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and images via words!ali zaidi-motiroti walahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04772192406546905022noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5925283715276089021.post-35532717324256173062010-10-15T04:56:00.000-07:002010-10-15T16:27:32.671-07:00Home, Memory, Memory of Home<b><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A presentation/talk between Ali Zaidi and Antonio Pizzo</span></span></b><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday 11th October - talk at the <a href="http://www.maotorino.it/">Museum of Oriental Art</a> in Turin</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">A photographic intervention in porta palazzo on saturday 9th followed by a </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">screening of selected short films from 60x60 Secs... identity, home and its memory was discussed </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">between Ali Zaidi (motiroti) and Antonio Pizzo (Officine Sintetiche).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #943634;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Antonio Pizzo</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"> </span></span></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Give us a context about</span> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #943634;"><a href="http://www.360degrees.tv/360/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">360 degrees</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #943634;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">and your preoccupation with the idea of home?</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Ali Zaidi</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Born in India, migrated to Pakistan with my parents and now living in UK - curious to how people in similar situation view the idea of home, I set up this project across the three countries. Artists from I</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ndia and Pakistan </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">were appointed as creative associates who alongside myself took the responsibility of recruitng the artsists. There was a £300 commission for each of the sixty one minute films … the films had to be translatable within different geographies in a potent visual language. After a year of hard work and phenomenal telephone costs… remarkable works came out of it and we are showing the works still after two years. So here we are today screening some selected works and talking about them in the context of home and memory.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let me take a lead and ask you what home mean to you?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sixty films were commissioned just for this reason so that I don’t have to answer this myself. Let me show you a film that begins to address your question. </span><a href="http://www.360degrees.tv/60x60/movie.php?movieID=50&&lookup=Britain"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">National Lottery</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> by Daniel Saul. A documentary bout his cousin. For me home is a state of mind. My grand mother used to say home is where ever your two feet are.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This man in Dan's film moved to London and now his biggest dream is to go back to India?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #943634;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay… the attitude towards </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Indian">Anglo-Indians</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is similar to na pesce na carne… his dream whilst being in India was to be in UK and now being here he realizes this is not the space to be.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">The idea of home is probably relate</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">d to memory or</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"> dreams about home and most of the times you exist in between these two points… there is a pain involved as well?</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #943634;"></span>Idea of pain and joy is simultaneous, one can not exist without the other. I will go back to some of the selected works I have brought here to use as a response to your questions. In the process of looking at ones idea of home and memory we have to deal with history which for me is a collective memory. Memory is debatable. Your idea of history can be very different from mine. Let me share one other film where home is being considered symbolically as an object in space and has a physical locaton. I wonder if memory has also got a physical location. </span><a href="http://www.360degrees.tv/60x60/movie.php?movieID=14&&lookup=India"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nitin Das</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> from India followed by </span><a href="http://www.360degrees.tv/60x60/movie.php?movieID=07&&lookup=Pakistan"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nida Bangash</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> from Pakistan… thoughts long similar lines but very different takes, the drama between Pakistan, India and Kashmir and other is about walls and divisions which aren’t necessarily between countries but can be created within.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">The format for the evening is that we are asking questions to each other and showing films where the conversations lead to rather that showing works in a linear fashion. You play with the idea of separation. Within memory and home I was affected by the Anglo-Indian example… Tell me of your experience. You don’t belong to any one place anymore but you are different things altogether.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is not easy. At times it is very easy. Wherever your two feet are, you belong. It is how one negotiates. Part of the question for me is about a relationship – a continual relationship. I asked different people what is easy - to love or to hate? Some said its easy to love because you just love! Another person’s response was that it is easy to hate because it does not require any work on your part. You just cease to engage. Where as to love requires a constant negotiation. For me </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hate</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is un-challanged memory (collective memory that is not yours or a memory that may be yours but one generating an un-negotiable point of view) where as </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">love</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is constantly negotiated and is very much about now. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What was your question?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">How do you deal with the identity when you are in the middle?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will let this film roll. </span><a href="http://www.360degrees.tv/60x60/movie.php?movieID=27&&lookup=Britain"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Akshay</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> answers my dilemma very eloquently. This young man is a motiroti baby… he is dealing with the differences very knowingly and getting on with things.</span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The moment you are able to unpick the stereotypes by subverting then you start getting something different. Either you fight or you go with a question of what if?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another film coming!! </span><a href="http://www.360degrees.tv/60x60/movie.php?movieID=36&&lookup=Pakistan"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Telephone Pyar</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. This is made from archival popular Pakistani film footage. Screenings in Pakistan some young folks were totally in awe that these were films made in their country a few decades ago… older generation got rather offended as feminists had fought against the trivialization and objectification of women. In India some young university women in the audience wolf whistled as they never imagined sexuality or desire to be part of cinema associated with the neighbouring country.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"></span>I find this film interesting in the same way as old photos are used to jog a failing memory. Reminding the Pakistan of today -associated with terrorism and fear of the Taliban that there ‘was’ another Pakistan… hey you once you were like this!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To summarise home , identity and memory are big issues. Sometimes your point of view has an irony and you can smile and laugh at them. Don’t you think that this hides the pain and suffering… sort of trivialises the issues?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don’t feel its about hiding, it is certainly about revealing different points of views. By the way, not everyone making the films were ‘artists’. Some of the young people who addressed the question of home and identity via their one minute film... in their </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fresh and naïve way, addressed the discourse very successfully. For example </span><a href="http://www.360degrees.tv/60x60/movie.php?movieID=41&&lookup=Pakistan"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">505</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> – the youngest of </span><a href="http://www.360degrees.tv/60x60/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">60x60 Secs</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> contributors, they were under eighteen at the time. This is their take on the division within the country itself. One last one for the road… </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.360degrees.tv/60x60/movie.php?movieID=60&&lookup=Britain">Arriving</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We are hushed and rushed about time!</span></span></span></span></i><br />
<i><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the big playground of </span><a href="http://www.motiroti.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">motiroti</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> called identity we shared sixty commissioned perspectives on home and now somehow it makes sense to focus on memory. I took portraits of the audience who came to see 60x60 Secs and they were asked to reflect on what home meant to them. Its from that collection that I have wanted to make a work in the area of memory – exploring the fear of loosing memory… amnesia, alzhiemers, political amnesia; where memories are being manipulated… Indo Pak subcontinet, here in Italy and many other places in the world. And the ageing population of the world, the digital age and memories being deposited left right and centre – it becomes a very interesting moment to focus on memory. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cirma.unito.it/pizzo/">Antonio</a> myself and Andrea walked in <a href="http://citiesofmigration.ca/the-porta-palazzo-flea-market/lang/en/">Porta Palazzo</a> to engage people with the question of memory of home. We spoke with different types of(detest this word but…) we interviewed and photographed people who represented different cultures. We must have looked an odd bunch walking around and talking, getting people to reflect on the questions and to write and photographing in their workspace. Idea is that when I go back to London, the motiroti Memory Lab will be informed by this intervention… we are planning our next Officine Sinteche and motiroti residency memory and dreams - an inter-generational and inter-cultural project for 2011.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7olG6Zt3q2Uwo48se5OWUsWGAauXRE-4UqsKq4M7ZQkbDAxumu5jOVQo4K59x8KAB1LSe-HCH1ulL0EPhRRG3TWfh5-RYxQweO9VL7B7lhZFSD8kf0xwF_rWqAZx8iPMHQ1PqsrA3qw/s1600/60x60-torino-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7olG6Zt3q2Uwo48se5OWUsWGAauXRE-4UqsKq4M7ZQkbDAxumu5jOVQo4K59x8KAB1LSe-HCH1ulL0EPhRRG3TWfh5-RYxQweO9VL7B7lhZFSD8kf0xwF_rWqAZx8iPMHQ1PqsrA3qw/s200/60x60-torino-01.jpg" width="141" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"></span>Memory is very dear to me. I fear one day I would loose my memory. Yesterday I got a young man to imagine in a kafkaisque way what would happen if he would wake up the next day with a face from a different race… his response after some time was that he would go to his mum and dad and try to convince them that he is their son. But what if there isnt a memory to recognize that difference??</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is the collisions - in terms of migrations and identity that inform who we we are… it brings out the complexity and richness, the joys and confusions.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n13BOesJ7Ys">Images from the photographic intervention on the screen play</a></span></span></span></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr-QKjewRaCXWWsRzUciWlBaTEHqQNDvnYGSo1KL07dlO_6tNhbVx_5EtfOl-V3SxJS67ltRhVBFfc3IV8zPHkWe5TmzlxQLuV6wENyjZCEQN5Ue6PbfCNvC9ewfhA78yqw0zlx4tUnA/s1600/60x60-torino-02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr-QKjewRaCXWWsRzUciWlBaTEHqQNDvnYGSo1KL07dlO_6tNhbVx_5EtfOl-V3SxJS67ltRhVBFfc3IV8zPHkWe5TmzlxQLuV6wENyjZCEQN5Ue6PbfCNvC9ewfhA78yqw0zlx4tUnA/s200/60x60-torino-02.jpg" width="141" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Memory of home for the Carmen, a Romanian mother and her son Gabriel were totally different. Silviana talked about her family and a fear that she didn’t want to loose the family – all very relevant things in the mix. Pangs for distance are too much for Zahid Mullah from Bangladesh – he wants to return!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hopefully in another few months down the line having had the first of the motiroti Memory Lab in December… and a little clearer in terms of what can be done with the collected, collated and generated material on memory, we will hopefully see some of you again in Turin next year or perhaps some of you accompany the Labs in London.</span><br />
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<object style="background-image:url(http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/n13BOesJ7Ys/hqdefault.jpg)" width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/n13BOesJ7Ys?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/n13BOesJ7Ys?fs=1&hl=en_US" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>ali zaidi-motiroti walahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04772192406546905022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5925283715276089021.post-60165271739327547772010-09-14T23:53:00.000-07:002010-09-14T23:55:45.807-07:00history and its memory... memory and its history<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While talking to people about the limitless possibilities of delving into aspects of memory... while some said it is scientifically proven that we do not remember things before the age of seven, to some one narrating their earliest memories as a child of eighteen months being pushed along in the parks of crystal palace... to observations on 'political dementia' - as in memories being methodically erased by rewriting of histories... i chanced upon an article that dr.meenu gaur had written sometime back and published in a Sarai post... shared below is an extract from it</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1f1f1f;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No body </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1f1f1f;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">talks about things such as the supply of electricity in the camps, for </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1f1f1f;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">instance, which might be many times better than in Kashmir, where one may </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #1f1f1f;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">get electricity for merely an hour in a whole day in the bitter winters.</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Memory = Identity</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">but...</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">What is memory?</span> </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47;">How is it triggered? </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">Personal memory vs collective memory vs received memory...</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c;">What happens when memory fades or is suddenly lost?</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">And what of amnesia... forced by illness or forced by politics?</span></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr2cIv53X0cpgsSkNpmx5aOkffMapLAjhf1ejfND6WbSdEaVkWS-rxmVqJTnmX2CR_IRbOhwkFwUMfYs_HjQxUg9uKiQx26vBraz5kFUIEWCAz6WVkeN135QeD707gqPPukUl3tIBhXg/s1600/memory-01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr2cIv53X0cpgsSkNpmx5aOkffMapLAjhf1ejfND6WbSdEaVkWS-rxmVqJTnmX2CR_IRbOhwkFwUMfYs_HjQxUg9uKiQx26vBraz5kFUIEWCAz6WVkeN135QeD707gqPPukUl3tIBhXg/s400/memory-01.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Memories are crucial to our sense of self, community and society but they are also fragile, tentative and contested. Understood in popular culture to be primarily a cognitive/mental phenomenon this Lab intends to expand our understanding of memory by exploring it also as an embodied, sensorial and social phenomenon. That is, memory resides as much in our flesh and body as it does in mementos and memorabilia and social relationship as it does in the mind.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">How then do our senses, material objects and relationships trigger memories that can both locate and dislocate us?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Our memory makes us who we are and the loss of it frightens us more than the prospect of death.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of these and more will be explored and researched through the perspective of artists, science and society at large, leading up to an intensive camp/lab period with my other associates and artists in August 2010.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Public talks and showings of the early stages of work coming out of the camp/lab will be presented in later in autumn this year. The thoughts and ideas brewed up in this session will be carried forward to a second camp/lab planned to take place with collaborators and perhaps hosted in India and Pakistan. By summer 2011 a new immersive installation will emerge from this process and be ready to tour!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div>Cecil said she hadn't seen any parks in the city yet... I had to walk her to my favorite of them all, the tiny little St James Park. I recommend you too, experience the testosterone driven moor cocks making a big hoo n haa. In and out of the shallow lake trying to woo the moor hens with their bravado and flying feathers... the ladies were kind of going about their business saying hmmm... ha!</div><div><br />
</div><div>Out of the park and without getting too close or sidetracked by the grandeur we circumvented through Green Park.</div><div>"I wandered lonely as a cloud</div><div>That floats on high o'er vales and hills,</div><div>When all at once I saw a crowd,</div><div>A host of golden daffodils;"<br />
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... well daffodils they were not!! A bunch of fibre glass elephants - <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2010/may/03/elephant-parade-london">Indian Elephants</a>... a crowd of them.</div><div><br />
Stereotypes... love them or hate them... I can't live without them!</div><div><br />
Being a visual anthropologist she observed that these wild blasts of patterns and colours were by artists who had Asian sounding names. In all the variety and gaiety to attract enough funds from the auction of these colourful beasts, one stood out a mile. S/he is grey and is created by a couple that have a very English sounding name.</div><div><br />
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I liked it though! Is it a tad too conservative of me??</div><div>... well sad indeed that around the same time large swathes of crowds were cheering another young grey <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/11/david-cameron-uk-prime-minister">elephant</a> just a few streets away as it replaced an outgoing white <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/may/11/gordon-brown-quick-dignified-exit">elephant</a>.</div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"></span><br />
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</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">moti</span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">roti is looking for an exceptional and talented individual with passion, skill and a strategic mindset. Working with Artistic Director Ali Zaidi, you will deliver collaborative interdisciplinary projects using contemporary media, with a range of national and international partners.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Salary c £45,000 pa negotiable according to experience.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><b>Deadline for applications: 31 May 2010</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">For application pack email: <a href="mailto:jobs@motiroti.com">jobs@motiroti.com</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><b>Interview dates: 18 & 24 June 2010</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><b>moti</b>roti is a regularly funded organisation of Arts Council England</span></span></span></div>ali zaidi-motiroti walahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04772192406546905022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5925283715276089021.post-74586473290718323332010-02-01T07:03:00.000-08:002010-02-06T02:35:19.509-08:00Attention male performers and actors<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Award Winning motiroti needs you!!</span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; white-space: pre;"></span><b>motiroti is seeking male performers/actors aged 20 to 40</b></span></span></div><br />
<ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Vocally seductive and confident</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ability to engage live audience with story telling</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Ability to sing and dance</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Bilingual (fluent English and another)</span></li>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Send your cv and any weblinks via email</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:seek@motiroti.com">seek@motiroti.com</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Helen Mitchell/ Ali Zaidi 020 77046870</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><b>Closing dates for submission 17th February 2010.</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Invites to the auditions will be sent out Monday 22nd Feb.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Auditions will be held following week 1st March.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKbKXiKc-3H37VdDJpOLyW9o5SGOH9u6U-sspXm0-NbR7bKN8wfBRbxCIE9FU1r-fp9BdoyoaTjdJuCMss5DdxACi6M4RrfqSIshyphenhyphenWxxVE6Smd22PNGSZNw63CVESgeqnq_OhKNRDgqg/s1600-h/Journeys+of+love_2121.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKbKXiKc-3H37VdDJpOLyW9o5SGOH9u6U-sspXm0-NbR7bKN8wfBRbxCIE9FU1r-fp9BdoyoaTjdJuCMss5DdxACi6M4RrfqSIshyphenhyphenWxxVE6Smd22PNGSZNw63CVESgeqnq_OhKNRDgqg/s400/Journeys+of+love_2121.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Photo © Laura Ferrari/ Archivio NTF Italia </span> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Smash hit from Napoli Teatro Festival Italia 2009.</span></b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">To be shown for the first time in UK, at Lilian Baylis Theatre in London prior to its national and international tour.</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Journeys of Love and More Love</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">a live installation with edible interludes</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Journeys of Love and More Love is the story of a man - and many men - the milestones in his life journey and the key people that influenced his development across continents and in between social and cultural divides.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">The show is a 1hour performance mixing projected media and three-course meal as a live installation. The story is the personal tale of Ali Zaidi's migration journeys from Bombay to Lahore to London chronicling the loves and lives of his friends and family and the food he encountered along the way. It intersperses personal and public archive images and historical events with interview footage of contemporary migrant stories in Naples and London, ranging from academics to street-sellers, business entrepreneurs to illegal workers.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Directed with tender grace and an ironic take on memories food becomes a testament of love! A grandiose kaleidoscope cross pollinated with cultures, gestures, images, tastes and colours.</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Giulio Baffi</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">La Repubblica</span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><br />
</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">It's not only a show. It is a true theatrical experience. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Enrica Buongiorno</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Roma</i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><br />
</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d;">Food is used as a vehicle that brings down socio-cultural barriers. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Adriana Pollice</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> <i>Il Manifesto</i></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>ali zaidi-motiroti walahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04772192406546905022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5925283715276089021.post-71642783251779818562009-10-15T11:27:00.000-07:002009-10-15T16:56:20.050-07:00ARToverDOSE<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I like boundaries.</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Endless horizons and MRI scanners equally freak me out. </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I like outsiders who are inside and insiders who are constantly pushed out. </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I like blur... not the band, blur as in circles of confusion that determine what is in focus and what is out of focus. </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Blurred boundaries between the public the private. </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So after a long time I recently overdosed on gallery art.</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I bought membership for Tate and more recently the Royal Academy to avoid queueing for having to see art. It also means my friends (including my couch-surfers) can come and see the exhibitions as my guest. And I can have the use of member's cafe for meetings and social networking in the centre or just a good coffee without loud blaring music.</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I took Yoon sung, my couch-surfer from Seoul to see Pop Life : Art in a material world. On level 4 a long queue snakes on itself three times at the ticket counter. Pop Life flashes in neon with a collage of iconic artworks by some of artists from the show. The staff checking the tickets on this saturday afternoon is looking a bit grumpy and tired. Many congregate to the threshold of this gallery to get a free peek. Koon's steel Rabbit and Murakami's Hiropon are strategically placed further cooing and acting as a promising trailer for what lies within... within the Tate this gallery creates a boundary between the public - the Free and the Paid. </span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Good business is the best art" said Warhol, the grand father of Pop. Whether the exhibition furthers the scope of rhetoric or not, it is a fantastic illustration of re-inventions, of branding, of slick marketing tactics that create ethical and aesthetic tsunamis now and again.</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is this the art I personally aspire to?? </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Frankly - NO!</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I say no, in the same way I don't aspire to monarchy. Its complex and I don't feel capable of presenting my arguments. It has a ‘hmmm…. interesting' factor for me.</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would still go and see it to experience it, the work as well as a chance to see the people.</span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">People the audience as they interact with the work hence making it a complete experience for me. Pop Life like many shows attracted wardrobes on legs, major shimmy moments throughout the exhibition, ranging from size 0 to max size 10, wearing impeccable clothes. Who ever said couture was dying? But then this is Pop and Pop is the show!! </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Interesting indeed to watch Warhol's meanderings on death and make-up... made me wonder if Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley studied the interview to create Patsy Stone!?</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By the way the enfant terrible, as he gets the stick for his worst blue period, I have to say his identical twins sitting next to each other under the butterfly paintings was not pop but made my day. Not only did I have the pleasure of discerning differences in their facial parameters… I engaged with the brothers. We talked. They felt rather relieved and suddenly felt human again. It had been a long stint and their break was due soon. They let me take their pictures, I had to strategise, send my guest to distract the invigilator so I could do a short clip on my I-phone. The provocation that photography is not allowed… or you cant touch the artwork. Well I tussled their hair and I took images where ever I really wanted to. Breaking the rules doesn’t excite me per say. Gallery CCTV cameras grabs a lot of us. Letting us keep a lil’ memento is okay specially as no flashes are fired!!??</span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh by the way have you noticed this trend? Artists making objects and selling it and all that sort of brand business gallery shallery… they are using the live sector. LIVE people contributing to their names… fourth plinth and now Hirst twins… wonder why?</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div>ali zaidi-motiroti walahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04772192406546905022noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5925283715276089021.post-64800740697219953332009-09-28T02:54:00.000-07:002009-10-29T14:49:14.458-07:00LUMAGRAFFITO<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px;"><br />
</span>Walking along on Westminster bridge this sunday, in the slanting sunlight of late afternoon, the pavement was full of people, families local and foriegn enjoying the blue skies. Suddenly I noticed the footpath was awash in a row of erect phalluses. And people, unaware, were checking out the Eye or the Abbey. Once I had taken some pictures and showed the passing Japanese tourists special London focal point that lay at their feet... like a Mexcican wave lenses were redirected to the pavement and the sound of shutters click click click click!<br />
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Some cheekily skipped across the row of phalluses while some let out hearty gurguly giggles (the kind of giggles one rarely hears from eighty year olds!) as they huddled between the shade avoiding the phallic light from touching their feet!!<br />
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Imagine, regular familiar settings... at certain time of the day... at a precise hour as the light hits certain spaces and creates magical shadows... texts, images and shapes suddenly transform the urban settings. The shadows created by the natural light... green and eco-conscious and site/time specfic artistic interventions - <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre;">LUMAFFITI.</span><br />
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Felt like creating a new word from an inspired moment!<br />
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</div>ali zaidi-motiroti walahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04772192406546905022noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5925283715276089021.post-43879146164367876752009-09-04T12:59:00.000-07:002009-09-04T13:02:40.320-07:00DV8 needs you!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">If you are Male... continue reading!</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">DV8 Physical Theater are looking for a male performer who has solid dance training and who can act (ie deliver text onstage). <br /><ul><li>The performer has to play a number of gay characters including an Iraqi doctor and a variety of British Muslim characters. <br /></li><li>Vocally they should have a sincere and authentic voice. Whilst a traditional British or British Asian accent can work for the role; American, Italian or Spanish accents won’t. <br /></li><li>If the character has an edge of vulnerability, even better.<br /></li></ul></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "> <br />The job starts <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">immediately</span> and tours internationally until December 2009</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "> see www.dv8.co.uk</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">Call Gabriel on 07921 126 635</span></div>ali zaidi-motiroti walahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04772192406546905022noreply@blogger.com0