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CECI N'EST PAS UN SPECTACLE from Sam Meech on Vimeo.

CECI N'EST PAS UN SPECTACLE is an animation that uses knitted ‘pixel art’ to illustrate a series of ideas and experiences collected through interviews with people around Montreal. Projected onto the facade of the Centre de Design, motifs, symbols and declarations appear in glorious lo-res knitted form - each one created, translated and appropriated from people living, working or just passing through Quartier des Spectacle. The work does not attempt to tell the story of these complex histories and relationships, but simply to distill them to an abstracted visual form. This colourful animation references traditional fairisle design as well the locally visual iconography, and the digital arts.

Comment cohabiter" as one resident is quoted - “how to live together?”

Produced by National Film Board of Canada, Quartier des Spectacles, Mutek and FACT Liverpool

Francesco Vezzoli, The Return of Bruce Nauman’s Bouncing Balls, 2006 from KALEIDOSCOPE on Vimeo.

Conceived as an ironic tribute, the “Bruce Nauman Trilogy” harks back to some of the works by the celebrated American artist, cross-pollinating their meaning with references to contemporary media culture. While Greatest Hits: Milva Canta Bruce Nauman: Vattene dalla mia mente! Vattene da questa stanza! is Francesco Vezzoli’s melodramatic rereading of the installation Get Out of My Mind, Get Out of This Room (1968), in Flower Arrangement he replaces the flour in Nauman’s work with red roses. Similarly, in The Return of Bruce Nauman’s Bouncing Balls, Vezzoli abandons the conceptual coldness of the original work to present a slick video based on the canons of pornographic filmography starring Brad Rock and his the infamous American gay-porn testicles.

Courtesy of Prada Collection, Milan