chica PlastiKa creates a late summer edition of Electrolux featuring Paul Kalkbrenner, Crookers, Popof, The Aston Shuffle and much more as always... Listen at your leisure!!!
After a hiatus chica PlastiKa brings you a special bootie shaking mix for your listening pleasure. When listening be ready to sweat, so dress accordingly!!! Featured artists include Diplo, Rye Rye, Bonde do Role, Boys Noize, and many more of course....
Ah Yesss!!! This is the Super Tanz WMC mix. Electrolux celebrates the 2009 WMC by remembering what was played at some of 2008’s most memorable soirees!!! So, to start, chica PlastiKa begins the set with Simian Mobile Disco’s “Sleep Deprivation,” something many revelers will suffer from this week. This mix includes music by Digitalism, Justice, Surkin, MSTRKR […]
A Lovely Electro Mix that starts out sweet and gradually gets rough. You will be listening to the likes of Yelle, Peaches, Lo-Fi-Fnk, Vitalic, Hercules Love Affair, The Gossip, so bouge ton ass!!! February 2009
This is another "Valentine" edition of Electrolux. Since chica PlastiKa couldn't make up her mind about what to play, she did a second set featuring Babasonicos, Nina Simone, The Pixies, The Smiths, The Ramones, CSS, and others... Sooo enjoy going through different phases of L.O.V.E. from the attraction, to the flirting, to the full on romance […]
Shown by the Maurine Littleton Gallery at the Bridge Art Fair, Tim Tate’s timeless glass sculptures are romantic, beautiful, and sometimes controversial. He founded the Washington Glass School in D.C. and his work has evolved from strictly glass sculptures to becoming self-contained video installation pieces– an incorporation of sculpture, glass blowing, and videos shown through mini-video hd-screens. I loved these pieces because the emotion captured in each of these reliquaries. Tate captures video of ephemeral moments or objects in life and makes them timeless by expressing a feeling about them. My favorites were “Dreams of Flying,” “Washed Out”– a virtual carnival of the Montgomery County Fair, “My love life thus far.”
All of the videos portray things or events dear to people, but which are temporary– very much like life itself. Although Tate makes these moments timeless by freezing them in his sculptures, he is confronted by the temporary nature of our lives more so than most people, because he was diagnosed HIV positive in the 1980s. Tate is able to turn a terrible diagnosis into beauty by allowing us to enjoy his sculptures.
Here is video on Tim Tate’s work by Todd Wiggins
“Dreams of Flying” a little girl prances around endlessly.
In “Washed Out” Tate shows video of a county fair and people yelling as they enjoy a roller coaster ride.
“My Love Life Thus Far,” shows a building being imploded and rebuild over and over, which I think is great because it is a hopeful of love even after heart-brake.
In “Call to Redemption” Tate make us look at ourselves.
The Red Truck Gallery from New Orleans showcased at the Bridge Art Fair located at the Catalina Hotel on Collins and 16th. As always the Catalina Hotel is a great venue because it is intimate, and as you walk from room to room, you are actually walking from gallery to gallery. The Red Truck Gallery stuck out as one of the best because of its color, music, and of course because of its art. As I walked in and saw the artwork, three people who were chatting casually greeted me, while they shot what sounded like a toy gun, drank beer, and listened to the blues. So right away, you were transported from the hotel/gallery world to “their world.” Most of the pieces had interesting wooden frames and bright warm colors. Although I thought I understood exactly what I was looking at, it wasn’t until one of the gallery guys mentioned that some of the pieces were quilts. This totally took me by surprise, since most of the pieces were encased in glass, and at first glance the artwork was ambiguous—they looked like comical paintings or prints. Once he said, “I just wanted to let you know what you were looking at…” I was hit by the intricacy of the pieces. According to the rep some of the works are a collaborative effort between quilters and painters. My favorite three pieces were: 1. “Awkard Social Encounters” by Chris Roberts-Antieau, which is hilarious (the improper back rubbing make me think of Pres. George W. Bush rubbing German Chancellor’s Angela Merkel’s back), 2. “Luchadores” by Bryan Cunningham, and 3.“Choctau” by Frank Relle.
