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Pina - Dance, Dance, Otherwise We Are Lost

Pina – Dance, Dance, Otherwise We Are Lost

PINA is a feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died in the summer of 2009.
Decadent Pigeons Take Over Barcelona

Decadent Pigeons Take Over Barcelona

We have a lot in common with pigeons, even if we are not always willing to admit it. If you think about it, we share the same streets, the same parks and the same urban landscapes, we love big city life as much as they do and we often dirty and damage our environment.
The 65th Cannes Film Festival

The 65th Cannes Film Festival

Now it’s time for Cannes, which is probably the most important film festival in the world, and this year,  from 16th to 27th May 2012, even with the crisis flying above us is coming stronger than ever.
Visual Art for the Visually Impaired by Roy Nachum

Visual Art for the Visually Impaired by Roy Nachum

One of the most popular signs in the art industry is ”DON’T TOUCH”. According to our experiences, we’ve definitely been warned and hissed at, at least once in our lifetime by a guard at an exhibition not to touch the artworks while visiting a gallery or museum.
Deconstructed Wall Art by VHILS

Deconstructed Wall Art by VHILS

Concrete, steel, brick and stone have long been the substrates that paint our architectural canvas but they have also been the substrates that allow graffiti artists to paint our surroundings.
Photoworks Beyond Reality by Schilte & Portielje

Photoworks Beyond Reality by Schilte & Portielje

Huub Schilte and Jacqueline Portielje work and live together in Rotterdam. After they met in 1975, both opted for an art study. Schilte initially became an architectural designer, Portielje graduated as a painter.
ANIMAL: The Other Side of Evolution by Ana Rajcevic

ANIMAL: The Other Side of Evolution by Ana Rajcevic

The project is grounded in a unique visual interpretation of animal anatomy, building upon existing skeleton structures to create a series of sculptural pieces that appear as natural properties of the human body, suggesting strength, power and sensuality.
Second Nature by Tokujin Yoshioka

Second Nature by Tokujin Yoshioka

Until now, Tokujin Yoshioka has presented a number of installations and products around the world. He have wondered at how people who have seen his works talk to him about them while seeming to superimpose these works on the natural phenomena that they themselves have experienced.
Heather Cassils: Teresias

Heather Cassils: Teresias

Heather Cassils is an artist and bodybuilder who uses her extraordinary physique to intervene in various contexts in order to interrogate systems of power and control. Her work provides an intimate and empowering image of her body that also symbolizes the broader efforts of the broader transgendered community dealing with body transformation and public presentation....
Battle For The Sun & P.S. Escaped

Battle For The Sun & P.S. Escaped

Today kontraPLAN is bringing you two videos directed by Taras Pozdnyakov who is also heading Raw Art – one of the top alternative circus company in Europe.
DISORDER by CENC

DISORDER by CENC

This artistic performance by CENC (Centre d’Expression Numérique et Corporelle) is an interplay between contemporary dance and computer-generated imagery aimed at conveying the feelings of a person through sound, dance and video.
The 3.2 Million Ink Dots Portrait

The 3.2 Million Ink Dots Portrait

The making of ”Hero”, is a drawing commemorating Miguel Endara’s father in a picture.  The drawing is composed entirely out of 3.200.000 ink dots. The time, effort, commitment to the piece shows the importance of the father in the artist’s life and the numeration of each dots shows the energy invested in the piece. By...
Seo Young Deok's Chain Sculptures

Seo Young Deok’s Chain Sculptures

The human body and its formation lie at the core of the Korean artist Seo Young Deok’s work who is preoccupied with the stories told through the human figure.
The Forgotten Circus

The Forgotten Circus

The Forgotten Circus is the pilot film for the „Forgotten Trilogy“. This film explores notions of humanity embodied through the minds eye of a dying ringmaster and his Forgotten Circus.

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