The Body and Food
Debbie Han, Food and Sensuality, Starting 2005 via Art Radar
Vacuum Sealed Love
From Flesh Love by Haruhiko Kawaguchi via Art 21′s Pinterest
In Flesh Love couples are vacuum sealed together while Japanese photographer Haruhiko Kawaguchi quickly snaps photos. Read more about it on Huffington Post and Feature Shoot. If you can handle it, here a video of the process.
Purposeful Piling
via Design Boom
Images taken by David Oliete of the Human Tower Competition in Tarragona, Spain.
Duane Michal’s Paradise Regained
Duane Michals, Paradise Regained, 1968
I was flipping through one of the textbooks I use to prepare Art History lectures and came across this set of prints. Among many things, I was immediately struck by the almost immediate nakedness of the woman compared to the man. I wonder what a 2013 version of this print would be?
Barbie Dissected and Defaced
via ArtDaily
Do you love dissections of Barbie’s as much as I do? Above see Jason Freeny’s ”Choice Cuts: New Sculptural Work” at 101/exhibit via ArtDaily. Below Huffington Post exposes Barbie un-made. Writing this post made me curious about Barbie today. She’s still going strong–check her out here.
via Huffington Post
Alphabet Bodies
Naked Silhouette Alphabet by Anastasia Mastrakouli via Design Boom
Sunday Morning Coffee [Gender Benders Around the World]
GERMANY on POLAND: I’d like to go see Twisted Entities at Museum Morsbroich in Germany. E-flux says, “bodies are dissected, squeezed, deformed, duplicated and over-wound.” Sign me up!
UNITED KINGDOM: Charming for the Revolution A Congress for Gender Talents and Wildness a collaboration with the Tate Modern and Electra. E-flux says, “Charming for the Revolution is an experimental congress of artists, activists and thinkers who seek to unpick underpinning, pressing questions of contemporary sexual and gender politics; exploring strategies that divert and destabilise normative gender and its representations.”
NEPAL: There is now a third gender option for those procuring a citizenship certificate in Nepal. Huffington Post says, “activists hailed the decision, saying it was an achievement for gay and transgender rights.”
UNITED NATIONS: Did you know that there is a UN Gender Equality New Feed?
Delicious
Earthenware by Ronit Baranga
via Design Boom
Sunday Morning Coffee [Ladies in the Limelight]
via Lil Mol’
Maud Lavin write about the “Bad Barbies” Gang for Slate Magazine.
Irina Ionesco pays her daughter Eva Ionesco for the explicit photos the mother published of her daughter when she was a young girl via Art Daily.
Gwangju Design Biennale appoints Young Hye Lee to be director for the 2013 Biennale via e-flux.
South Korea nominated their first female president on Wednesday, Park Guen-hye. She is the daughter of former president Park Chung-hee who is responsible for both an economic turn around and a dictatorship-like reign. Some hope that a female president in South Korea will help break down traditional Confucian social boundaries.
Picasso’s Light Drawings
via Designboom