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2002-2003

Adalsteinn Ingolfsson

Das Boot recently had a conversation with the Icelandic art critic and curator Aðalsteinn Ingólfsson, about his career, Icelandic art, and his involvement in Museum of Design and Applied Art in Iceland.

"Personally, I´ve always had a hard time understanding precisely why public funding of art is less desirable than corporate funding. After all, governments are responsible for the physical and spiritual well-being of its citizens, companies have no such responsibilities. I don´t know why we always assume that they owe us something. A lot of creative work is also utterly uncommercial, raw, painful, shocking – whatever – but it needs to be given a chance to develop. I don´t see many private companies doing that on their own initiative. If art funding had been left largely to the private sector, we probably wouldn´t have the music of John Cage, the theatre of Artaud or the art of Beauys, to name only a few examples of “difficult” art. "

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Object/action figure.

Doug Bergert from the University of Minnesota

Ordinary things contain the deepest mysteries.
- Robin Evans, “Figures, Doors and Passages”

"Despite the thin skin and emptied contents, this object is reluctant to surrender its vacuum-formed form. A robust corporeal engagement is required for access. By probing the material and formal resistances of the bottle, the studio found opportunities to rethink the object and register verbs into its body. In most cases, “to section” was the initial move (a reasonable course for architects in pursuit of information), followed by subsequent, deformative actions. The cumulative effect is a set of things that allow new opportunities for engagement and behavior..."

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A fluctuation in time.

Das Boot/Olafur Thordarson

At the end of September the Whitney Museum in New York organized a concert where musicians Theo Bleckman and Skuli Sverrisson performed. Sverrisson operated his electronic gizmo parallel with his bass, while Bleckman performed using his vocals with miscellaneous toys and tape recordings each generating this surprisingly rich aural structure.

Certain people were visibly bothered and left the concert early, reminding

On Stage in NYC

Theater column by Elfin Vogel.

This theatre column appears occasionally in Das Boot. It contains reviews of stage productions of all kinds, observations and the occasional rant on various theatre related topics.
"...This play, which lifts the "A," a few themes, but little else from Hawthorne, is an unpleasant, gory for the sake of goriness, overloaded thesis play which in the end fails to make much of a point, except perhaps that abortion is abominable and ultimately really infanticide, no matter what the women's movement may have said about choice all these many years.." [On Stage]

Who´s Afraid of Robots?

by Kristinn Thorisson

"Why are people afraid of artificial intelligence? Maybe they think that if we can create an artificial human we will have proven once and for all that humans are nothing more than fancy machines. Browsing the bookstores brings forth countless examples of authors with purported “proof” that humans are oh-so-much more than “simple algorithms”. Using any half-baked argument in sight, from religion to metaphysics, why would they spend the energy trying to convince their readers of this? Clearly, they are afraid that they might turn out to be wrong. So we have to assume that this is quite possible. Should that be the case, it brings up the question how – in the future – we would tell difference between human and robotic behavior. My argument would be to say that it’s *already* hard to tell, when, after all, the majority of people behave like robots, mindlessly copying each other on almost everything: Going after the latest fashion, buying junk food with dangerous additives, upgrading their computers whenever the advertisements tell them to..."

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me of this friend who long time ago described Sverrisson’s music as torture. Going to a Knitting Factory concert of his a long time ago, I actually found his work as beautiful as I’d find ordinary daily listening experiences that I’d notice since my early childhood. In a way this experience is changed, artfully sliced and manipulated generated into this beautiful music.
I was as always struck by Sverrisson’s powerful subtleties as an innate bassist. Instead of remaining in a background beat, he manages to create an electronic surrounding of sound with incredible complexity that engulfs these works in progress.

Sverrisson has developed his music into a very identifiable and distinct structure. It travels in a seeming random yet consistent flux from one concert through another in different time, different spaces, different members interweaving into his musical strength...

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Current Features
	By using dancers as part of an abstract composition, photographer Agusto Murrillo is able to complete his visions and stories. The use of mixed media to complete an image is not unusual for him or darkroom manipulation to extract the raw emotions of an image. Projecting slides through his subjects, Murrillo creates the illusion of a three dimensional photograph. This is Murrillo’s focus, to create an interactive photograph to transcend the viewer into his visionary world.		´Each place is of its own atmosphere, where perceptions of reality are specific to the individual experience. The photograph transfers the initial experience – places it out of the original context, out of ones mind, and into a new whole, creating a different narrative. As within the memory where places of the past gain a fictional present. The real blending in with the distorted… .´
Hlynur Atlason	Agusto Murrillo	Christina Hale	Hulda Stefansdottir

In New York City through September we remind you of the River to River Festival. Free events with cultural, arts, comedy, art and music. See: rivertorivernyc.org for further information.

Katrín Elvarsdóttir (8/01) will have an exhibition at Galleri Skuggi in Reykjavik,
Iceland, June 29 - July 14, 2002. Press release

Please e-mail us if you know of changes to this listing or any other events of note you would like to post.

O’Connor & Vogel: Guy & Doll with Brian Tom O’Connor & Debra Vogel. Musical Director and Pianist Darryl Curry. Directed by Elfin Frederick
Mon 6/17, Mon 6/ 24, Mon 7/1, Thu 7/11 Thu 7/18, Thu 7/25, Sun 9/15 4:30, Sun 9/22 6:30, Thu 10/10 7:00, Mon 10/14 7:30, Mon 10/ 21 7:00, Sat 10/26 6:30
343 West 46th Street
7:00 PM 212-757-0788

Highly recommended: After 9/11 Solutions to a saner world captures the cutting edge of the conversation that followed in various media. Authors include Barbara Kingsolver
Bill Moyers, Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Arianna Huffington, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Arundhati Roy, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Tom Robbins, Naomi Klein, Mark Hertsgaard, Vice Admiral Jack Shanahan, Robert Reich. Published by alternet.org

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Material-Connexion (the world's most definitive resource for new and innovative materials and processes) presents Bayer's Fantasia product designs and prototype displays. On view at Material-Connexion, 127 West 25th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10001. From September 4th-...

NEST 60" x 92", oil on canvas, 2002
Painter Etugrul Ates is exhibiting at the Belenky Gallery and Y-Image, 151 Wooster Street, Soho New York 10012. tue-Sat 10:30-5:45, Sun 12-5:45. Up from May 16 through July 16, 2002.

John Elder Gallery presents sculptor Bruno Laverdiere, September 3-28, 2002. 529 West 20th Street, NY, NY 10011.

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Designer Josh Owen 01-00 recently launched his xox table, manufactured and sold by Bozart.

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das boot feature: Eric Cobb

Architect Eric Cobb has been active since we featured him in 1998 and his house "Cobb residence". Since then, his body of work has grown to 14 built or being- built buildings. These are residences in the Seattle area, made of glass, steel and concrete. Sculptural

structures, intricately composed via engineering, design and architectural composition. We had a brief conversation with Eric about his works.

das boot feature:

Kathleen Brooks: Recent works.

“My work is defined by my love of color, line and contrasting textures. I am fascinated by the edges formed in a painting when various colors and materials meet. I began using the colors pink and brown as basic signifiers of my color and sex while I was studying at RISD. For health reasons I stopped using oil paint and solvents and began working with the vast world of supplies that

comprise ‘mixed media’. I enjoy the laborious process of accumulating bits of color and materials to form a whole image. I often become completely engrossed in the detail while envisioning the total composition and am pleasantly surprised by the changes that occur in a piece as it takes on a life of its own.”

Photography exhibition including works by Veretta Cobler will open at the

Greeley Street Gallery in New York March 7, 6-9pm.

A book signing for Erotic Photography will take place on 7-9pm at 28 E. 23rd Street, New York. (Veretta's works are on p. 438-443)

Scandinavia House presents: Strictly Swedish, design exhibition at 58 Park Avenue at 38th Street. Open tue-sat 12-6. January 23-April 7, 2002.

Max Protech Gallery presents A New World Trade Center. Architects solutions to the designing of the site. 511 W 22nd Street, NY NY. January 17-February 16, 2002. See Kent Hikida's commentary.

"Disappointing Visions for a New World Trade Center" Architect
Kent Hikida discusses the current Max Protech show

The Knitting Factory, presents: Skuli Sverrisson and Jim Black, play on February 23rd. Check on Jim Black's web page for other updates.

das boot feature: aardvarchitecture

The work of aardvarchitecture: Lynnette Widder and Christian Volkmann carries the mark of its origins in the chance crossing of its authors' paths. Perspective

PAcHORA, one of the top Jazz ensembles in Manhattan plays on tour throughout Europe during late January and early February, to play at TONIC, New York City on February 22nd or 23rd. 107 Norfolk Street. Details TBA

U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft is apparently an art critic:

and diagram, detail and spatial conception, structural logic and order of construction are generated, and generate, simultaneously within the design process. Memories and impressions of study, work and life in Berlin, Zurich, Lugano and New York contribute to the synthesis.

"Practice in New York is by nature modest." Their projects define and resolve a

conceptual under-
standing commensurate to the scale of the work: a loft, a small weekend house, a public pool. Their competition work is no less practical than their realized work, which is no less conceptual than projects they have only been able to speculate on. The work is considered a tangible proposition, whether or not it is physicalized; and the intellectual content is imanent, not applied, to the issues at stake.

das boot feature: Gregory Beylerian

Artist Gregory Beylerian has established a body of works integrating the digital arts. Working on images with the method of a contemporary artist that utilizes cutting edge technology fused with more traditional processes. He spontaneously stirs together photographic

images and painting with his own poetry. His commissions include large murals in theaters. These are produced as very large custom printouts using the latest advances in printing technologies.

World Trade Organization Protests in New York City:
Central Labor Coucil on Thursday Jan 31, 4:30pm outside GAP on 54th and Fifth Ave. / Anti-Capitalist convergence Friday Feb 1st on Union Square 6-9pm / Also at FIT, TBA. / Protest march on Saturday Feb 2nd beginning at 59th and Fifth, down Lex to 53rd. / W.E.F. Counter summit 9 a.m. – 10

p.m. A weekend-long meeting at Columbia University (Lerner Hall, 115th Street and Broadway) includes workshops and addresses for students / Rally in Support of Haitian Workers Friday, February 1 @ 5pm - 6pm Remy Amerique, 1350 Av of the Americas and 44th St / WTO meeting is at Waldorf-Astoria Park and Lex.

ONGOING EVENTS OF NOTE:

Please e-mail us if you know of changes to this listing or any other events of note you would like to post.

Currently at Akureyri Art Museum, Katrin Elvarsdottir: Mórar. Photography exhibition.

Icelandic Sunna Gunnlaugs Quartet (Jazz), playing at Scandinavia House, New York, Friday April 26, 8pm.

The exhibition Massin in Continuo: A Dictionary will open Friday April 12, 2002 at UCLA Media Arts Department. curated by Laetitia Wolff.

Resonance in 3D, Durham Art Guild, 120 Morris Street, Durham NC, 919 560 2713, with Icelandic sculptor Kristin Gudjonsdottir along with Ursula Goebels-Ellis and Dawn Stetzel. April 4-May 12, 2002. www.durhamartguild.org

Museum of Design and Applied Art introduces Olafur Thordarson: Í MYND; Design: Drawings and smaller objects. March 30-May 12, 2002 at Gardatorg, Gardabae, Iceland. www.mudesa.org

Spessi -Landscapes, roebling hall, 390 Wythe Ave. at So. 4th St., Brooklyn tel. 718 599 5352, Icelandic Photographer Exhibition. march 16 to april 15

Columbia University School of Architecture Presents: A World Trade Center Forum. Friday, Feb 1, 2002 from 1:30-6:30pm and Saturday, Feb 2 from 9:30-6pm. Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall. / Case studies in urban intervention: (All following lectures Monday, 6:30 pm, Wood): February 4th: Lisbon The earthquake of 1755 and urban recovery. / February 18th Chicago Fire of 1871. / March 4th Hiroshima / March 11 Rotterdam and Plymouth //

March 25: Berlin / April 1: Sarajevo, Dubrovnik, Vukovik, Belgrade. / April 8: Jerusalem / April 15: New York / click here for more details on these lectures

anyware design exhibition: Jan 19th-Feb 24th at L Art Gallery, 608 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211.

Laetitia Wolff
(das boot March 1999)
Cooper Union, 7 E 7th Street at 3rd Ave presents:
Massin in Continuo: A Dictionary curated by Laetitia Wolff. Massin, an expressive Typography artist. Dec 17, 2001- March 2, 2002. On Jan 28; 6:30-10pm; a dialogue between Milton Glaser and Massin followed by an opening reception at the Herb Lubalin Study Center, 2nd Floor. / Mind Matters The National

Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD Artworks) January 18, - February 10, 2002, Great Hall Gallery. / The Storm, work by Architect Lebbeus Woods
January 1, 2002 - February 1, 2002.

John Elder Gallery presents an exhibition with the works of Olafur Thordarson, various objects, including installation welcome with noted musician Skuli Sverrisson. John Elder Gallery, Gallery 1, 529 West 20th Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10011. www.johnelder.com 212 462 2600, Tue-Sat 11-6. Exhibition Dec 15-Feb 2.

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Note from the editors: Because of the recent events at the World Trade Center and the subsequent upheaval of our neighborhood, these pages have not been updated for a while. We were evacuated and later relocated our business. While we are getting our feet back on the ground, we are preparing our next issue for February 1st, 2002. In the meantime please review our last issues. Peace. November 2001. Photo: © Olafur Thordarson

View from our window, about 300 yards away

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KATIA LAFITTE

The works by French architect Katia Lafitte clearly connect the two worlds of sculpture and architecture. They stand on their own and do not require much verbal narrative, as they seem to radiate their own story. Each of these small scaled and powerful works convey convey a sense of imaginary location, a potent poetic impact. They all share an innate sense of place and being. A vernacular that belongs to Katia Latiffe's creative mind. The architecture is conveyed through rigorous and courageous explorations of architectural forms, construction, verticality. These expressive objects are on one level pure yet rough and spontaneous, while the level of control is very sophisticated.

Lafitte's results are truly inspiring and question politically the realms of architecture and

KATRÍN ELVARSDOTTIR

Katrín Elvarsdóttir was born in 1964 in Ísafjördur, Iceland. Over the last decade Katrín's work has spanned a wide range of media and topics, from fashion and editorial photography to computer art and multimedia. Her work has been exhibited in Europe and the U.S.; her digitally manipulated
Polaroid transfers can be found in the private

sculpture, never embracing clearly the of one or the other. A welcome input into the world of architecture. OTh

"This World 2" by Katrín Elvarsdóttir

collections of LEGO and other collectors across Europe and the U.S. Katrin has lectured on visual art and taught at the Kolding DesignSchool, Denmark, and the International Business Academy. Her artwork has appeared in

numerous publications including Scanorama (Sweden), IN (Denmark), Euroman (Denmark), Stuff Magazine (USA), "O" (Iceland), and DNR (USA). Katrin currently lives in New York.

n 1998, Das boot started with a poem. Soon there followed an excerpt from a novel. Following this was an architects house and paintings of an internationally active painter. Das boot inadvertently evolved into a web entity that currently represents dozens of artists with a truly indiscriminate range of works. We concentrate on the quality of a cultural entity that das boot now stands for. It keeps a log on upcoming competitions and grants while quarterly announcing the featured artists. The variety and quality of work keeps intriguing us as we continue inviting individuals into das boot. Please click on the main page and explore the variety and depth of these works.

Current feature

This August-October issue features two artists. We are currently in the process of considering artists for our November-January feature. For information or an application form, e-mail us at: dasboot@dingaling.net

OF NOTE:

ACE Gallery New York: Hiro Yamagata: NGC6093 light exhibition extended through October 2001. 275 Hudson Street, New York NY 10013.

John Elder Gallery presents: Gallery 1 Arnold Zimmerman, Gallery 2 Andy Buck, Gallery 3 Cynthia Consentino. Opening Friday, September 7th, 2001, Reception for the Artists
6 - 8pm, 529 West 20th Street, 7W, New York, NY 10011

Design:

Rhode Island School of Design: Advanced design studio. Design investigations into elevator concepts.

Mies van der Rohe Berlin works at the Moma, through September 11, 2001

Frank Gehry architecture exhibition runs through August 26th at The Guggenheim. Well worth the trip.

Henry Urbach Gallery: An Te Liu-Condition, John deFazio-Starbong. Sept 11-Oct 20, 2001. 526 W 26th Street, NY, NY.

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DESIGN LABORATORIES

Founders of Design Laboratories, architects Karen Frome and David

Ruff, base their practice in New York City. Their work spans from theoretical investigations of culture to built projects. The firm creates spaces that reflect social conditions as well as offering multi-valent experiences. Das Boot presents here three of their projects that are of particular interest: The Urban Ivy project, The Cohen Loft and "Life Forms" studies.
Design Laboratories in-

PHILIP HERTER

New York writer Philip Herter has his poetry and writings regularly published in periodicals around the United States. His works are ironic and powerful with an intelligent keen eye on our daily behaviors. His creations may take you on a tour to our normalcy, our daily boredom while he extracts from this some bizarre interpretations of our insignificant routine moments. The excitement of grass growing becomes an event in Herter's work, coupled with his head-on remarks on the futility of our lives. These poems are humorous and spiteful to the nerves of those who think they've

tegrates advances in digital and mechanical technology into their work. Rather than express this technology formally, they are committed to the latent incorporation of technology to explore the established tenets of architecture. Their work seeks to use the most current procedures to create phenomenological experiences of materials, light and space.

Their Urban Ivy project (above) creates a permeable façade comprised of cast cement tiles. The silicon mold for the tiles was developed to customize the profile of each tile and to accentuate the plastic quality ...

In their Cohen Loft project, the surfaces of the art collector space are treated like canvases...

Their work includes dispersion at different scales and with varying materials.

In "Life Forms", Design Laboratories re-contextualize the cataloguing and collection process into a form of building. They seek to create a new methodology for construction and conceiving form. This data varies from the pictorial to the written; the political to the aesthetic.

figured out the path in their life.

Herter presented us with a this portion of his exciting works entitled "Seven Lucky Poems", below being a portion from "Ann Arbor".

"ANN ARBOR"

Every moment of every day greeny plants inch

across the sidewalk.

Ferns and flowers jam

the wheels and snap the spokes

of the wheels

A revolving time and temperature

spins the necks of the music students

to the strains of "The Godfather"

Philip Herter

MARIE-LOUISE BROGGI

Montreal based painter Marie-Louise Broggi has for a number of years worked on a comprehensive series of digital paintings generated on the computer. Her work is intuitive, devising multiple layering, collapses of scales, barely

discernible messages to figures expressing emotional states sometimes left for the observer to interpret. Although Broggi's work

is varied and diverse in nature, there is a consistency that binds her works together into a whole. These works take time to decipher and as such they are expressive on multiple levels. It is as they are improvised during different time segments in the process of their creation. Her accurate and bold strokes embody the variety of new tools available to makers of computer imagery while her works stand as a force to be reckoned with.

ALEJO RUOCCO

Venezuelan lighting designer Alejo Ruocco is currently working out of New York City. His designs explore the use

of readily available materials composed into simple and playful objects. His work has been seen around New York and at The International Biennial Design Festival in France last year. Ruocco's materials are composed around a simple idea and always remain with a strong sense of clarity of reading. We will take a look at Ruocco's recent objects and

OF NOTE:

Exhibition at the John Elder Gallery: David Hess Sculptor and Tetsuya Yamada. March 8 thru April 21st. 529 West 20 Street, NYC.

Origamic Architecture at The American Craft Museum, 5/18-9/2 2001, 40 West 53rd Street, New York, NY. Works by 145 international artists.

The International Contemporary Furniture Fair will be held May 19th-May 22, 2001. at the Jacob Javits Center, NYC.

Parsons School of Design will have its Annual Senior Thesis Exhibition for The Interior Design Department. April 11-20, 2001. 2 West 13th Street, NYC.

Scandinavia House: Faces and Figures, Contemporary photography in Scandinavia April 20-July 29, 2001. Opening April 18, 6-8 (invite). Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue (at 38th Street), NYC.

The Art Directors Club will open its Young Guns III exhibition. Opens Thursday April 5-May 10, 2001. 106 West 29th Street, NYC.

Benoit Mandelbrot (Fractal Geometry) lecture Friday, April 6 at 7:00 at the Cooper Union, NYC.

Scry Agency by Constance De Jong, Tony Conrad, April 5+6, 8:00, Thread Waxing Space, 476 Broadway 2nd Floor, NYC.

Henry Urbach Architecture presents: PULSE. Reception Thursday May 17th 6-8pm. May 15-June 29

This April-June by das boot features a diverse group of artists. We are still in the process of considering artists for our July- September feature. For information or an application form, e-mail us at: dasboot@dingaling.net

THERE WILL BE NO FEATURES BETWEEN JANUARY AND MARCH 2001, IN APRIL WE WILL BE FEATURING ARTISTS ON A QUARTERLY BASIS WITH A NEW FORMAT.

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ALI SOLTANI AND FRANCINE LECLERCQ

DAS BOOT recently met with Ali Soltani and Francine Leclercq, in their Murray Hill studio in New York. They are New York architects and designers whose works have been exhibited and published in The United States and in Europe. The bulk of their work remains in the fields of architecture, furniture design and painting. Their architecture is of particular interest for our das boot feature and we take a look at some of their recent architectural works.

INTERVIEW

The Last House

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LAURENT ELIE BADESSI

Mr. Badessi is a French photographer exploring the relationships between the human body, nature and light. His models set against striking backgrounds of natural geological formations bring out a feeling of the human as somewhat alien yet part of these surroundings. These works all have in common a desire to establish a connection with the dissimilar elements. The results are at a level of discovering creation.

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JULIE PAYETTE

Montreal; Mount Royal, Genesis of a City.
The architectural and technological installation by the group AVEC bridged the gap between past and future, mountain and Montreal city, and between the city and its residents and visitors.

Henry Urbach Gallery (HUA) presents Synesthesia and Ezra Stoller photographs. Oct 12-Nov 4, 2000.

Public Art Fund presents Tony Oursler installation of video audio and sculpture. Wed Oct 25th at the Great Hall in Cooper Union, @3rd Avenue and 7th Street

Futureflair presents various designers at StEtienne Biennale France, oct 7-15. Works include Ali Soltani+Francine Leclercq and Olafur Thordarson

Moss introduces COBAN RS05 espresso maker by Richard Sapper, October 14 12:00-14:00 at Moss Gallery, 146 Greene Street.

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DOOR STUDIO

This unique design studio was taught at the Industrial Design department at the Rhode Island School of Design. It was an investigation into possibilities inherent in this object most often taken for granted in our daily routines. With 12 students, the studio explored existing doors, experimented with what environmental phenomena could equate a door as a passage, a threshold, a closure that defines an operable boundary. The studio scrutinized placements, mechanics, potential material uses, and how a door could be something one would not expect. Taught in fall 1999 by Olafur Thordarson and Karen Frome.

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Spatial Mediations: Collaboration of Claudia Hill, Asymptote Architecture and Skuli Sverrisson. 542 W 21 St, NYC. Sept 16, 9pm

John Elder Gallery presents Claque, Wunderlich and Knoblauch, metal, glass, ceramic works. September 8 - October 21, 2000.
529 West 20^th Street, 7W, New York, NY 10011, 212-462-2600

On Tuesday, September 19, 6:30 PM, The Museum of Modern Art presents a panel discussion with Robert Luchetti, Bruce Mau, Aura Oslapas and John Thackara. For the upcoming exhibition "Workspheres, Designing the Workplace of Tomorrow" (Feb 8 - May 8, 2001).
11 W 53 Street, Titus 2 Theater

Henry Urbach Architecture presents: From Outside/From Inside and Entropia, Sept 12-Oct 7. 526W 26 St 10Fl

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Vilma Mare, fashion show in the Sony Style Store, 550 Madison Avenue and 56 Street 7PM. Thursday Sept 14 at 11:55pm RSVP vilmamare@quinto.com

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ELENA CARLINI AND PIETRO VALLE

Italian architects Elena Carlini and Pietro Valle have worked both in the United States and Italy. They have curated numerous exhibits on artists and architects from around the world. Das boot here showcases some of their diverse works, which ranges from buildings to exhibit designs on both continents.

Glass works from various Canadian artists. Opening on Friday June 2^nd, through July 1^st 2000. John Elder Gallery, 529 West 20^th Street, 7W, New York, NY 10011, 212-462-2600

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Painter Francine Leclercq (Boot 1999) has had her work accepted for inclusion in Philadelphia's Allentown Art Museum's 27th juried show and the museum's collection. The show, juried by Judith Tannenbaum, will run from July 15 (opening reception) to early September.

Press release; Mount Royal, Montreal: Genesis of a City. An architectural and technological installation by Avec.

SOFA, Artists and artisans presented by various galleries from around the world. New York --Park Avenue Armory, located at Park Avenue and 67^th Street June1st – 4^th

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ANTOINE VERGLAS

French photographer Antoine Verglas was born in Paris in 1962 and moved to New York in 1990. He is in high demand in the fashion world as his unique style has propelled his creations onto the covers of numerous magazines like Maxim and GQ. He has captured models like Claudia Shiffer and Cindy Crawford. Verglas keeps ahead of his competition with a clear definition and a quality unique only to his eye. Das Boot here features a small selection of his photographs and a portion of his magazine covers.

Recommended new music :
Pachora: , including Skuli Sverrisson (das boot July 1999), Skuli Sverrisson solo on June 1st at the Tonic NYC

Reminder:
Director Elfin Vogel's play DEWPOINT, opens this May 11th at The Hudson Guild Theater on 26th Street in Manhattan.

Culture & Commerce and Material Connexion present Marcel Wanders and Stefan Lindfors 5/24-8/31 2000 at Material Connexion, 4 Columbus Circle, 4th floor, NY NY.

Murray Moss, Moss Gallery presents White Gold, Porzellan-Manufaktur Nymphenberg. Opening monday May 22nd, 6:30-8:30 at Moss 146 Greene Street, New York, NY

Process/Product, exhibition by Program. Opening May 19th 7-10 at Taba Gallery, 116 West Houston Street, New York, NY

Tucker Robbins invites you to Ginanneschi photographs. Opening Thursday May 25, 6:30-9:00. Tucker Robbins 366 West 15th Street 5th Floor New York, NY.

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HERVE NAHON

Das boot has the pleasure of presenting you these beautiful works of Hervé Nahon, who is a French artist living and working in Marseille. His works have been shown internationally in France, England, Germany and Iceland. His art work includes installations, video, photography and sculpture. See here a few of his ephemeral sculptures, created with melting wax, melting ice, dissolving salt and electric lights.

Ephemeral Sculpture

Writer Einar Orn Gunnarsson (das boot oct 1998) has just been selected as an Iceland representative to travel the UNESCO sponsored LITERATURE EXPRESS EUROPE 2000 train. In this train voyage, using their own language, writers explore Europe from Lissabon thru Moscow during the summer of 2000.

Must see:
Director Elfin Vogel's play DEWPOINT, to open on May 11th at The Hudson Guild Theater on 26th Street in Manhattan.

Halla Gunnarsdottir, Works from Mexico and Italy, Rec Saturday April 1st 7:30 at SMF 126 st Marks Place, New York City.

John Elder Gallery presents April 6th-May 26, 2000:Stephen Whittlesey, Mitch Ryerson, Hoss Haley, Christina Shmigel, Tom Joyce, David Secrest. 529 West 20th Street, 7 Floor, New York City (212) 462-2600

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HARVEY TULCENSKY

New York artist Harvey Tulcensky was presented to das boot by free lance writer Laetitia Wolff (das boot 1999). Tulcensky's photography is on one hand careful while on the other highly spontaneous. His images seem to capture space and motion through observation. He has a strong sensibility for how light affects one's perception of place. Many of his images are extremely stoic in nature. Some have such minimal lighting, they're barely legible. Other images express motion and high tension while always refering to particular and very real places. His way of capturing images of "subjects" show his creative sensuality.

Text entitled "In the still of the night", by Laetitia Wolff.

Runway #1, Fort Lauderdale, 1978

In the still of the night

Streaks of light - preferably cold artificial light - segment the space in distinct, abstract volumes, accentuating the very architectural nature of his vision... Laetitia Wolff

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ELFIN FRIEDRICH VOGEL

New York Director Elfin Friedrich Vogel was born in Wuppertal, Germany. After high school he left his native country to study violin and classical guitar in Switzerland, interrupting his life there with extended stays in Italy and France. In 1978 he moved to New York, where his focus shifted from music to theatre.

Elfin Vogel has given equal focus in his stage projects to new plays and important plays of the 20th Century as to the classics.

Elfin's next project is DEWPOINT, a new play by Vincent Sessa, and his third collaboration with this playwright. Elfin Frederick Vogel's productions have been reviewed in publications such as the Village Voice and the New York Post, he has also been featured in various radio programs such as WBRK and WAMC

"Each decade we rediscover ourselves in Shakespeare's plays. Ten years ago, Iago was a video-camera sporting, voyeuristic psychopath, Othello an abusive husband, who's insulted machismo left him no choice but murder. Would I direct OTHELLO this way today? I cannot say, except that to direct the same Shakespearean play more than once as I have done with OTHELLO and with A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM is the greatest challenge and most intensive road to discovery imaginable."

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JOSH OWEN

Josh Owen was born in the United States in 1970. The son of an archaeologist, he spent the summers of his youth on excavations in Israel. He holds a BFA in Sculpture and a BA in Visual Studies from Cornell University and an MFA in Furniture Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has studied at Tel Aviv University and in Rome. Owen has been the recipient of several design awards and has shown his furniture and lighting designs at the Paris Furniture Fair, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York City and the Material Connexion, also in New York City. He currently teaches product design at Philadelphia University and is the principal of owenlogikdesign, an industrial design studio located in Philadelphia, PA. Some of his innovative furniture and lighting designs are available through Minima and soon through Umbra.

biomorph lamp, aluminum and polypropylene hose, 1997

Owen's works change our expectations as we come into contact with them ; He reconfigures our reading of the given, he restructures our perception, he brings in a bit of Midas into industrial design.

Thorri Hringsson´s works are featured in the Millennium exhibit at Listasafn Islands National Gallery of Iceland in Reykjavik. T