think through your materials.
[[A NEW HISTORY OF WESTERN ART]],[[Koenraad Jonckheere]]
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To explain the nature of art, (Johannes) à Porta (D’net Der Beeltstormers, The Net of the Iconoclasts, 1591) came up with an affecting metaphor. Imagine a young woman, he wrote, recently married and still deeply in love. But her husband must go to war (an everyday reality in 1591). He will be gone for months at least and might never return. Just before he leaves, he gives her a small portrait of himself - her only keepsake. What happens then, Johannes à Porta says, is magical: the meaning (the declaration of love) merges with the object. You could imprint it on your memory, you could even create a perfect copy, yet the relic value assumed by that original portrait makes it irreplaceable. For the young woman, the likeness of her husband could never be replicated. The panel would become her treasured possession. It is the same reason you carry a crumpled photo of a loved one in your wallet for years and cannot bring yourself to tear it up, even though nowadays you could easily copy or digitise it.
According to à Porta, this is precisely what happens with art: if a powerful connection arises between the meaning of an object and its viewer owner, that meaning will merge with the object itself. The work of art or the image becomes the physical relic of a raw emotion or a compelling memory. Something irreplaceable. Art to à Porta was a question of faith: a work of art becomes important if you believe in its history, its significance, and so forth - in every layer of meaning, in short, that inheres within the object.The stronger the cognitive and emotional bond, the more powerful the effect. It is for the same reason that a mechanically produced urinal can become a world-famous work of art. If it is presented as art at the right time, in the right place, in the right context and by the right artist, the original does not even have to be preserved. I refer, of course, to Fountain (1917) by Marcel Duchamp, which now exists purely in the form of replicas. Yet placed on a pedestal behind glass in the world’s most prestigious museums, even those appeal to the imagination.
Main Studies
DEREK BOSHIER Strange Lands - LA
“ALL RIGHT BITE” by Ayako Rokkaku - TOKYO
SARAH AWAD To Hold a Thing - LA
OKETA COLLECTION 2024「Golden Memories」-TOKYO
Li Songsong The Past - LA
Sadie Benning The Touch, the Amulet and the Saltation - LA
Aly Helyer Everything is Borrowed - LA
April Bey I Know All About What You Want to Know All About - LA
Jorge Peris: Permafrost - LA
Hiroshi Fujiwara: ambnt 旅、仕事、環境、を切り取る - LEICA Tokyo - TOKYO
APPENDIX:
Systems of Power | Artist Elaine Cameron-Weir | Louisiana Channel
Magnum Photos -The Changing of a Myth
Wahnstimmung by Riccardo De Polo
IMMA presents Wolfgang Tillmans Rebuilding the Future
Tara Nome Doyle - Hush (Official Music Video)
Kerrie - Ode To The D Tresor Berlin
Tresor Studio Session: Kerrie Tresor Berlin
WARNING - Laylla Dane | HÖR - May 3 / 2024
Judeline - la pestaña que soplé
Ryoji Ikeda: music for strings | Ensemble Modern
AI is Transforming How We Create & Engage with Art (feat. Grimes) | A Brief History of the Future
S1RENA - STAUB (s1rena and her fairy girlfriends)
Photographer Hrair Sarkissian: Through These Traumas | Louisiana Channel
Yukio Mishima - The Temple of the Golden Pavilion BOOK REVIEW
The ULTIMATE timeless and chic brand: LEMAIRE
Ibibio Sound Machine - Pull the Rope (Official Music Video)
Ibibio Sound Machine - Protection From Evil (Official Video)
Ibibio Sound Machine - Got to Be Who U Are (Official Video)
Touch the Ceiling Ibibio Sound Machine
Had A Lotta Fun Ghost Piss - Topic
salute - 'saving flowers (with Rina Sawayama)' (Official Video)
salute - 'system' (Official Visualiser)
FKA twigs - Together All (Unreleased)
Yung Lean ft. FKA twigs - Bliss (Official Video)
FKA twigs - Echo Park (Unreleased)
Arctic Lake - How Do You Make It Look So Easy? (Visualizer)
Arctic Lake - Fireflies (Live From London)
Arctic Lake - My Weakness (Visualizer)
FKA twigs - Protect Myself (Unreleased)
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