Japan

Mighty Latvian Internet Medias are reporting: Latvian comics have been published in Japan. Lovely Japanese comics magazine UZO has included some of our stuff in their latest issue number 11 which looks like this:

I’m still waiting to get my copy and take a look myself, but this whole thing looks nice. Japan rocks.

And you know what else rocks? David Sylvian and his band Japan (just the album “Tin Drum” though). And Mr. Sylvian is supposed to have new album I guess hmm:

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P.S. Latviski visizsmeļošāko un vizuālo pilnīgāko informāciju par Japānas komiksu žurnālu atradu Dizaina Informācijas Centra mājaslapā.

MOMENT

Piektdien Pērlē pilnīgi neoficiāli tiek rīkots oficāls afterparty

“A MOMENT AFTER”

Par godu modes modes modes pasākumam “A MOMENT B4″

(http://moment.com.lv/)

Mūzikālais pavadījums:
+ KASPARS GROŠEVS un Kosmiskais disko
+ VAN RIVERS & THE SUBLIMINAL KID

Plkst. 22:14
Mazais kultūras nams – “Pērle”
Tērbatas 65

It seems that shit doen’t have passport and border crossing problems unlike human shells.

neu

Veto Magazine 13 is out.
vetomagazine.lv

Okt/Nov numurs iznācis.
www.studija.lv

I am back from Porto. It was great. It was combination of very stupid comedians, angry ocean and angry surfers, Tall Johnny from Barcelona and some field recording homeworks. I’m still thinking of proper way to present my “work” done there, since it’s more of a research-type thing, rather straight and illustrative soundwalk which might need some explainations.
I am also back from London. Maybe I should put some pictures from Frieze & Zoo art fairs (first one was insanely massive, the second one was massively rough and bit weird), but the cold weather has caught me unprepared.

I’ve moved from Porto to London for a few days, and than I missed my flight. Still thinking about the ocean and the lovely city, and the fact I am writting about Alejandra & Aeron for the magazine is not helping because they did a lovely album on Porto sounds few years ago.

You can download their stuff here (with their kind permission).

And here’s the first piece from barber shop:

I have to note I also did some soundwork in Porto – my map of the city which I’d love to share with you some time soon. First I have to urvive London and Frieze Art Faire, and finally get on airplane. Somehow I miss my miserable grey country right now.

New Cartographies

I am currently in Porto for Regenlab workshop which gathers people from Spain, France, Lithuania, Latvia and of course Portugal. So far it’s been fun and interesting, working on mental mapping (in other words – discovering city on our own, finding special interesting places). All northern people come to Porto, it’s warm.

candycoveredclown / Kaspars Groshevs: Live at Moscow Museum of Modern Art

Hello. Finally here’s a video from our Russia trip. This is an edit from our Moscow performance, filmed by someone with out of control camera moves which made it hard to use more material, but why not – here’s a shaky shaky document of the live video impro done by me, and monster sounds done mostly by mister candycoveredclown.

And our Reverb Nation player still have some nice excerpts both from St. Petersburg and Moscow, and sum mo’.

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Mare un Rol’s Nightmare

And it’s ready – the new fashion film by Latvian designers Mare Mastiņa and Rolands Pēterkops, directed by Kristīne Kursiša. You can watch it below in pretty decent quality, though on big screen it should be a killer hit.
Another thing I should mention is that the music for the film is done by me.

This movie was done for contest Fashion Is Passion – follow the link to see other movies.

(Poster by Maija Kurševa)

Blue Reflection on the Sand

Mare un Rol’s Private Detective

I just discovered new version of mareunrol’s (or Mare un Rol’s) where you can watch their fashion movie Private Detective, directed by Kristīne Kursiša.
This combo is now in process of making a new film and from what I have seen it’s going to be incredibly unbelievably great and beautiful stuff.

Click on picture to watch the movie.

By the way, editing / animation done by me.

Book by its cover

Check out the lovely Book By Its Cover blog. And they have spotted KUŠ #4.

Click on picture

Tikko grāmatnīcā atvēru Andra Buļļa dzejas grāmatu “Mans Ego”. Wow.

“Interesanti ir vērot sevi no malas..”  un tālāk kaut kas par spoguļiem.

found at Jukeboxmafia

It seems these numerous blogs are perfect music-collector-freakazoid-nerd tool: they can show their pearls, make people listen to it, but at the same time we all know they got the original, they got The Hot Shit. Them not us. What else does a collector-freakazoid needs if not a feeling of having something special and rare.

Pixel Canvas

(Alejandra & Aeron – La Rioja: Christmas Bells, from ubu.com)

Other thunders

Daniel Padden is the mysterious genius that plays with Volcano the Bear (seeing them in Riga was as uplifting as drinking 13 years old real scotch). He is also the man behind The One Ensemble, they manage to blend Celtic middle age stuff with kinda klezmerish thing via avantgarde approach and what not . They have a new release “Other thunders” which is very very very very good.

Here’s older piece by mister Padden’s Uno Ensemble – “Smok”

Memories of Venezia 2

Blackout got white, and the beautiful art appeared in front of my very eyes

Conceptual link to previous Venezian memory part. And now some works:

Lovely Singapore pavillion with film works by artist Ming Wong

Amazingly shot video piece by Ulla von Brandenburg; and it’s so great it’s even hard to describe it.

Italian fancy unicorn by Nicola Bolla; Haegue Yang (Korean pavillion)

One of the most beautiful pieces of the biennale “The End” four synchronized video projections with two guys playing some melancholic country track in the middle of Canadian nowhere by Ragnar Kjartansson + he is living in Icelandic pavilion till the end of biennale and is painting his friend everyday while listening to some LPs and drinking lots of beer, man he rocks

Idan Hayosh in Rietveld Academy pavilion

Supersmall window at Distortion place that also had the only awesome bar in the whole Venice as far as I know + some unknown asian video with girl singing karaoke. This phrase got my attention.. for some 10 seconds.

My favourite performance artist Marina Abramovich; Australian pavilion’s Ken Yonetani with his sugar sculptures

This shall be continued hopefully as I saw some more interesting works and images. I shall continue with Australian mad max.

I’ m pretty sure I didn’t take this picture but I found it on my camera.

SMALL THINGS

Mūzikas apskati ir lieliska lieta, grūtāk ir to visu pēc tam atrast. Ir gadījies, ka “Rīgas Laikā” apskatītie ieraksti nedodas rokā, lai kā meklētu, vismaz netaustāmajā mp3 formā, jo – būsim atklāti – ja vispār jelkad rodas vēlme kaut ko taustāmu iegādāties, ir jābūt varen pārliecinātam. Tad nu man tikko iešāvās prātā, ka es tās savus necilos mūzikas ierakstu aprakstus Studijā un Veto varētu šeiten papildināt ar saitēm uz noziedzīgām saitēm uz šiem ierakstiem. Lai visi varētu iepazīties. Un ja simpātijas ir abpusējas, kas zin – varbūt seko patērētāja un produkta laulības.

Pirmais ierakts, ar ko vēlos padalīties un ko digitalizētā formā atrast nav nemaz tik viegli, ir britu mākslinieka Martina Krīda ieraksts “I Can’t Move”, izdots pirms desmit gadiem un iegādei atrodams www.martincreed.com

Albums sazipotā formā atrodams, klikšķinot uz attēla, un turpinājums sekos drīz.

Smashed

I remember few years ago some guy called Sean gave me this song, I though “Wow, what an amazing piece of trash”. It suited him – ragged artsy guy from states with blues brothers’ sun glasses, this irritating way of talking (“eeee-aaa-um-yeah”, you know, like the video artist type in Big Lebowski) and bottle of cheap white wine in his pocket. He made weird paintings and sculptures. They suited him well. Maybe he was a nice guy. He played bass in some French trash act called Poppel Strudel or something like that and I have a suspicion he wasn’t really much of a good bass player. But I am really glad he introduced me to the Gories.

“Smashed“

Shri Camel

Terry Riley – Shri Camel (1978), for electronic organ & tape delay
(.zip, 192kb Mp3, 61 mb)

Download one of the truly amazing minimalism masterpieces. It has captured my mind for long enough to say it’s more that meditative repetition trick-machine.

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Š & S & V (jaunie preses izdevumi)

Tā nu sakritis, ka šajās nedēļās vairākos izdevumos ir kaut kas mazliet no manis ieskricelēts:

Jaunais Š! “istabā” un “tasty” galerijā.

New microsize Š! comics magazine is out, about getting/being lost in the city. My piece’s in it and also lots of other lovely comics. Gettt it at www.komikss.lv

Tāpat nupat iznācis jaunais žurnāla “Studija” numurs par Venēcijas biennāli, jaunajiem mākslinieciņiem spēlē, Armanda Zelča izstādi, superīgā igauņu gleznotāja Kinnapu izstādi utt. Un, protams, arī par mūziku no manis – šoreiz par māksliniekiem mūzikā – Martinu Krīdu un Deividu Šrigliju. Veičos un www.studija.lv

New issue of bilingual arts magazine out.

Un last not the least iznācis jaunais Veto Magazine bērniņš pēc ilgām, konvulsīvām dzemdībām. Veto māte barotāja katru bērniņu briedina ilgi un rūpīgi kā 12 gadus vecu viskiju. Iekšā par mūziku, tostarp sunn O))), un mākslu, literatūru, modi. Visos avīžu kioskos + “istaba”, “i love you”, “supernova” u.c.

Nuevo Veto Magazinas ist aus mit viele Beitrage an Muzik und Kunst. Mann kann diese Magazin in viele Kioske suchen.

Haunted Screen

This screen paralises cells leaving no other choice but to fix everything, catch everything, glue everything to the screen, leave no flaunting thing untied.

Mobile pictures. Ubu.web. Fun and glory. Everyone have something up their sleeves and asses, everyone can fix, tie, attach. Do I keep silent and nod? Do I say something and get endangered by revengeful bits and bites floating around for years and years and years? Do I pull out the wire (ouch, hurts more than suicide, right)? Do I read a book? Or two? Or three? Do I finally listen to all the music I have? There is no troubleshooting for these and other similarly ridiculous questions.

Hey, writing is fun, I can do this honey, I can recover from my emotional crisis. Hey, drawing is fun, I think I’ll be fine and won’t have urges to kill everyone in my gym class. Hey, this clay is super wet and cute, I think I will make a penis to sublime my desire for tens of penises.

Spoken piece by Richard Nonas from the lovely compilation LP “Airwaves” released in 1977, probably never re-released, and now available on ubu.web right here.

Video no Skaņu Meža

Here’s a short video piece from festival “Sound forest” where me and monsieur candycoveredclown did a live sound and video improvisation performance.

Haunted Latex

TWank

I’d like to underline that almost certainly

Pazudis pilsētā dodas uz Rīgu. Super kruts Anetes zīmējums par to vēsta mums.

noize.ru

The player has been updated with two pieces from Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Enjoy.

Rusland

Москва:
Дата проведения: 30 июня – 9 июля, 2009
Адрес: Московский музей современного искусства, Гоголевский бульвар, 10

Санкт-Петербург:
Катушки Лофт, Проекта ЭТАЖИ
Ежедневно с 12:00 до 22:00, ежедневно
3 июля – 17 июля: мультимедийный проект “Погружение” – видео-арт из Москвы, Санкт-Петербурга, Латвии. Вход 100 рублей.

Maskavā un Sankt-Pēterburgā šobrīd norit video mākslas izstāde “Iegrimšana”, kurā piedalās krievijas Antishanti, Intektra, Aleksandrs Strelecs un Ģirts Korps, Maija Kurševa un Kaspars Groševs no Latvijas.

Maskavas Laikmetīgās mākslas muzejā, Gogoļa bulvārī 10, no 30. jūnija līdz 9.jūlijam.

Sankt Pēterburgā projekta Etaži Katuški galerijā, Ligovska prospektā 74, no 4. jūlija līdz 19. jūlijam.

(Kaspars Groševs “Licking piece”)

(Ģirts Korps: “M”)

Let’s get physical

Still about the same, because I finally have some spare time.
The Exhibition is over, but this how the exhibition double-cover catalogue looks like (with drawing by me).

Погружение

Мультимедийный выставочный проект “Погружение”, oткрытие выставки состоится 3 июля в 19:00 в пространстве Катушки Лофт Проекта ЭТАЖИ.

В рамках выставки в Лофт Проекте ЭТАЖИ представлен ряд видео-работ и видео-инсталляций художников из Москвы, Санкт-Петербурга Латвии (впервые представлены в Санкт-Петербурге). Среди них ANTISHANTI (Mосква), Intektra (Москва), Гирст Корпс (Латвия), Майя Куршева (Латвия), Каспарс Грошевс (Латвия), А. Стрелец. Каждая инсталляция представляет собой самодостаточный аудиовизуальный проект.

Впервые российской публике представит аудио-визуальный перформанс молодой латвийский художник Каспарс Грошевс совместно с candycoveredclown.

So me and my good sir candycoveredclown are going to Moscow & Saint-Petersburg next week to participate in media project “Submergence”, on 30rd June we are in Moscow some where, on 3rd July in Petersburg’s loft project ETAZHI – Katushki space.
See you there than. Or somewhere else.

NOMA 00-10

Izstāde veiksmīgi noslēgusies, tā ilga desmit dienas, galu galā sanāca gana pieklājīga, manuprāt, un noslēdzās ar patīkamu un draudzīgu ballīti. Visi apmierināti, visi priecīgi, katalogs smuki izdrukājies un ir iegūstams, ja ir tāda iekšēja vēlme, sameklējot rokās kādu no autoriem. Lūk, pāris bildes.

Me and my fellow course mates did an exhibition called “Rent 00-10″ in the space that used to be a pet shop. It went on for just ten days, featured ten artists and has a fancy catalog  now. Ignoring that it was a massive nerve fucker, money eater and time waster, this exhibit was a nice experience, especially because of the very special space we got. But of course we forgot Riga inhabitants are scared of places that sell nothing, art gallery is something they avoid and ignore. The only exception was the ending party when we had a naked guy in the first room standing for a few hours (Reinis Hofmanis did a photograph serie of art models – people who pose naked for money, so for the ending event one of them proposed to pose for a while). Needless to say, bypassers finally noticed our little exhibition.
Here are few pictures of how it looked like.

(Reinis Hofmanis)

(Darja Meļņikova)

(Evita Vasiļjeva)

(Galka Kūlio)

(Kaspars Groševs)

Memories from Venezia 1

The beginning: blackout.

Izstādes noslēgums

Vēl tikai šo nedēļas nogali, līdz 14. jūnijam (ieskaitot), iespējams apskatīt jauno mākslinieku izstādi “NOMA 00-10″ bijušā veikala telpās Kr. Valdemāra ielā 18. Izstādē piedalās desmit jaunie mākslinieki ar video, fotogrāfijām, animācijas filmām un instalācijām. Darba laiks 13:00 – 19:00.

Ielūdzu visus uz izstādes noslēgumu, 13. jūnijā plkst. 18:00.

NOMA oo-10

No 4. līdz 14. jūnijam bijušā veikala telpās Kr. Valdemāra ielā 18 apskatāma desmit jauno mākslinieku izstāde “NOMA 00-10″, kurā būs apskatāmi video un animācijas darbi, fotogrāfijas un instalācijas. Izstādē piedalās Oskars Pavlovskis, Evita Vasiļjeva, Darja Meļņikova, Kaspars Groševs, Artūrs Bērziņš, Reinis Hofmanis, Justīne Jukumsone-Jukumniece, Nils Jakrins, Sofija Šellare un Galka Kūlio. Noslēguma pasākums 13. jūnijā plkst. 18:00.
Darba laiks no pirmdienas līdz svētdienai 13:00 – 19:00.

Vēl līdz 7. jūnijam Spīķeros, jaunajā VKN galerijā (Maskavas 12, korp. 4) varēs apskatīt Maijas Kurševas personālizstādi “Grieziens”. Silti un griezīgi iesaku apskatīt!

Šīs nakts atziņa: Labi, ka man pazudis spogulis – vismaz daļa problēmas paliek neredzama.

Just found another one I love from the preparation for Sound Forest video vibrator.

You Can’t Pay Cash In The Wood

1995?

candycoveredclown & Kaspars Groševs

Done and done. As mr. ccc puts it – turns out it is possible to suck and blow at the same time. First part of festival “Sound forest” has ended, but stay tuned – we don’t plan to give up on screwing up your “musical enjoyment” – and this player is getting updated every now and then. Most recently – five bits from the concert.

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Sound Forest

Another impro twosome enjoying themselves.

(foto: Andrejs Strokins)

And preparation:

Drukātā burta spēks

Atgādinu, ka jau rīt sākas Skaņu Mežs.
CCC & KK spēlēs 21:30 aptuveni.
Tiekamies. Nekavējiet. Vienalga.

Sunday, part two

Check out five new tracks – 10.05.09 [1] – [5] – in the player right above.
Sunday seems to be the best day for playing something rather dark and evil.

Sunday

Pelmeshkin does great party pictures – colorful, dynamic and there are always million things happening, and in the end it even looks like Riga is a nice place to have some fun times.