BIO
Christina McPhee http://christinamcphee.net
Lena Lapshina: Under the Water / Above the Water (2)
Dates:
Sun May 30, 2010 00:00 - Sun May 30, 2010
Location:
Sweden
NEW INSIDE THE PHARMAKON LIBRARY..........
Lena Lapschina: Under and Above the Water
"Under the water": mind-expanding, 100 \% natural!
Existence without sound and verbal communication can turn out into an advantage - at least in the short term. This is what the participants in the photo sessions for the "Under the water / Above the water" project easily find out. Cold water may limit the fun.
Hot and cold all over. Both under the water and above the water, life can be pretty harsh. Even on tropical islands - if you aren't a tourist. "Sich über Wasser halten", a German metaphor, is not about fun at all, but about the basis of one's livelihood.
he portraits are showing two of my voluntary victims of icy arctic circle photo shooting. Great colors thanks to Swedish sea characteristics and midnight sun!
Underwater portraits passing by remind the viewer of Ichtiander, the personage from Beljaeff's science fiction novel Amphibiousman.
Exhibition history:
"RISK" Lulea Art Biennial, Lulea Sweden, 2009
"Idyll" Atelier 030202, Bucharest, 201-
Technical data:
Under the water / Above the water
125 x 83 cm (50 by 33 in) / Ilfoflex/Diasec/Alu
edition of 6 (+2 EA)
contact: lena at culturepress.at
http://pharmakonlibrary.blogspot
Pharmakon Library is a speculative graphics project
by Christina McPhee
in association with Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
http://silverman-gallery.com
Lena Lapschina: Under and Above the Water
"Under the water": mind-expanding, 100 \% natural!
Existence without sound and verbal communication can turn out into an advantage - at least in the short term. This is what the participants in the photo sessions for the "Under the water / Above the water" project easily find out. Cold water may limit the fun.
Hot and cold all over. Both under the water and above the water, life can be pretty harsh. Even on tropical islands - if you aren't a tourist. "Sich über Wasser halten", a German metaphor, is not about fun at all, but about the basis of one's livelihood.
he portraits are showing two of my voluntary victims of icy arctic circle photo shooting. Great colors thanks to Swedish sea characteristics and midnight sun!
Underwater portraits passing by remind the viewer of Ichtiander, the personage from Beljaeff's science fiction novel Amphibiousman.
Exhibition history:
"RISK" Lulea Art Biennial, Lulea Sweden, 2009
"Idyll" Atelier 030202, Bucharest, 201-
Technical data:
Under the water / Above the water
125 x 83 cm (50 by 33 in) / Ilfoflex/Diasec/Alu
edition of 6 (+2 EA)
contact: lena at culturepress.at
http://pharmakonlibrary.blogspot
Pharmakon Library is a speculative graphics project
by Christina McPhee
in association with Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
http://silverman-gallery.com
Micha Cardenas and Elle Mehmand on Pharmakon Library May 2010
Dates:
Wed May 19, 2010 00:00 - Wed May 19, 2010
MIXED REALITIES: ELLE MEHMAND AND MICHA CARDENAS
http://transreal.org
New in the Pharmakon Library [proximity of poison to cure]
http://pharmakonlibrary.blogspot.com/2010/05/mixed-relations-micha-cardenas-and-elle.html
Micha and Elle write: "Biometric technology can be seen as a post-contemporary pharmakon, seeming to decentralize kno
Upcoming new work: virus.circus :
Upcoming live performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, June 19 2010:
">wledge of the body, but quantifying and shaping the form of that knowledge, presupposing its usages and facilitating surveillance. We acknowledge the problematics of the economies which bring us these devices while embracing our potential to open our bodies up to new hybrid experiences of flesh and electricity."
Upcoming new work: virus.circus :
Upcoming live performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, June 19 2010:
http://transreal.org
New in the Pharmakon Library [proximity of poison to cure]
http://pharmakonlibrary.blogspot.com/2010/05/mixed-relations-micha-cardenas-and-elle.html
Micha and Elle write: "Biometric technology can be seen as a post-contemporary pharmakon, seeming to decentralize kno
Upcoming new work: virus.circus :
Upcoming live performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, June 19 2010:
">wledge of the body, but quantifying and shaping the form of that knowledge, presupposing its usages and facilitating surveillance. We acknowledge the problematics of the economies which bring us these devices while embracing our potential to open our bodies up to new hybrid experiences of flesh and electricity."
Upcoming new work: virus.circus :
Upcoming live performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, June 19 2010:
Caitlin Berrigan: Marshmallow Crash
Dates:
Tue Apr 06, 2010 00:00 - Tue Apr 06, 2010
Location:
United States of America
A new contribution to the Pharmakon Library
Caitlin Berrigan: Marshmallow Crash
http://pharmakonlibrary.blogspot.com/
Marshmallow Crash (digital video, 8 min looping), 2008
Just before the market crash in the Fall of 2008 and the imminent departure of the Bush administration, I sensed impending doom. Perhaps it was facing at last the immense grief of the prior eight years, during which it felt like we could do little more than hold our breath until we were blue in the face. I was compelled to create work based on the insidious, fluffy iconography of the marshmallow and the American landscape. After the crumbling of capitalist monuments in the Fall and the uncertainty of American empire, the metaphors of Marshmallow Crash are oddly prescient.
Marshmallow Crash depicts an American Pie character as she violently confronts an oversized marshmallow amidst an idyllic pastoral landscape. The light, fluffy buoyancy promised by the giant marshmallow is never quite delivered as the character repeatedly impacts the marshmallow and is left marked, exhausted and unfulfilled. - CB
Caitlin Berrigan: Marshmallow Crash
http://pharmakonlibrary.blogspot.com/
Marshmallow Crash (digital video, 8 min looping), 2008
Just before the market crash in the Fall of 2008 and the imminent departure of the Bush administration, I sensed impending doom. Perhaps it was facing at last the immense grief of the prior eight years, during which it felt like we could do little more than hold our breath until we were blue in the face. I was compelled to create work based on the insidious, fluffy iconography of the marshmallow and the American landscape. After the crumbling of capitalist monuments in the Fall and the uncertainty of American empire, the metaphors of Marshmallow Crash are oddly prescient.
Marshmallow Crash depicts an American Pie character as she violently confronts an oversized marshmallow amidst an idyllic pastoral landscape. The light, fluffy buoyancy promised by the giant marshmallow is never quite delivered as the character repeatedly impacts the marshmallow and is left marked, exhausted and unfulfilled. - CB
For Millie Niss
Thank you, Jim. It was amazing to hang out with Millie at the Nottingham Trent Trace conference (Incubation). I can't believe she is gone. Thank you so much for putting up this image diary of her life.
