APT6

The Queenlanders welcomed more than 100 artists from many Asian nations within the sixth Asia Pacific Triennial exhibitions at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) and the Queensland Art Gallery (QAG).

Kohei Nawa/ PixCell-Elk

Kohei Nawa (b. 1975) is a Japanese sculptor, who is "concerned with forms and surfaces and how they interact to become objects." In his PixCell Series, he covers the surface with glass beads suggestive of a molecular structure or the pixels of a computer screen.

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 Kohei Nawa's: website 

 Interview with the artist

Subodh Gupta/Line of Control

Subodh Gupta (b. 1964) is one of India's contemporary artists, who uses everyday products and materials of Indian life in his works. His art work above is an enormous mushroom cloud structure formed from brass utencils. This can be seen as shift image of destruction into one of abundance.

Thukral and Tagra/Immortalis

Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra are Indian artists, who work collaboratively since 2000. Their installation above is about the dreams of young people in India, in particular the Punjabi people of the country's north, where dreams involve emigrating to other countries.

Unfortunately, the exhibition is over now. However, Not a Zebra wishes that her viewers got chance to read the review, therefore, have an idea about this amzing exhibition!

Stay tunded with Not a Zebra!!!

Archibald Prize

http://www.thearchibaldprize.com.au/video/

the website above contains two video interviews about the winner of the archibald prize Sam Leach.

i found the wedistes very usefull as they are made by the ART GALLERY OF NSW.

the second interview however lastiung for 21 minutes is Edmunds Capons (one of the judges of the archibald prize) interviewing Sam, it talks about the subject matter and the judging, also the interview talks of Sam's influences and reson for the scale of the work. half way through the interview there is a short discussion about Sam Leach's other work titled: Proposal for landscaped cosmos.

Ørnen

ok what you have just seen is the extended version of the theme song from SBS's Finnish murder mystery series Ørnen or The eagle (in English).

basic rundown of the show:

is an Icelandic inspector named hallgrim he works in the Danish police force,  and is named chief constable of a new task force to help solve international crime. throughout solving crimes of abduction, terrorism, organ and human trafficking, hallgrim has to come with terms of him self and the reasons for leaving iceland ini the first place.

Like all SBS shows these series in the native language with English subtitles. and displayed all the variety of languages in Europe. Best being the swedish (i understand it), finnish (just because they sound like they are speaking swedish backwards) and icelantic (most beautiful language i have ever heard). though the eagle is not for the faint hearted because like SVU is also deals with horrific murder and sex crimes, and like most Scandinavian shows the victims don't survive. BUT apart from that small downside The eagle is a fresh and captivating series.

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dot points on the video if you just didn't get it

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  ok well it starts with him as a boy exploring Iceland (his home)
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  mother runs away 
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  he is at a cemetery (its not the mother's)

• he is growing up, and still thinks about his mother
• he falls in love with a girl, Isbjørg, 
• he sees her with her father
• then runs away to from iceland leaving her behind
• he later grown up regrets leaving her behind and has visions about her.

personally i really love the softness of the song (very movie/disney song/epic song), it very melancholy as it tells of the main characters live his acts and experiences that change and form his life and being now. i love how like my theme for ART, people change by experiences.

Strawberry Swing- aMaZiNg

This is my first post as part of the Not-A-Zebra team- yay! ^_^ So anyways, I’ve decided to share a link to what is (I think) The Most Fabulously Awesome Video of Creative Excellence Ever In The History Of The Universe- the music video to Coldplay’s Strawberry Swing! Due to some daft copyright thing, I can’t put the video here, but follow this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb9X5jMofEo

And enjoy!

Vive la créativité!

thanks
Aimee xox

WARNING: watching this may cause you to want cake

Ciao my lovelies,

I have another video to share, yet again in awesome stop- frame animation :)

I'm afraid I don't know who made this video, but whoever did deserves a medal and/or a dancing cake of their own, because it is brilliant!

Enjoy!

WE will miss you, IHH!

Where: the Indie fest house: the Powerhouse in New Farm, Brisbane, Australia.

When: 24th January from 4.30 to late.

 Who: an overwhelmed audience And I HEART HIROSHIMA.aka IHH..

What happened? a cultural explosion of song and dance, as listeners recall there times on youtube, finding Shakeytown, Got out, South and Old tree. _{(Finding trouble finding IHH then click the link on our previous posts.)}

From the start I heart hiroshima was full of energy and life, which was prominantly lead by the lead drummer Susie, her solo dancing while drumming and singing finally drew out in the audience a little more then the ordinary bobbing the head like the first two acts gave.

Shakeytown was just a drop from the music rain by I heart Hiroshima. its splash came from the three tripet songs combo GOT OUT, SHAKEYTOWN, SOUTH which displayed the band's true flare for experiental indie rock !!The first album created an atmospheric warm which gave way to the  hit ablum The rip which included their cover of Pink Frost by the Chills this dramatic chronological merge from old to new insured the audience a full experience of their talent and musical evolution.
For a last gig we have to say it was brilliant; and we must give props to Matthew Somers for lasting the whole night on a cold.


Should also mention that the IHH's are supposable influenced by Sleater Kinney, TV On The Radio, Leonard Cohen, The Smiths, The Raveonettes, The Magnetic Fields, Frank Black, Jesus and Mary Chain, The Walkmen, Slumber Party and The Pharcyde. Also Beat Happening, Pixies and The Go-Betweens.
so we do recomend a quick youtubeing of "I heart hiroshima".

 In overall, outstanding performance, full engagement from the audience, lots of fun, laughter, excitement and Unforgettable time...


BUT....yep, there is some sad news, ...Apparently, Sussie female voice and drummer is moving to Germany so this was their last concert 4 now in Brisbane...


Brissie will miss you, I heart Hiroshima!!!

Gonkar Gyatso

recently journey to the Brisbane art gallery G.O.M.A saw this work, and instantly loved it  here are links to the interview of Gonkar about his work

Gonkar Gyatso

he uses stickers line and form to express the commerializing of tibet. it is really cool work because of the mixture of mostly stickers, newspaper cuttings and pencil sketchs the images range from  sailormoon to words to porn to images of himself. if you are in brisbane i highly recomend it.