The creation of ephemeral, site - specific works recalls earlier work from Cain's career in which she solely
worked in abandoned buildings.
I was
working in this abandoned building mode and it gave me an opportunity to present these things on a grand scale.
Not exact matches
Government - sanctioned graffiti from the city's Department of Public
Works,
in red across the top, typically indicates an
abandoned building.
Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends,
works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples
in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots
in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up
in the Sky, shown
in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl
abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly
building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.
In a sequence that harks back to the 1980s school of sci - fi production design, when bleak futures were mostly made up of
abandoned steel
works and duct hosing, he crosses paths with Amara (Cailee Spaeny), a teenager who's managed to
built her own armadilloid mecha from scrap.
With time
working against them, Loki begins to search for other suspects, while Keller, unconvinced that Alex is innocent, decides to begin his own brutal line of questioning for young man, whom he keeps locked up
in an
abandoned apartment
building.
He shut them down and located a program
in the old BoE
building that had been
abandoned, and for several years the city had to
work hard to fill the program.
Although it may seem like these lives are somehow simple and serene, she shows that they are plagued with the same worries that keep all of us up at night - the safety and well - being of our families, the desire for self - fulfillment and, on a larger scale, the impact we have on our environment... Further, Badkhen is fully willing to do hard
work - she blisters her hands pulling nets, bakes
in the sun while helping to
build a boat and expends emotional energy consoling
abandoned wives
in the community; clearly she is not afraid to fully immerse herself.
Built at the height of the Incan Empire
in 1452 but
abandoned just over a century later, this ancient mountaintop citadel was only discovered
in 1911 and archaeologists are still trying to
work out what it all means.
The title of the show derives from a 1976 article, «The Apotheosis of the Crummy Space,» by Nancy Foote
in Artforum,
in which Foote celebrated the artistic use of spaces
in abandoned buildings; her notion that such rooms
in such
buildings could be transformed by additions to or changes within them was, at the time, a powerful esthetic for Gordon Matta Clark's excavations of forsaken places
in New York City, or by David Wojnarowicz's
work a generation later.
This is a housing operation, which is still running,
in which Gates
works with artists, researchers and architects to transform Chicago's
abandoned buildings into spaces for sharing and artistic creation; he encouragese residents of the neighbourhood to promote the transformation of the community to which they belong.
Viewers can expect to participate
in a performance by gorgeousTaps and the Reality Show, see collectively - produced video
works,
built objects and performance documentation from Flux Factory and Madagascar Institute, and experience presentations by artists who have
abandoned or expanded traditional alone -
in - the - studio artist practices.
Mackie relocates a renowned
work by each artist — and thus, symbolically, their attendant feuds — to secluded and desolate
buildings, continuing the «
Abandoned Dollhouse» theme he began
in 2013.
In her aptly titled body of work, Destroyed House, Teeuwen reclaims the wreckage of abandoned buildings assembling each fragment in painstakingly detailed installations, set within the original structure
In her aptly titled body of
work, Destroyed House, Teeuwen reclaims the wreckage of
abandoned buildings assembling each fragment
in painstakingly detailed installations, set within the original structure
in painstakingly detailed installations, set within the original structures.
Developed while
working in an
abandoned school
building with an abundance of blackboards, Simmons's signature «erasure drawings» employ a process of smudging chalk marks executed on slate covered paper as if to eradicate the image and start again.
The Pulitzer,
in collaboration with the George Warren Brown School of Social
Work at Washington University
in St. Louis, has organized programs that
build upon Matta - Clark's desire to imbue
abandoned objects,
buildings, and parcels of land with new meaning.
Currently, Hunter is
in the midst of realizing Video Bomb Houston, a series of new five - minute long video
works in a two - hour loop, created specifically for
abandoned buildings throughout the city.
Tom Burr is
working out his hometown's social and political controversies, as well as his own personal struggle, inside the Marcel Breuer - designed, IKEA - owned,
abandoned building sitting by the highway
in New Haven, Connecticut.
For Ms. Anderson, the center of that scene was Gordon Matta - Clark, whose site - specific
work included cutting shapes out of
abandoned buildings, even sawing
buildings in half.
The
works in the show contain familiar elements from city landscapes, such as scaffolding, urban detritus,
abandoned buildings, and public gardens, all addressing the hurried transformation of cityscapes closely related to gentrification.
An artist with two urban planning degrees, he transforms
abandoned buildings into cultural spaces
in Omaha, St. Louis and Chicago, where he lives and
works.
Mr. Tàpies (pronounced TAH - pee - ess) came to prominence
in the late 1940s with richly symbolic paintings strongly influenced by Surrealist painters like Miró and Klee, a style he
abandoned by the mid-1950s as he turned to what became his signature
work: the heavily
built - up surfaces that were often scratched, pitted and gouged and incised with letters, numbers and signs.
However, staged
in the Treme Market Branch — a vandalized,
abandoned bank
building in the Treme neighborhood — Simmons's «Recapturing Memories of the Black Ark» is an interactive sculpture involving live music performances by professionals (such as the rapper Beans, who will inaugurate the
work on Oct. 25) and amateurs alike.
His current body of
work is created using 3D gaming technology to simulate real world and imagined spaces based on the
abandoned and foreclosed
buildings in Philadelphia, Las Vegas and San Bernardino California.
The bedroom artwork is soothing: abstract
works in a neutral palette by Mijangos and Armstrong, antique French architectural lithographs, one of Hogensens's chair drawings, and, as a focal point, a dreamy, otherworldly color photograph by Justin Parr shot inside an
abandoned building at the old Hot Wells Hotel and Resort.
Who cares about 8 % unemployment, the flatlined economy,
abandoning Americans to die
in Bengahzi, Joe Biden's buffonery, fast & furious, national debt, USA credit downgrade, trillion dollar annual budget deficits, deliberate sabotage of the coal industry, ACORN, failed foreign policy (Iran with nuclear weapons, bowing to China, stiffing U.K and Israel, etc) abysmal people judgement (Biden again, plus H. Clinton, T, Geithner; K. Sebelius; E. Holder, etc), stopping the pipeline for Canadian oil, blocking drilling
in US land, secret «kill lists», ObamaCare, attacking religious liberty, you didn't
build that, unseemly chest - pounding over bin Laden (GM is dying but bin Laden is coming back to life), 20 years of Jeremiah Wright, failure of crony capitalism deals with Solyndra - NextEra — Ener1 — Solar Trust etc., over 100 rounds of golf
in 1st 3 yrs, choom, the Chevy Volt, insisting the Ft Hood massacre was «workplace violence», secret college transcripts, «clearly the Boston police acted stupidly», disregard of the Simpson - Bowles budget recommendations (after commissioning their
work), and lots more irrelevant stuff.
According to Windows Central, Microsoft's latest collaboration with Intel to
build a high - end mobile handset has been
abandoned, but
in its place, an interesting alternative is
in the
works from the Surface team.