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Creativity Now Conference Speakers Announced!
May 13th, 2008
Once again, Tokion magazine will bring together many of the most innovative and influential creative thinkers for the 5th Creativity Now Conference. Top names in the fields of art, film, design, photography, fashion and music will gather on Manhattan’s Cooper Union stage for a weekend of unique cultural exchange.
SATURDAY, MAY 17th, 2008, NOON – 6:30 pm
Who He Is And What He Wants | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
David Shrigley (Artist, Anton Kern Gallery)
The Empty Gallery: Curating The Contemporary Art Space | 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Moderated by Klaus Biesenbach (Curator, P.S.1/MoMA)
José Freire (Gallerist, Team Gallery)
Kathy Grayson (Curator, Deitch Projects)
Massimiliano Gioni (Curator, New Museum)
Shamim M. Momin (Curator, Whitney Museum)
The Commodification of Street: Downtown Gets Sold | 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm
Carlo McCormick (Senior Editor, Paper Magazine)
A-Ron (The Downtown Don)
Lissy Trullie (Singer/Model)
What Makes Us Laugh: Contemporary Comedy | 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Moderated by David Cross (“Mr. Show,” “Arrested Development”)
Maria Bamford (“Comedians of Comedy”)
Zach Galifianakis (“Comedians of Comedy”)
Audience Participation: The Viewer As Producer In Art Practices | 5:15 pm - 6:15 pm
Moderated by Walead Beshty (Artist, Wallspace Gallery)
Harrell Fletcher (Artist, Jack Hanley Gallery)
Lucky Dragons (Artists/Musicians)
Eduardo Sarabia (Artist, I-20 Gallery)
SUNDAY, MAY 18th, 2008, NOON – 6:30 pm
Harmony Korine In Conversation With Mark Gonzales | 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Moderated by Carlo McCormick (Senior Editor, Paper Magazine)
Harmony Korine (Mister Lonely, Julien Donkey-Boy)
Mark Gonzales (Artist/Poet/Professional Skateboarder)
New Art City: Young Artists In New York | 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Moderated by Thomas Duncan (Curator, Gagosian Gallery)
Hanna Liden (Artist, Rivington Arms)
Gardar Eide Einarsson (Artist, Team Gallery)
Nate Lowman (Artist, Maccarone Gallery)
Lizzi Bougatsos (Artist/Musician, James Fuentes LLC)
Panter’s Playhouse | 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Moderated by Dan Nadel (Publisher, PictureBox, Inc.)
Gary Panter (Artist, PictureBox, Inc.)
C.F. (Artist/Musician, PictureBox, Inc.)
Connected Consciousness: Art, Media and the Internet | 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Moderated by Lauren Cornell (Executive Director, Rhizome)
John Michael Boling (Artist, 53 o’s)
Jill Magid (Artist, Yvon Lambert Gallery)
Jeff Lieberman (Artist/Engineer)
Michael Bell-Smith (Artist, Foxy Production)
Fashion: Young Designers | 5:15 pm - 6:15 pm
Curated by Alex Hawgood (T: The New York Times Style Magazine)
Patrik Ervell (Menswear Designer)
Loden Dager (Menswear Collective)
Tim Hamilton (Menswear Designer)
Doors open at 11AM each day. Additional panels to be announced.
Please go to www.tokion.com/creativitynow to purchase tickets and for regular updates.
Creativity Now in Stockholm!
May 13th, 2008
Lights + Music = Cut Copy
May 13th, 2008
Photography: Mike Wallace
Earlier this week a few hundred lucky attendees witnessed blog-hyped Australians, Cut Copy’s sold-out show at Brooklyn’s premier dance/concert venue, Studio B. The line stretched well down the industrial North Brooklyn waterfront block, scattered with scalpers (”Buying or selling tickets?”) and a diverse range of ex-ravers, dance queens, cool kids and dude-bros ready to give it their all on a Tuesday night. Those who were granted entry early enough were treated to recently signed indie dance act the Black Kids, who got the crowd moving, setting the pace for the balls-out ’90s dance jam that ensued as Cut Copy played their climactic first song of the night. Throughout the night the band played mainly tracks from their new album, the extremely listenable In Ghost Colours (Modular) to much fanfare from the crowd who sang along to favorites “Out There On The Ice” and “Lights & Music”. Prepare to make room on your summer playlist for at least a few songs from In Ghost Colours; this one has unique mass appeal and lives up to the hype.
Posted by Sandra Kang 05/14/2008.
She’s Salty and Hails from the Sea: Hmmm, Who Could It Be?
May 11th, 2008
El Perro del Mar
El Perro del Mar played a sold out show the other night at the Bowery Ballroom, accompanied by two up-and-comers from her homeland (of Sweden), Anna Ternheim and Lykke Li. The show opened with the sweet, quirky folk songs of Anna Ternheim, followed by the lively Lykke Li, who took to the stage like a riot with her soon-to-be-smash-hit “Dance, Dance, Dance.”
Lykke Li
I hadn’t heard much of Lykke Li’s music before, but she was one of the best live performers I’ve seen all year. She has the voice of an old blues singer and liquid eyes, not to mention dance moves that bring to mind Italo disco flamboyancy, African dance and vintage Madonna. Though my original intention was to see El Perro del Mar, Lykke Li and her band, which includes Bjorn Yttling of Peter, Bjorn and John, totally stole the show. They just stole it.
The cute songs from El Perro del Mar’s first album, like “Party,” her opener for the night, never seem to go out of style though. She performed a smattering of other old faves, like “You Gotta Give to Get,” but played mostly from her new album From the Valley to the Stars, which seems a bit less fun than her debut. Heavenly, but less fun. I could have listen to all these Swedish starlets sing all night, but that Lykke Li she’s electric.
Posted by Louise Sturcken on 5/11/2008
Ryan Rowe’s Saxon Sneakers
May 1st, 2008
The economy: it’s bad (though we read it wasn’t that bad in the Times today). What’s the biggest reason? Petrol. Gaz. Black gold. The slick stuff coats the world in an oily varnish of greed and bad feelings, and it’s been that way since day one if you believe There Will Be Blood. Shoemakers Ryan Rowe (the team of Ryan Ringholz and Rowe Samieian) see things a whole different way: using the remarkable catchiness of oil, in their “petrol”-colored chic sneaks for summer, Ryan Rowe have created something that not only grabs the eye, but is subtly wry. Not easy for a footwear that describes itself as “accessible luxury.” Accessible? How refreshingly un-greedy.
www.ryan-rowe.com
Posted by Maxwell Williams on 5/2/2008
Harmony’s Signature Finds Lonely Book
April 30th, 2008
Posted by Maxwell Williams on 4/30/2008
Book Report: Photo Art: Photography in the 21st Century
April 23rd, 2008
Sonja Braas, Ice Storm, (2005)
Through compiling the work of more than 120 photographers and image-makers, this new compendium published by Aperture Foundation (due out April) aims to document the medium’s output since the millennium. Five-hundred plus pages of relevant theory, compelling images and insightful biographical information gel to give the reader a thorough progress report on emerging trends and the current affairs of a handful of photography’s persistent sages, including Richard Billingham, Takashi Homma and Luc Delahaye.
Walking a deliberate aesthetic line, the editors and artists employ, in equal parts, striking and grotesque images in the service of exhibiting the modern day joie (or bummer) de vivre. Some of the most notable contributions to the collection are made by Sonja Braas and Beate Gütschow–both German–who cull their inspiration from their natural surroundings. Braas’ mastery of diffused lighting allows her naturalistic photographs to assume life of their own, creating something feral and restrained. The demure aesthetic components come into conflict with the unforgiving natural world they’re meant to portray and foretelling nature’s capacity for quiet devastation. Gütschow’s composition, admittedly modeled on that of classic landscapes, provides for an intricate spatial perfection uncommon in landscape photography.
In entertaining the full gamut of modes and aesthetics–monochrome and Technicolor, stark and frenetic, pure and lurid–Photo Art manages to provide exactly what it promises: a truly exhaustive study on the heady and decidedly contemporary work being ideated by this era’s highest echelon of photographers.
Posted by Ryan Daniels on 4/23/2008
I Almost Didn’t Not Remember About Castanets
April 10th, 2008
Don’t be alarmed by the dearth of mustachioed and beardoed faces in Williamsburg, Brooklyn this Friday evening. They haven’t gone away forever, but rather promenaded en masse to Glasslands Gallery for a rare Castanets performance–frontman Ray Raposa has chosen his hometown of New York as the only warm-up before beginning a lengthy tour of Europe. Castanets will be joined by Lux Perpetua, Virgin Forest and Lacrymosa. The freak-folk, alt-Americana and more lurid moments of rawk will be accentuated by a projection installation by Double Happiness’ Borna Sammak and followed by a DJ set with J Stuart from the Cloud Room. This is the first promotional/curatorial foray by the Abbey, a newly formed promotions company planning to open a performance space, recording studio and artist-services company in Asheville, NC within the year. Gaze upon your favorite star children, hepcats and nighthawks and enjoy a night of rarefied radicality. It begins at 9pm, and J will DJ until legally removed from the premises (4am).
Glasslands Gallery, South 2nd and Kent, Brooklyn, New York.
Posted by Ryan Daniels on 4/10/2008
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