Art
US magazine. Glossy, well-illustrated, but with a substantial on-line presence too. Fairly radical, depending upon your own views of course! Lots of left-field points of view on how the world is malfunctioning.
Includes powerful images, art and videos.
This café and gallery is a pretty neat space, place run by creative people.
The Ideas Block offers a place for displaying art works, putting on shows and even encourages artists and creators to apply for ‘artist in residence’ places. It is located in the fairly alternative area of Vilnius near the bus and railway stations.
A lovely film animation based around the words of John in an interview from Toronto 1969. It was conducted by 14 tear old Jerry Levitan.
Pause for thoughts.
“Anything you hear is there…all answers.”
Cartoon Kate is something of UK-alternative-institution. Her first, fab cartoon book was ‘Copse’ the cartoon book of tree/road protests.
She has produced much fine, thought-provoking work about environmentalism, squatting, eco-protest and more. Including the Calais refugee camp cartoon, ‘Threads’. Awesome! Help her to fund its printing and distribution.Have a good look around her website.
German-based duo of artists, Detlef Kelbassa and Corrina Kuhn. Working in a diverse range of mediums, much of their work focuses on the relationship between nature and man. Installations and experiments in the cabinet of curiosities! Links to their main site and Facebook page.
An arts-based intentional community in Switzerland. Music, performance, sports events, installations and ‘fun’! An old foundry converted into a vibrant arts venue involving local people as well as those who are involved full-time in the Culture Factory.
In Wetzikon, Switzerland. They say that: “The Culture Factory is a former foundry, which is a place for cultural encounters and cultural production today.
The culture – one hand understood as performing and visual arts, on the other hand as human needs such as housing, work and meet each other – intended as a unifying element, the various parts of the Kulturfabrik together.”
Based in LA, in the USA, they are no longer a brewery. They say that they are:
“…are one of the oldest and largest artist colonies in the world.
Covering 23 acres in 14 buildings of live-work spaces, 500-700 artists and businesses call The Brewery their home.
Twice a year, the LAB opens its doors and invites the public to enjoy our open studios at The Brewery Art Walk.”
Check them out.
A Netherlands’ freespace described as:
“LBB or Landbouwbelang was an old grain storage facility. Abandoned years ago.
Since 2002, the LBB has been squatted and turned into an autonomic freezone in Maastricht for music, arts and culture. It is a collective of spaces, entrepreneurships and creative people. It creates space for experimenting, exchanging knowledge and developing sustainable and creative lifestyle.”
Ken Kesey’s merry band. ‘You’re either on the bus, or off the bus’ circa 1964+. As immortalised in Tom Wolfe’s ‘Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test’ book. And frequently associated as the Grateful Dead’s crew with Captain Trips (Jerry Garcia) at the helm. This offers links to Prankster, Ken Babbs’ site (new pages and old pages) and some promo video for ‘Magic Trip’ documentary of the original Magic Bus, ‘Furthur’ trip.