21-century art, design, performance, environment
Firstindigo&Lifestyle: The color field painting created space for exploration of color as a subject matter. How did this field of abstraction influence your work in the first place? Ellen Hackl Fagan is an American artist working with painting, which is richly influenced by music of her generation. Starting to figure out her artistic practice in … Continue reading Color comes with music for Ellen Hackl Fagan
Jocelyn Shu is an Asian American artist whose wire sculpture installations draw from the philosophical texts of the Tao Te Ching. The sculptures walk you through chapter by chapter, and the aesthetic captures the essence of language and thought through visual forms. She is also a researcher in psychology, which has inspired her interests in … Continue reading Jocelyn Shu on sculpture and identity
There is a test for a humankind, which is almost beyond measure. Health crisis with the current pandemic, too little or complete lack of solidarity for the #blacklivesmatter, environmental crisis, climate emergency: you name it, we almost seem to be moving backwards. To try to locate it in a visual-literacy sphere, it appears like a … Continue reading A shock of an image: Are we going backwards?
Earth Day and Shakespeare's Birthday both take place in April, a month known for its showers and blossoms. The poetry month of April resonates with the nature's big events, and surely that of playwright and poet William Shakespeare's imagination. Earth Day is celebrated on the 22nd, and Shakespeare gets his day on the 23rd. Earth Day … Continue reading Shakespeare and Earth Day
Almost thought, that I wouldn't visit The Armory Show, which took place in the first week of March. The art fair's tiredless self-promotion worked, however, and the show on Piers 92 and 94 didn't disappoint. Next time, The Armory will move to a new location, providing also different dates. New York's Javits Center will host … Continue reading Armory’s charm
Bells, tools and meditation are all ancient. When it has been confirmed by historic research, that tools and weapons were among the earliest bronze objects in China, the bells also now belong to this bronze age era. The meditative component has eminently added value and appreciation among the Asian arts. People are looking for nurture … Continue reading Asian Smithsonian: Bells, buddhas and the meditation
In 2018, a New York City poet Olena Jennings created poetry based on her family's stories, attempting to visualise photography with words. The poems that resemble photography, carry them as frameworks of memory. In Olena Jenning's THE MEMORY PROJECT: The memory comes before the poem. The poem comes before the art. "I chose ink and paper … Continue reading Olena Jennings: THE MEMORY PROJECT
Finnish contemporary composer, oboist and music pedagogue Riikka Talvitie is an artist greatly influenced by her audience. She believes that the audience and community have an impact so important that there is a need for new notions of authorship and agency in music. Her compositions are brought into practice in performances, and so the discussion … Continue reading Riikka Talvitie: A Finnish composer
Stephanie A Lindquist is a New York based artist and photographer, whose photo collages gather ideas of plants with world-wide origins. Her works bring forth anscestral memories from diasporic places, and create meaning mapping our global existence as travelers and settlers. Food has always played enormous role in peoples adaptation to new places, creating … Continue reading Stephanie A Lindquist about philosophy of plants and art
Anne Raudaskoski is a Finnish enterpreneur who wishes to create new connection to nature. Her approach can change the game of sustainability. With a background in dance, she has faith on the power of the arts: "Arts provide a holistic approach to existence, and this is what we need to change the current linear … Continue reading Anne Raudaskoski on Ethica and the holistic approach
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