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June 2011 - II: Fashion-view on the Biennale di Venezia

Art in Venice; Fashionoffice Insight by Karin Sawetz Web/Mobile
I have visited the press opening of La Biennale di Venezia. Venice is not far away from Vienna - in some hours you are there and back again; belongs to your driving style and endurance:-)...

"From where have you got this bag?" Web/Mobile
Tour through the 54th Biennale di Venezia by following the style of the individual bags of the country pavilions...

"Where is the 'Louis Vuitton'-pavilion?"; Venice Inside by Karin Sawetz Web/Mobile
I took the seat beneath a woman and started talking about the pavilions...


Fashionoffice's 'Cloud'-experiences; by Karin Sawetz Web/Mobile
In this article I will report from the experiences we have made in the last 15 years with Clouds...

"Is the Frog King on Twitter?" Web/Mobile
asks a visitor into the webcam of Hong Kong artist 'Frog King' at the Biennale di Venezia. The man in pink flower dress...

Digital media artist in a plastic suit Web/Mobile
in the performance '30 Days of Running in the Place'. Dressed in the special designed 'sweat-suit', he was sitting in front of a laptop...

Men's shaving cream used by women Web/Mobile
...many things to say about the product, but Fashionoffice was first attracted by the name 'The Bluebeards Revenge'...


Electronic music interpreted by dancers in slim-stretch jeans Web/Mobile
Electronic music by Stockholm based DJ/producer  Kornél Kovács interpreted for 'Tiger of Sweden'...

Underwear spiced with elegant freshness Web/Mobile
New trends for FW2011/12 underwear such as classical Brit-chic herringbone patterns, seen at Calida...

SHORT MESSAGES (from the FashionFeeds):

6 June 2011 - Article on Wired about the trailer 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' with music remix of Led Zeppelin’s 'Immigrant Song'
The music for the recently published trailer for the movie about a female computer hacker (Rooney Mara) and a male journalist (Daniel Craig) is a remix of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” with vocals of a woman. Wired calls the remix 'spooky'; the magazine offers a conspiracy theory about Sony's posting of trailers: "Did Sony marketing mavens play Jedi mind games with fanboys by planting two supposedly pirated trailers in order to stoke interest in the film?"

3 June 2011 - Video showing dance style to 'Feel So Good' by 'The Juan MacLean'
'The Juan MacLean' consists of US electronic musician John MacLean and singer Nancy Whang. They are part of the 'Concerts Electro and Boom-Box' (25 June in Enghien Les Bains, FR) alongside to Simian Mobile Disco, Château Flight... cda95.fr/site.php?idStarter=217993.

3 June 2011 - Trailer 'Anonymous' (movie release in autumn)
Great sound on the trailer for the hypothetical story about the secret author behind William Shakespeare's plays, poems, sonnets, which had been written in the political situation during the Elizabethan era in England; the pictures of the shadowy Renaissance (16th/17th century) are directed by Roland Emmerich. The music is composed by the two Austrians Harald Kloser and Thomas Wander.

3 June 2011 - 'Victory Dance' by My Morning Jacket from the new album 'Circuital'
The Asian gong with the Beethoven alike hunter horns in the beginning of the track are great!

3 June 2011 - Terry Richardson's view on a car
Fashion photographer and filmmaker Terry Richardson has set the Mercedes-Benz Concept A-Class into an industry espionage story with model Jessica Stam in the role of the sexy agent in a black dress by Emanuel Ungaro - obviously in love with her car. On occasion of the premiere of the video, Hannah Elliott on Forbes has written an article about the work of fashion photographers for car labels and questioned the difference to glossy magazine cover shootings blogs.forbes.com/hannahelliott/2011/06/02/terry-richardson-shoots-jessica-stam-on-mercedes-benz-a-class/.

31 May 2011 - 'Trickaz No Jutsu' by Paris based duo 'Tha Trickaz' (free download)
The selfnamed 'Tha Vietnamists' DJ iRaize and Pho released on 9 May 2011 the dubstep/hip hop album 'Cloud Adventure' on itunes.apple.com/gb/album/cloud-adventure/id432868885. Tha Trickaz are on tour: 29 July Palermo (Sicily, IT), 9 Sept Bourges (FR)...

31 May 2011 - Music video director and the collection of an online shop
The name of the director is Konstantin Ermakov, who publishes samples of his work (documentaries, music videos...)on his website ikonfilms.info, and the UK headquartered shop's name is Dirtyloves.com. It has recently opened with accompanying DirtyTV, magazine... Dirtyloves.com begins its 'About' with the statement: "It’s a dirty world we live in, fuelled by passion..."

31 May 2011 - Electronic music and dance interpretation of the spiritual 'Wayfaring Stranger' theme
...found on the blog of poet Rick Holland on rickholland.posterous.com. Rick Holland collaborates with musicians, designers, choreographers, film makers; since the beginnig of the 2000s Rick Holland works with music composer Brian Eno. Listen 'Glitch' by Brian Eno with words by poet Rick Holland from the new album 'Drums Between The Bells' (release on 24 June) brian-eno.net/drums-between-the-bells.

31 May 2011 - The clothing of a female experimental writer in an exhibition
Gertrude Stein is known for her research on language, such legendary word loops like 'Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose' and texts with very rare commas ("Gertrude Stein arrives without a single comma." San Francisco Examiner, 1935.). Stein was an US expatriate - left the United States for France in 1903, where she lived until her death in 1946. Now, her lifestyle is theme of the exhibition 'Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories', which is on show until 6 September at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. The video on thecjm.org introduces to the show; especially exhibition curator Wanda M. Corn's part (professor emerita in Art History at Stanford University and writer of the book with the same title like the exhibition) gives insights into Gertrude Stein's fashion under the title 'Picturing Gertrude' - the 'fashion'-part begins around 20 min. after the video has started.

30 May 2011 - 'Revolution and cultural mutation'
...is the title of the article about art and cultural practises in Tunisia by Rachida Triki (art historian, curator, Professor of Philosophy (aesthetics) at the Tunis University) on Ibraaz.org, an exclusively online released publication (launch on 1 June in Venice) that covers the Arab cultural world from the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region. "Recent events in the Middle East have shown the world something incontrovertible: official media outlets no longer have a monopoly on the systems of communication that dictate both the content and level of information in circulation at any given time..." begins the introduction to Rachida Triki's essay on ibraaz.org/essays/. The essay will also be published in the catalogue 'The Future of a Promise' at the 54th Biennale di Venezia, premiere on 1st June.

30 May 2011 - Spanish revolution covered by an art, music, design online-publication
"Mass media won't show you the truth" is one of the statements in the video by democraciarealya.es about the revolutionary movements in Spain and advices to use social networks and internet for getting involved. Probably the statement is true; because people who lost their possessions and have to fight for basic rights like equality are in common not very attractive - not at all worth copying which is a key value to be mentioned in lifestyle media. But the revolution in Spain has attracted the Thetrendnet.com (publication about design, music, art...) where you can find an article about the activities of the movement thetrendnet.com/en/social-initiatives/spanishrevolution-para-principiantes/.

29 May 2011 - The concept of Dante Alighieri 'Divine Comedy' realised in an architecture for art exhibitions
The video gives insights into the artwork of Olafur Eliasson on the rooftop of the ARoS museum in Aarhus in Denmark, opened on 27 May to the public. The museum's architecture is following the idea of the cathartic impact of art inspired by the 'Divine Comedy' by Dante Alighieri (13/14th century), who wrote about a guided tour from hell through the purgatory to the paradise. For the paradise, ARoS has selected Olafur Eliasson's 'Your rainbow panorama' which is awaiting the visitors with a colorful view around the Danish city - after they have passed the spaces and galleries of the 43 metres tall building on a curved museum street. "In ARoS this is translated into the exhibition concept represented by the 9 Rooms in the basement, the journey up through the galleries and the art exhibited there, finishing with Your rainbow panorama on the roof as a symbol of perfection." aros.dk