12 visual ideas from the UdK rundgang
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imomusWhat I love about walking round the annual degree shows at the Universität der Künste here in Berlin is the rush of ideas (some good, some bad) I get. They're ideas in visual form, and many of them combine immediacy with originality, proving that things can make sense quickly yet still be quite counter-intuitive and fresh. Here are a dozen ideas I spotted on my tour of the UdK rundgang yesterday:
A visual breakdown of classical portrait faces, from the Art in Context department.
There's unsuspected naked fun to be had with recycled Christmas trees.
You can still do painting and make it fresh and appealing, especially if you prop it on cool chairs.
Birds on a wire: turn them into notes on a stave and play that tune! It sounds random!
Let's document the kind of technology Granny has in her house!
Let's make Michael Jackson a kind of saint in halftone!
What if suits were totally transparent and people wore nothing underneath?
Let's make those maneki neko cats welcome themselves!
A bird cage is like an apartment block, and vice versa! Men are canaries!
A well-placed glass of water would make these sexist dickheads cool down!
Let's shoot pretty, waif-like hipster boys in a tombola rifle game!
In memoriam Web 2.0, with apologies (presumably) to David Shrigley.
A visual breakdown of classical portrait faces, from the Art in Context department.
There's unsuspected naked fun to be had with recycled Christmas trees.
You can still do painting and make it fresh and appealing, especially if you prop it on cool chairs.
Birds on a wire: turn them into notes on a stave and play that tune! It sounds random!
Let's document the kind of technology Granny has in her house!
Let's make Michael Jackson a kind of saint in halftone!
What if suits were totally transparent and people wore nothing underneath?
Let's make those maneki neko cats welcome themselves!
A bird cage is like an apartment block, and vice versa! Men are canaries!
A well-placed glass of water would make these sexist dickheads cool down!
Let's shoot pretty, waif-like hipster boys in a tombola rifle game!
In memoriam Web 2.0, with apologies (presumably) to David Shrigley.
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Date: 2009-07-20 10:00 am (UTC)Everyone would get mistaken for Iggy Pop?
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Date: 2009-07-20 11:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-07-20 01:39 pm (UTC)He did it prominently enough that my first thought was of him. I think most of my friends would think the same - it was a point of conversation at the time.
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Date: 2009-07-20 01:42 pm (UTC)#4 No idea who did it first. But Tiga used it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfJ8prhLbtQ
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Date: 2009-07-20 01:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-07-20 02:16 pm (UTC)sadly I missed them at the opening of the rundgang... as well as 70% of what was exhibited. The only piece I recall seeing from the post was the cats/mirrors.
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Date: 2009-07-20 08:52 pm (UTC)momus, did you perhaps get the name of the face dissecter of the first piece?
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Date: 2009-07-21 06:00 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-07-21 07:52 pm (UTC)The clear suit has me thinking though...A rather compelling image, I think. Granted, if the model had a body more like that of a man who wears a suit and sits behind a desk all day, it may hold a bit more merit! But it's striking on a number of levels, at any rate.
see through suits
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