According to this report 700 Zombies near Palin rally are “no threat.”
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“I mean, when you see 700 shambling dead zombies walking toward the Civic Center up the bridge, it would probably get the Secret Service’s attention,” Burrello said with a laugh Friday. “So we gave them a heads up on it to make sure they know we’re not doing any kind of protest or (are a) threat in anyway.”
According to this report in the guardian the CIA have been trying to create Zombies for 30 years.
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The clandestine Project MKULTRA was created in 1953 to develop the CIA’s interrogation, behaviour-modification and mind-control abilities. This involved dosing unsuspecting subjects with drugs such as temazepam, mescaline, psilocybin and Sodium Pentothal; more inventive techniques such as hypnosis, sub-aural frequency blasts, and sleep deprivation were also employed. When details of MKULTRA surfaced there was a public outcry; the programme was officially abandoned and all records ordered destroyed. Whether the CIA ever discovered the zombie formula remains unknown.
Two local Shanghai officials have done a runner in Paris. Hmm…
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Xin Weiming, the deputy governor of a district in Shanghai, visited France with colleagues but disappeared from the hotel with his luggage, leaving only a note stating he was remaining “to meet friends”, according to a Hong Kong newspaper.
A press officer with Luwan district told the state newspaper China Daily that Xin had not returned “because of health problems”, adding: “No one can say he won’t be back forever.”
Event: LAND/ART, summer/fall, 2009
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Deadline: November 17, 2008
Information for proposal submissions can be
found by clicking onto the following link:
http://www.landartnm.org/submissions.html
Proposals for exhibitions and installations for LAND/ART are being sought by The Harwood Art Center and Richard Levy Gallery.
In the summer and fall of 2009 many of New Mexico arts organizations will join together to present LAND/ART, exploring relationships of land, art and community through exhibitions, site-specific art works, lectures and a culminating book. Focusing on “environmental” or “land” art, the collaboration seeks to address our changing relationship to nature, and to offer a new or previously unconsidered understanding of the place in which we live. Historically, New Mexico has been a place where the intersection of nature and culture is at issue. In the 1960s and ’70s, the American Southwest was the location of the first generation of Land Art or Earthworks, including such major projects as Walter De Maria’s The Lightning Field and Charles Ross’ Star Axis in New Mexico, Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty and Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels in Utah, and James Turrell’s Roden Crater in Arizona. Since then, the Land Art genre has been subsumed under the mo re general term “environmental art” which is a highly diverse and vital feature of contemporary art around the world. This new genre recognizes that what we now think of as the “environment” has broadened to include the global community, the microscopic world, and cyber space as well as wilderness, the urban environment and suburban sprawl. It includes ecological activism, reclamation and remediation projects, and ephemeral site-specific performances, among many other approaches, all of which have in common art and artists that respond to features of our natural environment.
LAND/ART is coordinated by 516 ARTS and includes many museums and arts organizations in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and the region. For information on all of the LAND/ART project artists and presenters, The Harwood Art Center, and Richard Levy Gallery, please visit us at:
http://www.landartnm.org
http://www.levygallery.com
http://harwoodartcenter.org
Presser (the Asian winner should be announced shortly):
The Sovereign Art Foundation today announces the winner the third annual Sovereign European Art Prize, selected by the judges from the 30 shortlisted entries representing some of today’s most exciting contemporary European artists.
The quality of all the submissions was exceptionally high, and the judges’ final votes were extremely close. But their unanimous choice to win the €25,000 first prize was Nadia Hebson’s ‘Valzer’. Her elegantly melancholic painting of a shipwreck seemed an especially fitting image for the current economic turmoil!
Hebson commented:”I am absolutely ecstatic to be awarded the Sovereign European Art Prize, especially by such a distinguished panel of judges, whom I can’t thank enough. My painting of a shipwreck does appear quite prescient in the light of recent events! However I was genuinely surprised to hear that I had won with such a dark and romantic image. This award is, for me, the icing on the cake in a year of unprecedented experiences and I would like to thank all those who have supported me in getting this far. ”
Born in 1974 in Romsey, UK, Hebson studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and The Royal Academy of Arts, both in London. Currently the Artist in Residence at Durham Cathedral, she was also awarded a Derek Hill Foundation Scholarship earlier this year and spent three months studying at The British School at Rome. Hebson has exhibited internationally and was selected for this year’s Jerwood Contemporary Painters exhibition. She has previously been the recipient of an Arts Council Award and Duveen Woman Artist Award. For the last four years, she has lived and worked in Berlin where her love of middle European writers has developed.
The results of the public vote – from both the exhibition and online – were also counted and the winner was Doug Fishbone with ‘Untitled (Banana Project)’. Fishbone was awarded €1,000 for the public vote prize. It was an especially fitting prize for the artist whose entry documented a project where he invited the public to join together as a ‘collective sculptor’ by disassembling a huge pile of bananas left in prominent public places.
NYT has a piece and video of how all those people who bought loads of houses on the never never may never eventually be able to pay their bills..oh dear, 2009 is looking frosty.
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“Real estate developers are threatening the People’s Bank of China, saying, ‘If we die, the banks die first,’ ” said Yu Yongding, a former member of the central bank’s monetary policy committee and now an adviser to China’s cabinet. “If the government bows to this kind of pressure, we lose all the benefits of what we did before” to reign in inflation.
Paradoxically, the relative lack of sophistication of China’s mortgage system could keep its real estate bubble from expanding into a credit and financial crisis like the one that engulfed the West — though Western bankers had been trying for years to get the Chinese to bundle them and sell them as securities, one of the roots of the financial crisis.
“The chances of a systemic financial crisis in China in this cycle are extremely, extremely low,” said Arthur Kroeber, the managing director of Dragonomics Research, a consulting firm in Beijing.
Though China’s banking system has many problems, including rampant political influence and fraud in corporate lending decisions, mortgage lending is still more tightly regulated than in the West. The mortgage market remains closer to something out of the 1946 Frank Capra movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” than to the home loans with no down payments and practically no credit checks that proliferated in the United States in the last few years.
For those who haven’t made the trip to see some E arts in Pudong, the show is still on inside the Science Museum and Zendai. If you have a chance, the Science Museum bit is well worth it. 3D visuals galore, and even 3D specs are on offer.
Here is some random news….
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As the credit crunch bites, US election gets nasty, etc, GOP stupidly issues Obama dollars. Obama dancing
Elvis always wins US elections…
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Inauguración Jose Cosme en Shanghai el sabado 25 de octubre 2008. CANART Institute of Contemporary Arts
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Photography Exhibt open Friday, Oct. 24th @ PX2 Shanghai
“Moments of Tranquility” - New Zealand’s Landscapes by Jens Waldenmaier
http://www.px2shanghai.blogspot.com/
Supported by RecomArt (www.recom.de) and Hahnemuehle
This FRIDAY, October 24th, 2008 from 6:30pm to 10:00pm
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PX2 Shanghai , X2 Creative Park, Office Tower 3, Room 401,
20 Cha Ling Bei Lu crossing 1238 Xietu Lu.
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Collectors Contemporary presents the new works by American artist Joey Piziali, one of the key figures in the San Francisco young artists community.
Joey Piziali will be in Singapore from 13th to 21st of December 2008 to launch the show and conduct an artist talk on his works on 20 December 2008.
Attached is the press release for JOEY PIZIALI IN VISIBLE LIGHT (18 Dec 2008 - 24 Jan 2009).
Should you require further information, high resolution images and interview arrangements, please do not hesitate to contact me.
To view Joey’s work in the mural project on California Avenue commissioned by the City of Palo Alto, CA, USA, please access the following link:
www.collectors.com.sg/images.html
Here is the blog of a new emerging Chinese artist, currently living in Singapore.
Artist’s bio
Born in 1980 in Shenyang city in China, Chang Jinchao graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Visual Communication from Shenyang University. He subsequently moved to Singapore to complete a Master of Arts in Fine Art, undertaking courses in jewellery and then printmaking. Jinchao’s work deals with the contradiction of human responses. It looks at the intangible and unexplained aspects of human conditions. Each of his drawings seems to tell a story that flows illogically. According to Jinchao, the protagonist in his drawings is The Absurd of Theatre who speaks to his unknown audience set in surrealistic and nonsensical scenes.
Artist Statement
My drawing works on the gray area between reality and false. Void is the concept of my works; I am a completely pessimist and what I do is lonely telling my void inner world to audience. Drawing seems like a sort of a language and I use it to express my inner world.
I am confused and uncertain of the future. I seem to be thinking too much, and am paranoid about everything in the world. I live in a world of contradiction. I seem to be telling something to my audience, but nothing is delivered. I do not even acknowledge the existence of imagination, even though my audience is actually imagined! Perhaps, you— the reader—may even question the protagonist’s purpose of living. This is just what I want to convey in my work—absurdity and irony. My work is a reflection of my philosophical thoughts. In my work, I question my identity and existence. I ask, “What influences our desires and hatred? What determines the direction we move?” I observe that human responses are full of contradiction: what we think interesting is actually boring; what we hate is usually filled with wonders; and what we are pursuing is not even something that is known to us.
