Groundswell Weekly Review: August 2 – 8, 2009
PosterChild strikes again, and Tactical Stencil Lab lets loose on the Marines. At SymbioticA they created art concerning the endangerment and disappearance of thrombolites, the oxygen-creating bacteria that, as one of Earth’s first lifeforms, helped create our atmosphere. Meanwhile, the “year’s best anniversary show” takes place in Cambridge, England, themed around art inspired by Darwin. [...]
Groundswell Weekly Review: July 26 – August 1, 2009
Damien Hirst covered Lance Armstrong’s bicycle in dead butterflies, which he’ll ride for the final leg of the Tour de France. Animal rights activists were not impressed. Tiny houses built from salvaged materials started to undo the bigger-is-better mentality, and creatives banded together to share temporary housing, while Spanish artists learned that transforming public space [...]
Groundswell Weekly Review: July 20 – 26, 2009
Radical American filmmaker Robert Kramer was celebrated in New York City with a retrospective of his work this week. EcoLabs invited six artists to respond to the book “Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet” by Mark Lynas, and the results are available in a free download. Picture the Homeless members strutted the catwalk [...]
Groundswell Weekly Review: July 13 – 19, 2009
Call it the Week of the Heroine (or Hero): we posted about Dulce Pinzón’s celebration of the immigrant worker, John Emerson commented on those national heroes supported by anarchist or socialist infrastructures – namely, your local firefighters – and Superman and Batman are to join forces with their Islamic counterparts. The Wa replaced ads in [...]
Groundswell Weekly Review: July 5 – 12, 2009
Tyler Green warned against a Utah mineral firm that is seeking to expand its footprint, potentially endangering Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, and we learned why artists who resist the notion of “utility” are playing into the hands of The Beast. Speaking of beasts, art and environment focused Mammut Magazine’s third edition will be megafauna themed, [...]
