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During her time in Brussels PINK was influenced by designer-artist Raphaël Opstaele, poet Marcel van Maele, poet and visual artist Marcel Broodthaers (in whose vernissage of his "Musée d'Art Moderne, Département des Aigles" she participated at his home in Brussels in 1968) and architect Jef de Groote. |
In the autumn of 1968, the Laboratory of Theatrical Research at Louvain University commissioned André Desrameaux and PINK to create an experimental theatre piece. The resulting performance, "Erektion", used text and vocalization by actors on a multi-level, wire-mesh stage over the audience. "Erektion" began a new art group, , which focused on art in public spaces. |
Participating in a performance artwork by James Lee Byars in the Wide White Space Gallery (Antwerp) in 1969 moved PINK toward the visual arts. Utrecht cultural deputy Jan Juffermans commissioned PINK, Opstaele and De Groote (who became Mass Moving) to create an outdoor event in the city center. The result, "Motion" (1969), was Mass Moving's first art intervention in an outdoor public space. A number of art-intervention projects on the scale of city life were created in public spaces in Europe, Africa and Japan. In January 1976, at the end of the "Sound Stream" project, Mass Moving disbanded. |
After Mass Moving's "Ludic Environment Machine (L.E.M.)" project for the "Sonsbeek Buiten De Perken" outdoor art festival in Arnhem and the "Butterfly Project" (Venice Biennale, 1972), PINK left Mass Moving and settled in the Netherlands. From 1972 to 1980, she worked on performance works with and for postgraduate students and professionals in a number of fields. |
During this period the artist traveled to West Africa to research local rituals, studied Japanese theater with Yoshi Oida at Peter Brook's "Centre International de Recherche Théâtrale" in Paris and witnessed ancient rituals by Motohisa Yamakage in Japan. |
From 1980 to 1995 PINK created a number of intervention-based meta-performance-art projects in which an iconic human unit, Man Woman Child (MWC), was used as a metaphor for humanity's cultural transference. For each project, PINK explored a theme with a mixture of public-space art intervention and performance, installation, photo and video art. |
Large, official royal-portrait photographs remain from the exhibit. |
In 1981's "East West Home Is Best" MWC lived for 30 days in a specially built, fully furnished suburban apartment inside a Holland Festival art exhibition in Amsterdam, where 30,000 visitors filed through as MWC lived their lives. |
"VideoSketchBook" (1983) found MWC living one day apiece in 12 row houses on a 1930s street in a provincial capital. PINK adapted this performance piece into a video installation of 12 photo and 13 film portraits at Frans Hals Museum Haarlem, Vleeshal Middelburg, MMK-Arnhem, SALA I Roma, Fotofeis Edinburgh, and Galerija Klovic Zagreb. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam acquired in her KOG collection the complete video-installation with the 12 original photoprints from 1983 which was celebrated December 17th 2018 with a KOG lecture by prof. dr. Erik de Jong on Videosketchbook 1983: The Ritual of Hominess. |
"At Home" (1984) considered MWC the ideal family in Haarlem, Bergen and Middelburg (Frans Hals Museum Haarlem, KCB Bergen. Vleeshal Middelburg.), which hosted them for 100 days in their city centers in an ideal garden against a backdrop of a full-scale painting of an ideal house (sleeping in a camper bus behind the 100-m exhibit). |
"Tea Time" (1986) was a VPRO television project in which MWC explored the ritual of a filmed tea party, a conversation piece with a prominent family ending in an official group portrait. |
"HouseRites in Crystal Museum" (1987) revealed humankind's affectionate and possessive relationship with personal objects at home, set in the context of museum-art conservation. Dutch National Arts Council. |
In "Ter Zake. Business as Usual. USA 1988", a government-sponsored orientation trip to the United States turned into a 30-day performance artwork. MOCA, Los Angeles and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. |
In "Standing Stone" (1989), with an ice-age boulder their only luggage MWC walked to the intersection of the Saalien lateral moraine and the actual North Sea coast. The travelers (and their -ton luggage) stayed overnight at the Haarlem Frans Halsmuseum. When they arrived at their destination the following day MWC stood, motionless, on top of the boulder. The boulder is on exhibit in front of PINK's former studio at Overtoom nr. 16 in Amsterdam. |
In "Electronic Painting" at the 1990 "Tomorrow is Yesterday" exhibition at Museum Het Prinsenhof in Delft, a white-gloved chief curator replaced a painting of the Holy Family (c. 1500, unknown master) by a beautifully framed photo of MWC at their 1989 overnight stay in the Frans Hals Museum. A video of the Holy Family painting was shown on a monitor in an open safe; after visiting hours, the safe was locked. |
In 1990–91's "Et in Arcadia Ego Sum", a smartly-dressed MWC entered Arcadia daily for two months. Arcadia was a large room with a half-open door in the center, bordered by four enlarged (50 x) Lego-type trees and flowers, in Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn and Kunsthaus Hamburg respectively. |
In 1992's "Direction Arcadia", under a road sign pointing to "アルカヂア" (Arcadia) MWC stranded with luggage at a crowded intersection in Shinjuku, Tokyo. |
The installation artwork "Bateaux pour l'Arcadie III", featuring a ferry carrying the ashes of PINK's studio works, some other leftovers and a safe with an eternal flame, was exhibited at the Van Reekum Museum (presently Coda Art Museum) in Apeldoorn in 1993 and in the Vleeshal of the Frans Halsmuseum in 1998. |
"Checkpoint to Dutch Arcadia" (1994) was a performance-art project in which PINK commanded the Royal Netherlands Army in a two-week campaign to close a portion of a -long, century-old dike built to withstand any future attack on Amsterdam. With 200 truckloads of sand and 30,000 sandbags, the Royal Engineers and Infantry (led by PINK) filled the opening. At noon daily, PINK addressed the men about the artwork and its purpose. An official road sign said "Welcome to Dutch Arcadia" and "See You Again in Arcadia" in the languages of occupiers of the Netherlands (now EU member states) and immigrants expelled from the Netherlands during the 1990s. |
As PINK was struck by the impossibility of expressing essentials in words, she started scripting her stories in disordered alphabets on canvas. Her paintings "Letters from Arcadia" (ongoing) are in fountain pen on canvas or palimpsest. "Letters to Family", an ongoing cycle of art works and installations, are communications with those PINK regards as close relatives and soulmates who live on in museums and libraries (such as Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, Velimir Khlebnikov, James Lee Byars, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Joseph Beuys, Piet Mondriaan, Kazimir Malevich, Marcel Broodthaers, Alberto Giacometti and The Unknown Artist). "Letters from the Ferryman" (2001) is a series of double portraits of strangers (painted and written). "Encyclopedia Arcadia" (begun 2001) is a series of books: Passions, Scripts, Prayers, Alchemy, Scriptures, Omens, Scores, Discoveries, Torn Mirages and Inventories. "Blanchir l'Histoire" (2002–2007) is a cycle of eight paintings, each, in which PINK explores the roots of the written word from Sumerian to Hebrew. In "LOT of PINK" (2007), the artist explores "lot" in a project where people buy a numbered artwork derived from "Standing Stone" with the possibility of winning a second work. "Satellite View on Arcadia" (begun 2008) is a series of collage paintings, with torn, thin blotting paper fixed on canvas with oil paint. |
"Documented Documents" (2010–2011) is an overview of her oeuvre, a series of 120 collage works on paper from leftovers out of her archives with text comments in her handwritings. "Portrait of Ernst Gombrich – Où est l'Original, d'après MB -" (2011–2012) is a series of collage paintings exploring the original and its copy, based on Ernst Gombrich's Story of Art. "Torn Mirages" (2012–2013) are collage works on paper consisting of torn (former) drawings with text references. "Inventories", Part X of the series "Encyclopaedia Arcadia" is finished in 2013; 40 graphic samples of lists meet torn images from Gombrich's historic art overview. "Data Parade" (2014-2015) is a series of 24 drawings dealing with the increased use of processed data in numbers, graphics and lists determinant in articles, views and opinions in all media. PINK recreates her life and work in "Bio-Graphics" (2016-2017), a series of 74 drawings in graphic text on paper. |
= = = Teruo Murakami = = = |
Teruo Murakami is a male former international table tennis player from Japan. |
From 1959 to 1961 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships and in the Asian Table Tennis Championships. |
His four World Championship medals included two gold medals in the doubles with Ichiro Ogimura at the 1959 World Table Tennis Championships and team event at the 1959 World Table Tennis Championships. |
He also won two English Open titles. |
= = = Hans-Jörg Meyer = = = |
Hans-Jörg Meyer (born April 10, 1964 in Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony) is a German sport shooter. He won a silver medal in the men's 50 m free pistol at the 2009 European Shooting Championships in Osijek, Croatia, accumulating a score of 653.8 targets. |
At age forty-four, Meyer made his official debut for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in two pistol shooting events, along with his teammate Florian Schmidt. He scored a total of 577 targets in the preliminary rounds of the men's 10 m air pistol, by one point ahead of Belarus' Yury Dauhapolau from the final attempt, finishing only in twenty-first place. Three days later, Meyer placed thirteenth in his second event, 50 m pistol, by two points ahead of U.S. shooter Daryl Szarenski, with a total score of 557 targets. |
= = = Charles Conaway = = = |
Charles Conaway is businessman who is best known for having been the CEO of Kmart. He has also been the President and Chief Operating Officer of CVS Corporation. |
Conaway holds an MBA from the University of Michigan. |
Before joining Kmart, Conaway was the President and COO of CVS Corp. Conaway became Chairman and CEO of Kmart in April, 2000. |
In 2005, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit that accused him of misleading Kmart investors prior to the company's bankruptcy in 2002. The S.E.C. originally sought $22 million from Conaway. A jury found him liable in a trial four years later, in 2009. While he initially appealed the decision, Conaway dropped his appeal in November 2010 and agreed to pay a $5.5 million settlement. |
= = = Shaking the Habitual = = = |
Shaking the Habitual is the fourth and final studio album by Swedish electronic music duo The Knife. It was released on 5 April 2013 by Rabid Records. The album was released as a double CD and triple LP, and as a digital download. The album was lauded by critics at the time of its release and was featured on several critics' year-end lists. |
"Full of Fire" was released as the album's lead single on 28 January 2013. An accompanying short film was directed by Marit Östberg, who contributed a film to the 2009 Swedish feminist porn compilation "Dirty Diaries". The album's second single, "A Tooth for an Eye", was released on 18 February 2013, for which a music video was directed by Roxy Farhat and Kakan Hermansson. The duo embarked on the Shaking the Habitual Tour in support of the album, starting on 26 April 2013 in Bremen, Germany. |
On 18 April 2011, it was announced that The Knife was recording a new album, initially set to be released in 2012, through a post on the duo's website about the housing rights of Romani people in Rome. "Shaking the Habitual" was officially announced on 12 December 2012, along with a teaser video posted on YouTube. The album was recorded in Stockholm and Berlin from 2010 to 2012. |
In October 2012, Shannon Funchess of Brooklyn-based electronic music duo Light Asylum revealed in interviews with "Dazed & Confused" and music blog No Conclusion that she would contribute vocals to a track on the album, with lyrics written by visual artist Emily Roysdon. |
For the artwork of "Shaking the Habitual", the duo commissioned Malmö-based illustrator Liv Strömquist to design a comic book titled "End Extreme Wealth" that turns the right wing's discourse against the poor on its head, depicting the 1% as a culturally-impoverished and vermin-like "other". "It came out of the idea, 'How do we use the area of the record cover in the best political way? Olof Dreijer said. "It's about bringing focus to extreme wealth rather than poverty being the problem of the world." |
"Shaking the Habitual" takes its title from a quote by French philosopher Michel Foucault. The album is inspired by the duo's readings in feminist and queer theory, while discussing environmentalism and structuralism. Olof attended a course in gender studies at Stockholm University and shared his reading list with Karin. On 9 April 2013, The Knife released a Marit Östberg-directed video titled "Shaking the Habitual – The Interview", explaining the process of making the album. They state, "What we do is political. That should be impossible to misunderstand." They criticise the institution of the royal family and the nuclear family calling it "an institution that conserves inequality, injustice and exclusion", while advocating for living "in solidarity beyond nuclear families, nations and economical unions." In an interview with "Pitchfork", Karin suggested that "people would be happier sharing things and being much more of a collective rather than working from these neo-liberal ideas of just looking after yourself." |
The duo also criticise the "commercial homogenisation" of the music industry, saying it constitutes an "extremely hierarchical structure". Speaking to "The Guardian", Karin mentioned how music artists are "getting even more commercial because they are selling their music to advertisements and going on tours with big alcohol brands", and questioned "how music and art can continue to develop or challenge itself within these new, very commercial frames." She also spoke of authenticity and quoted philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler, who says, "We are always in drag". |
The video for "Full of Fire", among other things, questions a policy in Sweden that offers tax deductions for wealthy families who employ maids. The line "I'm telling you stories, trust me" in the song "A Tooth for an Eye" is borrowed from Karin's favourite Jeanette Winterson book, "The Passion" (1987). The interludes "Crake" and "Oryx" are named after characters in Margaret Atwood's 2003 dystopian novel "Oryx and Crake". "Old Dreams Waiting to Be Realized" takes its title from an article written by Nina Björk for Swedish magazine "Glänta". |
"Shaking the Habitual" received widespread acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 85, based on 43 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim". Robert Christgau of "MSN Music" praised the album as "an exciting, multivalent Dreijer sibling showcase". "Uncut"s Rob Young wrote that Karin "possesses one of the most distinctive Scandinavian voices since Björk", referring to the duo's songs as "genetic pop mutations, scampering out of control". Lindsay Zoladz of "Pitchfork" hailed "Shaking the Habitual" as the duo's "most political, ambitious, accomplished album, but in a strange way it also feels like its most personal". Philip Sherburne of "Spin" remarked that The Knife have "never sounded more in tune with the materiality of sound or the sonorousness of the physical world." AllMusic's Heather Phares opined that ""Shaking the Habitual" isn't as cohesive or accessible as "Silent Shout", and after experiencing the whole thing, fans may not return to it often, but it's hard to deny that it's an often stunning work of art", dubbing the album "a testament to the Knife's skill that they make such formidable sounds so compelling for so long". |
Maya Kalev of "Fact" noted that "[f]ans of "Silent Shout" and "Deep Cuts" [...] will find "Shaking the Habitual"s hybrid of post-punk, techno, industrial, coldwave, drone and electro-pop discomforting", adding, "At "Shaking the Habitual"s core are the processes of deconstruction and reconstruction, so rare in the tradition of mostly reiterative pop music that the album feels transgressive". "The Independent" critic Simon Price described the album as "long [...], strange, disturbing, uncomfortable, challenging. But it never fails to fascinate." Louis Pattison of "NME" expressed, "Sporadically brilliant, perhaps it is The Knife's "Inland Empire"—a fearless piece of work with its own logic, one that shears away all safety nets. Invention, stark and undiluted." Anna Wilson of "Clash" concluded, "Increasingly aggressive and overtly detuned, [Karin and Olof's] individual styles have collided to create something elemental, immense and unsettling. Self-possessed and uncompromising, this is a record with regal bearing." "Rolling Stone"s Jon Dolan wrote that, compared to "Silent Shout", "Shaking the Habitual" "explores even wilder styles of mordantly nutso android bleat". Eric Henderson of "Slant Magazine" viewed that most of the album "consign[s] anything remotely hooky into the realm of affectation", and the lyrics are "delivered by some of Karin's most obtuse vocal performances to date, her sinewy androgynous pipes muscling through slide-whistle octaves fearlessly and tunelessly." Hayden Woolley of "Drowned in Sound" found the album "unnavigable and unknowable, almost impossible to write about and even harder to listen to." "The Guardian"s Alexis Petridis felt that ""Shaking the Habitual"s problem is that the Knife seem to have dismissed the idea of making your point concisely as merely another affectation of a decadent and corrupt society", describing the album as "alternately utterly gripping and unbearably boring; incredibly bold and strangely flaccid, viscerally thrilling and hopelessly over-thought." |
In March 2014, "Shaking the Habitual" won the Nordic Music Prize. |
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Credits adapted from the liner notes of "Shaking the Habitual". |
= = = Villa Sarabhai = = = |
Villa Sarabhai or Villa de Madame Manorama Sarabhai is a modernist villa located in Ahmedabad, India. Designed by the Swiss architect Le Corbusier, it was built between 1951 and 1955. It was built with an austere interior, a typical Le Corbusier design principle. |
It was built for Manorama Sarabhai (sister of Chinubhai Chimanlal), who commissioned in 1951 to build a home for her growing family and was completed in 1955. |
It is located on a verdant 20-acre park owned by Sarabhais. After taking into consideration the local climate conditions which are characterized by wide fluctuations of temperature and humidity, Corbusier decided on the vault as the villa's defining structure. |
= = = Stefan Rüttgeroth = = = |
Stefan Rüttgeroth (born March 4, 1981 in Göttingen, Lower Saxony) is a German sport shooter. He won a gold medal for the men's trap shooting at the 2006 ISSF World Cup in Cairo, Egypt, and bronze at the 2011 ISSF World Cup in Sydney, Australia, accumulating a score of 142 clay pigeons each. |
Ruttgeroth represented Germany at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed in the men's trap shooting, along with his teammate Karsten Bindrich. He scored a total of 113 clay pigeons in the preliminary rounds of the event, by one point behind U.S. shooter Dominic Grazioli from the final attempt, finishing only in twenty-fourth place. |
= = = Nobuya Hoshino = = = |
From 1959 to 1961 he won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships and in the Asian Table Tennis Championships. |
His four World Championship medals included two gold medals in the doubles with Koji Kimura at the 1961 World Table Tennis Championships and in the team event for Japan in 1959. |
= = = DSK Shivajians F.C. = = = |
DSK Shivajians Football Club, founded as Shivajians Sports Club is an Indian football club based in Pune, Maharashtra. The Club is owned by the DSK Group and play in the I-League. |
The club was founded in 1987 in Shivajinagar, Pune by Ashok Vanjari, Manoj Walvekar, Emanuel Jeevan, Moreshwar Dhumal, Viju Deshmukh and Frank Norman as a platform for entertainment and community engagement for the residents of the locality. The Club have played in the top tier of the Pune Football League since their formation in 1987, and have played the I-League from the 2016. A Direct Entry into the League they are immune to relegation for until 2018.. The Club is known for its Youth Development Policy, and is the first Professional Football Club in India to have tied up with a major international football club in Liverpool FC along with whom they run their Academy. |
The Club play their Home Games at the Shree Shiv Chattrapati Sports Complex in Pune, while they train at the DSK Dream City Football Fields in Loni. |
The Club was formed on 6 August 1987, under the name Shivajians Sports Club, by the Late. Ashok Vanjari, Manoj Walvekar, Emanuel Jeevan, Moreshwar (Appa) Dhumal, Viju Deshmukh and Frank Norman. A community club, it served as a platform for competition, entertainment and engagement for locals from the Shivajinagar area in Pune. |
In 1987 itself, the club organized the first ever All India Floodlight Football Tournament, which was held in Pune in the memory of Shri B. B. Walvekar. Teams such as Central Railway – Bombay, Madras Tukes, Bank Of India – Bombay, Sesa Goa, State Bank Of India – Hyderabad, Salsete Goa, Kampti Colonies – Nagpur, Bangalore Eleven, Kerala Police and Cochin Customs which were forces to be reckoned with in the country at the time, all participated in the tournament. |
From 1990 til 2010, the club had dominated the Pune Football Scene. In this period, the club won all the prestigious tournaments held in Pune, including the Dr. Hedgewar Football Tournament, Raja Shiv Chhatrapati Football Tournament, Rupmay Chatterjee Football Tournament, Dada Saheb Chavan Memorial Cup and Guru Teg Bahadur Football Tournament. The club also won many State level and All India Level football tournaments held in the nearby cities of Kolhapur, Gadhinglaj, Miraj, Indore and Akola. |
Staying true to their goal of engaging the community, the Club organised many training programmes and provided scholarships to players from the economically weaker sections of society. |
On 30 April 2010, Shirish Kulkarni, Executive Director of the DSK Group and former Shivajians SC player, was appointed as the President of the club. This was a prelude to the DSK Group's takeover of the club in 2013, which led to it being renamed as DSK Shivajians FC. |
The DSK Group invested heavily in developing infrastructure for the Club at the DSK Dream City Football Fields in Pune, where they created a State-Of-The-Art Fully Residential Training Facility which also houses the DSK Shivajians FC Academy which is run in association with Liverpool FC. |
In 2013, the Club played the I-League 2nd Division under Coach Pradhyum Reddy, but missed out on the Final Round by a point. In 2015, the Club got Corporate Entry into the I-League and under Derrick Perreira they played the 2015–2016 I-League Season where they finished 9th in the league. |
English club Liverpool announced a partnership with DSK Shivajians in India to start their international football academy, with the partnership pertinent in the academy setup only, with academy players trained by coaches representing Liverpool playing for DSK Shivajians U18s. The DSK Shivajians U18 plays in the I-League U18, and the 2014–15 U19 I-League was the first time they are involved in national-level youth team football, partnering Liverpool, and played in the Maharashtra Zone of the league. |
= = = Vente a Alemania, Pepe = = = |
Vente a Alemania, Pepe (Come to Germany, Pepe) is a Spanish film, which was directed by Pedro Lazaga. The premiere was in 1971. |
The films starts in a small village in Aragon, Peralejos. Angelino (José Sacristán), who was born there, comes back from Germany. He boasts about how rich he has become and describes the wonders of that country and its women. He persuades Pepe (Alfredo Landa) to emigrate to that country, so he can improve his life. However, once he is in Munich, he notices that life is harder than expected. |
= = = Wayland Minot = = = |
Wayland Manning Minot (October 23, 1889November 20, 1957) was an American football player. He played college football at Harvard University and was selected as a consensus All-American at the center position in 1909. |
Minot was married in 1913 to Anna Marie Shaughnessy. They had five children, Ruth (born 1914), Wayland, Jr. (born 1915), Anna (born 1918), Elizabeth (born 1922), and Herbert (born 1925). In the late 1920s, he lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and served as Parks Commissioner. In 1930, Cambridge Mayor Richard M. Russell nominated Minot to serve as City Treasurer, but his nomination was rejected by the City Council. Minot later became an investment counselor in Boston, Massachusetts. |
In January 1933, Minot was involved in a late night motor vehicle accident resulting in the death of one of his passengers. He crashed into a draw bridge of the Charles River Dam Bridge, and the vehicle burned. Minot was placed under arrest and charged with manslaughter. Although a police officer testified that the smell of liquor was on Minot's breath, he did not believe Minot was under the influence, and Minot was found not guilty of manslaughter. |
Minot died in November 1957 at his home in Belmont, Massachusetts. |
= = = Yours Truly (Rick Braun album) = = = |