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I've decided to be trendy and write a post explaining who I would pick for each of the major NHL awards. I'll list my three finalists for each award along with a winner, explaining why I chose who I chose. I'll also list other candidates who came close in some of the categories. One thing I'll clarify is how I chose Hart, Norris, and Vezina candidates. I hate the idea of "most valuable" which I think is basically nonsense, so I've thrown out that criteria entirely. Instead, I've decided to give one award to the forward who has had the most outstanding season (Hart), one to the defenceman who's had the most outstanding season (Norris), and one to the goalie who's had the most outstanding season (Vezina). For the other three awards I'll be giving them out using standard definitions. Nominees are listed alphabetically.
Nominees: Sidney Crosby, Pavel Datsyuk, Jonathan Toews
There were a number of players I considered for this who didn't quite make the cut, including Phil Kessel, Steven Stamkos, Alexander Ovechkin, and John Tavares. I was left deciding between Taylor Hall and Jonathan Toews for my final spot, and I eventually gave the nod to Toews. As should be apparent, that means the award really came down to two players for me: Crosby and Datsyuk. My criteria for this award were that a player had to score a lot of points while driving competition without getting sheltered minutes. Datsyuk had the most consistent season out of all of these players, with tremendous puck possession against top competition while finishing 10th in the league in points. In the end though, Crosby's season was just too impressive. He finished 7 points ahead of Datsyuk and 8 ahead of Toews while missing 1/4 of the season and was a solid driver of possession as well. So Crosby is my pick for the Hart.
Winner: Sidney Crosby.
Nominees: Zdeno Chara, Oliver Ekman Larsson, Alex Pietrangelo
My criteria for this award was pretty simple: a defenceman had to play top competition while still driving possession relative to this teammates. Bonus points were awarded for doing this in difficult zone starts. I considered a couple of players who didn't make the cut here, most notably Niklases Kronwall and Hjalmarsson, but I think the three I've nominated were a cut above the rest. This mostly came down to OEL and Chara. Chara had incredible possession numbers (Corsi On of +14) but I'm giving the nod to OEL on account of playing more difficult competition on a worse team.
Winner: Oliver Ekman Larsson
Nominees: Sergei Bobrovsky, Henrik Lundqvist, Tuukka Rask
Judging goalies is a lot harder than judging other players, so I've basically applied two criteria here: a goalie had to have one of the top save percentages in the league, and he had to do it while playing a lot of minutes. Antti Niemi was very close to making this list, but he didn't quite make the cut. Bobrovsky clearly had the best SV% and he played a ton of minutes, so he's the obvious choice for this one. I think he's going to be a more or less a unanimous choice on everyone's list.
Winner: Sergei Bobrovsky
Nominees: Jonas Brodin, Brenden Dillon, Brandon Saad
None of the forwards here really stood out too much to me. Huberdeau, for example, got incredibly sheltered minutes, and none of the rookie forwards was on pace for that many points. Brandon Saad was the best of an uninspiring bunch to me based on his scoring and the fact that he drove possession without being sheltered, but he also played with Jonathan Toews who likely boosted his numbers. Dillon and Brodin had very similar seasons, jumping directly onto the top defensive pairing, facing difficult competition and still driving possession. The big difference here is age: Dillon is three years older than Brodin. Brodin also played more minutes and scored more points. A 19 year old who can jump onto a top defensive pairing and control play is extremely impressive, so Brodin is the winner here.
Winner: Jonas Brodin
Nominees: Patrice Bergeron, Pavel Datsyuk, David Backes
What I was looking for here was forwards who played in difficult situations but still managed to drive possession. I didn't look at the penalty kill at all for a couple of reasons: the first is that the PK is a very small part of the game in terms of ice time and the second is that teams don't necessarily put their best defensive forwards on the PK out of fear that they'll get injured or have their effectiveness at even strength reduced (check out the difference between Datsyuk's regular season PK time vs playoffs for some idea of how coaches manage this). I think of "good defence" differently than some people. "Good defence" is often used as shorthand for "gritty guy who blocks shots and chips the puck out of the zone" but that's not what I see as good defence. To me, good defence is the ability to get the puck away from the opposing team and move it up ice. To that end, a player has to have good possession numbers to be considered good defensively to me.
Bergeron's ability to drive play is pretty remarkable, with a Corsi On of +27 (!) with only 42% offensive zone starts; one strike against him is that he did not face especially difficult competition. Datsyuk's ability to dominate possession against some of the toughest competition in the league is extremely impressive, though his higher than average zone starts temper that somewhat. I think it's somewhat unfair to hold that against him too strongly though, because one of the reasons he has highish OZS is because he's so good at driving play that Detroit takes a ton of offensive zone faceoffs. To count that against him would be, in effect, punishing him for being so good. That said, David Backes is the winner here. He faced the second toughest competition among all forwards in the league (after Nikolai Kulemin), he got 42% o-zone starts, and he still managed to have a positive Corsi Rel on a dominant possession team. As an aside, Boyd Gordon of the Phoenix Coyotes would have been my 4th player on this list. If he hits UFA this summer, the Leafs (or any other team) would be smart to snatch him up.
Winner: David Backes
Nominees: Ken Hitchcock, Joel Quenneville, Michel Therrien
To me this is Therrien's award and it's not really close, which pains me to say since he's the coach of the worst team in pro sports and I've written in the past that he's a terrible coach who torpedoed a great Penguins team. He took a team that finished 4th last in the NHL in Fenwick Close last year (46.8%) and turned them into one of the top teams this year (53.6%). Other than a couple of players who came back from injury (Gionta and Markov), the Habs made no significant roster additions this off-season, but the team still improved dramatically. I don't know how much of that can be attributed directly to Therrien, but it's quite an impressive turnaround, and unlike teams like the Ducks or Leafs who stormed into the playoffs riding the percentages train, the turnaround in Montreal is based on solid underlying numbers and looks sustainable.
Winner: Michel Therrien
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So those are my picks. Feel free to chime in in the comments with your own or to tell me I'm stupid for not giving the Selke to Jay McClement.


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NEWCASTLE United striker Loic Remy will face no further action after he was arrested over rape claims.
The 27-year-old was held in May last year along with two other men after a woman claimed she had been attacked in Fulham, west London.
Yesterday the three were told that they will face no further action over the allegations.
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The new hotel is located at 145 N. 44th Street, near the Illinois Highway 15/Interstate 57 interchange.
The hotel opened on July 1, according to a hotel spokeswoman.
The hotel offers 180 guest rooms along with amenities that include free food and beverage morning and evening, free wireless internet and long distance and an indoor/outdoor pool with a whirlpool.
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The hotel features two banquet rooms and a smaller meeting room that can accommodate up to about 40 people.
City officials helped Drury with its plans for expansion in Mt. Vernon, an approximate $20 million project.
The city will reimburse Drury up to $5.03 million using a combination of East Side Tax Increment Finance District funds realized in the Drury project area and from tax reimbursements.
Reimbursements only affect the Drury project area, in TIF reimbursements and in rebates on the 85 percent of the incremental sales tax revenues above the current amount received on the property. The other 15 percent of taxes will continue to be put in the city general fund. Sales tax funds which will be tapped for reimbursement are the hotel/motel tax, the bed tax, the 1 percent sales tax, the 1 percent home rule tax and the 1 percent food and beverage tax earned on the Drury project area, according to information presented in 2012 when the agreement was approved by the city council.
With the opening of the Drury, the city now features 1,118 guest rooms on 13 properties.
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It wasn't the Oracle-branded Linux that many were expecting. In a way, it was something much worse.
A collective gasp rose up from the blogosphere following Larry Ellison's keynote at last week's Oracle OpenWorld conference. To many, Oracle's decision to offer full, enterprise-class support for RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) -- including software updates but sans Red Hat branding -- was a direct attack on the leading Linux vendor. Red Hat's stock plummeted in response.
But what about Oracle's other erstwhile OS partner, Sun Microsystems? Judging by Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz's keynote at OpenWorld, everything is hunky-dory. "I don't think our partnership has ever been stronger than it is now," Schwartz said. And yet, this latest move by Oracle doesn't bode well for any ambitions Sun might have to regain its former glory.
At the height of the dot-com boom of the mid-90s, Sun Solaris was the operating system of choice for new Oracle database installations. Oracle and Sun servers went virtually hand in hand. But as venture capital began to dry up, budgets tightened, and commodity x86 servers grew more powerful, that began to change. The catalyst for that change, of course, was Linux.
Fast-forward to today, and the love affair between Oracle and Solaris has cooled, to say the least. Just look at what goes on internally at Oracle itself. According to WimCoekaerts, Oracle's director of Linux engineering, Oracle's own production servers are rolled out with Linux -- not Solaris -- and Linux is now the de facto standard platform for 9,000 Oracle developers.
Sun is quick to point out the technical advantages of Solaris over Linux, and to be fair, they are numerous; score a point for Sun. What's more, Solaris is open source, just like Linux. So, in theory, Oracle could offer support and software updates for OpenSolaris, just like it's doing with Linux. But it isn't, and that's telling.
Still, on the surface, anything that's bad for Red Hat is great for Sun, right? For years, Sun execs have savaged the Linux vendor at every opportunity as they watched the open source OS steadily erode Sun's Unix business. Oracle's decision to go head-to-head with Red Hat in the Linux support game probably elicited cheers at Sun headquarters. But then again, if Oracle plans to beat Red Hat at its own game, then Oracle is now competing with Sun, too.
In the past, Sun has characterized Red Hat as a young company that isn't necessarily trustworthy when it comes to enterprise support. That certainly can't be said of Oracle. In his keynote, Ellison said Oracle plans to offer an upper tier of support for Linux beyond what Red Hat provides.
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The new policy will require military parents with custody of children from a previous relationship to file a family care plan, said Army Col. Shawn Shumake, director of the Pentagon's office of legal policy. The requirement already is in place for dual military couples and single parents with custody.
In a conference call from Iraq Thursday, 3rd ID Commander Maj. Gen. Tony Cucolo told reporters the 22,000 troops under his command in northern Iraq will draw down to 9,000 by Sept. 1.
WASHINGTON, March 10, 2010 - The model used to determine the appropriate size of the United States military is being replaced following the Quadrennial Defense Review process, a senior defense official said here today.
A U.S. MILITARY BASE IN SOUTHWEST ASIA, March 11, 2010 - Servicemembers quizzed Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates about Afghanistan, the elections in Iraq and the Iran situation during a question-and-answer period here today.
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WASHINGTON, March 11, 2010 - The Military Spouse Career Advancement Accounts program, commonly known as MyCAA, will resume March 13 for the more than 136,000 spouses who already have established an account, the defense official who heads up the program announced today.
Officials announced a temporary halt in the program Feb. 18, pending a top-to-bottom review, after a six-fold spike in enrollments in January, a surge that overwhelmed the system and caused the program to nearly reach its budget threshold.
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Because everybody knows Wilfork is one of the dirtiest players in football, and I can't remember who it was, but I specifically remember Mr. Wilfork attempting to poke a player on the other team in the eyes. Anybody else remember when that was (or maybe there are multiple times? It's certainly possible).
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NFLPA files collusion complaint against NFL, owners
The NFLPA filed a complaint on Wednesday charging the NFL, its clubs and their owners of collusion during the uncapped 2010 season.
AFC West players in the crosshairs
Here's a look at the players on each AFC West team who will be most heavily scrutinized, including Chiefs RBs Jamaal Charles and Peyton Hillis.
Criner could be another Raiders draft steal
Based on his showing in the Raiders' minicamp, fifth-round WR Juron Criner may be poised for a rapid rise up the depth chart.
McClain sentenced to 180 days in jail
Raiders LB Rolando McClain has been sentenced to 180 days in jail for his involvement in a November 2011 fight in Decatur, Ala.
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The Raiders have signed former Eagles FB Owen Schmitt to a one-year contract after a tryout Tuesday, the team announced.
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Raiders make changes to scouting department
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Jenkins has been fined $7,875 for pushing Pierre Garcon to the ground well after the Washington receiver crossed the goal line on a 59-yard touchdown last week.||||||| The former first-round pick has seen limited playing time as the third cornerback behind Brandon Carr and Morris Claiborne. He figures to be on the field more with nickel cornerback Orlando Scandrick injured. Jenkins missed training camp and the season opener after offseason shoulder surgery, and complained about not getting a new contract. He's in the final year of his rookie deal.
When asked of his chances of playing in the opener, Jenkins said he didn't know.||||||| Jenkins passed his physical last week and was eligible to return to practice Saturday. But he missed that day because of migraine headaches. The former Pro Bowler missed all offseason work and training camp because of reconstructive shoulder surgery after last season.
Jenkins still hasn't been cleared to practice with his surgically repaired right shoulder.||||||| Coach Jason Garrett said Tuesday that Jenkins will continue his rehab and then see Dr. James Andrews for another checkup in "a couple more weeks." Jenkins was in Florida on Monday to follow-up with Andrews, who performed the surgery soon after last season.
Cornerback Mike Jenkins is back at Valley Ranch with the rest of his Dallas Cowboys teammates. After skipping voluntary workouts this offseason, Jenkins rejoined the team Tuesday for the start of a mandatory veteran minicamp. The three-day session is the last for the Cowboys until reporting to training camp in California in late July.||||||| Jenkins had previously remained home in Florida while rehabilitating from shoulder surgery. Even though he was at the minicamp, he was unable to do much because of the injury. Jenkins is going into the final year of his contract after the Cowboys added two prominent cornerbacks this offseason - free agent Brandon Carr and LSU All-American cornerback Morris Claiborne with the sixth overall draft pick.
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Luton schools win sporting recognition
Four schools in Luton have been praised for their commitment to the development of competition after earning the School Games Kitemark. Launched this year, the Kitemark is evidence of schools that put particular efforts into encouraging their pupils to take part in competitive sport.
Lealands and Denbigh High Schools all earned Kitemark awards, as well as Leagrave Junior School and Challney High School for Girls.Schools that want to achieve the Kitemark award have to commit to a variety of criteria, including offering a competitive sports day each year, having a dedicated notice board promoting sports activities and offering opportunities for less active and disabled children to take regularly part in sport.
– John Burridge, Headteacher, Lealands High School
"We are really pleased to have received this award which recognises the superb sporting opportunities available to Lealands' students and the very hard work of our PE and Sports department."
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Allen Craig, second baseman of the future?
this would be a great move, I think they should commit to it as they did the Schumaker experiment. he can't possibly be much worse at defense than Skip, who has got most of the playing time there. and we all know he will hit better than Schu. kudos, Cardinals org!


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Meet Sarah Tintle: Motivated DancerBy Julie Senger
Sarah Tintle is originally a California girl. This is where she began taking ballet class at the age of four. She remembers some of her first costumes: a black leotard and tutu with gold polka dots, and also a white, glittery costume with glorious feathers on her head when she danced the role of Aurora in "Sleeping Beauty." When Sarah turned 10, she added jazz, modern and tap to her repertoire. Then, her family moved to Georgia when she was 11 years old.
After the move, Sarah continued her dance training through high school and eventually began college at another university as a dance major; but the program "wasn't what I thought it would be." She returned home and began taking general education classes at Kennesaw State University thinking that she was "only two weeks away from moving to New York to pursue dance again." Thenshe spotted the KSU Dance Company audition sign. Once she made the dance company, she decided to stay at KSU and declare dance as her minor.
Sarah admits that Assistant Professor of Dance "Ivan Pulinkala encourages me to work harder in the modern dance genre. I had always focused primarily on ballet." This shift was a welcome challenge for this driven and motivated dancer.
In addition to her dance minor, Sarah is majoring in modern language and culture, and taking several science classes to establish a pre-medicine background. But she wants people to know that she also "likes to have a good time," which is why she plans to take a year off after she graduates from KSU to pursue dance before she begins to apply to medical school.
Sarah has several admirable accomplishments on her dance résumé. She received the Dominique Nicole Houston Scholarship for dance. She also danced in KSU's "42 Feet Off the Ground" and will perform in the dance company's spring show in February. In March, Sarah will perform at the American College Dance Festival.When she is dancing, Sarah hopes that the audience will "feel the emotion that is being conveyed through the movements being performed." But overall, she hopes that the audience can see that she "loves the art that she is performing."


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May 24 – June 3, 2012
Museo Pietro Canonica in Villa Borghese | Rome, Italy
May 24 – June 3, 2012
Museo Pietro Canonica in Villa Borghese | Rome, Italy
Organized by: qwatz – artist in residence program, Rome
Artists: Liang SHUO, Charles LIM, Koki TANAKA, Hong-kai WANG
Curator: Beatrice Leanza
The Human Factor is a research project featuring artists Liang Shuo (China), Charles Lim (Singapore), Koki Tanaka (Japan) and Wang Hong-kai (Taiwan) organized by qwatz artist in residence program – Rome, and curated by Beatrice Leanza. The artists' two months residency (April-May 2012) informed an exhibition of both newly created and selected works as well as a unique book of commissioned essays and interviews published by cura.books in November 2012 [The Human Factor – Rethinking Relationality (or the artist as bricoleur)].
A meaningful cross-section of contemporary Asian art, the practices here presented subtend to strategies of perception and cognition of reality where oppositional paradigms between otherness and individuality, nature and culture, man and world are abandoned to make space for an architecture of knowledge intrinsically 'transformational', ' situationally interconnected' and 'relational'. Drawing upon an acentric universe of experiential nature mobilized by a phenomenology of "becoming" that offers itself supplementary to a more inherently western-made anthropology of "being", they collectively conjure the hypothesis of a space of action and contemplation of the world deliberately removed from the political terminologies of a 'dichotomous' predicament, to propose instead a culturally asymmetrical thought of social and philosophical inclusiveness – an identification with change and situated relations.
Featuring installations inclusive of photography, sculpture, video, sound and performance, the exhibition infiltrated the private rooms and studio spaces part of Museo Pietro Canonica in Villa Borghese by way of subtle strategies of juxtaposition and substitution, played out throughout the interlocking rooms with the rich collection of paraphernalia, furnishings and art objects found wherein. Spotted by means of a color-coded parkour the works were carefully interspersed inside Canonica's domestic landscape of personal grandeur and monumental formality so creating a diachronic configuration of affinities among diverse life paths and experiences, the artists' and Pietro Canonica's (1869 – 1959). Canonica was an Italian academic and mannerist artist from the first half of the 20th century, whose diplomatic savoir-faire earned him the favors of ruling classes and conservative elites of foreign governments (from Russia to Thailand) where he often travelled as a political and cultural mediator – a proponent of classicism and high-culture that distanced himself from the conceptual and formal upheaval brought about by the historical avant-gardes. The works in "The Human Factor" operated with knowing irony aside the dignified art that surrounded them, bringing it back to a transformed social context in the present times.
Like the complementary publication, the show highlights the four distinctive practices as focused critical explorations into the human mechanics of the architecture of knowledge (a 'rethinking of relationality') across four central modes of envisioning and creating the perimeters of its structure: that is, in the sonic space of speaking and listening (Musical Memory/Wang Hong-kai), in the sensorial and affective relationship with things and people (Situational Objects/Koki Tanaka), in the social and aesthetic process of inhabiting (Beautiful Evidence/Liang Shuo), in the construction of narrative dispositives mapping real and imaginary territories (Neutral Spaces/Charles Lim).
The project THE HUMAN FACTOR is made possible by the generous contribution of various supporters and sponsors:
Ines Musumeci Greco; Agi Verona; Japan Foundation; Cultural Affair Department, New Taipei City Government; FARE in collaboration with Open Care and with the support of Fondazione Cariplo, NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, GAI – Associazione Circuito Giovani Artisti Italiani; O'A.I.R.; ArchiviAzioni; ROMA CAPITALE, Museo Pietro Canonica in Villa Borghese – musei in Comune, in collaboration with Acea, BNL, Unicredit, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Acqua Claudia, Finmeccanica, Lotto, Vodafone, with the support of Atac, la Repubblica.
September 24 – October 3, 2011
BJDW – Beijing International Design Week 2011
Design HOP | Dashilan'r, Beijing
The project takes cue from Naihan LI's latest series of design works titled "The Crates". Inspired by the volatile and exuberant spirit of a contemporary urban habitat like Beijing's and its epic detournement of building construction, decay and regeneration, LI's mobile creations accommodate with poetic comfort the moody impracticality of globe-trotting, ready-to-move lifestyles. Sofas, beds, bookshelves, workstations, and foosball tables pop out of their own shipping shell to form a unique spatial language which is whole with a 'total' concept of dwelling. Wooden crates become carapaces to contain the body, objects and the memories we carry with them. Situational freeplay and sculptural abstraction blend here to make room for a design practice which is intrinsically relational and open-ended.
On this occasion a brand new all-in-one Media Box was presented, including its mini-cinema, DJ deck, lights, karaoke equipment, multimedia screens and seating area.
Concierge is a curatorial inspiration developing from this design ensamble: the installation built inside one of Dashilanr's old factory complexes materialized an inexistent part of the actual building dubbed "The House of Leaves", a semi-private/semi-public residence located on the edge of the Fifth Ring Road in Caochangdi village (also home to BAO Atelier offices). Drawn upon an intimate image of both action and reflection, this serendipitous space represents an antechamber of no definite time or spatial confines, a public retreat and an interior garden activated by a politics otherwise known as 'meeting'. Daily talk-shops, happenings and presentations are accompanied by impromptu performances and informal gatherings, with cocktail making sessions and live music. Events included among others: a scribbling, scrawling and mixing afternoon with WEN Ling (aka Ziboy), graffiti artist HE Cong and Leo (86/33 link); workshops organized in collaboration with the British Council, such as "Domestic Super Objects", an experiment with everyday domestic objects to reveal their creative potential by designer Nelly BEN HAYOUN, and "Nuclear Tea Party You" by designer Zoe PAPADOPOULOU.
June 2 – September 25, 2011
Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation | Venice, IT
organized in collaboration with Arthub Asia
This is the first institutional exhibition dedicated to the work of the Xijing Men collective, the unique collaborative team composed by artists CHEN Shaoxiong (China), OZAWA Tsuyoshi (Japan) and GIMhongsok (South Korea). Hosted in the Foundation's main site in Piazza San Marco, the show is a quixotic journey through the creative universe of Xijing—a life-world of encounters, places and compounded narratives awakened by the thereof named collective since 2007.
Xijing—the capital of the West—exists upon a fictive geopolitical axis created in correspondence to the real cities of 北京 Beijing (capital of the North), 南京 Nanjing (capital of the South) and 东京 Dongjing/Tokyo (capital of the East). Conceived since its inception as progressive exploration in five open-ended chapters, the Xijing project departs from the literary exercises of fictional geography and imaginative mapping, to voyage instead through the 'enactment' of a symbolic territory where the connections between spatiality and identity are continuous with its collective production. Developed over the course of the past five years in different geographical and institutional contexts (Asian, European, of museums, galleries, alternative art spaces, biennials etc.) the eventuation of Xijing is informed by an artistic practice comprehensive of a variety of media and formats conceived to make the process of 'situating' Xijing a participatory and productively unstable experience. All of the chapters so far created (Do you know Xijing?, Welcome to Xijing, This is Xijing and I Love Xijing) are constituted via performative interventions into the phenomenal world of politics and institutions – of art, history and society. Flipping between dark humor and existential eccentricity, these abridged scripts are devised to render Xijing as the immanent other site/side of things human, be it of memory or mythology, literature or tradition, the foundation of urbanity, the conception of citizenship, the formation of power and authority.
The show is accompanied by a comprehensive publication designed by Tokyo-based Hironori Oooka Office; functioning as a complementary tool to navigate the Venice chapter it includes illustrations and descriptions of all the previous projects since 2007.
The Xijing Men collective is CHEN Shaoxiong, OZAWA Tsuyoshi and GIMhongsok. The group's work has been featured, among others, at the First Aichi Triennial (2010), the 10th Lyon Biennale (2010), the 4th Fukuoka Asian Triennial (2009), Tate Liverpool (2009), Art Sonje Center (2008) and Platform Seoul (2008).
April 12–17, 2011
Salone Int'l del Mobile – Milan Design Week
Pasticceria (Via Tortona) | Milano, IT
CDM – China Design Market returned to Salone del Mobile in Zona Tortona for the fourth year in a row, featuring a brand new exhibition sporting the creative research of China-based designers and studios as inspired by the different yet unique urban cultures of two of its greatest cities, Beijing and Shanghai (see WoYou – Beijing & Shanghai Travelogues in Design). The show is accompanied by a thematic showcase presenting the latest lines of products in casa Lenovo, long supporter of CDM together with Rizzoli Beijing and BIDC (Beijing Industrial Design Centre). This installation was designed by LI Naihan to present Lenovo's newly released Le Phones and Le Pads, and was conceived as an abstract environment inspired by vintage video games (eg., PacMan and Super Mario Brothers).
Art direction included curating, concept and editing of the catalogue as well as the media kit.
promoted by :: Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission
main organizer :: BIDC (Beijing Industrial Design Centre)
supported by :: Beijing International Design Week & Lenovo
co-organizer :: Rizzoli Beijing (RCS Media Group)
art direction :: BAO Atelier
April 12 – 17, 2011
Salone Internazionale del Mobile – Milan Design Week
Pasticceria (Via Tortona 28) | Milano, IT
Presented in CDM 2011 the exhibition takes the two international Chinese metropolises as backdrop for an imaginific journey through the quixotic and the ordinary, depicting imaginaries supplementary to those that widely circulated via the spectacles of the 2008 Olympics or the 2010 Expo. "WòYóu 卧游" is an expression that came to popular use in the end of the 19th century when a culture of new images, goods and attitudes entered Chinese cities therefore designing new meanings for urban realities. It refers literally to the habit of reading while reclined on a sofa or a bed [wò 卧], indulging into a private moment of creative leisure.
While the word 游 yóu translates generally as 'traveling'— it is also often associated to the act of 'playing'— it figuratively recalls the act of 'travelling with your mind', daydreaming of new worlds and adventures, and finds its origin in the ancient arts of traditional painters and literati, their extraordinary capacity to evoke distant geographies as popularized by the rich genres of travel literature throughout the centuries.
Acute observers and insiders alike, the 10 designers presented in the exhibition all live and work in China sharing the spirit of mercurial travellers – archeologists, spelunkers, innovative makers they traffic between past and present, their visual repositories and aesthetic languages to translate them into objects and forms inspired by a contemporary spirit of exuberant nomadism, where geographical and cultural confines blur and intersect.
The exhibition is articulated through a modular system of customized hexagonal units called The Beehive ©, at the same time archival and display structure. This lightweight sculptural body creates an abstract landscape through which 10 stories, like 10 chapters in an open-ended book, unfold in a series of individual stage-sets where products and projects covering a diversified range of design practices (from furniture to fashion) are accompanied by documentation in the form of sketches, texts, photos or videos providing an in-depth vision of the design process and context of work.
participating designers :: Monica BERTINI, Jovana BOGDANOVIC (INNOVO Design), INSTANT HUTONG (Marcella CAMPA & Stefano AVESANI), LI Naihan (NAIHANLI&CO), LI Yongling, LIU Feng (FUN Living), WOLFS & JUNG (Emmanuel WOLFS & Boyoung JUNG), WANG Hao, XIAO Tianyu, Danful YANG (XYZ Design), ZHANG Da
promoted by :: Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission
main organizer :: BIDC (Beijing Industrial Design Centre)
supported by:: Beijing Intl' Design Week, Lenovo
co-organizer :: Rizzoli Beijing (RCS Media Group)
Museum on Paper: Xijing Letters
March 2011 issue of Art & Investment Magazine (CN)
The Chinese contemporary art magazine Art & Investment hosts a special curatorial project dubbed "Museum on Paper" which, published 6 times per year, features an 18 pages, custom designed insert dedicated to the work of one artist or specific project.
Xijing Letters is an exploration of Xijing world by means of 27 keywords selected by the artists as related to their unique collaborative practice. Each of the keyword is illustrated by visual or written inserts as excerpted by videos, interviews, curatorial texts and the artists' own drawings. The irregular size of the pages exposes the different background colors used for each of the keywords.
The idea came from research on an hypothetical book structure (Xijing Zaji: Miscellaneous Records of the Western Capital) conceived to resemble the anthological character of traditional historiographical literature: generally complied at different moments in dynastic times in the form of collected works. Inclusive of eminent biographies, geographical records and factual accounts, literary and artistic genres, myths and folklore) this type of encyclopedic formats are known to be of extravagant nature and of relative scientific value. Organized in alphabetical order and structured along a selection of key-words and epistemological categories embedded in the work of the collective, the book would aim at contaminating discourse and critique with its deviant humor and disarming digressions.
November 11, 2010 – January 24, 2011
Platform China Contemporary Art Institute | Beijing, CN
curator :: Beatrice LEANZA
And what would art have to do with this? What would it give to be seen? Cause to be seen? Let us see? Let us cause to be seen? Or let itself be shown?
Jacques DERRIDA, The Truth in Painting
The Third Party is an exhibition conceived to unfold in three consecutive sessions in Platform China project space. Each approximately lasting twenty days, the three moments of this show are devised to disclose their conceptual and thematic associations as in a chain‐reaction, where the individual frameworks are determined by the critical inputs presented within a preceding one. The Third Party explores the shaping relationships between narrative and aesthetic objects to foreground an inquiry in the realm of the 'ordinary' specific to the Chinese context. It does so by mobilizing overarching frames of reference and critique currently at play, be those aesthetic or historical, through three analytical environments tackling respectively issues of self-historicization, witnessing/archiving and collaboration. The progressive movement of the show somehow attends to the patterns of identification inherent in the day‐to‐day business of learning and communicating of and through our bodies, spaces, feelings as we build an understanding of reality and ultimately our position within it. The Third Party therefore concerns itself with matters of mapping, the tracing of patterns of both presence and absence and the ideological constitution of subjects.
The Third Party was chosen as "Best of 2011″ in ArtForum, December 2011.
ACT 1. How to Be Alone (or Nowhere else am I safe from the question: why here?) | November 11 – 30, 2010
ACT 2. The Stranger | December 9 – 27, 2010
ACT 3. The Third Party – A Group Celebration! | January 7 – 24, 2011
September 10-13, 2010
Shanghai Rockbund Museum | Shanghai, CN
The exhibition was originally presented within the framework of China Design Market 2010 jointly organized by Rizzoli Beijing and BIDC (Beijing Industrial Design Centre) as an official event of Milano Salone Internazionale del Mobile (Milan Design Week). It introduced for the first time on an international stage the work of a young generation of 30 Chinese independent designers, artists and studios. (see SUPERnatural! Salone Internazionale del Mobile Milano)
On the occasion of the 3rd anniversary of Rizzoli Beijing, SUPERnatural! will be featured anew as part of the celebration event hosted in the stunning architectural framework of Shanghai's Rockbund Museum. With the aim of recreating a connection to their original context of provenience, the exhibition transforms one of the rooms in Rockbund's YWCA Building into a compact museum of domestic urban scenarios. Showcased in three life-sized dioramas, these symbolic remakes juxtapose selected pieces by 13 artists and designers into a wondrous stage-set of private interiors onto a unique backdrop illustrated by artist CHEN Shaoxiong. By gazing through these windows visitors are taken into a filmic detour into the personal life and visual histories behind the designers to discover the minutiae of everyday worlds in continuous change, while accompanied by a customized selection of vintage tunes and ambient sounds assembled by Leo de B. & Thomas S. A sonic voyage through different decades, the compilation blends Chinese pop songs from 1930s and 1980s, with original western tunes ranging from vintage movie soundtracks to avant-garde pieces of yesterday and today.
The selected pieces include furniture, lights and products by Danful YANG, 多相工作室 DUOXIANG Studio, 姜晶 JIANG Jing, 李永玲 LI Yongling, NAIHANLI & CO, 林菁 LIN Jing, LING & COMMA, OHO-OHO, 湃设计 PEP Design, 萨日娜 SARINA, 石川设计 TOM SHI Design, 肖天宇 XIAO Tianyu and a special series of costumes by young fashion designer 张丹丹 ZHANG Dandan
April 14 – 19, 2010
Salone Internazionale del Mobile – Milan Design Week
Design Library | Milano, IT
China Design Market (CDM) has been born out of the collaborative efforts of Rizzoli Beijing/Abitare China magazine and BIDC (Beijing Industrial Design Center), with the support of the Lenovo Group. It was launched in 2008 as a cooperative platform for the promotion and enhancement of strategic synergies between the international design world and China. CDM 2010 included three main projects, including an exhibition, a special project realized in collaboration with Alessi (curated by Gary CHAN) and a showcase of the homegrown Chinese Red Star Award dedicated to industrial design.
Art direction included curating and coordination of all projects, concept & editing of the catalogue and media kit.
main organizers :: Rizzoli Beijing (RCS Media Group), BIDC (Beijing Industrial Design Centre)
in collaboration with :: Lenovo & Alessi
art direction :: BAO Atelier
April 14 – 19, 2010
Salone Internazionale del Mobile – Milan Design Week | project of CDM 2010
Design Library | Milano, IT
Introduced within the framework of CDM 2010, the exhibition is conceived as a wondrous journey into contemporary object-scapes through the creative processes of a young generation of 30 Chinese independent designers, artists and studios as a way to explore both formally and conceptually the micro-fields of everyday life. This curatorial approach wishes to expose the multiple outreaches of design processes and research into a variety of crossdisciplinary practices and how these speak of a perception of the world and contemporary life, stretched into a continuous experimentation with its visual and material currency. The works and projects featured in the exhibition – ranging from products, furniture and lights to clothing, publication/illustration, sound and art objects, intend to inform of the shaping relationships between visual strategies in art, architecture and design and their implication with material processes of production that take the realm of the 'ordinary' as an ideal environment to continuously reinvent the cultural outfit of personal history into a process of performative innovation. The show highlights how these selected creative practices engage forms via strategies of subtle sabotage, appropriation, assemblage, where found shapes, materials and objects of everyday use are remoulded into a geography of whimsical ambiguity and disarming über-reality.
A selected series of books, artists' catalogues and independent publications by Chinese graphic designers and studios are included as part of the exhibition.
featuring :: ACF, BANMOO, CENG Hong, CHEN Ke, Design MVW, DUAN Jianyu, DUOXIANG Studio, HC28, HOMESHOP, JIANG Jin, SHAN Lin by LEE Yao Studio, Naihan LI & CO, LIANG Yuanwei, LI Yonglin, LING & COMMA, MADE-IN / LEAP, MEWE Design, MORE LESS, OHO-OHO, PAPER WORKS by Jethro CHAN, PEP Art + Design, RAINBOW, Tom SHI Design, SUBjam, WANG Bin, WANG Yifan, XIAOmage + CHENGzi, XIE Dong, XYZ Design, YAANG by WANG Yang, YANG Jun, ZHANG Dandan, ZHENG Guogu, ZIZAOSHE by SONG Tao
main organizers :: Rizzoli Beijing (RCS Media Group), BIDC (Beijing Industrial Design Centre)
in collaboration with :: Lenovo & Alessi
art direction :: BAO Atelier
Screening program and public presentation
November 13, 2009
Salon of MoCAb – Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade
in collaboration :: Jelena VESIC
November 18, 2009
Galeria Nova | Zagreb, CR
support :: WHW Collective
artists :: CHEN Xiaoyun (1971, lives and works in Hangzhou), GAO Shiqiang (1971, lives and works in Hangzhou), LU Chunsheng (1968, Shanghai), QIU Anxiong (1972, Sichuan province; lives and works in Shanghai), SHI Qing (1969, Inner Mongolia; lives and works in Beijing), SUN Xun (1980, Fuxin; lives and works in Beijing), ZHANG Ding (1980, Gansu; lives and works in Shanghai)
Much of the literature compiled around the popularity of Chinese contemporary art is generally concerned with its commitment to an aesthetic modernization process that satisfies international exhibitions' agenda by translating the social and economic implications of an increasingly globalized country into the critical achievements sustained by its creative miracle. While such form of discourse is motivated by transformative notions of urban growth, social development, economic differentiation, and is largely interpreted via a secular portraiture of changing credos and mentalities, not much of it seems to engage with the less manifest phenomena informing the shifting nature of private and public spatiality as culturally and subjectively constructed processes.
In recasting attention to the processes of spatial voyage and memory formation through the filmic experiments of these artists – be those documentary evidence, fictive journey or personal diary — subtle commentaries of self-disclosure reappear into a totally new feature of change which no longer inhabits the vestiges of the past – its symbols, iconographies and idols, but sits on the ruins of the present by eliciting mental, psychological and spatial associations of contemporary 'inner landscapes' . By articulating intimate writings into the architectural peripatetics of moving pictures, these artists' works make use of an elliptic emphasis on subjectivity, mnemonics and imaging, so that the viewing product comes into being as a space of collective recollection where social fundaments and behavioural schema are readjusted into the artists' contemplation of interpersonal dependencies and historical loci.
Public Viewings thus represents an attempt to elucidate theoretically and aesthetically on the changing psyche and processes of identity formation in contemporary China through their aesthetic re-enactment in cinematic space. In the wake of critical historical changes defined by forms of transcultural regionalism and denationalization in place in the Asian continent, a dive into the representational apparatus of the Self in the reality of globalizing China is a necessary exercise for anyone interested in venturing inside a yet un-coded domain of public culture where networked societies and a-political subjectivities are shaping new sociological mainstays.
November 4 – December 8, 2009
Museo della Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci | Milano, IT
artists :: AHN Doojin, Ahn Kanghyun, AN Jungju, BAE Young Whan, BIRDHEAD (SONG Tao & JI Weiyu), GAO Shiqiang, HASHIMOTO Satoshi, Elaine W. HO for HOMESHOP, JUNG Yeondoo, Kim GISOO , KIM Sangdon, LEE Wooyeon, LI Naihan, Liang Shuo, MATSUBARA Megumi, MIN Ji Ae, NI Haifeng/Arrow Factory, NIWA Yotaro, QIU Xiaofei, Siren EUN Young Jung, TANAKA Koki, MICHIKAZU Matsune/The SHOP, XIJING MEN (GIM Hongsok, CHEN Shaoxiong & OZAWA Tsuyoshi), YAN Jun, YANG Jun, KIMURA Yuki, KIMURA Taiyo.
Presented for the first time in Milan, the exhibition features the works of 27 artists from China, Japan and South Korea. The project sets forth an investigation of multidisciplinary artistic practices which implicate new formal and conceptual relationships with the space of the contemporary and the habitat of the everyday, by introducing a heterogeneous group of artists, art collectives and independently-run art spaces with backgrounds in art, design, sound and architecture.
The projects included in this exhibition manifest an intrinsic connection with the spatial and social conventions of their original contexts, and intend to provide an understanding of the way younger generations are formulating new ways to deal with the space of art and social action by assuming a position of open, dynamic marginality. The tentative, incomplete quality of these, for the large part, installation-based works (featuring photography, video, drawing, architectural interventions, publications, performances, sculpture) comes into being as a product of intimate negotiation and continuous readjustment with the immediate environment and its social implications by forging aesthetic assemblages that subtend re-invented symbolisms and meanings for the contemporary.
The aesthetic order framed within this exhibition inhabits the episodic nature of reality by reconnecting to its fragmented, scattered, precarious objects via subtle strategies of self-design, where fragile materials of everyday use and familiar forms are reassembled into new spatial relationships.
The abandoned, discarded and cheap materials which are often employed in these works are recollected and brought into new relations of force, so to expand the field of vision beyond their contingent materiality. In this sense the relationship kindled between the viewer and the work is ever reformulated onto an ambiguous, non-deterministic territory, where consciousness and recognition are negated a manifest environment and rather accommodated in an unstable, non-representational space enforced by a rhetoric of the unexpressed.
The show included opening performances and new site specific installations by five artists.
promoted by :: Regione Lombardia
with the support of :: BMP Sas (Milano), The Nomura Cultural Foundation (Tokyo), Unione del Commercio, del Turismo, dei Servizi e delle Professioni della Provincia di Milano.
technical Sponsor :: Hantarex, Electronic Systems, Milano
supported by :: Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in Milano, The General Consulate of Japan in Milano, The General Consulate of the Republic of Korea
Emporium was selected for best exhibition design in ADI – Design Index 2010 as finalist for the Compasso D'Oro Award.
September 8 – October 20, 2009
140 sqm Gallery | Shanghai, CN
…all about a kind of door. To envision us approaching and pounding on this door, increasingly hard, pounding and pounding, not just wanting admission but needing it; we don't know what it is but we can feel it, this total desperation to enter, pounding and ramming and kicking. That, finally, the door opens, and it opens outward — we've been inside what we wanted all along. Das ist komisch.
David Foster Wallace
The Shape of Things to Come is an experimental project bringing together four artists and one curator to test the ground of contemporary art in a time 'other than' the present. Conceived in reminiscence of a Wunderkammer, or Cabinet of Curiosity, the exhibition engages the task of exposing the status of artistic objects to scientific self-inspection. It does so by stretching the visual narratives and spatial extents of the creative process past its extinction, into the realm of a possible future. As the Cabinet contained an object-ified reservoir of history, this project deliberately captures itself and the works toward a latent new aesthetic order. Written in 1933 at the peak of the Great Depression, the novel by H.G. WELLS from which this exhibition takes its name provides an account of world history up to 2105; in a disastrous unraveling of ominous predictions towards global collapse, Well's imagination purges the traces of the present with no regret for its oblivious passing away. What then, if we were able to test-drive the deflagration of our aesthetic universe? Manufactured in the conceptual size of a table-game, what parcels of history, relics of the contemporary, would be left as a visual repository of our present times, and in what new semiotic order would they re-awaken so that by way of an exhilarating expansion, stretched between experience and premonition, they'd frame the possibility of a hopeful artistic prophecy beyond its predictable end. Such is seemingly the quest of the current age. How to jump start history? Can we avoid a critical conflation of artistic paradigms, that is, a totalizing erasure of things past, their identity and difference, and still break through a concrete future? The project's participants use the site and economics of the exhibition to play out such a fantastic threat. Site-specifically devised for the 140sqm Gallery, the show presents a series of interlocking installations and textual interventions where boundaries continue to be tested and stripped down.
September 2008
Borderline Moving Images – Shanghai edition (unrealized project)
Special Edition within the framework of INTRUDE – Art & Life (Zendai Museum)
Shanghai & Beijing, CN
Borderline-Shanghai will be featured under the subjective spell of an anonymous yet controversial singularity: figure of dismay and contingency, timing itself between estrangement and familiarity, between the soliloquy and the public arringa, it survives complacently in the anti-systemic organism of the network, swerving from unexpected change, to shock and displacement, the Opportunist is an emotional personality that runs the flexible tides of communal life in the global spectacle of the post-fordist multitude. By appropriating this contentious tonality of contemporary life (an attributive image framed by philosopher Paolo VIRNO within the labor regime of new capitalism) and its transnational modalities of unmediated performance, Borderline orchestrates while investigating the topography of loosened hierarchies and modes of subjectivation, to interrogate the diffused reengagement of art in sociopolitical concerns against the locality of present Shanghai.
In the one dimensional time of the Opportunist work and leisure have no longer fixed separation, sociality has become a cognitive and behavioral technicality, information a form of art. Regardless of where and when you are, discarding the notion of mediation as a programmatic agenda for collective thinking, the Opportunist gathers the anomalies of disinformation, indifference and delusion to forge instead hospitality, awareness and solidarity. While believing in the power of self-expression, the Opportunist challenges its contemporary understanding as a form of strategic survival within the governance of the artistic spectacle and its power structures. By entering what Gerald RAUNIG has defined the "paradox of creativity as self-government", this free-flow of subjective views will be drawn together in an ephemeral structure of open-signification to produce a collective engagement for thoughts and optimism. Sensitive to the fluid nature of the city, Borderline will intrude the specificity of its fast paced life by deploying art in a full-time assault into a continuous 100 hours programation among critique, provocation, poetry and entertainment.
The Opportunist is designed as an information network revolving around a broadcasting unit, it is an experiential tool for motivating an alternative experience of space by way of time. With a total of 100 hours of programmation (ie., 4 days + 4 hours) The Opportunist will take up different forms of public interventions in both physical sites, "on air" sessions and the web.
December 2007
A project for the Second Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism
Shenzhen, CN
artists // 宋琨 SONG Kun (artist; Beijing, CN), 洪启乐 HONG Qile (sound artist/musician; Hangzhou, CN), Can ALTAY & Asli KALINOGLU (architect & artist; Ankara, TR), Patrick TUTTOFUOCO (artist; Milano, IT), PROGRAM initiative for art + architecture/Carson CHAN & Fotini LAZARIDOU-HATZIGOGA (architecture & design; Berlin, DE)
DeadEnd is predicated on the disconcerting experience of urban destinations as increasingly orchestrated spectacles, dissimulating participation, observation and accumulation in "pictorialized time/space" resorts (M. Christine BOYER). This form of programmed anticipation, widely deployed in strategies of city marketing, tourism enterprise and cultural entertainment, is one that appropriates the concept of termination not as an end in space but an end in experience, which disposes of the cultural mediation of difference by severing the city from its possible (multiple) reconstructions. Five new works have been commissioned by BAO Atelier as tour guides/mental scapes for pedicab journeys from the main Biennale venue into greater Shenzhen. Under the urgency of a city of expiration, each work and its concordant route is assigned one of five pedicabs to be stationed at the exit of the primary exhibition hall of the biennial at the DeadEnd station.
November 2006
Dashanzi Art District | Nike Energy Space
January – October 2007
Nike & Beijing 08 Olympics | Golden Team
January – October 2007
Nike & Beijing '08 Olympics | Golden Team Manga Series
June 23 – July 1, 2007
various locations | Beijing, CN
An experimental urban platform unfolding over the course of nine days, it takes as its area of investigation the interconnection between visual production and contemporary urban culture with a focus on video art and its multidisciplinary accounts. Conceived as a continuous narrative, the event moved every day into a new location within different areas of Beijing city, networked through public and private institutions, commercial and educational spaces including universities, galleries and art venues.
It featured an international program of both exhibitions and public programs such as talks, workshops, screenings, and live performances bridging perspectives from installation, short film, documentary, animation, performance and music, sound art, architecture and design.
Borderline's structure included three overarching sections: 2 thematic exhibitions, 6 days of Mobile Lab and night events. Full content on all events can be viewed at www.borderlinefestival.org.
June 2007
Soho Shangdu Underground Parking Lot | Opening exhibition of Borderline Moving Images 2007
Beijing, CN
participating artists :: Fikret ATAY, Johanna BILLING, Candice BREITZ, Mircea CANTOR, Calin DAN, Claire FONTAINE, GAO Shiqiang (高世强), Clarisse HAHN, Teresa HUBBARD & Alexander BIRCHLER, Jesper JUST, Mathieu LAURETTE, Melik OHANIAN, OU Ning & CAO Fei (欧宁 & 曹斐), SHI Qing (石青), Ulla Von BRANDEMBURG, WU Wenguang (吴文光), ZHANG Peili (张培力).
A constructed story-telling portrayed by the experiments of 17 international artists, Seduction is a theory-fiction inspired by the homonymous book by French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, featuring diverse video installations, including documentary, experimental video, and footage appropriated from personal and public archival material, CCTVs, mass media, pop culture video-clips, cinema repertory, etc.
"On the backdrop of modernization and the inspirational economic leverage incited by the countdown to the Olympics, the changing relationship between politics and culture articulates within a process of experimentation which interrogates locality and its historicity against, on a side, the products of global consumerist culture, and on the other, the convergence of new models of spatial thinking and occupation, popular culture, social 'neo-neo-tribalism', corporate branding, viral marketing and hybrid libidinal economies. The perpetual nature of this predominantly visual production giving rise to new urban imaginaries speaks to the paradigmatic quality of fluid social networks, where communication is situational, metaphorically consumed in the digital time of internet and experienced in the superficial flux of moving images. Indeed the synthesis of global connectivity is not only challenging our sense of space, but also that of human presence within; while displacing the time of history in a one-dimensional media flow, it furthers brings into questions that of its immanent possibilities and "invisible" modes of existence. It is thus in the spatial convergence of our mental vocabulary/memory, one of compound narrativity and filmic character, and the digital tempo of contemporary hyper-production that opens up the measure for art to forge critical distance and innovative models of counter-representation."
June 2006
part of Borderline – Moving Images Festival 2006
Platform China Contemporary Art Institute | Beijing, CN
The three parts of the show are each occupying a different area of Platform China's space, each of which presenting international video artists working with different video-based formats. The works ranged in single and multiple channeled videos, documentary and research projects as well as animation: NOMANSLAND / ANYMANSLAND / STRAITS.
22 January – 26 March 2006
BTAP – Beijing Tokyo Art Projects | 798 District, Beijing
This immersive installation chooses the billiard table as a metaphorical space, a mystical 'immobile machine' where the object is place and abode of time, a platform of translated perception and process of identification, around which Andrea GOTTI orchestrates an unpredictable theatre of objet trouvé (electric transformers, cables, industrial waste, etc). Time and place are called into a game where they can reconfigure mutual positioning into hybrid chrono-topological formulas, and where arcane mysticisms are revealed through the sound architecture by FM3.
Object Cast was part of the programme for the Italian Cultural Year in China – 2006.


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Molecular Mechanism of Mule in DNA Damage Response and Tumorigenesis
Principal Investigator: Qing Zhong
Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA
Abstract: Cancer remains a major killer that impacts a large number of new patients every year. One leading reason for cancer is an inappropriate response to DNA damage. Upon DNA damage, the cell will initiate apoptosis through the mitochondria apparatus when DNA damage is beyond repair. Once this cell death pathway is triggered, cytotoxic factors are released from mitochondria to activate caspases that induce apoptosis. An impaired apoptotic potential of damaged cells leads to continued cell division without restriction that frequently develops into cancer. Indeed, mis-regulation of apoptosis is associated with many cancers. Understanding the molecular mechanisms that regulate DNA damage signals and how they are transmitted to mitochondria to initiate apoptosis is therefore important for cancer research. Biochemical approaches are utilized to reconstitute DNA damage-induced apoptosis. Degradation of Mcl-1, a key anti-death protein, is required to trigger cytochrome c release from mitochondria upon DNA damage. Mcl-1 is degraded through the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway. In the ubiquitin-proteasome system, the ubiquitin ligases determine the specificity and timing of substrates destruction. A biochemical assay was established to search for such enzyme from human cell extracts, and a novel ubiquitin ligase Mule (Mcl-1 ubiquitin ligase e3) was cloned. Mule promotes ubiquitin modification of Mcl-1 through direct interaction through a BH3 domain, and Mule is indispensable for Mcl-1 mediated apoptotic pathway. Besides Mcl-1, Mule also ubiquitinates other substrates including p53 thus adding another intriguing link to the apoptosis pathway. In this proposal, the mechanism by which Mule activation and the differential regulation of Mule target different substrates in response to DNA damage signals will be investigated. The biological function of Mule in DNA damage response will be studied in Aim 1. Our newly generated Mule knockout mouse embryonic fibroblast cells will be utilized to study the function of Mule in DNA damage induced apoptosis and cell cycle checkpoints. We will also investigate the structure and function relationship of Mule, especially the requirement of the ubiquitin ligase activity of Mule for its function in DNA damage response in this aim. We will characterize the ubiquitination and degradation of Mcl-1 and p53 by Mule in Aim 2. Ubiquitin chain formation, E3 activity (Mule versus Mdm2), the contribution of Mcl-1 and p53 in Mule-dependent DNA damage response, and regulatory mechanisms of Mcl-1 and p53 ubiquitination will be investigated in this aim. In Aim 3, we will further characterize the interaction of Mule with its substrates;especially map the binding site of p53 to Mule. We will study how the interaction between Mule and substrates are regulated by DNA damage. More importantly, we will search for novel protein factors modulating Mule activity through tandem affinity purification. In Aim 4, we will put more focus on post- translation modification of Mule, especially phosphorylation of Mule in DNA damage response and discuss potential mechanisms involved in it. These experiments should reveal novel mechanisms mediating DNA damage signals and how they are transduced through Mule, thereby providing fundamental insights into regulatory networks controlling apoptosis and DNA damage response. A mechanistic understanding of this pathway will help us decipher how apoptosis is deregulated in cancer and potentially identify new targets for therapeutic intervention. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Misregulation of apoptosis is considered to be one of the major mechanisms for tumorigenesis, especially upon exposure to exogenous DNA damaging agents and during normal physiological processes. This proposal will disclose a novel mechanism mediating DNA damage signals, thereby providing fundamental insights into regulatory networks controlling apoptosis. A mechanistic understanding of this pathway will help us decipher how apoptosis is deregulated in cancer and potentially identify new targets for therapeutic intervention.
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The Treaty is the replacement for a rejected EU constitution and it amends the other treaties on which the EU is founded. Its governmental changes, such as the creation of an EU Council presidency and a foreign minister role for the EU Commission, have proved controversial. But one EU law specialist has said that the changes could affect other areas crucial to business.
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Iowa and Ohio State fans. Get ready for battle.
The Big Ten quarterback race is going to be pretty tight this year with Wisconsin, Iowa, and Ohio State all having returning quarterbacks with large success and high expectations.
How successful, you ask? To the tune of 46-11 as starters. That is an incredible .807 win percentage. Yeah.
So, with that said, time for debate. Tolzien is the least experienced out of the 3 quarterbacks, and although he could (win in a fight against Pryor) end up being one of the best, if not the best, quarterbacks in the league, he had the lowest win percentage so he doesn't deserve to be in this post.*
In this article, mainly about Stanzi (sorry OSU fans), interviewed some players on some highly talented defenses around the league (Indiana and Illinois, of course). The players both indicated they were scared shitless against both quarterbacks. Stanzi can put the pass anywhere, and Pryor can run all over the field. Two completely different quarterbacks, two completely different arguments.
Now my question is this: Will Stanzi be closer to looking like Tom Brady than Pryor will be looking like Michael Vick (or for those of you who don't get analogies, who will be the better quarterback by the end of the year)?
*actually, he just wasn't in the above article, so I made up an excuse.


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PHOTO CALL: Maura Tierney in God of Carnage at Dublin's Gate Theatre
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Former "ER" star Maura Tierney stars in a new staging of Yasmina Reza's award-winning God of Carnage at the Gate Theate in Dublin, Ireland.
Directed by Alan Stanford, Tierney is joined by Owen Roe, Donna Dent and Ardal O'Hanlon.
The Gate bills the play this way: "Two sets of parents meet to resolve a conflict between their two children. What is supposed to be a civilized meeting turns into a barrage of name calling, tantrums and tears. In this hysterical comedy when the gloves come off, dirty laundry is aired and the grownups find themselves in their own playground."
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Race, sex, booze and scandal all come crashing together in Oren Moverman's "Rampart," a scalding slow burn portrait of an LAPD cop circling the drain of his professional career and personal relationships, and embodied by Woody Harrelson, its one of the strongest performances of the year.
If you haven't been hearing much about "Rampart," better start paying attention because a very strong push is happening -- and rightfully so -- for Oren Moverman's film that presents '90s Los Angeles as a sun-choked place where morals can't find any shade. Harrelson plays a cop with the interesting nickname of "Date Rape" Dave, whose sideways approach to law and order soon finds him in a tailspin. It's a pretty electrically charged character piece, so don't let this trailer fool you into thinking it's some kind of rock 'n roll, "Training Day"-esque baddie cop movie. It's a lot more nuanced (and rewarding) than that. A pretty great cast surrounds Harrelson in this including Sigourney Weaver, Anne Heche, Ice Cube, Cynthia Nixon, Ben Foster and in a small role, Steve Buscemi.
"Rampart" will have a one week Oscar qualifying run starting on November 23rd, before going in to wide release on January 27th. Be sure to check it out. Trailer below. [Apple]
Carson Wells | November 20, 2011 10:55 PM
The best looking trailer I've seen in a long time.
Mike | November 19, 2011 1:21 AM
Yeah, I also had no idea Ned Beatty was in this, that's awesome. I also didn't realize the release this week is just a one week LA qualifying run, then we have to wait another 2 months? Lame, been waiting since The Messenger to see Moverman's followup.
Ken | November 18, 2011 8:12 PM
You forgot to mention the great Ned Beatty is in this movie. I had no idea. That's awesome.
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How a Pontypridd pub became the Groggs workshop
John Hughes began to put his ceramics skills to use in the mid-Sixties, with a garden shed doubling as a workshop.
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