Archive for December, 2007

Metalosis Maligna

Written by Andrea on . Posted in video

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Metalosis Maligna is a fictitious documentary about a spectacular yet chronically disabling disease which affects patients who have been fitted with medical implants. Sourcing from such implants a wild metal growth ultimately transforms human patients into mechanical looking constructions.
By Floris Kaayk and Sil van der Woerd, Microbia.

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Alexandre Orion

Written by Andrea on . Posted in art

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Ossario, by visual artist Alexandre Orion.

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Skulls, one after another. From ocular cavities of so many dead, his work looks out on the living and interrogates people passing by; it quietly criticizes our omission, our comfortable acceptance of pollution, our “I didn’t know about that”