ACF Academy: Pop Up School

Art Comes First Presents ACF Academy

Pop Up School

(For Up and coming creatives who needs that next step)

 Contact: academy@artcomesfirst.com

Or Register at Event:

Str. Crd 2013

Constitution Hill, 

Johannesburg

South Africa

12p, - 11pm 

28th September 2013. 

COALizione Design

http://www.marieclaire.it/

ACF Presents The Coal Project

ACF presents

THE COAL

at Pitti Uomo

Someone once said that great minds think alike, and this is all too evident in the

debut project from ACF, combining talented artists, craftsmen and creatives with the

same vision to create an installation exclusively at the iconic Pitti Uomo in Florence.

Combining the elements of artisanal creative skills with classic tools to create unique

products, the coal project is all about showcasing your creativity through the use of

utilitarian techniques. It is about the ultimate balance of creative thinking and

traditional techniques of manufacture, not mass market commercial products. The

entire project was designed around a raw mineral theme and to reflect this all of the

items involved are in a stark black colour in a variation of materials.

The Coal project is the work of 7 innovators that have come together to create ‘Pack

Essential’ the ultimate basics for any creative that finds themselves living out of a

suitcase across different parts of the world for their work. The main element of this

project was to choose essential items that are needed for the sartorial traveler that

don’t weigh a huge amount and can come in handy no matter what scenario you find

yourself in.

The Pack consists of a Handmade Leather Bag, The Ultimate Black Shirt, An Italian

Handmade Hat, Hand Crafted Glasses from Japan, Fine Cotton Socks, Leather Soled

English Made Shoes and a curated photographic poetry book. All the items come

together to fit into the leather bag for anyone to pick up and go.

Having began conceptual ideas at Pitti Uomo in June and 6 months of development,

ACF, whose values are ‘Sartour, Alchemy & Progression’ will present their project in

January within the Alternative Exhibition area over the 4 day period. On location at

the exhibition are ACF founders and business partners Sam Lambert and Shaka

Maidoh who have worked to curate the installation with artisans from across the

world.

The collaboration partners include Super Duper Hats, Lotho Eyewear, Eton Shirts,

T-Michael and Kalaf Angelo who’s work will be displayed at the installation.

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Notes to Editors

For further information, Imagery or interview requests please contact ACF by e-mail in the first

instance at info@artcomesfirst.com 

Visit ACF online at www.artcomesfirst.com or follow on tumblr at www.artcomesfirst.tumblr.com  

David Pattinson's Photos - The Still Point Exhibition

The Still Point @ Mildura Writers Festival

ECCO Leather Hotshop Program

ACF Will be attending The ECCO Leather hotshop in Holland 28th June - 01st July 2011.

Program from last year 2010

Inspiration of the Month: Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei (born 18 May 1957) is a Chinese artist and activist, who is also active in architecture, curating, photography, film, and social and cultural criticism

A beach? Ashes? Real? Fake? Art? Ai Weiwei's sunflower seeds, all 100,000,000 of the handmade things At Tate Modern 12 October 2010  –  2 May 2011.

JR.

http://jr-art.net/ >>> a site you should visit at least once a month to remind you how far you can take the art, literally how FAR.

JR owns the biggest art gallery in the world. He exhibits freely in the streets of the world, catching the attention of people who are not the museum visitors. His work mixes Art and Act, talks about commitment, freedom, identity and limit.

Portobello Recollection: A Chronicle Journey Through Vinyl

A Chronicle Journey Through Vinyl, celebrating W11's Musical Heritage. 

 

Music is in the DNA of Portobello. Over the past 100 years musicians have been drawn and inspired by the area. Calypso, Soca, House, Reggae, Pop, Punk, Drum 'n' Bass, Break beat, Dub- an eclectic mix of music has been laid down and played out on these West London streets. Portobello's musical diversity is reflected in its personal record collection; Portobello ReCollection. A public art project by Natasha Mason and Teresa Crawley located on Portobello Rd.

EasterTainment #2: A Dying Artist

A Dying Artist

22 April 2011 - 23 April 2011

A Dying Artist is an Easter weekend in four parts featuring performances, round table discussions, readings, music and screenings exploring materiality, corporeality, death and dying bodies in art. Highlights include Professor Steven Connor's lecture A Certain Convocation of Politic Worms, a performance of Sprey: A Narrow Vehicle by Trouble (off-shoot group of Brooklyn’s ZS), Matthew Barney's rarely seen first film Scab Action, spoken word from Heather Phillipson, David Toop’s The Act of Listening is an Act of Dying, experimental film from the Stan Brakhage archives plus live music from Raime, Old Appartus and Chora.

Download

• A Dying Artist Guide (PDF)

Art Will Remain

"They were mistaken, and will always be mistaken, who prophesy that art will disintegrate, that it will outlive its forms and die. It is we who shall die — Art will remain." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Art Is Dead.........

“Art is dead. Long live Dada.” - Walter Serner

"Dada means nothing. We want to change the world with nothing.” - Richard Huelsenbeck

"I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste." - Marcel Duchamp 

"Art Comes First" - S.L, S.M, P.B.

“Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted.” - Max Ernst 

 “What is generally termed reality is, to be precise, a frothy nothing.” - Hugo Ball

“We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to produce the way a plant produces its fruit, not depict. We want to produce directly, not indirectly. Since there is not a trace of abstraction in this art we call it concrete art.” - Hans Arp 

“I wish to blur the firm boundaries which we self-certain people tend to delineate around all we can achieve.” - Hannah Hoch

 

.....And Now Some Wallpaper

Guerilla Art..... I'm Reloading!!!!

Small In Japan

 

Sculpture by Tomoaki Suzuki

Dada & Dadaism

Dadaism: Historical Overview.

excerpt from "The Dada Archive"

by Timothy Shipe

Curator, International Dada Archive
[www.finitesite.com]

Contemporary art as we know it could not have come into existence without Dada. Virtually every artistic principle and device which underlies the literature, music, theater, and visual arts of our time was promoted, if not invented, by the Dadaists: the use of collage and assemblage; the application of aleatory techniques; the tapping of the artistic resources of the indigenous cultures of Africa, America, and Oceania; the extension of the notion of abstract art to literature and film; the breaking of the boundaries separating the different art forms from one another and from "everyday life"; the notion of art as performance; the expropriation of elements of popular culture; the notion of interaction or confrontation with the audience--everything which defines what we loosely call the "avant-garde."

One would be hard pressed to name an artistic movement since 1923 which does not, at least in part, trace its roots to Dada: Surrealism, Constructivism, Lettrism, THE BEAT POETS, Pop- and Op-Art, Conceptual Art, Minimalism, Punk Rock and even ACF.

But the effects of Dada are not limited to the world of the arts; its impact on contemporary life has been felt from the streets of Chicago to Madison Avenue. The style of political protest which came to the forefront in the late sixties--mock trials, Yippies, Guerrilla theater--can readily be traced back to the actions of the Dadaists in Zurich during the First World War. And commercial advertising as we know it today is indebted to the Dadaists' experiments with collage and typography; indeed, two members of the Berlin Dada group founded a "Dada Advertising Agency," and the Hanover Dadaist Kurt Schwitters designed newspaper and magazine advertisements which pioneered techniques we now take for granted.

On An Award Tour

THIS WEEKEND SHOOT INSPIRATION

Flamenco dancer vs fame... Torero in luv wit Tutu

Ars et scientia; Richard Feynman's Ode on a flower