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Os Tibetanos Restaurant Lisbon

Mónica Boixeda Food and Drink in Lisbon, Lisboeta, Only-Be

Next to the Botanical Garden of Lisbon, in the same house where there´s a Buddhist school. Specialized in vegetarian food from Tibet and Nepal.

Annika Ström at the CAAC in Seville

Mónica Boixeda Only-Be, Sevillian

Until the 11th of September, the Seville Center of Contemporary Art (CAAC) is presenting the work of Annika Ström. The show, titled Song by., is a part of the museum´s “La Canción como Fuerza Social Transformadora ” project. During the 20th century, popular music went hand in hand with all the revolutionary movements, like a motor for mobilization, and catalyst for transforming dreams. This is how music and culture transformed in spheres of ideological struggle, with many artists´ work being defined by their support or condemnation for certain political positions; they were art works and music which included a kind of kind of social compromise. During the Spanish Civil War, music was a crucial part of the trenches; it accompanied the political processes which culminated in the defeat of the Republic – and it was an emotional and political trigger for resistance and exile from the Franco dictatorship. In the same way, the revolutions in the 60s taking place in far flung places round the world became a kind of mode of inspiration; a motor for creators of revolutionary music, such as Violeta Parra and Víctor Jara in Latin America. This special role which music takes is what this exhibition seeks to analyze and investigate, through the work of artists who work with music as an explorative vehicle for new concepts in a post-modern society. With this in mind, the museum has centered its show around two conceptual artists whose work is based on the idea of music as an explorer of emotion and behaviour; Annika Ström and Ruth Ewan. Annika Ström was born in Helsingborg, Sweden in 1964.... read more

Rock Seine Festival in Paris

Mónica Boixeda Only-Be, Parisian

How much further are they going to take it? I mean, what is modern music all about now? Modern meaning Pop. If we analyze a little the patterns and trends of the development of pop music over the last 60 years, we see that it´s not just all about piecing together sounds and images, creating and producing records for the young people who scream for Elvis, The Beatles, and so on… The strange thing about those early days was the impact of those artists on daily life; something which in general you don´t see so much today. That´s to say, however much a cultural phenomenon Lady Gaga might be, she is far more of a construction, taking iconography to fetishistic levels. Her invention is nothing more than a remix of a mixture; Ziggy Stardust must be turning in his grave… Nowadays, pop is nothing but a cog in the wheels of the system- nothing but a silly game we all play, but don´t really understand. Indie Rock doesn´t count for much either. With the massive turnover of record labels, blogs, websites, the death of Myspace, the rise of Facebook, and all the other social networks you can think of, the sound of music all around the world is pretty much sold out, and exhausted. On the one hand, the mp3 is practical, useful, as a form of recreation in amongst that whole tangle of musical formats, but nevertheless it is bound to represent art, or knowledge in an inferior way. The spirit of recent vinyl has meant that monsters like Lady Gaga edit in vinyl, because if not, they... read more