CreatorsConcluding our Perspectives series is conceptual artist Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos, who asks big questions about being human in a time of omnipresent technology. In the work she's presenting at the 2016 Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, she tells us how, in showing everyday actions with a twist, she's not necessarily criticizing technology, but challenging the viewer to re-examine what we may take for granted in our constant transcendence of physical frontiers. In looking closely at the intimate nature of our technological interactions, she turns the idea of "here" on its head in totally unexpected ways.
The Smartphone is Absent | Perspectives, Esmeralda KosmatopoulosCreators2016-11-30 | Concluding our Perspectives series is conceptual artist Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos, who asks big questions about being human in a time of omnipresent technology. In the work she's presenting at the 2016 Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, she tells us how, in showing everyday actions with a twist, she's not necessarily criticizing technology, but challenging the viewer to re-examine what we may take for granted in our constant transcendence of physical frontiers. In looking closely at the intimate nature of our technological interactions, she turns the idea of "here" on its head in totally unexpected ways.
In our profile, Jamie describes how she started experimenting with found carcasses, and the initial responses from family and friends to her messy, disturbing and provocative work.
She also breaks down the step by step process of dismemberment, bone whitening, and articulating that turns roadkill into artworks.
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Watch Art Should Fuck Up Your Life: The Zen of Lawrence Weiner http://bit.ly/2pNiuZu
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Watch [Self-Portrait as a Buffet Table: David Henry Nobody Jr.'s Extreme Food Art] http://bit.ly/2oMuid7 ___
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Original Sonic Score for Orbit by M. Cay Castagnetto
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Watch Seeing New York through Daniel Arnold's Eyes | Like Art: http://bit.ly/2mnT40m ___
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Watch Alexandra Marzella's Unapologetic Nude Self-Portraits | Like Art: http://bit.ly/2mKcIn7 ___
Alexandra's fearless honesty in representing herself has attracted a large number of followers as well as detractors on social media. She candidly engages with both audiences.
We visit the artist at her home studio in New York for a revealing and surreal fashion shoot, and then attend a live performance that combines lip-synching, nudity, body paint, and violence in an aggressive and immediate deconstruction of femininity.
"Really Wet" Performers Monica Hernandez Young Gun Lee Rowan Oliver Lee Armoogam Lil Government India Salvor Menuez
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Watch: The Smartphone is Absent | Perspectives, Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos http://bit.ly/2kOmWEs ___
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Watch Next: The Creators Project, Desus & Mero at PULSE Contemporary Art Fair http://bit.ly/2if0hgx ___
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DESUS & MERO airs M-Th at 11P on VICELAND.
Watch Next: Impossible Reality | Perspectives, Jean-Pierre Roy http://bit.ly/2fHONQB The Art of the Makeover | Perspectives, Erica Prince youtu.be/TwGWfPnhbMI The Smartphone is Absent | Perspectives, Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos youtu.be/9DC_DQzsJPA
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Watch Next: Impossible Reality | Perspectives, Jean-Pierre Roy http://bit.ly/2fHONQB The Smartphone is Absent | Perspectives, Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos youtu.be/9DC_DQzsJPA
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Savage Credits: Choreographer & Artistic Director: Katherine Maxwell Performed By: Meredith Clemons, Honza Pelichovsky, Zachary Richardson, Koliane Rochon Prom Tep Original Score by Musicians: Haggai Cohen-Milo and Mateo Lugo Costumes by: Sara Shanahan Producer: Julia Lourie
Watch Next: Canine Video Art , Human/Puppet Theater, and Gritty Johannesburg | Culture Beat Episode 6 http://bit.ly/2fLXyNj ___
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For more info on upcoming Cassils shows, click here: pafa.org/cassils
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Note: Phantom Limb Company is a participant in Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Process Space program. Falling Out is being developed as part of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Process Space program. Supported by the Japan Foundation through the Performing Arts JAPAN program. Memory Rings can be seen at BAM: http://www.bam.org/theater/2016/memory-rings
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Watch Next: Lucy McRae on Creativity and the Human Body as Art | Visionaries, Episode 2 - http://bit.ly/2dpK1vS
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Watch Next: Jonathan Zawada on Flume, Flowers, and Making Mathematics Beautiful | Visionaries, Episode 1 http://bit.ly/2dpCwVn ___
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