Other's Photos

So far, every image you've seen here was taken with my camera... soon I will steal everyone else's and update from their perspective...

Of course... there was a party afterward... at the Academy of Art

Damn, I wish the Broad Art Center had a club in the basement....

Maja and Isadora...

Hoooray for Serbian girls!!!

Opening at the Gallery

The Italian's Hammock installation in the military hardware

These guys were up to no good with water balloons...

Jihyun's work

Exhibitions 1 and 2

Raul's lovely installation at Kalamagda. He told me it was an Ephemeral Sculpture.

Gypsy Market

The lovely Ninas (there are two of them) took us to a gypsy market outside of belgrade. It was so much fun. They basically all live in this neighborhood and collect what amounts to trash all week and sell it on the street on Sundays. There were some really great things. I bought a Serbian comic book from the Eighties, a weird Russian notebook and some material for my project here.

Belgrade from the Sky

Some of us were interviewed by Milica Lapcevic, a radio reporter from Studio B, the local radio station. The next day she invited us up to the studio to see the view. Its on the top of the tallest building in Belgrade. The view was amazing, and the chat we had was really great. Here are a couple shots I put together

Drunken Multi-lingual Pictionary

Jacob rounded us up for a very chaotic game of Pictionary in one of our spaces. Lots of laughing, forgetting the score, the timer, and the rules in general. My team won though, but we cheated.

Late at the Salsa Bar

Here are a few of us cooling off after dancing. Itamar somehow got a sales pitch from this crazy German woman who was part of a Pyramid Scheme selling skin products. We had to listen to 45 minutes of her pitch, translated by Jacob. it was quite weird. But Itamar and Claire got free back rubs out of it, which you can see...

PS - I shaved the beard today.

Salsa Dancing in Belgrade!!!

This city is so full of surprises. Maria took us out salsa dancing. The place was packed on a Wed, the music was great, the drinks were cheap and it was great fun! There were Serbs who could dance like Cubans! It was unbelievable!

Clubbing on the Sava

Maria took us all to a crazy club on a boat on the Sava River. It was loud and crowded. I'm so surprised by the liveliness of Belgrade. This was a tuesday night and the place was totally packed.

Serbian Lessons from Maria

Maria, on the right is a young Serbian artist who has showed us a great time on the town every night so far. Pictured here are a few special people, Itamar, Claire and Kat...

Presentations

Every day from 4-7 we do presentations. Of course of all the artists, I went first. I got it over with though...

Victoria, Dobrila and Bijana

Three incredibly cool women...
Victoria is my prof...

Artists

Every night after presentations we all meet in a traditional Serbian restaurant for a meal before going out. Represented in these photos are... Italy, Isreal, Serbia, Austria, Singapore, Portugal, and Spain. The whole point of this residency is mainly to meet these people and party and have fun, more than to make art and exhibit, though we'll all do that too...

BEGRADE!!!!

We made it to Belgrade which is an AMAZING city. Its really huge, dirty, and very alive. We met the 80 or so artists that we're working with. In the bottom right of this photo is Bijana who organizes this project. She's an amazing woman who has brought artists from all over the world together in Serbia for 7 years straight.

Return to the Motherland - Zagreb Croatia

Zagreb was a lovely town with weired money called Kune, and a huge Cathedral. We only spent one night there, and had a very nice time relaxing after the craziness of Venice and Germany...

Sleeper Train to Zagreb

We took an overnight train from Venice to Zagreb Croatia, which was great fun.

Note on Art

Almost all of my favorite work from both Documenta and the Venice Biennale were video pieces, and were therefore almost impossible to get good images of. Of note at the Biennale were Sofie Calle's "take care of yourself" in the French Pavilion and this video by AES+F group (in the Russian Pavilion). this is a panoramic from a video installation they had that was BY FAR my favorite piece I've seen.

AES+F is *$%#@ amzing - check out their website...
http://www.aes-group.org

Interesting Sculpture

Tracey Emin

Not my favorite artist, but I liked this piece from her show in the Brittish Pavilion.

Art - the norwegen pavilion.

I don't have the book with me so I can't tell you who made this. It was a nice piece...

Travelers

More Tourist photos before I get to the art...

Gondole

Venice!!!

I finaly have a chance to update the blog. Its weird to go back through the week to venice as it seems like months ago. It was so beautiful and amazing. It is a city that is absolutely consumed by tourism which is a bit sad. But my god, its amazing.

I've made it to Belgrade

Hello people who happen to be checking my blog. I didn't use the internet in Venice as it was a whirlwind and we just didn't have time. It was amazing and I'll post images soon. Finding a place where I can use my computer to post, and not some crappy internet-cafe machine will be interesting in Belgrade. We arrived last night and the city is pretty amazing. its very lively! but, wifi seems to be an issue and we don't have internet in our rooms at the moment. I'll try to update asap! cheers!

Jacob Kissing a Donkey

In Mike Kelly's smart-ass petting zoo...

Sculpture...

by Andreas Siekmann - crushed city sculpture projects

The Trio in a Dan Grahm sculpture

Cathedral

We fly to Venice tomorrow for the biennale. We're renting bikes today in Muenster to see the installations that are farther away from the city center.