HAVE YOUR SAY! Community Photography Project- 18 August

Great Suffolk Street Event- Better BankSide - I worked in a photography project on Great Suffolk street.

In a collaborative projects everyone surely trying to get something out of it.
In these type of projects the outcome is also extremely important.
Lesson is discuss all details in advance+make a proper plan+study the outcome+choose your colleague wisely.

The project details can be found at http://www.betterbankside.co.uk/news/urban-forest-news/2512-great-suffolk-street-august-update or http://aniabas.blogspot.com/2011/09/bankside-urban-forest-creative.html
More photos here>

Topolski Art Festival 29+30+31 July 2011

I exhibited at this 3 days London South Bank Art Festival. For more info please google Topolski Century Gallery. Here is my artwork(photo taken by FJ Riego).

I-SHO (I's She's Hers and Ours) Feminist Art

I have organised and curated this exhibition with Caroline Halliday, Zoe Clifford and 6 months of hard work and concentration paid off, as the PV was fantastic on 8th July. The exhibition had another private view on 17th July in the afternoon , then 2 workshops on 23rd July. Stoke Newington library gallery hosted challenging and various artworks done by 56 women artists from many different countries. Some works came from Belgium, Chili, Mexico, Canada.
Over 1000 visitors noted. There were discussions and talks with artists. Exhibition catalogue is available on lulu.com> http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/i-sho-final/16161562?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/1

LOCAL An exhibition by SNAG Private View: Thursday 7th April 2011, 6-9pm Friday 8th – Sunday 10th April 2011, open daily 12-6pm

As part of SNAG I will be exhibiting mixed media photography work, and in my work I am asking;
ARE WE LOCAL TO EACH OTHER
WHAT IS IN-BETWEEN US ?

A journey to quest the importance of continuously redefining our roles in each others lives. It is about the connections made between us every moment, and the conception that marks, and emphasizes from these connections. In order to understand and explore what it means to be human and every person's desire to truly define who they are. As we all seek our answers outside of ourselves, then maybe it is actually within. We’re actively creating and recreating that journey of discovery, in hopes of building a community with a greater awareness of each other for the purpose of human connection as well as the power that lies within and behind that hope.
This is an ongoing project…


Stoke Newington Artists Group (SNAG) are a group of multidisciplinary artists from Stoke Newington / Hackney who formed in 2009, and meet regularly to discuss their practice, drawing inspiration and ideas from each other. In this, their first collaborative exhibition, SNAG explores the theme of ‘Local’ and has invited other artists from a variety of disciplines to join them through their investigation into ‘Localness’.
'Local' will be the first exhibition to take place in Karin Janssen Project Space.
more info on http://www.karinjanssen.com/Local.html

Manchester exhibition information

I exhibit one of my artworks, please contact if you would like to know more

73 Women Art Trail-July 2011

i-SHO

CALL OUT

Attention all Feminists that are Artists! Performers! Writers! Activists! Wanderers! Seekers!


We are looking for submissions for our art show....

As women we create and claim our own challenging art. Send us questioning and incisive women’s art, feminist art, images of how you critically see the world; conceptual art; dialogues about feminist art; art critiquing patriarchy. (Haven’t you, like us, seen enough sexualised images of women?) I-SHO will present a exciting feminist gaze, as we are all formed by the images we create as well as those we consume.

73 Women are women artists using all art media to address issues affecting women and girls worldwide.

I’S, SHES, HERS AND OURS will be in Stoke Newington during JULY 2011
deadline for submission is 5pm, Monday,14th March 2011.

Please send up to 3 JPG images Under 1MG with a short statement (100 words max), saying why your work is feminist/ challenging the notions of gender/identity and 100 words about you/as artist.
email to 73women@phonecoop.coop


Costs will be shared - the gallery is paid for !
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2010 November /Shoreditch,London group exhibition

The rag factory exhibition was to fundraise against FGM - female genital mutilation
i exhibited 3 of my photos with some other artists on this event
http://www.forwarduk.org.uk/



The tendency to ‘make’ rather than ‘be’, as in constantly improving ongoing DIY, enlisting how to be better, the body is the infinitely improvable ongoing project of the active gendered subject.

Showcase-London Exhibition 7th july 2010

Here are 2 photos of my panel. Many thanks to friends who came by.

http://stimularts.blogspot.com/

community art practice-Please just follow the link http://stimularts.blogspot.com/

New works-photography

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http://banu.carbonmade.com
currently under construction, please note that more images will be added soon....

My Solo Exhibition- Geneva, Switzerland 2010, January 13th

Thanks to Olivier Schmid*our beloved brother*recorded and edited this short video from my private view on 13 January 2010 - Geneva, Switzerland

maybe there is an ongoing act of giving birth to what we want to become....


« If I am not grotesque, i am nothing » A.Beardsley

In between

Plato

Plato is (Astronomy) a crater in the NW quadrant of the moon, about 100 km in diameter, that has a conspicuous dark floor...
40x40cm Acrylic on Canvas

Bonbon Selavy

50x50cm Acrylic+Pastel on Canvas



J'vous ai apporté des bonbons....Parc' que les fleurs c'est périssable
Puis les bonbons c'est tell'ment bon
Bien qu'les fleurs soient plus présentables
Surtout quand elles sont en boutons
J'vous ai apporté des bonbons.... Flowers are more presentable but I brought you BONBON ;))

egg-eye no1

50x50cm Acrylic and Pastel on Canvas

egg-eye no2

90x70cm Acrylic and Pastel on canvas

egg-eye no3 (SOLD)

80X60cm Acrylic and Pastel on Canvas

For Bakhtin (1968), one of the most important aspects of grotesque realism is its function of degradation. He explains,
Degradation here means coming down to earth, the contact with earth as an element that swallows up and gives birth at the same time.

egg-eye no4

80x80cm Acrylic on Canvas

I like to believe in change and dynamics and energy. As E.Grosz says “BODY IS A SITE FOR THE CIRCULATION OF ENERGETIC INTENSITIES THAT MIGHT BE DIFFICULT TO SEE AND VERBALIZE”

'Carnival celebrates the body, the senses, the unofficial, uncanonized relations amongst... Carnivalesque takes fiction as truth and makes the extraordinary or magical as viable a possibility as the ordinary or real, so that no true distinction is perceived or acknowledged between the two...' The Spirit of Carnival: Magical Realism and the Grotesque by David K. Danow

Photography+photoshop 2009
Rosi Braidotti points out: "The monster is the bodily incarnation of difference from the basic human norm; it is a deviant, an a-nomaly, it is abnormal... the very notion of the human body rests upon an image that is intrinsically prescriptive: a normally formed human being is the zero-degree of monstrosity.

These images are at play on the boundaries and the grotesque is defined by what it does to boundaries, blurring, transgressing, merging them. More bluntly, the grotesque does not exist without boundary or expectation. It is to challenge the expectations of propriety in order to challenge the nationalism which created this result. Aestheticaly, clear and discreet boundaries are integral to the anxiety of beauty. As Bakhtin observes : « the artistic logic of the grotesque image ignores the closed, smooth and impenetrable surface of the body and retains only it’s excrescences and orifices, only that which leads beyond the body’s limited space or into the body’s depths… » (Bakhtin, 1984, 318)
‘The grotesque body is unfinished, abject and transgresses its own limits’. It is the inbetween and the ambiguous. » Julia Kristeva
« The carnivalseque suggest a redeployment or counterproduction of culture, knowledge, and pleasure. » Russo

Photography
Overdone-Underdone
"[G]ender is instituted through the stylization of the body and, hence, must be understood as the mundane way in which bodily gestures, movements, and enactments of various kinds constitute the illusion of an abiding gendered self." Judith Butler

JOy (SOLD)

50x50cm Acrylic on Canvas

grotto-esque

50x50cm Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas
(Inspired by the early cave+rock paintings)

Holy Granate (SOLD)

50x50cm Acrylic on canvas

Alien in me...

Hospital paintings and drawings

These series are done when I was at hospital for about 2 weeks. They were painful and vulnerable days... I was mostly under narcotic pain relievers and half sleepy half awake...luckily I had my sketchbook and 12 oil pastels waiting beside my bed ;)
Thanks to my Frederic, I looked after well and still do. Recovering is slow but everyday ;)