SLAP PEACE
Slap Peace is the newest piece by SUPERM // Slava Mogutin featuring Gio Black Peter and Neil Young.
It is a tribute to Light/Dark – a piece by Marina Abramovic and Ulay from 1977. Abramovic and Ulay are sitting on their knees opposite each other, lit by only two strong sources of light. The background is dark. They look at each other and slap each other, at first slowly, then faster and faster, until one of them stops after twenty minutes. The Performance was presented to the public in 1977 at the Kunstmarkt Köln, but was repeated once more a year later in Amsterdam to be captured on film.
[image by Katy Grannan for Details Magazine found on facebook]
HEROES and WASTE by Nicolas Santos
There is not much info about Nicolas Santos on the internet except the information that says, he is based in Madrid and this photo by Luca Guarini. That’s why I sent him an interview request. And while we wait – here come his HEROES and DESECHOS (waste, rubbish in Spanish) collages.
[images by Nicolas Santos and Luca Guarini]
SLAVIC UNION
First, let me make something clear from the beginning – this is not a political post – politics is not my cup of hobby; and God knows (haha!) that I’m not a nazi or any other radical supporter. Just for the record.
Anyhow, there is something arousing about extremists. Something that makes your adrenalin rise, makes your blood flow run wild and sweat your tank top wet.
On the other hand, there is also something vulnerable about extremists. They’re like the bullies from 5th grade who never grew up and still have excessive amounts of testosterone fron the beginning puberty.
“The Slavic Union” was established by Dmitry Demushkin in 1999 in Saint Petersburg. He believes the ideology of Hitler to be fair and says that the only proper way for Russia of today is setting people’s dictatorship of the national-socialistic type. He looks like an ordinary guy and you’ll never tell, looking at him, that he’s a leader of such organization.
There are 80 active members of “the Slavic Union” in St. Petersburg, and about 1000 members in Moscow. Most of them are former skinheads who are just tired to beat up black people without any ideology. Officially the union doesn’t demand any attacks from its members, but they do it anyway. Their main target – activists of anti-fascist movement.
These are some photos by Guillaume Herbaut taken some years ago in St. Petersburg.
Olivier Valsecchi
Paris-based photographer Olivier Valsecchi is covered in a dust made of many maybe-s. He rarely gives interviews and there is little information about him on his website or online at all. The little that I could find is somehow unsatisfying and always request a “perhaps” before saying it. According to his minimalistic Facebook page he is married to Florent Vacaris. Florent is also the name of one of his images. So it is safe to assume that Florent is at least Valsecchi’s muse.
Valsecchi’s models often appear to exist in some parallel reality. His most recent work, “Dust,” features men and women seemingly caught in a womb-like dust storm — an alternate universe devoid of gravity and color.
Valsecchi explains: “Between death and birth, in a chronological sense. It is the ‘re’. It is the chaos, the confusion between the water and the gloom that is the cradle of the world. Between the fall and the takeoff, the renunciation and the impulse, the bodies are chalky, zombie-like, between animated and disembodied. The in-between, meaning what is nearly, what is not quite.”
Whatever he means by that, one fact doesn’t require a “perhaps” – Olivier’s images will change you.
Kingdom in the mix [free DL]
I don’t usually post mixtapes, but hey – there is first time for everything. This one I found on FACT mag.
Born in Massachusetts, Ezra Rubin (aka Kingdom) moved to New York and went about making the city his base, running the Club Vortex and ddarkk club nights. A hip-hop and R’n’B obsessive, Kingdom has been winning fans on the strength of his DJ sets, remixes and mixtapes for years, but in early 2010 he discovered a new audience with the release of ‘Mind Reader’, his Shyvonne-featuring single for A-Trak’s Fools Gold label.
Kingdom’s FACT mix features bits and pieces from his new EP alongside turn of the noughtiest hip-hop and unreleased material from Jam City, himself and more. You can read FACT’s review of That Mystic here.
Tracklist and download link: (weiterlesen…)
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