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Yannis Angelopoulos
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Yannis Angelopoulos has been following the electronic music scene since mid 90′s and has been producing electronic music since 2000. After being “forced” to study Marketing, he began a short career in some P.R. and Marketing agencies in Athens. Therefore, the time and energy for music was diminished and he decided to move to Berlin in Spring 2009 to find peace of mind. He became a member of Mind the Box cultural organization and worked on the ArtyFun Sessions concept, organizing events in Berlin with artists from around the globe.
He is currently working on a number of tracks under the Ayln alias, trying to blur the lines between techno and breaks, whilst remaining true to the psychedelic heritage. He has a home studio in his apartment in Berlin-Neukoelln.
Bittertang
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Bittertang is a small design farm run by Antonio Torres and Michael Loverich who strive to bring happiness and pleasure into the built world by referencing the pleasurable world which surrounds us.
Our work explores multiple themes including pleasure, frothiness, biological matter, animal posturing, babies, sculpture, and coloration all unified through a revitalization of bel composto.
Our explorations are based in digital and visceral matter with output transitioning between scales and localities leaving our traces of frothy matter in various disciplines. Although trained as architects our prolific interests and methodology associates us closely to the organization of a farm. Bittertang material is bred, coaxed, and grown to yield tasty morsels, beautiful new exotic beasts, and fertilizer for future growth. Digging deep into the fertile detritus left by thousands of years of human history our goal is to add thick, rich fodder to contemporary material culture.
TJ Hospodar
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My primary passions are photography and performance, although initial studies of mathematics routed me through employment centering on data analysis. Now, I shift my focus away from revenues and headcounts and instead towards visual compositions and finally to cultural behavior, particularly the norms found within gift economies.
Hospitality and tourist-versus-neighbor relations are interests of mine that inform my research, while meal sharing and theatricality pervade my artwork. I am compelled by modes of participation and invest in work that is activated by the viewer, whether it incorporates correspondence, audience contribution, and/or community-based collaboration.
I enjoy collaborating with other artists and have developed a series of situations with the artist 0H10M1KE called “Dinner Theatre.” Episodes, of such, have explored the presentation of work in settings as varied as private residences, automobiles, corporate boardrooms, art galleries and public space.
Other recent collaborations include the founding of Boardroom Bed & Breakfast, with Chloë Bass, which offers a home away from office in tandem with the structure and rigor of the workplace. Born in Ohio, residing in New York, I can currently be found operating my car service, often free, here in the USA.
Tina Schott
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Tina Schott’s works show fragmentary archives of motley lost-and-founds and the invented. Seasoned with humorous undertones, they balance be- tween beautiful fiction and tragic atrocity. Effortlessly absurd constellations pop up and form their own narrative structures, through appropriation, reclassification and reinterpretation. Her works fascinate by reactivating passive histories, combining them lovingly or destroying them cheerfully, all the while answering situations with questions, humor and spielerei. Many of her works are based on collages and drawings and find their way into videos, flyers, performances and installations.
Between 2002 and 2007, Tina Schott ran “Roxi” in cooperation with Tina Kohlmann, a former public toilet in Offenbach that they transformed into a mix of club, concert venue, exhibition space and art school hangout. In 2006, the double LP Roxi Music was published as a catalog. Out of the collaboration and the experiences in the club grew a common interest in the ephemeral, and the many attempts to capture fleeting special moments like that. In flickering room collages and pleasurably enigmatic performances, Kohlmann and Schott remind us of brief moments of strange beauty, of drunken ecstasy, or just simply great rapture, that way creating small explosions of the special themselves.
Tina Schott is a jury member of the Szpilman Award, an internatonal art prize that annually rewards works, which exist only for a short time. Szpilman collects and promotes ephemeral works on the Potz!Blitz! blog and curated exhibitions from Tel Aviv to Amsterdam with the same goal.
As part of the artist group Bissy Bunder, together with Kati Heck, Julia Wlodkowski, Johanna Trudzinski, Michèle Matyn and Rani Bageria,
Tina Schott does spectacular and colorful performances all over Europe, in which a partly staged, partly improvised profound as well as absurd and bizarre world is presented. In 2009, the group traveled to the US where the landscape and conditions of the West Coast served as a backdrop for their collage-like, improvised-but-narrative film “Beyonda – A Journey Into The Darkness”. In 2010, the film premiered in the Film Museum in Antwerp. As it continues to be shown in different European cities, Bissy Bunder is currently finishing the follow-up, which was filmed in an abandoned fort on the outskirts of Antwerp.
Laura Arena
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Laura Arena is curator/artist/designer living and working in Brooklyn and occasionally in other parts of the world.
Arena is a multidisciplinary artist working with photography and video and just recently large installation and sculpture.
Arena has participated in exhibitions and events in the US, Europe and the Middle East. She was awarded artist residencies in Iceland and Palestine in 2010 and was a participant of Artist Summer Institute in 2011 on Governors Island in New York City. In 2012, she we will participate in an artist residency at The Shell in Hólmavík, Iceland.
Arena is an independent curator under the name of Lucky Gallery. Lucky Gallery works with emerging, contemporary artists curating exhibitions and events in both New York City and Berlin.
In winter 2012, Arena plans to launch The Hive, an artist-run nonprofit art organization that nurtures and promotes underrepresented and emerging artists. The Hive will provide facilities, support systems and programs to incubate contemporary new works “that must be seen” and promoted to international audiences and emerging collectors. In April 2012, The Hive will be presenting works from NYC artists in Istanbul, Turkey.
0H10M1ke
0H10M1ke wanders the streets of Brooklyn and NYC, passing out serially numbered matchbook portraits drawn on the spot in 1 minute. 10K Matchbooks is a series of 10,000 matchbook illustrations and portraits completed in New York City between 2007 and June 12, 2011. In 2007, 0H10M1ke completed The Year of 1000 Drawings. His 2008 work, 10K PPL, consists of 10,000 contour drawings of faces. In 2009, he focused on the development of 0H10M1ke LIVEDRAW, a collaboration between live bands, DJs, dancers and performers in which the artist projects his wacom tablet drawings created in realtime to the beat of the music as the visual backdrop of a live performance. 0H10M1ke performs live with his electro/funk band, Comandante Zero, in anticipation of their first album, Slouching Toward Babylon.
10K Matchbook Portraits is a mobile street art project in which strangers become subjects and turn into collectors within 1 minute of engagement. In its inception, 0H10M1ke convinced Brooklyn bodega owners to part with full boxes of blank matchbooks that he would then graffiti and return for them to be given out when customers purchased cigarettes. Portraiture naturally evolved as the focus of the project after matchbook number 5,000. Each portrait, penned on the inside of a matchbook, is serially numbered, signed and dated and given away to the subject upon completion. This project culminated with matchbook number 10,000 on June 12, 2011 on Governor’s Island in New York City at The FIGMENT Art Festival.
Stephanie Homa
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Stephanie Homa works within a multidisciplinary field of painting, object and drawing. Her work reflects a gloomy yet soft and fragile world where playful chaos rules over queer scenes of humans and animals surrounded by bright colored patterns, mountains, trees and party decoration.
The materials Homa uses for her works range from children’s craft kits and glitter over acrylic and spray paint to latex and crystal resin. She works on all kinds of papers as well as on canvas, board and found objects.
The playful spirit displayed in her work reflects the personal playground of a wild an sloppy mind where Homa sets the rules and generally rejects restrictions and conventions which makes her work drift between evolving and dissolving its own concept and philosophy – resulting in an ever-changing hologram of curiosity.
Homa was born in East Germany in 1981 after graduating from the khb school of art Berlin in 2008 she moved to London where she lives and works as an artist.