This is now by Stuart D. Fallon

This is Now is an interesting online catalogue that documents a continously changing exhibition project with the same title.

Enjoy!

Community without Propinquity in Milton Keynes

Community without Propinquity is a project exploring the roles of contemporary art and communities in New Towns across the globe. The project includes an exhibition, a video programme, six new artist’s commissions, a research laboratory, publication and symposium.
The exhibition, in the Project Space, includes work related to Shenzhen (China), Chandigarh (India), Brasilia (Brazil) and UK New Towns, such as Harlow, Thamesmead, Runcorn and Stevenage, providing a context for cities built on land with no previous significant population.
The video programme, in the Events Room, explores the utopian social and architectural plans of New Towns, from Chinese replicas of a British seaside town to a German modernist estate, via a new city that exists entirely online.

The Project Space also serves as a research laboratory and forum for public events and artists commissioned to make new work, exploring the social and cultural policies of early Milton Keynes with organisations such as The Open University, MK’s Channel 40 TV station from the 1970s and the communal housing communities. This evolving project will culminate in a final weekend of events, a public symposium where research is presented and a publication.

The project is organised by independent curator Claire Louise Staunton with curatorial group Inheritance Projects, while the research lab and publication have been commissioned from An Endless Supply.

Artists in the exhibition include:
Paulo Catrica, Nathan Coley, Cao Fei, Jesal Kapadia, Wayne Lloyd, Vincent Meessen, Paul Noble, Ishmael Randall Weeks, Pia Rönicke and Stuart Whipps.

More info here.

Per's Quote of the Day

“If someone wills the truth it is not in the name of what the world is but in the name of the world is not. It is understood that ‘life aims to mislead, to dupe, to dissimilate, to dazzle, to blind.’ But he who wills the truth always wants to depreciate this high power of the false: he makes life an ‘error’ and this world an ‘appearance’. […] The man who does not want to deceive wants a better world and a better life; all his reasons for not deceiving are moral ones. And we always come against this virtuism of the one who wills the truth: one of his favourite occupations is the distribution of wrongs, he renders responsible, he denies innocence, he accuses and judges life, he denounces appearance. ‘It has gradually become clear to me… that the moral (immoral) intentions in every philosophy have every time constituted the real germ of life out of which the entire plant has grown… I accordingly do not believe a “drive to knowledge” to be the father of philosophy.’ –However this moral opposition is itself only a symptom. The one who wants another world, another life, wants something more profound: ‘Life against life.’ He wants life to become virtuous, to correct itself and to correct appearance, for it to serve as the way to the other world. He wants life to repudiate itself and to turn against itself: ‘An attempt to use force to taint force.’ Thus behind the moral opposition there stands another kind of contradiction, the religious or ascetic contradiction.”

- Gilles Deleuze on Nietzsche

Anne's Quote of the Day.

“The really shocking fact that we must face is this: that, throughout the country, people of the basest ignorance are sitting in judgment upon art, upon the universities, upon the very meaning of thinking itself”. ‒Ben Shahn

Effektivia Rehearsal.

Vision Forum Film is proud to announce that the preparation Effektivia is progressing well. The directors and the team have made an amazing job and you will soon be able to see teasers on this blog and on the Effektivia webpage. Make sure you keep your eyes peeled!

ATTEMPTS TO GET INSIDE THE WORLD - Natasha Rosling in London

A
 SERIES 
OF 
SUB‐THEMES
 FOR 
REFLECTION
 OVER 
THE
 WEEKEND:

The 
Weird 
Drive:
 Self‐discipline, 
Obsessive 
Compulsion
 and
 Constructive 
Confusion.

Absurd 
Paraphernalia:

 Shaping 
Tools,

 Harnessing
 Straps
 and
 Wearing 
Prosthetics.

Living
 with 
Aliens,
 Dragons
 and
 Dinosaurs: 
Time
 Travel,
 Mind 
Travel,
 Space 
Travel.

Echoes 
in 
the
 Vessel: 

Disembodied 
Voices,

 Embodied 
Objects,
 and
 Lost 
Body 
Parts.

Stuck
 with 
the 
Mud: 
The 
Edifice,

 Support
 Structures
 and
 Temporary
 Architectures.
 



SATURDAY 
3RD 
SEPTEMBER
 From 
2pm 
until
 the
 mid
-evening

Presentations,
 Screenings
and

 Performances 
by:

‐
Per
Huttner

‐
Dr.
Watson
 and
 John
Walter

‐
Celine
 Condorelli

‐
Chooc 
Ly 
Tan 
and
 Rishi 
Nalin
 Kumar

‐
Corinne
 Felgate

‐
Linda
 Franke

‐
Ian 
Lawton 
and 
Ken 
Huggins

‐
Fatos
Ustek

 





SUNDAY
 4TH
 SEPTEMBER
 From
 2pm 
until
 the 
mid
-evening
 

Presentations,
 Screenings
 and

 Performances
 by:

‐
Natasha
 Rosling

‐
Eleanor
 Wright

‐
Sachi
 Miyachi

‐
Isobel 
Dunhill,

Antoine
 Bertin
and


‐
Robert
 Lisney

‐
Pauline
 Curnier‐Jardin,
Screening


‐
Performance 
by
 Jose 
Campos

‐
VOL.

*
Curated
 Screening


Arthouse
 Gallery, 
140 
Lewisham
 Way, 
London 
SE14
6PD

Transport: 
Rail/Underground
‐
New 
Cross/New 
Cross 
Gate;
Buses
‐
21,
36,
 136, 
321


Per Hüttner talks at Shanghai's Mingsheng Museum

Per Hüttner will talk about his work with focus on current exhibitions in Guilin and Stockholm at Shanghai's Mingsheng Museum.