performance art
leave it to americans to make eating competitive
By lainie at 26 August, 2008, 2:07 pm
The Food Network recently announced their new series “Eat the Clock”, a reality show similar to “The Amazing Race”, where teams of contestants race from restaurant to restaurant, gathering clues and consuming meals at local LA hotspots. While the Food Network says their show doesn’t emphasize frantic face-stuffing, like Spike TV and ESPN’s competitive eating [...]
the new wheel
By lainie at 17 June, 2008, 6:01 pm
More than 5,000 years after the invention of the wheel, Dutch artist Theo Jansen gives us a new wheel, and one that can walk on sand. Anyone that has tried to ride their bicycle on the beach knows the basic wheel can have it’s serious drawbacks. The artist’s amazing moving sculptures are made of hollow [...]
jansen, the new da vinci?
By lainie at 4 June, 2008, 12:47 pm
Born from the Russian constructivism, Art that allies ingeniously advanced technology and engineering, kinetic art adopted motion as its driving force to differentiate itself. Strictly powered by wind, a motor or anyone, we flirt with the realm of science-fiction! Among a large choice of sculptors, our attention captured in our nets of curiosity, atypical animated post-historic [...]
Freeze for the ART of it..
By lainie at 1 February, 2008, 3:03 pm
Imagine this. Busy life, hustle – bustle. All of a sudden 207 people frooze. That’s just what happened today at Grand Central Station in New York. “Frozen Grand Central” is a brilliant new mission by Improv Everywhere where 207 agents all froze in place at the exact same time for five minutes in the middle [...]
Windows 98, Fatal Crash & the skin
By lainie at 31 July, 2007, 1:48 pm
Tattoos against the norm, or Bill Gates personally? Stumbled upon this amazing Window 98 inspired tattoo (or is that uninspired?) on this site. The tattoo is the text from the crash screen: “A fatal exception OE has occurred at 8137:BFFA21…..” Yikes! I think I need to get that mac spinning wheel tattooed somewhere now. Posted [...]
Johanna Went Went Retro
By lainie at 29 May, 2007, 12:46 pm
Frenetic artist Johanna Went gave an impressive performance packing a full house for her last night performance at her retrospective at Track 16 in Santa Monica. I spotted some familiar faces including a couple of celebrities: Ben Stiller and “what’s her name”, + a couple of stars that I should have known their names if [...]
Global Butoh
By lainie at 12 May, 2007, 6:57 am
One of the many interests of jungle 8‘s founder, Lainie Liberti is her passion for dance, performance and a Japanese art form combining the two called “Butoh”. She began practicing Butoh after answering an open call put forth by the founders of the performance collective Corpus Delecti. Corpus Delecti formed just over 5 years ago, [...]
