War Horse

Making of War Horse.

War Horse puppetry rehearsals.

Cause and Effect, Human Required

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Vrindavan, India, Anne Percoco

Marlaine Verhelst

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Andrew Fishman, Artist

"Turning the crank on the side releases one penny every 4.97 seconds, for a total of $7.25 per hour. This corresponds to minimum wage for a person in New York.

This piece is brilliant on multiple levels, particularly as social commentary.  Without a doubt, most people who started operating the machine for fun would quickly grow disheartened and stop when realizing just how little they’re earning by turning this mindless crank. A person would then conceivably realize that this is what nearly two million people in the United States do every day…at much harder jobs than turning a crank. This turns the piece into a simple, yet effective argument for raising the minimum wage.

- See more at: http://disinfo.com/2012/12/the-mininum-wage-machine/#sthash.0JM2WdG0.dpuf"

Source link here.

Zoetrope

Rebecca Horn, b. 1944, Germany

Anish, Kapoor, Artist

Entitled Sky Mirror, this stunning sculpture is situated outside the theatre, providing the centrepiece for the re-development of the forecourt area. In 1995 Nottingham Playhouse initiated an artistic and architectural collaboration which has culminated with the installation of Sky Mirror. This is a unique development in England, with a major public art commission for a leading international artist by a leading English theatre.
Sky Mirror has created a new external environment to the Playhouse and will co-exist with the work that takes place within the theatre, each with their own identity but all part of the creative experience that Nottingham Playhouse delivers.  source link here.

Attila Csorgo, Artist

Untitled, 2000
1 tetrahedron + 1 cube + octohedron = 1 dodecahedron
Sitting on a table, a tetrahedron, a cube and an octahedron, all made of sticks attached to strings. At the push of a button pulleys, weights and counterweights are seen pulling the strings. The geometric figures begin to come apart, reform as a dodecahedron and eventually revert to their original state.
All is not as it would seem. Two glasses appear to contain slanting water. Two screws rotate to form the image of a glass. Two perforated discs rotate to create a triangle or circle.
A camera rotates simultaneously on two axes to create a seamless, hemispherical photograph of everything we can see around and above us. -source link here.

Balint Bolygo, Artist

"Trace is a sculptural device that alludes to scientific discoveries and pseudoscientific concepts such as phrenology, physiognomy, and craniometry. A revolving plaster cast of the artist's head is slowly deconstructed into a mathematical diagram that changes as time passes. The peculiarities of the human face that as humans, we attach so much importance to, is dematerialised into a changing drawing that embodies the differential undulations of the human anatomy. Trace questions our notion of self and how through technology we have found different visual representations for the individual. DNA profiling, retina scans and the fingerprint are all things that are conjured up by the meticulous mechanical process of the work. The topographical images are turned into a new form of three-dimensional representation that draws our attention to the space within." - source is artist's website.  Link here to see more work.

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John Baldessari, Artist

For Still life: Choosing and Arranging, the participant is presented with two empty shelves on the computer screen. On the lower shelf, one sees a stream of various objects. Any of these objects can be selected from the flow and moved to the upper shelf. The chosen objects can then be arranged into a still-life that satisfies the participant. Over the next couple months, the work will evolve, with frequent image additions to the lower shelf. -source is moca-la.org

Link here to read and learn more.