31.3.09

call for submissions, Disobedient in MA

Disobedient in Massachusetts, H.D. Thoreau and Others
Call for submissions:
for an artist book about Massachusetts artists/residents who have been arrested for acts of civil disobedience in Massachusetts or other places.
If this is you and you want to share some of your experiences with me, I will be creating an artist book from your shared memorabilia(verbal and otherwise).
please email: tarantinochristine@yahoo.com
I will be representing Massachusetts and the Artist Book medium for the upcoming
50 Artists, 50 States, 50 Medium Show this September at The Eclipse Gallery in Wisconsin.
Let me know briefly about yourself, experience being a 'civil disobediant', and best way to contact you.

29.3.09

Fluxus Beer



"Another year, another batch of Fluxus has been brewed...." FLUXUS is a Belgian-style ale brewed by the Allagash brewery in Portland, Maine, USA.

28.3.09

more RANDOM Bits for Christine via IUOMA-network.ning.com



"...a photo of the beancan I acquired...."- S. Random

Image copyright of Steve Random

(one of the founders of Fluxus)Alison Knowles, Bean Rolls (1963)
A fluxus production. designed by George Maciunas in 1963. A four inch square cube contains seventeen tiny scrolls, each with material about beans in songs, recipes, stories, science, cartoons, ads etc. Each scroll is different held together with a small dental rubber band. Four or five real beans are in a can to make a sound in a book when it is shaken. Edition of 200. Out of print. Exhibited in "The American Century" (1999) in the Whitney Museum, New York. -http://www.aknowles.com/beanrolls.html

Nobody,s stone-face-geSICHT-poem so wie es Litsa Spathi sieht

27.3.09

Bangladesh Heritage Foundation,17th April Art Show in Dhaka

Dear Artists,

Another Exhibition Call.

17th April is very important to us. In 1971, when the country was fighting for Independence, the first exile Government was formed on 17th April 1971 at Meherpur, Bangladesh. To mark that auspicious day, Bangladesh Heritage Foundation is going to organize an art show with participation of 27 artists from 17 countries.

Bangladesh : Professor Samarjit Roy Choudhury, Dewan Mizan, Anisuzzaman Anis, Habiba Akther Papia
Austria : Eva Maria Neuper
Greece : Sarantis Gagas and Georgia Grigoriadou
Germany : Dorothea Fleiss and Eric Paproth
UK : Martha Aitchison
Argentina : Mirta Toledo and Elizabeth Pujalka
Venezuela : Luis Velara Escarre
India : Sumita Chauhan
Nepal : Shashi Bikram Shah, Shankar Nath Rimal, Gajendra Man Shrestha and Padmanand Neaupane
Italy : Annamaria Gelmi
Honduras : Jorge Ivan Restrepo
USA : Obaidullah Mamoon and Christine Tarantino
Malaysia : Suzlee Ibrahim and Asliza Aris
Sweden : Marten Lindblom
France : Jeanne Marinello
& Others

The exhibition will start on 17th April 2009, at 11 AM.

Venue : BILIA Auditorium, Dhanmondi, Dhaka-1207

Rafique Sulayman
Member,
Bangladesh Heritage Foundation
www.bhf-bd.org

Artist Book, Buchholz & Tarantino


Copy 1/2 of Artist Book created in 2008-2009 by Christine Tarantino and Keith Buchholz
Original sent to Fiero del Libero, Turin Italy

Modern Times: Abendmahl im Lab


"Modern Times: Abendmahl im Lab" - visual eucharist-poem by Litsa Spathi

23.3.09

Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam Celebrates John and Yoko's Historic Bed-in with Exhibition, ArtDaily.org

(Internet photo)Image taken 40 years ago by Dutch photographer Govert de Roos on view in the exhibition “From Holland with Peace” at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam. The hotel has organized an exhibition in the room where John Lennon and Yoko Ono stayed in 1969 in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the bed-in for peace. Photo: EFE/Robert Vos.-ArtDaily.org
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=29768