mike stubbs (artist) in the ukraine kiev internationa media art festival showing installation DONUT waiting for projectors/dvd players/wires etc. it will arrive but probably not for a day or two (2 days till opening) we take lots for granted re tech in uk jerzy the director of the centre for contemporary art here (soros centre) set up political lobby and funding to get ukraine into venice bienalle - then the artists union pressurised the government to remove him using old communist networks - the resulting tradional ukrainian shwo left something to be desired apparently - radicalsim is site and context specific media installation is commonplace in ukm contemporary art contemporary art is viewed here as a 'style' and still almost heretic in an orthodox society glued to would be mtv
and the lux - a hard week - suspending operations - but plans for a pheonix to arise watch this space ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
