Johnnie Walker Reaches The Sky

«Johnnie Walker Reaches The Sky» video, spring 2010

 World record: 104.3 

 UPPs 

 One snall step for man … 

 & mankind gets to go groggy 

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 At London Sale, a Giacometti Sets a Record 
One of Alberto Giacometti’s best-loved bronzes, “Walking Man I,” has broken the world record price for a work of art at auction, selling to an unidentified telephone bidder for $92.5 million, or $104.3 million with fees, at Sotheby’s in London on Wednesday night. The previous record was $104.1 million, paid for a 1905 Picasso, “Boy With a Pipe (The Young Apprentice),” at Sotheby’s in New York in 2004. NY-Times, February 3, 2010, by Carol Vogel [ full article ]

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Source of picts internet

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PRIMAVERA in Italy

Flower Power in Rome

Emma Bonino, candidate for the presidency of the Lazio Region, in view of the elections of the 29th March 2010

 

For her battles and engagements with controversial issues, her engagement in the promotion of the human rights and civil rights in the world, she received the «Open Society Prize 2004» and «Prix Femmes d’Europe 2004» for Italy.

 
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Emma Bonino (born March 9, 1948 in Bra), is an Italian politician, former Member of the European Parliament and former Minister for International Trade in the cabinet of Romano Prodi. She is a leading member of the Italian Radicals, a political party that supports economic and social libertarianism, and human rights. She graduated in modern languages and literature from Bocconi University in Milan in 1972. [ wikipedia.it ]

pict: Emma in Quartiere Don Bosco, December 24 2006 by [ dewil.ch ]

 

Traffic

Mapping the city by  questioning (scruntinizing) its structural components  as buildings and streets or as social-, political-, economical- and cultural backgrounds. It intrigues my artistical work and research at all once.
 

«Traffic» video extract of total 6’10, 2K, NYC
 

The video performance Traffic — which I held in New-York in 2K — is relating to organization and texture of public space  by referring the paradox of abandoned streets and places  inbetween Brooklyn and Queens. The video looks for a metaphor of strolling throughout cities and bothers a decision-making-process of getting ahead.

Not only are we led and guided by the city’s structure as signs and architectonic elements — while yes they shape and fragment a city so as conduct its deconstructed frames.

In 2K I started a work in progress under the title  Paradoxical Periphery . Often I apply a research on a long foot walk (drifting) over a peripheric site or at suburbs.

txt & vid by [ dewil.ch ]