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The Unobserved | Art | Dowsing
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Dispatches From the Great Indoors. Excerpted from a recent 4-channel installation presented as part of. An exhibition organized by the National Sculpture Factory in Cork, Ireland, Sound Artist Stephen Vitiello’s. Sounds of the boiler room, a veritable symphony of sorts. A soundpoem of sorts, about people, and food politics. A musical dialogue decorated with soft constellations of sound. The Sounds of a Country in Exile. Is first a portrait of Jesús Ávila Gainza and his brother Julio.
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The Unobserved | Film
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A Fervid Saturation of Color and Sound. Congolese filmmaker Djo Tunda Wa Munga’s debut film. Paints the waterfront capital of Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa, as a fervid saturation of color and sound, intense with nightclubs, music and corruption. Bill Cunningham New York. Legendary photographer Bill Cunningham, who has observed New York City for 40 years, is the subject of discussion in Richard Press’s and Philip Gefter’s tender documentary,. Bill Cunningham New York. Young Romance In Bohemia.
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The Unobserved | Art
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Dispatches From the Great Indoors. Excerpted from a 4-channel sound installation, Stephen Vitiello’s. Departs from his famed outdoor recordings as a haunting exploration of indoor acoustic atmosphere. A Stop in Displacement. Bangkok is a symbolic half-way point in the long, cross-continental journey between Europe and Australia. Attempts to capture the experience of displacement through weaving together layers of sound, interaction, and observation. Jennie C. Jones. Listening as Art, Art as Listening.
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The Unobserved | Books
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Russell Banks is president of an organization called the International Parliament of Writers (IPW) offering refuge to exiled writers, helping them publish their work. Amy Bloom’s first book of nonfiction,. Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude. Tells the stories of crossdressers, transsexuals, and hermaphrodites, the issues they face and similarities they have. Eric Drookers paintings are seen on covers of the. And numerous other magazines. He is the author of.
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The Unobserved | Theatre
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Past, Present, Future. Laced with Rabindranath Tagore quotes and boasting beautifully restrained soundscapes,. Also pays homage to radio drama’s past through tightly constructed and suspenseful storytelling. Acts as an unexpected coming of age tale, the pursuit of things unknown to us until we find them in a place where our identity is still our own. Originally made in 2005 for Weekend America, explores the anxieties of coincidence and all the fears and awkwardness that can surround public interactions.
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The Unobserved | Theatre | Dreams of India
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Past, Present, Future. By Thomas Lopez aka Meatball Fulton. This classic 1992 radio drama from ZBS productions tells the story of Jack Flanders, an American who travels to India at the urging of a mysterious sharp-tongued woman who says she was sent to New York to find him. After traveling through New Delhi, Bombay, and Bangalore, Jack finds himself in an abandoned painted palace with an entity that seems to know him a little too well. The Dalai Lama in conversation with Dr. Paul Ekman.
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The Unobserved | Culture | Film Weekly Podcast: Frederick Wiseman’s World
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Film Weekly Podcast: Frederick Wiseman’s World. In 1967, when the celebrated documentarist Frederick Wiseman was still a young law professor, he brought his students to Bridgewater Prison for the Criminally Insane so that they might fully feel the importance of their public defence work. He also unintentially sparked his own decades-long career of exploring the violent cultures of control institutions through film. Wiseman’s most recent documentary,. In this piece, part of the Guardian’s.
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The Unobserved | Photography
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David Maisels fascination for forgotten objects led him to photograph the Getty Museums artifact x-ray archive. The ephemeral beauty of the images he produced, question our ideas about history, record, and art. Man's Effect on the Earth. TED Prize winner and photographer Edward Burtynsky has been capturing man’s effect on the earth since he began studying photography. By filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal takes us through his process. Reframing the Old Neighborhood. Larry Sultan: The Valley. Death of a Valley.
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The Unobserved | The Guardian
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Let Them Eat Cake. In this Valentines Day edition of The. We meet longtime singles, and strangers, Brian and Elizabeth. Both are lonely, and both deal with the yearly reminder Valentine’s Day brings of this loneliness in slightly unusual ways. In the Evening, In the Bath. Part of Fuel’s new series of artist-created, time-specific podcasts. Performance artist Kazuko Hohki’s. In the Evening, In the Bath. Was made to be listened to, well, in the evening, from the luxury of a well-drawn bath.
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The Unobserved | The Guardian | Let Them Eat Cake
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Let Them Eat Cake. In this Valentines Day edition of. Boasting astute voice acting, pitch-perfect dialogue, and seamless sound effects to complement its simple story, Mitchell’s piece is a charming listen any day of the year. In the Evening, In the Bath. The twenty-eighth dream (listen to me in the bath). Sounds of Hackney, Afterhours. Nighttime in Hackney: sounds of a borough afterhours. The delicacy of coincidence and the fear of causing fear. The Truth: Moon Graffiti. The Landing Gone Awry.
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