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FRAU BREX, aka Sonia Brex studied piano and classical music at the conservatory of Catania (Italy). -1990......read more

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dogma
But boys and girls, there is no need for dogma, or tell me, would you be among those that booed Bob Dylan for going electric? Would you be there among those who threw tomatoes (even if only verbally)? Its only new equipment,and new equipment will bring new sounds, I mean, it has been over ten years that Radiohead gave in and said "Ok, mr. computer, ok". Sticking to the roots, they say. The roots of what? All I can see is the branches, and they look so exciting. They move in all possible directions, while the roots are stuck there in the ground, immovable. I dig it, I dig it, I do swear by all chuckberriness, but I do prefer the surprises of where the wind and the growth will take these new branches of pop pop pop music. - Ricardo Domeneck

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10-02-06 turner prize judge: the year of bad art A Turner Prize judge this year, Lynn Barber, is scathing about the quality of work submitted. "There is so much bad work around, so much that is derivative, half-baked or banal, you can't believe that galleries would show it. I think what happened is that the huge success of the YBAs in the Nineties has created a peculiar post-boom glut whereby there are now more galleries looking for young artists than worthwhile artists to fill them." Her thoughts are in The Observer .
10-01-06 dan colen's major exhibition opens Dan Colen has opened his major new exhibition at Peres Projects in Berlin. Artists from New York and Europe packed the gallery for the opening, which features about one hundred new works by Colen. There are outstanding pieces in the exhibition, including sculptures and paintings.
09-29-06 27th sao paulo biennial On October 5th, the 27th Bienal de São Paulo opens on Ibirapuera Park, where it is hosted in the Oscar Niemeyer building for the Biennial Foundation. Curated by Lisette Lagnado, it is surrounded by high expectations, since whispers everywhere hope Lagnado will be able to bring the São Paulo Biennial back to its cutting edge role after the stagnation of recent years. This year, the title chosen by Lisette Lagnado and the co-curators was Roland Barthes's book title "How to live together" and the list of artists invited amounts to 119, including the Atelier Bow-Wow / Tokyo, Dan Graham / New York, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster / Paris, Júlio Bressane / Rio de Janeiro, Sanghee Song / Seoul and Meschac Gaba / Roterdam, for example. The São Paulo Biennial opened in 1951, and had a major impact in Latin America as a source and platform of art in the midst of military dictatorships.
09-27-06 argentinian poet lucia bianco releases new book On October 1st, the Editorial Vox will present Lucía Bianco's "Diario de exploración afuera del cantero" Considered one of the most important Argentinian poets of her generation, Bianco has published 3 books, and this new collection, which had been released only on a special edition, is her strongest work to date, carrying her exploration of overseen details to its peak. The book release takes place at the Bar Chelsea, in Bahía Blanca, Argentina at 8 pm.
09-25-06 celebrations of shostakovich centenary Dmitry Shostakovich would have been one hundred years ago this year, and classical music is celebrating the famed composer. Speaking about technological innovation, Shostakovich once said, "As for the strictly technical devices from such musical 'systems' as, say, the twelve-tone or the aleatory ... everything is good in moderation ... The use of elements from these complex systems is entirely justified if it is dictated by the idea of the composition." More information from the BBC.
09-25-06 chris corsano: new directions The very prolific free-style drummer Chris Corsano has some new material to share. His 'invisible jukebox' format includes tracks by Sonny Murray, Joe McPhee, Lightning Bolt and others. More in the latest issue of The Wire magazine.
09-25-06 counterculture and cyberculture: co-dependent 'Fred Turner points out in his revealing new book, “From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism” (University of Chicago Press), there is no way to separate cyberculture from counterculture; indeed, cyberculture grew from its predecessor’s compost. Mr. Turner suggests that Stewart Brand, who created the “Whole Earth Catalog,” was the major node in a network of countercultural speculators, promoters, inventors and entrepreneurs who helped change the world in ways quite different from those they originally envisioned.' Here's the full review from the New York Times.
09-24-06 steve reich more in demand than ever Composer Steve Reich turns 70 next month, and he has never been more in demand as a musical figurehead. "Reich may be an acclaimed cultural figure now, but at the beginning he was a revolutionary... He happily reclaimed the harmonies that the Western world had found sufficient for centuries; indeed, he looked back further to medieval music, as well as to Hebrew chant, and Balinese and African percussion traditions... And this was so controversial that, during the first 10 years of his ensemble, most of the performances of Reich's music were in art galleries and museums, not concert halls," The Independent reports.
09-23-06 katarzyna kozyra upcoming shows She is one of the most amazing video artists working today. Katarzyna Kozyra's work puzzles, scares, stays in your mind for days. Be sure to see her work in the upcoming shows: 2007 - Faces, Centre National de la Danse, Paris / 2006 -The Midget Gallery, Berlin / In Art Dreams Come True DAAD, Berlin / Faces, TR Warsaw.
09-23-06 let's go downtown The Downtown Show. Scintillating survey of the New York Art Scene from 1974 to 1984 debuted at the Grey Art Gallery and Fales Library, curated by Carlo McCormick, now moving on to Texas. 11.11.06 - 28.01.07 Austin Museum of Art, Austin / TX The show includes Vito Acconci, Joan Jonas, Leon Golub, Dan Graham, Carolee Schneemann, Karen Finley, Robert Longo, Christian Marclay, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Gordon Matta-Clark, David Wojnarowicz, Ida Applebroog, Kathy Acke, Lynne Tillman, Kiki Smith, Eric Bogosian, Spalding Gray, Tehching Hsieh, Philip Glass, Glenn Branca, Ron Gorchov, Jack Goldstein, Jenny Holzer, John Fekner, Lynda Benglis, Ethyl Eichelberger, Nan Goldin, u.a.
09-22-06 turner painting barred from uk export A painting by Turner has been barred being exported outside the UK. "The temporary export ban gives UK arts institutions two months to express a serious interest in buying The Blue Rigi, which features a Swiss landscape. The new owner has applied for an export licence to sell the painting to another buyer, believed to be in the US," BBC News reports.
09-22-06 artist sues for copyright violations The artist who created a legendary charging bull on Wall Street is suing eight companies including Wal-Mart for infringing on the copyright of his work. "Arturo Di Modica claimed the companies are selling knockoff copies of his sculpture or using images of the famous statue in ad campaigns without his permission, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday in Manhattan federal court," Bloomberg news service reports.
09-21-06 parisian graffiti artist blek le rat in london Beginning on October 12th at Leonard Street Gallery, Blek le Rat, one of the most influential graffiti artists, will be attacking Shoreditch, London. He has been called the "leader" of the stencil graffiti mouvement (Pochoir), who gave birth to it by painting his first black rats in 1981 in Paris with a stencil. His website is here.
09-20-06 sugarcubes, with bjork, to reunite for a concert Sugarcubes, the band that captured millions when they were in action, will reunite for a concert in November. And singer Bjork will be back in the group for the gig. It will take place in Iceland, celebrating 20 years of Sugarcubes. Profits from the concert will assist a label that promotes music from Icelandic artists.
09-20-06 anger at german demand that museum sell its art Not all bad news comes from the US. There is widespread anger in Germany after a government auditor's report called for “partial deaccessioning of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart’s collection” in its latest annual report. A spokesperson for the museum, rejecting the auditor's demands, says the government wants to turn the museum into a money making institution.
09-20-06 sculptor unveils nyc sky mirror Sculptor Anish Kapoor has unveiled his Sky Mirror work in New York. It is a 30 meter disk mirror that plays off both the sky and Rockefeller Center. The sculpture will remain in place for six weeks. More on the sky mirror from BBC News.
09-20-06 i-D magazine, the happiness issue The October issue of i-D magazine feels like home to flasher. Apart from featuring all-time favourites, such as Sigur Ros going back to their roots, the Ping Pong Bitches and the combination of Nick Knight and Gareth Pugh, i-D also arrives where flasher has happily already been, bringing Jackson and his computer band (watch hisinterview on flasher) and Ellen Allien (watch her interview on flasher). The magazine also features personal friends of flasher.com, such as Dean Sameshima, Ryan McGinley, and Heinz Peter Knes producing a group photo which includes Terence Koh, Oliver Roberts and Ricardo Domeneck, among others. The October issue is called The Happiness Issue and investigates what happiness means right now in major cities around the globe. i-D magazine, the Happiness issue n. 270, October 2006, out now.
09-17-06 in and out of cologne Three generations of artists active in Germany will take hold of the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto, Canada. "Make Your Own Life: Artists In & Out of Cologne" was curated by Bennett Simpson, ICA Philadelphia, and includes Kai Althoff, Bernadette Corporation, Cosima von Bonin, Merlin Carpenter, Stephan Dillemuth, Michaela Eichwald, Andrea Fraser, Kim Gordon, Charline von Heyl, Gareth James, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Jutta Koether, Michael Krebber, Louise Lawler, Hans-Jörg Mayer, Lucy McKenzie, Nils Norman, Albert Oehlen, Christian Philipp Müller, Stephen Prina, Josephine Pryde, Blake Rayne, Reena Spaulings, Josef Strau, Rosemarie Trockel, Filmgruppe West, Christopher Williams and Christopher Wool This seminal exhibition presents a look at the mythic and art historical significance of Cologne, Germany, bringing together three generations of European and American artists.
09-17-06 insanity as a model for theater management "In its increasingly aggressive campaign to establish itself as a showcase of Canadian theatre, Ottawa's National Arts Centre is hiring a controversial Quebec director who says he plans to go mad on the job... In accepting the task of programming a nine-production playbill in a city with small and conservative theatre audiences, [Wajdi] Mouawad boldly announced that art is born from artists' hallucinatory perspectives that change the way we see the world, and that his job was to promote this kind of madness," according to the Globe and Mail of Toronto.
09-16-06 be enraptured The Rapture will release their new album this week. September 12th is the date for the United States and the 18th for Europe. After releasing the debut "Echoes" in 2003 and being catapulted into notoriety, they come back with the album "Pieces of the People We Love".
09-15-06 drug use and musical taste are linked What does your taste in music say about your taste in illegal drugs? Quite a lot, if you believe the researchers behind a new study at the UK's University of Leicester. "Researchers were trying to find out what people's taste in music revealed about their lifestyles. They discovered that fans of every style of music had taken drugs, with those who preferred DJ-based club music topping the list." Other findings include that more than 25% of classical buffs smoke pot, that blues fans are the most likely to have a driving violation, and that fans of Broadway musicals are the least likely to have tried drugs.
09-14-06 rilke shake The collection of poems "Rilke Shake", by Angélica Freitas, is scheduled to finally be released in the beginning of November by publishers Cosac Naify and 7 Lettras. More about Angélica Freitas on the article page.
09-14-06 the new voice Bat For Lashes debut album Fur and Gold has been released and is available in record shops and through iTunes in the UK, France, Belgium and Holland. Bat for Lashes is Natasha Khan, who studied film and music at art school, where her experimental work, influenced by artists including Steve Reich and Susan Hiller, led her to produce multi-media work centered on sound installations, animations and performance. The new voice.
09-12-06 moscow media blitz for madonna Russia's Orthodox Church has condemned singer Madonna, serving to heighten the media blitz for the star's Moscow performance. More than 50,000 persons are expected to pack a stadium for the concert and 7,000 riot police are to be available to control the crowd.
09-12-06 guerillia artist bansky strikes again "Guerilla" artist Bansky placed a life-size figure representing a hooded prisoner at Guantanamo Bay inside a ride at Disneyland. "A spokeswoman for Banksy said the stunt was intended to highlight the plight of terror suspects at the controversial detention centre in Cuba. Banksy is notorious for his secretive and subversive stunts - such as sneaking doctored versions of classic paintings into major art galleries."
09-11-06 tetine in the us & uk Tetine will be playing a series of special concerts in the UK and US - including gigs for the Liverpool Biennial, The Wire's Adventures in Modern Music Festival in Chicago and Joe's Pub in New York. And coming up in early october a brand new Tetine 12'' single on the London based label Soul Jazz Records. Sept 12 >> Tetine live at Favela Chic, London / Sept 14th >> Tetine live at the opening night of this year's Liverpool Biennial / Sept 22 >> Tetine live at the Wire's Adventures in Modern Music Festival in Chicago. The Wire Magazine hooks up with Chicago's Empty Bottle in September to present a five day festival of outsider sounds. Tetine promises a sweaty experimental live set of mutant punk carioca with brand new tunes. / Oct 2nd >> Tetine live at Joe's Pub in New York / Oct 5th >> Tetine perform Turkish Bath live at Monkeytown, Brooklyn New York.
09-11-06 casiotone for the painfully alone Tomlab will be releasing "Bobby Malone Moves Home" as the second single from Etiquette in time for the fall European tour of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone with The Dead Science. The 7" B side will be "Jeane, If You're Ever In Portland (Donkeys Version)" from the recent Daytrotter session, and the CD will feature four live songs from last spring's US tour with The Donkeys. Both formats will feature cover art by The Donkey's Anthony Lukens. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone's Fall European Tour includes 15.09.2006 Berlin (D), Magnet Club / 23.09.2006 Copenhagen (DK), LAB / 25.09.2006 Manchester (UK), The Phoenix / 27.09.2006 Glasgow (UK), King Tuts / 29.09.2006 Dublin (IE), Whelans / 01.10.2006 London (UK), The Luminaire / 04.10.2006 Paris (F), Le Divan Du Monde / 05.10.2006 Brussels (B), Botanique / 06.10.2006 Amsterdam (NL), Paradiso / 13.10.2006 Barcelona (E), Apolo 14.10.2006 Madrid (E), Neu Club / 19.10.2006 Roma (I), Circolo Degli Artisti / 22.10.2006 Wien (A), Chelsea / 23.10.2006 Prague (CZ), Klub 007 Strahov and 24.10.2006 Berlin (D), Ausland.
09-11-06 modeselektor busy preparing new album Modeselektor, said by many to be the group of music's future, is reportedly busy recording their next album. It will be the follow-up to Hello Mom, a runaway success with the public and critics. Fans can see an exclusive interview with Szary and Gernot from Modeselektor by clicking here. An in-depth Flasher interview about the new album will be prepared shortly.
09-11-06 some see 'the ring' in l.a. as a joke Opera fans are divided about ambitious plans to stage Wagner's cycle 'The Ring' in Los Angeles. And now wonder. At a time when opera houses are struggling to pay their costs, a large L.A. donor claims the best reason to stage the spectacle in his city is 'economic.' The donor claims that a $10 million budget would pay off up to 10 times as much. Detractors say that Wagner in L.A. is a foolhardy project that will hurt opera and fail in the city.
09-09-06 toronto film festival opens The Toronto FIlm Festival has opened. A raft of films about American totalitarianism are among the features being premiered. Watch Flasher.com for coming reports from the film festival.
09-08-06 metropolitan opera: live and digital The Metropolitan Opera will begin transmitting live performances to movie theaters throughout the North America and Europe next year as part of an extraordinary and unprecedented arrangement. Starting December 30, six of the Met performances will be transmitted live, with advanced audio and high definition video, to specially equipped theatres. Media reports quote the Met's new general manager, Peter Gelb, as saying, "Opera now enters the digital era."
09-08-06 pompidou accepts fault for damaged art works In Paris, Pompidou Museum officials have accepted full responsibility for damage to two artworks. Peter Alexander's "Untitled'' (1971) and Craig Kauffman's "Untitled Wall Relief'' (1969) fell while on loan for "Los Angeles 1955-1985: The Birth of An Art Capital." The museum has offered to pay for the artists to recreate the pieces.
09-08-06 international literature festival in berlin Experiencing literary diversity in times of globalisation, they say. Arab lyric poets meeting with American short story-writers, South Korean poets their Russian colleagues, South African novelists with young, budding Albanian authors. An attempt of dialogue. Newly discovered authors standing equally beside literature's most established and respected talents. During the twelve days and approximately 300 events of the festival, 100 authors introduce both new and more lineal developments to the world of contemporary literature. International Literature Festival in Berlin, from September 05th till September 16th, including guests such as Anne Michaels (Canada), Attila Bartis (Hungary), James Tate (USA), Luiz Ruffato (Brazil), Isabel Allende (Chile), Dieter M. Gräf (Germany), David Grossman (Israel), Doris Lessing (GB), Jorge Semprún (Spain/France), Vikram Seth (India/GB), Elif Shafak (Turkey/USA), Su Tong (China) and Eliot Weinberger (USA).
09-06-06 katja strunz in tokyo The artist Katja Strunz will be exhibiting in Tokyo this month. The show is called "Art Scope 2005/2006 - Interface Complex", and will be at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo between September 9th and Oktober 22nd, 2006.
09-06-06 new charity to reward u.s. artists Artists from various disciplines and at various stages of development will get a shot at major grants from a new charity. But the program is for U.S. artists only. It is being launched by United States Artists, which will award fifty artists $50,000 each, according to news reports. The New York Times said "Panels of artists, critics, scholars and others in the arts are reviewing the applications of 300 artists who were nominated by 150 anonymous arts leaders around the country."
09-05-06 planningtorock & peaches on tour together Planningtorock and Peaches go on tour together throughout Europe for the next months. The dates include: Sep 07 Berlin, Germany - Postbanhof / Sep 11 Hamburg, Germany - Ubel & Gefaeherlich / Sep 12 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega / Sep 13 Oslo, Norway - John Dee / Sep 14 Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser Medis / Sep 17 Koln, Germany - Stollwerk / Sep 22 Milan, Italy - Rainbow / Sep 29 Marseille, France - Marsatac / Oct 04 Zurich, Switzerland - Rote Fabrik / Oct 5 Fundao, Portugal -Imago Festival / Oct 21 Paris- Centre Pompidou
09-05-06 dash exhibition in nyc An exhibition of new work by Dash Snow opens this Thursday in NYC. It's called 'Silence is the only true friend that shall never betray you.' It will be at the Rivington Arms gallery.
09-04-06 the cinematographical and art During the past twenty years the use of projected image in art has rapidly expanded, producing equally rapid alterations in the definitions and parameters of its employment. A symposium at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin focuses on new writings that take into consideration both the current status, forms and uses of the projected image and its complicated and multiple histories. Ten international scholars will present new research on a variety of key topics involving artists' uses of the cinematographic in the twentieth and twenty-first century. Relating current screen practice to moments in the history of the medium, these papers investigate topics ranging from the film cooperatives of the 1960s, the endurance and representation of time in recent projected-image work, multiple screens and montage in contemporary art, to the idea of converging media through digitalization in the late 1990s and 2000s. Speakers include Beatriz Colomina, Mary Anne Doane, Chrissie Iles, David Joselit, Sven Luttiken, Gregor Stemmrich among others.Lectures by Beatriz Colomina, Chrissie Iles, David Joselit, Mark Nash, Gregor Stemmrich et al. 27 October: Hamburger Bahnhof and 28 / 29 October: Kino Arsenal.
08-31-06 mozart in the clubs Classical musicians are heading into clubs. "Purists may shudder at the thought of string quartets spliced with breakbeats and dance grooves, but none of these young musicians, composers and producers sees classical clubbing as a threat to traditional classical music. If anything, they hope that, by introducing classical sounds to a club-going audience who would never usually set foot inside a concert hall, they may breathe new life into the genre." More in The Telegraph.
08-30-06 são paulo international short film festival The São Paulo International Short Film Festival proposes a reflection over the making of films. In the last 17 years, the film and video production experienced deep changes. Digital video is, today, one of the most promising ways to democratize the access to visual culture. The festival tries to set up a debate on the future of video and film. Among many short films, Flasher calls attention to the video "Relevee" of artist assume vivid astro focus, in collaboration with art musicians Delia Gonzalez and Gavin Russom, which will be shown on September 1st, at 10 pm, Kino Lounge Skyy 2 - Jardim do MIS. The Festival takes place between August 24th and September 2nd.
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