Tag Archive "design-philadelphia"
New News: Comedy at PhilaMOCA, POST studio tours, Campuzano run-in with a snake
News Comedy Night @ PhilaMOCA This Saturday, October 1, at 7:00 PM, PhilaMOCA will be the site of I LOVE MITCH HEDBERG: Art for the Late Great Comedian. A number of comedy acts (including comedy by Andrew Jeffrey Wright), refreshments, and artwork are on tap. Special guest Lynn Shawcroft will screen a video of unreleased Mitch Hedberg comedy footage.
Underground videos – a Design Philly hit, now gone
Now you see em, now you don’t. The Philadelphia Underground video festival in the underground walkway surrounding Dilworth Plaza was great, and is now a thing of memory — and photo documentation. We were there at the opening last Saturday and have some pictures to share. It was a lovely cool evening, perfect counterpart for some of the odd underground films by a group of local artists.
Diedra Krieger on artblog radio–Plastic Fantastic and the other Diedra
This episode sponsored by Art in City Hall Diedra Krieger makes videos about her relationship to the camera, and by proxy, everyone’s relationship to the camera. She takes on the role of the eye and the subject all at once, a sort of Cindy Sherman for video. She also makes temporary public sculptures that invite people to play. In this episode she talks about that as well as about her contribution to Philadelphia Underground, the four-day Design Philadelphia event, ending today, in which eight artists project videos onto the subway concourse walls on the west side of City Hall. Below ... More » »
Next week on artblog radio –video and installation artist Diedra Krieger
Next week on artblog radio, Episode 6 features artist Diedra Krieger. This week, you will be able to see some of her work. She and seven other artists will be projecting video onto the walls of the subway concourse the evenings of Oct. 8 to 11 for The Philadelphia Underground (see Roberta’s post on Design Philadelphia for more details). When we interviewed Krieger during the summer, two of her videos, starring herself, were up at the Vox VI show. To whet your appetite we offer the sample (below), in which Krieger talks about shooting wedding videos–a formative experience. 25-second sample–Diedra ... More » »
Weekly Update 2 – Videos in the subway concourse at Design Philadelphia
DesignPhiladelphia (Oct. 7-17, designphiladelphia.com) arrives with about 150 exhibits, talks, panels and events sprinkled around town in a 10-day celebration of the sleek, the efficient and the sustainable— a festival marking the city’s status as a leader in design.
Weekly Update – Fall roundup of maps, photos, artists’ self portraits and more
Hundreds of shows open in Philadelphia this fall, far too many to include in this short roundup. Six shows caught my fancy, but they’re just the tip of the iceberg. Nowhere at Arcadia (Sept. 23-Nov. 7. arcadia.edu)
Love returns to Love Park–Welcome House
The magic of worlds merging–homeless and well-heeled, city workers and city slickers, artists and would-be’s–suddenly has returned Love Park into a meeting place, under the spell of Marianne Bernstein’s Welcome House–a glass house or box framed in wood, set in the park not too far from the so-called Philadelphia Welcome Center.
Lot’s Going on in Philadelphia
A Clean Break installation, part of Design Philadelphia, at 313 S. Broad Street. photo courtesy of City Paper Design Philadelphia’s Urban VisionsThere’s a lot to see at the moment. Firstly, Design Philadelphia has events all over the place. Don’t miss the group of eco-friendly, affordable and occasionally pre-fab projects for improving urban living that are set up on a vacant lot opposite the Kimmel Center with work by an international group of designers. A Clean Break (also covered by Libby, below), organized by Minima Gallery (up through Oct. 30th) features projects that are realistic and/or in actual use, such as ... More » »
Prefabulous, and a chat with Bruce Schimmel
A Clean Break, organized by curators from Minima. The show is part of the two-week confab, Design Philadelphia. This is a view looking towards the Kimmel Center. People were rushing around putting on last-minute touches to the pre-fabs exhibit A Clean Break, part of Design Philadelphia, when we arrived there on the vacant lot on South Broad Street last Wednesday, about an hour before the opening. Habitat Home–Habitat for Humanity will place this in Philadelphia next month. Here it’s just a scrim to represent the house. The funkiest and in some ways the best thing there was the Habitat for ... More » »
Prefab postcard for prefab housing exhibition–cleverness award!
Front of the postcard announcing the prefab exhibit A Clean Break opening later this month as part of Design Philadelphia. Design Philadelphia, an international confab on design now in its fourth year continues to be a cornucopia of delights for those interested in design. This year DP has 83 events and programs Oct. 16 through Oct. 22 including lectures and…an outdoor exhibit of prefab housing, titled A Clean Break, on the vacant lot on South Broad St. near Spruce. (Echoes of MoMA’s prefab housing exhibit? See posts.) A Clean Break — sponsored/organized by Minima and co-curated by Eugenie Perret and Elizabeth ... More » »
