iane Arbus is one of the most prolific photographers of the 20th century and a new exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New Yorkfeatures one of her most famous images of “Jewish giant” Eddie Carmel. Arbus wasn’t afraid to follow her own creative path and produce the work that interested her.
Masterpieces & Curiosities:
Diane Arbus’s Jewish Giant
April 11 – August 3, 2014
New York’s Jewish Museum.
The Project 100×100=900 celebrates the anniversary of 2013, conventionally considered the 50th year of videoart. One hundred videoartists from around the world are invited to participate and will produce a video artwork inspired by one of the previous 100 years., with an international exhibit will follow.
I spoke to Enrico Tomaselli, 100×100=900 Project Director.
100×100=900 Project is a special program launched by ‘Magmart | video under volcano’, international videoart festival, to celebrate the 50th of videoart. The birth of this art is conventionally established on 1963, when artist Nam June Paik realized and exhitibed a video installation in Germany.
The videoartists have been choose between the selected artists of the previous edition of Magmart. Some of them has been choose just by their artistic approach, the ‘profoundness’ that can be seen in the artworks… Other have been chosen to include the max diversity of cultures and ‘techniques’.
I matched artists and years randomly. In this way the work will be more ‘intriguing’ and bracing for artists.
There are two fundamental turning points in this evolution and one follows the other. Along its first phase videoart work mainly on videotape. It was very close to experimental cinema; the first turning point is the arise of digital videocameras that allowed a wide diffusion of production means and opened new perspectives. New approach to art by video followed, such as video dance, video poetry and videomapping.
My personal ‘guru’ is unquestionably Bill Viola. I see in his video artworks an extraordinary talent to blend video technic and ‘pictorial’ representation.
We are currently established a partnership program, but we have always achieved some agreements that allow to show the project in Italy, Argentina, China, United States, Greece, Russia, Spain, Peru, Colombia, Cyprus and Armenia. We are waiting to end other agreements for Iran, Brazil, India, United Kingdom and Germany and we are always open to find new collaborations. The full list is periodically uploaded on project website. All the shows will have place between April and December this year.
The idea base of the project is that to evolve it is necessary to understand what past must be once and for all archived. In this sense, to call 100 videoartists to interpret anyone a year of the past century. Besides to constitute a really global narration of 1900s, represent an attempt to process the past, not by coincidence to artists and not by coincidence videoartists. The moving image (cinema, television, web) is one of characterising elements of 1900s.
Videoart has a great and relevant future and art has been so intimately close to languages of contemporary, at their ‘grammar and syntax’. And the progressive switchover to digital of any expressive form by images, render always more subtle the wall that separate the artistic use of medium by all other uses. In this sense, videoart can reasonably be considered like any art form more inner at XXI century.
We are planning a wide range of shows around the world. We’ll publish on our website the calendar of shows and will signal the artists that will go at each screening too. When the public show program ends all the videos will be available on the website. In the next month, we’ll publish a catalogue, purchasable in digital and printed format. Currently it is possible to contribute at 100×100=900 project, at http://www.kapipal.com/9hundred_project
Enrico Tomaselli
Magmart Festival Art Director
Interview by Ginger Liu
Burlesque!
The Monday Night Tease Retrospective
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT
Burlesque! — The Monday Night Tease Retrospective celebrates nine years of live performances at LA’s longest weekly running burlesque show. Since 2004, Monday Night Tease has been a staple in the variety arts world. Described as the heartbeat of the Los Angeles burlesque scene, it is a home to local performers as well as a destination for out of town artists. Producer Lili VonSchtupp prides herself with launching new talent as well as nurturing established performers to take risks and further their art form. Several burlesque shows have come and gone, but every Monday the backstage area of The Three Clubs in Hollywood pulses with the beat of makeup, glitter, shimmy belts, and pasties. The energy presented weekly at Monday Night Tease is unmatched and we are proud to share it with you through a collection of images captured by some of LA’s premier event photographers.
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Featuring work by Andrija Bloom, Azul DelGrasso, Brian C. Janes, Chris Beyond, Dan Hendricks, Ginger Liu, Jason Kamimura, Laura Creecy, PhotoJenInc, Samuel Hernandez, and Tom Yi.
ABOUT THE GALLERY
The Perfect Exposure Gallery is the recognized venue in Southern California to display the work of award winning and accomplished photojournalists as well as works of photographers that regard artistry and craftsmanship as a standard of excellence. Established in 1998 as a much needed venue for LA photojournalists and photographers, the gallery continues to create unique exhibits through contact with various media organizations including The Associated Press, Magnum Photo Agency, The Los Angeles Times, Getty Images, and Agence France-Presse.
The mission of the Perfect Exposure Gallery is to present exhibits free of charge to the general public with the goal to exemplify the rich variety and impact of photography, freedom of expression, the aesthetic, the contemptible, and the sublime. In addition, the gallery works with a distinguished group of acclaimed photojournalists to produce ongoing seminars and workshops for both adults and youths.
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 10th 2013, 6-9 pm
Exhibit Dates: January 11th – February 16th, 2013
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11am-4pm
Media Contact: Christina Covarrubias T 213.381.1137 · Christina@theperfectexposuregallery.com
Links: http://www.ThePerfectExposureGallery.com, http://www.MondayNightTease.com
Social Media: facebook.com/ThePerfectExposureGallery, @TPEGalleryLA, @MNTease
The Perfect Exposure Gallery
3519 West 6th Street
Los Angeles, California 90020
http://www.TheperfectExposureGallery.com
contact@theperfectexposuregallery.com
T 213.381.1137
T 213.381.1138
Bookmarking:
Sometimes called Social Bookmarking, this is a method for users to store, organize, manage and search Bookmarked URLs. Bookmarking sites are usually public and links you’ve posted with metadata to include keywords for ease of searches, have the potential to be clicked through and/or read by hundreds or thousands of users. Bookmarking sites contain either a broad subject matter or a specific subject that has a loyal following. Broad subject sites tend to follow the subject structure of an online magazine, e.g. Entertainment, Art, Politics or Lifestyle. Specific sites are by subject, i.e. Technical, and are subdivided into smaller subjects within the Technical framework.
The most popular bookmarking sites:
Digg
Stumblupon
Delicious
Tweetmeme
Mixx
Fark
Slashdot
Friendfeed
Newsvine
Etc…
Sign up with as many Bookmarking sites as you can, find friends and followers and start bookmarking.
Ginger Liu is the Founder (2008) of Ginger Media & Entertainment: Digital Media Marketing & Strategy/PR, Content Producer & Founder of GLIU Photography: Fine Art. Documentary.
Social Media Marketing/PR Content & Design Consultant to clients across the globe.
Film Publicist – IMDB
Entertainment journalist and travel author.
Ginger Liu is a Film Reporter for the Examiner and was a Film Reviewer for IndieWire’s The Playlist and Film & TV Columnist and Reviewer for Regent Media’s Gay Wired.
SEO, Keywords and Google:
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a technique used to improve the visibility of a website or web page. The best visibility is first page ranking on search engines such as Google. When users type in Keywords in to Google’s search box, out of the hundreds of thousands, even millions of links on the web, your site should come up first if the proper SEO has been put into place. SEO is not instant but sees results over time.
For instant, if I wanted to know about 2011 film festivals in Los Angeles I would enter the following in Google’s Search box:
film festival, los angeles 2011
What Google comes up with is hundreds of URLs for 2011 film festivals in Los Angeles. Those with the biggest online presence are at the top. How do they get there?
Techniques:
Tips for online content SEO:
Ginger Liu is the Founder (2008) of Ginger Media & Entertainment: Digital Media Marketing & Strategy/PR, Content Producer & Founder of GLIU Photography: Fine Art. Documentary.
Social Media Marketing/PR Content & Design Consultant to clients across the globe.
Film Publicist – IMDB
Entertainment journalist and travel author.
Ginger Liu is a Film Reporter for the Examiner and was a Film Reviewer for IndieWire’s The Playlist and Film & TV Columnist and Reviewer for Regent Media’s Gay Wired.
Social Media Strategy – Bookmarking:
Sometimes called Social Bookmarking, this is a method for users to store, organize, manage and search Bookmarked URLs. Bookmarking sites are usually public and links you’ve posted with metadata to include keywords for ease of searches, have the potential to be clicked through and/or read by hundreds or thousands of users. Bookmarking sites contain either a broad subject matter or a specific subject that has a loyal following. Broad subject sites tend to follow the subject structure of an online magazine, e.g. Entertainment, Art, Politics or Lifestyle. Specific sites are by subject, i.e. Technical, and are subdivided into smaller subjects within the Technical framework.
Mashable lists over 50 bookmarking sites but I’ve listed some of the most popular:
Mixx
Fark
Slashdot
Friendfeed
Newsvine
Etc…
Sign up with as many Bookmarking sites as you can, find friends and followers and start bookmarking.
Ginger Liu is the Managing Director of Ginger Media & Entertainment: Digital Media & Strategy/PR & Founder of GLIU Photography: Fine Art. Documentary.
She is a Social Media Marketing/PR Consultant to clients across the globe.
Ginger Liu is a Film Reporter for the Examiner and was a Film Reviewer for IndieWire’s The Playlist and Film & TV Columnist and Reviewer for Regent Media’s Gay Wired.
The scars are from Abdominal Myomectomy, Uterine Fibroid Embolization (unseen) and Partial Hysterectomy, and represent the efforts I went through to try and keep my womb. I lost that fight to a fibroid the size of a six-month pregnancy. The fibroid weighed down on my bladder and I was lucky to get one hour of unbroken sleep at a time. I couldn’t go out anywhere because I constantly needed the bathroom. And once a month, during my period, I would bleed non-stop for two days and lose so much blood that I was too weak to stand. Hysterectomy was the final option.
The title of the essay refers to a woman’s comment made to me after I told her about my operations and represents the consequential view from some people that women are not whole unless they have children.
Ginger Liu is a graduate of London’s University of Westminster with a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Media Practice (Photography, Film, Multi-Media). Her work has been published in the UK and USA, and has appeared on MTV. She is a Hollywood based photographer, writer and publicist.
DRKRM Gallery
Last Picture Show ‘09
Year-End Group Exhibition
Opening Reception Saturday November 14th 7-10pm
November 14th – December 30th
2121 N. San Fernando Road Suite 3
Los Angeles, CA 90065
Tel 323.223.6867
drkrmgallery ( @ ) gmail dot com
Tue-Sat 11-5 Sun 1-4
Ginger Liu “You’re Practically A Man” series. # 3
Elise Hill is a forty-something homeless woman living in New York City’s Central Park since 2001. Karen Gehres documentary follows Hill over a 9-year period and shows an honest portrait of a woman’s life that could have turned out differently.
Hill was a teenage runner-way from an upper class New Jersey home. Her move in to prostitution was immediate and heroin addiction soon followed. As the first of many testaments to Hill’s own strength, she kicked heroine and became an accomplished painter, sculptor, and jewelry maker while still working as a stripper. Many of her paintings portrayed her fellow strippers on stage and provide a unique lens in to the world of NYC performers. Her home and art space for 20 years was a converted maids’ quarters above an elevator shaft on the roof of an upscale Midtown Manhattan building. Hill’s slide into paranoia and mental illness forces her eviction after continuous non-payment of rent. We see her gathering her belongings and her cat, then spending her first terrifying night on the street.
Hill remains optimistic for the camera as she shares her secrets of keeping warm in a coffee shop and receiving hot food from the church. She articulates her lot in life as something to be thankful for, as it could be a lot worse. I could barely watch the end credits, half expecting her return to drugs, prostitution, or worse –her death. Instead Gehres tells us that Hill’s art has been salvaged and is kept in a lock-up but after 5 years, Hill still lives on the streets. It’s ironic that her art has found a home.
Begging Naked is a powerful and unforgettable portrait of mental illness and of a woman who has endured everything.
Begging Naked will be screening at the International Women’s Festival in Creteil 31st edition in France from March 13-22.
LA from the Apartment the Size of My Ass 