FEATURING "THE FROZEN ACADEMY"

This week we are featuring a collaboration between, "The Frozen Academy" (Kenneth G. Hay and Josef Danek) and Czech artist Vojity Horalká. They are together exploring the phenomenon of Tramping.

This is what they say about the work:

Tramping - a popular form of Czech camping in the forest from the 1900s onwards. Horalká has made work about this curious phenomenon, where bands of comrades would dress up in outdoor clothes, take along a guitar, go tenting and sing nostalgic songs, the whole, infused with a kind of melancholy bonhommie. The action, which will include performance, photography and video will take place in the Forêt de Grésigne, Tarn France, and the Galerie La Vieille Poste, 81140 Larroque from 11 - 27 July 2010. There will be a 'networked meal' using Skype and other communication media so that our 'remote operators, who will also be participating in the project in their own locations, can join us for a sing-along and barbeque on the 18th July at 12.00 noon French

You can read more HERE

FEATURING ANDREW Y. AMES "MANO A MANO"

This week we are featuring the artist Andrew Y. Ames with the installation: "Mano a Mano". Andrew is a new-media artist and designer working with games. His goal is not only to make entertaining games, but to epitomize the societies that makes them so.

He says about his installation: "Mano a Mano is a regulation-size arm-wrestling table built on massive legs. However, it is not a regular arm-wresting table. The rusty steel top, worn leather elbow rests, sweat-stained pin pads and walnut enclosure, conceal electronics that sense and process the wrestling match. Players discover that the table reacts to the back-and-forth movement of their interlocked grip. The table detects hand and arm location as players exert force and press for victory, and the table responds by playing pre-recorded sounds."

You can read more about the artist HERE.

FEATURING CHRISTOPHE KATRIB

This week we are featuring the artist Christophe Katrib with the installation: "Welcome to my space ship". Christophe made the installation while attending a workshop in Beirut called "Ruin in the City". The work was shown ina a guerrilla exhibition in a large old apartment in Beirut’s Sanayeh district.

"For my project, I spent a few hours everyday for 3 days in an abandoned house in Beirut and the wild garden around it, creating a mini-ritual, trying to listen to it, to observe it, and eventually to capture its unlikely heartbeat and its echo from the city around it, through images and sound," says Christophe. " The resulting work is an installation in a small intimate bathroom chamber in an old Lebanese apartment, a derelict room containing a showerhead, normal tiled floor, half ceramic half concrete walls, and a water heater."

You can read more about the project and the HERE.

FEATURING ABINADI MEZA

This week Wooloo is featuring the artist Abinadi Meza- and his instillation (Silence). Abinadi Meza is a filmmaker with a background in Architecture and Creative Writing. He is currently based in Texas, USA.

Abinadi created the installation Silence while in residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. He describes the work in these words:

"This is multichannel sonic architecture exhibited as an installation. Specialized audio equipment was used to record the city's sound scape at frequencies above normal human hearing. The sound was then re-spatialized in the gallery, accompanied by video and text. The floor of the gallery was paved with stones, which evoked the feel and smell of the streets of the city"

Read about the artist and see more of his work HERE.