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Archives For Thomas
Constructed by hand and photographed in a tank of water Kim Keever makes haunting landscapes, abstractions and the like with the ironic eye of a gonzo Renaissance master.
Maybe the most beautiful thing you will hear in a long long time…
Cellists:
Pablo Mahave-Veglia, Cesar Colmenares, Michael Carrera, Louise Shuffle, Louise Dubin, Hyun Ji Choi, Alicia Eppinga, Lee Copenhaver
Music Break: Bill Ryan Simple Lines
SHIMPEI TAKEDA’s series Trace documents radiation in the soils via sites he picked in Japan. He rigged up a unique method to expose photographic paper to the soils radiation content. Like some sort of shaman/scientist he makes the invisible visible and records all his methods in this haunting project of Japan’s contamination and loss.
“Hardly anyone outside of Japan had heard the name “Fukushima” until last year, now it’s known around the world disgracefully. The nuclear fallout covered precious land where ancestors passed away. As the reading on the radiation meter climbed uncomfortably, it was such an odd and terrifying experience to collect soil samples as I felt like gathering somebody’s ashes.”
The 2013 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion annual commission is designed by award-winning Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto. He is the youngest architect to accept this invitation to design one of the most famous temporary structure commissions in the world
Sou Fujimoto: The Serpentine Pavilion