kickstART.ca – crutchmaster
| Accompanying the upcoming Paralympics a pretty interesting performance festival starts of in Vancouver as kickstart.ca with Crutchmaster Bill … and Bill Shannon is a lot of things: dancer, illustrator, actor, sculptor, multimedia artist, and skateboarder, to name a few. He’s perhaps best known for his unique dance style, however, which has earned him the nickname Crutchmaster: he incorporates sturdy metal objects that are associated more with broken limbs than graceful choreography. (link)> |  |
| In his own words: ” My obscure spatiotemporal and aesthetic artistic pursuits exist underneath a hovering massive and terrible freedom. It is a cold time now. That is the background. I keep moving. I project heat. To stretch the unspoken moment between intent and action I attempt a neutral palette fitting to my identity. A delicate process. I fail often. What colors you will choose be they hopes, fears or indifference are yours to place upon me or | |
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upcoming Paralympics Vancouver 2010
| Aware of the upcoming Winter Paralympic Games in Vancouver? The Games will start exactly one month after the Winter Olympic Games 2010 and take place in the same locations. Isn’t it another good reason to re-think our body / mind relations, our categorizations of physical fitness, the judgements of appearance and beauty … | |
| One who dared to enter this field already is the British photographer Nick Knight. On the website of the London Albert & Victoria Museum he is descibed as: ... one of Britain’s most innovative and influential photographers and image makers. He has pushed the boundaries of commercial and editorial photography and collaborated with leading names in contemporary art, design, music and fashion. (all images from same A&V Museum source) |  |
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