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Quest for Quiet
[07.11.19 - 21.12.19]
Edouard Malingue Gallery (Hong Kong/Shanghai) is thrilled to announce the opening of 'Quest for Quiet' curated by Dr. Helen Pheby, Head of Curatorial Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP), a leading international centre for modern and contemporary sculpture. The exhibition is the second of three projects in the gallery's temporary London project space located in St Saviour's, a Grade 1 listed building dating 1866 in Islington. 'Quest for Quiet' brings together the work of established artists Samson Young (b. 1979, Hong Kong) and Su-Mei Tse (b. 1973, Luxembourg) and emerging artist Tianyou Huang (b. 1992, China). Through video, photography and a site-specific installation, 'Quest for Quiet' explores how 'quiet' is not silent, and invites us to contemplate the murmurs and subtleties of the quotidian.
'Quest for Quiet' was born out of a discussion about finding pockets of calm and tranquility in general but more specifically in vibrant urban environments, such as London, Hong Kong or Shanghai. The search was contrasted to environments where nature abounds, such as Yorkshire, where there's a form of sensorial suspense. As described by Dr. Helen Pheby in her acconomying exhibition text:
"As Head of Curatorial Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park I have the privilege of living and working in my home county but visiting London often. As the train approaches Kings Cross station I have noticed that I take a deep breath before being immersed in the life of the city, where the sky is only seen between buildings and the noise is relentless. On the return journey the concrete gives way to green and I breathe out. The space around me expands. I appreciate the breath in and the breath out. The duality. The exhibition Quest for Quiet is intended to be a space to breathe out, for calm and contemplation.
Quiet is not silent, it is not the complete absence of sound. It is to be in a situation where we can hear our own thoughts, notice the buzz of an insect and the wind in trees, be able to concentrate on a text, an artwork, a building. London is one of the busiest places on the planet – a cacophony of transport, machinery, and other man-made noise. Chatter. According to the anthropologist Keith H Basso, in Western Apache tradition it is an insult to chatter at someone because "persons who speak too much insult the imaginative capabilities of other people, blocking their thinking."
Through the work of Samson Young, Su-Mei Tse and Tianyou Huang, 'Quest for Quiet' proposes different angles of exploration around this notion of finding moments of non-silent quiet. Samson Young, an internationally-respected artist and composer known especially for sound art and installations, will present in London for the first time his new piece The World Falls Apart (2019). A two-part video lecture presented back-to-back, the work analyses echoic mimicry through three research examples in relation to language, understanding, cultural difference and appropriation and the meaning of sound art itself. Samson Young says "in this context it refers to cases where mishearing is directed right back at the speaking subject, which the subject mimics, which in turn contributes towards the speaking subject's sense of self."
Similarly, with a background in music as a classically-trained cellist, Su-Mei Tse came to prominence aged just 30 when she represented Luxembourg at the Venice Biennale and was given the highest award of the Golden Lion. Presented in London for the first time are three photographic works Su-Mei Tse developed during her residency at the Villa Medici, Rome, in 2014-15. As written by Dr. Helen Pheby "The subject of each portrait bust has long since ceased to exist as flesh or idol, their permanent effigies themselves worn by time, and we are thus confronted with the fact that time is fleeting, including our own." Each work's title, however, from 'Adriana' to 'Vera' suggests a warmth behind the stillness, an empathetic connection.
Finally, Tianyou Huang was the 2018 YSP/Royal College of Art Graduate Award recipient and has just begun a PhD by practice at the University of Leeds. YSP's Graduate Award programme provides vital support at the critical point of transition from student to professional practitioner. For 'Quest for Quiet' Tianyou Huang creates a site-specific installation that draws from The mirror in the water (2018), a work presented at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, for which Huang appropriated a mirrored wardrobe door and floated it on the river that runs through YSP, confusing the orientation and surface of material and experience, sky and water, up and down. The Third Space (2019) created specifically for the project space draws the eye, through a floating mirror on a body of water filling the chancel, across St Saviour's, opening new pockets of sight. Huang describes the three spaces as being the physical space occupied by the elements of the work in their particular relationship; the second space being the visual one created through reflection and the third space as the mental space of contemplation and thought in the viewer.
Ultimately, 'Quest for Quiet', as summarised by Dr. Helen Pheby, "becomes a counterpoint to the echo chambers out in the noisy world that are contributing to increasingly polarised and ill informed thought and action. A space to consider and clear our thoughts."
Exhibition design Benjamin Allan, EBBA Architects.
About Edouard Malingue Gallery & Project Space
Founded in 2010, Edouard Malingue Gallery aims to build critical dialogue between Asian and international contemporary artists who combine aesthetic concern with conceptual enquiry, working across different disciplines from video and installation to painting and sound. In addition to presenting dynamic solo and group exhibitions, the gallery pushes the boundaries of art in public spaces and stimulates artistic discourse through collaborations with curators and institutions worldwide.
Situated in a grade 1 listed building in Islington, Edouard Malingue Gallery's London project space opened with the performative installation 'Listen' by conceptual artist Wang Wei (b. 1972, China). First staged in Beijing in 2006, the project addressed the act of seeing and listening, and how this can extend to voyeurism rather than connection. Nestled in St Saviour's Studios, which has a 30-year history of providing studio spaces for artists, the project space designed with the help of EBBA Architects sits as a complementary area for mutual exchange and will be accompanied by an active public programme bringing together curators, academics and audiences.
About Tianyou Huang
Recent Royal College of Art graduate Tianyou Huang works in a wide range of media, including mechanical art, installation, performance, photography and painting. Huang explores how humour, absurdism and chances can be interpreted, and is inspired by daily experience, collective memory and natural phenomena. Following on from his graduate show, Huang continues his investigation into the sense of motion, and making objects move through the concepts of inevitability and contingency. He was selected as the 2018 YSP/RCA Graduate Award due to his mature and original exploration of the human condition.
About Su-Mei Tse
Su-Mei Tse is an internationally-celebrated artist who rose to prominence in 2003 when she represented Luxembourg at the Venice Biennale and was awarded the prestigious Leono d'Oro award for her tripartite installation 'Air Conditioned'. Tse's work has since been exhibited nationally and internationally including solo shows at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei (2019); Yuz Museum, Shanghai (2018); Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (2018); Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2017); Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona (2011); Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (2009); Art Tower Mito, Japan (2009); Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (2008); PS1, New York (2006); Casino, Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg (2006); Renaissance Society, Chicago (2005); Moderna Museet, Sweden (2004). Group exhibitions include Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2009); National Gallery of Art, Poland (2009); Singapore Biennale (2008); Kunsthaus Zurich (2006); De Appel, Amsterdam (2005); Sao Paulo Biennale (2004). Tse has additionally been the recipient of multiple prizes, including the Prize for Contemporary Art by the Foundation Prince Pierre of Monaco (2009) and the Edward Steichen Award, Luxembourg (2005).
About Samson Young
Multi-disciplinary artist Samson Young was trained as a composer, and graduated with a Ph.D. in Music Composition from Princeton University in 2013. Young has had solo exhibitions at Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre, Centre A in Vancouver, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art in Manchester, M+ Pavilion in Hong Kong, and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. In 2017, he represented Hong Kong in the 57th Venice Biennale. Group exhibitions include Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Biennale of Sydney; National Museum of Art, Osaka; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; and documenta 14: documenta radio; amongst others. Furthermore, he has participated in multiple festivals, as well as been the recipient of several prizes, including the 2015 BMW Art Journey Award and 2018 Hong Kong Art Centre Honorary Fellowship. Further awards include Artist of the Year (Hong Kong Arts Development Council), Prix Ars Electronica, Bloomberg Emerging Artist Award.
About Helen Pheby
Helen Pheby is an international curator with the role of Head of Curatorial Programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Dr. Helen Pheby was Vice Chair of the Civic art gallery and theatre in Barnsley; is the Chair of UP Projects, London; curatorial advisor to ArtRole in Iraqi Kurdistan and NIROX in South Africa. She is also a Cultural Fellow of York St John Universityand was an advisor to the Arts Council Collection Acquisition Committee in 2016-17. Dr Pheby is regularly invited to undertake international lectures and tours including the Contemporary Austin in January 2017 and as the guest of Creative India in 2013. Helen has collaborated with Selfridges since 2018 to curate the Duke Street entrance to their flagship London store.
Details of accompanying public programme:
Sunday, Nov 17 | 5-7PM: Sound Meditation with Souljourn Yoga and Kate Stewart of Sound Universe London
Wednesday, Nov 20 | 6-8PM: Panel Discussion with Dr. Helen Pheby
Wednesday, Nov 27 |6-8PM: Concert 'The Sound We Inhabit' composed by Benjamin McDonnell performed by Gokumi Ensemble
Thursday, Dec 19 | 6-8PM: Gallery Lates
Venue: St Saviour's, Aberdeen Park, N5 2AR, London, UK
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(008) Edouard Malingue Gallery at West Bund Art & Design 2017
West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China, [09.11.17 - 12.11.17]
(007) EDOUARD MALINGUE GALLERY AT FIAC 2017
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'The Language(s) We Speak | Art as Communication', Artist Talk
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, [24.03.17]
Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, 1 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, [21.03.17 - 25.03.17]
'GIGANTESQUE ! - Pommery Experience # 5', Group Exhibition
Domaine Pommery 5, place du Général Gouraud, 51100 Reims, [14.10.16 - 31.05.17]
'SETOUCHI TRIENNALE 2016', Group Exhibition
Honjima Island, Japan, [08.10.16 - 06.11.16]


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Amino acids -
Amino acids are the basic substances that make up proteins. Each protein is characterized by a precise sequence of amino acid "bricks". Some are produced by the body by processing food, others, which the body cannot synthesize, must be taken directly with food.
AMPK -
AMPK (AMP-activated protein kinase) stands for monophosphate-activated adenosine protein kinase. It is an enzyme that plays a critical role in cellular homeostasis and a signaller of the body's energy level: it signals whether there is enough in the body to activate cellular functions such as glucose absorption, fat oxidation, and the formation of new mitochondria. In case the energy is not enough, it stops the activity of creation of macro-molecules by pausing the production activity. The AMPK way is a "metabolic regulator".
ATP -
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) can be defined as the "energy currency" of the cell, the instrument through which the cell carries out processes that require energy (endoergonic) and is produced by reactions that release energy (exergonic).
B.A.S. -
Acronym for Biological Age Score, a measure of biological age derived from the integration of data obtained from various specific tests.
Biological age -
Different from chronological age. It is a measure of the body's ageing, based on the effectiveness of the mechanisms that keep cells young and on markers of the functionality of organs and apparatus.
Blue zone -
Blue Zone is a term used to identify a demographic and/or geographical area of the world where life expectancy is significantly higher than the world average, revealing a high concentration of centenarians. There are 5 blue zones in the world: the Ogliastra area in Sardinia, along with the island of Ikaria in Greece, Okinawa in Japan, the Nicoya peninsula in Costa Rica and the village of Loma Linda in Southern California.
Cellular Autophagy -
Cellular autophagy or autophagocytosis is a cellular mechanism for selective removal of old or damaged cell components. It allows the degradation and recycling of recovered components to build new proteins.
Its proper functioning has substantial impacts on the reduction of low grade inflammation and the onset of chronic and tumor diseases.
Cytokines -
Cytokines are small proteins produced by the immune system, which bind to specific receptors present on the cell membrane and communicate to the cell a specific set of instructions such as, for example, the stimulus to grow, or to differentiate or even the order to die. They are produced by different types of cells and, once released in the body, induce specific reactions in adjacent cells (paracrine effect), in others far away (endocrine effect) or in those that have created them (autocrine effect).
Epigenetics -
Literally "above genetics." This term refers to all biochemical processes which, without modifying the DNA sequence, affect the expression of genes, both "switching them on" and "switching them off".
Free radicals -
A free radical is a particularly reactive molecule or atom that contains at least one odd electron in its outermost orbital. Because of this chemical characteristic, free radicals are highly unstable and try to return to equilibrium by stealing from the nearby atom the electron needed to equalize its electromagnetic charge. This mechanism gives rise to new unstable molecules, triggering a chain reaction that, if not stopped in time, ends up damaging cellular structures and metabolic processes.
Genetic Mutation -
A genetic mutation is any stable and heritable change in the nucleotide sequence of a genome or more generally genetic material (both DNA and RNA) due to external agents or chance, but not genetic recombination.
Genomic Instability -
The progressive accumulation in DNA of mutations, ruptures, various damages that alter the genetic make-up of a cell.
Inflammaging -
"Chronic low-grade inflammation" or inflammaging, such as a state of low intensity but constant organic inflammation (associated with an increase in some proteins, the inflammatory cytokines) that causes damage to the body.
Insulin -
Hormone produced by Langerhans island cells of the pancreas. It stimulates the entry of glucose into the cells, subtracting it from the blood and thus lowering blood sugar. It induces the use of glucose both to produce energy and for the synthesis of glycogen and fats.
Lymphocytes -
Lymphocytes are the cells that make up the effective portion of the adaptive immune system; they are able to generate and modify antibodies that will recognize antigens in the future.
They are present in primary lymphoid organs, secondary lymphoid organs, peripheral blood and lymph (where they are currently named).
Metabolic Syndrome -
the metabolic syndrome is characterized by the simultaneous presence of at least 3 metabolic and haemodynamic alterations that represent a high risk factor for the onset of cardiovascular diseases and tumors.
Metagenomics -
A branch of science that analyzes all the genetic material present in a given environment.
mTOR -
The mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin) is a set of enzymes (route) that react to food-nutrients, breaking them down and recombining them to build new proteins useful for the "growth of the body". They react to specific hormonal stimuli (Insulin and IGF-1) thus becoming the center of control of growth and cell proliferation in metabolism. This metabolic route is also responsible for the elimination of old and defective cells (Cellular Autophagy) with the double advantage of recycling the fundamental components to produce new cells and eliminate them to prevent them from triggering degenerative and inflammatory processes.
Mycobiote -
The set of microorganisms (fungi) that populate the intestine.
NAD -
NAD (Nicotinamide adenindinucleotide ) is a co-enzyme essential to the metabolism of the cell, intervening in the activity of more than 200 enzyme proteins that govern the energy process of the cell itself. With age, one becomes deficient in this co-enzyme by altering cell catabolism.
NR -
It is called nicotinamide riboside, or Nr a form of vitamin B3 that promises to block the aging of internal organs, having a positive effect on the functioning of stem cells and the ability of organs to regenerate.
Nutraceutical -
Nutraceutical is a syncratic neologism from "nutrition" and "pharmaceutical" coined by Stephen de Felice in 1989. Nutraceuticals are those nutrients contained in foods that have beneficial effects on health, their effectiveness has been proven by clinical trials.
Prebiotics -
Substances not digestible by the human body, often plant fibers, which are nourishment for bacteria.
Probiotics -
Foods containing specific bacterial strains from the intestinal environment.
Proprioception -
Proprioception (from the Latin proprius, belonging to oneself) is defined as the sense of position and movement of the limbs and body that someone has independently of sight. It can be divided in the limbs' selfperception within a static position and their perception in motion. This is a fundamental quality for motion and upright station control.
Resveratrol -
Active ingredient of natural origin with recognized antioxidant capacity (stilbene polyphenol). It is found in plants such as vines and in fruits such as cocoa and blackberries.
Sarcopenia -
The term sarcopenia refers to the progressive loss of muscle mass and related decrease in strength; in addition to the volume reduction in muscle mass, it also leads to a worsening of the latter because:
the muscle is slowly replaced by adipose tissue (fat),
the junctions between muscle and nerve fibres (neuromuscular junction) tend to degenerate,
muscle oxidative stress increases.
Sirt Genes -
Family composed by 7 genes important for the regulation of the metabolic processes of the cell, in particular responsible for its survival in particular risky conditions (low temperature, physical stress and fasting). Also called Longevity Genes.
Sirtuins -
Sirtuins are proteins expressed by SIRT genes that perform an enzymatic activity, which means they stimulate chemical reactions essential for the body. Their function has been ascertained by several studies, although there still seems to be a lot to know about them.
SIRTs in short:
are proteins with enzymatic properties
regulate the metabolic processes related to insulin resistance
have a control over immunity
have a fundamental role in epigenetics
are involved in defences against cancer
Symbiotics -
Food supplements combining probiotics and prebiotics.
Telomeres -
End parts of the chromosomes. They have the function of making DNA more stable and their length is inversely correlated with ageing.
Thymus -
The thymus is a primary organ of the lymphatic system, with endocrine gland function and a key role within the immune system.

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Got London tickets today - might have a look at the M&G packages but just been on holiday to Porto so can't afford much more than the near £100 for two tickets it came to. Got some free flights in Europe to use at some point so might look at doing a gig abroad, too.
Pre-sale is already live. I bought tickets yesterday (the 24th) for Utrecht.
Ufff.. Where did you see this? Can't find it anywhere.
Ah yeah, I think these are a bit higher priced than the starting price of the auctions on eBay. I'm probably also going to Cologne, but without a M&G. Otherwise, I'd propose to meet up pre-show!
Speaking of meet and greet packages, theres a show in two days and there hasn't been a peep about MYF packages for US dates between this Saturday and mid-July. Could this be the first batch of shows since 2004 that there haven't been eBay auctions for meet and greets? I'm pretty surprised.
Wondering if they'll do eBay-packages at all or only the $300-packages.
Any way, I'll be at the show in Köln and in München. And of course Utrecht. Excited!
Extra show in London announced, september 7th.
Cool dude! I've chosen to not do a M&G as long as they cost me $300. I'm a huge fan, but the M&G's are so quick... And I'd probably do it mostly for the early access to get up front. So save me a spot, man!
By the way: London night one and Madrid are sold out. Utrecht is close to selling out too. Honestly a bit surprised, because I really thought they wouldn't draw crowds so quickly anymore in Europe.
Looking at that source, Prophets of Rage and Dead Letter Circus sold even less than Incubus, in the same location. I wouldn't worry too much about that.
23 February 2008. Riverstage, Brisbane.
10 February 2012. Convention Centre, Brisbane.
1 March 2015. Royal Showgrounds, Brisbane.
12 March 2018. Riverstage, Brisbane.
But Limp Bizkit sold more. That's saddening.
New US dates announced! We'll be playing a few shows on the East Coast before we embark on our European tour this August! Tickets go onsale this Friday at 10am EDT and for more info go to IncubusHQ.com!
And now my hope for a first hungarian Incubus show is gone.
Seems like i have to travel again.
I'm attending a few of the midwest shows this summer and I have a few Meet and Greets; if anyone is going to any of those shows and is interested in the other half of a Meet and Greet just shoot me a PM and I can let you know if thats one of the shows in question!
I was a bit shocked when I saw tickets to the Hampton Beach, NH show are $72 before fees. I couldn't pass the opportunity to see them at this venue though. I also only get to see the band live every 3-4 years now so it will be well worth it.
Aug. 24 Vilar de Mouros Festival, near Caminho, Portugal.


New marine services firm Seabed & Offshore Solutions (Seabed Solutions) has joined industry trade body Subsea UK.
Launched in January 2019, Seabed Solutions is led by managing director Martin Sisley, a former board member of Subsea UK.
He previously held senior positions at James Fisher Marine Services, Red7Offshore, and Ocean Installer.
Seabed Solutions will work with the association to increase brand awareness, the company said.
Seabed Solutions will provide total solutions for all seabed related matters during the life-cycle of offshore energy assets (offshore wind, wave, tidal, oil & gas, and associated infrastructure).
Seabed Solutions has been formed through the collaboration of Martin Sisley, offshore energy consultancy Nautilus Associates and a group of specialist investors.
Posted on February 4, 2019 with tags marine services, Seabed Solutions, Subsea UK.


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Everyday Heroes: How former Eagles GM founded Ronald McDonald houses
Jim Murray, former general manager for the Philadelphia Eagles and a member of the Knights of Columbus, shares a moment with a family staying at a Ronald McDonald House, a charity he helped found back in 1974. Murray is featured in "Everyday Heroes," a video series produced by the Knights. (CNS photo/Spirit Juice, courtesy Knights of Columbus)
By Andrew Fowler • Catholic News Service • Posted December 11, 2019
Jim Murray became the youngest general manager in NFL history without a family connection when he was hired at age 36 by the Philadelphia Eagles in 1974.
Five years before, Murray joined the Eagles' public relations staff at a time when the team had been struggling for 15 years and hadn't made the playoffs since 1960.
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Under Murray's guidance, the Eagles clinched playoff berths in four consecutive seasons (1978–1981) and reached the Super Bowl in January 1981.
For Murray, a Knight of Columbus member from De La Salle Council 590 in Aldan, Pennsylvania, reaching the Super Bowl was an incredible feat. But it paled in comparison to what he calls his personal Super Bowl — founding the first Ronald McDonald House in 1974.
His efforts are highlighted as part of the Knights of Columbus video series, "Everyday Heroes," which tells the stories of ordinary Catholic men acting extraordinarily.
It started when the child of Fred Hill, an Eagles' tight end, was diagnosed with leukemia. Hill and a friend founded a charity called Eagles Fly for Leukemia. Murray wanted to help, and he began by learning more about leukemia.
At the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, he met Dr. Audrey Evans, the head oncologist, and offered donations to help the hospital. What she then said at that meeting changed his life.
"'You know what else we need? When I tell a family their child has leukemia, I've changed their family's life forever. So I'd like to get a room in a YMCA where they could stay while their child's being treated,'" Murray recalled.
He replied to the doctor: "You know, you need a house."
Murray wasn't sure how he was going to fulfill his promise to Evans, so he prayed for guidance. He decided to contact McDonald's and asked for a percentage of Shamrock Shake sales to buy the house. McDonald's not only agreed, they decided to donate all Shamrock Shake sales proceeds. The only provision was that Murray name it the Ronald McDonald House.
With Murray's guidance, the first Ronald McDonald House opened its doors on Oct. 15, 1974, not far from where he was born.
"I knew from the first day we opened the house in Philly that this should be duplicated," Murray said. "The McMiracle, as I call it, happened from there. A couple of years later, there was a second house in Chicago. Today, there are 368 houses all over the globe."
The Ronald McDonald House now provides families of sick children in more than 64 countries with affordable lodgings and has saved these families an estimated $932.6 million.
"On the wall of the Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House is a map with little pins showing where families have come from to try to save their child's life and you can't even see the wall because there are so many different countries represented," Murray said.
"But it's not about statistics," he said. "It comes down to each kid."
For his charitable work, Murray has received numerous awards including the President Ronald Reagan's Medal for Volunteers of America (1987), the American Medical Association's Citizen of the Year award (1999) and Catholic Leadership Institute's Award for Outstanding Catholic Leadership (2005).
Of course, it has never been about the awards for Murray. It's about the smiles on the faces of the families and children who enter the Ronald McDonald Houses.
"When a child gets sick, everybody rallies around," Murray said. "That's what family is. It's the ultimate huddle! You all get together and say, 'What's our next play?' … Well, the Ronald McDonald House was my play; it was my Super Bowl."
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WASHINGTON, DC — Americans have always appreciated a little rebelliousness. Chalk it up to our anti-establishment beginnings during the revolutionary war or our collective fascination with lawless frontiers. Vigilantes and superheroes have long defined our visual culture. We love an outlaw figure: someone who isn't afraid to break a few rules in the name of ideological freedom.
All the Rules Will Change, a survey of Robert Irwin's work currently on view at the Hirshhorn Museum, takes as its theme the national pastime of rule flouting. Best known for his involvement with the California Light and Space Movement of the 1960s and his "conditional" artworks, which are not so much site-specific but site-dependent installations, Irwin is considered one of the foremost artists of the last 50 years. His work continually challenges visual perception and defies traditional classification.
While he hasn't produced a painting or even maintained a studio in decades, he began his career as a painter. It didn't take him long, however, before he questioned the long-held rules of the medium, such as two-dimensionality, figuration, and framing conventions. It's at this initial point of his inquiry into painting that the Hirshhorn's survey begins, as if to demonstrate that Irwin certainly knew the rules of art before he decided to break them.
Dating back to the late 1950s, the earliest works in the show are the artist's small, hand-held paintings, which were a reaction to the overwhelming, emphatic aesthetic of Abstract Expressionism. Unlike a Pollock painting, they are not large enough to consume the viewer or carry one away on a tide of gestural spontaneity. Instead, they seem deeply introspective, almost brooding, with layer after layer of oil paint, spackled like cake frosting across the canvas and intentionally interrupted by shapes and figures etched at Irwin's sole discretion. These works were not designed to be hung on a wall and distantly considered; they were meant to be touched and experienced.
By intending these paintings to be handled, Irwin defied the traditional rules of engagement with painting. Yet, their display within the exhibition re-inscribes the works within another set of rules: those of the institution. Laid horizontally in a vitrine, the paintings seem more like lifeless specimens than active participants in a viewer-object relationship. While this display choice is obviously practical — the constant manipulation by daily visitors would certainly take a toll on the paintings — it fundamentally squashes the very aspect of Irwin's handhelds that made them remarkable.
When it comes to the display of the artist's line and dot paintings, however, the Hirshhorn couldn't have done it better. The museum's architecture allows for the perfect environment in which to encounter these extremely subtle works. Temporary walls arranged radially put the building's distinctive circular design to good use, creating individual bays for each painting. The result is almost like a slide carousel: each canvas has its own wall from which no other works can be glimpsed out of the corner of one's eye. This is important to the success of the experience with these works since viewers need both eyes and a lot of focus to appreciate the paintings' nuanced lines and minuscule dots.
In the early 1960s, Irwin shifted to simple, horizontal lines to escape the figure-ground relationship rule in painting. Comprised of few thin stripes that extend nearly to the end of the over four-feet square canvases, the line paintings grow increasingly minimal over the years, with the latest featuring just two lines, often in the same hue as the background, making them nearly imperceptible upon first sight. Likewise, Irwin's dot paintings must be seen in person. These seemingly blank canvases covered with miniscule dots in complementary colors simply just don't show up in photographs or videos. They require the viewer to look at them directly for more than just a few seconds before the tiny paint pricks reveal themselves. Once spotted, the dots begin to dance and lift from the surface of the canvas as the eye desperately tries to keep pace with their hide-and-seek color play.
It's not until visitors encounter the artist's discs and columns within the show that they realize how fun rule-breaking can truly be. After his dot series, Irwin eschewed painting entirely and turned his attention to light, believing it to be a medium in and of itself rather than just a way to illuminate his paintings. Using large acrylic discs and columns, created with the help of auto body shops and industrial fabricators, Irwin created pieces that relayed light back toward and around the viewer. Liberated from the close study of a canvas, visitors take selfies as they bask in the light of the radiant discs and kids hop around the columns, laughing at how their bodies bifurcate through the acrylic panes.
The final gallery in the show features "Squaring the Circle," the site-conditional piece commissioned specifically for the Hirshhorn. It employs scrim, which Irwin began using in the late 1970s to subtly alter the dimensions of a given space. For this work, the artist stretched floor-to-ceiling sheets of the gauzy white material against the curved interior wall of the gallery so that the once-rounded corners appear squared off. The only dead giveaway that anything about the room has changed is where light filters through the part of the scrim that extends beyond the central doorway.
At the entrance to the gallery, a sign warns visitors that their perceptions will be challenged and solemnly advises them not to touch anything. Still giddy with the light play of the discs and columns, the visitors grow more excited for what dizzying masterpiece they're about to encounter. Upon entering, most people look around confused: they don't see anything but white walls. Several visitors walk straight through, believing they've missed some kind of performance or other timed event. One man walked in and out of the gallery three times before he noticed the scrim, at which point he turned to the security guard and said, "So that's it?" before he laughed and walked out.
"Squaring the Circle" is confounding because it appears as if no rules have been broken – the space remains largely the same except for a small amount of square footage lost to the scrim's placement. But even though it may not look like much, the whole function of the gallery — and our experience of it — has been altered. Perhaps it serves as a reminder that it's not the rules that always need changing, but our expectations.
Robert Irwin: All the Rules Will Change continues at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (700 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC) through September 5.


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Citizens Challenge	tesobe-admin	2018-07-24T13:40:42+00:00
At Citizens Bank, we are committed to harnessing the unlimited potential of digital banking to help our customers reach their potential. We are pleased to be launching our "Citizens Challenge" — a platform for individual developers and start-ups to prepare and present innovative technology ideas in banking.
Challenge Prizes
Best overall app
Trophy + $0
Per team
Best commercial app
Amazon Echo Plus
1 per team member
Best consumer app
Social Media Hero
Individual award
We are welcoming ideas that will unlock the technology's potential based around four core challenge tracks:
360° Engagement
1. How can we consolidate what we know about our customer in one place and leverage that data to predict their next move?
2. How can we use the different data streams available to us today – from inside the bank (CRM events, transaction history…etc) and outside (global news, segment/industry data, credit scoring,…etc) to engage context around how we can help our customers succeed?
Liquidity Crystal Ball
1. What kind of tools can we develop to help our customers understand and address their liquidity and cash-flow challenges?
2. How can we better leverage predictive analytics using market data such as cash-flow and liquidity to help us reach and on-board prospective customers?
AI and Digital Engagement
1. How can we best leverage AI platforms to service customers and increase our response rate and support capabilities?
2. How can we leverage the data that customers provide us and take this data to provide more insight into their banking functions such as spending habits and financial analytics?
Social Banking
1. How can we best formulate tools to further engage customers on our platforms and provide them services that provide more insight into their daily life (i.e. Personalization in Banking)?
2. What kind of interface optimizations can we develop to optimize on-boarding and verification for clients?
Frederic Chanfrau
EVP, CIO Technology
Frederic Chanfrau is the Chief Information Officer for the Commercial Banking and Shared Services tower of Citizens Bank since September 2014. The primary responsibilities for this office encompass all aspects of development, operations and support related to the Technology for the Commercial Bank, Business Process Automation and API. Chanfrau manages the relationship and partnership with numerous business lines to deliver comprehensive IT services to support the growth of the bank. Prior joining Citizens Bank, Chanfrau was CIO for IT Regions at Schneider where he oversaw all IT services globally. Manage IT infrastructure, including networks, data centers, hardware, software and telecom, utilized by 160,000 people worldwide. He planned and led complex enterprise-level technology, transformation and implementation, automation and modernization projects.
Musarrat Qureshi
Director at PwC Advisory – Digital, Customer & FinTech
Musarrat (Musi) Qureshi
Musarrat (Musi) Qureshi is a Director in PwC's Advisory Consulting practice with a focus on Digital, Fintech and Customer topics within Financial Services. Musi advises global Financial Services firms as well as regional and super-regional banks in the US, on business transformation programs to embrace digital capabilities and next generation customer experiences. Musi served as the Banking Sector Lead for PwC's Fintech practice. In that role, she brings insights on new entrants in the fintech space and emerging technologies to incumbent financial services firms preparing for emerging disruptions. She also worked with fintechs on market strategy, growth to scale and working with incumbent banks. Musi has been a sponsor and judge for several hackathons and emerging tech challenges involving startups in the US, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.
Lamont Young
EVP, Head Digital & Multi-Channel Marketing
Lamont A Young
Lamont Young is Head of Digital and Head of Direct Response Marketing for Citizens Financial Group. Young and his team are responsible for strategy and investment in digital technology for the corporation, management of the online and mobile banking platforms, digital payments, and the banks corporate web sites. In addition, the team drives demand generation and acquisition through the digital and direct marketing channels including: digital advertising, social media, content marketing, search, direct mail, and telemarketing. Young is also a member of the Consumer Bank Executive committee. Prior to joining Citizens in 2012, Young held several leadership positions with Bank of America in digital sales, digital media, and content development. Before joining Bank of America, Young founded a firm that provided web and design services to small business. Young earned his BS in Marketing from Penn State University and his Master of Business Administration from Winthrop University. Young is a member of several organizations including Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, the American Marketing Association, the Consumer Bankers Association Digital Committee and the National Association of Black MBA's.
SVP, Head of Product Solutions
Matt has over 20 years of Commercial and Retail banking experience in sales, product and business administration roles. As Head of Cash Management Product Solutions, he leads a team that is driving a comprehensive strategic investment in the treasury management product suite including domestic cash and international trade. Matt is also responsible for the Bank's Sponsorship Management business.
Prior to joining Citizens, Matt was with Bank of America (Fleet Bank) in retail branch management and regional branch management capacities.
Matt is a recognized expert in domestic cash management and speaks regularly at industry forums including AFP, NACHA, and FEI. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Massachusetts and has completed professional training including the RBS/Harvard Business School Senior Manager Program and the Advanced Leadership Development Program through Babson Executive Education.
Mary Ellen Baker
EVP, Head of Business Services
Mary Ellen Baker is Head of Business Services at Citizens Financial Group, Inc. She is responsible for the technology, operations, information and corporate security, property services, supply chain, process reengineering, change management and enterprise data functions. Baker oversees strategic investments in technology designed to drive value, efficiency and collaboration across the company.
Baker joined Citizens in August 2016 from PNC Financial Services, where she served as Executive Vice President of Enterprise Services, leading a wide range of efforts to improve the bank's technology, controls and governance. In addition, she served as an interim Chief Technology Officer and built out PNC's cyber security team.
Prior to PNC, she was at Bank of America and served as both Head of Enterprise Resiliency and Corporate Services and as the Head of Technology and Operations for the Consumer and Small Business Division. While at Bank of America, she led the implementation of the largest integrated platform upgrade and release the bank had ever attempted.
Baker is a graduate of Western Michigan University and is active in a number of community and professional organizations.
She currently serves on the Rhode Island Hospital Foundation, a Lifespan Partner, as well as the Lifespan Quality Oversight Committee. Additionally, Baker serves on the Board of Foster Forward – an organization dedicated to serving children and youth in foster care, the kinship and foster parents who care for them, and young adults leaving the foster care system.
Prasad Joshi
Vise President, Head of Innovation
Prasad leads Infosys Center for Emerging Technology Solutions (iCETS). iCETS is the a key unit within Infosys, responsible for building expertise in emerging technologies and contextualizing them to create business solutions for Infosys clients. Prasad has been instrumental in building the strategic 'joint innovation centers' program at iCETS, and through it has setup co-creation labs with key clients. His portfolio focus includes AI and Cognitive Solutions, Blockchain, Design and Experience, AR-VR, and Cyber Security and Data Management. Under Prasad's leadership iCETS has created products for Conversational Interfaces, data privacy, enterprise gamification, and location based solutions among other areas. As part of global charter, he leads the creation of startup ecosystems and academia relationships. He has more than 30 years of experience in software technology, IT/business process outsourcing, and multicultural team management. Before joining Infosys, Prasad was the CTO and vice president of operations for STI Knowledge.
Chanfrau
Head of Innovation
Musarrat
Qureshi
Mary Ellen
Doors open and registration
Challenges and API presentation
Fire-pitches – bring your idea and pitch it to the crowd
Flea market of ideas – find a team
Doors open and breakfast
Stand up: who's working on what
API workshop & UX clinic
Finalise your concept & start hacking
Pitch training
Hacking & relaxation
1:1 Pitch rehearsal & hacking
Shut-down production / Delivering products
Practice running order
Demos – 3 min per pitch
Award ceremony & closing note
Event close and drinks
To bring your ideas to life, use the available sandbox environment powered by the Open Bank Project. It offers 160 banking APIs you can use in your prototypes.
Access the user's list of accounts and account information such as the balance. Explore…
Access the list of branches and ATMs for the specified bank including geolocation and opening hours. Explore…
Access the transaction history and metadata of accounts. Explore…
Enrich transactions and counterparties with metadata including geolocations, comments, pictures and tags (e.g. category of spending). Explore…
Access the payers & payees of an account including metadata such as their aliases, labels, logos and home pages. Explore…
Enable account holders to grant fine-grained access to third-party users and applications. For instance, a business account might provide auditors with full read-only access whilst coworkers might only see the account balance. Explore…
Customer meetings, messages and video conferencing.
Enable customer meetings, messages and video conferencing for KYC and CRM operations (uses third party video streaming). Explore…
Step up authentication using the generic challenge / response mechanism for sensitive operations e.g. to progress a transfer, the user must supply a mobile TAN Explore…
Payments & Transaction requests
Initiate transfers. View and confirm charges (as per PSD2). Explore..
Onboarding & KYC
Perform user, customer and account creation. Access Know Your Customer (KYC) documents, media and KYC status. Explore…
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Who, what, where, when & how
Who owns the IP of the code I create?
All intellectual property rights in the ideas and applications of a participant shall
remain owned by, and shall vest in, the participant who creates them. See Terms and Conditions for more information.
Do I have to come with a team?
No! We will help you find a great team to join.
What's the #hashtag?
#TheCitizensChallenge
What is the minimum age of a participant?
Can I see something from a previous hackathon?
Sure, see this video from a recent hackathon, which was run by the Open Bank Project in London.
What's the maximum team size?
Six individuals.
How do the travel refunds for startups work?
Travel refunds are intended to help startups outside Boston to cover their travel costs. Participants are responsible for arranging their own travel and accommodation. Startups can apply for confirmation of eligibility here. If your request gets confirmed, you can send your travel receipts up to $250 per person following the event to refund@tesobe.com where refund will be processed. Please note that the refund is limited to $250 per person and will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
Do I have to be a coder?
No, entrepreneurs, designers and anyone with bright ideas and energy is most welcome!
What if I've never been to a hackathon?
Perfect, come and have a great first experience!
Can we sleep over at the hackathon?
No, not this time. At some point we'll go to the pub, get some sleep and return bright and early!
Who can I contact to learn more about the event?
If you have any questions, please contact us at: citizenschallenge@openbankproject.com
Where is the Hackathon taking place?
District Hall, 75 Northern Ave, Boston, MA 02210, USA
Join leading financial technology startups and work with one of the largest regional banks in the United States!
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Trisha Brown Company
March 14, 2009 - September 6, 2009
The concept of New Dance is central to Trisha Brown's work as a dancer and choreographer. She came to New York City as a young dancer in the 1960s.
Tips on Drawing
Early Works 1966-1979
She sought out the leading environment for the development of a new dance that was created as an alternative to and as a critique of the modern classical ballet, as it i.a. was created by Martha Graham. The new dance had a stronger interface with the performative part of the visual arts than with the music. In New York, Brown met innovative choreographers and performance artists such as Simone Forti, Anne Halperin, Yvonne Rainer and Robert Morris.
The driving force in creating new expressions is often a need to be able to find an alternative to forms and feelings that the most ambitious artists begin to feel are too well established and thus emptied of potential for further development. The beautiful movements performed by professionally trained and well-trained dancers were complemented by the new dance which in particular based its choreography on two principles: firstly it was based on ordinary movements, secondly it was designed according to the principle of structured improvisation.
These two principles did not place the same demands on the dancers' physique and classical training. The new dance was also concerned with removing the feeling that the dance's choreography was a deliberate and felt expression of a dancer's (and the audience's) traditional, cultured notion of what was beautiful movement. The new dance is a liberation from classical and traditional artistic dance. The new dance is of course not formless, while its form, its course and articulation through movement over time are determined by given factors. It uses the body's physical structure, floor and wall as a physical reality - and last but not least when it comes to Trisha Brown - gravity. The dancer performs Tasks, ie tasks.
The choreography is created through an analysis and interest in what must necessarily happen when simple tasks and movements are performed in a different situation than usual. For example, what happens when dancers have to put on a pair of trousers and a sweater when they are hung up horizontally in a net one meter above the ground (Floor of the Forest)? Or how does it feel to see a dancer walking vertically down a wall, hanging in a wire, while trying to walk vertically on the horizontal wall and having to press his legs against the wall so that the horizontal body does not lose "ground contact" and begin to swing free (Man Walking Down the Side of a Building)?
In the earliest work on the exhibition - Homemade from 1966 - we see how Trisha Brown dances with a film projector on her back. She remotely controls the movie playback with a thread release, then suddenly we see a flickering movie image on the walls behind her. Her movements are accompanied by the film images that appear in unexpected places. Where the film image is projected depends on the dancer's movements and the positions of the dancer and the projection change in relation to each other.
When experiencing work by Trisha Brown, it is important to understand the logic and structure of the system. In the work entitled Accumulation, the expression consists in the fact that she begins with a simple hand movement and then this develops through accumulation into increasingly complex and complex movements that follow one another systematically. Sometimes she moves alone, standing or lying on the floor, other times in a group of four dancers in synchronous movements on the floor. In these works, there is a systematic accumulation of related movements and the dance does not end until all possible modes and directions of movement have been tested. So it is not over until the lying body has bent up the knees, turned the knees to the right, to the left, the body rolled, twisted and spun around on the floor.
An interview with curator and art critic Klaus Kertess with Trisha Brown is shown on one of the four screens. We advise the audience to start by watching this interview.
This exhibition is shown in parallel with the Jan Groth exhibition in the Lyche Pavilion. Jan Groth is a friend of Trisha Brown and his work has clear points of contact with the Browns. This exhibition is part of Drammens Museum's presentation of avant-garde performance and dance art. It continues the lines from the exhibitions Phenomenal Bodies (Lyche Pavilion 2002) and Peter Moore in Nøstetangenrommet (2004).
Åsmund Thorkildsen
Museum director and curator of the Solo project in the Nøstetangen room
Drammens Museum, Marienlyst
Open every day from 11.00 - 15.00


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We envision a world where the benefits of yoga and mindfulness are available to all – regardless of age, race, gender, sexual orientation, ability or class.
THAY partners with community organizations within Harlem and Upper Manhattan that serve residents facing emotional, physical or social trauma. We provide yoga, breathing and mindfulness programs to nonprofits to support their existing missions and build bridges of understanding among neighbors. We also provide these same techniques to those who police our neighborhoods. We believe this work creates space and clarity in the day-to-day interactions between police and members of our community.
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We also create opportunities for members of our programs to practice together.


WHAT A COLOURFUL DAY WE HAD!
Thank you to everyone who dressed up in colourful clothes and donated cakes for our first ever F.O.B.S and Rainbow Hospice fundraising day. It was lovely to see so many people joining us for cake and a hot drink and a chat . We are pleased to announce that because of your incredible generosity , we are able to donate a cheque of £270 to Rainbows Hospice!