Tóxico Think-Tank: Project No. 001  is about to be launched.
The team is now being formed; and I am thrilled to be working with a very talented young duo of designers: señor Manuel Bueno and monsieur Santiago da Silva, of Combo, who will be project’s creative leaders.
(They also designed the great infographics you see above, presented a few weeks ago to TED attendees.)
More news coming soon.
‘Wrapped Up” is an ongoing photo series of recent building developments in Detroit, by Corine Vermeulen. These images were published in Imaginary Cities, a publication by The Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit (MOCAD).
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The House.
(A little story à propos by Mark Powell.)
Shuttered and quiet the house has a few leaves blowing around and a sparrow has flown up the backside of a small bush near the front door. I kick the bush and instead of moving like a bird should and fly away, the sparrow scurries like a rat and runs to the dark underside of a car parked nearby.
Should I ring? Why should I even think of ringing? I want to ring. The door bell light struggles to seduce me. It is a weak light.
They say babies are born and start remembering past lives, they don’t mimic their parents to learn, they just remember. I stand and look through the hole of a torn curtain in the door and see the dinning room, a crystal chandelier catches a bit of light and twinkles it, showing the dust everywhere, flying around like excited small fruit flies.
It is hard to buy a house at some point, because the buyer may think that this will be the last house he will ever buy. This will be the kind of house where he will end up confined to a soft chair, stiff, staring out a front window everyday, unable to go outside.
This is a nice house and a good price. Yet, I step away–This time.
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(Corine Vermeulen is an Dutch artist and a Tóxico partner in crime, with whom I have done a couple of personal projects. She is now in Colombia for a two-month residency, and we hope to post some of the results here, very soon.)
(Mark Powell is a photographer and–yes, we just discovered recently–also a writer; born in Detroit and now living in Mexico City. Mark took the Tóxico Martin Parr Master Class and the Stefan Ruiz workshop. And he has a new website which we think is great.)
The world’s only expressionist rock band, Pere Ubu presents the musical theatre of Ubu Roi, Alfred Jarry’s 1898 play from which the band is named. Often seen as the theatrical precursor to the Absurdist, Dada and Surrealist art movements, Ubu Roi shocked early audiences with its blend of grotesque absurdity, wild humour and coarse language.
