Issue No. 243: Giovanni Dionisi Guest-Curates TAG E-Zine

Giovanni Dionisi of lttlslr.tumblr.com (self-portrait)

Giovanni is an illustrator and tattoo apprentice. He was born in Naples, Italy, and lives in Milan. His residency begins on Friday 13 December and will run until 20 December 2013. Tagzeen.com

Issue No. 242: An Opulent Slaying (Friday 29 November 2013)

Put it in her mouth.

Magi, No.1

Magi, No.2

Magi, No.3

Issue No. 241: Hyeres 2014

Issue No. 240: LA Art Book Fair

For more information, click here.

Issue No. 239: "FASHION" by Benjamin Fredrickson

Issue No. 238: Margiela: Trousers come in many shapes and sizes.

Issue No. 237: GNOSTIC TRANCE on Sunday!

Issue No. 236: Are you going?

Today Ben Copperwheat launches his brand and first collection of extraordinary prints for clothing and interiors. Alongside his prints, Ben will also be working on fine art pieces, collaborations and specially commissioned projects.

Coinciding with the launch, Ben Copperwheat is holding an exclusive product sale on Sunday May 19, 12–6pm, at Lady Fag’s Pop Souk event (www.popsouk.com, Standard Hotel, Meatpacking District, NYC).

In 2009 Ben established the radical menswear label Copperwheat with cousin and tailor Lee Copperwheat. Copperwheat quickly generated excitement with its unusual combination of Ben’s distinctive print designs – all of which were handprinted – and Lee’s sharp tailoring.

Copperwheat produced five collections. The last – SMASH IT UP! – was launched in September 2011 with a heady and vibrant presentation at SoHo’s Capellini showroom.

In 2001 Ben graduated from the Royal College of Art, London, with a Masters Degree in Printed Textiles. Ben’s fine art and printed textile background means he works with multiple media – drawing, photography, collage and silkscreen printing.

Ben moved to NYC in 2003 and since then has produced exciting print collections for a wide range of designers including: Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Peter Som, Edun, Pret A Surf, Victorinox Swiss Army, Peter Som, Stephen Burrows and Daryl K.

For more information, look out for the forthcoming Ben Copperwheat website at www.bencopperwheat.com

Issue No. 235: Pleading in the Blood

tagzeen:

Pleading in the Blood: The Art and Performances of Ron Athey
T|A|G is excited to announce the publication this summer of the first book devoted to the seminal and influential performance artist Ron Athey.

Edited by Dominic Johnson, Pleading in the Blood includes three newly commissioned essays on different aspects of Athey’s work by Adrian Heathfield, Amelia Jones, and Dominic Johnson. These scholarly essays are complemented by shorter texts by Homi K. Bhabha, Jennifer Doyle, Tim Etchells, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Matthew Goulish, Lydia Lunch, Juliana Snapper, Julie Tolentino, Alex Binnie, Catherin (Saalfield) Gund, Bruce LaBruce and Catherine Opie. The book will also include Athey’s own writings, including new pieces and hard-to-find archival texts
Pleading in the Blood is lavishly illustrated with full-colour images by photographers including Catherine Opie, Manuel Vason, Elyse Regher, Slava Mogutin, Dona Ann McAdams, Bruce LaBruce, Rick Castro, Sheree Rose, Edward Colver, Jennifer Precious Finch, and others.
Antony Hegarty (Antony and the Johnsons) has written a foreword to the publication.
Launch events will be announced soon.
Front cover image courtesy of Regis Hertrich, from Athey’s Solar Anus at The Hayward Gallery, London. Curated by Lee Adams for the Undercover Surrealism exhibition (2006).
Intellect Live is a new collaboration between Intellect Books and the Live Art Development Agency dedicated to influential artists working at the edges of performance.
http://ronatheynews.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/index.html
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/

(Reblogged from tagzeen)

Issue No. 234: Lee Adams will guest-curate TAG E-Zine

Lee Adams as Minotaur

Lee Adams is a London based artist / curator / promoter and DJ.

For the past 25 years Lee Adams has been living and working in the fecund, esoterotic cracks between performance art and night culture, philosophy and dissidence. From strip clubs, tunnels, pissoirs, power stations and slaughterhouses to palaces, churches, galleries, opera houses, theatres and ruins, from New York to Naples and Berlin to the Mohave Desert he has staged elaborate acts of defiance, excess and abandon. He has collaborated with a wide range of maverick artists including Ron Athey, Vaginal Davies, Bruce LaBruce, Kira O'Rielly, Peter Christopherson, Franko B, Manuel Vason, Gio Black Peter, Julie Tolentino, Slava Mogutin and Brian Kenny, Othon Mataragas, Ernesto Tomasini and Hector De Gregorio.

Lee will guest curate for TAG (tagzeen.com) from Monday 2/18 - 2/24.

Photo: Predrag Pajdic

Issue No. 233: The Chicago Botanic Gardens on Boxing Day 2012

Daniel Teafoe in the hothouse.

My favorite thing from the day....

...a new Poinsettia which is rosette-shaped instead of star-shaped called "Peppermint Twist". GORGE!

Japan?

Daniel Teafoe is sexy.

Teafoe lurking.