Sunday, 21 September 2008

London cycling


Everyone uses a bike here. It's cheap, good for the environment and for you're health. But it's not easy, sometimes even scary, for instance when big bus or truck passes bye, when you read that a biker died in some accident... Then you think: it's time to cycle with caution. 

Guess the Master's Question and win a million Pounds


Vauxhall
Highligths: 

1-There is a significant Portuguese community; many Portuguese restaurants and bars are located in South Lambeth Road and the surrounding area.

2-Many of its streets were destroyed during German bombing in World War II

3-Vauxhall the gay village after Soho

4-MI6 building at Vauxhall Cross



 So Where are the London ...?

Thursday, 18 September 2008

Master Calle

A Master must Homage Great Masters:
 Sophie Calle the Master of Autobiographical Art



Interview
He loves me not
When a boyfriend dumped her by email, French artist Sophie Calle asked 100 women to read it - and became the star of the Venice Biennale, reports Angelique Chrisafis
0. Angelique Chrisafis
0. The Guardian, Saturday June 16 2007
0. Article history
Picture this. You're one of France's best-known living conceptual artists. You're 51 and visiting Berlin. Your mobile beeps, it's an email from your boyfriend. In a hideously self-absorbed message about human emotion, he dumps you electronically, saying it hurts him more than you. He signs off: "Take care of yourself." You're heartbroken. Then you think of its potential as art.
Sophie Calle has filled the French pavilion of the Venice Biennale with a praised exhibition about her emailed dumping letter. Over two years later, she distributed the missive to 107 women professionals, photographed them reading it and invited them to analyse it, according to their job. The ex's grammar and syntax have been torn apart by a copy editor, his manners rubbished by an etiquette consultant and his lines pored over by Talmudic scholars. He has been re-ordered by a crossword-setter, evaluated by a judge, shot up by a markswoman, second-guessed by a chess player and performed by actress Jeanne Moreau. A forensic psychiatrist decided he was a "twisted manipulator". The temple to a woman scorned is entitled "Take care of yourself" (Prenez soin de vois), immortalising lines that Calle, if she hadn't had recourse to the international art world, might have read again and again in tears.
"The idea came to me very quickly, two days after he sent it," she said. "I showed the email to a close friend asking her how to reply, and she said she'd do this or that. The idea came to me to develop an investigation through various women's professional vocabulary."
At first it was therapy; then art took over. "After I month I felt better. There was no suffering. It worked. The project had replaced the man."

Sunday, 14 September 2008

The Masters non-availability






Juliete Binoche: 'I have only one wish: to meet the man of my life'

Master: Sorry my darling  Juliete. But the Master is determined to stay away from love. To become a Master one must be ready to live without love

Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Master's Projects


A true Master is always looking at reality seeing art.

Collaborative Response is a performance created between persons living in different countries that create responses to the others proposals.

Speed Dating started with an email from a friend that was living in London. I was in Lisbon preparing to move to London. I was looking for a job and a house. He wrote “existe uma serie de websites para houseshares e trabalhos, um dos mais populares e www.gumtree.com la consegues procurar casa, trabalho e ate namoradas!!!”. I thought he was joking, but he wasn’t.
In London I discovered that you find ads for dating everywhere: facebook, time-out even in the guardian…
I’ve never dated before… I just know dates from Hollywood movies… So I decided to discover this cultures so different from my own dating. What is behind dating: loneliness, ability to know other people, love, sex… How does a person relate to dates when he only knows then from movies.

Lisbon Calling
A performance about identity
A performance about Lisboa
A performance away from Lisboa
A performance about identity

Collaborative Response



Create a Response to the object you’ve seen. This may take whatever form you choose: a description of a performance, a painting, a list, a puzzle, a proclamation, etc.

Speed Dating


Date: a social or romantic appointment

Questionnaire

1- What is a date?
2- How many dates do you have a month?
a) One
b) Two
c) Three
d) Four
e) More
3- How do you find your dates?
a) Internet
b) People you know
c) Friends of friends
d) People you meet in bars, or other social places
e) Other
4- What’s a blind date?
5- What are you supposed to do in date?
6- What’s expected at the end of the first date?
7- At the end of the second?
8- At the end of the fourth?
9- At the end of the fifth?
10- How many people can you date at same time?
a) One
b) Two
c) Three
d) Four
e) As many as you can
11 – What’s your average?
2- What are you looking for in a date?
a) Meet people
b) Get laid
c) Fall in love
d) Other