Showing posts with label Festivals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Festivals. Show all posts
ASVOFF MILANO / TRAILERS
A Shaded View On Fashion Film — Milano with Vogue Italia,
City of Milan, 10 Corso Como and Lancia May 25 - 30,
Palazzo Morando, 6 Via Sant'Andrea, Milano
More info - www.asvoff.com
United Underground on a Rooftop
Ctrl.Alt.Shift, British Underground and Riz Ahmed have curated a art, music and film fest that will be held on the rooftop of Southbank's Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Text by Kirsti Weir
Artwork by Sarah Maple.
This weekend the Southbank Centre, together with British Underground, Ctrl.Alt.Shift and Riz Ahmed is a grand event of art, music, film and activism aimed at the younger generation to instigate active thinking and creativity in the next generation. The line up mixes the established with the up and coming, including appearances from Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Plan B, artwork from Sarah Maple live street art and talks by director of Kidulthood Noel Clarke.Ctrl.Alt.Shift. one of the groups behind this event are responsible for the activist newspaper and website instigating relationships between artists and actions to give a substance to people’s media consumption which today is saturated by celebrity culture which subject matter normally goes no deeper than who’s wearing what and how much cellulite is on show. Chantelle Fiddy, editor, explains the basis for this event, “The idea was to put on a night at The Southbank which would promote the kind of music you'd not expect to find in that environment and couple it with a message of activism and how music can - and does - play a role within that…We're taking over the heart of the cultural establishment, with fresh words, sights, and sounds - to wake people up and get them involved and active - creatively, politically, and at the event itself.”
It’s a hectic day of programming so Riz Ahmed, the actor and musician plus co-organiser and performer of this event, describes how it will work, “We're showcasing our best creative talent alongside inspirational activists who will speak for 5 mins between the acts and answer questions. The thing that unites these music acts, artists, and film makers with the activists is having the balls to take risks and wanting to reach people.” And those involved haven’t taken a fee for their work, it’s totally not for profit which in itself make the price tag suitably inclusive and affordable.
United Underground at Queen Elizabeth Hall at Southbank Centre on Saturday July 18, 5pm – 11pm£5 all dayFacebook event page.
Tickets available here http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/unitedundergound
Southbank Centre Ticket Office 0871 663 2538
Text by Kirsti Weir
Artwork by Sarah Maple.
This weekend the Southbank Centre, together with British Underground, Ctrl.Alt.Shift and Riz Ahmed is a grand event of art, music, film and activism aimed at the younger generation to instigate active thinking and creativity in the next generation. The line up mixes the established with the up and coming, including appearances from Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Plan B, artwork from Sarah Maple live street art and talks by director of Kidulthood Noel Clarke.Ctrl.Alt.Shift. one of the groups behind this event are responsible for the activist newspaper and website instigating relationships between artists and actions to give a substance to people’s media consumption which today is saturated by celebrity culture which subject matter normally goes no deeper than who’s wearing what and how much cellulite is on show. Chantelle Fiddy, editor, explains the basis for this event, “The idea was to put on a night at The Southbank which would promote the kind of music you'd not expect to find in that environment and couple it with a message of activism and how music can - and does - play a role within that…We're taking over the heart of the cultural establishment, with fresh words, sights, and sounds - to wake people up and get them involved and active - creatively, politically, and at the event itself.”
It’s a hectic day of programming so Riz Ahmed, the actor and musician plus co-organiser and performer of this event, describes how it will work, “We're showcasing our best creative talent alongside inspirational activists who will speak for 5 mins between the acts and answer questions. The thing that unites these music acts, artists, and film makers with the activists is having the balls to take risks and wanting to reach people.” And those involved haven’t taken a fee for their work, it’s totally not for profit which in itself make the price tag suitably inclusive and affordable.
United Underground at Queen Elizabeth Hall at Southbank Centre on Saturday July 18, 5pm – 11pm£5 all dayFacebook event page.
Tickets available here http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/unitedundergound
Southbank Centre Ticket Office 0871 663 2538
Gareth Pugh Backstage At Singapore
Artist and close collaborator of Pugh, Matthew Stone shoots backstage at the Audi Fashion Festival in Singapore with the menswear show soundtrack available for download.
Gareth Pugh was recently invited to participate in the Audi Fashion Festival in Singapore where he showed both his womenswear and menswear A/W09 collections. Here are some exclusive backstage photos of the show taken by artist and personal friend, Matthew Stone. Matthew also produces the soundtracks to Gareth's catwalk shows and the soundtrack for the Gareth Pugh menswear A/W09 show is available for download here.
Gareth Pugh was recently invited to participate in the Audi Fashion Festival in Singapore where he showed both his womenswear and menswear A/W09 collections. Here are some exclusive backstage photos of the show taken by artist and personal friend, Matthew Stone. Matthew also produces the soundtracks to Gareth's catwalk shows and the soundtrack for the Gareth Pugh menswear A/W09 show is available for download here.
Vivienne Westwood To Appear at Latitude
Dame Westwood's Active Resistance To Propaganda Manifesto comes to the Latitude Festival this summer
Text by John-Paul Pryor
This year's Latitude Festival is going to feature Dame Vivienne Westwood reading from her Active Resistance to Propaganda manifesto, a uniquely skewed take on modern society that looks to the Gaia Theory of James Lovelock for inspiration and features fictional vignettes from pirates, slave-girls, Aristotle and Pinnochio, among others. The somewhat surreal manifesto's aim is to save the planet by encouraging people to wake up to the bland, anti-intellectual feeding frenzy of modern media, and re-awaken them to some of the great cultural movements of our shared history, well, sort of. "The important thing about the manifesto is that it is a practice," says Dame Westwood. "If you follow it your life will begin to change. In the pursuit of culture you will start to think. If you change your life, you change the world." Westwood has always been an inspiringly vibrant figure, whose idiosyncratic personality has endeared her to millions far beyond the limits of the fashion set. Her unique and brave call to arms, though at times more than a little confusing, certainly shows how much she genuinely cares about the state of the world. Below is a short extract from the manifesto...
A hedgehog must understand the world from a hedgehog point of view, and we must understand it from a human point of view. We do have a fixed standard – timeless, universal, recognisable. We refer to it as Representative Human Nature (RHN). It is the key to this manifesto: –
You or I – as individuals – we change. But there is something typical about us which does not change. When we say, “Man is the measure of all things”, we mean the unchanging part: Man, both in his general nature and according to his various types: this is RHN.
Aristotle takes this for granted when he says, “In accordance with their character men are of such and such a quality……… it is for the sake of their actions that the actors take on the characters they have.” He also says that the best characters in a play are people with whom we can empathise – “someone like ourselves”.
For example, Chaucer’s characters are as alive to us today as when he first invented them: Timeless – outside of time, they speak to us of the human genius, –what it is to be human. Each detail illuminates the type and is what we call the universal in the particular – “someone like ourselves”. When we recognize this we are being objective – through putting ourselves in the place of another – we leave our ego behind.
We are not saying that art has to be confined to the direct portrayal of human beings: we do say that art must be representational – for it is in imitation that objectivity lies. In practice, through his medium of RHN the artist gains direct imaginative insight into the general nature of things; his view extends from the model.
Vivienne Westood will be fielding questions from the audience at the festival, for more details go to activeresistance.co.uk and for tickets to this year's festival go to latitudefestival.co.uk
Over the coming weeks we will be profiling four of the hottest new musical acts playing Latitude this year in our RISE music section, so watch this space...
Above: Vivienne Westwood shot for Dazed by Oliviero Toscani
Text by John-Paul Pryor
This year's Latitude Festival is going to feature Dame Vivienne Westwood reading from her Active Resistance to Propaganda manifesto, a uniquely skewed take on modern society that looks to the Gaia Theory of James Lovelock for inspiration and features fictional vignettes from pirates, slave-girls, Aristotle and Pinnochio, among others. The somewhat surreal manifesto's aim is to save the planet by encouraging people to wake up to the bland, anti-intellectual feeding frenzy of modern media, and re-awaken them to some of the great cultural movements of our shared history, well, sort of. "The important thing about the manifesto is that it is a practice," says Dame Westwood. "If you follow it your life will begin to change. In the pursuit of culture you will start to think. If you change your life, you change the world." Westwood has always been an inspiringly vibrant figure, whose idiosyncratic personality has endeared her to millions far beyond the limits of the fashion set. Her unique and brave call to arms, though at times more than a little confusing, certainly shows how much she genuinely cares about the state of the world. Below is a short extract from the manifesto...
A hedgehog must understand the world from a hedgehog point of view, and we must understand it from a human point of view. We do have a fixed standard – timeless, universal, recognisable. We refer to it as Representative Human Nature (RHN). It is the key to this manifesto: –
You or I – as individuals – we change. But there is something typical about us which does not change. When we say, “Man is the measure of all things”, we mean the unchanging part: Man, both in his general nature and according to his various types: this is RHN.
Aristotle takes this for granted when he says, “In accordance with their character men are of such and such a quality……… it is for the sake of their actions that the actors take on the characters they have.” He also says that the best characters in a play are people with whom we can empathise – “someone like ourselves”.
For example, Chaucer’s characters are as alive to us today as when he first invented them: Timeless – outside of time, they speak to us of the human genius, –what it is to be human. Each detail illuminates the type and is what we call the universal in the particular – “someone like ourselves”. When we recognize this we are being objective – through putting ourselves in the place of another – we leave our ego behind.
We are not saying that art has to be confined to the direct portrayal of human beings: we do say that art must be representational – for it is in imitation that objectivity lies. In practice, through his medium of RHN the artist gains direct imaginative insight into the general nature of things; his view extends from the model.
Vivienne Westood will be fielding questions from the audience at the festival, for more details go to activeresistance.co.uk and for tickets to this year's festival go to latitudefestival.co.uk
Over the coming weeks we will be profiling four of the hottest new musical acts playing Latitude this year in our RISE music section, so watch this space...
Above: Vivienne Westwood shot for Dazed by Oliviero Toscani
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