open home

some images of work by liyen chong during her open studio at the mc cahon artist residence in otitori bay.

upcycled ceramics, cutting performances and painting with photography...

looking forward to seeing more of the lovely ms chong.

currently liyen chong has work exhibited at
melanie roger gallery
226 jervois rd, herne bay, auckland.

you can also see this post for a further morsel...

films with dance in them

42nd street (1933)
busby berkeley writing with bodies...
gold diggers of 1933 (1933)
more busby berkeley
the red shoes (1948)
still probably the greatest dance film ever...
an american in paris (1951)
long long long wonderful dance sequence
hans christian anderson (1952)
stunning "little mermaid" ballet sequence
singin' in the rain (1952)
gene kelly & cyd charisse
the band wagon (1953)
astaire as a hoofer and charisse as a ballerina, can they dance together?
saturday night fever (1977)
floaty seventies dresses too
all that jazz (1979)
bob fosse's magnum opus
fame (1980)
lee-roy and hillary!
flashdance (1983)
she's a welder by day and a dancer by night...
footloose (1984)
why you can't outlaw dance
the company (2003)
robert altman gives it a go
la danse - le ballet de l'opéra de paris (2009)
159 minutes of amazingness

these are all great films, some of them have a bad reputation, very unjustifiably...

a nice white cup

by wellington potter katherine smyth.

f-e-d-y-n-y-s-z-y-n

"riding mountain rambler"
laura fedynyszyn

one day, when my dad was a very small schoolboy he saw an elephant as he was walking home. no-body believed him, but he was finally vindicated when it turned out that an elephant had indeed escaped a travelling circus and was wandering through vestiges of native bush in the small city of hamilton, new zealand. everyone seems to have stories of magical encounters with animals, but this is one of my favourites. canadian print-maker laura fedynyszyn is a toronto-based artist who re-constructs and creates such encounters through her painstaking and endearing practice.

fedynyszn tries to work only from animals either stuffed or living whom she has met in real life whether it be a giant feral raccoon or a small bird that collided with her window pane. the above riding mountain rambler is a bison and is based on sketches and photographs taken during a road trip to riding mountain national park in manitoba where herds of bison roam free.

prints such as this begin with a quick sketch on tracing paper which is then transferred onto lino where details are filled in with a sharpie. then the actual carving process begins. fedynyszyn proofs the final carving on newsprint and then eventually prints up final versions. old maps, magazines and decorative papers are frequently printed on by fedynyszyn. sometimes she uses maps of the places where the animal is actually from. all of her printing is done by hand using a barren-no press which means that fedynyszyn has the kind of control she can only get by working entirely by hand.

fedynyszyn is quick as a whip and has stories to tell. you can see more of her wonderful work at http://www.laurafedy.com/.

"crippled crow"
laura fedynyszyn

TURNING CAT (for Sophie)

TURNING CAT (for Sophie)

at the end of the day

at the end of the day, when the lights go out
but the cameras keep running...

the grandmother of performance art arises...

marina abramovic
"the artist is present"
2010

my secret annex

the annex of disappearing drawings... (and a kangaroo)...

a little irresponsible linking...

arthur rimbaud in new york
david wojnarowicz

&

kylie minogue hearts arthur rimbaud... here's the proof!
"je ne sais pas pourquoi" c.1989