08 Open 48 A Celebration of Street Art Sara and Marc Schiller of the Wooster Collective 10 Tehran Graffiti on why they love street art 12 Spy 1: Joska 54 Pictoplasma New cities, new friends, new fairytales Tristan Manco sees if the characters are still at war 14 Spy 2: Adolf Gil Lights on leaves reveal the city 58 Oh Shit Venezuelan artist Alejandro Lecuna takes action 16 Inside Basementizid (Heilbron) 60 In Your Ear

Flip 2 18 Cheaper Sneakers Music Marbury and the art of endorsement 62 In Your Eye 20 Skating the Great Wall Books A photo journal by Kevin Metallier 64 Show & tell 26 Squatting the White Cube Banksy in LA Bombing the Brandwagen 66 Show & tell 24 Rider Ink FriendsWithYou Bootleg Show Steven Gorrow 70 Show & tell 34 Illustrative Works Iguapop 3rd Birthday Exhibition - Kukula - Lucy Mclauchlan 70 Want It Products - Brooke Reidt 73 Got a name for it? 47 Sawn Off Tales The art of Vincent Gootzen F l i p 2 Creative action = active creation lucy Mclauchlan lucy Cover: Cover: Issue #11

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Contributors Brooke Reidt, Logan Hicks, Christine Strawberry, Tristan Manco, Kukula, Joska, Sara and Marc Schiller, Kev M, Lucy Mclauchlan, Adolf Gil, the big ‘I’ in Iguagpop, David Gaffney, Steven Gorrow, Jorgy Bear, Street Player, Cyrus Shahrad, Guifari, Sergei Vutuc, Vincent Gootzen, Lecu, Timothy Leary once said that women who want to be a beautiful book and made us again regret our limited Sam Borkson, Cameron Bird, Nounouhau Collective, Nelson and Conny Neuner. equal with men lack imagination. pages. See works from Catalina Estrada, Miss Van, Nina Braun, Ephameron and a few other artists, all in Advertising: This issue of Modart is a strong indicator that while the this issue, all women. So what? It wasn’t a theme or a Garry Maidment: discussion over the place for women in arts, as in other [email protected] conscious choice. +43 676 441 5462 areas of our lives, continues, quietly women are squatting the stage. It might have been a question of sensibility, but it was Rasmus Ostergaard never one of sex. [email protected] We don’t have quotas and don’t care what color, gender, +33 672 54 64 56 nationality or musical tastes our contributors have. There is no lack of imagination here. On the contrary, we Publisher Whether we found them or they found us or somebody got a story on shit, a guy whose work works best in the Methodmedia AB we both hold close laid his coat out to bridge the puddles, toilet and a photo spread that suggests China is the future Editorial Offi ce

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MODART #11-Tiffany.indd 1 3/11/06 13:01:07 Tehran GraffitiBy: Cyrus Shahrad It may be decidedly low on B-boys and backwards caps, but Iran’s capital does boast an underground graffiti scene that sees kids 2) FASHION 3) RAVE CULTURE 4) WESTERN MUSIC of all ages risking potential imprisonment to scrawl their sentiments on the streets. Subversive Banksy-esque stencils may be The religious minefield presented by clothing restrictions Some 60% of Afghanistan’s opium and heroin leaves the Most Iranian cab drivers, once they’ve caught a snatch of notable by their absence, but the pieces on display around Tehran are often no less politically charged: a finger flipped to the in the Islamic Republic is one that many young Iranians country via Iran, and drug addiction is an almost accepted English being spoken in their backseats, will do everything religious autocracy by letting them know that young Iranians are enjoying the very things the government would deny them are all too willing to wander into as a means of making a part of Iranian society – historically as prevalent among its in their power to prove that they’re wise to the intricacies of – Western music, drugs, even love. And while they can hardly rival the complex murals of cities like London or Paris, there is statement. Bright colours, according to the authorities, are great poets as it is within today’s army of out-of-work actors. Western culture. Many do so conversationally – asking how something deliriously charming in their simplicity: an expression of the innocent humanity at the heart of one of the world’s most off limits; suits are okay, but ties are too Western; short Recently, however, designer drugs like ecstasy have become easy it is to get work as a lifeguard in London, or bragging

10 maligned and misunderstood countries. sleeves are acceptable but few people will risk wearing an increasingly common currency for the youth of Tehran, about how many girlfriends they’re currently stringing along }

shorts even if they’re running to put the rubbish out. It’s the who regularly leave the city and cross the Alborz mountains – although those with less of a head for languages tend to 11 i } t

i girls, however, who have had to make the most adjustments, in convoys of hopped-up Peugeot 205s, and then dance the simply slip a CD into the stereo, sit back and let their tunes i t 1) ROMANTIC LOVE not only knowing how far back a hejab can be worn before night away behind the closed doors of a family villa in one of do the talking. The results can be mildly disconcerting: music i it technically becomes a scarf, but also managing to turn the pre-Revolutionary pleasure resorts crumbling beside the is bought on faith from CD rippers in the local bazaars, who raff It’s hard to believe that a word translating literally as ‘romantic love’ could be considered subversive, but then this is a country where it’s still a calculated risk for young couples to wander it into an icon of Iranian femininity along the way – surely murky Caspian Sea. As a result, techno music is making ever compile their own illicit mixes of what they think is currently G raff around hand in hand, even in the Western-style shopping malls of more upmarket northern Tehran. one of the most impressive feats of aesthetic evolution in stronger inroads into the popular consciousness, its blazing popular in the States. To this end, it’s not uncommon for G Police regularly stop boys and girls driving around in the same car and question their relationship fashion history. It’s not surprising, then, that designers like basslines and pounding four-four beats a middle finger to Westerners to find themselves being driven through the city – the only acceptable answer is husband and wife or brother and sister (even cousins are fair Monsoon, Zara and Diesel are making such a dent in the the religious establishment, and as unsubtle a contrast to with the Backstreet Boys, Bryan Adams or Elton John blaring ehran T game), but without identification to prove it, they may still find themselves carted off to the station. high-class shopping malls of northern Tehran, although the melancholic discord of traditional Iranian music as a from the imported sub-woofer behind their ears, responding ehran

As a result, flirting has turned into something of a fine art: telephone numbers are occasionally less wealthy Iranians are forced to settle for the bazaar cheeseburger to a bowl of delicately flavoured Iranian stew. to the driver’s optimistic rear-view mirror glances with T flung dramatically between the open windows of moving cars, and there are suburban coffee downtown, where regularly misspelled designer labels mortified smiles. shops serving as colourful pick-up points (although the Dutch courage provided by watermelon (Kelvin Kline, Armini) are sold on spools like ribbon and sewn milkshakes remains questionable). The majority of wooing, however, still goes on behind the into clothes while you wait. closed doors of private parties. SPY: Joska Joska was born in the crust of a beautiful shell on paint everything. When asked to provide a statement an island far away from any known country. Joska about her work, Joska said: 12 } enjoyed living between lovely animals, and spent The truth is that I don’t have any actual statement for days with them exploring the enormous rain forest

Y 1 my own work! I don´t think too much about it in this way.

P and spending afternoons nibbling freshly picked I try to draw what I want. I like to draw my surroundings/ S fruits. Together with her animal friends, Joska my environment. I like to draw animals and fantasy started painting every tree, every stone, every creatures like monsters or weird looking humans, so hair on every creature on the entire island. This I draw them/it … I like to see how people react to my made them hungrier. When the island was painted, work and I try to make people happy, smiling, laughing, they swam and swam, painting the sea. Joska was thinking, remembering, crying, asking, thinking some so emerged in the world beneath her she failed to more, leaving their world/feelings/thoughts, forgetting, notice as one by one the current carried away her drawing themselves, talking, reading, listening, animal friends. watching, speaking, escaping from their worries, getting Suddenly Joska found herself alone, in a country called ideas, scaring, relaxing, making things possible... Germany where Joska works, studies and still wants to My favorite thing to do is to paint and draw. SPY: Adolf Gil Adolf Gil was born in 1970 and studied to be an engineer, which worked out for him because he ended up as a concert promoter and eventually went to live in Australia for a spell. In 1998, he made the decision to ‘dedicate his life to painting.’

What you see here is the same painting cast under a different light. It may be difficult or impossible to grasp on the printed page, but it’s too good not to try. Here’s some hints from Adolf as you enter his frame.

I am interested in light, which is actually the main object of my investigations. In my paintings, I use all kind of techniques and materials (like natural pigments, cristal powder, latex, luminescent paints, etc.), overstrike them in layers on canvas; and like this, manage to make the observer see changes in the colours and shapes. Depending on the incidence of light (like the rotation of the sun as the hours progress) and the position of the observer, the paintings acquire a different presence. In my recent work, I have also been investigating with luminescent paints, with which I make them recover life in the absence of light, making the paintings have a third image which is only shown at night.

My paintings usually tell stories and show the contradictions and juxtapositions of the society in which we live, showing on one side natural organic forms, like trees, animals or humans, and on the other, pure geometrical shapes and cities which depict extreme opposition to nature. In my work these influences coexist in a singular frame anda

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Fall, fall better, fail, fail better, sometimes the moment you can’t run anymore is the same one where you find your step … sometimes things come together only once we think they’ve disappeared.

The Basementizid.Kunst.Cellar in Heilbronn, Germany is a gallery for contemporary arts, which explores text, images and sounds, considering itself consciously addicted to a wide range of forms and voices. Every month they launch a different platform to stimulate discussion between regional, national and foreign artists. Basementiszid Kunst Cellar knows that we are all foreign anyway, they live the motto: Think global, act local.

An involuntary nomad, creator and curator Sergej Vutuc was used to seeing trashed remnants of a city growing as the number of inhabitants diminished. He’d watched waves of people leaving in search of something else and he himself has also done the leaving. After the “Blickwinckel” project in 2004, he found himself in a small city inhabited by products and saw the locals mimicking the lifestyle on their shelves and screens. “I started watching people like part of those products, walking from one point to another, feeling free for this reason, feeling fear for that one … cultural life appeared to have been killed and reborn as consumer good. I started to speak with people about what we could bring to town to give it some glow again. Blickwinckel began, held two exhibitions, completed a project and closed. Two reasons for this were obvious: People were put off by my bad German and the kids started to split town. This idea of young people heading to the big city in search of a better life inspired me to stay put and at the end of 2005, I was able to open the Basementizid “A working class hero is something to be … (they) keep you doped on Kunst Cellar.” religion and sex and tv … a working class hero is something to be.” 16 } Still thinking Global and acting Local, Sergej brought artists from all over – John Lennon

DE the world to this small German town to exhibit their work and communicate I with the people … and give to the people; to share lives, dreams, ideas NS

I and “to offer people the feeling that where you’ve been isn’t as important as what you are and break the mentality that states real life only happens in the Metropolis.” At the same time, Sergej worked with locals to create an artzine, hold parties that brought together local bands, dj’s and visual artists in an attempt to break the walls.

Since opening the Cellar, Sergej has welcomed Ricky Adam, Klub 7, Alberto Polo, Gerd Rieger, Bongout, Vectoriots, Mymonsters and others … Filjio, Dave the Chimp, Viagrafik and Yummy Industry are some of those slated to hit Heilbronn in 2007.

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ForText: Christine Strawberry Illustration: Feet Guillaume Desmarets There is a Berber proverb that says desperate parents and kids. One bleeds green, the other when you die and it’s judgement time, red. The way to end the sneaker madness was to ignore it, but that hasn’t happened. Now, perhaps something every limb, organ and other identifi able else has. One of those rare moments when something piece of your body gets one vote to your occurs that seems so obvious, so natural even, it is hard fate based on how you treated it. The to imagine that it hasn’t happened before (at least, not feet get two votes a piece. One vote for like this). themselves, and one vote for carrying Until now, a wealthy basketball player (like Michael Artists proudly presented: the weight of all the other pieces. Jordan) or musician (think My Adidas and Run DMC), would take the bait, putting their names as the glitter Forget the proverb, feet are important and for many of Mark Gonzales, Fernando Elvira, Stefan Marx, Pontus Alv, Jocko Weyland, Rick & Buddy, on overpriced corporate products, contributing to social us, our shoes carry us more often than trains, plains or myths that make for harsh material realities. Instead Nils Svensson, Jaka Babnik, Richard Gilligan, Anders Jandér, Martin Ottosson, Ian Dykmans, automobiles. But, and maybe this is just me, I’m over the of challenging a predominantly white and plutocratic sneaker craze (not that I was every in it, to be fair). I’m establishment, they took the money to the bank turning BLEND, Simon Sjödin, Nicke Svensson, Alexis Zavialoff of the sort that buys a pair of shoes and wears them to their back on street level implications as ‘we the people’, death. We have an intense relationship (me shoes and adored these cherished marks, expressing admiration in me) and I have to thank shoes for more than sparing the form of cash. my soles hot sand or glass covered cement. Shoes, for Vernissage 1:st of december, Doors open at 19.00 example, introduced me to the melancholy of fashion Then along came Stephan Marbury and perhaps the end victims; women wobbling in heels on ancient cobbles, of the 100-200 dollar hyped shoe. Nobody, but Marbury teen boys trading loafers for Vans because they were and his business manager will know the drive behind Grand opening of the sculpture Le Boxx 21.00 with live skateboarding born in the 80’s not growing up in them. this seemingly philanthropic move, but let’s not worry about that right now. 18 As every company on the planet appears to want in Bar, music and dancefloor }

on the art/merchandising tip, sneakers continue to The bottom line is that a professional athlete, an NBA 19 } be celebrated even with the sweatshop stories, the all star, and a kid who dragged himself out of forgotten ridiculous margins and the knowledge that when we quicksand streets, has put out a shoe line where the Address: make something unimportant out to be essential … highest price is under 15$. But a 15$ shoe can’t be good Stapelbäddshuset/Stapelbäddsparken, Stora Varvsgatan 15 young and/or dumb people start to drool. Lust for life enough to really play in, can it? Well, Marbury does. Good replaced by lust for object, but the death drive never enough for a pro, good enough for the playground. Buss 3, stop at Kockums exits. How many kids have been killed over sneakers? When seen as commodity, shoes, like art are only worth More info: Even after Naomi Klein’s No Logo put the sneaker/ what people are willing to pay for them. Marbury, for the sweatshop relationship into a light where it had no moment, has broken the paradigm and will at least let us www.bryggeriet.org/leboxx choice but to change, fashion, comfortable feet and

FAiRYTAlE FOR FEET see if the people actually want the paradigm broken. good endorsements have seen the sneaker craze growing and growing and growing and these objects That said, don’t expect supply or demand to shrink as far which cost (usually) less than 10 euro to manufacture as other sneaker companies are concerned. I can’t tell are sold at outrageous prices, endorsed by celebrities you why, but the craze appears ready to continue. and companies who continue to make a killing … as do

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Riding the Great Wall: And Everything Else in China } l l A bouquet of pink that ran through red towards violet, black, white, grey and chrome … this was Guillaume Desmarets was the one non German Squatting the White Cube speaker in the group. When he couldn’t the palette the artists had to play with, and that is one massive shadow … as the work begins. On understand, he put his head down and doodled. a side note, did you know that Mattel actually When he did understand, he brought other artists sells a Barbie Bling Bling line? The colors made to a line where their imaginations met. This is the me quiver when I heard them, but didn’t remind start of a piece he worked up together with Made hits a military hangar me a bit of Miami Vice when I saw how they were and the Atzgerei crew. laid out.

When art enters into a sponsored affair, we hope that the artists “There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated receive conditions that reflect their value in view of the proposed budget. We’d like to see them sleeping in comfortable beds, able in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the A jigsaw had been brought along, to get their rest or privacy if they want it, and generally treated in a presumption of altering them with invention.” – E. Hemingway just in case … but the carving began Historically, Totem Poles were used to way that they (at a minimum) lose nothing for their time, not even quickly. Letters got sliced out of slabs represent clans. What was represented sleep. Sometimes this happens, sometimes we find floors. Putting of wood, totem poles were constructed, by this one? I remember a large cock Sometimes such events are moments in the build up to something else altogether … and up 15 people for a week is never going to be cheap, but a sic solution the jigsaw became a key player in the and a blue drip of sperm that might have sometimes I’m over enthusiastic about enthusiasm, about people who do … was found. It wasn’t four star, but it did mean that this group of production of all this work. This is been a tear had it not fallen from that yesterday’s strangers were going to live and work together in the where all that sawdust had come from. giant grinning face. Most of the crew I was invited to Vienna to participate in an event and tell a story. On Friday afternoon, I landed and most intense way for a solid week. No fingers were lost in the build up to participated in the totems, and eventually Lilo met me at the airport. We drove across the city to a semi abandoned hangar that had been used this led to large cut outs with close Every crew had their own sleeping compartment on this train. this event. by the Austrian military to house and manufacture tanks. It had been almost two years since the one carvings. and only time I’d met him and they show up worse on me. The weather, he told me, had gone from yellow to grey in the time it took him to pick me up. The air was wet and smelled of wood. I inhaled and tasted a mixture of saw dust and spray. Inside the hangar, bodies were moving. Wrists rigid and supple, fingers pressing down on the bomb, knees firm as the jigsaw appeared to be everybody’s favorite toy, and people passed back and forth with purpose. Lilo introduced me, but nobody seemed Made = Maggot all that interested in small chat. The place was huge and though it was evident that loads of work had Maggots. Remember the film ‘The Lost Boys?’ No? Ok, been done, it was clear that there was much more to do. The event was in less than 24 hours. One of two … well, here’s the other. imagine opening up a Chinese Take Away carton and Busk. Saw stencils and paste ups and where you’d hope for noodles finding hundreds of dark The event itself, was a celebratory party to mark the birthday of Red Bull’s Brandwagen initiative, stickers from him all across Wiener Town. little maggots sliming around. This was the image the where they offer up a pimped out fire truck to various bands, support spontaneous concerts at festival Normally busk means, to play music or film planted in me, all those ugly maggots and worms camping grounds and other venues, acting, in a way, as patrons of the arts. Lilo, his studio dvsn.at, perform in a public place, usually while going nowhere. A truly nasty image for a box I knew and friends worked with Red Bull to add visual aesthetics to the sound and invited 15 artists, all with soliciting money. Don’t know how a guy well and liked the smell of. In Vienna, there are maggots street roots, all with different styles, to gather and collaborate on decorating the Brandwagen itself you never see manages to solicit cash, but everywhere and they’re speaking. What they’re saying and the massive venue where this private party would take place. maybe that’s the play in his name. He’s is that Made is one of two local artists who works the performing, producing, but not soliciting, hardest to get up, often. From what I saw, I imagine that Red Bull was proud of the event. 40 different bands that they had at least not in public … just putting up and supported turned up to say thanks, and the work done by the artists gave soul to the space. People and out and again, often … and if he is In my apartment it’s police sirens, on the farm it is still the rooster’s cockledoodledoo and at an abandoned soliciting in public, I couldn’t tell you what Collaboration continues and maggots get ate, drank and were merry. This however, isn’t the story that interested me and those that did, I wasn’t military hangar in Vienna revelry was like a bomb going off. The train rattled and clinked, there was a loud noise it is he’s after. personalities as artists overlap. Guilhaume there to see. What interested me was the process of these different artists meeting each other and and smatterings of rough voices. Good Morning geezers, just when you thought the green had gone, here come When I saw this pile of trash, I thought, wow, the Red from Farm Prod put his own spin on a maggot beginning to work together. the tanks to welcome you rudely into a brand new day, another opportunity to kill the gringo in you. Bull clean up crew has their work cut out for them if face as did Tika and Elak from the TGS crew they’re going to match that. Of course I didn’t think To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the (Zurich) that. I don’t remember what I thought. I just remember bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control...” ts eliot that it was one of the first finished pieces that caused In an old military hangar in Vienna, the genie got evicted. What took place, the week I did not me to stop before it. witness, is where the stories that interest me are. Let’s take a look at the week and I’ll tell you some of what I can confirm. With the army behind them, the band of disobedient This is going to get boring. Collaboration continues … but what is collaboration? troops slowly woke up and got back to work. By the When does it start? With the noise in the background and the faces around you? time Friday rolled around, everybody had inhaled a With a conversation? A look? A discussion? Any study of collaboration suggests bit too much spray or simply spent all the serious that collaboration is a concept that provides the location to think of love. Love and Organizing an event can be high stress, from energy they had. Collaboration: This was a marriage that wrote itself all over the enormous hangar. the first phone call or conversation right What reason, besides love, would make a person work like hell for a week, sleep in a C100 is not working on a book called The through the moment the whole spectacle train full of strangers (with the shower across the street at the tennis courts) and hang Advertising of Rebellion, though he made a pretty has been broken down and is being out in the outskirts of Vienna while the city keeps moving in the near distance? 26 good model as he offered himself up to be bombed } digested. 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likelihood is that any compensation, the } paint took him down. B organizer, like the artists, get for their time comes in shapes that banks don’t accept. E B Meeting new people, sharing ideas, working hard because it’s who you are, seeing the T E C U I birth of new creative works, this is the type Red Bull worked with Montana Busking up high – one of

(Spain) for the event and some Here’s a good example of non T E C U of payment that drives some people. It’s a the downsides of the event Bon Voyage … as Guillaume heads towards I

WH special cans were produced and rare and beautiful thing. Here you can see was that the space was the airport, he gets a glimpse at a result intentional, very serious and timeless provided, giving the artists a a picture of Lilo in the eye of the hurricane. closed off for the actual of the week they hadn’t imagined; a Austrian street art, I mean advertising. WH creative condition, color. Every It’s pretty confusing, I admit, that smile party and some great living, breathing maggot pasted up where It says: story has its color, this time … normally he should be at least a little pieces like this one were everybody riding shotgun is sure to see it it would be selected from a From Punk to Grandma, the Wiener stressed right about now. But that image tough to see. See it now. – a collaboration between new friends that spectrum before the story ever Wurstelmann is good for everybody! doesn’t lie. Young man is enjoying himself. made for the sweetest of souvenirs and the started. most poetic of endings. Mostly thanks to the support of Kathi, Felix, Paul and Stefan who made sure that nobody said New Orleans when the storm hit and stayed beside him as the core of the crew who pulled this all off. Participating Artists Were: C100, Busk/CMOD, Nero, Alva, Kryot, Mosta, Sep, Guifari, M8, Tika, Elak, 56k, Made, Atzergerei, Rich:Art, Lens, Koast, Kers/Tony and H ELL. RIDERS INK WITH:

The news is that he’s deep in the waters of his true loves: surfi ng, traveling and creating. Insight pays him to set up their installations around the planet and according to a colleague, the only thing longer than Steve’s travel itineraries are his expense reports. Lucky Boy. Or is he? Steve refutes that. Not the travel, but says his funds are on the shoe string and part of why he succeeds is that he can make something of nothing even when he’d like it to be the other way around. Lucky, yes perhaps, lucky and talented … he created the legendary ad agency The Revolution and won an Aria for his cover design of 28 } Powderfi nger’s Vulture Street. Having done several group shows, he’s now prepping for his fi rst solo show in Sydney and designing 29 board shorts with his brother. } R i D E R S i N K

Steve’s love of art was fueled by the surf and the street. You can nearly hear him laughing from Australia as he explains that he tried his R i D E R S i N K hand at graffi ti (Stevie G), but still can’t use a spray can to save his life and was part of the local crew that began to draw street art out of graffi ti, until, well, the cane came down and that was enough for him. I asked him if there was a street piece that was proud of, but he shrugged it off. “What I’m proud of? Did you know I’m about to have a kid with the woman I absolutely love and adore and in terms of being proud, nothing else in my entire life even comes close.” R i D E R S i N K } 30 to theday, myfavorite band.” remains amazing.Healsohappenedtobetheguythatlatched meontotheModernLovers, worldandhisown art Iggy ofthecommercial surfart whoare it War Paint andI’d sayitwasthisthathookedmeonto ajobinthesurfindustry. Later, Iwasluckyenoughtoworkwiththemanhimself. Hewaslikethe “Peter islegend.Himandhismateswere responsible movement forthatmassive thathitinthelate80’s art inthesurfindustry andearly90’s. They called You alsomention Peter Webb asoneofyour strongest infl uences.Could you describewhatitisabout Peter thatenchants you? that’s inspirational. Ireally likeEricParker andKeiji Ito’s stuff at themoment.” “I love andBarcelona andNew moststreetYork art standoutinmymind.HalfthetimeIdon’t know whohasdonewhat,Ijustknow Ilove whatIseeand Touring theworldwithInsight,have you seenanystuff thatinspires you lately? R i D E R S i N K } 32 knows. Between waves, keepyour eyes onSteven tosee whathechurnsoutnext. scenelooklike byson. Sowhat’ll thetimehisbaby isriding aboard? theart Who fucking Steven describeshiswork asamixofsurrealism andpop, whichwe couldseeasfatherto same structure. Money ismilk,whatanimage ifyou transplant ittoa bank.Safesjustwouldn’t have the isabitmoretrue release contrived andcommercial art astimeismoneyandmilk.” lots ofPaul Frank clothing. The difference between thetwocanbe tricky, ismore ofa butart better. alotand wear Graphic designersoundsshit,likeyou should hangoutatIKEA “A iswhattheyusedtocallgraphic designersandIthinkitsoundsway commercial artist a ‘simple’ artist? andwhat’s (ifitscommercial, isitstillart) commercial artist thedifference between thatand Now withInsight,Steve Butwhatexactlyisa worksoftenwiththetitleCommercial Artist. Illustrated Works With: KuKula KuKula drew a picture, Mom hung it on the fridge Kindergarten teacher told mom, KuKula draws pretty curses a lot and fix mouth with band aid and soap Age four KuKula finds out don’t throw stuff away Now there’s lots of stuff, KuKula have lots of stuff Mom sent KuKula to design and art academy in Tel Aviv to make career Teachers say KuKula and drawings like poison candy IwKuKula likes lychee flavored toffee from the central bus station KuKula like to complain a lot and always think the glass half empty KuKula always smile and nice nice even though nobody believe her 34

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Kukula gonna die, Kukula quits } KuKula believes in the Evil Eye KuKula born in Israel, Israel there’s beach and buddies to play in the sand WORKS

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America big no friends no greencard no bread, To eat KuKula draws pictures to hang on the fridge, KuKula hungry no more Momoca and KuKula makes clothes together, clothes are important so you won’t get cold and for covering the tuches ustrated McDonalds hamburgers make stomachache for KuKula l l ustrated I KuKula like-a the salads, When KuKula get sick KuKula like to eat chicken l l soup in bed. KuKula always five years old I K www.kukulaland.com K }

I l l ustrated W O R K S 36 I l l ustrated WORKS } 37 All Lucy “ever wanted to do was draw” and after turning down a lucrative deal with a major brand who’d have happily paid her to draw, but would have sucked out her soul, she proved she wasn’t going to become yet another branded commercial artist. Since then Lucy Mclauchlan’s artwork has gone from strength to strength in it’s own right, with exhibitions across the globe; it’s now not only her screen prints but also her original artwork that has become 38

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still about the drawing, the simple need to create the perfect } line, mark making in it’s most basic form. Her intuitive approach allows her subconscious mind to take control

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Iw organic undertones and densely populated images emerge W O R K S from within her tranquil exterior and manifest on surfaces that range from breasts to cars, covering millimeters to meters. ustrated l l ustrated I To taste a slice of her subconscious head to the soon to be l l Illustrated Works With: Illustrated Works updated Beat13 website: www.beat13.co.uk. I L UCY L AN MC L AUCH LM L } I l l ustrated W O R K S 40

M I l l ustrated WORKS } 41 Illustrated Works With: Brooke Reidt Iw“Home can’t be mapped. I keep my suitcase packed and I’m nearly a quarter of a century old. I’ve moved more times than I have fingers and toes to count on, so I’ve quit counting and I now embrace all my sojourns, adopting a somewhat habitual transient way in the process. If home is where the heart is, my anchor is rusting in my art. My paintings are visceral maps and short breathes between suffocation. My intention is to defy flightless fables, continue the contagion of adoration and timeless preservation of my indefatigable inamorata integrity.”

Brooke doesn’t realize (or does she) that either she is a poet or her life is a poem. She wrote me that she’s turned on by not for profit and has a new project going 42

} with Element Skateboards along those lines. Apparently she works as much as she 43

worries: clothes, paintings, wood carvings, a little bit of whatever leaping out of } her in hope of something more sane. The work she sent it could be bundled into the following batches: Journal, Birds, Portraits and … I donno … everything delicate,

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R I l l ustrated WORKS } 45 Pretty, ain’t it? By David Gaffney/Illustration by Nelson Mrs Kalinsky spoke through wreaths of smoke from the cigarette she had permanently cocked at the side of her head. ‘This is Alfred.’ The fat pampered cat looked up at her. ‘He’s insured for two grand.’ Her long nylon-clad legs made a hissing sound as she crossed and uncrossed them. ‘Double if he gets run over.’ She stroked the flabby ball of fur. Bars of shadow from the Venetian blinds made her expression unreadable.

But I couldn’t go through with it. Then two weeks later a ginger tom got flattened on the A556 out of Eccles. I scraped him into a bin bag, dyed him Alfred’s colour, 47 and took him to Mrs Kalinsky’s vet. } ES L I didn’t see Mrs Kalinsky again for weeks and I never got my cut. Then from the window of the police van, I saw her with the vet in a restaurant, drinking wine. And laughing. S A W N O F T A

David Gaffney’s book, Sawn Off Tales is available in bookshops and at www.saltpublishing.com anonymous group of knitters akay the london police armspop

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What exactly is it about street art that makes it so incredibly intriguing and alluring for people of all walks of life in cities and countries across the world? by Sara and Marc Schiller / www.woostercollective.com armspop Tanc gib fresh tono For years we’ve been trying to answer this very question. itself. The city becomes a collaborator with the artist. So after writing down the words “LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION!” we wrote down the second set of words “SURPRISE The one thing we know from writing about ephemeral art each day Our favorite street artists have a vision of that perfect wall or AND DELIGHT” on the Wooster Collective website is that the number one reason rooftop for their piece to coexist. To be true to this vision, legal nano people visit the website is because it inspires them. access to that ideal space for the piece is impossible to obtain Why “surprise and delight”? 48

} and because of this, it needs to be stolen. It’s for this reason that

And the number one reason we continue to keep the website Because there’s something about discovering street art when you 49

we’ve come to believe that street art can only be effective if it’s } going each day is for the very same reason… because the art and least expect it that makes it so damn cool – and just plain fun done illegally. The illegality of street art is part of its DNA. the artists inspire us. - to experience. Street art isn’t meant to fi nd you; you’re meant While we love interesting art on legal walls, we don’t consider it to fi nd it. You walk around the corner and you see something that One evening this summer we sat down with the goal of attempting “street art”. We consider it public art. Once the art is placed on is so interesting and utterly unique that you have one of those to de-construct the “DNA” of street art. Over a nice bottle of

S T R E E T A R T a predetermined and approved space, the act of collaboration “What the fuck???” moments. You say to yourself – Who the hell pez and kenor Spanish Rioja, for the fi rst time since launching the Collective over

between the city and the artist ceases to exist and the piece loses did this? Why the hell did they do it? And most importantly, why S T R E E T A R T fi ve years ago, we put down onto paper what we felt it is about wayne horse it’s most important quality - that perfect spot that exists only to is it here of all places? street art that makes it so damn powerful for us and for others. mind’s eye of the artist. Each year we take a group of people who have lived in New York The fi rst thing we wrote down were the words - “LOCATION, Which artists understand the concept of location the best? For for some time - but who say that they have never noticed street art nomad LOCATION, LOCATION!” us, two artists who stand out are Blu in Italy and Armsrock in before - on a walking tour of Lower Manhattan. The group usually joska For street art to be truly effective and powerful, the location it’s Germany. One only has to look at their pieces to know that these consists of people of all types and walks of life - Wall Street placed in is absolutely critical. For the best street artists, the artists take location extremely seriously. bankers, housewives, grandmothers… you name it. location the work is placed in is just as important as the piece

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For the fi rst part of the tour, it’s usually us pointing out pieces to people as we walk along our route from Soho to the Lower East Side. But inevitably, by the time we’re midway through the walk, its not us only pointing out pieces, but others as well. Each year people start discovering pieces on their own: A stencil of Ghandi on the pavement below them; an old Akay sticker on the lamppost above; a Shepard Fairey wheatpaste on the wall across the street. It’s these moments of pure “surprise and delight” that are the most enjoyable for us. By the end of the walking tour many people tell us ‘ I will never see the city in the same way again.”

There are lots of examples of artists, as well as individual pieces, that best capture the elements of surprise and delight. Two of our favorites: The fi rst, a massive fi gure made out of shipping crates that appeared one afternoon on a factory in Melbourne that gave morning train commuters something fun to look at as they rode into town. The second, a series of incredibly creative alterations to street cross walks done in Montreal by the artist Roadsworth.

After writing down the words “surprise and delight” we then wrote down the phrase - “must have something to say.”

For some reason most people want street art to be political. We don’t know exactly why this is the case, but we guess that by knowing that each and every time the artist hits the streets they risk being arrested, its easiest for people to comprehend why someone would be compelled to use street art to protest a cause or action.

But for us, street art doesn’t need to be political for it to have something to say. What the piece does need though, is to clearly project and articulate how the artist sees the world he or she lives in. It’s peering into the artist’s minds eye through their art that makes it interesting. The piece on the street can be humorous or serious. It doesn’t matter. What does matter is that through the piece we begin to understand how the artist uniquely views the world in which we live. We love that they use their art to deliver a message. 50 } Two artists who come to mind that do this quite effectively 51 are Zevs for his protests against McDonalds, and the } anonymous group of knitters in Copenhagen who covered a Danish World War II combat tank in a giant pink knitted will not last long. Knowing that the artist put so much energy into a to build up around the base of the lampposts where his stickers cozy to protest Denmark’s involvement in the war in Iraq. piece of art that may last on the street for only an hour is incredibly were placed. What was so compelling was that the stickers were

S T R E E T A R T inspiring. We believe that you can peek into an artists personality, his personal response to the terrorist attacks and embodied his

For the fi nal element of street art’s DNA we wrote down the desires and dreams by looking at their public - anonymous - art. profound sadness and emotion S T R E E T A R T word “Personal” I guess this is, for us, the most important Some great examples of the personal nature of street art is the work “The Fats” were a series of anonymous stickers that went up in 2001 element of what makes street art so powerful. Every piece of Dan Witz and “The Fats.” and 2002. They were simple, hand drawn stickers that had images of amazing street art is a little piece of the artist’s life that of ‘fat people’ drawn on them. Each sticker had a specifi c saying; has been put out in public for enjoyment, criticism, and We fi rst saw Dan Witz’s work after September 11 when he placed things like “the fats are people to” or “the fats have friends”. The destruction. Many of these pieces take hours or even days a series of shrine stickers on lampposts fanning out from where simple line drawings and phrases made you think – Why did this to create. There are dangers to “get up” and most pieces the World Trade Center once stood. Dan’s handmade stickers person feel compelled to make these stickers? Is the artist actually were so compelling that real life three-dimensional shrines began fat? Is their best friend or lover fat? How does anyone balance our Street art is supposed to be experienced on the street. Period. around the world you become inspired yourself. society which is so focused on fast food and appearances? Whether you see a piece as it evolves every day on the way to By tapping into the intimacy of the art, you begin to believe These stickers embodied so many personal feelings that they work, or travel to cities around the globe to experience street art that you have experienced something that was put there, just have stuck with us for years. in other cultures, it is the experience of discovery that stays with for you….. you and shapes you . It allows you to view the city environment In closing, while we we’re well aware of how important the Our advise….. through new eyes from seeing the environment that the art is Wooster Collective website is for people all over the world, we’re in. By being surprised at the humor and ingenuity of artists ….. never stop looking! also aware that street art isn’t meant to be seen on the internet.

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herbert circulos Are the Characters still at War? Pictoplasma 2006: words/images: Tristan Manco It’s the morning after the night before… I awake from a feverish dream of spinning cup cakes, one-eyed blue ponies and furry red creatures rocking out to air guitar. Even as this dream fades I begin to see characters everywhere I look; my breakfast toast develops an artistic personality and runs away with a spoon to work on a concept album - nothing is as it first appears. After four days at the Pictoplasma Conference I was sleeping, eating and dreaming a world of the strangest creatures. Hosted in Berlin, this was Pictoplasma’s second conference of contemporary character design and art. Its publicity posters featured costumed characters from artists such as Boris Hoppek, Doma and Akinori Oishi seated around a conference table as though plotting world domination. If you imagined that this conference might feature Snoopy and Donald Duck discussing the plight of un- derprivileged cartoon characters then you would be wrong, but not too way off. The campaign im- ages were a perfect match for this offbeat event that celebrates the diversity of character culture through the eyes of independent artists rather than mega corporations such as Disney.

The Pictoplasmic world began as a book showcasing new directions in character design and the pictorial logos that were becoming increasingly common in graphic design. The first volume was packed with examples of figurative pixel and vector art. A second soon followed with additional chapters on freehand drawing, action figures, puppets and street art. Pictoplasma then plunged into new territory with “Characters in Motion” a DVD & book that explored character-driven ani- mations from ‘cutting edge’ studios, animators and designers. The books have become essen- tial reference, complemented by an encyclopaedic website database of over 1,500 international artists. Pictoplasma is now a hub for art fandom, networking and talent spotting– which in turn

54 drives its publications and projects forward. } 55

The four days began with a Character Walk. Scattered across the Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg dis- visuals provided by Friends With You, the highlight of which was an adult romper room with } Enthused by these projects and connected to a global network of talented artists Pictoplasma’s tricts of Berlin the conference had commandeered 30 galleries and project spaces for a range giant inflatable balls and kids party music. founders Peter Thaler and Lars Denicke decided to create a conference for people who love char-

ASMA of free to the public shows and installations. Artists included Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, David acters and people who create them. “This is not about Klingons or a trade fair” they were quick to Shrigley, Doma, Nathan Jurevicius and Derrick Hodgson to name a few. Following the maps After a late night of nodding to intelligent techno, drinking beer with Jägermeister and wander- p l ASMA point out in their opening speech. The intention was to look at characters as a “cultural movement provided of the gallery circuit felt like a treasure hunt. For Berlin visitors there was the added ing the streets with a kebab in my hand I felt refreshed to take in the next day. The following rather just a commercial one”. p l

CTO bonus of discovering upcoming and offbeat show spaces. events took place at Haus der Berliner Festspiele with its thousand-seater auditorium, café and p i

spaces to chill out. As the day’s events rolled by it became clear that Pictoplasma had hit upon CTO Initially the idea was to be able to meet and talk with other artists and designers in the flesh since Everyone will have his or her favourites from the shows but I enjoyed the anarchic flavour of a winning formula; the animation screenings were faultless, while the combination of studio p i a lot of working relationships were usually conducted on the Internet. The programmed series of an artist called Moki. To discover her world you had to climb several flights of stairs to enter presentations, artist lectures and academic discussions gave you an insight into the processes lectures aimed to explore the artistic process by inviting artists and studio heads to speak openly a spooky environment. It felt like the contents of a hundred children’s storybooks had been of pure and applied creativity. about their motivations and art practice. The lectures were complemented by workshops, screen- thrown around the room. This mixed media installation featured humans with animal heads, ings and of course character karaoke – which brings me back to those red furry creatures, but not stuffed toys mounted like hunting trophies and costumed creatures wandering around oblivi- Screening nearly 60 films over three days, the animation programme was a unique mixof just yet... ous and camera shy. http://www.misshecker.org/. A warm-up party rounded off the day with music videos, commercials and student shorts from all corners of the globe ranging from the charmingly simple to the mind-blowingly complex. It’s a little unfair to pick favourites but ‘Middle Dog Gets Angry’ by George Gendi proved something magic could be produced with simple line drawings whereas ‘Tyger’ by Guilherme Marcondes (www.guilherme.tv) and ‘Co- dehunters by Ben Hibbon (www.statelessfilms.com) illustrated that high polished works could also look original and beautiful.

Taking in almost10 lectures a day was like going out in a rainstorm of ideas, thoughts and images – getting swamped but feeling refreshed afterwards. If there was one general theme going through many of the talks it was the importance of bringing your own personality into your work and subsequently bringing life and attitude into the characters you create. Pictoplasma is often associated with designer toy characters and although many were in evidence, the talks and presentations had a much broader scope. Artists and designers showed character design used for diverse projects such as websites, commercials, paint- ings, installations, illustrations and museum design.

The speakers also showed us more than we bargained for, delving into their inspirations, life stories and other works beyond characters. Jon Burgerman showed us for instance, how to make a salad and Derek Hodgson showed us slides of his greenhouse. Some of the talks were seriously ‘out there’ but the quirky approaches generally won you over. It was the combination of very professional studio discussions and the slightly chaotic artists’ presen- tations that really made this conference original.

From the studios present, highlights included UK based designers Airside who gave us an honest and inspirational talk on their personal work across a range of platforms including impressive animations for Lemon Jelly and equally successful commercial work “for the evil world”. Two members of Australian based design group Rinzen explained how after the last Pictoplasma conference two years ago, they were inspired to stay in Berlin and work with their other three colleagues remotely. Their first job in Europe was to produce beautifully detailed environments for Copenhagen’s Hotel Fox. The Rinzen portfolio includes a wide- range of styles, as each member of the collective is encouraged to keep experimenting and create his or her own artistic language. On the last day Studio aka from the UK wowed the audience with a diverse show reel of animated shorts and insider anecdotes on the process of pitching and developing an animation. best screamer wins! He also showed us some dodgy Italian porn/horror comics he had found in didn’t seem to mind and having grown up with TV shows like Sesame Street and The Banana a flea market, which in turn had inspired his drawings described by the catalogue as “scribbles Splits seeing people dancing in furry costumes felt warmly nostalgic. The performance consist-

56 On the more maverick side, from individual artists there were many great moments. Wayne } of beautiful creepiness”. ed of a strange modern dance sequence and then much my relief a musical medley of hip-hop

Horse, an animator, film maker and graffiti artist from Bremen and now based in Amsterdam 57 and heavy metal with the characters roller skating, break dancing and throwing some air guitar } treated us to his evolving story. From his graffiti background he started painting “Cutie” At a business conference some of these speakers might conceivably have been dragged away moves which ended the conference with a bang. characters on the street but despite their cute appearances these characters were very an- ASMA and restrained, but this is an event that is open to ideas which brings me to the grand finale. noying. They kept getting into trouble with hard drugs and gangs and so he has been trying p l Pictoplasma have been moving into three dimensions. Through a pioneering orphanage pro- Inspiration was available by the bucket load at Pictoplasma and this article could have included ASMA to distance himself from their bad behaviour. He also revealed one of his alter egos – a gramme (www.pictoorphanage.com) the general public can sponsor a 2 dimensional, graphical any number of other great artists who would have be equally hard to describe in words. The p l

CTO Mexican mask wearing wrestler with a trunk called Elephantos. A series of bizarre live ac- character to be brought to life by internationally acclaimed costume designers Florence von success of the conference lies in the character concept, which has been used to bring together

p i tion films explored him coming to terms with his sensitive side. Gerkan, Bernd Skodzig and Hans Thiemann. Once these new stars are born a glittering career people from many different walks of life. This variety of artistic endeavours, creative industries, CTO

lies ahead of them, with catwalk shows and music videos promised but for this final night these professions and approaches that would not normally share the same platform has become a p i Possibly the most fun came from Shoboshobo, a.k.a Mehdi Hercberg from France who is a characters were starring in a pop-opera and Live Character Karaoke. hotbed for further collaborations and worldwide connections. musician, artist and teacher of multimedia graphic design. At one point in the presentation he exclaimed, “Now let’s listen to the little girl scream” as he played back a high-pitched On stage 16 trained dancers were assembled in furry, soft and sometimes hairy costumes trans- Now if you’re reading this and you weren’t there you are probably wishing you had been so all squeal what sounded like of a three year old girl to the audience to demonstrate his Motor lated from designs by artists including Doma, Akinori Oishi, Friends With You and Geneviève I can say is type the word Pictoplasma into a search engine on a web browser - start exploring Karaoke project. This involved people wearing motorbike helmets with microphones rigged Gaukler. Had they taken this character costume idea a bit far? Well if they had the audience and get into character! up to a computer racing game which they control through the volume of their voices – the Ohne Scheiss Alejandro Lecuna studied Graphic Design in Caracas and later in New York, earning a degree in Video Art in Berlin. Though he is a leading corporate designer with UEFA, David Byrne’s Luaka Bop label, the NBA and Coca-Cola = Without Shit among his clients, he is making a name for himself in the fi ne art world as a video artist and activist exploring social issues and questioning the use of Dog shit on the streets: don’t like it, don’t your sensibilities to see what is being compared: essentially all three are public space. He lectures regularly at art and design institutions in Venezuela get it and yeah, it makes me angry. Some mornings I open my front about people not taking the time to simply fucking think OR having thought, and lives in Berlin where he recently completed a piece on recycling where he door to fi nd a giant steaming dog pile there to welcome me into taking the easy and egoistic route to ignoring their responsibilities to each left his ‘unwanteds’ on the curb and voyeuristically fi lmed his neighbors my day. I don’t want to seem radical or anything, but since there other. I could go on to tell you why I throw irresponsible dog owners into a sniffi ng around and claiming whatever aroused them. Corporate Art, Fine is a little tree surrounded by a small patch of grass only a meter category with Pro Life activists who kill people, the Animal Front Liberation Art, whatever, Alejandro Lecuna is working on the streets. away, uhm, would it be that diffi cult to pull the dog to the patch? that seems to deny that humans are animals, elevating themselves to gods Or put a diaper on the dog maybe. That’s ridiculous, I know, but by militantly insisting how each animal should treat each other and well, To learn more about the works and projects of Alejandro or to participate in the Ohne Scheiss project, please visit: www.lecu.de so is letting your pet, your responsibility, dispense its droppings yeah, the entire Vatican, as well as this growing group of American business for suckers like me to step on, slip across and later stink of, only men making out with the Book of Tao, but if I did you’d soon forget about because somebody else has no respect. For years I’ve been vowing how much you hate dog shit on your street and start thinking I’ve lost the that if I see somebody doing this I will pick up that nasty pile and plot. That is why I’m very pleased to introduce the more sensible approach of using my best fastball, deliver a pitch that knocks the owner into Venezuelan artist Alejandro Lecuna. shock. ‘Why would anybody throw shit at me?’ Well you dumb fuck, His Ohne Scheiss Project is a grass-roots effort focused on arousing solidarity why would anybody leave it on the street? Or on my door step? between pedestrians to help them overcome the dog shit left behind by I propose that the Anti Graffi ti department the city police force has set Berliner dog owners. A strong simple aesthetic, fl aming red and followed by up is reassigned to Anti-Poop patrol and hustles up lazy dog walkers as concise phrases, Lecuna draws attention and offers keys to awareness. Will opposed to dynamic young kids. Instead of buffers, they could invest in dog owners read them or simply look the other way? If they look the other curbside shoe washers during the process. I might stink for a bit, but way, I hope they step in some shit themselves and slip and … at least I won’t spend 15 minutes scraping my shoes through a puddle, The interesting thing is that Lecuna has provided a community tool calling banging them against the curb or in the worst cases needing a knife to attention to a community issue that affects most residents of European cities scrape the soles clean. Maybe I’ll even be able to look more people in and not even the Green parties have picked up on it as a possible political the eyes as the need to navigate these brown urban landmines slowly issue. It isn’t a political issue, but is an area that refl ects the root of much decreases. larger piles of shit. People don’t care. They accept what they ‘have’ to do. The It’s not hard. You have a dog? You live in a city? I hope you walk your dog shit continues to stain the streets and the bombs continue to fall. Meanwhile a lot and that there’s a park nearby. Wherever you take it, take something the police are more concerned with Graffi ti and Street Art, because oops, with you to clean up after it, just like you’d do your kid. they have a message and don’t just stink. (Un)Fortunately (???) most people are too busy thinking about where they might step to consider what common Dog shit on the streets is nasty, ugly, potentially dangerous (especially message is behind all art projects on the streets, what the essence of this in a place like Brussels where it rains more often than not) and shows a

58 need to communicate and challenge consensus actually represents. Lecuna’s } complete lack of respect, suggesting that a person, able to ‘own’ a dog, is

project allows him to investigate these enfl amed claims, to watch and 59 not able of respecting or thinking of his or her neighbors. So what about } document actions and reactions, exploring respect. What is acknowledged the dog? These evil people are almost as awful as the monkeys in the in this documentation? Will his tool be used? Will his idea be practiced? call centers today who are trained to lie to you and, actually accept it. Will people one day start cleaning up after their dogs? Well, if you can quit Don’t know if it’s the same where you live, but that’s how it goes in many smoking with your beer because it’s the law, I guess you could also pick up Belgian companies. ‘Here’s a shitty salary. Lie to the people. Don’t give after your dog. So if everybody cleaned up after their dog would things be your real name. Never give my name. You can leave at 17:00 and 16:30

WiTHOUT SHiT better? Not so easy … it’s one thing to do something because you think and on Friday. Have fun.’ ‘Ah, wow, this is easy. OK.’ This lying to customers choose to, and another because you have to. If we only start respecting each is often like beating them. ‘Now here’s a little more money. Please hit WiTHOUT SHiT other when it’s the law … it’ll be too late to understand what respect is. The the customer.’ ‘Ah, OK.’ You see how close we’re getting to Nazi’s and shit will still be there even when the doggie bombs are scooped up. cavemen? That’s extreme, but come on, don’t forget that I am You and the other way around. I apologize in advance to anybody offended that I can compare dog shit and call centers and the second world war, but get over Top 5 bands or artists… Charlotte Gainsbourg, 5:55, Because Records. OATH TO Not to wake up with if you want to smile … Although nobody could be able to make us forget that she is the timid and mysterious daughter of Serge, Charlotte Gainsbourg is, and not simply from her fi lms, We all know how it can be to wake up roughly to the sound of a horrible alarm, the VANqUiSH making us fall for her new universe. It’s a universe white snow of the radio or when it’s the worst, the news where you might hear the where Air and Jarvis Cocker invited her, but Neil voice of George Bush, Tony Blair or some other asshole. Next to these artists, those Hannon was pulling her in too. Into eleven emotional might seem like sweet sounds pre-coffee. So when your eyes don’t quite want to open pieces where the slender voice, the soulful playing and yet, here are fi ve artists you’d do better to avoid. — FDM the delectable accent take a staggering place. This album is a welcome surprise that came with an unseen Autechre Metal in the Middle East promise that has me playing it every night as I crawl The intelligent techno precursors, masters in the art of melodies, Heavy metal music has always been shunned from society. You hear of countless cases from the past beneath the duvet. reversing and freezing with a childish ease. A great mathematical whereby local judges have been condemning the music and its culture in favour of so called good- Oath to Vanquish are a three piece death metal band based in Lebanon. They are the fi rst ever Lebanese act of its kind to sound, but so repetitive that it would give you the same desire to throw natured mainstream music. Bubble gum pop and college rock are the order of the day, and anything Jim Noir, Tower Of Love, WEA. secure a world wide record and distribution deal and are fl ying the fl ag, inspiring many young musicians in the country and your television as one of those politicians or the construction crew who that strays from this straight and narrow gets the black sheep treatment. It’s under these conditions the middle east. Guitarist and vocalist Elias has seen both sides of the coin having grown up in Lebanon, been to university Who is this young and barefaced 24 year old person? starts at 7 and fi nished at noon outside your window. that heavy metal has thrived. It has enjoyed becoming the biggest black sheep you have ever met. in the UK and then moved back to his native land. Here he is to expose you to the trials and tribulations of playing in band in Isn’t he too young to give a lesson to all those bands Not only has metal become a multi million dollar industry but also it has now become accepted by the such a niche genre in a country going through harsh and turbulent times. — LSB mainstream as a credible form of art and expression in most countries. One place in which it is still that vainly tried to plunge back into the classic period of the retro and celestial pop? From I Me You I’m treading water and fi ghting for a place at the table is in fanatical religious Middle Eastern and North First of all please introduce yourselves and tell us what you do? and a global perspective, mainly due to their overwhelming effect on how the My Chemical Romance Yours, the brio of those crystal-clear arrangements, African Muslim and Christian communities. Oath to Vanquish are: world is perceived and on our daily lives. The current war in Lebanon is a solid It would be way too annoying to wake up being over 25 years old and concocted with this Beach Boys touch, is outstanding. In Egypt for example a giant crackdown occurred in January 1997 by the interior ministry, amid allegations CYRIL YABROUDI: BASS/VOCALS proof of the extinction of morality in the face of political leverage. Moreover spend the rest of the day being 12 and hating society… Happy-go-lucky and falsely naïve (a sound that we feel of satanic worship, drug use and group sex. Over 100 fans and band members alike were arrested in CARLOS ABBOUD: DRUMS living in Lebanon we are faced with a wide array of social issues unique to superbly fi ddled with his imagination), Jim Noir is an Cairo and tried for their anti-social and anti-Muslim and Christian behaviour. The state owned media ELIAS ABBOUD: GUITARS/VOCALS Lebanon and the Middle East, and we therefore have many social topics to artist born 40 years too late. How not to succumb to address such as the effects of religion, radicalism and prejudice. portrayed these people as freaks. Tales of clandestine parties whereby the participants drained cats Mayhem his Eanie Meany? It’s a song that Donovan could have You are from Lebanon a country that has been omnipresent in the media blood, had group sex and worshiped at the altar of Satan whilst listening to this outrageous form of Those Norwegians are at the head of that diabolic Black Metal written and a testimonial of a sweet sixties sentiment of late. How do you think this has affected the band in either a positive You have a few shows coming up in Denmark and Sweden in the end of movement. music, were rife and fed to an unknowing public. ``We are Arab Muslims. We respect our religion. But devoted to love. Simply luminous! or negative respect? August. Will it still be possible to get to the shows with the current Except for cutting the throat of your dog or going to profane the closest we only love this music,” said Noor, a 23-year-old part-time German language teacher and guitarist Due to Lebanon taking the centre stage in the world media lately, people will state of transport in and out of the country? church, even in night-clothes, it’s not the best way to have a cushy for Dark Philosophy, an Egyptian heavy-metal band. However the government was having none of it Sparklehorse, Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain, Capitol. more easily associate with where we are from, but for all the wrong reasons. We hope the cease-fi re put into action this morning is a lasting one and that breakfast... and has banned heavy-metal concerts to this day. Similar incidents were also reported in Syria and Those who are unaware of Lebanon’s cosmopolitan and cultural assets and any breach will be limited to the immediate confl ict areas in the south. Since Morocco. Reda Zine of ‘Boulevard des Musiciens’, a young group from Casablanca told how they were Mark Lincous. This name might not mean anything who ignore how far our society is from radicalism and fanaticism will have we are unsure when our airport will be operational, our plan is to travel to for you, but he’s the guardian of the house of accused of being advocates of the devil. In March 2004, 14 supposed “devil worshippers” received jail this type of image that the world media is trying ever so hard to promote Syria by land on the seaside road and through the northern border, and then Sparklehorse, reference of alternative rock for more sentences ranging from three months to one year for “undermining the Muslim faith” and “possessing embedded in their brain. to fl y to Denmark from Damascus airport. Luckily this road has not been 50 cent than a decade. Spaklehorse has a particular sound and completely damaged, and is still open to traffi c. It will be a long and diffi cult objects contrary to good morals”. An obvious wave of post 9/11 phobia against the West didn’t help It could happen- your girlfriend will fi nd you 20 minutes after you wake will never change it. Indeed, what for? If Dangermouse Elias and Carlos you mentioned you lived in the UK. Are any of you still journey, but certainly worth it. their case. Moe Hamzeh, a Lebanese music producer and musician commented on the censorship of up in the bathroom, with all her gold necklaces, wearing your open is on the production, Dreamt For Light Years… is the based there or are you all living back in Lebanon? heavy-metal that occurred in Lebanon. Hamzeh and his band the Kordz were called into the offi ce bathrobe, convinced she’s going to be fi lmed next to your pool, another coherent continuation of It’s A Wonderful Life, even if We’ve both been living in Lebanon since 1997, but we visit the UK and Europe Your band name, an “oath to vanquish” - signifi es “a vow to obliterate any one of many too fi ne for reality type fi gures all oiled up… Wake up, it’s responsible for fi ghting terrorism and crime. “It was like in a movie”, claims Hamzeh. They asked, a light unaccomplished taste leaves us disillusioned. frequently on business and to see some close friends from university days. kind of obstructing defi ance.” – How can you relate this to the situation only the water running out of the faucet! Anyway, starting your day with ‘Do you adore Satan? Do you play ‘Hotel California’, “The people coming to your club are they devil- Nevertheless, the songs keep on being beautiful in in Lebanon and how the band will progress from here on out? 50 Cent when 50 should be plural is all too confusing. worshippers? What do you mean by the strange way you dress, your loose t-shirts and earrings?” melody, with a blazing tenderness behind it. To rock How would you compare trying to succeed playing your form of music As long as we are alive we shall never stop breathing music. We’ve been in metal “They asked us about our posters of Dali’s paintings. They did not beat us but there were six hours of you and have you feeling like an animal and a baby in out in Lebanon as opposed to the UK? bands ever since 1992, and we feel that with Oath to Vanquish the best is yet investigation.” the cradle all during the same beat, Lincous’ voice is It is considerably harder for a death metal band from Lebanon to make a to come. This is not the fi rst war we’ve been through and probably not the last. name for themselves in the world, which at times can be very frustrating. The blockade has yet to be lifted, resources are depleting and electricity is not unsurpassed. Julio iglesias It is only recently that they have loosened the reigns and are letting secret gigs and party’s slip under Success is primarily linked to exposure. Local metal bands receive very little abundant, but we’ve channeled all our energy towards making these shows in Surely the most risky of the fi ve for the cliché crowd. Since your wife the radar presumably due to the huge and rising popularity of the genre all over the world. Electronic help and exposure. It is quite hard to fi nd sponsors for underground events Europe. We feel slightly better now that a cease-fi re was instated, but we remain in Your Ear Your in DJ Shadow, The Outsider, AZ. like so many women, goes ape for his gape and you obviously can’t music had its day, now guitar music is everywhere and this only an extreme form of it. ``We have such a simply as people have very little interest, and therefore extreme metal gigs skeptical. The bottom line is that we will not allow this war to stop us from handle hearing his voice for a solid ten seconds without feeling sick, it shallow society, because we wear black and listen to loud music, that doesn’t mean we are Satanists.” Josh Davis’ comeback was long awaited. And if I was are very scarce. Venues can also be very reluctant to organize shows of such making our mark in the world. Moreover we are the fi rst death metal act from might be better just to burn this one a little bit before you go to bed to Says Mohammed Azzam, a graphic designer and pioneer of Egypt’s heavy-metal scene. This attitude personally afraid of a production lost in loads of a nature. Lebanon is not known for exporting quality death metal acts as are Lebanon to get a worldwide deal for our album. To emerge from Lebanon took certain countries in Europe and America, and consequently record labels, years of enormous hard work and constitutes a tremendous achievement. It is kill all possibilities of (a) hearing it in the morning and (b) having a guy seems all too familiar. However the tireless horns will never stop being thrown and it is only a matter directions, of a fi nal result without any relief, well, r O W n booking agents and promoters are less likely to give nascent bands from worth mentioning that we organized and managed the recording of our album, called Julio as the reason to thank for your divorce. Reason number 111 of time before the views towards this kind of music will change, as it has in so many lands thanks to it’s all the opposite. This record has an unsettling

-B Lebanon equal attention if any. Furthermore traveling from Lebanon is much and to make it possible we had to invest into setting up a studio and providing on the good reasons to shoot yourself list. spontaneity, where Shadow skims the best of the soul the music and the familiar, knowing gleam in each and every fans eye. — LSB more expensive than from the UK to the rest of Europe and the world, and all the necessary equipment. It was a hard-fought battle, and we shall continue with This Time - the 18 titles’ veritable introduction, self-fi nancing of shows and tours will be quite a fi nancial burden on a death to fi ght them one after the other until all boundaries are broken. some essays that could remind us of a subjugated

E D D O n metal band based in Lebanon. UNKLE (Erase You), all with a killing rhythmic accuracy. Are you able to survive off of your music? If not what do you do? S But most of all, the prince smashed in everything with

60 Your music is quite extreme both musically and lyrically. Does this make While it is our dream to be able to make a living from playing our music, sadly ES } a hip-hop (Enuff with the inspiring Q-Tip) track to it harder for you to get fans in countries like Lebanon that are less this is not possible especially in a country like Lebanon where the music l 61

Dad, who is Jim O’Rourke? admirably sew up this album, one of the last months’ exposed to it, or is there a vibrant underground scene? industry revolves around commercial Arabic music with little interest in rock } jewels. Shadow is defi nitively not an outsider. Lebanon is a very small country, and therefore it has a much smaller metal and extreme metal. Moreover the underground scene is small, and shows are

a n D After the release of the last Sonic Youth album, it would be O’Rourke is more than hyperactive. His inauspicious tendency to never stay welcome to draw up a brief panegyric of the genius who put, allowed the stuffed rabbit of the Wire cover to realize only legitimately scene than even some cities in Europe. There was a time when we could say considerably less frequent than in Europe. My brother Carlos and I manage is... Jim O’ Rourke. The from now on ex-fi fth member of the unique projects. Eureka and Insignifi ance, both mainstream and accessible OM, Conference Of The Birds, Holy Mountain. that the Lebanese metal scene was thriving, but that was almost a decade ago. our family business of making plastics disposable packaging. We both studied

a r I a group, simply decided to be detached in order to relaunch though, seem to be distant of twenty years, so much the chap knows how to The media played a large role in portraying metal, especially in its extreme Mechanical Engineering in Birmingham, UK. Cyril has a degree in economics Rock music never had any limit. Nor will it ever have a forms, as a main threat to society. This has led police authorities to exert very and works in the banking sector.

M himself on more personal projects, without having to end deal with the colourings of his song textures. Whatsoever, old or new, Jim O’ limit. The dreams that draw us into it can have strange tight measures, often arresting, prosecuting and jailing people for their looks

DE the adventure with Thurston Moore and co. Rourke is in any case an incredibly modern artist.

iN YOUR EAR shapes. In this case … and their musical preferences, a sad story in which bands had the biggest Where do you see yourselves and the Lebanese rock/metal scene in 10 share of problems. This led the underground to shrink even further. Electronic years? Some projects, Jim had some. None were tiny. We could look at Leader with Recent albums of Wilco (A Ghost Is Born) or Loose Fur, where Jim brought his Two titles. Long and Gripping. Two witching pieces that iN YOUR EAR music is peaking in popularity while metal is sadly on a decline. Most extreme Although there are more bands self-releasing records locally at this stage David Grubbs in Gastr Del Sol, a huge group in the elaboration of the Chicago irrational and languorous ideas, are only two more lines onto a discography you have to explore with your headphones, alone in music scene, this exceptionally gifted multiplied the projects without knowing which will be soon as long as a tapestry roller. Quite bad allegory, I know. metal shows take place in small underground pubs, and larger events solely than in previous years, I fail to see any real progress in the rock/metal scene l O r E n T your attic. It sounds malefi cent, but it ain’t. It would when to stop. dedicated to extreme metal have been extinct for quite some time. As a result in the next 10 years, unless there is a real change in mentality. Metallers in F It’s often a pain in the ass to say, but let’s not hesitate to say it again: Jim just be the best way to feel those odysseys, different it is much harder to establish a large following here in Lebanon. Lebanon will always be a scorned minority. I see very little room for extreme but basically identical with regard to the perception

ITH Besides his trilogy of merely rock albums, Bad Timing, Eureka and Insignifi ance O’Rourke is one of those geniuses who will have unceasingly contributed to bands to develop, and I feel that the metal scene will gradually move more and feeling of each one. 30 psychedelic minutes,

W (all names of Nicholas Roeg movies), O’Rourke always could innovate, surprise, give new dimension to everything he dares to touch. And the worst is, now, he’s How important are current politics to the band’s music. It must be hard towards new metal (akdgfjlmfajhgfajdlf!!!!!!!!) and the mellower gothic style. go where we would never imagine to see him: a plethora of experimental or starting to realize movies... — FDM poignant, almost shattering. Black Sabbath and Pink to write about anything else. Is this the case? Our ultimate aim as Oath to Vanquish is to move to Europe thereby giving electroacoustic recordings, pieces in which he excels thanks to a refi nement Floyd can be really proud of the infl uence they gave to In our album, while it is not immediately evident, there is a political or social ourselves a much better chance for success. If this happens we see ourselves that would make fl owering the acacias in your garden in December seem sane, these two musicians and these musicians should be message in each song hidden in powerful imagery. Current politics or power touring the world, playing in festivals, exploring new ideas and releasing at and this, without being elitist. proud of what they transformed it into. politics have received a large share of coverage in our music both from a local least 5 more albums. I N Y O U R E Y E } 62

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I N Y O U R E Y E } 63 Show and Tell: By Cameron Bird/ Images by Logan Hicks In a city such as Los Angeles, where industry and celebrity yield to being blotted out or their products being hampered with when the was spelled out on a placard: “There’s a problem we never talk Granted, conceding to pragmatism is nothing new in street art. the same bottom line, even the most unwieldy artists can melt in actions are done in stealth. Though rooting out the deep-seated about.” It went on to cite stats about the poverty line, clean drinking After his partner in crime was arrested in 1994, New York graffiti the face of high bidders and the promise of star sightings. But when reasons for this is beyond the scope of a pedestrian analysis, water and art that promotes introspection, but not immediacy about innovator Revs decided to switch to a format that would appease the 64

} Banksy dropped by in September to fill a back-alley warehouse full it’s clear where an ownership society decides to draw its lines. global giants. authorities and started asking permission to build metal sculptures

of his musings, he opted out of the flourish and kept his anonymity An artist’s right to swing his arms ends where the public’s nose outside buildings. Shepherd Fairey followed the more beaten path, 65 That trope-turned-centerpiece also introduced the only real } l l It’s the Canvas, in tact. But the crowd, a blur of pink dreadlocks, beaming monkey begins. turning his subversive Obey campaign into accessible graphic controversy into the show, in which the city’s Animal Services

suits and everything in between, posed something worth unpacking: designs that could be sold at mid- to upper-level department stores l l But transplanted to a different venue - a gallery in a sweltering Department decided the display was frivolous and abusive (even what lends popular credibility to street art? in the shape of a clothing line (50 euro for a wallet). Unlike Shepherd warehouse - the fiery impulses seemed to simmer themselves. though the organization approved it weeks earlier). Spectators, who though, Banksy is toying with the idea that he’s both an artist by After earning a handful of warrants in the U.K. (which apparently Banksy’s show was met with all flavors of locals, and for the most lined up around the block in intervals, didn’t seem fazed by any of choice and a merchant by necessity. It’s a clever, candid inside joke remain outstanding), Banksy is at an on-the-up season of his part, observation was kept civil. This is despite the fact that most it. To even the staunchest animal lover, a competing sentiment took not the Content that lends him an extra dose of under-the-table credibility. career, a significant crossroads. In the preceding months, his work of the exhibit’s offerings were peeled from Banksy’s previous over. Truly, how can one deny the sheer coolness of a patterned S H O W & T E If you conduct interviews, you learn quickly about the relevance of media. It’s much different to do it on film, face to face or has been as widely publicized as it has been prolific - drop-lifting rogueries, which received harsh scolds from the powers that be elephant? At the same time, the show also confirmed that the message-in-

by phone. It’s soon obvious, that there are people who master the art of communication, but don’t have much to say. There S H O W & T E hundreds of debauched Paris Hilton CDs across British music upon conception; namely, a stuffed and sunglassed rat originally the-medium cliché stands as a truism for street art, and Banksy’s Therein lies the rub. Banksy’s art, when viewed at a standstill, are others, full of knowledge and beautiful ideas, but if you’re interviewing on film, for example, they might provide you chains, marking up the West Bank wall with images of Palestinians spirited into London’s Natural History Museum, a black-and-white in particular. People who raise red flags about painted walls and trades a good percentage of its gravity for levity. To see messages with even less useable footage than the vacant, but charming guy before them. Then, there are people who master subject digging through to the Land of Milk and Honey, and depositing an stencil of two male cops coupling, and a series of framed pieces, pachyderms are considering the canvas, not the content. A gallery scrawled in exposed space is one thing - it stimulates discussion and medium. People who understand their profession as well as they do how to communicate it. Banksy has proved not only a inflatable version of a Guantánamo prisoner in the shrubbery next such as one of an emaciated African tribe studying the creature then may be the best setting to warm a reactive society to the idea of because of the nature of its placement. To see it in a conventional, to a Disneyland ride. comforts of the West. the public sphere as the most appropriate spot for provocation, for talented artist and thinker, but a master marketer as well. Imagine the evident perversion. Hollywood stars are instructed uncontested setting is another - it makes people grin and maybe idea-sharing. Whether he’s tripping the social alarm or mesmerizing by their PR agent to attend his show. The message for the masses might be: it’s fashionable to support criminal art. So how It’s the kind of half-poignant guerilla work that rattles against The only real surprise (which quickly turned into a word-of-mouth even inquire about purchasing it. No matter the intentions, it begins clammy Los Angeles, Banksy’s capital is growing by the minute. do we define a fashionable criminal? What gives street art credibility in the same circles that shunned it only oh so recently? stigmas about property rights. Traditionalists (at least in the non-surprise) was an elephant painted to match the wallpaper of a to enter the system of buying-and-selling for which its substance Here’s Cameron Bird’s take on things. Lockeian sense) have an automated response to their clean walls makeshift living room. The metaphor, if not thinly veiled enough, sharply calls to task. Show and Tell: by Harlan The 1st authorized FriendsWithYou -Bootleg Show FriendsWithYou are suffering from the myspace syndrome. the genius idea of Jorgy bear doing his FWY bootleg show. It’s They have so many friends that they are being stretched like the most genius trick ever! Even though it says it is authorized, elastic Malfi’s and pulled through new mysteries all over the this is complete bullshit! We never said anything to Jorg to do planet. Fortunately, they also have the remedy, real friends and this, so on our trip to Europe there will be an all out attack on fans willing to give them a push when they need it. The pains his gallery with all of our magic and spells. Luckily the artists of a cancelled show, became seeds of a bizarre collaboration. inside are loving friends and genius magicians as well so maybe we will exercise the evil from Jorgy bear together and It’s a love story, and like any good adventure of the heart, it cure him of his bizarre delusion of the FWY bootleg show!!!” began in a romantic place in early spring ... Sam Borkson Copenhagen, 2005: At Project FOX, Sam Borkson and Arturo Delusional or not, the result of Jorg’s idea was fantastic: A “Tury“ Sandoval III from FriendsWithYou and gallerist Jörg full week of hard work and the gallery was converted into Heikhaus from Hamburg’s heliumcowboy artspace met for an interactive installation with carpets, paint, fake grass the first time. It was love at first sight and for a few weeks, and flowers, TV-projections, curtains and much more. Boris they worked together hand in hand, discovering the beauty Hoppek provided a brand new installation with two punching of Denmark’s capital and having long candlelight talks about bags, loveable (and beatable) look-alikes of Sam and Tury. art, love and friendship. But every good time comes to an end, Freshly founded Hamburg Grafitti-Gang Kingdrips worked and usually promises are made never to let go of each other for 2 weeks on a large wall installation, taking adaptations of and meet again as soon as possible. In the case of a gallerist FWY-characters into a weird model-train landscape with roots meeting two exceptional artists, this means pinning down an and mud brown bodies where the mountain monsters emerge exhibition date. like gophers from the ground below. Eliza, Alex Diamond and That happened quickly, and soon it was official: the friendliest Neasden Control Centre came up with large format drawings, artist duo in the world come cross the Atlantic for their first giving a new individual, and slightly mean twist to the worlds solo show in Germany, bringing universal love and happiness of Sam & Tury. There were LEGO-brick King Albinos (by to Hamburg. Haina), fairytale paintings by Moki, stencils on IKEA-Tables by Via Grafik and cuddly hanging chairs in the shape of FWY- Smiles went upside down and turned to frown as FWY character Barby (by Violetta). And everything set inside a acknowledged that they’d over committed and wouldn’t make playground installation with murals, flowing carpets and a it. Disappointment traveled from mouth to ear and screen to fake meadow. screen until Jorg decided he didn’t need FWY to bring them to

66 Hamburg. Jorg then turned to a group of artists he knew had It was well worth it: 400 people came to the show opening, }

one thing in common: their respect for and appreciation of the squeezing into the gallery and out onto the terrace, 67 } l l FriendsWithYou concept. Global nomads like Boris Hoppek, celebrating a night of magical powers, universal love,

Neasden Control Centre, Via Grafik, Eliza (formerly one half of friendship and entrancing, childlike happiness. And all that l l Freaklüb) and Alex Diamond were brought together to work without personal appearances of FriendsWithYou ... who are with local heroes such as Kingdrips, Moki and Nina Braun. supposed to join the show towards the end of the exhibition, adding their own artworks, and presenting their new book The first ever authorized FriendsWithYou bootleg show got S H O W & T E „FriendsWithYou have powers“. And boy, do these guys have the green light and things started happening. Only Sam powers – and an imagination inspiring all these great artists, S H O W & T E seemed confused: who turned the FriendsWithYou-Bootleg Show into one of the “This is a really exciting new moment for FriendsWithYou, most successful exhibitions at the heliumcowboy artspace we’ve just finished designing our first public playground, our to date. new book and are working on a huge parade of blimps to fly www.heliumcowboy.com over the Art Basel sky, not to mention the European tour and Show and Tell: By Harlan

This was the slogan chosen to promote an exhibition marking 3 years of the life for the Iguapop Gallery in Barcelona. We Make Money Not Art. A slogan, which smirks at the sound of itself and sounds like a sigh …

It’s hard for many artists to find a space to work in and a space, which then pays its way on the crust of what was created in and around it – this is an accomplishment.

Many artists today have strong business acumen. They are not waiting to die and don’t aim to live in struggle. This is a tough one for the rest of us though. Society may very well need art that turns its back on the world in order to become authentic and make things bloody or beautiful. The individuals who make up society however all share a common drive to live better and though this means different things to each of us, we are all artists of our own lives faced with the question of how to live on our own terms and pay rent and accept or navigate “civil” law. The rent part, for example, screws things up. It makes us take day jobs that devour our energy and insist that our lives don’t parallel our passions or desires. It becomes easy to be lazy.

Iguapop never was and neither were the growing list of talented artists attached to the space: Boris Hoppek, Miss Van, Adolf Gil, Blami, Tim Biskup, Victor Castillo, Catalina Estrada, Jaime Hayon, Sergio Mora, Paco y Manolo. Iguapop makes money. Artists make money. Artists make art. Iguapop makes possibility. Possibility, which itself is an art that shouldn’t be overlooked.

The Birthday show consisted of nearly symmetrical works from these artists mounted on a clean wall, a buzzing vernissage and an after party that saw Jon Kennedy exporting his Brighton beats to Barcelona and managing not to get robbed on the Ramblas. 68

} My only disappointment with the show is that Adolf Gil’s piece 69

wasn’t mounted in the toilet – I’d seen in there the night before } l l and it’s created in a way that varied light provides varied l l images – absolutely different, absolutely stunning images, 3 paintings embedded in one canvas. Something we tried to highlight in Illustrated Works, knowing well that his work is

S H O W & T E one you really need to see for yourself – absolutely sic.

Iguapop makes money, not art and here’s the twist, they can S H O W & T E say that and feel proud in place of embarrassed cuz they appear to make money in a beautiful way.

www.iguapop.net AliVE T-SHiRTS ARTiST bASED 15 – 22 EURO SUpRA, 109 EURO Established in 2003 by illustrator/graphic No need to introduce you to Chad Muska, but let designer Christian Lindermann, Alive has us introduce you his new pro-model SkyTop from grown constantly over the last few years, Supra. producing a fresh source for all kinds of Totally designed by Chad, it comes in 3 colors: T-Shirt lovers. The label tries to protect Black Croc, White and Silver Gold. The research animals by selling thoughtful products & development department built this behemoth and mounting threatened species as design to provide the most technical, comfortable references not mantelpieces. T-shirts are and aesthetic skateboarding shoe. between 15 and 22 euro and a portion of pROJECT bROWN www.suprafootwear.com ARTWARE, 37 EURO all sales go the WWF (not Hulk Hogan style, 200 EURO World Wildlife Fund for Nature). Started back in ’99 Artware is a concept we – Our mission is to prove that you SAMURAi STRiNG DOll support. Different artists and writers are don’t have to dress like an old www.aliveshirts.com asked to design a shirt. They’re paid a piece fart just because you are a golfer, 15 EURO of each item produced and given credit in says Fredrik Strömbäck. Handmade in Thailand, each out of one long print, their image and information printed THE MUlE pUllOVER FROM ProjectBrown is an all new golf- piece of string. Forget letting your cat play on the inside of each of their respective pOTipOTi fashion brand who design and with it. Samurai is a loyal friend, ready to shirts. produce golf bags, clothing and resist your enemies and act as a fi rst class new PotiPoti is a young fashion company in This year’s line might just be black on accessories that don’t look like age voodoo doll. Berlin started by two Spanish illustrators and designers, who combine their skills in black … on the back of the last 7 years, the ordinary golf brands do. The These intricate little guardians are made animation, illustration and fashion design the Artware line is a living chronology of brand was established in 2005 and of small parts so don’t pass ‘em on to the for parties, exhibitions and as club visuals. evolutions in street art and we’re looking are now launching the premiere youngsters … each box comes with a doll (6 Their designs are simple and optimistic, forward to see what they bring out going collection for summer 2006. Behind cm tall) and a chain so you can latch your integrating an artistic and cuddly touch to forward. Stand up geezers – sick product. ProjectBrown are founders Fredrik new found friend, the string Samurai, onto well cut clothes. www.citykingz.be Stromback and Fredrik Johansson. whatever it is you want protected. Both with a background in skiing, The Mule is a unisex design available in Black www.viaalley.com snow- and skateboarding as well as or Red/Brown and featuring the main mule lED liGHT CONES, 65 EURO marketing and golf hardware. All – for girls and for boys. Want your speakers to speak as they sing? These don’t, products are produced in the best but the lights are sick, day and night, thanks to the

The 06/07 catalogue is online at: TOOlS AND TECH iNVADER X MEKANiSM high-end materials to ensure highest new LED optically enhanced light cones. These two SKATEbOARDS possible quality and durability. www.potipoti.de 5W PMPO quality speakers are made from high grade polycarbonate, and look like balls of glass. Each Paris-based skateboard company Mekanism The fi rst collection launched by speaker comes with a control knob, one for selecting invited Space Invader—the French graffi ti ProjectBrown is a slim pencil-type MOMMY, THiS WATER bURNS! your colour mode as the mood takes you, and one for artist known for his mosaics—once again bag which holds all the clubs needed 15 EURO volume. to have his way with their decks. Expanding for the perfect round – a full set on the limited edition turquoise and red minus two clubs. It’s the design Mmmm... how about a nice tall glass of They’re compatible with all MP3 players and have a sound-activated audio beat mode mosaic print that Invader came up with that’s different. sulfuric acid? Don’t be like Johnny - study with three distinct lighting patterns … control knobs for volume and color – you on their fi rst collaboration (back in ‘05), your chemistry and avoid certain death! choose, what’s chaotic? What is calm? there’s only one per edition and they’re www.projectbrown.com T-Shirts and poetry: www.iwantoneofthose.com made with actual tiles. Johnny was a chemist’s son, But Johnny is www.space-invaders.com no more. What Johnny thought was H20 was www.mekanismskateboards.com H2SO4. THE NEW SWiSS ARMY KNiFE, 169.90 100% cotton, heavyweight tan t-shirt. Poem This is the fi rst offi cial Swiss Army knife to boast a built in MP3 and image of poor Johnny printed on the player and the combination of this ever handy super old school FUTURA JACKET, 125 EURO front in dark brown and light blue. object with the capacity of every other modern hand held device www.thinkgeek.com (for music) is sure to be put to use. Practical and with a sleak Representing his famous pointmans fi gures, aesthetic, it features a high quality 3 line LCD display and a full this is a limited Edition, with a white on gig of storage as it handles multiple fi le formats and recharges black print and produced in Japan. GlOW iN THE DARK plAYiNG CARDS AND KiCKS THREADS THE FENCHURCH “FOUND iN through your USB – plug and play … nothing but the knife required If it’s from Futura, it tends to be rowdy FRiENDSWiTHYOU AND MARS-1 12 EURO to cut into tomorrow. and dense … this one has that standard TRANSlATiON” SERiES New lines from Strange Co. – bring home the wonderful world Designed by Pieter Woudt, these cards let you play even after www.swissarmy.com simple aesthetic that lets you know how Each artist designs a Ladies’ and a Men’s tee, of FriendsWithYou and inject their magic virus into your own your mother has turned off the lights, but not for so long. stupid we are for using simple to describe taking the Fenchurch logo and reworking it environment. We can say what is evil or painful. It is diffi cult to say Cool, but not that cool. Still, Poker players and magicians it – anything but, but – beautiful again. in their own individual style. The artist has what is good or to describe pleasure. FriendsWithYou are giving us might get a small rush. Fully charged cards give 20 minutes of SpACE WRiTER complete freedom to express himself, both www.wesoldout.com a new vocabulary. I mean these guys are pulling off an installation playing time. Not enough to lose signifi cant amounts of cash in graphics and in choice of colours – the “In the future, signs will be made of fl oating lights. No billboards with Blimps, got paid to do a massive interactive playground for (we hope for you). or wall mounts - just messages fl oating in mid air. Some will tempt children and have featured in museums, underground venues only requirement being the inclusion of the www.addject.com Fenchurch icon. you to buy the latest in retro new age music, some will attempt and now at Art Basel. They must have powers. to make you vote for the “Amoebic Sentient Being Party for Super The collection consists of 4 tees. Each tee Overlord Governor,” while still others will try and infl uence has a full watercolour tactile print on the your preferred brand of robot oil. Persistence of vision will rule 70

} front, with the artist signature print on the advertising world, and all future commercial messages with

the back of the neck. twinkle in lights. The Spacewriter is a little slice of the future 71 - available today!” } It can store up to four messages, is easy to use and fast to fl ip out words. Small enough to keep in your pocket … no personal advertising please. W A N T i T All STAR GUM , 9,90 EURO www.spacewriter.com Lo-tech as you want it … here’s a kind of healthy glue that W A N T i T can be used to repair shoes AND you can also use it to transfer your graphics onto your T-Shirt … this and more NiTRO2 AND 600Ml from the ever loving Hessenmob crew … check ‘em out: Black reacts badly with chrome. Ok, we know it. Here’s a paint www.hessenmob.de that pumps up on tar (without the nicotine), which makes it our KiD RObOT TOYS, 39,95 EURO preferred choice for outlining your silver piece. HOMEMADES FROM HANAzUKi Forget Barbie bling bling, there’s a brand new toy world and The second generation of Nitro Black is in; fast drying with new One of STRANGEco’s premier designers, Mario Martinez (aka MARS-1) is an emerging artist from the it isn’t on Soma. Kid Robot toys get to us time and time again. smooth valve. 35 EURO San Francisco contemporary art scene. Working primarily on canvases and in sculpture, his unique Be it the spaghetti westerns from Huck Gee or the new mocks Montana also has 10 colors now available in the MEGA 600ml Size. One of a Kind pillows. Created in the HANAZUKI style features abstracted science fi ction forms and environments. Since 2004, Mars-1 has been ups of the made up Gorillaz … personality, character and no Large enough to paint a train (imagine that) and won’t see you atelier, one of a kind pillows to cuddle up designing toys for STRANGEco, including the self-title MARS-1 vinyl, Observer and the upcoming corporate cheese whiz on top … nicely twicely … check the losing time shaking your thing. with. Invisible Plan series. site, this lil cowboy is just the kick off. Going Large www.hanazuki.com www.strangeco.com / www.friendswithyou.com www.kidrobot.com www.montana.com

DOllS AND TOYS it Want Do you have any name for it? art from VINCENT GOOTZEN

The pictures are the art of action and what you see is what you like canvas would crumble at the intensity of his expressive way In this state of mind, the base of his imagery is revealed and get. Vincent Gootzen, looks for constructed atmospheres to of working. his battle to articulate the unspeakable and cope with common 73 unleash a wider range of techniques. Intuitive, spontaneous, } uncertainty sees him taking ideas, portraying them, piecing them a lot is left to coincidence. There is no reflection or fear of Wood is placed into a new context, adapted, etched, imprinted apart and painting layer on layer until a new order exists. The failure. Inhale – projectile vomit … immediate and urgent and and so on, the end will never repeat. Gootzen always works within EN aim is not to offer answers, but too find a new form to formulate Z anxious, the art begins to appear in a scream. the same formats. A style that kicked off in the early 90´s when he started to work in din a4 sized sketchbooks. In the following years questions. Vincent refers to his manner of practice as ‘Momentaufnahme,’ he started to work in larger dimensions, proportionally enlarged Vincent was a pro skater for years and says that his travels which we might translate as ‘catching the moment,’ or hey, why not from the original sketchbook size extrapolated into 118,8 x 84cm, and inclusion into various local communities, because of his ‘seizing it?’ Carpe Diem. The process, its influences, interruptions for example. Working within the same formats, and therefore not involvement in a larger looser community, is part of why his and the conditions where it is practiced let Vincent take these having to think consciously of them, Gootzen creates a space for inspiration tends to flow from the streets of large cities. As a feelings and spit them back at the wall. In a swift translation, himself to pause, a symbolic space that gives him room to respond skateboarder he is fascinated by re-appropriating and interpreting N C E N T G O O T

input becomes output. There is no time for digestion. The food I to the chaos he feels circling him. Like many of us, Vincent feels architecture in a different way than its intended purpose. A similar comes right back up, and out, hitting the wall hard. V constantly confronted with an overload of information in his daily investigation takes place in his art. The passion and power with which he creates his works make life, feels vulnerable as another individual lost in the center of the Fast, furious and informed … wall and world take beating as one wood an ideal surface for his paintings, as less stable materials madness that has become normal in contemporary life. boy rides into himself and spits himself out in color. NNE actions and events Now on View in Brussels:

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