A LIFE with Future Computing

Design competition to create new lifestyle from next-generation computing.
Japanese company Fujitsu will work with Designboom to hold an international industrial design competition.

Everyone is eligible to enter the competition, from professionals to students, who are involved with, or are interested in, design. participation in groups is also accepted.
free registration required.

More here: http://designaward2011.jp.fujitsu.com/eng/

Currently on view our latest external project in Jakoministrasse 32, 8010 Graz, Austria.

Leszek Barszczewski has made an installation with our latest para_SITE TV Editions in the framework of our new series PARA_WINDOW.

Edition #1 takes place right now in the framwork of the establishment of the Jakoministrasse as an art and design street and herewith enhance the integration of this street in the public notion.

Check it out and tell us what you're thinking.

Here a map how to get there: http://maps.google.at/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&q=jakoministrasse+32&fb=1&gl=at&hnear=Graz&cid=0,0,14797942959861800614&ll=47.065226,15.4424&spn=0.00763,0.018346&t=h&z=16

All our best,

Daniela & Leszek

Call is open now!

More info here: http://poolbar.at/pages/architektur%20wettbewerb

We travelled to London to do a para_SITE TV portrait on the current London Art Scene and the Frieze Art Fair 2010. We shot some great footage and did very interesting interviews with artists and curators that currently work in London. Starting out with an interview of the brilliant artist Adel Abdessmed who presented a solo show at the art association Parasol-Unit located in East London in the same building as renowned Victoria Miro Gallery that showed new sculptures by Yayoi Kusama and photographic work by Isaac Julien.

Check out this for more:

Parasol-Unit:http://www.parasol-unit.org
Victoria Miro Gallery: http://www.victoria-miro.com

Later we went to Shorditch to have a drink at my favorite bar Hoxton Bar and Grill which I know under the name LUX bar as before there was the LUX Cinema above and they showed the latest art films there. Also I think the name is better as when you are sitting right in the back you are on eyes hight with the passing by cars and shortly their lights are directed at you as you sit below street level. This is the best in this bar I have to say except for the drinks and nibbles for sure..

Luckily enough there was an opening across the street at the White Cube Gallery on Hoxton Square that showed an interesting work by Mark Bradford: http://www.whitecube.com/

The next day we went to the champaign brunch at Serpentine Gallery where a very good exhibition by Karen Lidel curated by Sophie O'Brian is shown who we also interviewed for our portrait in which we also talked about the current sculptures by Anish Kapoor located in the surrounding park: http://www.serpentinegallery.org

Later on we went to Tate Modern to check out the Ai Weiwei Unilever Commission Project and it was a great work to see but it became even more interesting when we heard Hans Ulrich Obrist talk with him about his work later on.
The work is a field out of sunflower seeds and we were lucky to walk through it as a few hours later the denied access to it because of the imense amount of dust that came up when you walked through - I enjoyed the dust though and produced quite a bit I have to admit ;)

The seeds are made of porcelain and have been produced by the old porcelain factory that produced the artefacts for the emperor during the Chinese Ming Dynasty. The people who made the seeds had to paint every seed corn with four stripes and if someone had a very good painting skill the only needed three brush strokes. The people were a little sceptic about the project at the beginning they said but in the end they loved it also because they earned money with it and had work again since the closure of the factory.
0Strongly recommended to check out and also watch the documentation video there.

Later on we checked out the fair and did some interviews with interesting up and coming galleries and artists that showed there. Gavin Turk was one of them and he seems to have been very strongly represented because he had three gallery booths where he showed works and also in the sculpture garden outside he had two pieces of art. To my question if he was a real enterprise now he agreed with a twinkle in the eye..

One night we met up with my two old friends from my days back when http://www.tattydevine.com

The MAP Marathon was the last event we visited and we have been there nearly all day. It started at noon and finished at 11.00 p.m. and this was also the time when we had the pleasure to interview the two directors of the Serpentine Gallery Julia Peyton Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist who is also head of international projects at the Serpentine Gallery.
The interview took about 5 minutes because they wanted to close down the building but we found out a lot of interesting facts about the two and you can see the intervew online here: http://www.para-site.tv at the end of November.

All in all it was a very interesting field trip on the look for new work and we have also found a great new artist we will be showing next November 2011 here at para_SITE Gallery.

More on our final next year programme will follow soon on our website: http://www.para-site.eu

All our best,

Daniela

We will exhibit our paraSITE E-flux Journal Edition @ PS1, MOMA in New York City in the framework of the NY Art Book Fair!! What great NEWS!!!!! Thanks Anton!!

Link: http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/8662