STRP FESTIVAL 2011 Art Loves Technology

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The STRP Festival is the annual festival that celebrates the mix of art, technology, design, media and music. Its a full week packed with exhibitions of the most promising artists that dare to seek and cross boundaries between the different disciplines. For them, boundaries don’t exist and the challenges ahead are only shadowed by their own ambitions.

STRP takes place in a large facility called “Klokgebouw” or Clock Building, a former industrial building of Philips, like a lot of other buildings in the city of Eindhoven. Its part of a large area called “Strijp-S” that is currently being renovated to what will become the Art & Design Quarters of the city, similar to what Silicon Valley is for computer science and technology in the States. Many creatives have already moved here such as design agencies, photographers and new media designers.

The festival shows exhibitions during weekdays, ranging from video mapping and projections, to moving objects and interactive media. During the two weekend nights, the main areas are used for music performances with the likes of Amon Tobin and Aphex Twin.

This year, its the festival’s 5 year anniversary and it has grown to the largest festival in Europe of its kind.

Text and Photography by Rinaldi

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MY BERLIN IMPRESSIONS

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I was planning to do a little cooperation with a friend. My Berlin impressions. With her images and my writing. But then I couldn´t write anything to her images because they are not the way I see the city. So I was looking through my own images. It is funny of how we still feel the moment of when we took an imagine and that it´s different when you look at an image that someone else took from exactly the same place.

So what are my Berlin impressions? In my very first months of living here I felt the colours, the art emerging, graffitis everywhere, partying, alternative people, tourists strolling, the wall, lots of trees, young designer shops, a bit of weirdness, little coffee shops that invite you to stay for a hot chocolate with soya milk, flee markets, many dogs, people being pretty rough at times, layed back summer times in the park, lots of demos and a city still trying to find itself.

When your daily routine sets in you lose a bit of this magic that you felt when you first moved. Which is a shame. As in a city, or any other place you live in there is always things to discover and be surprised and happy about. Just like it is with life.

Text by Sigrun Guggenberger

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“Imperfection” Ana Gely A.

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The other day I was talking to my flatmate about human nature. Since there is so much injustice out there and things I want to change she was asking me if I think that humans are fundamentally more bad than good. I think everyone of us has both sides inside, good and bad, happy and sad, generous and greedy, black and white- and all sorts of other shades of that. And what sounds negative at first, such as anger f.e. can sometimes be good in order to change a situation. As humans we have to accept that we are like a big puzzle of feelings – and even though we can´t always control them we should try to act considerate towards others. Moreover I think we have to stop thinking that we have to only have good feelings all the time. There is nothing wrong with having moments and times where you just don´t feel like you want to hug the whole world. Probably that would be a good moment then to spend some nice time alone. Some days ago I stumbled over this image called „Imperfection” by Ana Gely A.- I couldn´t have found a more perfect picture to add to my thoughts…

Photography, Editing and Make Up by Ana Gely A.
Title: Imperfection
Model: Yasmin Ogbu

Text by Sigrun Guggenberger

Karl Lagerfeld exhibition

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WORK IN PROGRESS-Karl Lagerfeld photography exhibition ~ After Paris and Rome, Daelim Museum presents ‘WORK IN PROGRESS’ for the first time in Korea.

Karl Lagerfeld determined that ‘every work should be continuous and developed’ and this exhibition shows Karl Lagerfeld’s works as a photographer which includes Chanel and Fendi’s 2011 F/W collection pictures and short movies. Recent Chanel collection’s campaign used instant cameras to experience an exciting exhibition element.

Remember Now by Karl Lagerfeld | Short Movie Part 1 (Chanel Cruise 2011)

Remember Now by Karl Lagerfeld | Short Movie Part 2 (Chanel Cruise 2011)

Find out more on this event. Visit C-Heads Asia’s Blog on kimxlondon.tistory.com/21

Credits

Text and Photographed by SoHyung Kim @C-Heads Asia and www.daelimmuseum.org

All Artworks ⓒSohyung Kim

Exhibition Isabelle Huppert – Women of Many Faces

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On 8th October 2011, there was an open talk held at GoEun Museum of Photography, New Building in Busan which was a part of BIFF’s program. French actress Isabelle Huppert acted in Korean movie director Hong Sangsoo’s new film along with other Korean actors/actressed include Yoon Yeo-Jeong, Yoo Jun-Sang and Jeong Yu-Mi. There was an exhibition held at GoEun Museum of Photography, ‘Isabelle Huppert, Woman of Many Faces’ which contains photographic portraits of Isabelle Huppert by more than 70 Artists from all over the world.

Isabelle is an icon of French cinema who has appeared in more than 80 films, she has won the best actress award twice in Cannes for Violette Noziere (1978) directed by Claude Chabrol and also for La Pianiste (2001) directed by Michael Haneke. She also won it three times in Venice Film Festival, for Une Affaire de Femmes (1988), La Ceremonie (1995) both by Claude Chabrol and a special Gold Lion for Gabrielle (2005) by Patrick Chereau. She has been names jury president for 2009 Cannes film festival.

The exhibition Isabelle Huppert: Woman of Many Faces shows photos and video portraits of her creates by more than 70 artists with varied and style, and it first proposed to pay homage to Huppert and her films at Museum Art’s sister museum , PS1 Contemporary Arts Centre in New York. Artists featured in the exhibition include the great photographers Richard Avedon, Edouard Boubat, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Helmut Newton, Juergen Tellerer, etc. Visitors can share an interesting experience witnessing an actress, Isabelle Huppert, with many faces as a movie star and also as ‘herself’ in her daily life through her every corner of her face interpreted by each artist’s own style and vision across the time line from her teen life up to now.

The show initiated by the MoMA/PS1 in 2005 has been presented in over seven institutions in Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Tokyo and Seoul. More than 600,000 visitors have visited the show so far.

Find out more on this event. Visit C-Heads Asia’s Blog: kimxlondon.tistory.com/15

Credits

1985 Ronald Chammah
2001 Juergen Teller

Text and Photographed by SoHyung Kim @C-Heads Asia and GoEun Museum of Photography brochure.

All Artworks ⓒSohyung Kim

Interview Maya Jane Coles

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Maya Jane Coles - young, talented and really cool! The 23-year old London girl has made herself a name in the electronic music scene within a short time. And lately she has done a sensational BBC Essential mix. But there is no time to relax for Maya- she always comes up with new ideas and doesn´t even have the time to realize all of them.

Maya´s first and biggest love is music. But visual art and photography are her other passions. “I often use photography as part of the process creating my ideas, and also just to document my life and the places I’ve been.”

For C-Heads she has created a collage with a few impressions that emerged from the last weeks of her Japan tour. We think it´s really great that the guys from Club Pompadour have invited her to come to the Viennese Flex on the 11.10. and we will for sure rock the dancefloor with her!

Maya Jane Coles- jung, talentiert und wirklich cool! Die 23-jährige Londonerin hat sich innerhalb kürzester Zeit einen Namen in der elektronischen Musikszene gemacht. Und vor kurzem hat sie dann auch noch einen sensationellen BBC Essential Mix hingelegt. Aber sich darauf auszuruhen kommt für Maya nicht in Frage- immer wieder hat sie neue Ideen und gar nicht genug Zeit diese alle umzusetzen. Ihre größte Liebe ist die Musik. Visuelle Kunst und Photographie sind ihre anderen Leidenschaften. ” Oft verwende ich Photographie als einen Teil des kreativen Prozesses meine Ideen umzusetzen und auch um mein Leben und die Orte an denen ich gewesen bin zu dokumentieren.”

Für C-Heads hat sie eine Collage erstellt von einigen Eindrücken, die in ihren letzten Wochen während ihrer Japan-Tour entstanden sind. Wir freuen uns richtig, dass die Jungs von Club Pompadour sie am 11.10. ins Wiener Flex holen und wir werden ganz bestimmt mit ihr den Dancefloor rocken!

Hello Maya, how are you and where are you at the moment?
I’m great thanks, in London right now, spending the next few days catching up with production work. It’s a rare treat these days to actually have a chunk of time with no interruptions to purely focus on making music.

Congratz, are you really proud of your first BBC Essential Mix?
Yes I feel honoured to have been asked to do the Essential Mix. I definitely felt the pressure!

What did you grow up listening to?
My first passion was 90′s Hip Hop and R&B in my early teens. That got me into making music. I then got into Drum & Bass and Trip Hop and listened to everything from Rock and Indie to electronica. I got into House and Techno in my later teens. My household music was super eclectic when I was growing up. My parents listened to everything from Dub to Jazz and Blues to Punk to soul and classical so I was lucky to be exposed to such diverse music from a young age.

Where’s the best place to party in London?
It totally varies depending on what you’re into. I have various favourite places all for different reasons. That’s what’s great about London, there are so many different scenes. There’s always something for every one and for every occasion.

Besides music you love photography – could you give up one for the other?
I love visual art in general. I enjoy painting, illustrating and creating digital artwork. I often use photography as part of the process creating my ideas, and also just to document my life and the places I’ve been. Music has always been my first passion though and I could never give that up for anything.

What is a perfect picture in your eyes?
Something that captures a special moment, time or place. Something that provokes or captures emotion. I’m always attracted to bold vibrant colours and a lot of abstract stuff.

How do you keep yourself constantly inspired?
I’m always busy and trying to do a million things at once so I always end up having more ideas than time to actually execute them. I guess that keeps me inspired cause it keeps my mind constantly flowing full of ideas. Constant travelling and seeing new places also keeps me inspired.

5 Things you cannot live without?
family, friends, music

In 5 years- where do you see yourself?
I’m only a small part of the way into my career and still have a long long way to go till I’m anywhere near where I wanna be in the long run. I want to be respected as an universal artist. It’s easy to get stuck in one scene but I get so bored just doing one thing. I wanna make sure that people know me for all the styles of music that I make. I love creating everything from underground niche stuff to much more widely accessible song based music. Nobody ever said pop music had to be generic and shit. It’s my aim to produce music that has the potential to be enjoyed by the masses whilst still staying true to myself and doesn’t compromise my artistic integrity.

Any last words…?
Stay positive :)

web: www.mayajanecoles.com

Interview by Christine Guggenberger

BROWNBREATH

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Korean Fashion Brand ‘BROWNBREATH’ celebrated their 5th Anniversary. Korean Fashion Brand ‘BROWNBREATH’ celebrated their 5th Anniversary last week. C-Heads was invited to their 5th Anniversary VIP party

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