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Dcode Festival in Madrid

Mónica Boixeda Madrilenian, Only-Be

And after a gap of some years, the DCode Festival will be held again on at the University Complutense of Madrid. With an innovative approach, this appointment is waiting for you on the 24th and 25th of June to enjoy music and art. If you like and follow this groove, you should attend the avant-garde music DCode Festival to be held in Madrid on 24th and 25th of June. This year DCode returns with new vigor after several years of absence, thanks to an agreement with the Complutense University of Madrid signed with promoter Live Nation to deliver this proposal that is a tradition among lovers of art and music. The proposal that inspires DCode is part of a new philosophy: to create a mixed space where music and art are to meet new and renowned artists to display and share their artworks. Concerts will be held at the Cantarranas Sports Complex behind the School of Information Sciences at the Complutense University. The exhibition Art Barte will be open from June 10 at the Centro de Arte C. Art Barte is an innovative exhibition that integrates the audience with the artists through the exchange. The artworks in the exhibition are not sold for money, but they are exchanged by means of barter, so attendees must have previously thought well what to offer for an artwork. Bids will be made at the end of the exhibition and the artists may accept or reject offers of goods and services the viewers may make. An innovation is that viewers don’t know the names of the creators of the artworks until the end... read more

Encyclopedia of Istanbul

Mónica Boixeda Istanbulite, Only-Be

Few places in the world have given us so much literature throughout time as Istanbul, the ancient capital of Byzantium. Of all the books that inspired the city, perhaps the most unique is the huge project of writing an encyclopedia of Istanbul, the first encyclopedia of the world on a city, conceived in 1944 by the Turkish writer and city lover Re?at Koçu Ekrem (1905-1975). It was a massive project which combined in an unforgettable way literature and history through a seductive mix of strange stories, interesting facts, accurate information and almanac material, creating a wonderful tapestry in which he emphasized the image of a city that invited you into a journey of fantasy and longing. Koçu spent his entire childhood witnessing the gradual disintegration of the Ottoman state and the condemnation of Turkey to poverty of which it would take decades to recover from. This painful decline of the city probably conditioned the melancholy and bitter tone of his writings although if he thought that Istanbul was the only thing that consoled him from feeling defeated in life. In the encyclopedia, there is a sensual tour of homoeroticism where visual recreation of the beauty of the bodies of the young boys that roam the streets is present. Memorable episodes were collected as the feat of the balancing acrobat that due to the the celebrations of the circumcision of Prince Mustafa in the eighteenth century crossed the Golden Horn on a wire stretched between the masts of two ships. Or stories like the creation of a cemetery of executioners in the meadows of Karyagdi as they were not being... read more

Pierre Huyghe at CaixaForum – Barcelona

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

CaixaForum – Barcelona has a special program for summer: From the 17th of June until the 14th of August, the exhibition Streamside Day Follies (2003) by Pierre Huyghe. Huyghe is one of the most important French video and film artists. His works are inspired in enigmas that lead the spectators to imagine certain evocative images, from which he approaches to the cinema structure. In his work Streamside Day Follies (2003), Huyghe discusses the relationship between cinema and reality, transforming fiction into a potential reality that is the consequence of a visual architecture invented by the artist. His purpose is to explore the emergence and construction of different forms of tradition and its relation with some ritualistic social expressions in the contemporary culture. This work shows images of the construction process of Streamside Knolls, an American housing complex, as well as the party that took place during its inauguration. It’s a metaphor or a reality of the modern methods for the construction of a community, including all rituals that are involved in the process. Pierre Huyghe was born in 1962 in Paris, France. He studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. The development of his interesting career has led him to exhibit his works at the best museums in the world. His favorite topics are madness, leisure, adventure and the celebration of creation. One of his artistic obsessions is the cinema as a generator and transformer element of memory. Perhaps his most interesting work in the field of cinema is the video based on the bank robbery that appears in the movie Dog Day Afternoon (1975)... read more