The installation ‘The Mending Project’ by Beili Liu consists of thousands of Chinese scissors suspended from the ceiling, pointing downwards. The performer sits beneath the countless sharp blades of scissors, and performs an on-going simple task of mending.
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Kate MccGwire ‘gathers, collates, re-uses, layers, peels, burns, reveals, locates, questions, duplicates, plays and photographs’. Her works are ususally made of feathers that become organic masses and take over entire gallery spaces. She describes her works as ‘both sensual and deviant in equal measure’ and she aims to appeal to our essential dualities as humans, such as our senses and our reason.
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German artist Angie Hiesl has been creating a performance art piece called ‘x-mal Mensch Stuhl’ (x-times people chair) in various cities throughout Europe and South America since 1995. Senior citizens are perched on white chairs bolted to the façades of buildings, between 3 and 7 meters over the ground.
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Four Spanish visual artists, Octavi Serra, Mateu Targa, Daniel Llugany and Pau Garcia, adorn Barcelona’s streets with sculptural installations that comment on Spain’s current political climate and economic troubles, exhilarating the streets at the same time. For their project ‘Hands’ they attached plaster hands, ready to beg, borrow and steal from locations all across Barcelona.
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As a designer, David Schwen is constantly picking color chips and pairing them up with one another. A while back he had the idea of making Pantone chips out of real household objects—sponges, cardboard, and the like. Though while he was finishing up a poster design, he had taped two Pantone chips together to see how they looked next to one another.
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‘Monobloc’ is a hands-on project by Bert Loeschner about the ‘infamous garden chair’ and its role in design culture. Like other everyday objects we have a the certain unremovable picture in mind when thinking of the monobloc chair. Loeschner uses this picture as a canvas, asking questions about the value of innovation, aesthetics and functionality in our way of consuming.
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Artist Shawn Smith creates whimsical sculptures that represent pixilated animals and objects of nature. Smith is interested in how we experience nature through technology. When we see images of nature on TV or on a computer screen, we feel that we are seeing nature but we are really only seeing patterns of pixilated light. He is mainly interested in subjects that he has never seen in real life.
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Photojournalist William Miller took this pictures with a camera that is, at least by most definitions, completely broken. But: This old Polaroid SX-70 produces this beautiful and abstract pictures by accident. Miller rescued it from a yard sale last year and realized that the camera wasn’t working properly, like spitting out two pictures at a time, the film getting suck in the gears and so on.
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Helena Frank is an Animation Director and Illustrator based in Copenhagen. She does animated films, illustrations and music videos. Helena is giving us an insight in her world by drawing, creating all these funny characters that seem to have their own personality.
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Sculptural installation artist Carly Fischer creates everyday rubbish fabricated entirely from paper. With her amzingly detailed repilcas of all kinds of trash, she aims to explore the relationship between the local realities of places and their global reproduction as homogenised cultural clichés.
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